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374 results for: Keyword - Free Mason
We found 197 matches on Event Comments, 123 matches on Performance Title, 58 matches on Performance Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 7 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
29 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Little [Gallery Boxkeeper, DL], who hopes to have the Honour of his Brethren the Free Masons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle Drums by Job Baker

102
12 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, Grand Officers, Brothers, and Sisters of the Community of Modern Free Masons. Benefit Walker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Entertainment: AA Song in Honour of Modern Masonry (in the Character of Robin Hood)-Mrs Jones; The Punch's Song-Hemskirk, Miss Jones; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

Music: The whole to conclude with the celebrated Water@Musick by Handel-; accompanied with Kettle@Drums-; Trumpets-; French@Horns-; the Preamble-Nelson

103
22 August 1741 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: During the summer of 1741, at the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell, the proprietor presented daily programs of pantomime, singing, and dancing. In midsummer, however, he added a single play to his program but did not list the cast. The sequence of plays included: July 9-16: Flora; or, Hob in the Well. July 17-25: Damon and Phillida. July 27-August 10: The Honest Yorkshireman. August 11-17: The Mock Doctor. August 24-September 7: The Generous Free-Mason; or, The Constant Lady; With the Comical Humours of Squire Noodle and his Man Doodle

Performances

104
02 March 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Cunningham. At the Desire of the Hon. Bell Ara Moleck, and the worshipful Fraternity of Free-Masons. A Concert, etc. [customary notice]. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. Although there was such ill Decorum the last time the Beggar's Opera was exhibited there, particular care will be taken to have it now in the most regular manner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Music: Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Baker

105
23 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Old Cole [William Cole] Citizen of London and Family, under Misfortunes, who has been a Free Mason these thirty years, and Master of several Lodges. Being the last time of performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

106
28 June 1763 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Music by Handel. Tickets 3s. By Particular Desire of the Right Hon. Earl of Ferrars, Grand Master of the Antient and Hon. Society of Free Masons. Mr Lowe's constant attendance at Marybone Gardens renders it impossible for him to wait on all his friends in person, he therefore hopes they will take tickets, in order to prevent mistakes at changing money at the doors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

107
31 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Follet, Smith & T. Smith, late of the Bear, Westminster-bridge. Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, Little Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of T. Smith at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother Free Masons, Bucks, &c., Gentlemen of the Welsh Society, Hereford Society and West-moreland Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Colonel Feignwell-Smith; Sir Philip Modelove-Massey; Periwinkle-Bailey; Freeman-Swindall; Simon Pure-Thompson; Tradelove-Bowles; Sackbut-Kenny; Quaker's Boy-Master Follet; Obadiah Prim-Follet; Ann Lovely-Miss Hale; Betty-Mrs Waldron; Mrs Prim-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Freeman Actor: Swindall

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

108
28 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Suspicious Husband; afterpiece of Harlequin Free-Mason, both announced on playbill of 27 Dec. Afterpiece: Prologue by Frederick Pilon.] Receipts: #253 3s. 6d. (251.2.0; 2.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17801018

109
15 February 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece: Never performed here. [Mainpiece in place of The Islanders; afterpiece of Harlequin Free-Mason, both announced on playbill of 14 Feb.] Receipts: #239 12s. (235.5; 4.7)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17810213

110
15 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow and three youngest Children of the late Dr Glover. [Dr William Frederick Glover, a surgeon, had died on 25 Feb. in straitened circumstances. A subscription--in behalf of which this Benefit was organized--had been set on foot for the relief of his family (see Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1787, p. 276). In the 1760's he was for some years an actor on the Dublin stage (see Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs, III, 198).] Tickets to be had at the Thatched-House Tavern, St. James's Street; at Free-Mason's Tavern, Great Queen Street; the Antigallican Coffee House, Royal Exchange; the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street; at Messrs Robinsons, booksellers, Paternoster Row; and of the Printer of the Morning Chronicle, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square. Received from Their Majesties for Box [for season] #70; from the Princess Royal for Box #35. Receipts: #127 11s. (125.5; 2.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

111
24 April 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca, Queen Of The Britons

Afterpiece Title: He Wou'd be a Soldier

Entertainment: Monologues and Singing. III: [in the Temple of the Druids Britons Strike Home- [by Purcell for this Play; Vocal Parts-Incledon, Bowden, Linton, Street, Williamson, Sawyer, Tett, Kenrick, Little, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bayzand; End: [Recitation and Music, selected from the Performances at Free-Masons Hall. Sally in our Alley-Incledon; [Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast [monologue]-Holman; My mother had a maid called Barbara (words from Shakespeare [Othello, IV, iii], composed by Shield)-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Equivalent (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; [Collins's Ode on the Passions [monologue]-Pope; The Waiter (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Old Towler-Incledon

Performance Comment: III: [in the Temple of the Druids Britons Strike Home- [by Purcell for this Play; Vocal Parts-Incledon, Bowden, Linton, Street, Williamson, Sawyer, Tett, Kenrick, Little, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bayzand; End: [Recitation and Music, selected from the Performances at Free-Masons Hall. Sally in our Alley-Incledon; [Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast [monologue]-Holman; My mother had a maid called Barbara (words from Shakespeare [Othello, IV, iii], composed by Shield)-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Equivalent (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; [Collins's Ode on the Passions [monologue]-Pope; The Waiter (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Old Towler-Incledon.
Cast
Role: selected from the Performances at Free Actor: Masons Hall. Sally in our Alley-Incledon

112
27 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: Mason, Good

Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): William Mason
Related Work: Caractacus Author(s): William Mason

Dance: Laferry, Mrs Bicknell, Devonshire Girl, Claxton

113
30 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Free Benefit for Ryan.] Receipts: #134 0s. 6d., plus #122 10s. in tickets. Total profits to Ryan #256 10s. 6d. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). [Note of 23 March about amphitheatre repeated. Garrick's first performance after his long illness, from 26 Feb. to 30 March.] Tickets for Venice Preserv'd will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

114
24 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; III: Pastoral-Salle, Mlle Salle

Music: t the Request of the Free and Accepted Masons a Piece of Vocal and Instrumental Musick (never perform'd in publick), Words by Charles De la Faye, Esq; and set to Musick by Mr Francisco-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Hall, Papillion, Thompson

115
25 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: Mr Mason, who never appear'd upon the Stage before

Music:

Dance:

116
29 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Music: As17031109

Song: Leveridge, Mason

Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): William Mason
Related Work: Caractacus Author(s): William Mason

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, others

117
13 April 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Mason

Music: I: Concerto for German Flute-Burk Thumoth; II: The 5th Concerto of Vivaldi-; III: Trumpet Concerto-; IV: Concerto with Flutes and German Flutes-

Dance: I: Chacone-Mrs Bullock; II: Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; In V: The Difference of Nations-

Song: III: Chanson a Boire-Excell

118
12 June 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. A Prologue and Epilogue on Masonry, to be spoke by the same Gentleman of the Benefit, who is a Member of that Ancient and Honourable Society of the Free and Accepted Masons .

Dance: The English Peasant's Pursuit after the French Harlequin by a Gentleman lately arrived from France. By Miss Brett and Miss Naso [Miss Norsa in Daily Advertiser]

Song: The Masons' Songs

119
20 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Song: As17410115

Dance: DDiane a la Chasse, as17401229; Les Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Desse, Liviez, Mlle Duval, Mrs Walter, Mrs Wright

120
22 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Song: As17410115

Dance: LLes Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Masons & Les Sabotiers, as17410120

121
26 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: DDiane a la Chasse-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf, Desse, Liviez, Mlle Duval, Mrs Walter, Mrs Wright; Les Mason & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan

122
28 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLes Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Mlle Chateauneuf, Muilment; Les Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan

123
31 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

124
03 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: LLes Egyptiens-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment; Les Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

125
19 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: I: A new dance-Muilment; II: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Les Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17410302