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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.

926
22 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Music the 20th Instant #7 16s. 4d. [The song is not listed on the playbill, but Edwin sang it, by Command (London Chronicle, 23 Sept.).] Receipts: #349 16s. (346.3.6; 3.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: End: Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

927
05 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Clandestine Marriage; afterpiece of Arthur and Emmeline, both announced on playbill of 3 Oct.] Account-Book, 5 Oct.: Free list #9 5s., Orders #1 6s. [#10 11s.; 30 Oct.: Free list #26 9s., Orders #58 16s. [#85 5s.]. Receipts: #319 0s. 6d. (301.15.0; 14.2.6; 3.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

928
07 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Renter's Interest #30 [this sum entered daily in the Account-Book]; Their Majesties' Yeomen and Servants [for 5 Oct.] #5 8s. 7d. Receipts: #172 0s. 6d. (128.10.0; 43.0.0; 0.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

929
19 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Nancy to Mrs T. Kennedy, but "Mrs Brown played Nancy in the room of Mrs T. Kennedy" (London Chronicle, 21 Oct.).] Receipts: #268 0s. 6d. (265.18.0; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

930
16 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #271 9s. 6d. (268.7.6; 3.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: End: Dotage ; or, The Natural Mistake, as17861114

931
30 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #285 7s. 6d. (268.13.0; 15.8.0; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

932
14 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [afterpiece in place of Rosina, announced on playbill of 13 Dec.] Receipts: #312 4s. (309.3; 3.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: As17861212

933
23 December 1786 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; altered by Carlo Francesco Badini from Demetrio, by Metastasio]; the music by Gresnick. 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 6:30. To begin exactly at 7:30 [see 2 June 1787]. Subscriptions are received at Messrs Ransom, Morland and Hammersley's, Bankers, No. 57, Pall-mall, who will deliver the subscription tickets. The Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to the Opera-house, are respectfully intreated to send for them, in order to prevent future mistakes, as nobody can be admitted without producing a ticket. 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 doors in Market-lane for chairs only. [Synopsis of opera in Morning Post, 25 Dec. Mme Perignon and Goyon were from the Opera, Paris.] Receipts: #86 11s. 6d. [These receipts, and those on all other nights throughout the opera season, represent the sale of non-subscription tickets. On this night 400 tickets were delivered to Prendergrass, office-keeper at the Haymarket pit entrance; of these he sold 84 at 10s. 6d. (i.e. #44 2s.). 100 were delivered to Reynolds, office-keeper at the King's Door pit entrance; he sold 6 at 10s. 6d. (i.e. #3 3s.). 300 were delivered to Butler, office-keeper of the 1st Gallery; he sold 112 at 5s. (i.e. #28). 200 were delivered to Snelson, office-keeper of the 2nd Gallery; he sold 70 at 3s. (i.e. #10 10s.). "Difference from Gallery to Pit" (i.e. money received from persons who changed their seats from gallery to pit, 16s. 6d.). The delivery of 1,000 non-subscription tickets to be disposed of was almost invariably the case on every night of the season. If a subscriber's box was released for sale it could be had for 2 guineas (see 6 Feb. 1787).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Dance: End I: Divertissement-Mlle Mozon, Laborie, Henry, Gricourt, Mme Bithmer, Mme Delfevre, Mme Gervais Perignon (1st appearance in England); End Opera: La Chercheuse d'Esprit-Goyon (1st appearance in England), Laborie, Mlle Mozon, Henry, Gricourt, Sala, Mme Delfevre, Mme Bithmer, Giorgi, Mme Gervais Perignon. Scenario (Paris, 1778) lists the parts: Mme Madre, Subtil, Narquois, Nicette, Alain, L'Eveille, Finette

934
05 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #318 8s. (304.1; 14.2; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: As17870201

Song: As17870201

935
12 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #316 8s. (315.3; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

936
19 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #323 6s. (320.13.6; 2.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

937
08 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Such Things Are, announced on playbill of 6 Mar.] Receipts: #314 3s. 6d. (312.10.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

938
17 March 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #371 [non-subscription. 488 tickets delivered to Prendergrass (see 23 Dec. 1786), who sold 467; 100 to Reynolds, who sold 63; 300 to Butler, who sold 260; 200 to Snelson, who sold 171. Total sold: 961]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Cesare In Egitto

Dance: As17870301

939
22 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #256 13s. (240.6; 14.17; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

940
08 May 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #331 6s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

941
22 May 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #258 4s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

942
09 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 21 July: Received of Their Majesties and the Princess Royal #66. Receipts: #206 6s. 6d. (195.1.0; 10.8.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

943
15 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow and three youngest Children of the late Dr Glover. [Dr William Frederick Glover, a surgeon, had died on 25 Feb. in straitened circumstances. A subscription--in behalf of which this Benefit was organized--had been set on foot for the relief of his family (see Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1787, p. 276). In the 1760's he was for some years an actor on the Dublin stage (see Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs, III, 198).] Tickets to be had at the Thatched-House Tavern, St. James's Street; at Free-Mason's Tavern, Great Queen Street; the Antigallican Coffee House, Royal Exchange; the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street; at Messrs Robinsons, booksellers, Paternoster Row; and of the Printer of the Morning Chronicle, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square. Received from Their Majesties for Box [for season] #70; from the Princess Royal for Box #35. Receipts: #127 11s. (125.5; 2.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

944
25 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #327 2s. 6d. (325.2.6; 2.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17871019

945
14 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 14 Nov.: Orders #8 5s., Free #2 8s. [#10 13s.]; 21 Nov.: Orders &72 8s., Free #5 10s. [#77 18s.]. Receipts: #251 7s. (234.12.0; 16.2.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

946
28 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #281 8s. (274.8.6; 6.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: As17871029

947
12 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid Yeomen of the Guard #2 2s., King & Queen's Servants #3 9s. Receipts: #290 6s. (280.3.6; 10.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871129

948
02 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Wonder, advertised on playbill of 1 Jan.] Receipts: #262 9s. (237.9.0; 24.7.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Song: III: song-Williames

949
16 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #339 (337.17; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

950
23 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Mrs Abington in full for 19 Nights Performance #116 13s. Receipts: #317 6s. 6d. (313.16.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour