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1031 results for: Keyword - Order of the Golden Fleece
We found 890 matches on Event Comments, 93 matches on Performance Title, 53 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

426
09 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #156 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 237 paid and 7 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 287 paid; slips, 54 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 370 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 184 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

427
12 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts. #170 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 306 paid and 2 orders; staoe, 46 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 263 paid and 2 orders; slips, 59 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 417 paid; second gallery, 180 paid. Daily Journal, 12 Feb.: The Beggar's Opera is continued acting...with the greatest Applause, and to an Audience as numerous as ever. And we are informed, That most of the Boxes are taken to the 25th Night. [See also Gay to the Earl of Oxford, 12 Feb., in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

428
18 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 207 paid and 8 orders; stage, 35 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 294 paid and 5 orders; slips, 59 paid; first gallery, 435 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 190 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

429
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

430
23 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 222 paid and 3 orders; stage, 41 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 281 paid and 1 order; slips, 52 paid; first gallery, 406 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 188 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

431
24 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 234 paid and 5 orders; stage, 47 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 300 paid and 2 orders; slips, 56 paid; first gallery, 403 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 193 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

432
26 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #161 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 221 paid and 3 orders; stage, 13 paid; balcony, 7 paid; pit, 289 paid; slips, 56 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 424 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 199 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

433
28 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 3 orders; stage, 28 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 273 paid and 3 orders; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 420 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 195 paid. Daily Journal, 28 Feb.: Whereas Mrs Barbier has advertized that the Beggar's Opera is to be performed, for her Benefit, on the 16th of March next; This is to inform the Publick, That such Advertisement was published without Consent of Mr Rich, and that the same will not be allow'd of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

434
29 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 4 orders; stage, 37 paid; balcony, 3 paid; Pit, 280 paid and 2 orders; slips, 55 paid; first gallery, 427 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 194 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

435
01 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #153 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 180 paid and 10 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 5 paid; Pit, 289 paid and 2 orders; slips, 53 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 424 paid; second gallery, 200 paid and 3 orders.[For a letter on this play, see Daily Journal, 1 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

436
05 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #183 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 240 paid and 4 orders; stage, 79 paid; pit, 292 paid and 4 orders; slips, 64 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 433 paid; second gallery, 204 paid. Daily Journal, 5 March: Mrs Barbier, in Compliance to the Town, has wav'd her right to the Beggar's Opera and the Tickets delivered out for Saturday the 16th, will be taken on Monday the 18th to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, for her Benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

437
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

438
26 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 231 paid and 2 orders; stage, 74 paid; pit, 298 paid and 2 orders; slips, 69 paid; pidgeon holes, 6 paid; first gallery, 445 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 201 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

439
08 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 223 paid and 5 orders; stage, 43 paid; pit, 290 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 404 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 198 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

440
09 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 13s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 211 paid and 9 orders; stage, 59 paid; pit, 280 paid and 5 orders; slips, 23 paid; first gallery, 396 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 197 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

441
13 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 13s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 222 paid and 5 orders; stage, 111 paid; pit, 278 paid and 5 orders; slips, 65 paid; first gallery, 430 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 197 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

442
25 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #165 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 208 paid and 3 orders; stage, 69 paid; pit, 281 paid; slips, 60 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 389 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 191 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

443
25 June 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Receipts: #10 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 paid and 6 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 28 paid and 30 orders; slips, 2 paid; first gallery, 30 paid and 18 orders; second gallery, 20 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

Performance Comment: Silvio-Milward; Antonio-Berriman; Francisco-Bullock; Carlos-Ogden; Lopez-Smith; Pedro-Pitt; Octavio-Houghton; Surgeon-H. Bullock; Guzman-Giffard; Sancho-Clark; Dorothea-Mrs Berriman; Feliciana-Miss Tynte; Biancha-Miss Palin; Farmosa-Mrs Martin; Niece-Miss Anderson.
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Berriman

Song: End II: In the Pleasant Month of May-Miss Warren; In IV: Salway; V: Miss Warren

Dance: III: Scottish Dance-Smith, Mrs Ogden; V: Miss LaTour

444
13 September 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Sixty-Third Night. Receipts: #86 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 18 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 267 paid and 1 order; slips, 24 paid; first gallery, 199 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 170 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

445
18 September 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #23 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 16 paid and 6 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 71 paid and 11 orders; slips, 7 paid; first gallery, 91 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 53 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance:

446
01 October 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #37 19s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 40 paid and 10 orders; pit, 95 paid and 25 orders; slips, 9 paid; first gallery, 124 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 89 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau , their first since their arrival from Paris

447
12 November 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #21 7s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 22 paid and 16 orders; pit, 44 paid and 30 orders; first gallery, 55 paid and 16 orders; second gallery, 60 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris, Queen Of Scythia

448
09 December 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #22 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 paid and 14 orders; pit, 71 paid and 13 orders; slips, 11 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 61 paid; second gallery, 69 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Queen

449
07 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #21 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 9 orders; pit, 43 paid and 18 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 96 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 62 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

450
10 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Walker, Quin, Ryan, Milward, Chapman, ggden, Mrs Berriman, Mrs Buchanan; but edition of 1729 lists: Xerxes-Walker; Artaban-Chapman; Mardonius-Milward; Themistocles-Quin; Aristides-Ryan; Demaratus-Ogden; Artemisia-Mrs Berryman; Nesiptolema-Mrs Buchanan; Prologue-Quin; Epilogue-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Themistocles Actor: Quin