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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "their Royal Highnesses"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "their Royal Highnesses")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2123 results for: Keyword - their Royal Highnesses
We found 1227 matches on Event Comments, 689 matches on Performance Title, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1576
02 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

1577
04 May 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A new Farce of three Acts. Benefit Ryan. By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mississippi

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

1578
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

1579
09 June 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, who acted the Part of Piero. By their Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Docteur Chinois

Afterpiece Title: Letourdy

Afterpiece Title: The Reasonable Animals

Dance: As17200531

1580
24 October 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #92. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 29 Oct.: Where was acted...The Merry Wives of Windsor, with universal Applause; that Company having improved themselves so much, during the long Vacation, they now equal, if not exceed their Brethren of Drury-Lane in their Theatrical Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

1581
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

1582
19 November 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. Bononcini.] A New Opera. Four Hundred Tickets (for Pit and Boxes) will be deliver'd out, and after they are disposed of, no Person whatsoever will be admitted for Money. Neither Director nor Subscribers will be admitted on the Stage. A proper Officer will attend at each Door, to deliver Every Subscriber his Ticket, without which he will not be admitted. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. Gallery 5s. The Doors to be open'd at Five a Clock. To Begin exactly at Six. [The Royal Family present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

1583
23 November 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. Whereas Offence was taken last Saturday at the Opera, to the Misbehaviour of the Upper Gallery: This is to advertise, that unless they behave themselves more quietly and decently for the future, the Director of the Royal Academy of Musick will order that Gallery to be taken away

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

1584
10 December 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

1585
28 December 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 31 Dec.: His Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family went to see... Radamistus, where the famous Nicolini perform'd with his wonted Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus

1586
23 January 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

1587
03 February 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

1588
06 March 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17201018

1589
13 March 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highness's Command. Admission to Pit and Boxes by Tickets only. Tickets for The Orphan taken or the Money returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Shaw, Denoyer, Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

1590
19 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Dance: Myrtillo-

1591
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

1592
13 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger

1593
11 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years [but see 15 Dec. 1713]. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aureng Zebe; Or, The Great Mogul

1594
14 December 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow in Distress. By His Royal Highness's Command. Receipts: money #45 17s. 6d.; tickets #96 13s. The Prince present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Dance: Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Hutton, Mrs Bullock

1595
15 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avocat Patelin

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Invisible, a la Cour du Roy de la Chine

Dance:

1596
21 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

1597
19 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. Upon Complaint to the Royal Academy of Musick, that Disorders have been of late committed in the Footmen's Gallery, to the Interuption of the Performance, This is to give Notice, That the next Time any Disorder is made there, that Gallery will be shut up

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1598
11 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden. Pit and Front Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aureng Zebe; Or, The Great Mogul

Dance: As17221211

1599
12 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signiora Margherita Durastanti. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. N.B. Whereas the Benefit for Signiora Durastanti is Part of her Contract, the Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for that Night. [This benefit brought her nearly a thousand pounds.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 160.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

1600
23 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The Royal Academy of Musick, to prevent the Crowd and Disorders at the Practices of the New Opera, have resolved that no Persons shall be admitted to such Practices, but by Tickets to be deliver'd at their Office the same Evening, at one Guinea each Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus