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6172 results for: Keyword - Four Kings
We found 2697 matches on Performance Title, 2643 matches on Performance Comments, 1858 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

651
13 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance-Phillips; III: Hornpipe-Phillips

Song: IV: Song-Beard

652
20 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Arne. An Historical Musical Drama. The Musick composed by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and never perform'd in England, but at his Royal Highnesses Palace at Cliefdon. The Poem was written by Mr Thompson and Mr. Mallet. The Musick by Mr Arne. To conclude with a Celebrated Ode in Honour of Great Britain in imitation of those formerly sung at Banquets of Kings and Heroes. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. The above Day is fix'd on to avoid interfering with Mr Handel. Mrs Arne hopes humbly the Town will not be offened at this small advance of the Price, this performance being exhibited at an extraordinary expence, with regard to the number of Hands, Chorus singers, building the stage, and erecting an organ; besides all other incidentals as usual. Ladies desired to send servants by 4 o'clock. Tickets of Mrs Arne, next door to the Crown in Great Queen St, by Lincoln's Inn Fields, and places taken of Hobson at the stage Door, with whom Tickets are left

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great, King Of England

653
28 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

654
07 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline, King Of Britain

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: BBird Catchers-Cooke, Sga Campioni

655
20 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Entertainment: Between Play and Afterpiece: An Alarm to Britons-the Spirit of King Henry V (After the manner of Shakespeare's Chorus) usher'd in with Trumpets, Kettle Drums and other Warlike Instruments

656
05 April 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Baker

Song: Vernon, Miss Young

Entertainment: A Lecture on Life, or all is a lottery-King, for that night only

657
04 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670430 End: Linco's Travels, by Particular Desire-King as17670406

658
06 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp composed by Grimaldi, as17670227; III: Hearts of Oak, as17670212; End: The Vintage, as17661011, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

659
24 March 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220

Entertainment: End: By Desire, the Favourite Interlude of Linco's Travels, with his remarks on London-King

660
16 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220; IV: By Particular Desire, The Medley (Not perform'd these 3 years)-Shuter, Mrs King

Entertainment: End: Linco's Travels-King with his Particular remarks on London

661
22 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17690926

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels-King (with considerable alterations and additions) His remarks on England and the Jubilees

662
31 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

663
26 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: III: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House, as17710412 IV: A Minuet-King, a Young Lady, his scholar

664
17 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

665
18 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: Minuets, Cotillons-Merryfield, Dumay, King, Curtat, Mrs Invill, Miss Bassan, Miss Matthews, Mrs Hartle; End I Farce: A New Dance-Rudd, his 1st appearance any stage Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady (with Sixfold Hornpipe). As17740512

666
06 July 1774 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv, Part I

Song: To keep my gentle Jessy-DuBellamy; Where the Bee sucks-Miss Wewitzer

667
26 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd The Nosegay-Rudd (2nd appearance), Miss Matthews [See dl 27 April 1767]; IV: Minuets, Allemandes, Cotillions-Dumay, Hussey, King, Merrifield, Miss Matthews, Miss Brown, Miss Ross, Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, a young Lady[, scholar to Dumay [See17740518]; End: The Enchantress, as17750201

668
17 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Minuet de la Cour by the Miss Stageldoirs

Monologue: 1782 09 17 End of Act I of mainpiece a Dramatic Oglio by King

669
26 December 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding

670
26 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well

Dance: In afterpiece, by Hamoir, Williamson, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Sutton, &c. [The dance was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

671
10 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End I: a new song by Master King In vain do idle vi'lets blow (Public Advertiser 14 Aug.)-Miss George; End: Mad Bess (for that night only)-Miss George

672
30 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Saint George's Day; or, Britons Rejoice

Song: End 3rd piece: God save the King-; with Grand Accompaniment [on the organ]-Greatorex [, as performed at the Oratorios see17890320

673
13 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End afterpiece: A Grand Ballet of Action, as performed at the King's Opera House in the Hay-market [most recently in season of 1787-88] The Deserter[. Principal Characters-Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets (1st appearance [at this theatre])

674
18 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Song: Probably as17921016

675
25 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay