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2926 results for: Keyword - Prince and Princess
We found 1193 matches on Event Comments, 773 matches on Performance Comments, 661 matches on Performance Title, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

301
10 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Quin. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Milward

Dance: I: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf

302
14 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's, at Mr Dandrige's in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

303
02 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Les Tambourine Matelotes-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Muilment; IV: Grand Serious Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

304
06 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Lady Augusta. Benefit Lalauze. There will be no Building on the Stage. Receipts: money #97 5s.; seals #63 6s. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). [Lalauze was charged #50 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: (by Cby Command)The Jealous Farmer Outwitted; Harlequin a Statue

Dance: Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

305
30 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Shade of Leander Actor: Salway

Dance: A New Tambourine-Sga Barberina, Sga Domitilla, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Wright, Mrs Villeneuve; The Italian Peasants, as17411024, but Villagers not listed

306
11 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Dance: Dubisson, Mlle Bonneval, being the 1st time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

307
30 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17411221; Chacone-Dubuisson, Mlle Benneval; Tambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste

308
14 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Lasses Actor: Dupre, Lestrande, Davenport, Mlle Maudet, Mlle Renos, Miss Short

Dance: Picq, Mlle Auguste

309
25 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Entertainments-Picq, Desnoyer, Sga Barberina, Dubuisson, Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Domitilla; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Wright, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle Maudet

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

310
10 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Entertainments, as17420206, but _Duibuisson, _Villeneuve, Mlle _Bonneval, Sga _Domitilla; Tyrolean Dance, as17420206; Tambourine, as17420206; The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

311
15 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be allowed to keep places on the Stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed, and formed into an amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door; none to be admitted Without printed Tickets. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in and added to the Frodt Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Porter; Essex-Ryan; Southampton-Hale; Nottingham-Mrs Pritchard; Rutland-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Horton.

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

312
20 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2 By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 As17420213, but Chacone-_; The Peasants, as17420210

Ballet: 2 RRural Assembly. As17420121

313
01 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Page at the Stage Door. None to be admitted without printed tickets, which will also be deliver'd at the Office, and at LaLauze's lodgings, at the Widow Gwinn's, a Silk Dyer in Drury Lane, near the Castle Tavern. Servants will be allowed to keep places on the stage, which (for the better accommodation of the ladies) will be enclos'd and formed into an amphitheatre. N.B. As I had the Misfortune to break the great tendon of my leg, when dancing on the stage at the above theatre in January last, I think it highly incumbent on me to acquaint the public in general and my good friends in particular, that I am in a fair (but not speedy) way of recovery; and as Mr Rich has kindly granted me a benefit sooner than usual, towards supporting me in my unlucky situation, I take this opportunity to interest the good-natured town to dispense with my personal application, and favour me with their company as usual, which will add to the many obligations I have already received, and shall be ever acknowledged with a sincere sense of gratitude, by their most humble and obedient servant, LaLauze

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17420212; Chacone, as17411230; Tyrolean Dance, By Command, as17420206

314
08 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #230

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Performance Comment: Sir Fopling-Cibber Jun.; Dorimant-Mills; Medley-Delane; Old Bellair-Shepard; Young Bellair-Havard; Handy-Green; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Clive; Belinda-Mrs Woffington; Harriet-Mrs Mills; Pert-Mrs Macklin; Shoemaker-Raftor; Emilia-Mrs Butler; Lady Woodville-Mrs Cross; Lady Townly-Mrs Bennet; Pert-Miss Macklin; Busy-Miss Brunette.
Cast
Role: Handy Actor: Green

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; III: The celebrated Irish Ballad Elin a Roon-Mrs Clive in Irish, as she perform'd it at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; IV: Singing in Italian and English-Miss Edwards

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; IV: A Ballet-Desse, Baudouin, Leviez

315
22 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes carefully enclosed) may be had at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; III: A Ballad-Lowe; V: At the particular desire of several ladies of Quality, the celebrated Irish Ballad Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive, as she perform'd it in Dublin

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-the Mechels; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

316
01 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Desnoyer. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for the Careless Husband, will be taken. Servants allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets to be had at M Desnoyer's House in Gloucester Court, St. James's St.; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: I: New Scots Dance-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; II: Tambourine-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; V: A Ball Dance call'd the Britannia, Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina, By Command

Ballet: IV: Rural Assembly. See17420121, but only Chasseur-Desnoyer; Nymph-Sga Barbarina

317
05 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Picq and Sga Domitilla. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Dance: MMusette-Picq, Mlle Auguste; New Scots Dance, as17420401 New Dance call'd the Hussar-Desnoyer, Sga Domitilla; New Comic Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Louvre, Minuet By Desire-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

318
13 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Fund established for the Support of decay'd Musicians and their Families. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Performance Comment: Parts-Monticelli, Andreoni, Signora Visconti, Signora Amorevoli, Signora Panichi.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Monticelli, Andreoni, Signora Visconti, Signora Amorevoli, Signora Panichi.

319
21 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Dubuisson and Mlle Bonneval. Mainpiece: By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets of Dubuisson at his House in St. Martin's St., near Leicester Fields, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

320
04 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit of a distrest Citizen. [The Intriguing Chambermaid had been announced as the afterpiece.] Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 V: a Hornpipe-Philips

321
27 September 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

322
01 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; La Provencale-Picq; Dancing-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Wright, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Maudet

323
29 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

324
11 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Dance: As17421108

Song: Beard, Lowe

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

325
17 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: As17421026