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8638 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields
We found 5160 matches on Event Comments, 2740 matches on Performance Title, 1829 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5826
26 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Farce is taken From the Midsummer Night's Dream, by Coleman, & is a very pleasing Farce, & well receiv'd by the Audience (Hopkins). Songs of the Entertainment to be given at theatre. Mdsr Night's Dream Cut. Serious parts quite out. Went off well (Cross Diary). This Farce is taken from The Midsummer Night.-Mr Colman thought it was a pity so much pains and expense as was bestowed on the Midsummer Night's Dream should be thrown away,-he luckily thought of turning it into a farce, which alteration he made in one night,-and now I think as pleasing a farce as most that are done.-Miss Wright? is vastly great in her songs (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). [See "A Midsummer Night's Dream in the hands of Garrick and Colman," PMLA, June 1939.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: TThe Italian Gardiners, as17631119

5827
28 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: After the play on Saturday Night Mr Yates sent me the part of Bottom in the Fairy Tale & Said he would play it no more the part was given to Mr Baddeley & he play'd it to Night (Hopkins). Mr Yates sent me the part of Bottom, and said I must give it to somebody else, for he would do it no more.-Mr Baddeley Played it tonight, and very well (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Songs in the Entertainment given at the theatre. Receipts: #124 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

5828
12 December 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Not perform'd this season. To prevent mistakes, those ladies who have taken places, are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

5829
22 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Book of the play as perform'd sold in the Theatre [Fairy Tale.] Receipts: #152 14s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

5830
27 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Words of the airs and chorusses of the Entertainment will be given away at theatre. [A customary notice for this afterpiece, which will not be mentioned further.] Receipts: #195 12s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

5831
09 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Farce as performed will be sold at the Theatre. Receipts: #146 15s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

5832
22 February 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: An English Burletta [By Kane O'Hara] Never acted there. To Prevent mistakes, those Ladies who have taken places, are desired to send their Servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Burletta to be sold at the Theatre, at 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Midas

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

5833
27 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Well rec'd: all but the 1st Chorus w[hic]h was Hiss'd. First Dance Hiss'd off. Mr Norris being ill, Mrs Dormond perform'd in his room, much applauded (Cross Diary). Acted but once. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre. Receipts: #169 1s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Hunters, as17640224; The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

5834
01 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the composer, Mr Rush. Books of the Opera will be sold at the Theatre. Receipts. #211 18s. 6d.; charges: #76 12s. 6d. Profit to author: #135 6s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

5835
05 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit For the Composer (Hopkins). Books of the Opera sold at the Theatre. Charges: #76 12s. 6d.; Receipts: #184 18s. Profit to composer: #108 5s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: TThe Faggot Binders, as17640301 Dance, as17640301

5836
09 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Pit and Boxes put together. No Person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Gallery to be opened at half an hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Dryden's Ode

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

5837
12 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Opera By Particular Desire. Books of Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

5838
15 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Opera sold at Theatre. This Night Mr Grimaldi Sprain'd his Leg (Hopkins). Mr Grimaldi had the misfortune to hurt himself so much in dancing, as to render him incapable of Performing for Some time (Public Advertiser, 19 March). Receipts: #112 2s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

5839
19 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Books of Opera sold at Theatre. Charges: #76 12s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 but _Grimaldi, Lauchery; II: The +Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: A Dance, as17640301 but _Grimaldi, Tassoni

5840
02 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. each. To prevent mistakes Ladies are desired to send servants at 3 o'clock. Books of the opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Cudgell'd Husband-Duquesney, Miss Wilford

5841
03 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eighth Day. Books of The Patron to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640629, but order reversed%

5842
17 September 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. No money to be receiv'd at the Stage Door, nor any returned after the curtain is up. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary notice on all subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

5843
22 September 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Entertainment, as perform'd, will be sold at the Theatre. [A customary announcement re the Fairy Tale, and will not be further noted.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

5844
23 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

5845
31 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre. Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

5846
10 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the opera sold at the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

5847
17 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

5848
23 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To prevent mistakes, those Ladies who have taken places, are desired to send their servants by Three o'clock. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

5849
26 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

5850
28 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Book of the opera at the Theatre. Comic opera in 3 acts by Lloyd .Music by Mr Rush. [See reduction to two-act farce, 2 March 1765. First performance in England of C. S. Favart's Le Caprice Amoureux (a parody of Goldoni's Bertoldo).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: Grimaldi, Aldridge, Giorgi, Berardi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker