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5626 results for: Keyword - Theatres Royal London
We found 3936 matches on Event Comments, 1330 matches on Performance Title, 826 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

2376
24 November 1778 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avaro Deluso

Dance: With new Dances composed by Simonet. End II: La Noche Hollandoise-Banti, Zuchelli, Slingsby, Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tinti; End Opera: a new grand Serious Ballet, Les Nymphes de Diane; ou, L'Amour Faune-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti

Ballet: End I: new Pantomime Ballet Annette et Lubin. Bailly-LeDet; Sig. du Village-Simonet; Lubin-Slingsby; Annette-Mme Simonet; unassigned-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli

2377
29 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Dance: As17860706

2378
27 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890310End Opera: L'Embarquement pour Cythere, as17890110, but Mlle _Normand

2379
12 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: End I: La Bergere des Alpes, as17900525; End Opera: Les Mariages Flamands, as17900227

2380
17 February 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: End I: Divertisement by D'Auberval-

Ballet: End II: an entire new Pantomime Ballet, in I act, composed by D'Auberval, Amphion et Thalie; ou, L'Eleve des Muses. Principal dancers-[Didelot, Duquesney, Vigano, Fialon, Duchesne, Rousseau, Boisgirard, St.Aumer, Schweitzer, [Mme Didelot, Mme Vigano, Mlle Theodore, [Mlle Gervaise Troche, Mlle Deligny, [Mlle L. Simonet, Mlle R. Simonet, Mlle Puisieux, [Mlle Bithmer Cadette, Mlle Bithmer, Mlle Rousseau, Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand; [Cast from synopsis (H. Reynell [1791]:) Amphion (eleve des Muses)-Didelot; Bergers de la Phocide-Duquesney, Vigano; Thalie (Muse de la Comedie)-Mme Theodore D'Auberval; Jeune Nymphe de la Phocide (eleve de Terpsichore)-Mlle Gervaise Troche; Terpsichore (Muse de la Danse)-Mlle Leonore Simonet; Jeune Nymphe (favorite de Thalie)-Mlle Rosine Simonet; Melpomene (Muse de la Tragedie)-Mme Didelot; Clio (Muse de L'Histoire)-Mlle Augustine Bithmer; Erato (Muse de la Poesie Lyrique)-Mlle Bithmer; Euterpe (Muse de la Musique)-Mlle Rousseau; Uranie (Muse de l'Astronomie)-Mlle Jacobs; Calliope (Muse de l'Eloquence)-Mlle Birt; Polimnie (Muse de la Rhetorique)-Mlle Watson; Nymphes a la suite des Muses-Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand, Mlle Berry, Mlle Bougier; Suite d'Amphion-Mme Fialon, Mme Duchesne, Mme Simonet, Mme Menage; Habitants de la Phocide-Mme Boisgirard, Mme Rousseau, Mme Omer, Mme Schweitzer

2381
22 September 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

2382
21 December 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard; or, The Flight of Harlequin

Dance: see17920111

2383
04 February 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: THE MARINERS

2384
06 December 1794 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amore Contrastato; Or, La Molinarella

Dance: End I: a Divertisement-Mme Hilligsberg, others; End II: [a grand Heroic Pantomime Ballet composed by Onorati Giustino I Imperatore dei Romani [; or, Il Trionfo dell' Amore e dell' Amicizia-D'Egville, Gentili, Aumer, Mme Ferlotti [Rinaldi], Mlle Rosine, Mme DelCaro, Mme Hilligsberg

2385
29 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

2386
08 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: As17960927

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Poetical Address-Wroughton

2387
24 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In course of Evening: Love thou maddening Power-Mrs Trevor; Old Towler-Incledon

2388
13 September 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The death of the Duke of Gloucester on this day apparently closed the theatres for a short time. Andrew Newport, writing on 15 Sept. 1660 to Sir Richard Leveson, stated: The court is in deep mourning and will continue so for 6 weeks (Sutherland MSS., HMC, 5th Report, Appendix, 1876, p. 156), but it is not until 27 Sept. 1660 that Rugg reported: playes are for present forbiden because of the death of the Duke of Gloucester (BM Add. Mss. 10116, folio 90v). The theatres may have opened on Monday 8 Oct. 1660; certainly they were acting by 11 Oct. 1660

Performances

2389
28 June 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

2390
08 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Puppets

2391
23 February 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wild Gallant

2392
March 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Kingdom

2393
05 June 1665 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The dangerous increase in the plague resulted in a proclamation closing the theatres. L. C. 5@138, p. 417 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 299n): Whereas it is thought dangerous that soe greate resort of People should be permitted at yor Theatre in this tyme of Infection of the Plague These are therefore to require you that you forbeare Acting any more Playes vntill you shall receive further Order from mee

Performances

2394
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

2395
16 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

2396
24 April 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The General

2397
01 April 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: An order of the Lord Chamberlain (5@12, p. 202) dated 1 April 1671, states that the theatres are to be closed because of the death of the Duchess of York on 31 March 1671. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322. It is uncertain how long the theatres were closed, but probably the closure extended for six weeks

Performances

2398
09 January 1672 @ no theater listed

Performances

2399
26 February 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

2400
December 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco