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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Their Sacred Majesties"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Their Sacred Majesties")') 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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1209 results for: Keyword - Their Sacred Majesties
We found 1082 matches on Event Comments, 105 matches on Performance Title, 54 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1051
28 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #281 8s. (274.8.6; 6.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: As17871029

1052
12 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid Yeomen of the Guard #2 2s., King & Queen's Servants #3 9s. Receipts: #290 6s. (280.3.6; 10.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871129

1053
02 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Wonder, advertised on playbill of 1 Jan.] Receipts: #262 9s. (237.9.0; 24.7.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Song: III: song-Williames

1054
16 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #339 (337.17; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

1055
23 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Mrs Abington in full for 19 Nights Performance #116 13s. Receipts: #317 6s. 6d. (313.16.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

1056
01 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The Heiress [advertised on playbill of 31 Jan.] is deferred till Monday next. [Afterpiece in place of Selima and Azor, advertised on playbill of 31 Jan. Prologue by James Cobb.] Receipts: #238 6s. 6d. (219.17.0; 18.7.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: End III: As17870920; End IV: a Scotch dance, The Lucky Return-Mills, Miss Blanchet, Miss J. Stageldoir

1057
05 February 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. A Comic Opera, composed by Paisiello; under the direction of Storace. Receipts: #386 6s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17880129

1058
14 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #315 15s. (304.2; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

1059
08 April 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #254 13s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17880403

1060
29 April 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #258 18s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: As17880422

1061
09 June 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [As 2nd and 3rd pieces the playbill announces, respectively, The Maid of the Oaks and The Farmer, but they were not acted. Their substitutes are listed in the Account-Book, and both are reviewed in Morning Chronicle, 10 June.] Account-Book, 13 June: Received [stage] Forfeits #42; 20 June: Received from Their Majesties for the Box #60, from the Princess Royal for the Box #30; 10 July: Paid Lewis for Management from Lady Day 1785 to Midsummer 1788 #650. Receipts: #147 19s. 6d. (141.18.6; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

1062
13 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

1063
11 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons (the last Night of her Engagement). [She had 1st acted Juliet at Birmingham, 6 Sept. 1776, and 1st recited the Ode, written by Robert Merry (European Magazine, Apr. 1789, pp. 335-38), at the King's on 21 Apr.] Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford Square. "The pouting Scene with the old Nurse was the cleverest thing I ever saw--so pretty, so Babyish, so charming" (Thraliana, II, 748). On this and every Evening for the Remainder of the Season the Doors will not be opened till 5:30, and the Performance will commence exactly at 6:30. Receipts: #320 6s. 6d. (112.12.0; 11.12.0; 1.7.6; tickets: 194.15.0) (charge: #112 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Miss Hagley, Miss _Collett

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on the Recovery of His Majesty-Mrs Siddons; in the Character of Britannia. Conclude with: God save the King!-

1064
12 May 1789 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Dance: End I: Admete-, as17890428; End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17890507

1065
28 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: End: Poor Jack!; or, the Sweet Little Cherub (written and composed by Dibdin)-Dignum; After: Glee on the Happy Recovery of His Majesty (the words by Col. Arabin)-Dignum, Sedgwick, Mrs Edwards, Miss Romanzini

1066
18 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre-and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #452 14s. 6d. (438.16.0; 13.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

1067
02 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre--and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #396 14s. 6d. (394.8.0; 2.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

1068
16 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent Confusion Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their Servants to keep Places by Half past Four o'Clock. God save the King was sung "by the performers and by the audience five times: twice on the entrance of the King and Queen, once after the Play, twice after the Farce" (World, 19 Dec.). And see 23 Apr. 1790. Account-Book: In the Pit of this Night 525 Persons, this is the greatest Number ever remembered to be in at any One Time. R. P. [i.e. Richard Peake, sub-treasurer]. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (279.13.0; 9.18.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

1069
13 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 11 Nov. 1784]. Receipts: #409 13s. 6d. (407.4.6; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

Song: In III: song-Duffey

1070
17 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #374 13s. (369.12; 5.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

1071
25 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #305 (288.5.0; 16.6.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

1072
01 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #326 16s. 6d. (318.6.6; 8.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17901123

1073
15 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #301 15s. 6d. (282.5.0; 17.18.6; 1.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1074
29 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #393 4s. (391.5; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

1075
20 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Earl of Essex, advertised on playbill of 19 Jan.] Receipts: #394 0s. 6d. (390.14.0; 3.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris