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512 results for: Keyword - His Majesty's Comedians
We found 432 matches on Event Comments, 63 matches on Performance Comments, 20 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

226
27 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #150 16s. (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.). [The King, Duke, and Princesses Amelia, Carolina, and Louisa present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

227
14 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit Signora Barberini. Written by the late Mr Farquhar. The Stage will be formed into Boxes. Receipts: money #174 6s.; seals #65 15s. (Account Book); #270 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: A new Tambourine-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Les Savoyards (new)-Villeneuve, Signora Barberini; By particular Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Denoyer, Signora Barberini; Glover

228
05 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17410302 II: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan; IV: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: The Peasants' Triumph, as17410212

229
31 October 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Opera House in the Haymarket. A new Opera...Dances and other Decorations entirely New. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Persons Whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. This Day Attendance will be given at the Opera-Office from Nine to One in order to deliver the Silver Tickets to the Subscribers. Each Subscriber is desir'd to send his printed Receipt, it being necessary for the Delivery of the Tickets [customary notice on the bills throughout the season]. BBurney, History of Music, IV, 445: A pasticcio, music mainly composed by Galuppi, now the resident composer for the Opera House. Edition lists libretto by Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

Performance Comment: Burney, History of Music, IV, 446, lists: Angelo Maria Monticelli, Soprano, first man; Andreoni, soprano, second man; (Amorevolli) tenor; Signora Visconti, 1st woman; Signora Panichi, 2nd woman; Signora Tedeschi, 3rd Woman. The part of Amorevoli omitted (Walpole to H. Mann, 2 Nov.). Libretto lists: Monticelli, Signora Visconti, Signora Moscovita, Amorevale; airs by Lampugnani, Pescetti, Leo, Hasse.

230
04 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Sga Barberina. Mainpiece: By His Majesty's Command. Pit and Boxes put together, and none admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office at the Box Doors, at 5s. Gallery 2s. The Gallery doors will be open'd at three o'clock, and the Box Doors at Five o'clock. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. To begin exactly at six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17420206; A New Dance call'd Les Amants Heureux-Desnoyer, Sga Barberina

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

231
02 November 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

232
15 September 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. By His Majesty's Command, no person to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at Six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

233
08 November 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: nnounced as 1 Nov., but 5 p.m. Cibber's continuance of performances brought the following response]: In Pursuance of my Promise that I would do nothing against your Theatre, or you, without first giving you Notice, I do hereby acquaint you, that I am obliged to proceed against you, and that I shall, with another of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, stop all your Theatrical Performances, of which take Notice.-Thomas de Veil, 8 Nov. Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology, p. 18

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

234
07 October 1745 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: Yesterday Morning a Colonel's Guard (by Order) Marched to the Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they are to Continue, in order to be ready to quell any Disturbances that may happen from the Adherents of the Pretender, and the enemies of our present Happy Establishment. The Penny London Post, 7-9 Oct.: On Sunday morning early a party of Guards were detached from Whitehall to the New Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, of which they took possession; and soon after it was rumored that his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State had received intelligence that a great quantity of amunition & arms were secreted there for the use of the Pretender and his adherents; but whether they were found we know not: however a company of the 2nd regiment went on duty there that night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

235
07 January 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Musical Drama, in Two Parts...with Dances and other Decorations Entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. A New Opera [composed by Gluck; text by F. Vanneschi]. The Subscribers to the Opera are desired to make the last Payment of their Subscription Money to the Treasurer, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, where Attendance will be given this and every Day, from Ten till Two, to receive the same, and deliver out the Silver Tickets. [Repeated until 28 Jan.] The new Musical Italian Drama; entitled La Caduta de Giganti, or the Fall of the Giants, writ on Occasion of the expulsion of the Rebels, was perform'd last Night at King's Theatre in the Haymarket. The performance was received and carried on with great Attention, Tranquility, and Applause: and not a little enliven'd by the Presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.--Daily Advertiser, 8 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Caduta De Giganti; Or, The Fall Of The Giants

Performance Comment: Singers-Monticelli, Jozzi, Ciacchi, Signora Imer, Signora Pompeati (or Mrs Cornelie), Signora Frasi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 452). [See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]

236
04 November 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command, No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes. A New Opera [another pasticcio]. Pit and Boxes a half Guinea; gallery 5s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annibale In Capua

Performance Comment: Parts-Reginelli, Borosini, Triulzi, Ciocchi, Mrs Pirker, Signora Casarini, Signora Frasi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 453).

Dance:

237
25 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King, The Duke and The Princess Amelia (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #169 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

238
03 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Dance: Salomon, Mlle Violette (being the first time of their appearing on that stage), Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Salomon's Son

239
09 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 By His Majesty's Command. Present The King and Princess Amelia. Paid Mr Arthur a Bill for glass Lustres &c #7 15s. 2d. Receipts: #177 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

240
13 January 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Present the King, Duke and Princess Amelia. Paid Hancks a bill for coals expended at Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre while the soldiers kept guard there...#22 18s. Receipts: #173 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Serjeants at Arms Actor: the rest of the comedians

241
11 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By his Majesty's Command. Benefit Mlle Violette. Eight rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes, and servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Places for the Boxes may be taken of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Dance: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook

242
17 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King and The Princess Amelia. Rec'd by overcharge in Woodfall's Bills Jan. 14: 5s. and 17 days at 1s. per day of Miss in Her Teens: #1 2s. Receipts: #188 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

243
28 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & P. (Cross). By His Majesty's Command. ["Mr Garrick's Conduct as Manager &c." publish'd at 6d. (query: 2nd edition?).] Receipts: #193 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

244
14 November 1747 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the said Office at Half a Guinea apiece. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command no Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open at 4 p.m. Pit and Boxes at 5 p.m. To begin at 6 p.m. [This notice regularly repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

245
09 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). King & Daughters? (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross); #169 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17471128

246
08 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King and...(Cross). Receipts: #198 (Cross); #183 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews

247
21 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Play not acted these 7 years. [See 23 Apr. 1744] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #156 17s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: Several Entertainments-Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews, Mrs Addison

248
31 December 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. [Leo's Amor Vuol Sofferenza. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 195.] By His Majesty's Command no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Frascatana

Dance: Between Acts: Dancing-

249
02 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Peace Proclaim'd (Cross). Yesterday most of the Foreign Ministers had a very grand entertainment at Pontack's, on Account of the Peace being proclaimed yesterday at Paris. This morning the Peace is to be proclaim'd, pursuant to his majesty's royal warrant, signed for that purpose, the ceremony of which is to be in the following manner (General Advertiser). [Follows an account of the five places and times of reading the proclamation throughout the city.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Mathews, Mrs Addison; New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Music: By Desire-the Child

250
28 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, the Little Swiss