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7972 results for: Keyword - Mr Powell's House
We found 5723 matches on Event Comments, 2063 matches on Performance Comments, 745 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6601
22 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: As17410121

6602
22 January 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

6603
09 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Egyptiens (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment; L'Hydropique Amoreux (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan

6604
14 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: A new Tambourine-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Les Savoyards (new)-Villeneuve, Signora Barberini; By particular Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Denoyer, Signora Barberini; Glover

6605
14 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Dance: Shawford, Mrs Bullock

6606
14 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

6607
01 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Terpsichore (new)-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: La Sabotiere-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: A new Tambourine-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

6608
01 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: IV: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

6609
04 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

6610
08 April 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso

6611
09 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: LLe Paisan-LaPierre; II: La Provan Sale (Sailor's Dance)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Indian Dance (never in England before)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; V: La Rose Boree and Ziphirs-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

6612
10 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: II: Bacchus Triumphant-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Trio of True Happiness-Leveridge, Roberts, Miss Young; V: An Epilogue in Music, addressed to the Audience,-Leveridge, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Dance: III: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

6613
10 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Song: lso the Sheep@shearing Song, the Songs in As You Like It-Mrs Dunstall

6614
16 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive; With An Interlude In Two Comic Scenes, Between signor Capoccio, A Director From The canary Islands, And signora Dorinna, A Virtuosa

6615
18 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

6616
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Duke; Or, The Conjuror's Bastard; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Tipple

Afterpiece Title: The Matrimonial Squabble; or, A Cure for Jealousy

Ballet: TThe Infernals (Grand Ballet). 1st Fury-Bencraft; Attendants-Clough, Richards, Gray, Wright, Bembridge, Spackman

6617
05 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Play to begin exactly at Six. Places for Boxes to be taken at Mr Bradshaw's, Box-Keeper, at the King's Arms in Russell Street, near the Playhouse. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [This customary notice about time, tickets, and prices will hereafter be silently omitted.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6618
25 September 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6619
23 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment; with Triumphs of Love

6620
02 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6621
11 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Dance: Dubisson, Mlle Bonneval, being the 1st time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

6622
20 January 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17420115

6623
28 January 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17420115

6624
15 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

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

6625
24 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Signora Fausan. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in, and added to the front boxes. Tickets and places in the Boxes to be had only of Mr West, at the Green Door in Duke St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and for the Stage, of Mrs Moor, at the Sign of the Theatre in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #160. Rylands MS.: Duke &c attended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story