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4052 results for: Keyword - His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
We found 1695 matches on Event Comments, 1196 matches on Performance Title, 1009 matches on Performance Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
14 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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

Dance: Picq, Mlle Auguste

252
25 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17420123[, but Rural Assembly seems to have been performed after the play.]

Dance: Entertainments-Picq, Desnoyer, Sga Barberina, Dubuisson, Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Domitilla; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Wright, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle Maudet

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: Nymph of the Plain Actor: Sga Barberina

253
10 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Entertainments, as17420206, but _Duibuisson, _Villeneuve, Mlle _Bonneval, Sga _Domitilla; Tyrolean Dance, as17420206; Tambourine, as17420206; The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: Nymph of the Plain Actor: Sga Barberina

254
15 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be allowed to keep places on the Stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed, and formed into an amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door; none to be admitted Without printed Tickets. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in and added to the Frodt Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, Earl Of Essex

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

255
20 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2 By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 As17420213, but Chacone-_; The Peasants, as17420210

Ballet: 2 RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: Nymph of the Plain Actor: Sga Barberina

256
01 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Page at the Stage Door. None to be admitted without printed tickets, which will also be deliver'd at the Office, and at LaLauze's lodgings, at the Widow Gwinn's, a Silk Dyer in Drury Lane, near the Castle Tavern. Servants will be allowed to keep places on the stage, which (for the better accommodation of the ladies) will be enclos'd and formed into an amphitheatre. N.B. As I had the Misfortune to break the great tendon of my leg, when dancing on the stage at the above theatre in January last, I think it highly incumbent on me to acquaint the public in general and my good friends in particular, that I am in a fair (but not speedy) way of recovery; and as Mr Rich has kindly granted me a benefit sooner than usual, towards supporting me in my unlucky situation, I take this opportunity to interest the good-natured town to dispense with my personal application, and favour me with their company as usual, which will add to the many obligations I have already received, and shall be ever acknowledged with a sincere sense of gratitude, by their most humble and obedient servant, LaLauze

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17420212; Chacone, as17411230; Tyrolean Dance, By Command, as17420206

257
22 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes carefully enclosed) may be had at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; III: A Ballad-Lowe; V: At the particular desire of several ladies of Quality, the celebrated Irish Ballad Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive, as she perform'd it in Dublin

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-the Mechels; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

258
01 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Desnoyer. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for the Careless Husband, will be taken. Servants allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets to be had at M Desnoyer's House in Gloucester Court, St. James's St.; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

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

Dance: I: New Scots Dance-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; II: Tambourine-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; V: A Ball Dance call'd the Britannia, Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina, By Command

Ballet: IV: Rural Assembly. See17420121, but only Chasseur-Desnoyer; Nymph-Sga Barbarina

259
05 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Picq and Sga Domitilla. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance: MMusette-Picq, Mlle Auguste; New Scots Dance, as17420401 New Dance call'd the Hussar-Desnoyer, Sga Domitilla; New Comic Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Louvre, Minuet By Desire-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: Nymph of the Plain Actor: Sga Barberina

260
13 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Fund established for the Support of decay'd Musicians and their Families. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Related Works
Related Work: The Musical Lady Author(s): George Colman, the elder

261
21 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Dubuisson and Mlle Bonneval. Mainpiece: By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets of Dubuisson at his House in St. Martin's St., near Leicester Fields, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

262
04 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit of a distrest Citizen. [The Intriguing Chambermaid had been announced as the afterpiece.] Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 V: a Hornpipe-Philips

263
27 September 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Quin
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Cibber, 1st appearance this stage.

264
01 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; La Provencale-Picq; Dancing-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Wright, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Maudet

265
29 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

266
17 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: As17421026

267
27 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

268
03 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Miss _Davis
Role: All the Dances proper to the play Actor: .
Role: With the Original Music Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421105; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants, as17421230

269
14 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre. Send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion Queens

Performance Comment: Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs Horton; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Porter (being the last time of her appearing on this stage); No others listed. No others listed.

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

270
08 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, will then be form'd into an Amphitheatre. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her house in Great Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Cross
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Havard
Role: The Dances Actor: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval, Froment, Liviez, Boudouin, Mrs Walter, Miss Thomson, Mlle Fabres, Mlle Gondeau.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17430303 Epilogue-specified as in the character of the Lying Valet.
Cast
Role: As17430303 Epilogue Actor: specified as in the character of the Lying Valet.

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

271
14 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: It is Humbly desir'd that Ladies who have taken Places, will please to send for their Tickets to Mrs Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Salt's, at Henrietta St., Covent Garden. Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage formed into an amphitheatre, and to prevent the ladies's catching cold ciel'd after the manner of the Oratorios. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

272
22 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Beard...Tickets and Places to be had at Beard's lodgings on the North Side of Red Lyon Square. Those Ladies who have already taken places, are humbly requested to send for Tickets. Tickets and places also to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

273
06 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

274
05 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cervetto. Mainpiece by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd out by Arthur for The Recruiting Officer will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: La Florana, as17430408

Song: III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

Music: IV: New Violincello Concerto-Cervetto

275
03 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont