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2869 results for: Keyword - Company of English
We found 2077 matches on Event Comments, 512 matches on Performance Title, 347 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1001
17 June 1693 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2878, 8-12 June 1693: Next Saturday being the 17th of June will be perform'd in Villers-street in York-Building, for that time only, Mr Franks Consort, which will consist of English Dialogues and Songs (the Words by Mr Motteux) with Instrumental Musick proper to them, beginning exactly at 7 at Night. The Gentleman's Journal, May 1693 (issued in June 1693): We have had lately a Consort of Music, which as it hath pleased the most nice and judicious Lovers of that Art; would doubtless have had your Approbation; I only speak of the Notes which were by Mr Franck; As for the words I [Motteux] made them in haste (p. 148)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1002
15 April 1698 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Boy, No. 459, 12-14 April 1698: Friday next the 15th of April, in York Buildings, at the Request of several Persons of Quality, will be a find Consort, by Seignior Rampony, Musician to Prince Vaudemont, will sing in Italian, French, and English, beginning at 8 a Clock. [A similar announcement in the Post Man, 12-14 April 1698, adds that the tickets will cost 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1003
28 February 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Flying Post, 21-23 Feb. 1699: The famous Italian, Seignor Fideli, is to Sing next Tuesday at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane; both in Italian and English; which he never yet performed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Play Not Known

1004
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

Performance Comment: A playbill: At Parker's and Doggett's Booth near Hosier-Lane End, in Smithfield, during the Time of Bartholomew-Fair, will be presented a New Droll, called, Fryar Bacon; or, The Country Justice: With the Humours of Tolfree the Miller, and his Son Ralph, Acted by Mr Doggett. With Variety of Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances. Vivat Rex. (See William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954), opposite page 237.) The London Spy, August 1699, describes a visit to Bartholomew Fair, including an account of Doggett's droll and another, Dwarf Comedy, Sir-nam'd a Droll' called The Devil of a Wife. In the Post Man, 15-17 Aug. 1699, is an advance notice of rope dancing and a booth run by Barnes and Appleby between the Crown Tavern and the Hospital Gate, next to Miller's Droll Booth.

1005
09 November 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Post Boy, No. 716, 7-9 Nov. 1699: We hear that Monsieur Nivelong, the Famous Grotesque Dancer, is lately arrived from Paris, and that he designs to appear shortly on one of our English Stages

Performances

1006
16 May 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 14-16 May 1700: Great Preparations have been making, for some Months past, for a New Opera to be acted next Term at the Theatre Royal, which, for Grandeur, Decorations, Movements of Scenes &c. will be infinitely superior to Dioclesian, which hitherto has been the greatest that the English Stage has produced, that probably 'twill equal the greatest Performance of the Kind, in any of the foreign Theatres. The Musick is compso'd by the Ingenious Mr Finger, and the Paintings made by Mr Robinson

Performances

1007
25 June 1700 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: An order of the Court of Common Council for London forbids any performances of plays or interludes at Bartholomew Fair. See a broadside in the British Museum [1851 b. 25 (25)], reported by Alfred Jackson, Review of English Studies, XIV (1938), 55. Flying Post, 22-25 June 1700: The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman have ordered that no Play-house Bills be affix'd on any Post, &c. in this City; and the like Orders are resolved on in Westminster

Performances

1008
08 September 1701 @ Richmond Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

Performance Comment: ..to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe.
Cast
Role: being Honour'd and Accompany'd Actor: the Greatest Masters of Europe.

1009
February 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By George Farquhar. Date of premiere unknown. Published 5 March.] Preface: As to the Success of it...the French were prepossess'd, and the charms of Gallick Heels were too hard for an English Brain....There were some Gentlemen in the Pit the first Night, that took the Hint from the Prologue to damn the Play; but they made such a noise in the execution, that the People took the outcry for a reprieve....There is a Gentleman of the first Understanding, and a very good Critick, who said of Mr Wilks, that in this Part he out-acted himself, and all Men that he ever saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

1010
18 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Fryar-Estcourt, his first appearance on the English Stage.
Cast
Role: Fryar Actor: Estcourt, his first appearance on the English Stage.

1011
02 January 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See17061207, but With a new Prologue-; Dialogue between the English and the Paris Gazetteers, treating of the Victory of Ramilly-Mr Leveridge, others.

1012
19 July 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bowen, who will be (in a most particular Manner) Honour'd that Night with the Presence of L'Madam Signiora Fount, Native de Barselona Di Cala Qualificatta, being the first time of her appearance in the English Theatre; and by reason the Queen's Box will be taken up by the Foreign Ministers, The Spanish Lady will be in one of the Stage-Boxes in the Habit of of her Country

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

1013
18 May 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Encouragement of some English Performers. In this Consort there will be a more exact Decorum than has been observ'd hitherto. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Collected from the Works of the most Celebrated Masters in Europe

1014
04 June 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hercules

Performance Comment: Being the last time of Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi's performing on the English Stage.

1015
02 May 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. With an Addition of several new Songs, particularly an English one sung by Signor Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. Admission as 21 March. [Valeriano received #73 19s. See Deutsch, p. 59.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

1016
12 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Colley Cibber. Music by Dr Pepusch.] A New Musical Masque...in two several Interludes, compos'd after the Italian manner and perform'd all in English. N.B. A Printed Book of the Masque will be given each Person that pays in the Pit or Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Music: A select Band of the best Masters of Instrumental Musick

1017
20 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: a Masque, Compos'd Musick after the Italian Manner, and perform'd all in English

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

1018
05 November 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: By Colley Cibber.] Never perform'd before. Compos'd to Musick after the Italian Manner and performed all in English. The Habits being all New

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Myrtillo

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Masque-Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Miss Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

1019
12 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: As17151122

1020
17 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs del'Epine. Afterpiece: [Words by Barton Booth. Music by Pepusch.] A New Masque, Set to Musick after the Italian Manner, and perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Dido; Dido and Aeneas

1021
02 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: To be perform'd all in English. Receipts: #163 4s. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

1022
05 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: To be perform'd all in English. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., Stage Boxes 7s. 6d. Receipts: #129 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

1023
27 February 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Music by Galliard. Text by Hughes. Performed in English.] Receipts: #99 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

1024
11 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Husband. With all the Original Musick, Scenes, Machines, Habits and Dances proper to the Play. N.B. That Night (only) the Front of the Gallery will be adorn'd with the Original Pictures of several of our most celebrated Poetsv, particularly those who have been most excellent in the Dramatick Way, as Shakespear, Ben. Johnson, Fletcher, Dryden, &c. together with that of our English Orpheus, the late Mr Henry Purcell. Receipts: money #52 9s.; tickets #43 16s. See also The Censor, No. 73 (9 April) and No. 75 (13 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

1025
09 May 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: All the Parts to be perform'd in English. Receipts: #31 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris