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4695 results for: Keyword - Several
We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

4226
15 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Will be perform'd several new exercises of Rope Dancing and Tumbling, by M. Duge, Vangable and others, divided into two Parts. Boxes [as 26 Dec. 1744]. Between the two Parts of the Exercises will be given gratis the Tempest as alter'd by Mr Dryden and Sir William Davenant from Shakespear. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

4227
17 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Turbutt and Neale. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: not acted these 5 years. [See 29 March 1742.] Tickets and places to be had at the Swan in Smithfield; and of Hobson at the stage door. The severe Indisposition of Mr Garrick continuing, we hope our friends will accept of his part being perform'd to the Best Advantage the shortness of time will permit, which we imagine will be more agreable than changing the play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Song: I: Nanny O-Lowe; III: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Sga Bettini; V: Muilment

4228
17 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Benefit Paget. Tickets given for Comus taken this day, Several Gentlemen desiring to see him as Falstaff. [Originally scheduled for 4 April were Comus and a new Farce The Biter Bit; or, Vintner in the Suds.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Miller of Mansfield

4229
23 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. Mainpiece not acted this season. By particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets of LaLauze, at Widow Gwinn's, near the Castle Tavern in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Cooke, Sga Campioni; IV: La Gondalier-Cooke; V: Minuet-LaLauze, Sga Campioni; followed by a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-a Boy (scholar to LaLauze), Sga Campioni

4230
24 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. At the particular Desire of several persons of quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: II: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq; IV: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Song: I: By Desire a Song call'd Old England Forever-; with a chorus-; III: The Miser's Passport-

4231
26 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Ladies send their servants by four o'clock. Tickets of Cashell at Mr Elwood's, Staymaker, in Hunt's Court, St. Martin's Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17450423 IV: Le Gondalier-Cooke

Song: Between Play and Farce: the celebrated song Ellen/a/Roon-Mrs Clive

4232
27 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: II: Go Rose my Chloe's Bosom Grace-Roberts; V: War he sung is Toil and Trouble (in Alexander's Feast)-Roberts

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17450423

4233
06 May 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: A Pantomime Entertainment, never perform'd there before...with several Alterations and Additions. 7 p.m. No latter account will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Necromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus

4234
03 September 1745 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Rayner. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bacchus And Circe

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It; or, Harlequin's Whim

Dance: Miss Rayner

4235
07 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece at the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: III: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

4236
12 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17451109

4237
13 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: III: Muilment

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

4238
16 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate. At the desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4239
22 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Katherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; The Christening of Queen Elizabethv; With many other Historical passages. Not acted in 6 years [but see 24 April 1742]. At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

4240
04 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

4241
04 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4242
07 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203

4243
21 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Yesterday Mr Rich paid into the Chamberlain's Office at Guildhall, the sum of #602 7s. to the Veteran's scheme, being the three night's receipts arising from the Beggar's Opera, performed at cg: And he thinks it incumbent on him in justice to the several persons interested in the Said theatre, to declare, that when the above scheme was by him proposed, they all most generously subscrib'd their demands for these three nights in order to enlarge the sums to be rais'd for the above purpose.-General Advertiser. [The Gentlemen's Magazine, Dec. 1745, states the idea of this gift was proposed by Mrs Cibber, and that the tallow chandlers also gave the candles.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4244
28 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson. At the particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4245
02 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Long letter on operas in Daily Advertiser.] Barrington acted the part of Teague, in which he introduced several humorous Irish songs; which were received with universal applause, he being allowed by the whole audience to be the most complete Teague that ever appeared on the stage.--General Advertiser, 3 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: II, III: Lowe

4246
04 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4247
10 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: As17460108

4248
14 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

4249
24 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: By Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: Miss Vaux

Dance: The three Graniers; Hornpipe-Banberry

4250
27 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist