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We found 18079 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #21 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 9 orders; pit, 43 paid and 18 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 96 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 62 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #74 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 70 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 200 paid and 20 orders; slips, 10 paid and 3 orders;first gallery, 163 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 82 paid and 3 orders

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Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

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Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: [T+The Necromancer, not advertised, may have been given as an afterpiece, as the Daily Journal, 12 Feb., states that the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina saw it as part of the program.] Receipts: #68 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 113 paid and 30 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 164 paid and 17 orders; slips, 7 paid and 12 orders; first gallery, 117 paid and 4 orders; second, 123 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Princess Royal and Princess Amelia present. Receipts: money #92 19s.; tickets #38 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 117 by money and 154 by tickets; stage, 18 by money; pit, 244 by money; slips, 12 by money; first gallery, 151 by money; second gallery, 127 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #67 12s.; tickets #14 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 106 by money and 57 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit, 166 by money; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 102 by money; second gallery, 82 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #51 8s. 6d.; tickets #13 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 50 by money and 55 by tickets; pit, 142 by money; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 94 by money; second gallery, 115 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #14 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: As17290131

Dance: As17290131

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #79 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #77 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: [By Eliza Haywood.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #42 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Frederick Duke Of Brunswick Lunenberg

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Receipts: #43 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: SSparite o Pensieri, Mi Credi In Fedele, Almamia, Se Unsolo, Tiranni Mici Pensieri, Latiggre ar Dedi Sdegno, Selarco-Mrs Barbier; Three Italian Songs-Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers; With the French Horns-; The Eccho in Ptolemy-

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #28 9s. 6d.; tickets #50 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Frederick Duke Of Brunswick Lunenberg

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #24 14s.; tickets #78 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling

Event Comment: Benefit Grant, a Mercer. Receipts. #15 19s.; tickets #119 9s. See also a letter by Mrs Pendarves, in Delany, Autobiography, I, 199-200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Barbier, Mrs Wright, Mrs Seedo, Mrs Chambers; Solo on German Flute-Festing

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Afterpiece: With several Alterations. Receipts: money #63 15s. 6d.; tickets #97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Coblers Opera

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Salle, Mrs Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Receipts: money #10 17s.; tickets #39 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; The best Italian Opera songs-Mrs Barbier, Mrs Wright, Mrs Seedo, Mrs Chambers; Concerto on Chamber Horns-; Solo on German Flute-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. Afterpiece: At the Request of several Ladies of Quality. Never Acted there before. Written by the Author of the Beggar's Opera. Receipts: money #81 14s.; tickets #101 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: PPierrots-Salle, Pelling; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance-Salle, DuPre, Moreau, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #99 2s.; tickets #55 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Second Piece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Author of the Beggar's Opera. Receipts: #64 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Music: As17290116

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Ben Johnson. Receipts: money #39 3s.; tickets #73 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Dance: PPierrots-Salle, Pelling; A new Scotch Jig-Moreau; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Harlequin-Dupre, Miss Latour

Event Comment: Benefit Salle. By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: money #122 18s,; tickets #42 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Italian Jealousy or French Gallantry With the Tavern Bilkers

Dance: HHighlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legare; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Legare

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. Afterpiece: With several Alterations. N.B. In order to make the Songs more intelligible, Books are printed and may be had at the Theatre. Receipts: money #35 13s.; tickets #95 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Coblers Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Berriman and Mrs Egleton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #32 15s.; tickets #126 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Coblers Opera

Dance: PPierrots-Salle, Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. N.B. Mr Leveridge hopes that his Friends accept of this Invitation, and favour him with their Companies, since a tedious Indisposition hath rendered him incapable of waiting on them in Person. Receipts: money #39 4s.; tickets #87 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters Or Two Fools Well Met

Song: Mrs Barbier

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau