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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.

4001
12 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 15s. 6d. Paid Meares (tailor) #4 1s. 4d.; Kemp for 6 nights #9 12s.; Monck for 6 days #1 10s.; Sarjant for his salary to Xmas '59, #5; Music in Beggar's Opera 2 nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17600108, but Comic Dance [probably The Plowman]-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

4002
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. Paid Kemp #9 12s.; Meares #1 10s.; Mr Day (turner) #12 1s.; Pattinson (tallow chandler) three bills to 11 Feb., #54 8s. 8d. Was at Covent Garden Gallery with Sir Harriott to see the Jovial Crew and Duke and No Duke. I met Legyt, Piggot, Bettenson there & got home by 10 (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

4003
22 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together. No Person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre, a Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be open'd at Half an Hour after Four O'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-Stanley

4004
27 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Charges #35. The Anniversary Meeting of the Shakespeare Society will be held this day at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the Table at three o'clock. E. B. Secretary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17600222; a Solo on the Violin-Giardini

4005
27 March 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Provenzale. Pit and boxes together at Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. The Music by Jomelli. N.B. As Miss Asolin cannot dance this day having sprained her ankle, Mr Gallini will be so humane as to perform with Miss Provenzale that she may not be disappointed of her benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'isola Disabitata; Or, The Desert Island

Dance: New Grand Dances-Signora Provenzale, Signora Asselin, who will dance in men's clothes

Music: Concerto on the Violin-Sg Candoni

4006
16 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the Audience (this night only) by A Day of Taste, as17600320

Performance Comment: Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the Audience (this night only) by A Day of Taste, as17600320.

4007
29 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza.Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the audience (for the last time) with A Day of Taste, as17600320

Performance Comment: Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the audience (for the last time) with A Day of Taste, as17600320.

4008
03 May 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 6:30 p.m. [Plea in the day's bills, repeated in subsequent ones, for subscribers for the ensuing season, under the direction of Sga Mattei, to pay for their subscriptions.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigona

4009
08 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifth Day. Nothing under the full price will be taken, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Care will be taken to keep the house cool. [This notice repeated in subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4010
12 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The 7th Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4011
21 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Tenth Day. Most of the Performances entirely new. [This notice repeated in subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: New Entertainments-

4012
23 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eleventh Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4013
25 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twelfth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4014
28 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Thirteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4015
30 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fourteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4016
01 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4017
04 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Sixteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4018
06 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Seventeenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4019
07 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eighteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4020
08 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Nineteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4021
09 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twentieth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4022
11 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twenty-First Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4023
13 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twenty-Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4024
15 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twenty-Third Day. Daily Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Last Saturday John Sterne was committed to Newgate by Justice Welch, for the Murder of Mr Matthews, an eminent Surgeon in Brook St., Holborn. [Sterne had been an usher in Mathews' Academy, was discharged, but Matthews let Sterne live in Matthews' house for a long time, then expelled him and put his belongings on the stairs. On Friday 15 Aug. Sterne got two pistols and came back to Owen's Coffee House. Here] he waited three Hours for Mr Matthews, who was gone with a Friend to the little Theatre in the Haymarket and afterwards into Company at the Pewter Platter, a publick house in Cross St. [There Sterne shot Matthews.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

4025
18 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fourth Day. This being the last fortnight of Foote's playing at the Haymarket, the company will perform every night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor