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1104 results for: Keyword - their Majesties
We found 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

376
14 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. No Gentlemen can possibly be admitted into the Orchestra, or behind the scenes except those who attend the Royal Family. The Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places for this evening, are desired to be at the Theatre by Five o'clock at the farthest, or their places cannot be secur'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

377
30 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. There will not be room behind the Scenes for more than the persons acting in the coronation, [Others] cannot possibly be admitted. The coronation of their Majesties was followed by a stage representation of it at both houses...Garrick knew that Rich would spare no expense in the presentation of his show; he knew too that he had a taste in the ordering, dressing, and setting out these pompous processions, superior to his own; he therefore was contented with the old dresses which had been occasionally used from 1721-1761. This show he repeated for near forty nights successively, sometimes at the end of a play, and at other times after a farce. The exhibition was the meanest, and the most unworthy of a theatre, I ever saw. The stage was...opened into Drury Lane; and a new and unexpected sight surprised the audience, of a real bonfire, and the populace huzzaing and drinking porter to the health of Queen Anne Bullen. The Stage in the meantime, amidst the parading of Dukes, duchesses, archbishops, peeresses, heralds &c. was covered with a thick fog from the smoke of the fire, which served to hide the tawdry dresses of the processionalists. During this idle piece of mockery, the actors, being exposed to the suffocations of smoke, and the raw air from the open street, were seized with colds, rheumatisms, and swelled faces. At length the indignation of the audience delivered the comedians from this wretched badge of nightly slavery, which gained nothing to the managers but disgrace and empty benches. Tired with the repeated insult of a show which had nothing to support it but gilt copper and old rags, they fairly drove the exhibitors of it from the stage by hooting and hissing, to the great joy of the whole theatre....Rich...fully satisfied [the publick's] warmest imaginations (Davies, Life of Garrick, I, 365 ff.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: In the Play will be introduc'dThe Coronation

378
01 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

379
15 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

380
22 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

381
26 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Music for the afterpiece compos'd by Mr Stanley, with a Hunting Song (never perform'd before) by the late Mr Handel. Books of the Entertainment to be sold at the Theatre at 6d. each. [Afterpiece: a short simple compliment to their Majesties on their nuptials (Biographia Dramatica). MacMillan suggests parts for afterpiece: Dametas-$Champness; Damon-$Lowe; Priest-$Fawcett; Phebe, Delia-$Miss Young; Sylvia-$Mrs Vincent.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia; or, The Shepherd's Wedding

382
05 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

383
10 November 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, with new Clothes, Decorations and Dances. By Their Majesties Command. [Repeated in subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato Di Malmantile

Dance: Director of Dances-Gallini; Dancers-Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Binetti, Sga Binetti

Music: Domenico Fischetti

384
12 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

385
19 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [No analysis of Box income.] Expenses #46 16s. 5d. Paid Bill for velvet and White sattin for their Majesties' and the Prince of Wales's Box #138 10s. Bill for Crimson Duchess Velvet & White Sattin used in Coronation #107 16s. Paid Linen Draper's Bill [for 11 April 1759-14 Nov. 1761) #106. Receipts: #231 6s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

386
26 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. John Rich, Master & Patentee of Covent Garden Theatre died (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia

387
03 December 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

388
05 December 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nell Indie

389
10 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties. Sga Manesiere lived with Mr Fisher, Ballet Master at cg, who marryed her in her last illness. N.B. She had some Property. This Lady was a pattern of neatness and exterior modesty (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

390
31 December 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

391
07 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: III: A Comic Dance (not perform'd these 9 years) call'd The Taylors-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; V: A New Comic Ballet, The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

392
11 January 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties.-A New Comic Opera Music by Ciampi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bertoldo

393
21 January 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

394
04 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

395
11 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

396
15 February 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Filosofo Di Campagna

397
18 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

398
26 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. No persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened 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: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley; Solo on the Violin-Giardini

399
03 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This day publish'd Price 1s. Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music; written by Dryden. To which is added the Coronation Anthem as performed this evening at Covent Garden. Set by Mr Handel. This Day publish'd Price 5s. sewed. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni Andrea Gallini, Director of the Dances at the Royal Theatre in the Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: As17620226; Handel's Coronation Anthem-

400
10 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17620226