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3611 results for: Keyword - Frederick, Prince of Wales
We found 1255 matches on Performance Comments, 1024 matches on Author, 983 matches on Event Comments, 518 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1251
15 March 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: And on Friday [Giffard] invited the whole Company to a very grand Entertainment, prepar'd for 'em in the Play-house, where their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the Royal Family, Success to Trade, Prosperity to the City of London, and many other Loyal Healths were drank; during which time the Arches were again illuminated, Fireworks play'd off, and the Night concluded with a Ball

Performances

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1252
21 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Their Majesties' Command. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, and two young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Dance: Les Charactres de P Amour by Mlle Salle. Un Pas de Trots by Malter, Houghton, Mlle Salle. Peasant by Malter. Pigmalion, as17340114

1253
01 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Prince of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cg The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1254
06 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Prince of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17331004. Pigmalion, as17340114

1255
28 October 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With Alterations and Additions. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Gallery open at four; Pit and Boxes at 5. 6 P.M. [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and Princesses present, as also the Prince of Modena.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

1256
20 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

1257
25 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #52 18s. Gave the Prince of Wales's serv't [his usual fee] 10s. 6d. Receiv'd of the Prince of Wales by the hands of the Honorable the Earl of Bute, Groom of the Stole, #31 10s. [payment, perhaps, for the Royal Box the night of 5 Nov. and for other command performances this season.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

1258
06 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command [both pieces] by the Prince of Wales. Prince of W: & P: Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

1259
10 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince & 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #186 (Winston MS 8). The Guardian publish'd at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

1260
26 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince & 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 12s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Crononhotonthologos

1261
17 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince and 5 more (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #180 14s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

1262
31 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Prince & 5 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #182 2s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

1263
28 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By command of the Prince of Wales. Prince & 5 (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross); #162 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

1264
18 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for Henry VIII will be taken Tuesday next. Prince & 4 (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross). Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Dance: By Command Spanish Dance, as17581014

1265
31 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Simson

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17600529

1266
18 January 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by William Linley. Also attributed to Cordal Powel, librarian to the Prince of Wales (London Chronicle, 19 Jan. 1796). Larpent MS 1106; not published, except for Airs (C. Lowndes, 1796). Synopsis of action in Pocket Magazine, Jan. 1796, p. 59]. The Musick composed by W. Linley. The Scenes [for a description of which see Theatre Notebook, 1965, XIX, p. 58] entirely new, and painted by Greenwood. The Machinery and Decorations by Cabanel, Johnston and Jacobs. The Dresses by Johnston and Miss Rein. Nothing under Full Prince will be taken. Account-Book, 22 Jan.: Paid Wm. Linley for music of new pantomime #25. Receipts: #619 3s. (608.9; 10.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive or The Magick Fire

1267
29 April 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Goodwin. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Yesterday the 28th will be admitted. [The Satiric print, The Prince's Bow, had 1st appeared on 17 Mar. 1788; it was not by Bunbury, but by Frederick George Byron (Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires...in the British Museum, 1938, VI, 557).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End IV: Double Hornpipe-Mr and Miss Bourk

Song: End I: Crazy Kate-Chambers; End III: song-Arrowsmith

Entertainment: End II: Imitations-a Gentleman [unidentified]

Monologue: Vaudeville. End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini

Performance Comment: End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini.

1268
17 June 1697 @ The Strand, London

Event Comment: The Portledge Papers, 19 June 1697: On Thursday last in the neighbourhood of Somerset house in the evening was a great entertaynment of Musick and singing in so much as that part of the Strand was so crouded with coaches and sedans that I having occasion to goe that way could hardly Pass and I heard it reported that it was designed for the Prince of Wales birthday but the Lord Feversham hearing of it put it off till Thursday (ed. S. J. Kerr and I. C. Duncan, London, 1928, p. 261)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1269
24 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Author unknown. Never Acted before. Afterpiece: By Christopher Bullock. Never Acted before.] The Prince of Wales present. Receipts: #34 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lucky Prodigal Or Wit At A Pinch

Afterpiece Title: A Womans Revenge or A Match in Newgate

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; particularly an Italian Night Scene between a +Scaramouch, a Harlequin, and a Punchanello-

1270
20 December 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [The Prince of Wales present. Receipts: #37 19s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

1271
19 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Eight Years. Written by Shakespear. Containing, the Death of the Duke of Buckingham. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. The Divorce, and Death of Queen Catherine. The Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen, and the Christning of Queen Elizabeth. With Decorations proper to the Play. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

1272
22 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. All the Characters being New Dress'd. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

Dance: As17161027

1273
04 March 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

1274
19 October 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Prince of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance:

1275
21 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 18s. Daily Post, 22 Jan.. Last Night...the Prince of Wales went...to see the New Entertainment of Apollo and Daphne, which has been acted several Days with great Applause; the Contrivance of the Whole being very ingenious, and the Scenery and Decorations as splendid as any Thing that has yet appeared of that Kind

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fortune Teller

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne