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1955 results for: Keyword - Tower of London
We found 877 matches on Event Comments, 766 matches on Performance Title, 432 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1951
17 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Beaumont is identified in London Chronicle, 18 Mar.] Receipts: #185 6s. 6d. (182.9.0; 2.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

1952
28 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [By Franz Joseph Haydn; 1st time in London. 1st performed privately in Vienna, 29 Apr. 1798, and in public at the Vienna National Theatre, 19 Mar. 1799.] "Although not equal in grandeur to the divine compositions of the immortal Handel, [it] is, nevertheless, on the whole, a very charming production" (Morning Herald, 29 Mar.). [And see Ashley's note on 2 Apr.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Creation; The Messiah; Grand Selection 0

1953
12 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Under the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Clarence, Duke of Cumberland, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York [and] the Duchess of Devonshire and the Duchess of Gordon. Benefit for O'Keeffe, the Unfortunate Author of the following successful Dramatic Pieces: The Son in Law, Agreeable Surprise, Peeping Tom, Dead Alive, Young Quaker, Life's Vagaries, Castle of Andalusia, Czar, Tony Lumpkin in Town, Poor Soldier, Modern Antiques, Basket Maker, Wild Oats, Wicklow Mountains, French Grenadier [never acted], Positive Man, Love in a Camp, Tantara Rara Rogues all, Beggar on Horseback, Toy, London Hermit, Highland Reel, Blacksmith of Antwerp, Man Milliner, Irish Mimic, Little Hunchback, World in a Village, Fontainbleau, Magic Banner, Farmer, Doldrum, Sprigs of Laurel, Birth Day, Prisoner at Large, &c. &c. Tickets delivered for The Belle's Stratagem will be admitted. [O'Keeffe is referred to as being unfortunate because he was totally blind. In delivering his Poetical Composition, which is printed in Dramatic Censor, II, 265-67, the Monthly Mirror, June 1800, p. 367, reports that he was led on and off the stage by Lewis. It also notes that "Mrs Jordan...came from Drury-Lane, where she had performed the Child of Nature, to officiate at Covent-Garden as the handmaid of charity."] The Last Night of the Company's performing this season. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Song: In Course Evening: The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End II: personal address to the Audience in a Poetical Composition-O'Keeffe (written by Himself for the Occasion); End: Imitations-Rees

1954
17 June 1800 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: A New Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed at Venice, 1794]); the Music by Portogallo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Due Svizzeri

Afterpiece Title: Il Principe Spazzacamino

Dance: End: Le Mariage Mexicain, as18000225; End 2nd piece: Telemaque- [see18000619 and 18000621

1955
03 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st two pieces in place of The London Hermit, advertised on playbill of 2 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis All A Farce

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Afterpiece Title: Obi