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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: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: MMr Oram (our Painter) dy'd-a worhty honest Man (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #147 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 14s. (Winston MS 8). Sun. Dec. 31, 1758 Mrs Macklin buried at Covent Garden (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Juan Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: MMr Oram buried at St. Martins (Cross). [This year was translated and published Rousseau's Letter to M D'Alembert (Preface and 190 pp.) on the effect of dramatic entertainments on mankind. Thesis: Aim of the stage is to amuse; authors succeed when they follow the whims of the public. "Let us not then attribute to the stage a power of changing opinions or manners, when it is only that of following or heightening them."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #129 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #187 5s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Surly Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Blakes.
Event Comment: MMr Taswell dy'd -an excellent Actor, the best in that Way since Johnson (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Yesterday died Mr Benj. May many years principal Director of Entertainments at king's Theatre (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #148 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: TThe Busy Body oblig'd to be deferr'd till Monday. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #164 18s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Petulant Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince of Wales and 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross). [Kemble's note in MacMillan suggests that Holland was ill so Garrick gave Moody 5 guineas to play Thyreus, actually his first appearance at dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Cast
Role: Lepidus Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: TThe Provok'd Wife was in the Bills for this Night, but Mr Garrick finding himself ill in ye Morning Fresh bills for Ye Mercht were posted at one o'Clock-two or three hiss'd when the play began, but Mr Havard told 'em ye reason of the Change & all was over (Cross). Receipts: #185 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: IV: Miss Young

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross); #193 2s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Mr Stocks Actor: Blakes

Ballet: The Prussian Camp=. As17581214

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince of Wales & 9 More (Cross). [The provoked Wife had been given out as By Desire.] Receipts: #200 (Cross); #174 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

Song: IV: Miss Young

Event Comment: Tomorrow will be reviv'd a Tragedy (not acted these 30 years) call'd The Ambitious Stepmother. Antony and Cleopatra is deferr'd a few days. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 13s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: went off very Dent off very Dull (Cross); Mainpiece: not acted in 30 years. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #148 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Step Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #174 14s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Mr Crisr Smart, an Ingenious young Man In poetry, but now confin'd in a Mad house the farce had universal applause (Cross). Afterpiece: A new Comedy in 2 Acts. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Tickets delivered out for the 26th of January will be taken. Receipts: #285 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Euricles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #171 18s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince & 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #186 (Winston MS 8). The Guardian publish'd at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: ZZara and The Guardian deferr'd till tomorrow on account of indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #126 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: MMr Garrick being still indisposed with cold & hoarseness, Guardian deferred till tomorrow. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Petulant Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Event Comment: GGarrick's night for the farce (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #200 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #183 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Thos. Davies advertis'd somebody hiss'd him last night & that he hop'd they would desist he not offending anyone intentionally (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #168 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: TThe Swiss-Grimaldi, Mrs Vernon

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #196 1s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #168 19s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian