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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princess Amelia"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princess Amelia")') 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

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1087 results for: Keyword - Princess Amelia
We found 781 matches on Event Comments, 174 matches on Performance Title, 153 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
17 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Present the King and Princess Amelia (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #72 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

152
13 January 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Present the King, Duke and Princess Amelia. Paid Hancks a bill for coals expended at Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre while the soldiers kept guard there...#22 18s. Receipts: #173 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

153
14 January 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Present the King, The Duke and Princess Amelia. Paid Mrs Campioni for 16 day's salary at #3 10s. per week #9 5s. 8d. Receipts: #99 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: As17461231

154
27 January 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command. Present The King, The Duke, The Princess Amelia. Paid Quin on Acct. #42. Receipts: #184 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

155
17 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King and The Princess Amelia. Rec'd by overcharge in Woodfall's Bills Jan. 14: 5s. and 17 days at 1s. per day of Miss in Her Teens: #1 2s. Receipts: #188 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

156
17 December 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HHis Majesty, and Princess Amelia, were at the theatre...to see Orazio, a Comic Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orazio

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

157
10 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Neale (a good Actor) Dy'd--buried at Brumpton (Cross). Gave a Xmas Box to Princess Amelia's servts #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #127 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

158
14 February 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Majesty. Present the King, the Duke, and Princess Amelia. Receipts: #193

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

159
28 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Nicolina Giordani [By Command of] the Duke and Princess Amelia (Cross). The Manager of Covent Garden being under a necessity of interrupting the run of the new Tragedy of Philoclea by a Command, and a Benefit for Sga Nicolina Giordini (which was settled before the coming out of that play) has been so obliging as to give the Author the choice of a day for his second benefit; and many of his friends having taken places for Tuesday, as that would have been his sixth night in course, the Author, lest they should be disappointed, has chosen Tuesday for his second benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

160
01 November 1786 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Lord Chamberlain sent an order, between four and five in the evening, to the two theatres to cease representing any plays, till after the funeral of the late Princess Amelia [daughter of George II; she died on 31 Oct.] (Morning Chronicle, 2 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

161
20 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Arne

162
22 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Arne

163
23 December 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Cecilia Young.

164
05 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. Neville MS Diary: Both theatres opened again with The English Merchant. Went into the Pit of cg. Shuter did Freeport pretty well, but had not that appearance of blunt honesty which Yates has in that character....I like Miss Pope better in Molly than Mrs Mattocks. Mrs Goodman by Mrs Ward, who is a very different figure now from what she was some years ago. Her daughter did Amelia pretty well, but has a stiffiness and an indifferent voice. End Act III, The Irish Lilt-The celebrated dancer Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. Entertainment Harlequin Dr Faustus. I hope this emulation between the 2 Houses will cause exertion. Receipts: #146 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Freeport-Shuter; Spatter-Woodward; Lord Falbridge-Bensley; Owen-Gibson; La France-Quick; Sir Wm. Douglas-Powell; 1st time; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Ward; Molly-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Alton-Mrs Bellamy; Amelia-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

165
28 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

166
09 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: III: The Provenzales, as17680301

167
16 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Hunt

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

168
15 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

169
29 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

170
17 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

171
21 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

172
24 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

173
25 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

174
07 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bridges, Cross, Burton, and Vaughan's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, Southwark, (with a company from the theatres) during the short time of the Fair will be presented an Historical Drama (lately acted in Bartholemew Fair with universal applause) the Northern Heroes with the Loves of Count Gillensternia, a Swedish General, and the fair Ellimira a Russian Princess, containing the most remarkable events of that time; and concluding with the memorable battle of Putlowav, and Charles's retreat into the Turkish dominionsv. Interspersed with a comic interlude, The Volunteers. Also the comical humours and amours of Corporal Garbage and Serjeant Slim, with Mrs Vanspriggen the Swedish Sutler's widow, the merry pranks of her foolish son Janny, and several other diverting incidents. As the Fair will be of so short continuance, we shall begin very early each day (General Advertiser). [See 24 Aug. 1748, bf]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Northern Heroes; Or, The Bloody Contest Between Charles The Twelfth, King Of Sweden, And Peter The Great, Czar Of Muscovy

Performance Comment: Charles XII-Usher; Prince of Wurtemburg-Jackson; Count Gillensternia-Hazard; Count Piper-Thomson; Mazeppa-Reid; Czar-Burton; Prince Dolguruki-Paget; Prince Menzikoif-Jones; Iwan-Shawford; Princess Ellimira-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Princess Ellimira Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers; or, The Adventures of Roderick Random and His Friend Strap

Dance: Particularly a Hornpipe-

175
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Interspers'd with the Comical Humours of the Nurse to the Princess Miriam, and her foolish son Zekel, as likewise the Humourous Scene between Captain Bluster, his Man Didymo, and the Witches. [Jeptha-Morrel, instead of Jeptha-$Carr, according to the Daily Advertiser.] To begin each day at Twelve o'clock, during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrific'd

Performance Comment: Jeptha-Carr; Elen-Clark; Jethro-Jones; Toby-Coleman; Zekel-Malone; Didymo-Allen; High Priest-Grimwood; Capt. Bluster-Warner; Nurse-Mrs Smith; Princess Miriam-Mrs Grimwood.
Cast
Role: Princess Miriam Actor: Mrs Grimwood.

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since