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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "his R Highnesses"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "his R Highnesses")') 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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2395 results for: Keyword - his R. Highnesses
We found 1743 matches on Performance Comments, 833 matches on Event Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

401
22 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #82 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

402
27 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #51 15s.; tickets #44

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rape

403
29 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Opera

404
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

405
08 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #93 8s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

406
18 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #77 16s.; tickets #50 14s. [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

Afterpiece Title: Flora

407
27 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince, attended by Lord Charles Cavendish and Colonel Townshend, and Princess Caroline, attended by the Countess of Suffolk, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

408
31 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Dance:

409
05 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #158 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

410
08 January 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince and Princesses Amelia and Carolina were present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

411
19 January 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

412
12 February 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit J. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #177 7s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

413
05 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

414
09 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.] Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ophonisba

415
12 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #166 10s. 6d. By Command of His Royal Highness. The Recruiting Officer for the benefit of Mrs Younger is deferred to Tuesday 17

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

416
17 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #75 17s.; tickets #119 6s. Daily Journal, 21 March: After the Play...the Prince of Wales and a great Number of the Nobility being Present, Mr Leveridge (whose Benefit is also to come very shortly) advanced upon the Stage, and after paying his Honours to the Audience, invited them to his Benefit, by a humorous Song set to the merry Tune of the Black Joke; which was receiv'd by the whole House with a universal Encore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Poitier

Dance: End I: Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; II: French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; III: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Highlander and Mistress=-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour

417
02 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #56 1s.; tickets #98 10s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Job Baker

Dance:

418
30 April 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Griffith, from the Theatre Royal in Dublin. By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Roger, Essex, Lally, Houghton, Rainton, Mrs Walter, Mlle Delorme, Miss Robinson

419
30 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Hollyday. By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #35 4s. 6d.; tickets #70 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals

Dance: End V: Grand Comic Dance in Camilla-Nivelon, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; End I of School Boy: French Peasant-Poitier; End of Farce: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon

420
11 November 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #63 4s. By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sylvia

421
19 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach Opera

Dance: Roger, Essex, Lally, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Delorme, Mrs Walter

422
26 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Princess Amelia, and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy

423
10 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Emilia, and Princess Caroline present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

424
16 December 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #76 17s. [The Prince and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

425
14 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Princess Caroline present.] Receipts: #42 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander