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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Royal Family"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Royal Family")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2269 results for: Keyword - Royal Family
We found 1354 matches on Event Comments, 711 matches on Performance Title, 327 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1351
01 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: UUniversal Mercury, February 1726: Elisa...an Opera of a foreign Growth, and of which they promis'd us Wonders before it was brought over. But when it arriv'd, we soon found to our Cost, that its being far fetch'd and dear bought was the only thing that could recommend it: But even that would not do long, and Audiences grew so thin, that the Royal Academy, for fear of making another Call, was oblig'd to drop it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elisa

1352
03 March 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: As17251009

1353
07 March 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [The Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: As17251204

1354
11 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Karba, the famous Bassoon. By Her Royal Highness' Command. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consort of several Sorts of Instruments-

1355
31 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The same as it was acted at the Theatre Royal Italien at Paris. [In Daily Post, 29 March, a company of English actors had announced The Stratagem for this day at hay, but they postponed it to 12 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Feint Astrologue, Pagode, Ramoneur, Petit Infant, Statue & Perroquet

Dance: As17260328

1356
20 April 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Three Rows of the Pit (at the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen) will be Rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance:

1357
05 May 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] At 7 p.m. Daily Journal, 7 May: On Thursday Night, Signiora Faustina, the famous Roman Songstress, performed his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses, and great Numbers of the Nobility and Quality, in...Alexander...with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

1358
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

1359
28 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others

1360
25 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Receipts: #123 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 191 paid and 25 orders; pit, 274 paid and 2 orders; slips, 24 paid and 25 orders; first gallery, 268 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 70 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

1361
16 December 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by Sir Geo. Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

Dance:

1362
09 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: As17260924

1363
16 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Boxes to be laid together by printed tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: As17260924

1364
21 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, the Pierot. By His Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph; or, The Miser and Pierot Taken Prisoner by the Lilliputians

Dance: LLa Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett

Ballet: TThe Cobler's Jealous Wife (new). Cobler-Boval; Wife-Roger; Two Peasant-Essex, Haughton; Wives-Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe

1365
07 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [The King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present.] Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

1366
26 December 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TTheir Majesties and the Princess Royal present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

1367
27 January 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

1368
22 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 14s. 6d. King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present. Probable attendance: boxes, 228 paid and 28 orders; stage, 11 paid and 1 order; pit, 302 paid and 1 order; slips, 43 paid and 24 orders; first gallery, 443 paid; second gallery, 199 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1369
09 March 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Carolina, and Princess Royal present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

1370
12 March 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

1371
30 March 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

1372
02 April 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

1373
07 May 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

1374
06 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

1375
16 November 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Receipts: #49 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 72 paid and 30 orders; pit, 120 paid and 23 orders; slips, 6 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 79 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 50 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: With the usual Dances-