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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMr Picq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMr Picq")') 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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172 results for: Keyword - MMr Picq
We found 110 matches on Event Comments, 44 matches on Performance Title, 26 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
30 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Rush, Composer's Night. Almena is oblig'd to be deferr'd until Siga Cremonini's place can be supplied

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: As17641128

102
17 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Burton being taken ill this morning, Mr Aickin read Narbas (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

103
08 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Day. [As author of afterpiece, altered from The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus.] Mainpiece: By particular Desire. The Accomplish'd Maid oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the indisposition of Mattocks. Charges #65 15s. [Profit to Woodward #126 9s.] (Account Book). Payment of this sum to Mr Woodward on account of the pantomime of Dr Faustus" was made on 15 Dec. Receipts: #192 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

104
17 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Jefferson played Buckingham for the first Time, as a tryal, and is engaged for the next season. --Pretty well (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

105
18 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Reddish played Lord Townly, being his first appearance in London, --was well received and met with Applause, --but an indifferent figure, --will be useful (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

106
22 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Bannister made his first appearance on this stage in Merlin with a new Song introduced.--He was received with applause, --is a tall figure, good voice and sings well (Hopkins MS Notes). [The grand procession of the orders of chivalry hereafter a regular feature of Cymon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

107
21 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Barry's 1st appearance this season.--A quarrel in the Green Room between Mrs Barry and Mr Aickin (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

108
09 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Aickin hissed for being imperfect.--This night was introduced at the end of the Pantomime a Grand Masquerade in imitation of that given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House, and lighted up after the same manner--Every performer belonging to the House was on, even Mr Garrick and his brother.--The dresses were very elegant, and the whole very striking,--and gave pleasure to the Audience (Hopkins Diary). [The masquerade remained a part of Queen Mab and was also attached to Fortunatus. It evoked the following verse in Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 21-23]: One night last week a merry blade,@Who'd seen the Royal Masquerade,@And paid ten guineas for admission,@Began to damn the imposition;@His friend reply'd, "You may complain,@For I last Night at Drury Lane,@Saw full as much for eighteen pence,@As you got at such vast expence."-- G.S. C y

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

109
02 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick is out of danger (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

110
06 October 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Waldron from Edinburgh made his first appearance upon this Stage in Scrub he is a mean figure a small Impediment in his speaking and wants power he met with some applause (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Dance: IV: The Wake-Giorgi, Mrs King

111
07 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Holland Dyed this Morning (Cross Diary). [Born 1733 came to dl 1755 (Winston MS 10).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

112
20 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr King--Richard 3d as you might expect (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A New Tambourine Dance-Atkins, Mrs King; IV: The English Gardeners, as17691206

113
06 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: Entertainments-Picq, Denoyer, Sga Barberina, Duibuisson, Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Domitilla; Tyrolean Dance between a Hungarian and two Tyrolese,-Denoyer, Picq, Sga Barbarina; Tambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: a Sylvan Actor: Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste.

114
20 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Musette, as17420405 II: Louvre-Picq; III: New Comic Dance Pantaloon and Enamorata=-Picq, Mlle Auguste; IV: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; V: La Marie, Minuet-Picq, Mlle Auguste

115
15 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: a T +Tambourine-Picq (1st appearance since his arrival from Paris), Mlle Auguste; Grand Ballet call'd La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste, accompanied by Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Wright, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle Moudet

116
25 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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: a Sylvan Actor: Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste.

117
22 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Modern Midnight Conversation

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

118
01 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

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

119
18 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Sga Campioni; III: Comic Dance call'd L'Allemande-Picq, Sga Campioni; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Picq, Sga Campioni

120
30 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17411029, but the Villagers from Orpheus & Eurydice, as17411228-Picq, Mlle Auguste, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Richardson, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Moudet, Mrs Wright.

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17411221; Chacone-Dubuisson, Mlle Benneval; Tambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste

121
04 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: LLes Allemands Joyeux, as17411222; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste

122
11 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Sga Barberini; The Peasants, as17411221, but Picq, Mlle +Bonneville, _Lalauze; +Louvre, Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barberini

123
10 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

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: a Sylvan Actor: Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste.

124
12 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 TThe Peasants, as17420210; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Chacone, as17411230

125
18 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants, as17420210