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1104 results for: Keyword - Their Majesties
We found 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

751
28 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 9s. (281.1; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End III: The Garden of Love-Dagueville, Sga Tinte; End IV: a new Dance, The Cricketters-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Nichols, Miss Valois

752
11 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #255 17s. (239.17.0; 15.15.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End III: As17780128

753
18 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #253 2s. (251.12.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End III: As17771222

754
25 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 10s. (264.17.0; 8.6.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17771014

755
06 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season. Mrs Farrell's cantata is identified in London Chronicle, 9 Mar.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode

Song: Between: As there are very few songs in Acis and Galatea that can be adapted for Mrs Farrell's voice, she will sing a cantata The rosy morn with crimson dye=-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Part I: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-probably Linley Jun

756
09 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 11s. (280.11.6; 1.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: a new dance, All in the Downs or Farewell to Deal-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

757
13 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso; Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems; Acis and Galatea

Music: End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17780306

758
20 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Acis And Galatea

Music: As17780311

759
27 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Song: Between acts oratorio: Verdi Rale [i.e. Prati] (a favourite song of Handel's)-Mrs Farrell

Music: As17780306

760
03 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast; Joshua; Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: St

Music: As17780306

761
10 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 22 Apr.: Received from Stanley & Co. Oratorio Acct. #334 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17780306

762
11 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Scipione

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17780207; End II: La Serenade Interrompuee, as17780224; End Opera: Les Amans unis par l'Hymen, as17780404

763
13 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #247 14s. 6d. [234.15.0; 12.11.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508; End IV: Rural Grace, as17780113

764
25 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 26 May: Received of Their Majesties for this season #40. Receipts: #183 13s. (after-money not listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

765
10 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by Horace Walpole. Text 1st Published in Walpole's Works, vol. II (G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17780518

766
24 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

767
11 September 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17780624

768
24 November 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The music entirely new by Sacchini. With entire new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command, no person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [see 5 June 1779]. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages they are respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-mall. The door in Market Lane for Chairs only. Public Advertiser, 31 Oct.: To prevent mistakes Ladies who have not honoured the Director with the names of the Subscribers to their Boxes are particularly requested to send them as early as possible to Johnson, at the Office of the Theatre, in order to [permit] their Tickets being engraved. The Renters' Shares proposed to be granted on this Theatre are now made out, and particulars prepared, at Messrs Wallis and Parker's, Norfolk-street, Strand, who are impowered by the Proprietors to dispose in single Shares of those which remain unsubscribed for. The annual Subscriptions are receiving by Johnson at the Office of the Theatre in Union-court, Haymarket

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

769
27 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: End I: The Embarkment for Cytherea, as17781125, but Master _Dagueville, Langrish; End: +The Villagers-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Valois

770
12 December 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17781128

Ballet: Annette et Lubin. As17781128

771
11 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, announced on playbill of 9 Jan.] Paid Brady, house barber for Wigs #10 10s. Receipts: #285 5s. (284.9; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Dance: End I: The Coopers, as17781211

772
09 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Villagers, as17781127

773
20 April 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira E Azore

Dance: As17790302

774
23 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #243 7s. 6d. (229.16.0; 11.8.0; 2.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17790417

775
30 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The Double Deception [announced on playbill of 29 Apr.], on account of the Benefits, is obliged to be deferred till Thursday next. Receipts: #240 2s. (222.9.0; 17.9.6; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

Song: As17781006