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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: Benefit for Rainton, Hawksby, Peacop &c. Tickets (Cross) Tickets delivered for The Fair Quaker will be taken, and those deliver'd by Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Farquhar, and Miss Smith (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Euricles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney, House-keeper. Afterpiece: Acted but once these 3 years. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Song: IV: By desire, Ellen@a@Roon with variations on the Harp-Parry

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, Bride, Broad. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat@o@Mint Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Event Comment: Benefit for Baker, Robinson, Goodwin. No building on Stage. Tickets delivered for The Revenge will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Blakes

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford, Shawford, Mrs Gibbons, L'Brun. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Morris; End of Play: The Louvre-Shawford, Mrs Gibbons

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Mortimer, and Saunderson. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Welch Collier Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Mrs Vernon; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Veal, Tomlings, Humphrys. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Provost Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Last time of performing these pieces this season. Receipts; #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By particular Desire. 183 [rd night] So ended ye Season (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Crudge at the Stage Door. [This notice appears on subsequent bills and will not be repeated further.] Receipts: #32 6s. [Paid] Dall (scene painter) a week's salary, #1 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 8 lists Harlequin Skeleton; or, The Royal Chace.] Receipts: #42 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Merlins Cave or The Royal Chase

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 24 April 1754.] Receipts: #74 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Receipts: #106 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: As any obstruction in the Movements of the Machinery will greatly prejudice the Performance of the Entertainment, it is hop'd no persons will be displeased at their being refused admittance behind the scenes. [This notice occurs regularly this season with this afterpiece.] Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. Expended for 12 months' subscription to St George's Hospital #5 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Boatswain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: By Command of Prince of Wales (Winston MS 8). Prince of Wales & 4 more (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy reviv'd. Not acted these 3 years [see 18 May 1756]. Receipts: #73 9s. Paid Mr Savage for teaching Mr Frith #10 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #79 19s. (Account Book). [At this point Account Book, Egerton 2270, showed a deficit of #27 19s. 7d., which was wiped out by bringing over a balance of #290 5s. 6d., form the Journal, &c. No 21, Folio 186, a record which seems not now to be extant. This transfer of funds allowed Rich to meet the payroll of #251 17s. the following day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Merlin Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: MMr Woodward was taken ill, & Mr Yates his part of Lucio, & Mr Rooker did the Harl: (all well) a Disturbance was design'd by the officers occasion'd by a new Scene (which no Effect) about a Captain being in Leading strings, but we left it out & all was Quiet (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Provost Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: [M$Miss White as Sylvia is identified by a note in the Account Book.] Receipts: #58 19s. (Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: PPrincess Augus: & 3 More (Cross). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Bellamy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Le Medicin Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Mianpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #62 17s. (Account Bo0k)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Account Book: Present Prince and Princess of Wales, Lady Augusta, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Edward, Prince Frederick. [See also 25 Nov.] Receipts: #171 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V With The conquest Of The French At Agincourtv

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Several New Entertainments-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville