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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.

101
15 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Performance Comment: London Merchant-Cross; Millwood-Mrs Cross; Thorogood-Turbutt; Maria-Miss Brunette; Barnwell Sr-Jones; Lucy-Mrs Pritchard; Truman-Este; Blunt-Cole .
Cast
Role: London Merchant Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: Concerto for Two Hautboys by Woodbridge and Neale. A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey

Dance: houvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. V: Two Pierrots by Vallois and his Scholar

Song: By a Scholar of Carey's

102
29 October 1695 @ The City, London

Event Comment: London. By Elkanah Settle. The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

103
05 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: London in 1710, p. 38: When this play is give, there are always prodigious crowds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

104
02 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Quin; Woolfort-Milward; Hubert-Walker; Vandunck-Bullock; Hemskirk-Paget; Bertha-Mrs Bullock; Jaqueline-Mrs Laguerre; Higgen-Hippisley; Prig-Chapman.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: A Journey to Bristol; or, The Honest Welshman

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Pelling; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden; (by Desire) Hippisley's Medley; or, Drunken Man-

105
13 February 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Walker; Hubert-A. Hallam; Vandunck-Morgan; Hemskirk-Hale; Higgen-Hippisley; Prig-Chapman; Bertha-Mrs Bullock; Jaqueline-Miss Bincks .
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

106
06 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Higgen-Hippisley; Prig-Chapman; Woolfort-Walker; Vandunck-Mullart; Hemskirk-Hale; Boor-James; Bertha-Mrs Bellamy; Jaqueline-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17380103

107
03 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Rosco; Hemskirk-Hale; Hubert-Hallam; Vandunck-Mullart; Prig-Neale; Higgen-Hippisley; Ferret-Stoppelaer; Gincks-Bencraft; Merchant-Gibson; Boors-James, Smith, Anderson; Bertha-Mrs Bellamy; Jaqueline-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: TThe Swiss, Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

108
29 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Milward; Clause-Quin; Woolfort-Wright; Hemskirk-Havard; Hubert-Mills; Vandunck-Shepard; Prigg-Chapman; Higgen-Macklin; Frighted Boor-Woodward; Jaculine-Mrs Bennet; Bertha-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Milward

Afterpiece Title: The Rural Sports

109
16 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Hubert-Hale; Hemskirk-Cashell; Prigg-Chapman; Woolfort-Rosco; Vandunk-Marten; Gertrude-Mrs Hale; Jaqueline-Mrs Vincent; 1st Merchant-Carr; 2nd Merchant-Gibson; 3rd Merchant-Anderson; 4th Merchant-Ridout; Boor-James; Ferret-Stoppelaer; Ginks-Bencraft; Snap-Vaughan; Higgen-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: As17451014

110
27 January 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Woolfort-Rosco; Van Dunk-Morgan; Gertrude-Mrs Hale; Jaqueline-Mrs Bland; Hubert-Bridges; 1st Merchant-Kennedy; 2nd Merchant-Storer; 3rd Merchant-Anderson; 4th Merchant-Ridout; Hemskirk-Gibson; Boor-Collins; Ferret-Stoppelaer; Ginks-Bencraft; Snap-Paddick; Prince Prigg-Dunstall; Higgen-James; Clause-Bridgwater.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17471228, but Royal Chasseur-Roberts.
Cast
Role: Royal Chasseur Actor: Roberts.
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Beard

111
16 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Woolfort-Sparks; Hubert-Ridout; Hemskirk-Gibson; VanDunk-Marten; Gertrude-Mrs Hale; Jaqueline-Miss Haughton; Prigg-Dunstall; Merchants-Oates, Holtham, Anderson, Paget; Higgen-Arthur; Boor-Collins; Ferret-Stoppelaer; Ginks-Bencraft; Snap-Paddick; Clause-Quin.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Lowe; Merlin-Leveridge; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Oates; Mercury-Wilder; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Pierot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Lowe

112
09 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Woolfort-Sparkes; Hubert-Ridout; Hemskirk-Gibson; Vandunk-Marten; Gertrude-Mrs Barrington; Jaqueline-Miss Haughton; Prigg-Dunstall; Merchants-Oates, Holtham, Anderson, Redman; Higgen-Arthur; Boor-Collins; Ferret-Stoppelaer; Ginks-Bencraft; Snap-Bennet; Clause-Quin.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

113
14 November 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Sparks; Hubert-Ridout; Hemskirk-Gibson; Vandunk-Marten; Gertrude-Mrs Barrington; Jaqueline-Miss Haughton; Prince Prig-Dunstall; Higgen-Arthur.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

114
27 November 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Sparks; Hubert-Ridout; Hemskirk-Bransby; VanDunk-Marten; Gertrude-Mrs Barrington; Jaqueline-Mrs Vincent; Prig-Dunstall; Higgen-Arthur.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Dance: As17521028

115
26 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Royal Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Sparks; Hubert-Ridout; Hemskirk-Gibson; Vandunk-Marten; Prig-Shuter; Higgen-Arthur; Jaqueline-Miss Mullart; Gertrude-Mrs Barrington.
Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

116
22 November 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Particularly by Desire Women and Wine-Miss Karver who sang some years ago at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane; since at Mr Foote's Theatre in the Haymarket

117
29 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Between the acts: Mrs Storer from the Theatre Royal in Dublin

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Salomon's Son

118
10 May 1750 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Fortune Teller

Entertainment: EEquilibres on the Slack Rope-Atkins, of Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden

119
30 September 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Song: Miss Polly Young (from theatre Royal Dublin) her 1st appearance on the English Stage

120
27 May 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Lady from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane [unidentified]

121
04 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a New Comic Ballet by Mr and Miss Hamoir (from the Theatre-Royal, Brussels; their 1st appearance on that stage)

122
22 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Dead Man Alive

Dance: End of mainpiece a Double Hornpipe by Wright and a Young Lady (from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden; 1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]). imitations. After the Dancing Theatrical Imitations by Payne

123
29 November 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: London Gazette, 25-29 Nov. 1686: Whereas Mr Thomas Otway some time before his death made Four Acts of a Play, whoever can give Notice in whose Hands the Copy lies, either to Mr Thomas Betterton, or Mr William Smith, at the Theatre Royal, shall be well Rewarded for his pains

Performances

124
03 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: London Post, No. 30, 1-3 Jan. 1700: This day at the Theatre-Royal in Dorset-garden, the Famous Kentish-man Mr Joy, designs to show the same Tryals of Strength, he had the honour of showing before his Majesty, the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and several Persons of Quality, viz. The lifting a weight of 2240 l. Holding an extraordinary large Cart-Horse; and afterwards breaking a Rope that will bear 3500 weight. There will likewise be shewn the Sister, carrying 5 Bushels of Wheat, or any other grain; She being but 15 Years of Age. They will also show on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, beginning at 3 of the Clock, and ending at 4 in the Afternoon. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. 1st Gallery 1s. Upper gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

125
16 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Chronicle, 17 Oct.: In Act IV Macklin 'very properly declined the orator, but pleaded from his feelings and the predetermined purpose of his heart.' [Mrs Barry, as Mrs Dancer, had 1st acted Portia at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 9 Dec. 1761, and at dl, 24 Mar. 1768.] Receipts: #205 8s. (204.19.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770924; End IV: As17771008