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616 results for: Keyword - Aug:
We found 501 matches on Event Comments, 106 matches on Performance Comments, 36 matches on Roles/Actors, 16 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

501
16 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; CO 3, by John Scawen]: The Music, with a new Overture, by Dr Arnold. The Scenery designed and painted by Rooker. The Dances by Byrn. Books of the Songs [T. Cadell, 1790] to be had at the Theatre. Diary, 27 Aug. 1790: This Day is published New Spain (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: New Spain; or, Love in Mexico

Dance: III 2nd piece: A Grand Indian War Dance-

502
02 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 11 years [acted 5 Aug. 1780. This was Edwin's last appearance on the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

503
05 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Comet; 3rd piece of The Agreeable Surprise, both advertised on playbill of 4 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farm House

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17900722

504
11 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece: Never [previously] acted here. 2nd piece [1st time; INT i, by Henry Siddons. Prologue by John Taylor (see text)]. Gazetteer, 28 Aug. 1790: This Day is published Modern Breakfast (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Modern Breakfast; or, All Asleep at Noon

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Dance: End 2nd piece: A Double Hornpipe-Platt, Mrs Goodwin

505
12 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Never [previously] performed here [performed 21 Aug. 1776]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Afterpiece Title: Katherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17900723

506
17 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Inkle and Yarico [advertised on playbill of 16 Aug.] is unavoidably postponed till Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17900722

Entertainment: Monologue. After the Dancing: Liberty, as17900813

507
19 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [That Palmer acted Inkle on this night is doubtful. See 23, 25 Aug., 1 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

508
23 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "Yesterday evening Palmer performed the part of Inkle for the first time to a very full house. He went through the two first acts with much credit, and had he been less imperfect in the last scene it would have proved more interesting" (Diary, 24 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17900701

509
31 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Gazetteer, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End: The Generous Sportsman, as17900722

510
06 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Gazetteer, 31 Aug: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

511
20 June 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Prologue by John Peter Roberdeau (European Magazine, Aug. 1791, p. 141).] "Of Palmer Sen.'s? acting the chief fault is...a manner by far too juvenile. He has very much the turn of countenance and mode of speech suitable to Falstaff, but his gait has no appearance of debility or infirmity, and is such as any man might use, incumbered by the same dress" (Gazetteer, 21 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fourth [Part I]

Dance: End II: Triple Hornpipe, as17910617

512
07 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece: Performed but once [on 13 Aug. 1790]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling

513
30 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 3, by George Colman, ynger]: The new Musick (with a Martial Overture) by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. The Characters will be dressed [playbill of 6 Aug.: The Dresses by Whitfield] in the Habits of the Times. Books of the Songs [T. Cadell, 1791] to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

514
19 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Morning Chronicle, 15 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 10, Russell-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

515
24 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Address by George Colman, ynger (European Magazine, Sept. 1791, p. 227).] Oracle, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. Receipts: #236 (Gazetteer, 5 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: End: The Wolf-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. Before: Occasional Address-Palmer

516
26 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Oracle, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, Lambeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

517
27 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "The modest, tender Mrs Kemble deserves to be noticed for a faculty which she possesses, perhaps, more than any person upon the stage, more even than Mrs Siddons, who has it, however, in a very great degree. While she is upon the stage, she is always enacting, whether in speech or not; and never, for a moment, forgets the character, to look at her dress, or at the audience, or to discover any appearance of uneasiness at the consciousness of being looked at, when there is nothing to be said. The players call this bye-play; and it is a very important part of their art. We are perpetually reminding Bensley of his want of it, in speaking to the audience more than to the characters...[The playbill retains Aickin, but] Kemble read the part of the Governor for Aickin, and did not get through it very well" (Gazetteer, 29 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Manager in Distress

518
31 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, elder.] Public Advertiser, 29 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #240 (Gazetteer, 5 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

519
05 September 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Public Advertiser, 29 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No, 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

520
08 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Wilson's most violent and sudden Indisposition will prevent his having the honor of appearing before the Public and his Friends this Evening, and sincerely hopes the Pieces he is under the necessity of substituting will meet their approbation. [2nd piece in place of Hail Fellow Well Met; 3rd piece of The Rights of Woman, both advertised on playbill of 7 May. A 4th (and new) play, The Point of Honor, by John Peter Roberdeau, was also advertised on playbill of 7 May. It was never acted. Hail Fellows [sic] Well Met and The Rights of Women [sic] were 1st acted, for Wilson's benefit, at the hay, 9 Aug. 1792.] Morning Herald, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at his house, Park-lane, Church-lane, Chelsea. Receipts: #285 5s. (93.17; 1.14; tickets: 189.14) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques

521
02 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall as the Queen, but she "being indisposed, Mrs Whitfield performed, or rather attempted the Queen" (Thespian Magazine, Aug. 1792, p. 53).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Young Men, and Old Women

522
06 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "Falstaff is rather more satirical than facetious...This idea of the part, King adopted; and he gave the text with such correctness and force, that so far from lessening his reputation by attempting so arduous a character, he has in reality afforded new proof of his critical taste and versatility of genius" (Morning Herald, 7 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fourth [Part I]

523
09 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 1st piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 944; not published]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 15 years. In Act II a Grand Review of Bayes's Troops, with a Sham Battle of Horse and Foot [for which see dl, 13 Dec. 1777]. 4th piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 946; not published]: With a New Overture. Morning Herald, 6 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Wilson, Park-lane, Church-lane, Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hail Fellows Well Met

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Rights of Women

524
14 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Madelon, but "Mrs Bland has just presented her husband with two fair daughters...In consequence Miss DeCamp, last night, assumed the part of Madelon" (Morning Herald, 15 Aug.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

525
15 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Morning Herald, 8 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: In course of Entertainment: his favourite Planxty [descriptive of Ireland-Johnstone (in the character of Murtough Delany) [see The Irishman in London, cg, 21 Apr.]