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2395 results for: Keyword - his R. Highnesses
We found 1743 matches on Performance Comments, 833 matches on Event Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

476
27 September 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

477
04 October 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

478
16 October 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

479
09 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

480
24 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17561023

481
27 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [K+King Richard III.] Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv, the artful acqusition of the crown by Richardv; the cruel murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv, and the Death of Richard in the Memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv; being the last that was fought between the Houses of Yorkv and Lancasterv; with many other historical passages

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561217

482
19 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover Or The Banishd Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: As17561217

483
31 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17570103

484
30 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Poitier, Mlle Capdeville, unspecified

485
04 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo and Ballard (Treasurer). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets sold at the doors will not be taken. [See T. Wilkinson Memoirs, I, 117-19 on Mrs Woffington's illness and inability to play Gertrude.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Poitier; V: The Lamplighters, as17570429

486
27 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Morgan, the Oldest Actor in England. Last time of the company's performing this season. Tickets to be had at the Bedford Coffee House and of Mr Crudge at the Stage Door. [This charitable performance included a composite group from Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: As17561117, but Young Rakish-Cross; Friendly-Walker; Tom-R. Smith; Benedict-Stoppelaer; Lettice-Miss Helme; Major Rackish-Morgan,his 1st appearance here these 10 years.
Cast
Role: Major Rackish Actor: Morgan,his 1st appearance here these 10 years.

Dance: I: Country Lass, as17570512; II: Dutch Sailor, as17570525; III: Dutch Peasant, as17570512

487
21 September 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. Advanced to Guerin on his salary #50 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

488
28 September 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Afterpiece Title: A Lover His Own Rival

489
05 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

490
08 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

491
19 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: As any obstruction in the Movements of the Machinery will greatly prejudice the Performance of the Entertainment, it is hop'd no persons will be displeased at their being refused admittance behind the scenes. [This notice occurs regularly this season with this afterpiece.] Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. Expended for 12 months' subscription to St George's Hospital #5 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

492
21 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

493
22 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

494
09 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #115 4s. 6d. Special charge: Candles, including the additional Lamps put up this season on the stage, officers, etc., #4 4s., and Lamps charged last season 36 nights at 13s. 6d. per night, #24 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

495
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv ; the Artful Acquisition of the Crown by Richardv ; the Cruel Murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv ; and the Death of Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv ; being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancasterv ; with many other historical passages [a regular notice appearing with performances of this play]. Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. [Paid to] Lee one third of the surplus of this night's receipts over the charge of #100, #3 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

496
07 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

497
11 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

498
26 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day is Publish'd: The Author, a Comedy of two Acts, by Foote. Price 1s. Printed for R. Francklin, Russell St., Drury Lane. Creusa Queen of Athens, a Tragedy, by Wm. Whitehead, Price 1s. 6d. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

499
03 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 Years. [See 27 Dec. 1746.] Benefit for Shuter. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. Tickets #150 13s. (boxes 272; pit 551). Charges: #63 (Account Book), [#325 9s. 6d. marks the largest house in money value this season. Shuter advertised his benefit early, then on 28 March inserted this puff in the Public Advertiser: [Mrs Centlivre's Comedies have a vein of pleasantry in them that will always be relish'd. She knew the Genius of this nation, and she wrote up to the spirit of it; her Bold Stroke for a Wife, was a masterpiece that much increased her reputation: it establish'd that of Kit Bullock, a smart sprightly actor. His performance of Col. Feignwell was greatly applauded. Shuter has judiciously chosen to play to at his own benefit, and everyone that knows his powers, knows he will play it at least with drollery and justice equal to him."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, as17571013

Entertainment: (BBy Desire,) End of Play: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter; (By Desire,) End of Farce: Cries of London-Shuter

500
14 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: Judgment of Paris. As17580413 Paris-Gallini; Mercury-Leppie; Juno-Miss Viviez; Pallas-Mrs Granier; Venus-Mlle Capdeville; Sicilian Peasants-Gallini, Hilliard; Shepherdess-Miss Valois