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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Aug"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Aug")') 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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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.

551
05 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Mock Doctor, advertised on playbill of 4 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

552
10 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 3rd piece: By permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Morning Chronicle, 6 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2

553
12 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Gretna Green, advertised on playbill of 11 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

554
18 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 1st piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 1 June 1789]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 12 Sept. 1794]. The Overture and Musick by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 12 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Purse; or, Benevolent Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

555
20 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Mountaineers, advertised on playbill of 19 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

556
21 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 18 June 1793]. Afterpiece: The new Musick, with a Scottish Medley Overture, by Dr Arnold. Morning Chronicle, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-court-road

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Auld Robin Gray

Song: End: Mock Italian Song from The Irish Mimic; or, Blunders at Brighton-Fawcett

Entertainment: MonologueIn evening: Monsieur Tonson-Fawcett

557
25 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: The Overture, and the Musick entirely new, by Reeve. Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Apparition

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Entertainment: Monologue.End 2nd piece: Tully's Rambles through London (for that night only)-Johnstone

558
29 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece: Not acted these 7 years. 2nd piece [1st time; MF 1, by Robert Benson]: The Musick selected, with new Accompaniments and a Scottish Overture, by Dr Arnold. Morning Chronicle, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 9, Haymarket,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Monsieur Tonson-Fawcett

559
31 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Three and the Deuce [advertised on playbill of 29 Aug.] is unavoidably postponed till Wednesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

560
01 September 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Dead Alive, advertised on playbill of 31 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

561
07 September 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Chronicle, 31 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell at his house, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

Afterpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

562
29 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

563
13 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "The shrillness of [Mrs Hopkins's] voice, and the squabbishness of her figure are admirable accompaniments to the peevish expression of her features, and thus as far as natural requisites go, she is perfectly suited to old maids and crabbed aunts" (Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1796, p. 240). [On this evening the following performers appeared both at dl and at the hay: Palmer, Trueman, R. Palmer, Burton, Wathen, Suett, Miss DeCamp.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

564
12 July 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 1st piece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted, in summer season, since 28 Aug. 1789; see 8 Feb. 1794]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

565
09 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Busy Body, advertised on playbill of 8 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

566
10 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Half an Hour after Supper, advertised on playbill of 9 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

567
18 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Morning Herald, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-court-road

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth [part I]

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

568
23 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 2 years. Morning Herald, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 11, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Pasticcio

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

569
26 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [The aftyrpiece was not concluded, because of a false alarm of fire which caused a serious panic. "One gentleman lost his life, having lexped from the Green Boxes into the Orchestra; in his fall, he broke the harpsichord, and fractured his skull" (Gentleman's Magazine, Aug. 1796, p. 698).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Song: As17960715

570
29 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Performance Comment: Characters by Elliston, Aickin, Bannister Jun., Fawcett, Palmer, Suett, Master Willoughby, C. Kemble, R. Palmer, Davies, Caulfield, Trueman, Bannister, Master Webb, Waldron Jun., Lyons, Abbot, Chippendale, Mrs Kemble, Mrs Gibbs, Mrs Bland, Miss Granger, Miss DeCamp. Cast adjusted from text (Cadell and Davies, 1796), and from playbill of 14 Aug. 1797: Sir Edward Mortimer-Elliston; Fitzharding-Aickin; Wilford-Bannister Jun.; Adam Winterton-Fawcett; Rawbold-Palmer; Samson-Suett; Boy-Master Willoughby; Robbers-C. Kemble, Davies, Caulfield; Orson-R. Palmer; Gregory-Trueman; Armstrong-Bannister; Robber's Boy-Master Webb; Cook-Waldron Jun.; Peter-Lyons; Walter-Abbot; Simon-Chippendale; Helen-Mrs Kemble; Blanch-Mrs Gibbs; Barbara-Mrs Bland; Girl-Miss Granger; Judith-Miss DeCamp; The General Chorus-Boyce, Brown, Aylmer, Little, Walker, Willoughby, Linton, Dibble, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale, Mrs Masters, Miss Menage, Mrs Norton.

571
30 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer [whose 1st recorded appearance as King Richard was at Canterbury, 8 Mar. 1780]. Morning Herald, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare; Or, Humours And Passions

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge; or, A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

572
05 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Morning Herald, 30 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Monologue: In which will be introduced The Burletta of Orpheus. Orpheus-Davies; Old Shepherd-Fawcett; Rhodope-Mrs Bland

573
05 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by John Cartwright Cross. MSS: Larpent MS 1139 (as licensed for the hay in Aug. 1796, but, although advertised for performance on 31 successive nights, not acted there), and Larpent MS 1142 (as licensed for dl); not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald. 7 Nov.]: The Overture and Musick by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #320 4s. (213.14.6; 104.10.0; 1.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Charity Boy

574
13 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Haymes. The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 28 June: Received for his Majesty's Box 13 nights #130; for the Princess's Box #65; 1 Aug.: Paid half a year's Land, Commutations, Window & House Taxes #193 19s. True Briton 1 June: Tickets to be had of Haymes, No. 8, Duke-street, St. James's. Receipts: #228 18s. 6d. (109.19.0; after-money not listed; tickets: 118.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End II piece: The Storm-Incledon; End: The Beggar-Townsend

575
15 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Prisoner at Large, advertised on playbill of 13 June. Munden was from cg.] 2nd piece: Performed here but once [on 28 Aug. 1794]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Afterpiece Title: The Liar