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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.

1076
04 February 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #486 3s. (471.0; 15.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Cast
Role: Phisgig Actor: Simmons

Music: In 3rd piece: As17990131

1077
07 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The many Ladies who have Places for the suceeding nights of the new Pantomime [The Magic Oak] are respectfully acquainted that, on account of Bologna Jun.'s accident, it cannot be performed before Easter Monday. [The Mouth of the Nile, also advertised on playbill of 5 Mar., was not acted on this night.] Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #364 13s. 6d. (361.13.6; 3.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

1078
14 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Mr Colman's Last New Comedy. [He was the author of the Epilogue, which was spoken by the Dramatis Personae. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs H. Johnston as Malvina, but she "being indisposed, her part was performed with great effect by Madame [sic] St.Amand" (London Chronicle, 15 Mar.).] Receipts: #379 16s. (378.3; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: As17990309

1079
04 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #353 13s. (349.12; 4.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

1080
11 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #390 0s. 6d. (363.9.6; 26.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

1081
18 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #389 3s. 6d. (385.9.6; 3.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: 2nd piece: Scotch Reel-Blurton, Mrs Watts

1082
09 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #402 19s. (389.15; 13.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

1083
05 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #639 17s. (596.9; 35.17; 0.17; received by Peake at the Door: 5.13; sent up by Thompson: 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Song: As17990529

1084
12 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Bayswater, Under the Patronage of Her Majesty. Tickets to be had at the Hospital; of Longman and Wilkinson, Cheapside; Broderip andCo., Haymarket; and of Brandon at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken. Many of the Re-Renters have generously relinquished their Privilege upon this Night. [Faulkner had acted at dl on 21 Dec. 1796, and Mrs Johnstone at cg on 4 Jan. 1798.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Faulkner (1st appearance on this stage), Basset, Barry Jun., The Young Gentleman who performed Wilford [on 23 Apr.], Thompson, Abbot, Webb, H. Johnston, Mrs Johnston [recte Mrs Johnstone] (2nd appearance on this stage), Mrs Hunter, Miss Leserve, Mrs H. Johnston [And see17981011.]; Epilogue-Barry Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Song: End II: Hope told a flattering tale-Mrs Ferguson; accompanied on the Pedal Harp-Weippert

Music: End I: Grand Sonata on the Piano Forte, as17990515; End IV: Lesson of Nicolai, as17990515

Entertainment: Monologues Before: [Collins' Ode on the Passions-Master Parker; End III: The Birth Day Ode [by Henry James Pye, 1st performed at St. James's Palace, 4 June, the birthday of George III]-Master Parker; End: Imitations-Mrs Sumbel (late $Mrs Wells)

1085
19 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Claudius to Packer, but "Archer, on the sudden indisposition of Packer, put on the robes of majesty, which seemed to sit sufficiently easy upon him" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1799, p. 175.] "The agitation of Hamlet in the course of the Play which he prepares to try the King, and his violent transports on gaining the certainty of his uncle's villainy by the effect of the piece were strongly characterized" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #330 17s. (245.19; 84.14; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

1086
20 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #483 5s. (464.8.6; 18.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

1087
18 December 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid One Quarter Land, Window and House Taxes due Michaelmas last #102 6s. 9d. Receipts: #261 10s. 6d. (253.12.0; 8.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

1088
15 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #418 2s. 6d. (405.1.0; 13.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

1089
22 January 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #592 5s. (525.9.6; 64.1.6; 2.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

1090
29 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #434 0s. 6d. (428.9.0; 5.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

1091
06 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "Towards the conclusion [of afterpiece, Miss DeCamp] fell with Kelly, while in the act of running down the stage; her head striking with so much violence against the boards that she fainted away [having received a severe contusion that necessitated surgery]" (Morning Herald, 8 Feb.). It is to be hoped that the events of Thursday Evening will prove a wholesome warning to the servants of the Theatre, and enforce the necessity of sweeping the stage with greater care. The disaster, it seems, originated in the peel of an orange, which the Copper Captain [in mainpiece] throws away" (Dramatic Censor, I, 210). Receipts: #591 19s. (525.13.6; 63.5.6; 3.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast
Role: Japhis Actor: Cory

1092
13 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #488 14s. 6d. (484.7.6; 4.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

1093
20 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #424 14s. (357.18.6; 65.10.6; 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

1094
27 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #497 8s. 6d. (493.7.6; 4.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimic

1095
06 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #499 19s. 6d. (419.19.0; 76.1.0; 3.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performance Comment: As17991014, but Selim-Kelly; Beda-Miss Leak; added: Mlle Parisot (By permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House, who will perform for this night only in the Ballet in the First Act); Female Slaves-Miss _Daniels.
Cast
Role: Spahis Actor: Caulfield, Trueman, Maddocks, Evans

1096
13 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #307 4s. (305.2; 2.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

1097
20 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #475 5s. (396.1.6; 77.1.6; 2.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

1098
27 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #353 14s. (343.3.6; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In IV: a Grand Masquerade-; Minuet-the LateMiss Betterton, Platt

1099
03 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #512 5s. 6d. (442.0.6; 67.16.0; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

1100
24 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #294 17s. (284.7.6; 10.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key