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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Highness"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Highness")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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633 results for: Keyword - His Highness
We found 610 matches on Event Comments, 17 matches on Performance Comments, 9 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

376
24 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Denoyer's Lodgings, the Corner of St. James's-Square, in Pall-Mall.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: After Overture: a new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, others to the Overture of Flavius, composed by Handel; II: Hungarian Dance (in the Manner of the Country,)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter; IV: Russian Sailors-Denoyer; V: Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Song: I: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

377
26 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: SSaraband-Miss Scott; Serious Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: OOh Happy Pair-Beard

378
27 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Russian Sailors-Denoyer

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Mrs Clive

379
01 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Salway. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Je ne scai quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; Grecian Sailors-Glover

380
12 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; With The Skeleton Scene

381
18 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: Punch-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

382
11 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

383
20 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. [The Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa expected to attend.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Cast
Role: Proteus Actor: Reinhold, the first time of his appearing on that stage.

Dance: II: La Provencale (new)-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

384
25 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Egmont, Diary, III, 83: I went with my wife to the play entitled 'Sir Walter Raleigh,' revived by the comedians on occasion of the now differences with Spain. They choose one to represent Count Gundemar, who in all things is like Mr Giraldini, the Spanish minister at our Court lately recalled, and whenever any severe things were said which bore a resemblance to our ministry's transactions, or our backwardness to resent the insults of Spain, the audience clapped all over the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

385
29 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

386
03 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Chapman, the first time of his appearance on that stage; Sir George-Mills; Sir Francis-Griffin; Miranda-Mrs Clive; Sir Jealous-Shepard; Charles-Wright; Whisper-Yates; Isabinda-Mrs Mills; Patch-Mrs Pritchard; Scentwell-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Chapman, the first time of his appearance on that stage
Role: Whisper Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

387
12 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: A new dance-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

388
15 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: II: A new ballet-Muilment; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

389
23 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Les Characters de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Grand Ballet, as17391019

390
30 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: I: As17391024

Dance: III: The last new Ballet-Muilment

391
03 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: SSerious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A new dance (by Command) Between a Sailor and his Mistress to the tune of To Arms-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

Cast
Role: His Wife Actor: Mlle Roland the Elder

392
07 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: A new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Music: Beginning dance: the Overture of Flavius-

393
10 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etherege

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Grecian Sailors-Glover; V: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland Elder; The Kilkenny-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland

Song: IV: Bachique Song-Leveridge, Salway

394
14 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princesses of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf (the first time of his appearance on that stage these four years); III: Ballet-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

395
22 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

396
24 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Kilkenny-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: Scots Dance-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland

397
30 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. As 28 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

398
01 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: I: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; II: Grand Ballet-the Elder Mlle Roland; III: Grecian Sailors-Glover; IV: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, the Elder Mlle Roland; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland

Song: TThe Parting Lovers (a Sea Lieutenant, a Sailor, and His Mistress)-Laguerre, Salway, Mrs Lampe [by Henry Carey]

399
15 December 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; IV: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf

400
21 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of an Office, deceas'd. By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland Elder; V: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger