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4695 results for: Keyword - Several
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.

3776
26 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. IV: Shepherd's Mount by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, &c

3777
30 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, the Harlequin. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Phillips' House, No. 6, Eagle Court in the Strand.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: A new Pantomime Dance called Damon and Phillida: Damon-Phillips; Phillida-Miss Mann; Cimon-Pelling; Mopsus-Davenport. II: Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

3778
30 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 1 May: Last Night The Conscious Lovers was perform'd [at GF] in Honour of the Royal Marriage, when there was a very splendid Appearance of Ladies and Gentlemen, to whom Mr Giffard had distributed Tickets. The Stage was decorated in a particular Manner with several Glass Lustres. And the Outside of the House illuminated with a great Number of Candles, a large Quantity of Liquor given to the Populace. [The Prologue is in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 1 May; in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 April, an announcement had been made that no money would be received on this night.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

3779
03 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets for Miss Jones, Gibbs, and Pidgeon taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Song:

Dance:

3780
04 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ford. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Ford's, in Brownlow Street, Long Acre.] Receipts: money #17 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: By Miss Rogers. III: Ballet, as17360417 V: Sailors, as17360501

Song: II: By Mrs Roberts. IV: Chancon a Boire, to music by Handel, sung by Leveridge and Laguerre

3781
04 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Dance: II: Scotch Sailor by a Gentleman for his Diversion. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: I: An Italian Song by Kelly. III: By Touchbury. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

3782
05 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes put together. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: There was an exceeding great Audience, and great Numbers of Quality both in the Boxes and Pit. Their Highnesses' Box was handsomely ornamented with white Damask, adorn'd with Silver Laces and Fringes; over the Canopy was the Figure of Hymen, with a Label on which was this Motto: Concordia Cordium. Daily Journal, 6 May: The House was so full about Five o'Clock, that several Gentlemen and Ladies, unable to go to their Seats, was obliged to depart

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

3783
05 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, who went to see it at DL, but were disappointed. Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

3784
05 May 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Family, which hath been very unfortunate in Trade, and is in Great Distress. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. Hornpipe by Ferguson

3785
06 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. III: The Medley of Jokes (new) by Dukes and Mrs Bullock. IV: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: By Desire of several Persons of Quality, in Modern Habits, The Union (a Ball Dance), with a Minuet by Dukes and Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: III: The Medley of Jokes (new) by Dukes and Mrs Bullock. IV: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: By Desire of several Persons of Quality, in Modern Habits, The Union (a Ball Dance), with a Minuet by Dukes and Mrs Bullock .

3786
13 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

3787
25 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of General Nugent, who was kill'd in the Defence of Gibraltar. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick

3788
29 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Charles Coffey taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

3789
03 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Receipts: #38 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

3790
08 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #21 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

3791
07 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By a Select Company of Lilliputians. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: V: Saraband by Miss Brett

Song: II: A dialogue by the two Misses Clark. III: Roger's Courtship to Dolly by Miss Norsa

3792
04 August 1736 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: At Petty's Old Playhouse, the End of Tottenham Court, leading up to Hampstead Road. With a Representation of Merlin's Cave, and the Hermitage, as in the Royal Gardens at Richmond. Likewise several other Scenes performed by Merlin's Art. 10 A.m. to 9 P.M. [To play from 4 Aug. to 20 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Of Merlin, The British Enchanter; Or, The Child Has Found His Father

3793
31 August 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; IV: Les Bergeries-Essex, Mrs Walter

3794
07 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al'Fresco

Dance: I: The Double Jealousy; or, Miller and His Wife-Poitier, Mlle Roland; III: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; V: Les Bergeries-Essex, Mrs Walter

3795
01 October 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve, London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 2 Oct.: Last Night in the Entertainment of Dr Faustus...when the Machine wherein were Harlequin, the Miller's Wife, the Miller and his the Miller's Man, was got up to the full Extent of its flying, one of the Wires which held up the hind part of the Car broke first, and then the other broke, and the Machine, and all the People in it fell down Upon the Stage; by which unhappy Accident the young Woman who personated the Miller's Wife had her Thigh broke, and her Kneepan shatter'd, and was otherways very much bruised, the Harlequin had his Head bruised, and his Wrist strained; the Miller broke his Arm; and the Miller's Man had his Scull so fractured that his Life in despaired of. Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 6 Oct.: Covent Garden has given me a sort of surfeit of Mr Rich and his cleverness, for I was at [cg] when the machine broke t'other night; the house was in amaze for above a minute, and I dare say a great many in the galleries thought it very desterously performed, and that they screamed as naturally as heart could wish, till they found it was no jest, by their calling for surgeons, of whom several luckily happened to be in the pit. I stayed to see the poor creatures brought out of the house, and pity poor Mrs Buchanan not a little, whom I saw put into a chair in such a fright that as she is big with child, I question whether it may not kill her.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, I, 113-14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

3796
17 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of a Person lately a Merchant. At the Desire of several Eminent Merchants in the City

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Rover-Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann; V: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter

3797
02 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

3798
16 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: Torna mi a Vegbeggiar-Miss Young; IV: Di Lor Mio-Miss Young

3799
20 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

3800
23 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [For Occasional Prompter VII and VIII, see Daily Journal, 23 and 25 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: Muilment; IV: Denoyer, Mlle Roland