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1369 results for: Keyword - The Princess of Wales
We found 966 matches on Event Comments, 260 matches on Performance Comments, 163 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

226
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

227
25 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Song: I: Beard; III: A Duet-Beard, Lowe

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421122

228
27 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

229
03 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Miss _Davis
Role: All the Dances proper to the play Actor: .
Role: With the Original Music Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421105; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants, as17421230

230
14 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre. Send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion Queens

Performance Comment: Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs Horton; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Porter (being the last time of her appearing on this stage); No others listed. No others listed.

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

231
03 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. [Winston MS. from Dyer MS.: A prodigious audience] Farce never acted there. Seven rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into side boxes where servants may keep places. Tickets of Mr Valliant, Bookseller, Strand; or at Garrick's, Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: IV: Beard

232
07 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. To prevent any imposition on the publick by counterfeit tickets, which are so frequently sold at the doors, no tickets so bought will be admitted into the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17430305 Characters of Dancing, as17421108; Grand Ballet, as17421108

233
08 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, will then be form'd into an Amphitheatre. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her house in Great Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Cross
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Havard
Role: The Dances Actor: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval, Froment, Liviez, Boudouin, Mrs Walter, Miss Thomson, Mlle Fabres, Mlle Gondeau.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17430303 Epilogue-specified as in the character of the Lying Valet.
Cast
Role: As17430303 Epilogue Actor: specified as in the character of the Lying Valet.

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

234
14 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: It is Humbly desir'd that Ladies who have taken Places, will please to send for their Tickets to Mrs Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Salt's, at Henrietta St., Covent Garden. Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage formed into an amphitheatre, and to prevent the ladies's catching cold ciel'd after the manner of the Oratorios. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

235
22 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Beard...Tickets and Places to be had at Beard's lodgings on the North Side of Red Lyon Square. Those Ladies who have already taken places, are humbly requested to send for Tickets. Tickets and places also to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

236
06 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

237
05 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cervetto. Mainpiece by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd out by Arthur for The Recruiting Officer will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: La Florana, as17430408

Song: III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

Music: IV: New Violincello Concerto-Cervetto

238
03 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont

239
11 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

240
22 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: With an occasional song proper to the play Actor: Leveridge.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

241
16 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman in Misfortune. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

242
01 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Sir John VanBrugh. Last night their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George and Prince Edward were at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden to see the Comedy of Aesop and the Rape of Proserpine.-London Daily Post and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: the Elements Actor: Earth-Destrade, Mrs LeBrun
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

243
09 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17431229, but The Vocal Parts-Mrs Vincent, Mrs +Clive, +Beard, Mrs +Lampe.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor:
Role: With the original Music Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: Cooke

244
12 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Benefit Quin. By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. For the better accomodation of the ladies, the stage will be enclos'd and form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

245
28 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Afterpiece: By Command a Ballad Farce not acted these 3 years [see 30 Nov. 1742]. Amphitheatre on Stage. Send servants by three. Tickets to be had of Beard in Red Lion Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Beard; Phillida-Mrs Clive; in which characters will be introduced the Favourite Duetto in Solomon, Composed by Mr Boyce-Beard, Mrs Clive.

Song: II: New Song by Handel-Beard; IV: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Dance: III: Scotch Dance, as17431124; V: Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

246
10 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward and the Lady Augusta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: With a Representation of the Coronation of Actor:
Role: the Military Ceremony of the Champion Actor: in Westminster Hall

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

247
02 November 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A concert. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive

Performances

248
19 January 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Temple of Dulness

Related Works
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

249
06 February 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Muilment; III: Grand Dance, as17450108; IV: Peasant Dance-Muilment

250
06 March 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Last night the Dutch Children performed before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and to a most numerous and polite audience, with universal applause; but by command were oblig'd to shorten their performance, and leave out several things that they will exhibit this night and the few nights they are to perform.--Daily Advertiser, 7 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequino Triumphante