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5637 results for: Keyword - Mr Gard
We found 4235 matches on Event Comments, 1140 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4376
01 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

4377
10 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

4378
13 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Waltz, Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont

4379
15 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4380
26 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance, as17500221; L'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti

4381
26 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4382
29 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4383
31 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Charges #60. Deficiency to Cooke #25 10s., covered by #134 7s. from tickets. Tickets of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Died Dennis Delane, Esq. universally regretted (Daily Advertiser, 3 April). Receipts: #34 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: Dutch Dance, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

4384
02 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: III: Miss Norris

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4385
02 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17500201

4386
03 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17500319 End of Play: A Tambourin-Jardin

4387
07 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4388
18 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

4389
19 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Judgment of Paris

Song: I: A New Scots Song-Miss Falkner; set-Master Arne; II: O Sleep, Lucinge-; III: Go Rose-

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Jardin

4390
21 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. By particular desire. Paid salary list #3000 6d.; Rec'd cash #54 19s., plus #102 7s. from tickets. Total #157 6s. [Treasurer's Book). Gentlemen and Ladies: Having the Misfortune to lose my husband, I am incapable at present, of making my Personal application; but hope those Friends who intend to honour me with their company, will be so kind as to send for tickets, Places, &c. to Gardyner's Printing office in Little Russel St., Covent Garden, or to Mr Hobson at the stage door, I beg your favour, and am, Your humble serv't, Eliz. Mills (General Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #60 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Foigard Actor: James

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4391
24 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Tambourine-Jardin; III: Dutch Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; V: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Song: IV: Go Rose-Miss Falkner

4392
25 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSwedish Gardeners, as17491219

4393
10 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17500503; III: Black Joke, as17500420

4394
14 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4395
17 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4396
21 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4397
24 September 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

4398
25 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4399
28 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

4400
30 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Secular Masque

Dance: New Running Footman's Dance, as17501020