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2647 results for: Keyword - T$The Queen
We found 1185 matches on Performance Title, 1127 matches on Performance Comments, 517 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
05 June 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and three in the Box att Indian Queen #1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

102
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. For a discussion of the dating, see Baldwin Maxwell, Notes on Charles Hopkins' Boadicea, Review of English Studies, IV (1928), 79-83. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 44: Boadicea, the Brittish Queen, wrote by Mr Hopkins: 'twas a well Writ Play in an Ovidean Stile in Verse; it was lik'd and got the Company Money. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: This is Cha. Hopkins's and did very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Boadicea Queen Of Britain

103
18 December 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 16-18 Dec. 1697: We hear that the Marquiss of Carmarthen who lately Entertain'd the Great Officer from the Czar of Muscovy, at the Opera call'd the Prophetess, has this day Bespoke the Entertainment of the Indian Queen at the Theatre Royal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

104
24 February 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Post Man, 24-26 Feb. 1697@8: London Feb. 26. On Thursday the Czar of Muscovy came privately with a small Retinue to Kensington, and I am told went afterwards to see the Play, the Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

105
25 April 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: To all the Nobility and Gentry: In Honour of the Queen s Coronation. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

106
04 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. With a new Prologue and Epilogue. Admission as 14 Dec. 1703. [A Folger Library broadside appears to be a program for this concert. It lists in Act I The Druid's Song from Bonduca, two songs by Mrs Tofts, a song from The Fairy Queen, and a dance; in Act II The Frost Music from King Arthur, two dances, and a song by Mrs Tofts; in Act III an Ode on the Glorious Beginning of Her Majesty's Reign, set by Daniel Purcell and performed by Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, and Mrs Campion; a song by Mrs Tofts, The Sacrifice from King Arthur, and a Grand Dance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Wherein several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; With several select Pieces of Musick- (compos'd by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell) taken out of the Operas of The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Dioclesian, and Bonduca; And an Ode upon the Happy Accession of Her Majesty to the Throne- set to Musick by Mr Daniel Purcell, never perform'd before

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl

107
29 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: a comical Tragedy [a burlesque of Lee's The Rival Queens by Cibber]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queen's; With The Humours of Alexander the Great

Song: Three select Entertainments in Italian-Mr Holcombe. Being the first time of his performance on that Stage

108
22 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. [No mention of the King and Queen in Treasurer's Book.] Paid Mr Grist on act by order #10. Receipts: #280 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

109
09 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Artaxerxes will be taken. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #278 7s. 6d. (166/9/6; tickets: 111/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: End of mainpiece The Gala, as17820402, but omitted: Dumay, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Early Horn; End of Act I of afterpiece The Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots; End of Act II Auld Robin Grey, all three sung by Mrs Kennedy

110
11 June 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Morning Chronicle, 4 June; Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Anne-street, East. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (170.5.6; 56.9.0; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #161 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

111
15 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Balthazar to Gray, but "Incledon...condescended to take the part of Balthazar, which Townsend [who acted it on 6 Oct.] was too ill to perform, and sung 'Sigh no more, ladies' with much sweetness and effect. In the entertainment Johnstone introduced the song of 'Queen Bess" (Morning Herald, 16 Mar.).] Receipts: #372 1s. 6d. (362.8.6; 9.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: As17971006

Song: In afterpiece: Queen Bess [not listed on playbill; see below]-Johnstone

112
22 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spring

Dance: TThe Lilliputian Fisherman, as17621120 *uġ÷dl TThe Farmer's Return. As17621115

113
18 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance: SShepherds and Shepherdesses-Dupre, Salle, Lally, Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Anderson; A new Dance in the Characters of Harlequin , Punch , Harlequin Woman called The Rivals-Salle, Nivelon, Mlle Salle; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; Les Characters de la Dance-Mlle Salle

Song: TThe Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge

114
26 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: TThe Play of Love, The Wheel Turn'd To Some Tune-Leveridge

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock

115
29 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

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

Dance: TThe Marriage-Salle, Mlle Salle; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Young LeSac, Miss Latour; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Barbier

116
13 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Song: TThe Play of Love-Leveridge

Dance: FFrench Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

117
30 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance: CChacone-Lally, Mrs Wall; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Young LeSac, Miss LaTour; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

Song: TThe Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge

118
17 June 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Contrivance

Song: TThe Play of Love-Salway

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Swedish Darl Carl-Pelling, Mrs Ogden; Miller's Dance-Newhouse, Morgan, Mrs Ogden

119
24 June 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway

Dance: PPastoral-Mrs Anderson; Scottish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Ogden

120
19 August 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Scottish Dance-Smith, Mrs Ogden; Pastoral-Burney, Mrs Anderson

121
23 August 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Scottish Dance-Smith, Mrs Ogden; Pastoral-Burny, Mrs Anderson

122
21 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Song: TThe Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge

Dance: Dupre, Salle, Nivelon, Glover, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Lanyon, Mlle Salle, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Legar, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden

123
03 December 1726 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Spirito Folletto; Or, The Hobgoblin By Argentina

Dance: TThe Furies-Poictier, others

124
29 December 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Music: Between Acts: Music-

Dance: TThe Fawns, Pierate-Roger, Mrs Brett

125
13 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Berriman

Song: TThe Lass of Patie's Mill-Mrs Warren; A Dialogue Betwixt a Rake and a Widow-; Rake-Leveridge; Widow-Salway

Dance: FFrench Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon