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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.

1576
19 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace, with the new Additional Scene

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: DuBellamy

1577
20 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Airs and Alterations made by the author. Receipts: #167 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: a Dance incidental to the Opera Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: DuBellamy

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Dance, as17671016

1578
24 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At 5 went into the Pit...Mrs Yates is the Callista Mr Rowe drew; Powell did Scioto well, nor is Bensley a bad Horatio. A new Comic Dance by LaRiviere and Miss Vallois in wooden shoes, with Harlequin Skeleton to which is now added a new scene (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #123 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance-LaRiviere, Miss Valois

1579
26 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 26 Dec. 1749.] Receipts: #177 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17671024, but with Two Additional Scenes. Short bill: Jupiter (Harlequin)-Miles; Chasseur Royale-Mahoon; Diana-Mrs Thompson; Doctor-Weller; Pluto-_; Neptune-_; Pan-_; Hercules-_; Apollo-_; Mars-_; Shepherd-_.
Cast
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1580
29 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: Orestes-Powell; Pylades-Perry; Pyrrhus-Clarke; Phoenix-Gardner; Hermione-Mrs Yates; Cleone-Mrs Stephens; Cephisa-Mrs Barrington; Andromache-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Cephisa Actor: Mrs Barrington

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: End: The Female Archer-LaRiviere, Mrs Bulkley

1581
30 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; 1st Spirit-Hull; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Perry; 2nd Spirit-R. Smith; Lady-Mrs Bellamy; Bacchanals-Mahoon, DuBellamy, Dibdin; Bacchants-Mrs Pinto, Mrs DuBellamy; Euphrosyne-Mrs Thompson; Sabrina, The Pastoral Nymph, the Song of Sweet Echo-Mrs Pinto; Chorusses-Legg, Baker, Ryley, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mrs Bulkley, Miss Valois.
Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Clarke
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Perry
Role: the Song of Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Pinto
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1582
19 November 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: a Dance incidental to the Opera Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17671026, but The Baby-the Giant; Doctor-Banks; Diana-Mrs Baker; Arial Spirits-_; Merlin-_; Mercury-_.
Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: A New Tambourine Dance-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere

1583
01 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: Incidental to the opera
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17671024

1584
26 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts etc. #7 19s. 1d. (Account Book). [Sylvas Neville attended in the pit, but made no comment.] Receipts: #188 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1585
30 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: Incidental to the opera
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

1586
04 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the play
Role: the Funeral procession of Juliet Actor:
Role: the Vocal parts Actor: Mattocks, DuBellamy, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Legg, Dibdin, Ryley, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1587
15 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: Incidental to the opera
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

1588
22 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. Present Their Majesties and Princess Louisa. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #230 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Father Actor: Powell, 1st time
Role: In Act IV will be the Triumphal Entry of Publius Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

1589
14 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Author's 3rd night. Housecharges #66 12s. Balance to Bickerstaffe #151 16s. Gave the Yeoman of the Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #218 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307 Provenzales, as17680301

1590
11 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. The Roman Father is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the indisposition of Powell (playbill). Charges #66 2s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Thompson #62 11s. plus #31 14s. in tickets (Box 92; Pit 58) (Account Book). Receipts: #128 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17671229, but Prince Edward-Mas. Harris; Ratcliff-Casey; Lady Anne-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Ferguson.
Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Mas. Harris

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

1591
03 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris and Lewes. Charges #64 10s. Balance due the actors #5 1s 6d. Morris 40 346 #93 7s. Lewes 79 303 236 #88 16s. Money #59 8s. 6d.@Total House Value #241 11s. 6d.@ Reciv'd from Proprieters of the Gazetter for this season #50 for exclusive rights to publishing Play Notices (Account Book). Receipts: #59 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Ballet: III: Wapping Landlady. Double Hornpipe, As17680416

1592
12 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Stede. Every Man in His Humour oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of a principal performer. Tickets deliver'd for Every Man will be taken. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to Bennet and Stede #23 13s. covered by #45 17s. to Bennet from his tickets (Box 6; Pit 195; Gallery 151) and by #33 14s. to Stede from his tickets (Box 16; Pit 102; Gallery 144). Receipts: #40 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 1st time (Scholar to Fishar)

1593
27 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Smith, Parsons, Arnauld, Miss Madden, Miss Cockayne, and others. Tickets deliver'd by Wild, Mrs Hitchcock, Francis, Widow Trott, Mrs Paddick, and for the fourteenth will be taken. [The Mourning Bride and Orpheus had been planned for the 14th. See foot of playbill 13 May.] @Tickets Pit Box Gallery Value 1!2 Value@T. Smith 67 61 #16 3s. #8 1s. 6d.@ Maddan 10 30 49 #11 18s. #5 19s.@19 183 58 38 19@Cockayne 7 23 48 #10 5@Wilde 2 27 33 #7 17s. #3 18s. 6d.@Francis 4 25 31 #7 17s. #3 18s. 6d.@Arnd Fishar 14 8 #2 18s. #1 9s.@Hitchcock 31 41 14 #15 6s. #7 3s.@ Trott 16 8 4 #5 12s. #2 16s.@Paddick 16 7 #3 2s. #1 11s.@Total #118 13s. #59 6s. 6d. (Account Book).@ [No charges were listed. The house took, instead one-half value of the tickets, leaving the other half as profit to the ten beneficiaries. House also took the cash receipts.] Receipts: #27 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Song: II: A Song-Parsons

Dance: III: A Minuet-Hussey, Miss Madden; IV: Comic Dance-Arnauld, Miss Capon, as17680416

1594
01 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter and Eddis (playbill). [Account Book lists only Condell and Potter.] Charges #81 10s. Deficit to Condell and Potter #49 10s. 6d. covered by #97 10s. to Condell from tickets (Box 248; Pit 194; Gallery 64) and #73 14s. to Potter from Tickets (Box 159; Pit 157; Gallery 104). Paid Richard Richardson for the Purchase of the Fee Farm of three Houses on the West Side of Bow St. subject to 40s. a year payable to the Duke of Bedford...#1800. Receipts: #31 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Mahoon
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

1595
26 September 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Powell; Capulet-Gibson; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Mercutio-Woodward; Tibalt-Gardner; Benvolio-Davis; Peter-Morgan; Paris-Perry; Escalus-Morris; Friar John-Wignell; Lady Capulet-Mrs Barrington; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Bellamy; In Act I: A Minuet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; a Masquerade Dance-proper to the play; with the Funeral procession of Juliet-; Solemn Dirge the vocal parts-Mattocks, DuBellamy, Baker, Mahon, Barnshaw, Legg, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: a Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the play
Role: with the Funeral procession of Juliet Actor:
Role: Solemn Dirge the vocal parts Actor: Mattocks, DuBellamy, Baker, Mahon, Barnshaw, Legg, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1596
03 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17680928

1597
08 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: PPowell's 2nd appearance as Ford. N.B. The Characters dress'd in the HABITS of the TIME. Receipts: #127 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1598
31 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [Harlequin Skeleton] now advertised under its original title, but the New Scene with additions continued (playbill). Paid Younger for a license for ye 2 Sisters #2 2s. (Account Book). [See 18 Feb.] Receipts: #244 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17680924, but The Baby-_; Merlin-_; Diana-_.
Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mahoon

1599
01 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Cast
Role: Athelwold Actor: Smith
Role: Chorus of British Virgins Actor: Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Baker, Miss Twist, Miss Brown, Miss Valois, Miss Wewitzer, Miss Catley, others.
Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Reinhold

1600
04 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Simpson for New Music for the theatre for seasons 1772 and 1773 #10 10s. Paid Whitefield for Cloaths bought #31 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #114 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Reinhold

Dance: II: The Tartars, as17721124