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7387 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in <span class=
We found 4446 matches on Event Comments, 3385 matches on Performance Comments, 508 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5151
16 November 1706 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing at this Theatre till after Lady-day next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: As17061030

Dance: As17061102

5152
28 November 1706 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last time of Acting there till Lady-Day next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17061102

5153
01 February 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Philip Perceval to Sir John Perceval, 1 Feb.: The opera of Camilla has been one of the chief diversions of the town this long time, and business is forgot. Next week we expect a new one, and soon after another. One goes by Mr Addison's name; I think they call it Fair Rosamond, the other is Mr Clayton's undertaking. Great things are expected of them both. (Egmont MS, II, 215.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

5154
10 June 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency the Muscovite Ambassador. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters Or Two Fools Well Met

5155
22 August 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last time of Acting till after the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

5156
01 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. Note, That Mr Dogget is to Play but Six Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

5157
01 May 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of performing any Opera till Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris Queen Of Scythia

Dance:

5158
11 June 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cory and Fairbank. At the Request of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

5159
10 July 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Which was Acted several Times At Court in the Reign of King Charles the 2d by People of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

5160
26 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: All the parts played as last time As17090219, but With a new Epilogue-Mr Cibber representing the Figure of Nobody.

5161
28 April 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings lately arriv'd from Northern America, being the last Time of their appearing at a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Brainless

5162
30 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of performing any Opera this Season, the Agreements with the Singers (for this Year) ending this day. [For a full account of this performance, see London in 1710, pp. 17-18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

5163
29 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens With The Humours of Alexander the Great

Song: Three select Entertainments in Italian-Mr Holcombe. Being the first time of his performance on that Stage

Performance Comment: Being the first time of his performance on that Stage.

5164
19 July 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bowen, who will be (in a most particular Manner) Honour'd that Night with the Presence of L'Madam Signiora Fount, Native de Barselona Di Cala Qualificatta, being the first time of her appearance in the English Theatre; and by reason the Queen's Box will be taken up by the Foreign Ministers, The Spanish Lady will be in one of the Stage-Boxes in the Habit of of her Country

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

5165
23 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman and Powell. Mainpiece: Written by the famous Authors Beaumont and Powell. Mainpiece: Written by the famous Authors Beaumont and Fletcher. Note, Tho' it be a Benefit Night, the Subscribers' Tickets will pass. It being Positively the last time of Acting at Greenwich this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Country Innocence Or The Maid In The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Entertainment: Care will be taken that there be a good Consort of Musick-; and several diverting Entertainments of Singing and Dancing-

5166
13 August 1711 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Being the last time of Acting there this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote

5167
31 August 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never acted there before. This being the last time of acting till Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves A Jest

5168
19 January 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Susanna Centlivre.] Never Acted before. [In the Preface the author discusses her difficulties with the Epilogue. The managers did not think it safe to speak the Epilogue without a License. As she could not get it approved in time, Norris spoke "six Lines Extempore" asking the audience to excuse the defect and promising one for the second night. The Spectators, convinced no Epilogue was intended, hissed. On the following day the Epilogue was licensed, but Mrs Oldfield, who had been intended to speak it, received letters against it; Norris then spoken an Epilogue which implied that the intended one had never been licensed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

5169
09 April 1712 @ Old Spring Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Italian Music-; wherein will be a Performance Signior Caval Valeriano Pellegrini, Virtuoso of S. A. Ser. Electoral Pallatino, it being the first time of his Singing since his Arrival in England

Performance Comment: A. Ser. Electoral Pallatino=, it being the first time of his Singing since his Arrival in England.

5170
21 May 1712 @ Mr Mayor's

Event Comment: Benefit Morphy. Tickets 5s. N.B. Several of the best Masters of the Opera doing Mr Morphy the favour to perform in his Consort, it will begin exactly at five, and end in time for Persons of Quality to go there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The best Masters; in which several Entertainments on the Silver string'd Harp on which he has had the Honour to play before the present Emperor and the King of Portugal-Mr Morphy

5171
04 June 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hercules

Performance Comment: Being the last time of Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi's performing on the English Stage.

5172
14 June 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 24 Nov. 1711. By reason of the Hot Weather, the Water Fallv will Play all the time. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

5173
10 December 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Niccola Haym. Apparently never printed.] Colman's Opera Register: A new Pastorall Opera called Dorinda. The musick of this is taken out of Severall Italian operas by Nico Haym. In this Sigra Margarita had no part. The other Singers the same as in the former [The Faithful Shepherd], the Same Scene & Habits also & the same prices. It was performed 4 times on the opera days successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

5174
10 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by N. F. Haym. Music by G. F. Handel.] Colman's Opera Register: Mr O. Swiny ye Manager of ye Theatre was now setting out a New Opera, Heroick. all ye Habits new & richer than ye former with 4 New Scenes, & other Decorations & Machines. Ye Tragick Opera was called Theseus. Ye Musick composed by Mr Handel....ye Opera being thus prepared Mr Swiny would have got a Subscription for Six times, but could not.--he then did give out Tickets at half a Guinea each, for two Nights ye Boxes lay'd open to ye Pit, ye House was very full these two Nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

5175
24 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Opera of Theseus composed by Mr Hendel will be represented in its Perfection, that is to say with all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines. The Performers are much concerned that they did not give the Nobility and Gentry all the Satisfaction they could have wished, when they represented it on Wednesday last, having been hindered by some unforeseen Accidents at that time insurmountable

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus