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2677 results for: Keyword - his Highness the Prince
We found 1131 matches on Event Comments, 711 matches on Performance Comments, 511 matches on Performance Title, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1226
17 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Masque, including the words of the additional Scene, to be had at the theatre. Paid Leverton & Co (bricklayers) #32 12s.; Heafford (plaisterer) #12 11s.; Wilford (painter) #15 11s. (Account Book Receipts: #172 10s. (Account Book).)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17711026

1227
22 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance, as17711031

1228
28 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Fisher for composing the music to Zobeide #24 3s. (Account Book). Receipts: #117 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1229
22 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 7 Feb. 1770.] Mrs Lessingham in the pay accounts this evening receiv'd her regular salary of #2 10s. for five previous days, plus a lump sum in addition amounting to #74 13s. 4d. (Account Book). A subsequent raise in salary on the books indicates her receiving now #1 3s. 3d. per day instead of the 10s. with which she began the season. Receipts: #149 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1230
28 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: With the Epithalamium Actor: Mattocks, Mrs Baker.
Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1231
01 September 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilettante

Entertainment: Ode Arnold composed in honor of the Prince of Wales's birthday sung by-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson

1232
07 September 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Entertainment: Odeby Arnold for Prince's Birthday,-Bannister, Culver, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson

1233
07 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: A Tragedy altered from Dryden [Aureng-Zebe] by Mr W. Addington, never performed before. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 16 May 1770.] Charges #71 2s. Profit to Mrs Lessingham #38 7s. 6d., plus #92 12s. from tickets (Box 186; Pit 146; Gallery 242). Paid Cooper (printer) #36 2s.; Paid Mrs Witaker for a woman's white & silver flower'd suit #10 10s.; Paid John Doe for sticking black bills #6 6s. Receipts: #109 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prince Of Agra

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

1234
15 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth, Fearon & L'Estrange. Mainpiece: Never perform'd here.[Afterpiece in place of The Englishman in Paris, announced on playbill of 14 May.] Receipts: !173 16s. 6d. (60.14.6; tickets: 113.2.0) [charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince; Or, The Battle Of Poictiers

Performance Comment: Edward-Wroughton; Arnold-Whitfield; Lord Audley-Hull; Earl of Salisbury-Mahon; Cardinal Perigort-Fearon; King John-L'Estrange; Dauphin-Robson; Duke of Athens-Booth; Charney-Thompson; Ribemont-Aickin; Mariana-Mrs Jackson.
Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Mr Baker
Role: other Characters Actor: Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Ballet: End: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780511

Cast
Role: Bobby Flip the Boatswain Actor: Aldridge

Song: As17780511

1235
22 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Performance Comment: Cantileno (with imitations)-Reinhold; Ballad-Mahon; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Robson; The Country Mad@Cap-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: The Country Mad@Cap Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: End II: The Arts and Sciences, as17780509; in which an Assault-Master Dagueville, Master Holland; with a Minuet-Master Dagueville, Miss Bullock; Prince of Wales's New Court Minuet-Master Holland, Miss Simonet

1236
18 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Dagueville, Simpkinson, the widow of the late Jones, and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted. Receipts: #182 15s. (34.15; 1.3; tickets: 146.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End II: The Embarkment for Cythera- (see17791022); with a new Minuet-Master and Miss Dagueville, Master Holland, Miss Armstrong; End IV: Cupid Recruiting- (see17800417); in which The Prince of Wales's New Minuet (composed by Dagueville)-Master Dagueville, Miss Simonet (of the Opera-House);

Ballet: End: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508, but Jockies-Master Holland, _Holloway, _Holland

Cast
Role: Ladies Actor: Miss Matthews, Miss Valois.

1237
26 January 1782 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance, as17811128, to finish with a new minuet (composed by Noverre and the music by Le Brun), The Prince of Wales's Minuet, by Gardel and Mme Simonet; End of Act II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of Act III Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

Cast
Role: Chief of the Island Actor: Slingsby.

1238
20 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 17 Jan. 1750]. With new Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #193 11s. (169/7/0; 23/14/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince; Or, The Battle Of Poictiers

Performance Comment: English: Edward-Kemble; Lord Audley-Farren; Earl of Warwick-Barrymore; Earl of Chandos-Williames; Salisbury-Fawcett; Arnold-Brereton. French: King John-Staunton; Dauphin-Phillimore; Duke of Athens-R. Palmer; Charney-Packer; Archbishop of Sens-Chaplin; Cardinal Perigort-Aickin; Ribemont-Palmer; Mariana-Miss E. Kemble .
Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

1239
22 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1 Yrs. Rent #339 16s. 3d. Receipts: #164 At. 6d. (132/12/0; 30/6/0; 1/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17831020

1240
25 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

1241
29 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17831020

1242
01 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stageldoir. The other Characters by Chaplin, Burton, Spencer, Wrighten, Phillimore, Wilson, Williamson, Kenny, Newbold

1243
30 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: As17831020

1244
09 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Staunton as King John, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes L'Estrange.] Receipts: #223 13s. (211/18; 11/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor

1245
30 June 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Curtis. 3rd piece: Never acted there [acted in place of The Agreeable Surprise, announced on playbill of 28 June]. Tickets to be had of Curtis, at the Cock and Magpye

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet: Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, The Diversions of the Morning

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio; or, The Taming of a Shrew

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Benson; Baptista-Smith; Hortensio-Hill; Taylor-Simpson; Biondello-Wilson; Music-Master-Meadows; Pedro-Watts; Nathaniel-Price; Grumio-Waldron; Bianca-Miss Phillips; Curtis-Miss Williams; Catherine-Mrs Johnston. monologues. End of 1st piece Buds have at ye all by Curtis; End of 2nd piece Parents and Children, as17860628. End of 2nd piece Parents and Children, as17860628.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Johnston. monologues. End of 1st piece Buds have at ye all by Curtis
Role: The King Actor: Smith
Role: The Miller Actor: Watts

1246
19 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. No Money to be returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah, Preceded By god Save The King(coronation Anthems)

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Master Bridgtower, Son to the African Prince

1247
08 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Tickets delivered for Monday the 8th of February will be received. Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe. Text 1st published in his Dramatic Works, Vol. III (T. Woodfall, 1798). Season of 1790-91 acted as The Fugitive]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music selected and composed by Shield, and consists of several Russian Melodies, and compositions of Handel, Sacchini, Pleyel, Rauzzini, Guglielmi, Weichsel, Dalayrac, Callcott, Reeve, Prati and Shield. Receipts: #366 9s. 6d. (255.2.6; 3.5.0; tickets: 108.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister, Quick, Edwin, Blanchard, Darley, Rock, C. Powell, Egan, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Billington. Cast from Airs (T. Cadell, 1790): The Czar-Bannister; Justice Applejack-Quick; Philip-Edwin; Count Couvanski-Blanchard; Commodore Swivel-Darley; Ballybough-Rock; Romadanowski-C. Powell; Slip-Egan; Lefort-Johnstone; Nib-Farley; Ellen-Mrs Martyr; Mrs Applejack-Mrs Mountain; Ottokesa-Mrs Billington.
Cast
Role: The Czar Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

1248
31 May 1794 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd ballet: The Music by Tomich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Burbero Di Bu0n Cuore

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, as17940311End of Act II a new Ballet Dramatic Pantomime, composed by D'Egville, Le Bon Prince; ou, Les Infortunes Vertueux, by Favre Guiardele, Gentili, Aumer, Master Menage, D'Egville, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Guiardele, Mme Del Caro

Related Works
Related Work: The Captive of Spilburg Author(s): Prince Hoare

1249
18 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 1st piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 1 June 1789]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 12 Sept. 1794]. The Overture and Musick by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 12 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Ghost-Bensley; King-Benson; Polonius-Suett; Laertes-C. Kemble; Horatio-Davies; Osrick-Wathen; Grave Diggers-Fawcett, Waldron Jun.; Queen-Mrs Harlowe; Player Queen-Miss Tidswell; Ophelia-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Osrick Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Purse; or, Benevolent Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Obadiah Prim Actor: Wathen
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Miss Menage

1250
11 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet: Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Cast
Role: The Children Actor: Master Kemble, Master Chatterley

Song: End: a song-Bannister