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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) " His Majesties"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) " His Majesties")') 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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1104 results for: Keyword - His Majesties
We found 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

851
23 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #288 9s. 6d. (278/2/0; 10/2/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Best Bidder

852
28 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #277 8s. 6d. (270/S/0; 6/13/0; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

853
03 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #285 8s. 6d. (279/19/6; 5/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman, Tug-Bannister; Bundle-Wilson; Robin-Edwin; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Webb; Wilhelmina-Mrs Bannister

Dance: As17821231

854
14 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Miss Linley still continuing so ill [see 7 Mar.] as not to be able to perform this Evening, Mrs Bannister has been so kind as to undertake to supply her Place. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: End of Part II of oratorio concerto on the organ by Stanley

855
21 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode for St

Music: End of Part II of oratorio concerto on the clarionet by Mahon

856
28 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: As17830319athi

857
04 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode for St

Music: As17830321athi

858
11 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Received Oratorio Account #264 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

859
12 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 15s. 6d. (275/1/0; 6/9/6; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: As17830329athi

860
05 June 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [Mainpiece acted for the 22nd time this season. The playbill states, "for the 23rd Time"; on the Kemble playbill this has been corrected in MS to 22nd. Genest, VI, 262, says that this play was also acted on both 3 and 4 June. But on those nights the theatre was dark.] Receipts: #270 11s. (260/7; 10/4; after-money not listed). Account-Book, 5 June: Paid Mrs Siddons a Present from the Proprietors #100; 6 June: Paid 100 Renters #20 4s. apiece; 23 June: Received of Their Majesties #156

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

861
02 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Pantomimical Dance, The Country Squabble, by Delpini, Byrne, Mrs Dagueville, Miss Byrne

862
08 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #299 18s. 6d. (291/16/0; 7/12/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: Biron-Smith; Count Baldwin-Packer; Carlos-Farren; Belford-R. Palmer; Sampson-Wrighten; Villeroy-Palmer; Nurse-Mrs Love; Isabella-Mrs Siddons (1 st appearance this season) .

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17831004

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium, the vocal parts by Miss Wheeler and Miss Field. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

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

863
22 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command ofTheir Majesties. Receipts: #315 14s. 6d. (312/17/0; 2/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

864
05 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Smith for Canvas to end of last season #67 Receipts: #291 16s. (281/9/0; 9/14/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Song: As17831013

865
12 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #315 4s. 6d. (312/0/6; 3/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

866
19 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #297 9s. (287/2; 8/12; 0/5; tickets not come in: 1/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17831031

867
26 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #278 11s. 6d.(274/16/6; 3/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: As17831121

868
29 November 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera [1st time; ser 3, by Giovanni de Gamerra; a pasticcio, with music by Anfossi, Gluck, Alessandri, Martini, Sarti, Giordani]; the Music under the Direction of Anfossi. With new Scenes, painted by Novosielski, new Dresses and Decorations, both for the Opera and Dances. By their Majesties Command, no Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout season]. The Subscribers' Tickets are ready to be delivered at the Office in Unionstreet. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages, they are most respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-Mall. The Door in Market-lane for Chairs only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Silla

Dance: End of Act II Divertisement, with a Passe-a-caille by Lepicq, a Pas Seul by Henry, a Pas Seul by Mme Simonet; End of Opera Hew Divertisement, in which a Pas Seul by Henry, and to conclude with a Caledonian Reel, being part of the ballet of Auld Robin Gray, which for want of time could not be completed, by Lepicq, Slingsby, Mme Rossi

869
10 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Kemble's 1st appearance as King John was at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 18 Apr. 1782; Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Constance was at Bath on, by coincidence, the same day.] Receipts: #300 9s. (289/8/0; 10/3/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

870
27 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door, for Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

871
05 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: In 1st piece Love in her Eyes was sung by Norris; O ruddier than the cherry by Reinhold; Consider, fond shepherd by Mrs Kennedy; Heart, thou seat of soft delight by Miss George. The concerto consisted of "two Movements made up of common Ballads."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's de

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill

872
11 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid One-half Yrs. Land Tax on the Theatre #52 10s., and One-half Yrs. Window Lights [tax] for Theatre #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #327 14s. (323/19; 3/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

873
12 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the organ by Stanley

874
19 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End of Part I concerto on the clarionet by Mahon

875
20 March 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Friendship leads to Love, as17831206, but omitted: Lepicq, Slingsby, Mme Simonet, and with a Pas de Deux by Lepicq and Mme Rossi; End of Opera Le Coca du Village, as17840302athi