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1881 results for: Keyword - the three Princesses
We found 1257 matches on Event Comments, 483 matches on Performance Title, 166 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1351
11 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 April. Original Weekly Journal, 14 May: His Majesty, the Prince and Princess, and a prodigious Number of the Nobility were at the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus

1352
31 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Francisque. By Their Royal Highness's Command. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, p. 172: In the Afternoon the Prince and Princess went to the French Play. A most dismal Performance. No Wonder People are Slaves who can entertain themselves with such Stuff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Afterpiece Title: La Baron de la Crasse

Dance: Dangeville

Entertainment: Tumbling=-Francisque

1353
29 August 1720 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's Theatre, before their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing the Famous-Signor Beneditte

1354
02 November 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

1355
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

1356
24 May 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

1357
25 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten years [but see 22 Dec. 1713]. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Ben Johnson. [Prince and Princess present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 16 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Face-Mills; Subtle-Cibber; Dapper-Norris; Drugger-Penkethman; Sir Epicure-Harper; Tribulation-Griffin; Ananias-Johnson; Kastril-Miller; Dol Common-Mrs Wetherilt; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Dol Common Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

1358
09 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

1359
16 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

1360
22 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1361
22 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. By His Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Abraham Cowley. Receipts: money #118 9s.; tickets #4 5s. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cutter Of Coleman Street

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

1362
20 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: The Hussars-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Younger, Miss Tenoe; Highland Lilt-Mrs Bullock

1363
13 December 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses's command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

1364
11 January 1724 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

1365
17 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Their Royal Highnesses's command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1366
10 February 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By command of their Royal Highnesses, the young Princesses. Receipts: #151 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1367
20 February 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 14 Jan. Daily Journal, 21 Feb.: Last Night his Majesty, the Prince and Princess, with great Numbers of the Nobility, went to see the new Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

1368
05 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

1369
10 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Robinson, the Dancer. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Prologue: in The Poems of Henry Carey, p. 65. Epilogue: Written by Mr Welsted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: As17241113, but Pedro-Thurmond; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-Miss Robinson Jr , who acted the Part of Princess Elizabeth by Anna Bullen , and the Duke of York in Richard the Third.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Robinson Jr , who acted the Part of Princess Elizabeth by Anna Bullen , and the Duke of York in Richard the Third.

Dance: End I: Polonese-Miss Robinson, Rainton; III: A new Passacaille-Miss Robinson; V: A New Comic Dance-Miss Robinson, Rainton

Music: II: 2d Concerto of Corelli-; IV: Select Piece with Hautboys and Flutes-

1370
10 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

1371
17 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Wycherly. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Heron

1372
11 January 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

1373
08 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1374
07 March 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [The Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: As17251204

1375
28 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others