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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: The Court of Alexander Author(s): John A. Fisher
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King, Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Prince By Enchantment With His Comical Cavalcade And Taken Up In The Air By Daemons Or The Loves Of Pantalon And Argentine His Imprisonment And Condemnation To The Gallies

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia Or The Magician Doctor With Harlequin King Of The Woods Flights Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin Cupid Pantalon Venus And Brighella Jupiter And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Yeats. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A Masque in Two Interludes. Receipts: #76 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 74 paid and 17 by orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 218 paid and 20 by orders; slips, 11 paid and 14 by orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 7 by orders; second gallery, 101 paid. The Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: Dancing proper to the Masque-Nivelon, Salle, DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This being the first Time of Acting on Account of Subscriptions, the General Tickets will be sent to the Subscribers. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Most Knowing Least Understanding Or Harlequins Metamorphosis Viz

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant Marriage Concluding with The Singing Deities

Dance: Dancing and other Decorations proper to the Play , entirely new and diverting-

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dianas Madness Or Fatime A Favourite Slave In The Seraglio Mad For Love And Crownd Empress By The Grand Signior With Pantlon And Harlequin Eunuchs Elected Kaimcan And Ciguir The One Impaled And The Other Sawed Asunder The Bashas Selim And Achmet Ript Open Rabca Strangled And Chistar Beheaded

Entertainment: Carneval-after the Venetian Manner; Dancing-Masqueraders in divers Characters, Madmen, Turks Men and Women being the Invention of Mr Poictiers

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King and Prince Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pantalon A Broker Broken Merchant And Desperately In Love Harlequin His Shopkeeper With A Ridotto After The Venetian Manner Songs And A Serenata In A Venetian Gondola

Entertainment: As17261105

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. With Flyings, Apparitions, &c. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argentina A Magician Disguised Serving Diana Transformed Into A Gipsie Armenian Footman Fiend Lady And Counsellour

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercante Prodigo Or Harlequin A Prodigal Merchant Persecuted By Silvio Basilisk Of Bernagasso

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta Or Brighellas Revenge Thwarted By Argentina With Divers Transformations Of Harlequin Viz

Performance Comment: Physician, Musick-Master, Madam Pantaska, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Cyant and Grand Bashaw, Together with the Comical Egress and Regress from and to the Twon. Edition of 1726 lists no cast.

Dance: Turkish Men and Women, being the Invention of Mr Poitier

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Disgrazie Darlechino Viz

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparenyly not published.] By Reason of the Length of the Entertainment...the Savage is...to be Acted with it; and, for Brevity, will be presented without Prologue or Epilogue. Receipts: #198 7s. 6d. Benefit J. Rich. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 516 paid and 6 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 400 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Savage

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: A few days before 7 June the Drury Lane comedians presented Tamerlane at the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborugh's House in St. James's. See St. James's Evening Post, 10 June

Performances

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Present: King and Queen. [In Daily Post, 27 Sept., Macbeth had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Aimwell-Mills; Arcner-Wilks; Sullen-Harper; Foigard-Miller; Bonniface-Shepard; Scrub-Norris; Gibbet-Oates; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Oldfield; Dorinda-Mrs Porter; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Moore; Cherry-Mrs Mills.
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Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Mills.
Event Comment: TThe King and Queen present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First King Of England

Event Comment: His Royal Highness the Duke present. Mainpiece: By Terence. Afterpiece: Imitated from the Phormio by Moliere, and translated into English by Mr Otway, with some Alterations; acted by the younger King's Scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text by Haym.] The King, Queen, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 14s. 6d. King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present. Probable attendance: boxes, 228 paid and 28 orders; stage, 11 paid and 1 order; pit, 302 paid and 1 order; slips, 43 paid and 24 orders; first gallery, 443 paid; second gallery, 199 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Carolina, and Princess Royal present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Carolina present. (Delany, Autobiography, I, 165-66): Operas are somewhat mended within this fortnight; they are much fuller than they have been any time this Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy