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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.

2726
30 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). [Present] Prince of Wales & 7 More (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

2727
28 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [see 8 May 1753]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureate. [Lucy was played by Miss Sledge; see 4 Feb. 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady never in Paris

Dance: Poitier, Granier, Lucas, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard

2728
29 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Reprisal Publish'd at 1s. "as it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, printed for R. Baldwin, Paternoster Row. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance call'd The Millers- [no dancers specified]

2729
19 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Ladies are desired to send servants to keep places in the Boxes at Half an Hour after Three o'clock. This play will not (after this night) be perform'd till Saturday the 2nd of April, on account of the Actor's Benefits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

2730
20 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

2731
06 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Simsons. Tickets of Simson in Wild Passage, Wild St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; Grigsby's Coffee House behind the Royal Exchange, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where places may be taken. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Entertainment: A Cento on the Birth@day of Shakespeare , selected from his own Works, by particular Desire-Master Simson

Dance: LLouvre and Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

2732
05 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Decorations of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane are new finished and the House will certainly open on Saturday next, being the 10th instant. Places for the Boxes are to be had of Mr Varney at the Stage Door of the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2733
05 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Account Book: Present Prince and Princess of Wales, Lady Augusta, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Edward, Prince Frederick. [See also 25 Nov.] Receipts: #171 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V : With The conquest Of The French At Agincourtv

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Several New Entertainments-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

2734
25 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #52 18s. Gave the Prince of Wales's serv't [his usual fee] 10s. 6d. Receiv'd of the Prince of Wales by the hands of the Honorable the Earl of Bute, Groom of the Stole, #31 10s. [payment, perhaps, for the Royal Box the night of 5 Nov. and for other command performances this season.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

2735
28 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 'TTis reported that her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina is dangerously indisposed (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17571223

2736
29 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Night the Princess Carolina dy'd & this Morning about 8 we receiv'd an order from the Chamberlain not to play 'till farther orders,--we obey'd & order ye Bills posted for this Night, to be pull'd down (Cross). [The Fatal Marriage and The Male Coquette had been scheduled.] Yesterday about 11 o'clock died at her Apartments in St James's Palace, Princess Caroline Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of our most Gracious Sovereign. Her Royal Highness was in her 45th year of her age, being born on the 10th of June 1713, and has been in a bad state of health for several years past. Her burial, it is said, is by her own Desire to be very private (Public Advertiser)

Performances

2737
27 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder. By Desire. To begin at six. Tickets for boxes to be had of Lauder at the Rising Sun opposite Hungersford Market, Strand, at the Edinburgh Coffee House, near the Royal Exchange, and at the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: -FFroment, Mad Dulisse

Song: FavouriteScots Songs-Lauder

2738
09 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Marr, Berrisford, Gray, Brownsmith, Miss Hippisley. Tickets deliver'd for Richard III and The Mourning Bride, and by Spilsbury, Royal, Hawksly, Costin, and Mrs Smith will be taken. Receipts: #170. 11 people had tickets (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mossis

2739
06 July 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T$Theophilus Cibber opened the theatre this one night. Mainpiece, a Mock Tragedy by Joseph Reed. Afterpiece, anonymous.] Tickets to be had at the Swan, Westminster Bridge; Forest's Coffee House and Cannon Tavern, Charing Cross; the Tuns in the Borough, Southwark; the Rainbow Coffee House, near the Royal Exchange; and the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden. N.B. Tickets for the Author to be had at Mr Briscall's at Parliament-Street Coffee House; the Bedford Head, Southampton St.; Mr Wells at the Crown and W in Russel Court, Covent Garden; Mr Long's in Little Britain; the Union Coffee House in Cornhill; the White Lion in Talbot Court; and the Sun Tavern, Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico; or, The Mock Nabob

2740
12 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince of Wales and 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross). [Kemble's note in MacMillan suggests that Holland was ill so Garrick gave Moody 5 guineas to play Thyreus, actually his first appearance at dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

2741
22 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Sunday the 21st about 4 in the afternoon I receiv'd an order form the Duke of Devonshire [Ld. Chamberlain] to Shut up the House 'till farther Notice, -Fryday 26th about eleven in ye Morn[in]g I receiv'd an Order from my Lord to open on the Monday following (Cross). Theatre clos'd from 20 January 1759 on account of the death of the Princess Royal of England, Countess Dowager of Holland & Governant of the United Provinces & of the Miny of the Stadholder (Winston MS 8)

Performances

2742
09 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With new Additions and Alterations. Today is Publish'd Susanna, an Oratorio, with New Alterations and Additions; as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. J. & R. Tonson, in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Susanna

2743
14 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Today is Publish'd Price 1s. Samson: An oratorio, as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Printed for J. & R. Tonson in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

2744
18 January 1760 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Vocal-Signora Passerini, Miss Frederick, Hudson, Champness; Choruses-Singers from Choir in Chapel Royal and St Paul's.
Cast
Role: Choruses Actor: Singers from Choir in Chapel Royal and St Paul's.

Music: Instrumental: First violin-Passerini

2745
20 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser: In the afternoon died Mr Richard Cross, Prompter to the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, whose Abilities in his Station were equal to any in the Theatre, and whose Integrity would have done credit to any Profession

Performances

2746
03 September 1760 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dramatic Turtle

Performance Comment: Yates, from the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, will dress his Dramatic Turtle for the entertainment of the town. This most excellent dish will comprise the essence of every Theatrical Rarity. IN THE CALIPASH will be found the most extraordinary Adventures of Timur Koran; or, The Favourite of the Sun. The Love and Distress of the Princess Karansa; her confinement in the Brazen Tower; the Cruelty of the Emperor Albufazar her Father; Karanza's Trial and Condemnation; the Banishment of Timor Koran; the wicked Machinations of the Vizier, Prime Minister to Albufazar, the Procession of the Princess and Timur Koran to the Funeral Pile; their strange delivery from Death by the spirit Seraphel. IN THE CALIPEE will be the Eighth Wonder of the World; or, The Heroic Taylors, with the Humours of General Trinculo and his pleasant companion Humpkinn Buzz, the merry exploits and miraculous Adventures of Barnaby Bodkin, Tom Thimble, Ben Buckram, Nich. Canvas, all Gentlemen of the Light Horse. THE BLUE FAT AND FINNS will contain the various entertainments of Singing, with the Machinery and Decorations. The whole to be seasoned by the way of Chian Butter, with a most extraordinary band of music.

2747
25 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: BBritish Chronicle, 25 Sept.: Last Wednesday the King, Queen and Royal Family went to Covent Garden to see The Beggar's Opera with a [directive?] of the fitting up of the Box (Winston MS 9)

Performances

2748
02 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. [N.B. Winston MS 9, indicates from Rich's Register that Henry V was played this night by Royal Command. Playbill for 4 Dec. lends credence to this as it states Not Acted this season." For cast of Henry V see 18 Nov. TheAccount Book clinches the matter by listing Henry V with Dancing, and an indication that the Boxes this night held #70 5s., or some 281 people.] Present His Majesty and Attendance. House gave Yeomen of the Guards the usual gratuity of #1 1s. [Rich also paid that night #1 1s. for an Occasional Prologue for Henry V for 18 Nov. last, and #2 2s. for an occasional prologue to Thomas and Sally for 28 Nov. (Account Book).] Receipts: #210 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

2749
10 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #84 12s. 6d. Macklin's fifth part of surplus came to #30 14s. 9d. Paid Pattinson, Tallow Chandler #52 2s. Paid Coal Merchant in Full as per bill #71 13s. Paid Mr Rich #5 5s. to give to Miss Fielding for her performance in the part of Bertha in the Royal Merchant of the 7th Inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #216 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

2750
04 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Decayed Actors formerly belonging to the theatres royal. Last Night. Original articles between Garrick and Lacy expired (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Entertainment: F$Foote'sEpilogue to the Minor, as17610529