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6555 results for: Keyword - Mr Rich
We found 4550 matches on Event Comments, 1190 matches on Performance Comments, 676 matches on Author, 556 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1926
12 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [The Bill calls this the 33d performance; Rich's Register labels it the 34th. See 11 March.] Receipts: #183 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 246 paid and 5 orders; stage, 73 paid; pit, 292 paid and 4 orders; slips, 65 paid; first gallery, 435 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 192 paid. Daily Journal, 12 March: N.B. During the Course of the Benefits, this Opera will be performed every Tuesday and Saturday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1927
16 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #176 14s. Probable attendance:'boxes, 224 paid and 3 orders; stage, 75 paid; pit, 279 paid and 5 orders; slips, 60 paid and 1 orders; pidgeon holes, 3 paid; first gallery, 444 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 193 paid. [Both Daily Journal and Rich's Register call this the 35th performance; see 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1928
31 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for A Bold Stroke for a Wife taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [Rich's Register also lists #10 18s. in tickets for Mrs Chianova.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1929
29 October 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #103 11s. 6d. [According to Rich's Register, the afterpiece was Apollo and Daphne.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Flora's Vagaries Author(s): Richard Rhodes

1930
20 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #75. [The Rival Queens was advertised for this night, but Rich's Register lists Macbeth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1931
05 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #74 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

1932
09 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #58 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

1933
17 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #106 7s. 6d. Rich's Register: Bespoke by the Dutchess of Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: FFrench Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; French Peasant-Poitier; Grand Dance in Momus Turned Fabulist-

1934
05 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #158 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1935
12 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #96 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1936
12 February 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit J. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #177 7s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1937
24 February 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [By Thomas Walker.] With Rich New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Villainy

1938
16 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #32 4s. [Universal Spectator, 16 Jan., reports that the subscription for Rich's new playhouse in Covent Garden has reached #6,000 and that James Sheppard, the architect, has completed the plans for the structure.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

1939
26 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #72 18s. 6d. [For an essay on Rich as manager, see Daily Courant, 26 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

1940
21 February 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Performance Comment: Advertised but apparently dismissed (Rich's Register).

1941
05 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Secret

Performance Comment: Advertised but Dismissed (Rich's Register).

1942
13 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. [Some uncertainty exists as to whether this performance was given, for Rich's Register does not list it; it is , however, recorded in BM Egerton 2320 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1943
18 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard (Rich's Register)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1944
28 April 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: No receipts listed in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1945
09 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Performance Comment: Advertised but apparently dismissed. No receipts in Rich's Register.

1946
23 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Beau, Cooper, Widow Cook [Rich's Register)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1947
24 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Bene1it H. Bullock, under Misfortunes. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Music: Select Pieces-; particularly a new Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-; V: Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; in which Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benjamin Baker , accompanyed with Trumpets, French Horns

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston

Song: III: A Dialogue in the Scottish Stile-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

1948
31 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Scene, representing the Ponte Real at Venice. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: PPeasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Scotch Dance, as17330529

1949
01 June 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. 6:30 p.m. Being positively the last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

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

Dance: MMusette-LeSac, Miss Baston; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, LeSac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

1950
15 March 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carlo Broschi Farinello. With several Alterations and Additions. Pit and Boxes, Places on the Stage, at Half a Guinea. N.B. Signor Farinello humbly hopes, that the Subscribers will not make use of their Tickets on this Occasion. The Stage will be in the same Manner as in the Assembly with a great Number of Benches. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Granville, 15 March: Tonight is Farinelli's benefit; all the polite world will flock there, and go at four o'clock, for fear they should not be time enough. I don't love mobbing, and so I shall leave them to themselves. Daily Advertiser, 13 March: 'Tis expected that Signor Farinelli will have the greatest Appearance on Saturday that has been known. We hear that a Contrivance will be made to accommodate 2000 People. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleas'd to give him 200 Guineas, the Spanish Ambassador 100, the Emperor's Ambassador 50, his Grace the Duke of Leeds 50, the Countess of Portmore 50, Lord Burlington 50, his Grace the Duke of Richmond 50, the Hon. Col. Paget 30, Lady Rich 20, and most of the other Nobility 50, 30 or 20 Guineas each; so that 'tis believ'd his Benefit will be worth to him upwards of 2000l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes