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4800 results for: Keyword - his Royal Highness's Birth-Day
We found 3161 matches on Event Comments, 1224 matches on Performance Title, 637 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2576
19 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

2577
27 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

2578
27 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Company being oblig'd, by Particular Desire, to get up the Play of All's Well that Ends Well, Written by Shakespear, by Wednesday next (and being employed in reviving several other Plays) are under a Necessity of deferring acting till then

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2579
03 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

2580
14 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

2581
18 February 1743 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. By Permission. Benefit Laguerre and Boaman. By a Company from the Theatres-Royal, for their Diversion, a Concert...gratis, etc. Boxes 3s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Daily Advertiser lists Miss Hippisley for Miss Prue in mainpiece and for Kitty in afterpiece, and Mrs Yates for Melissa. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser bill Mrs Dunstall doubles two roles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2582
01 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17430120

2583
07 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

2584
08 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

2585
14 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

2586
22 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

2587
23 March 1743 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cole, who lately belong's to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. A Concert, etc. Prices 4s., 2s. 6d. Tickets at the Peacock, opposite Exeter Exchange in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners (after the Manner of the Fausans)-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; The Medley a Joke-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

2588
30 March 1743 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. [Concert formula.] Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. Boxes and Stage 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. By the Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, & who perform gratis. To begin positively at Six and conclude about Nine. By Permission

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: Solo on German Flute-Mr Thumoth

2589
02 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To the Publick: Ladies and Gentleman, The Play of Othello, with Dancing by Cooke, Picq, Delamain, and Les Damoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti, &c., being to be acted for my benefit on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; and having accidentally heard that a certain person being possess'd of a great quantity of my tickets, has some thoughts of getting them up to a considerable premium, I out of meer Friendship, not at all with regard to my own interest (if you'll believe me) do privately and secretly, in this public manner, advise you, to send away to my house, the corner of Bow St. near the said theatre, where I will oblige you with what number of tickets you please, at Par, to within an Hour of the Play's beginning. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and humble servant, Tho. Chapman

Performances

2590
06 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

2591
06 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

2592
12 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Song: As17430120

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: IV: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

2593
19 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. We hear Mrs Clive, by Desire, and in imitation of the late celebrated Mrs Verbruggen, who perform'd the Part of Bayes in the Rehearsal, is to appear in that character at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for the benefit of her brother. (Daily Advertiser) Note. Tickets deliver'd out for the Benefit of a Gentleman under Misfortunes, for Friday the 22nd instant for the Play As You Like It will be taken on Thursday next the 21st to the Comedy call'd The Alchemist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

2594
26 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Princess Augusta. Mainpiece a Farce of three Acts. Afterpiece also by command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

2595
03 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: As17430413

Dance: III: La Florana, as17430408

2596
13 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: As17430413

Dance: III: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129

2597
03 June 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Stevens, Waters, Brook, Hussey. As we could not have our Benefit on Saturday Last, the Company are so kind to pay for us at us at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields; we humbly hope that our friends will excuse the Disappointment (it not being in our power to avoid it) and favour us on Friday, 3 June, when tickets deliver'd out for the 28th of May for Drury-Lane will be taken this night at Lincolns Inn Fields..-London Daily Post and General Advertiser. This was not acted at dl. Fleetwood refused and they acted at lif, Friday 3 June. Yates, Taswell, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Hale of cg and Havard Played. N.B. there was an execution on dl at the time.-Winston MS. from Dyer MS

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Macklin; Sir George-Mills; Sir Francis-Taswell; Sir Jealous-Turbutt; Charles-Havard; Butler-Wright; Isabinda-Mrs Ridout; Scentwell-Mrs Horsington; Whisper-Woodburn; Patch-Mrs Macklin; Miranda-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: Woodburn

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Beard, Lowe

2598
13 July 1743 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: We hear his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has fitted up a Theatre near Cliefden, for a Company of French Comedians, who play there three times a week (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

2599
03 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont

2600
11 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet