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01 May 1750

Event Information
Theatre: The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner
Theatrical Season: 1749-1750
Volume: 4
Comments: To begin at Twelve noon. The Gentlemen are desired to come without swords and the Ladies without hoops (Deutsch, Handel, p. 688). The seating capacity of the Hospital was 1,000. There was a tremendous crush and confusion...a number of distinguished people drove up at the last moment, many without tickets, and found it impossible to gain admission (R. H. Nichols and F. A. Wray, History of the Foundling Hospital (London 1935), p. 202). Handel offered to give a repeat performance to accomodate those disappointed. [See 15 May.

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  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p?chapel The Messiah. *c?chapel To begin at Twelve noon. The Gentlemen are desired to come without swords and the Ladies without hoops (<i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 688). The seating capacity of the Hospital was 1,000. There was a tremendous crush and confusion...a number of distinguished people drove up at the last moment, many without tickets, and found it impossible to gain admission ($R. H. Nichols= and $F. A. Wray=, <i>History of the Foundling Hospital</i> (<i>London</i> 1935), p. 202). $Handel= offered to give a repeat performance to accomodate those disappointed. [See 15 May.]

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1750 05 01 chapel The Messiah.*c1750 05 01 chapel To begin at Twelve noon. The Gentlemen are desired to come without swords and the Ladies without hoops (<i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 688). The seating capacity of the Hospital was 1,000. There was a tremendous crush and confusion...a number of distinguished people drove up at the last moment, many without tickets, and found it impossible to gain admission ($R. H. Nichols= and $F. A. Wray=, <i>History of the Foundling Hospital</i> (<i>London</i> 1935), p. 202). $Handel= offered to give a repeat performance to accomodate those disappointed. [See 15 May.]

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 25285 | 17500501 | chapel | To begin at Twelve noon. The Gentlemen are desired to come without swords and the Ladies without hoops (<i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 688). The seating capacity of the Hospital was 1,000. There was a tremendous crush and confusion...a number of distinguished people drove up at the last moment, many without tickets, and found it impossible to gain admission ($R. H. Nichols= and $F. A. Wray=, <i>History of the Foundling Hospital</i> (<i>London</i> 1935), p. 202). $Handel= offered to give a repeat performance to accomodate those disappointed. [See 15 May.
    Performance: 50527 | 25285 | p | The Messiah

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Title: The Messiah
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