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18476 results for: Keyword - Blakes</i>, deleted.] Receipts:
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.

12201
22 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at Half an Hour after Five. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after six. [The Account Book indicates that the following paid up their deficits of half values of tickets: Rose, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, Doe, Pullen, Fransdorf, Norbury, Robson, Pilfold, Roberts and Singleton.] Receipts: #163 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

12202
23 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Account Book indicates the following Paid up their half value for tickets: Whatley, Dixon, Reed, Bushell, Wooley.] Receipts: #53 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Midas

12203
24 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Hardly worth keeping the theatre open this evening, as running expenses aside from salaries, (i.e., music, wardrobe, properties, Renter's interest, and kettle drum) came to #21 5s. 6d. See Account Book.] Receipts: #26 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

12204
25 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last time of the Company's performing this season. The Oxonian in Town, cannot be perform'd on account of the indisposition of a performer. Doors open at Half past 5. To begin at Half past 6. [Account Book indicates the following as paying up their deficiencies or half value of tickets: Perry, Gardner, Legg, Mrs Lampe and Mrs Jones, Wignell, Barnshaw, Wild, Mrs Hartle, Miss Brown, Ellis and Sherratt. Master Harris receiv'd #5 5s. for his performances this season. The Salary list for 25 May, recording payments for a ten day Period, amounted to #639 2s. 2d., or about #63 per day. Basic house charges of #63 may have been based on this salary figure, with the extras of candles, music, wardrobe, &c. added. See 6 June.] Receipts: #67 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

12205
18 September 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for Boxes to be had (only) of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door. The Doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary footnote to all Bills.] Receipts: #177 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere [See17671106]

12206
30 September 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire . Receipts: #75 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17690925

12207
06 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #82 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

12208
07 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by George Colman] never performed. [In the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays, the chief effectiveness lay with the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music: Martial Music-The Roman Characters of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar; Soft Music-Antony and Cleopatra; Grand Music, Old English Characters-King John, Richard III, Henry VIII: Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for Prospero; Macbeth's Music; Fairy Music-Oberon and Titania; Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by Othello, Hamlet, the Ghost, Mad Ophelia and Lear with Cordelia; Dead March in Saul-Juliet's Bier with attendants; Allegro for the Comic Muse-Falstaff, Touchstone, Launcelot, Malvolio; Andante-Florizel and Perdita, Portia Antonio and Bassanio; Flourish-for Car drawn by the muses carrying Shakespeare's Bust; Final Song by Mrs Mattocks, "Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--." The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to Garrick's effort at Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife Or The Shakespeare Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-

12209
10 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Third Day for the Mainpiece. For the Author. Charges: #68 11s. Balance due the author #104 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #173 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Entertainment: As17691009; after the Pageant: Concerto on the Hautboy-Simpson

12210
11 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #191 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: As17691010

12211
12 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for a license for Man & Wife #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #154 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Entertainment: As17691010

12212
13 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Sixth Night. For the Author. Charges #68 11s. Balance to author #65 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #133 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Entertainment: As17691010

12213
14 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Colman the balance of his night the 10th Inst. #104 17s. 6d.; and for the 13th Inst. #65 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #123 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Entertainment: As17691010

12214
16 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of the Man and Wife is oblig'd to be deferr'd for a few days. Receipts: #106 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17690918

12215
18 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [M$Miss Miller identified on the bill for 13 Nov.] Receipts: #169 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-Aldridge. [See17691009, 1767.

12216
19 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s, (Account Book). Receipts: #226

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: As17691010

12217
24 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 27 Nov. 1766]. Receipts: #107 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Midas

12218
27 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Messrs Richards and Dall for their expenses to Stratford #14 14s. (Account Book). [Apparently for gathering material for painting appropriate scenes for Harlequin's Jubilee (see 27 Jan. 1770) or for Man & Wife, 7 Oct.] Receipts: #91 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

12219
28 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: CCyrus oblig'd to be Deferr'd on account of Indisposition Mrs Yates. Receipts: #127 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

12220
02 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties. Man and Wife Publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 10). Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #178 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17691018; End: Rural Love, as17690925

12221
04 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions. Not acted these 7 years. [See 23 May 1763.] With New Music, Dresses, Scenes, and Decorations. The First Scene painted by the Late Mr Lambert, the last by Servandoni (playbill). [See 6 Nov. for specification of Scenes.] Receipts: #240 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

12222
07 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Maid of the Mill oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Thompson's Indisposition. Receipts: #175 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

12223
10 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece; By Particular Desire, [The playbill mistakenly reports afterpiece as for fifth day. Actually it is the sixth.] Receipts: #215 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

12224
11 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [See identification of Young Gentlewoman on bill for 26 Dec.] Receipts: #220 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17671114.

12225
14 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Maid of the Mill is oblig'd to be deferr'd (playbill). Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #169 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine