SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "his Majestys Company of Comedians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "his Majestys Company of Comedians")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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Event Comment: The Company of Comedians have determined to play [it] notwithstanding the Opposition made by some of the Company to prevent the Performance. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. By the Lilliputian Company of Comedians. At the Tennis-Court, in James-street, in the Hay-Market. 7 P.M. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. N.B. The Company will continue to Play every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during the Summer Season. Daily Advertiser, 29 April: I went to see them; upon my entrance I was surpris'd at the Spaciousness and Decencies of the Place; when the Curtain was drawn up, I found the Scenes not inferior to any I had seen, the Stage copious, the Decorations regular, the Actors perfect both in Words and Performance

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Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By Pasquin's Company of Comedians. At the Great Theatrical Booth in the Half-Moon Yard. The Company will continue playing till the 22d. Noon to Ten P.M. [Advertised 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15 Sept. The Duke expected to attend on 14 Sept.]

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of King John

Music: By a Band of Neopolitans

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Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb.: To the Author, &c. Sir, In a late Paragraph in one of your Papers [4 Feb.] it was insinuated, that there was a Design on foot for erecting a New Theatre, which by some Wise Heads was suppos'd to come from a certain Manager, in order to revive the Playhouse Bill this Session of Parliament; I think it proper therefore, in Justice to the Gentleman levell'd at, to inform the Publick, that it is actually intended for a Company of Comedians every Day expected here, late Servants to their Majesties Kouli Kan and Theodore, who in the mean time will entertain the Town in the true Eastern manner, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, with a celebrated Piece call'd A Rehearsal of Kings. I am, Sir, Yours, &c. Agent for the Company

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Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] By a Company of Comedians dropt from the Clouds, late Servants to their thrice-renown'd Majesties, Kouly Kan and Theodore. With new Scenes, Habits, and proper Decorations. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 1st N.B. To prevent the Imposition of Box-Keepers, Gentlemen and Ladies are humbly desir'd to take Tickets at the Office, or to send for them at the Theatre, where Attendance will be given every Day, and Places may be taken. 2d N.B. The Company will endeavour to entertain the Town the remaining part of the Season. [In advance bill in Daily Advertiser, 23 Feb.: 2d N.B. Considering the extraordinary Expence that must necessarily attend equipping so many Monarchs of different Nations, the Proprietor hopes the Town will not take Umbrage at the Prices being rais'd. 3rd. N.B. The Proprietor begs leave to enter his Caveat against all (what Names soever distinguish'd) who may hire, or be hir'd, to do the Drudgery of Hissing, Catcalling, &c. and entreats the Town would discourage, as much as in them lies, a Practice at once so scandalous and prejudicial to Author, Player, and every Fair Theatre Adventure.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings Or The Projecting Gingerbread Baker With The Unheard Of Catastrophe Of Macplunderkan King Of Roguomania And The Ignoble Fall Of Baron Tromperland King Of Clouts

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: This is to inform the Publick, that the new Tragi-Comedy, intitled The Free-Thinker; or, The Fox uncas'd, which was last Summer rehearsed and was to have been play'd at [lif], but by Mr Rich's letting that House to Mr Giffard, for that Season, was prevented, will be acted on the 14th of April next [at yb], by Mr Hallam's Company of Comedians. The Play is writ much in the same Stile and Manner of George Barnwell....The Author hopes that the Generous and Judicious will encourage the Performance, tho' the Company of Players are not dropt down from the Clouds, nor does the Play libel the Government. [No further announcement of the performance has been noted before 28 April.

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Event Comment: [Afterpiece: With alterations and additions. News arrived of the death in Monaco of His Royal Highness Edward Augustus, Duke of York, next brother to His Majesty. Hopkins MS Notes: About eleven o'clock orders came from the Lord Chamberlain that the House must be stopt performing on account of the death of the Duke of York. --Fresh bills were printed and posted about the House that there would be no play that night. Neville MS Diary: Procured No. 5289 of the General Evening Post which contains my letter concerning the St. James' Company of Comedians. Glad to hear that the Lothario of that Company, the Infamous York, is called to that Tribunal where there is no respect of persons. Canceled

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Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: NNone

Event Comment: At the King's Opera House in The Haymarket. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills.] By His Majesty's Company. [First production of an English stage play at this house since 18 Nov. 1710, though touring French or Italian companies had played French plays as late as the spring of 1727. The location verified by Isaac Reed, who attended the performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 22 and 23 Sept., the advertisements bore the heading: "By the deserted Company of Comedians of the Theatre Royal."

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Mrs Tofts

Dance:

Event Comment: By His Royal Highnesses' Command. By the Company of Comedians from both Theatres. The Pit and Boxes to be laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau, Cook Sr, Cook Jr, Pelling, Spiller; An Italian Night Scene between a Harlequin and a Countryman-Cook, Spiller

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Mainpiece Title: Le Joueur

Performance Comment: Wherein an Actress belonging to the King of Shweden's French Company of Comedians will act a Part, the First in England.

Afterpiece Title: Attendez Moy Sous LOrme

Entertainment: Tumbling-; Dancing-Danjeville

Event Comment: Daily Post, 18 Feb.: The French Company of Comedians do hereby give Notice, That Monsieur Francisque, alias Harlequin, did refuse to perform last Night, which obliged the Master to dismiss the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: Le Mariage Force

Event Comment: For the Diversion of Gentlemen and Ladies. By Bullock's and Lee's Company of Comedians from both the Theatres. At Mr Luffingham's Great Room at Hampstead Wells. At 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Song:

Dance: The Mimick of a Drunken Man-

Event Comment: By the New Company of Comedians. Written by the late Mr Rowe

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Mr Penkethman's Theatre in Richmond. By a Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. In proper Habits

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Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces- , accompany'd with the Harpsicord, Flutes, and Hautboys

Song: The Dame of Honour-Mrs Willis

Dance: The Drunken Man-Harper

Event Comment: Benefit Ward and Mrs Haughton. By Mr Bullock's and Spiller's Company of Comedians At their great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley. With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Dance: Haughton, Mrs Ogden, James, Mrs Haughton; End II: particulary Tollet's Grounds-Mrs Haughton, Mrs Ogden; End IV: French Peasant-; End V: Swedish Dale Karl-Haughton, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 8 Aug.: On Wednesday last in the Evening her Majesty, the Prince of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina, were entertained in the Gardens at Richmond by the Comedians of the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Unknown

Performance Comment: The lif Company.
Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians from the Hay-Market. At the Great Theatrical Tyl'd Booth, during the four Days of Black-heath Fair. From 1 P.M. to 10 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance:

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians From the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Sir George-Chapman; Sir Jealous-Bullock; Sir Francis-Smith; Charles-Milward; Marplot-Morgan; Whisper-Haughton; Miranda-Mrs Morgan; Isabinda-Mrs Grace; Patch-Mrs Martin; Scentwell-Mrs Rice.
Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: Haughton

Dance: The Celebrated Dance in Momus, to the Black Joke Tune,-Nivelon

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 27 June: Thomas Odell, Esq. Master of the New Theatre in Goodman's Fields, hath been at Windsor to obtain Leave to bring his Company of Comedians down thither to perform Plays during the Court's Stay at Windsor; and we hear that he hath succeeded therein

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Event Comment: Written by the late facetious Mr Doggett. By the Company of Comedians from gf in the Booth next the Turnpike in Tottenham Court. [Advertised also on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam Or The Distressd Lovers With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

Event Comment: By the Company of Comedians from the Hay-Market at the Great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Contrivance or The Plague of a Wanton Wife

Song: Mrs Nokes

Event Comment: By Desire. By a Company of Comedians from all the other Theatres. In which the Character of John Moody will be preserved (by Desire)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Wilcocks, Mines, and Widow Gardiner. Receipts: money #6 6s., tickets #103 11s. Daily Post, 25 May: We hear, that when His Majesty removes to Hampton-Court, the Theatre in that Palace will be open'd, and Plays acted by the King's Company of Comedians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Last new Comic Dance-Newhouse, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 8 June: We hear that Part of the Company of Comedians from [lif] will open their Theatre at Richmond the latter End of this Week; and tho' they were well approved of last Season, yet have laid out considerable Sums in new Scenes and Cloaths; and...have strengthened their Company...particularly [with] the pleasant and facetious Mr Hippisley

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