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3470 results for: Keyword - Master Green
We found 1980 matches on Performance Comments, 1131 matches on Performance Title, 727 matches on Event Comments, 76 matches on Roles/Actors, and 8 matches on Author.

3201
13 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, Dancing Master, and Miss Seale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Lindar

3202
20 April 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, Dancing-Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3203
06 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson and Mrs Willis. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Song, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. Afterp1ece: Compos'd by Mr John Eccles, Master of the King's Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

3204
22 August 1724 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son; Or, The Libertine Reclaimed; Wherein Is Represented His Vicious Life, And The Devil Appearing To Him To Go On In His Wickedness; And The Miserable State He Was Brought To Be His Extravagance, Being Reduced To That Extremity, That He Was Forced To Eat Husks With The Swine, To Satisfy His Hunger; Also An Angel Descending, Exhorting Him To Repent, And Return To His Father, Who Receives Him With Great Joy

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Performance Comment: The best Masters.

Entertainment: Drunken Man-Harper

3205
14 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, Dancing-Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3206
05 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Griffith, Dancing Master. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 4 May. Receipts: money #20 16s. 6d.; tickets: #174 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: IIrish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Serious Dance-Mrs Wall, Mrs Griffith, who never appear'd on this Stage before; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Flag Dance-Nivelon

3207
07 May 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Jacobs, the new Colombine, lately arrived from France. Mainpiece: The only Master-Piece that the famous Mons d'Noble ever writ. Afterpiece: Written by M Moliere. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux D'arlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor against His Will

Dance: Roger, new Colombine

3208
09 May 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier, Dancing Master. Afterpiece: Composed by Monsieur LeSage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Quatre Arlequin Par Magie

Afterpiece Title: Le Tableau du Mariage

Dance: FFour Harlequins : 1st--Lalauze, 2d- Poitier, 3d- Maillard, 4th- LeBrun; End I: The Rival Pierros-Boudett, Lalauze Jr, Mlle Violante; II: A new Moor's Dance-Lalauze Jr, Mlle Violante; II: A new Chacoon of All Characters-Poitier, Boudett, Lalauze, Welman, Mlle Boudett, Mlle Violante, Mlle LeBrun, Mlle L'Inconnue; With a new Dance call'd Le Cotillon-12 Dancers; French Peasant-Poitier

3209
07 December 1726 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta; Or, Bridghella's Revenge Contrariated By Argentina: With Harlequin's Transformation, Viz

Performance Comment: a Physician, Master of Musick, Madam Patasia, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Giant, and Grand Bashaw; Together with his Comical Egress and Regress to and from the Tower.

3210
30 December 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Thurmond, Dancing Master.] The Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, &c. entirely New. The Scenes painted by Messieurs Tillemans, Eberlin, Devoto, and Dominic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock

3211
11 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, Dancing-Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph

3212
24 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Afterpiece Title: The Metamorphoses of Cartouche

Performance Comment: Pantalon, the Doctor, Brighella , being the first Time of their Appearing on that Stage, wherein Brighella transforms himself into the following Shapes, viz. 1st, An Idiot; 2d, A Swiss Musick-Master (with the Stuttering Song); 3d, A Venetian Gondolier, with the Song in Imitation of Les Tambour; 4th, An Armenian Teyman; 5th, A Florentine Cook; 6th, A Scaramouch; 7th, A French Dwarf Lady. 3d, A Venetian Gondolier, with the Song in Imitation of Les Tambour; 4th, An Armenian Teyman; 5th, A Florentine Cook; 6th, A Scaramouch; 7th, A French Dwarf Lady.
Cast
Role: A Swiss Musick Actor: Master

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

Song: Two Songs in Italian by the Author-Rochetti

3213
25 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 13s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 308 paid and 73 orders; stage, 1 paid; slips, 27 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 304 paid and 1 orders; second gallery, 172 paid. Daily Journal, 25 May: We hear that this Evening the famous Captain Lemuel Gulliver is to be at...Lincoln's Inn Fields, very handsomely attended and dress'd in a rich Habit, the like of which was never seen in England before. The two Stage Boxes are kept for him and his Company....The Master of the House has promised the Captain that neither during the Play or Entertainment, any Person shall be admitted behind the Scenes, that the Captain may bot be too much press'd with the Crowd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

3214
30 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Journal, 30 Dec.; And we hear, that...the Grand Master and Wardens [for the Free Masons] and most of the Gentlemen present took Tickets to appear in White Gloves at...Drury-Lane, this Evening, where the Play of Henry IV. Part II is to be acted for their Entertainment; and it is said a Prologue and Epilogue will be spoken suitable to the Occasion, and in Honour of that Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

3215
06 January 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 11 Jan.: Last Sunday Night [5 Jan.] Mrs Baker, the Actress of Drury-Lane Theatre, was buried in a very handsome Manner at St. Clement's Danes, the Master of the House and most of the Actors attending the same

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

3216
01 November 1729 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Nov.: On Saturday last The Recruiting Officer was acted a second Time,...and notwithstanding it had not (thro' Mistake) been advertised in the Papers, yet there was a good House....There are Constables attending Nightly, at the Master's Expence, to prevent Disorders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

3217
30 December 1729 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 31 Dec.: Whereas a Cracker was thrown with an evil Intention into the New Theatre in Goodman's-Fields on Tuesday last...This is to certify, that Peace Officers are constantly attending to prevent all kinds of Disorders, and that whoever shall discover the Offender or Offenders above-mentioned, shall receive five Guineas reward from me the Master of the said House. December 31, 1729. Thomas Odell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: As17291220

Song: Mrs Mountfort, Miss Thornowets

3218
12 February 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Grand Master of the Antient and Hon. Society of Free and Accepted Masons. Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

3219
27 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 27 June: Thomas Odell, Esq. Master of the New Theatre in Goodman's Fields, hath been at Windsor to obtain Leave to bring his Company of Comedians down thither to perform Plays during the Court's Stay at Windsor; and we hear that he hath succeeded therein

Performances

3220
30 April 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wm. Mills and Mrs Mills. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: Afterpiece: A Song proper-

3221
17 March 1732 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: When the fine Overture compos'd by the late ingenious Mr William Babell, for St. Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston.

3222
21 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Burney, Dancing-Master. At the Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Contrivance; or, The Jealous Yeoman Defeated

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-John Wade, the only Time of his appearing on this Stage, Burney; III: Sailor's Dance-a Gentleman belonging to the Sea; IV: A new Pastoral Dance-Burney, Miss Wherrit

Song: I: Bacchanalian Song-Excell

3223
04 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

3224
01 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Oates. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Song: All the Songs usual on the Occasion-

Dance: Essex, Haughton, LeBrun, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

3225
02 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: SSt. James's Evening Post, 2 June, quoted in Grub St. Journal, 7 June: Sir, As Mr Cibber has had various ill-natured reflections cast upon him, for selling his share of the patent for Drury-Lane house, and for not making it over to his son; it will be a piece of justice to inform the publick, that the reason which he gave for such a conduct was, that he chose to convert it into ready money, that he might make a proportionable division of what fortune he may happen to have among all his children. Craftsman, 2 June: We have likewise received undoubted Intelligence from [dl], that a considerable Body of malcontent Players, under the Command of that puissant Captain, Mr The@@lus C@@r, have lately enter'd into a mutinous Association against their Masters, the Patentees, and still continue in a State of Hostility; which hath prevented any Plays being acted there this Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda