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We found 1227 matches on Event Comments, 689 matches on Performance Title, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands MS.: Garrick Play'd, Duke Attended. Died 31 July, aged 77, Ben Johnson (Winston MS. from Burney's Actors MSS). [See benefit for his daughter 15 Dec.] Receipts: #171

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: The Mechels

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Music: I: a Concerto-Veracini

Song: III: Happy Pair-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17420921; V: Peasant Dance, as17420921

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; La Provencale-Picq; Dancing-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Wright, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Maudet

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Dance: I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: IV: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Louise. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: Concerto-Piantinada

Dance: IV: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: As17421026

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Gentleman Usher Actor: Neale

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421122

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Musette-Picq, Sga Domitilla; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Dance: I: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201; III: La Recrue des Houssars, as17421211

Event Comment: BY Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. New Habits and decorations for the dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Archer Actor: Garrick, 1st time
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Ridout

Dance: II: a New Comic Dance call'd Neopolitan Punch-Checo Torinese, Sga Chiaretta Aquilanti, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval; IV: A New Comic Dance call'd Italian Gardeners-Checo, Chiaretta

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Carolina, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Song: As17430103

Music: III: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II, IV: Lowe

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421105; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants, as17421230

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre. Send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion Queens

Performance Comment: Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs Horton; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Porter (being the last time of her appearing on this stage); No others listed. No others listed.

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman in Distress, and by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Archer Actor: Garrick, 1st time
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17430120

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. To prevent any imposition on the publick by counterfeit tickets, which are so frequently sold at the doors, no tickets so bought will be admitted into the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17430305 Characters of Dancing, as17421108; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, will then be form'd into an Amphitheatre. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her house in Great Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Cross
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: It is Humbly desir'd that Ladies who have taken Places, will please to send for their Tickets to Mrs Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Salt's, at Henrietta St., Covent Garden. Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage formed into an amphitheatre, and to prevent the ladies's catching cold ciel'd after the manner of the Oratorios. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Beard...Tickets and Places to be had at Beard's lodgings on the North Side of Red Lyon Square. Those Ladies who have already taken places, are humbly requested to send for Tickets. Tickets and places also to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Neopolitan Punch, as17430324

Song: III: Stella and Flaviaa Ballad-Beard