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We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

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Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: (by Desire). Written by the Author of the Contrivances

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Charles Johnson.] Preface: I had the Mortification to see this Play acted the first Night, and to hear the Characters of Mother Lupine and her Women disapprov'd by several of the Audience, who, as if they thought themselves in bad Company, were very severe

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Mainpiece Title: Caelia; Or, The Perjur'd Lover

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons ofof Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Dance: As17321213

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: FFriendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Scot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; Sailor's Dance-Jones; French Peasant-de Vallois

Song: Master Cuttin

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #108 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: I: new French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; II: Comic Dance, as17321209

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Song: As17321215

Dance: As17321215

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With new Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris; With Harlequin Grand Volgi

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Dance: MMasquerade Dance-Thurmond; Le Petit Maitre-Jovan De Vallois

Song: Master Cuttin

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Event Comment: AAt the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Song: As17321229

Dance: As17321229

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Dance: FFriendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; French Peasant, Pierot and Pieraite-Mons and Madam Jouan de Vallois; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

Dance: FFriendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [The Farce of Wat Tyler postponed by indisposition of a principal performer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Dance: Mr Sant, being the last Time of his performing this Season

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants and Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

Music: Solo on the Violin-Eversman