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4828 results for: Keyword - his Royal Highness's Birth-Day
We found 3186 matches on Event Comments, 1226 matches on Performance Title, 640 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3451
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

3452
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: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

3453
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

3454
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

3455
06 October 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: #30 14s. 6d. [In Daily Courant, 5 Oct., The Orphan had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

3456
15 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. M De Fabrice to Count Flemming, 15 Jan. (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 147): Today is the second performance and there is such a run on it that tickets are already being sold at 2 and 3 guineas which are ordinarily half a guinea. London Journal, 19 Jan.: Last Tuesday being the second Time of Madam Cotzoni's Performance, we hear that Opera Tickets sold that Day and the preceding, at 4 Guineas each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3457
28 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Afterpiece Title: Hobs Wedding

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

3458
25 February 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #45 3s. 6d; tickets #179 1s. British Journal, 3 March: On Monday last, which was the Third Day, there was the greatest Audience ever known at either Theatre....'Tis thought the Author will get upwards of a Thousand Pounds by this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

3459
15 April 1723 @ Moorfields

Event Comment: At a Booth on Windmill Hill. London Journal, 20 April: On Monday Night last one Mr Redshaw, one of the Actors belonging to the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, being to be kill'd in Jest in the Play of Darius on Windmill Hill, was kill'd in Earnest, for he was accidentally run into the Eye, of which Wound he died the Day following. [In British Journal, 20 April, the name is Redstraw; in Freeholder's Journal, 20 April, it is Rackstraw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius King Of Persia

3460
14 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Days being long, the Doors will not be open'd till Five, and the Play will begin exactly at half an Hour after Six a Clock, Particular Care being taken to keep the House cool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury Who Was Poisond In The Tower In The Reign Of King James The First

3461
24 July 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Misfortunes. Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. All the Characters being entirely new Dress'd. N.B. The putting off the Play so long was occasion'd by the Indisposition of one of the principal Performers, and the Tickets deliver'd out for 4th, the 11th, and the 17th Instant will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrid Or The Fair Inconstant

3462
21 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 18s. Daily Post, 22 Jan.. Last Night...the Prince of Wales went...to see the New Entertainment of Apollo and Daphne, which has been acted several Days with great Applause; the Contrivance of the Whole being very ingenious, and the Scenery and Decorations as splendid as any Thing that has yet appeared of that Kind

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fortune Teller

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

3463
12 April 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Gilbert and Miss Besswick. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out for Thursday 31 March will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song:

Dance:

3464
21 September 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #37 2s. 6d. [In Daily Post, 20 Sept., King Lear had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

3465
25 January 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [Admetus was reheared for the first time this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Linganno Fortunato Or The Happy Delusion With Pantalons Concern For The Loss Of His Daughter And His Confusion Among The Ghosts Harlequins Preferments And Brighellas Love For Argentina

Dance: Dancing In Grotesque Characters-

3466
17 March 1727 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal Part consisting of the Choicest Songs in the Operas-Mrs Foresyth; As also, a new Cantata on St. Patrick's Day by Dr Pepusch-

Performance Comment: Patrick's Day by Dr Pepusch-.

3467
23 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sig Victoria and the Doctor. By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Being a particular Fatigue of Argentina, with her Comical Affectation of her New Title; wherein the Doctor will perform by the Name of Tabarin , a New Character, very Comical and Jocose, never yet seen on the Stage, which has been reserved for that Day, and may be continued hereafter, if he has the Happiness of pleasing his most Noble Spectators better than by his former

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argentina Ortolana Contessa Per Forza

Dance: new Scaramouch , lately arriv'd from Italy; Serious and Grotesque Dancing particularly-M deCamp, Mlle Mimi l'Post , first Dancers of the Opera at Brussels, just arrived

3468
07 June 1727 @ Marlborough House

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

3469
09 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Alter'd from Shakespear by the late Mr Betterton. [In Daily Post, 8 Sept., The Spanish Fryar had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaffe And Justice Shallow

3470
11 September 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #53 18s. Probable attendance: boxes, 64 paid and'11 orders; balcony, 4 paid; Pit, 162 paid and 4 orders; slips, 10 paid; first gallery, 156 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 105 paid. [In Daily Journal, 8 Sept., King Lear had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance:

3471
28 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3472
30 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [R+Rich's Register, probably by confusion with the bill for 1 Jan. 1728, lists Virtue Betrayed, with the Coronation Scenev, for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

3473
23 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: In Daily Post, 22 March, Albion Queens had oeen advertised for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3474
17 May 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: With an Addition of an entire New Scene and several Songs. Tickets for 8 May taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Dance: Between Acts: Dancing-

3475
20 August 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Song: As17280722