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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Busby"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Busby")') 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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17 results for: Keyword - Busby
We found 14 matches on Author, 4 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
16 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 5, by Richard Cumberland. Author of Prologue unknown]: A Romance of the Fourteenth Century, Formed upon the Plan of an unpublished Drama [Johanna von Montfaucon], written and transmitted by Augustus von Kotzebue, The Overture, Songs, Chorusses, Marches and Finale, with appropriate Symphonies between the Acts, by Busby. The Scenery, Dresses, Machinery & Decorations entirely New. The Scenery by Richards, Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, &c. The arrangement of the Marches, Chorusses & Military Movements incidental to the Piece, under the direction of Farley. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. The Words of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. "The appropriate beauty of the scenery, in which the rules of perspective are critically observed, the splendour of the decorations and the richness of the dresses, have been rarely equalled" (Universal Magazine, Jan. 1800, p. 75). Receipts: #318 6d. (316.2; 2.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Related Works
Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: Mainpiece: Chorusses-Denman, Lee, Thomas, Lewiss, Little, Potts, Everett, Oddwell, J. Linton, Tett, Smith, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Baron, Master Goodwin, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Standen, Master Little, Master Speare, Master Sawyer, Master Linton, Ms Trevor, Ms Gilbert, Ms Norton, Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Castelle, Ms Sydney, Ms Burnett, Ms Masters, Ms Lloyd, Ms Blurton, Ms Cox

2
17 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Related Works
Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

3
18 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Song: Chorusses, as18000116, but Miss Leserve

4
20 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000118

5
21 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000118

6
23 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000118

7
24 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: Chorusses, as18000118, but added: Mrs Bologna

8
25 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000124

9
27 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000124

10
28 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000124

11
31 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Related Works
Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000124

12
01 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Song: As18000124

13
05 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Song: As18000124

14
07 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

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Related Work: Joanna Author(s): Thomas Busby

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: As18000124

15
16 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Humane Society. A new grand Commemorative Oratorio [1st time; in two parts], as originally performed by Busby, in aid of the Fund for the Naval Pillar, including the new Music [by Busby: Song and Chorus, From where the sun; Song, To thy brave sons; Recitative and Song, Peace to the soul, Around the ever-honoured urn], introduced in the Grand National Concert, performed the 28th of May, at the Opera House. Leader of the Band-Cramer. Organ-Russell. The performance to be conducted by Busby, who will preside at the Piano Forte. Tickets, at playhouse prices, to be had at all the principal music shops...and of Busby, No. 9, China Terrace, Vauxhall Road. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. "The words [of Part I] are taken entirely from Gray's well-known Pindaric Ode, The Progress of Poesy," with six introductory lines written by John Gretton andthe concluding stanzas by Thomas Dutton; the text of Part II by Gretton (Dramatic Censor, II, 285-86)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

16
29 March 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Oratorio, in Two Parts, the only one composed in this Country nearly these 30 years. Afterpiece: An Ode, in One Part. The Band will wholly consist of Professors of the first eminence, and the Chorusses will be numerously supported by the best Performers in London, assisted by the young Gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapels, and of Westminster Abbey. The music entirely new, composed by Thomas? Busby, who will take the Piano Forte. Boxes 7s. Pit 4s. 1st Gallery 3s. 2nd Gallery 2s. Grove: [Busby] worked at a setting of Pope's 'Messiah' for some years, and it was produced in 1799 with considerable success as 'The Prophecy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophecy

Afterpiece Title: Ocean

17
07 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Edwards is identified in European Magazine, July 1786, p. 60. Address by Thomas Busby (ibid.}.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Widow's Vow

Monologue: 1786 07 07 Before mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Bannister Jun

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