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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.

3401
14 April 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Joseph Addison.] Never Acted before. G. Berkeley to Sir John Percival, 16 April: On Tuesday last...Cato was acted the first time. I am informed the front boxes were all bespoke for nine days, a fortnight before the play was acted. I was present with Mr Addison, and two or three more friends in a side box, where we had a table and two or three flasks of burgundy and champagne, with which the author (who is a very sober man) thought it necessary to support his spirits in the concern he was then under, and indeed it was a pleasant refreshment to us all between the acts....The actors were at the expence of new habits, which were very magnificent. (Rand, p. 113. See also Victor, II, 29-31, and Cibber, I, 122-23, II, 127-33)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

3402
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

3403
12 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for The Adventures of Five Hours taken this day. Receipts: #72 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: As17150125

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock

3404
17 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Tickets for Philaster taken this day. Receipts: #58 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

3405
03 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rawlins and Cook. Tickets for The Amorous Widow taken this Day. Receipts: #66 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: Dialogue between a Drunken Smith and his Wife-Cook, Newberry; Trumpet Song-Rawlins never perform'd on that Stage before; Two/Part Song-The Two Boys never perform'd but once before

Dance: As17150512; Also Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

3406
21 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Lewis Theobald.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #25 8s. 6d. Preface: I am only sorry, it did not answer so well to Mr Rich, as I hop'd it would have done....The Play was got up with indefatigable Application, in Twelve Days time from the first Reading, which is less than ever any Tragedy was known to be got ready in

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

3407
05 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #27 17s. 6d. and tickets #23 13s. The Epilogue was printed in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April, with a note: The Author of the following Epilogue would never have thought of publishing such a Trifle, but to let the Town see that scandalous Piece (as some were pleas'd to call it) not fit to be spoken. Mrs Knight's Zeal to the Government (which she has always express'd at the Worst of Times) cannot be enough applauded....It was wrote with no other Design than to do her some Service on her Benefit-Day; but has had indeed a quite contrary Effect, and kept back that Part of her Audience whose Money is as good as other Peoples, tho' their Principles (as being Tories) are the worst in the World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: As17160215

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; particularly the last new comic dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

3408
09 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, pp. 103-4; She [Mrs Clayton] and Lady W. Powlett, and I went to the Play together, for the Benefit of Johnson, who is the best Comedian this Day upon the Stage, and I believe as true and good a Player as ever was in any Age, for the Parts that he plays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song: As17151028

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell; particularly The Original Dance of Linkmen-

3409
07 February 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #31 2s. In Daily Courant, 6 Feb., The Spanish Fryar had been announced for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

Dance: As17170202

3410
16 July 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Ben. Johnson. Previously there had been advertised for this day The Unlucky Lover; or, The Merry London Cuckolds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Song: As17161022

Dance: Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Willis

3411
27 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Mills, a Drury Lane actress, died on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Dance: Mrs Santlow; New Dance-Miss Lindar

3412
30 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. A new comedy, The Artful Wife, announced for this day, is deferred to 3 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: Ray

Dance: As17171022

3413
15 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Longville. Tickets delivered for The Twin Rivals taken this day. Receipts: money #35 6s.; tickets #28 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Miss Smith

3414
14 February 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre. Receipts: #43. Scipio Africanus, announced for this day, is deferred to 15 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

3415
05 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Music: Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Music- by Babel for St. Cecilia's Day; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Mrs Barbier, Babel's Scholar, who never appear'd on any Stage before

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Mrs Barbier, Babel's Scholar, who never appear'd on any Stage before.

Song: Mad Dialogue by Purcell-Leveridge, Mrs Thurmond

Dance: As17171022

3416
18 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Afterpiece. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. On this day, Quin and Bowen fought a duel. Bowen died on 20 April of his wounds. According to the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 26 April: The two falling out about which of them was the honestest man, and a Wager being laid, thereon it was given in favour of [Quin], whereupon [Bowen] went to the Pope's Head Tavern in Cornhill and sending thither for Quin, oblig'd him to fight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Dance: As17171022

3417
09 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Mrs Moore. On this day a warrant for establishing an Academy of Music was issued. See Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 and 5@157, p. 228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Song: Ray

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow, Wade, Mrs Bicknell, Topham, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar

Music: A new Piece for the Ecchoe Flute-Paisible

3418
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

3419
21 November 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 21 Nov., announces forthcoming plays: Southern's Spartan Dame in a few days, then Steele's The Gentleman, shortly afterwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Song: As17191003

3420
27 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On this day a new license was issued to Wilks, Cibber, Booth

Performances

3421
29 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the famous Molliere. Daily Courant, 2 May: Monsieur deGrimbergue, Director of the French Comedians, hereby gives Notice, that he is extreamly sorry he could not give on Friday last all the Entertainment he had promised in his Publick Bills, by reason that Signora Violenta unluckily fell sick that very day; and Mons Dangeville refused to Dance, being puft up by the Applause he had the good Fortune to meet with; fancying he hath a Right to do so whenever he pleases

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Entertainment: The Great Turkish Ceremony-; Dancing-Danjeville; Tumbling-; particularly a lame tumbler (who never performed before in England); The Flourishing of the Colors-Signora Violenta

3422
07 January 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is to be had this Day at the Theatre. Afterpiece: With all the Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations. Receipts: #86 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Afterpiece Title: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

3423
27 September 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr Cibber. Receipts: #25 1s. [Genest, English Stage, III, 74, thinks that Griffin probably did not act on this day, for he was at dl most of the season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

3424
13 March 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Shaw, Denoye, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Miss Tenoe. The Briton= intended for this day by deferred by Booth's Indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

3425
23 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. By Reason of the Length of the Days, the Hours for the Operas will be changed from Six to Seven a Clock, at which Time it will begin exactly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante