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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princes"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princes")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04
3659 results for: Keyword - Princes
We found 2597 matches on Roles/Actors, 876 matches on Event Comments, 703 matches on Performance Comments, 508 matches on Performance Title, and 402 matches on Author.

1
19 October 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Black Prince

2
12 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day; or, The Prince of Arragon

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Chorus and Dance (performers not listed)

Song: As17830613

3
03 May 1744 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captive Prince; Or, Love And Loyalty; With The Comical Humours Of Falstaff And Antient Pistol

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sclavonian

4
30 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud; Or, The Prince Of Persia

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

5
18 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Command of His Royal Highness. To which (By Command) will be added, The Coronation of Anna Bullen, with the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster-Hall, for the Entertainment of . . .the Prince of Orange, who accompanies his Royal Highness to the Play. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Song:

Dance:

6
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Sir Lubberly Lackbrains and His Man Blunderbuss

7
15 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

8
07 November 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Of France

9
05 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Tragedy Of The Civil Wars Between The Houses Of York And Lancaster In The Reign Of King Henry The Vith

10
13 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Boxes, not being equal to the great Demand for Places, by particular Desire, two Rowes of the Pit will be Rail'd into the Boxes; and two large Side-Boxes will be form'd on the Stage for the Accommodation of Ladies only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

11
07 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Macklin. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets at Macklin's, No. 12, Wild Court.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Les Caprices des Rebelles (new)-Mlle Maltere; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: La Rose Boree et Ziphirs (new)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

12
28 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

13
20 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

14
02 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17461124

15
28 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

16
02 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

17
26 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

18
22 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii, With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

19
07 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

20
09 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Provancalle, as17631014

21
29 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I, With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

22
10 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: In I: Masquerade-; Dance-Giorgi, Blurton, Mrs Sutton. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent perfomances.

Song: Mainpiece: with the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown, Carpenter, Follett, Chaplin, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Scott, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt

23
10 July 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

24
18 July 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

25
27 July 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother