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5626 results for: Keyword - Theatres Royal in London
We found 3936 matches on Event Comments, 1330 matches on Performance Title, 826 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2551
25 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene-; with Dancing-

2552
03 July 1787 @ Royalty Theatre, Well (now Ensign) Street

Event Comment: The playbill concludes with the following note: The frequenters of the Royalty Theatre, from the west end of the town, are hereby informed that there is an excellent access for carriages, from Whitechapel, through Red-Lion Street. [Future performances at this theatre will not be recorded.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Reopened (see 20 June) With Three Burlettas: The Birth-day; Or, The Arcadian Contest [1st Time, Anonymous]

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: Hobson's Choice; or, Thespis in Distress [1st time]

Entertainment: Occasional Address-Palmer

Dance: End: a new dance, The Triumph of Cupid-

2553
18 September 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Palmer and Bannister having withdrawn from the theatre, The School for Scandal and The Quaker, which were intended for the opening pieces, were changed" (Town and Country Magazine, Oct. 1787, p. 445). [These two actors thought themselves ill-used because of the refusal of the dl management to acknowledge their right to open the Royalty (see 20 June 1787). Oulton, 1796, II, 1-8, prints an exchange of letters between Palmer, Bannister, and King (the dl acting manager) relating to this situation.] "Some twenty of thirty bars of Handel, on the approach of the court to the play [in III. ii of mainpiece]...made a fine preparation for the scene which followed" (World, 19 Sept.). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. Receipts: #186 5s. 6d. (151.0.0; 35.4.6; 0.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

2554
29 September 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Ferrere, Miss Stageldoir

2555
08 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 (selected From The Great And Favoprite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His commemoration In Westminster Abbeyv, And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784])

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Music: End II: a new concerto on the hautboy-Parke

2556
07 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Omai

2557
02 July 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

2558
20 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: V: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

2559
18 May 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

2560
01 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End I: Crutch Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In course: Dr Hayes's New Highland Laddie-Mrs Warrell; Between the acts 2nd piece: Alone by the Light of the Moon-Darley

2561
26 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

2562
11 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of Handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

2563
16 June 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locanda

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17910217; End Opera: Le Siege de Cythere- [see17910517]

2564
11 July 1791 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2565
03 October 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex; Or, The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Crusade

2566
04 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

2567
24 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Pensieroso 0

Afterpiece Title: L'Alegro ed il Pensieroso 1

Afterpiece Title: L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso

Afterpiece Title: Grand Miscellaneous Act

2568
28 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus And Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: Sweet Bird(by Handel)-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the violin-Weichsel

2569
23 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Monologue: To Conclude Masque, Neptune's Prophecy. Tritons, Neriads-the full Chorus of the Theatre; Neptune-Bannister; Ascanius-Master Welsh (1st appearance on any stage [see 24 Feb.]); Venus-Miss Collins; The Graces-Miss DeCamp, Miss Jacobs, Miss Heard

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

2570
15 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay-market; Or, Two Sides Of The Gutter

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

2571
24 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's None

2572
26 January 1793 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Dance: End I: a new Divertisement (composed by Noverre)-Mlle Millerd (from the Grand Opera in Paris; 1st appearance in this country), Mlle Hilligsberg, Favre Gardel, Nivelon; End Opera: Les Caractres de la Danse-; a new divertisement (composed by Noverre), Les Epoux du Tempe-Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Millerd, Nivelon, Favre Gardel

2573
01 February 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: ROSINA

2574
10 April 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainville Forest

Afterpiece Title: NETLEY ABBEY

2575
01 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD