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We found 3243 matches on Event Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 1654 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new serious Opera. Pit and Boxes put together and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or in the Orchestra. Gallery, Pit and Boxes to be opened at Five. 6:30 p.m. [Repeated in the subsequent bills.] Messrs Crawford, Vincent, and Gordon most humbly request that the Nobility and Gentry, Subscribers to the Operas for the ensuing Season, will please send their Subssciptions to Andrew Drummond and Co., Bankers at Charing Cross; or to Crawford, at the theatre, where attendance will be given every day from Ten to Two, to receive Subscriptions, and the names of the Subscribers who are pleased to honor the Managers with their Protection to enable them to get the Tickets engraved before the Operas begin (Public Advertiser through October and November)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eumene

Dance: NNew Dances-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. N.B. Love in a Village will not be acted after this evening, for a considerable time, on account of a new Musical Comedy which will be performed some Day this week. [See 6 Dec., The Summer's Tale.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: At the Little Theatre in James Street near the Haymarket. Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin exactly at 6:00. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. to the public. After several of our Lords and Masters, the Men, have with various success made wry faces for the amusement of the town; permit a woman to attempt the arduous task of laughing the men out of their follies; declaring, however, that while she attempts the ridicule of vices peculiar to the other sex, she will by no means spare the slightest foible of her own (Public Advertiser). The Theatre is fitted up in an elegant manner, and constant fires are kept to make the house agreeably warm (Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser). [This Lecture continued to 6 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Heads

Event Comment: [T+The Cobler prints a Card in the Public Advertiser commending G. F. Theatricus for his bold statement (6 Jan.) about the excellencies of seven dl actors. He takes issue with G. F. that Bensley will surpass Powell, but adds a "puff" for another new actress, Mrs Abington.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: Author's Day. [Publication of the play announced in the Public Advertiser this day, along with the following "puff" by Censor Dramaticus: "Sir: I have just given the new comedy, the Double Mistake, its first reading, and must confess I never was better pleased at a first reading than at present: It is chaste, sententious and genteel in its dialogue, interesting in its plot, the characters all of consequence, strongly marked and happily kept up, and even the virtuoso entertaining without being tiresome. I heartily wish it success, and congratulate the author on such a production, which shows that virtuous principles in high life render the persons that possess them doubly charming, and add real grace and dignity to their appearance in public life....I hope I may be believed when I say I have not the most distant knowledge of the author, and that impartiality shall ever be, and ever was my constant plan in observations of this kind."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Mistake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17650914, but Beggar-Castle; New Occasional Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 14 April 1758.] Characters New Dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar, With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End of Play: The Village Romps, as17651019

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these 14 years. [See 5 March 1752.] Characters New Dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Tomorrow, a New Comedy (never perform'd) call'd the Clandestine Marriage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almena

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi; II: Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Event Comment: GGarrick reported to be at [?] cg & that Powell & Holland had borrowed #25,000 at 5 0@0 interest to purchase Garrick's Share (Winston MS 9, from Burney news cuttings)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Supplement

Performance Comment: An entire new lecture upon Heads, portraits and whole lengths by George Alexander Steevens.
Event Comment: dialogue in The Public Advertiser, 3 March, comments on arrangement of the stage for an Assembly; dimensions are 60 feet wide, 110 feet long, and 35-40 feet high. It has been altered and enlarged recently, for the columns are new and the upper end grew narrow, says the other speaker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Event Comment: Letter in the Public Advertiser from one ag who signed herself a 'Constant Reader': "Sir: As your correspondents sometimes favour us with Theatrical Observations, permit me, though a woman, to throw in my mite, not that I aspire to the character of a Critic...the reason I take up my pen is merely for the sake of information. A few evenings ago I was at the New Comedy of the Clandestine Marriage, where, I assure you I was greatly entertained; but at the conclusion of the last act, must own was not a little surprised to find Miss Sterling so much neglected, as I was at that instant wondering what kind of Apology Sir John would make her, when behold he stands close by her without saying a word; which in my opinion concludes the play too abruptly. The author indeed has not placed her in the most excellent light; yet as a Lady, and of Character, shall I say of Fortune too, some Apology on the Gentleman's side seems naturally to arise from the incidents of the piece. But perhaps I am mistaken, which I am the more willing to imagine from the known abilities of the ingenious authors. If any of your critical correspondents should think it worth their while to set me right in that Particular, it will be esteemed a favour." (Frances Street, March 5.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Foppling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: As17660107, but Old Maid (New Dress'd)-Woodward (Being the first and, he believes, the last time of his appearing in that character). [But see17660401] .But see17660401] .

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed; Or, Anna Bullen

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: As17660315 but with Old Maid (New Dress'd)-Woodward, "Being the second, and Positively the last time of his appearing in that character".

Dance: IV: Rural Love, as17651115; End: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: As17650917, but a New Italian Song-Miss Pope; Epilogue-Miss Pope as Musical Lady.
Cast
Role: a New Italian Song Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17651004; End: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

Event Comment: A new serious Opera, Music-Galuppi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. New Farce never performed. Part of Pit laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hobby Horse

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: All in the Right

Performance Comment: Old Harcourt-Dunstall; Young Harcourt-Davis; Belfield-R. Smith; Wentworth-Lewis; Frank-Morgan; Ned-Shuter; Lady Diana Wisewou'd-Mrs Green; Isabella-Mrs Godwin; Charlotte-Mrs Ferguson; Julia-Miss Cokayne; Fanny-Mrs Gardner; Emily (With Songs in Character)-a Young Lady (first attempt any stage); To conclude with a New Masquerade Dance-; in which will be introduc'd a Hornpipe-Miss Pitt.

Entertainment: II: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: IV: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: As17660404 but a New Italian Song-_.
Cast
Role: a New Italian Song Actor: Miss Pope

Entertainment: End: Baddeley, By Particular Desire, will present Bucks Have at ye All-Baddeley

Dance: End I Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

Event Comment: Benefit of the Charity. A new Oratorio Music by Worgan, at the Chapel of Lock Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner. To begin at 11:30 a.m. No persons to be admitted without tickets. Gallery half a guinea, bottom of the chapel 5s. Books of the Oratorio 1s. at Rivington, St Pauls Churchyard, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Manasseh

Music: FFirst Violin, a Concerto-Giordini

Event Comment: [Long letter of complaint in Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser about text of the Libretto, arguing verse would be better for translation than prose, in the printed books supplied at the Opera House.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17660425 but Taylor-_; With a New Occasional Epilogue address'd to the Most Noble Order of Bucks,-Master Wignel.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: Minuet-Hussey, Miss Wilford; End: Rural Love, as17651115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Performance Comment: Norfolk-Smith; Cecil-Walker; Morton-Clarke; Davison-Hull; Gifford-Gardner; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Ward; Douglas-Miss Macklin; Queen Mary-Mrs Bellamy; New Occasional Prologue-Ross; Epilogue-Woodward, Shuter.
Cast
Role: New Occasional Prologue Actor: Ross

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17660430 but Ariel-Miss Young; New Epilogue-Tomlinson.
Cast
Role: New Epilogue Actor: Tomlinson.

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17660207