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Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke and their Highnesses the Princesses [who were present]. Prompter, 13 Jan.: the Rehearsal was perform'd by Command . . . Prince Prettyman's refusing to act. [See also a complaint in Grub St. Journal, 8 Jan., about Mlle Roland's immodest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

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Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Dance: ]

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Nicholas Porpora. Their Majesties, Princesses Amelia and Caroline expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 30 Jan.: The Opera oF Mithridates was so full on Tuesday Night, that there were above 440 Ladies and Gentlemen in the Pit and Boxes, besides the Subscribers. Above 50 People were oblig'd to go away for want of Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #147 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

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Role: Longbib the Vintner Actor: Salway

Music: In II: Solo on Violin by Charke

Dance: II: New Serious Dance by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

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Related Work: The Test of Love Author(s): John Edwin, the younger
Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr Handel. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. Galleries 4s. and 2s. 6d. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Feb.: Last Night his Royal Highness the Duke, and her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia were at. . . Mr Dryden's Ode, set to Musick by Mr Handel. Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present; and it is judg'd that the Receipt of the House could not amount to less than 450l. It met with general Applause, tho attended with the Inconvenience of having the Performers placed at too great a distance from the Audience, which we hear will be rectified the next Time of Performance. [Egmont also present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Event Comment: As 19 Feb. For the better Reception of the Ladies, the Pit will be floor'd over, and laid into the Boxes, and the Orchestre plac'd in a Manner more commodious to the Audience. [Their Majesties and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and their Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa [who were present]. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 28 Feb.: The Author perceiving from the Behaviour of some Persons, a determin'd Resolution, notwithstanding the Presence of part of the Royal Family, to breed a Disturbance, to the Prejudice of the Play, occasion'd, as 'tis supposed, from an invidious Letter inserted in Thursday's Grubstreet Journal, has chose to withdraw his Play, rather than give them an Opportunity of gratifying their Malice, by a Repetition of such Disturbances as must necessarily prevent the Audience from hearing the Performance in Peace. Receipts: #112 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

Event Comment: In Honour of the Royal Nuptials of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Music by Porpora.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Hymen

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes put together. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: There was an exceeding great Audience, and great Numbers of Quality both in the Boxes and Pit. Their Highnesses' Box was handsomely ornamented with white Damask, adorn'd with Silver Laces and Fringes; over the Canopy was the Figure of Hymen, with a Label on which was this Motto: Concordia Cordium. Daily Journal, 6 May: The House was so full about Five o'Clock, that several Gentlemen and Ladies, unable to go to their Seats, was obliged to depart

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Anne Roland. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. [Tickets at Mrs Anne Roland's, Golden Ball and Dove, Great Newport Street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: In I: Venetian Gondolier by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II: Les Rigadoons a la Provencale originale by Roland, Father of Mlle Roland and Mlle Anne Roland. In In: Biscaien (new) by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: German Peasant by Roland. V: By Denoyer's Prentice

Performance Comment: II: Les Rigadoons a la Provencale originale by Roland, Father of Mlle Roland and Mlle Anne Roland. In In: Biscaien (new) by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: German Peasant by Roland. V: By Denoyer's Prentice .
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Related Work: The Test of Love Author(s): John Edwin, the younger
Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince and Princess of Wales, and rest of the Royal Family present.] At 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Hymen

Event Comment: See a letter by Benjamin Victor to Matthew Debourg, in Victor, original Letters . . . (1776), I, I4ff which Deutsch, Handel, p. 409, thinks should be dated ca. 15 May 1736. Ricb's Register: Duke and Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

Event Comment: According to the newspapers, the Prince and Princess were present, but Deutsch, Handel, p. 408, thinks that they may have been at CG instead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Hymen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: By Denoyer's Prentice. II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer, &c. IV: Minuet in Modern Habits by Denoyer and Mlle Anne Roland

Ballet:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. [The young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guilt Its Own Punishment

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess King's of Wales [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Event Comment: As 18 June. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral