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We found 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; being last time of his performing. Also dancing-Cooke, Sga Campioni=

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Mainpiece Title: The Lying Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: Bibby

Dance: The Mechels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard (Cross). Being the last time of performing The Foundling this season. Pit and Boxes laid together, &c as on 7 March. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #180 (Cross). house charges, #60. N.B.: I shall subtract ten guineas from this charge as before ((Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; II: Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: A Harlequin Dance-Matthews, Anne Auretti; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: As17490329

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: IV: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Song: II: Mattocks

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Clerkenwell For One Night Only. A Concert, &c. A ball and Country Dancing afterwards. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Event Comment: A little hissing at ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Publish'd, Miscellaneous Observations on Hamlet, &c. 1s. [Contains a thoroughly Neo-Classical Preface and twenty-seven notes on passages in the play. Concerning the Gravedigger's Scene: This incoherent absurdity will forever remain an indelible blot in the character of our poet; and warn us no more to expect perfection in the work of a mortal, than sincerity in the breast of a female.] Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: Madam Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: A sett of Gentlemen who never appear'd on any publick Stage; Occasional Prologue-a young Gentleman , late of Westminster School, to be spoken by himself.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Vocals-an Italian Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Role: Day Actor: Collins.
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: TTwo Pierrots, as17520504; Drunken Peasant-Phillips, Smith

Event Comment: The Scene was call'd for & perform'd, only two or 3 opposing--the Song Sung &c. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: By particular Desire. A Concert, &c., Benefit for Hallam at the New Wells, Lemon St., now open only upon this occasion. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Prices repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmasked

Entertainment: Singing-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Miles; the Clown-Bennet; IV: Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: III: Smiling Dawn from Jeptha-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Last time of performing [the afterpiece] this Season. Tickets deliver'd out by Vernon, Sanderson, &c. for a Bold Stroke for a Wife will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Event Comment: At the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. [Beard and Ch. Smith gave their services free. Deutsch notes that this is the first list of Messiah performers preserved at the Foundling Hospital. The treasurer of the Hospital recorded receipts from 1,219 tickets and by cash-#666 15s. and an outlay of #58 17s. 6d., for Musicians, singers, constables, &c. Net to Hospital: #607 17s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: [Deutsch, Handel, pp. 750-52, lists 33 musicians, 18 singers, five servants, plus a number of organ blowers, porters, and constables who put on this performance. Among the singers the following from the theatres and the opera performed: Beard, Giulia Frasi, Sga Galli, Christina Passerini, Wass, Baildon, and Baildon Jr Champness, Wilder, Dupre, Walz, Cox, and Legg.]