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15886 results for: Keyword - two Miss Simonets
We found 13959 matches on Performance Comments, 5172 matches on Performance Title, 2591 matches on Event Comments, 58 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

6426
05 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Two Benches in the Pit next the Boxes rail'd in, the same Price. Pit 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. No Person to be admitted to keep Places in the Pit. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

6427
10 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

6428
02 April 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

6429
26 November 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [See Tatler, 26 Nov., on the competitive elements of two playhouses.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

6430
17 May 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

6431
07 April 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission: boxes 8s., pit 5s., first gallery 2s. 6d., upper gallery 1s. 6d., stage boxes half guinea. Two Benches in the Pit Rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Dance: delaGarde, Mrs delaGarde

6432
10 November 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. The two Benches in the Pit to be railed in at the Price of the Boxes. The Boxes upon the Stage half a Guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

6433
14 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: After these Two Nights [10 and 14 Jan.] Mr Swiny Brakes & runs away & leaves ye Singers unpaid ye Scenes & Habits also unpaid for. The Singers were in Some confusion but at last concluded to go on with ye operas on their own accounts, & divide ye Gain amongst them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

6434
28 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: Ye House was better filled at this than at ye former Two Operas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

6435
27 January 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. The two young Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

6436
12 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Colley Cibber. Music by Dr Pepusch.] A New Musical Masque...in two several Interludes, compos'd after the Italian manner and perform'd all in English. N.B. A Printed Book of the Masque will be given each Person that pays in the Pit or Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Music: A select Band of the best Masters of Instrumental Musick

6437
03 February 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Johnson.] A New Farce of Two Acts only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

6438
10 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By William Taverner. Apparently not printed.] Never Acted before. Afterpiece: [By William Taverner.] A New Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick of Two Acts. Receipts: #31 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Body Mistaken

Afterpiece Title: Presumptuous Love

6439
03 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Benjamin Griffin.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Receipts: #27 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Song: As17160206

Dance: As17151104

6440
14 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Receipts: #48

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Footman Turned Gentleman

Dance: As17170125

6441
30 March 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. In which will be seen two New Scenes, one representing a most Magnificent Palace, containing above a Thousand Yards of Painting. The other a Room adorn'd with Tapestry, representing the famous Battles of Alexander by Mons leBrun; both (in their kind) exceeding any Scenes that has been seen in England. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

6442
22 March 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald.] The Music by Mr Galliard. By Subscription. A new Comic-Dramatic Opera. With all new Cloaths, and the Scenes are Machines after the Venetian Manner. N.B. There are above two Thousand Ells of Cloath employ'd in the Painting. Pit and Boxes by tickets only. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 3s. Box in the Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Triumph

6443
18 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Afterpiece. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. On this day, Quin and Bowen fought a duel. Bowen died on 20 April of his wounds. According to the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 26 April: The two falling out about which of them was the honestest man, and a Wager being laid, thereon it was given in favour of [Quin], whereupon [Bowen] went to the Pope's Head Tavern in Cornhill and sending thither for Quin, oblig'd him to fight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Dance: As17171022

6444
19 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit M and Mlle Salle, the two Children who dance in the Company of the French Comedians. By His Royal Highness's Command. Tickets for L'homme a bonne fortune taken this day. [The Prince present. #40 paid to Bullock.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Chinois Ou Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: La Retour de la Foire

Entertainment:

6445
13 January 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Macbeth with cast as 27 Nov. 1718 was advertised in the Daily Courant, but Rich's Register lists The Mourning Bride. On 14 Jan. The Mourning Bride is advertised with the heading: Acted but twice these Two Years, suggesting either that it was not given on 13 Jan. or that the bill, already made up, was not changed for the printer, an unlikely event

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth or The Mourning Bride

6446
19 January 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular desire of the Author's Friends, Two Benches of the Pit will be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

6447
05 March 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. With Two Rows of the Pit rail'd into Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Music: A Grand Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Music-Mrs Barbier, Mrs Margarita, Mrs Pulman, Mrs Fletcher

6448
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

6449
01 October 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Cantata (divided into two Entertainments) set to Musick by Sig Attilio Ariosti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Diana on Mount Latmos

6450
05 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the two American Princes, as 21 Dec. 1719

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats