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4636 results for: Keyword - His Royal Highness the Duke
We found 2115 matches on Event Comments, 1466 matches on Performance Comments, 1017 matches on Performance Title, 403 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2001
22 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

2002
24 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

2003
03 September 1756 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Room, George Inn Yard. Mrs Charke and King's Company of Comedians. A new Droll. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. 12 noon to ten p.m. during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ngland Triumphant Or The British General

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Beggars with the Comical Humours of his Royal Consort Queen Tatter

Entertainment: Variety of Singing, Dancing, Rope Dancing, Tumbling-eminent performers lately arrived from Italy

2004
20 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. Receipts: #194 10s. in cash, plus #147 18s. from tickets (Boxes 378; Pit 356). Charges #64 5s. Advanced to Mrs Ward #30. [Shuter called for imaginative participation of his audience in his Medley Skit (see Larpent MS 171): @"Suppose my dress alter'd with each exhibition....@If I speak like a Dutchman, or Brogue it like Paddy,@Or mimic Monsieur, or lisp like a Lady"@ Parts for The English Sailors in America (by G. A. Steevens) are listed in Larpent MS 172: Indian King , English Captain , Irishman , Sailor Ned and Sailor Ben , a Black Messenger , Guards , White Savage Lady , Black Woman , Image .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

Performance Comment: Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage.
Cast
Role: London Raree Show Actor: Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night
Role: The Cries of London Actor: . uó‘cg To which will
Role: Princess Actor: Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage.

2005
22 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-H. Howard, 1st appearance on the stage; Evans-Yates; Slender-Obrien, 1st time; Caius-Blakes; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pritchard; Fenton-Scrase; Ford-Havard; Shallow-Clough; Page-Packer; Simple-Vaughan; Pistol-Ackman; Host of Garter-Philips; Mistress Page-Miss Haughton; Mistress Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Anne Page-Mrs Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Falstaff Actor: H. Howard, 1st appearance on the stage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: A Hornpipe-a sailor from on board the Royal Sovereign

Music: II: A Piece on the Harp-Rice

2006
09 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

2007
14 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Quebec or Harlequin Engineer

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Weller 1st time; Pantaloon-Buck; Clown-Gibbs; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Britannia (The Genius of England)-Mrs Lee; Song in character of English Officer -Andrews 1st appearance on the stage; to conclude with an Emblematical Representation of General Wolfe 's Monument. to conclude with an Emblematical Representation of General Wolfe 's Monument.
Cast
Role: Song in character of English Officer Actor: Andrews 1st appearance on the stage

Entertainment: M+Monologue. An Epilogue in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage of Human Life=-Cresswickas17600508

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; IV: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102

2008
19 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Varney. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets delivered for the 10th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: IV: Miss Spencer

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

2009
07 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Box #43 17s. 6d. Paid Mr Blackmore a Bill for sundries and expenses in taking the inventory of the Men's Wardrobe #26 2s. 6d. Bought three men's outfits #68. Gave the King's footmen and Chairmen #4 4s., and Prince of Wales' Footmen and Chairmen #2 2s. Gave the Porters of the several Inns #3 14s. (Account Book). [The Gentlewoman who played Bertha was Miss Fielding. See notation of payment to her for acting this part, 10 Jan.] Receipts: #176 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

2010
29 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

2011
11 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Hornpipe (2nd time)-Mlle Capdeville; IV: The Provincial Sailors, as17610508

2012
25 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-the Sailor, lately belonging to the Royal Sovereign

2013
27 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Mrs Marwood Actor: Mrs Kennedy, 1st appearance on this stage

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Dance: HHornpipe-a Sailor from the Royal Sovereign as17610525

2014
09 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #12 12s. 6d. Expenses #38 16s. 3d. Receipts: #122 7s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Cast
Role: the Lieutenant Actor: Shuter
Role: With a new Song Actor: Beard in the character of a Sailor
Role: The Equilibrist on the Wire Actor: Matthews
Role: Spectators attending the Fair Actor: the Comedians
Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

2015
16 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

2016
30 September 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Song: Miss Polly Young (from theatre Royal Dublin) her 1st appearance on the English Stage

2017
15 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Characters New Dress'd. Afterpiece never perform'd there before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Hengist-Smith; Aribert-Ross; Offa-Clarke; Seofrid-Sparks; Oswald-White; Rodogune-Mrs Ward; Ethelinda-Miss Macklin; In which will be Introduc'd A Solemn Hymn, set by Purcell,-Beard, Tenducci, Peretti, Mattocks, Baker, Miss Brent, Miss Poitier, Miss Polly Young, Miss Miller, Miss Catley, Legg, Ryley, Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

2018
17 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

2019
20 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

2020
25 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, the man Peasant-Sga Manesiere, the woman by Miss Wilford

2021
01 December 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

2022
07 December 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

2023
17 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of Play: The French Gardeners, as17630407

2024
03 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Hengist-Smith; Aribert-Ross; Offa-Clarke; Seofrid-Sparks; Oswald-White; Rodogune-Mrs Ward; Ethelinda-Miss Macklin; In which will be introduc'd A Solemn Hymn, set to music by Henry Purcell;-Beard, Tenducci, Peretti, Mattocks, Baker, Miss Miller, Miss Polly Young, Miss Davies, Legg, Ryley, Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

2025
05 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Duquesny, Sga Manesiere.