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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.

12376
04 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mr Barry being Ill Mr Reddish play'd Bajazet (not the thing) Miss Hayward Shamefully imperfect in Selima (Hopkins). Paid 8 extra trumpets 6 nights (this incl.) #18 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #241 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12377
04 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman identified as Owenson by Hopkins MS Notes. Confirmed by Sir Nicholas Nipclose, in The Theatres (2nd. ed. London, 1722, p. 51) speaking of Inchbald's introduction to the London stage with advertisement of "first appearance" though he had been many years an itinerant actor, "this is a trick to gain, from curiosity, what may pay by one night the whole season's pitiful salary of such actors; several mushrooms have vegetated thus; but none more worthless or short lived, than Mr Owenson; brought forward modestly in Tamerlane, some weeks since; without even the requistes of a grown-up school-boy."] Receipts: #180 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Jovial Gardners-Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir, Mr Drouville[, being his 1st appearance. [See17630312.

12378
05 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 2 Clarinets 6 nights (this incl.) #9 9s.; Paid Manager's gratuity of Mr Lowe #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #201 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12379
06 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 8 years. [See 23 Jan. 1764.] Paid Mr Cubitt (tinman) #10 11s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #180 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12380
06 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #41 11s.; Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #38 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #97 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Jovial Gardners, as17711104

12381
07 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Printer's Bill #10 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #165 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12382
07 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these 2 Years. [See 20 Jan. 1770.] Receipts: #167 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12383
08 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr French on Acct #30; Paid Supernumeraries in Institution of the Garter 10 Nights (7th inst. incl.) #44 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [N.B. at the rate of 2s. 6d. a night for walking in a procession, this afterpiece would seem to have required about 35 supers for each performance.] Receipts: #243 9s. 6d. (Treasruer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17710921

12384
08 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Young Gentlewoman identified as Miss Potts, said to be a niece of Hull's. See playbill of 28 Feb. 1772.] Receipts: #127 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

12385
09 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #18 14s. Paid Salary list--#496 18s. 6d; Mrs Abington on cloaths acct #2; Paid balance of Mr D. Garrick's Night 2nd inst. #118 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #183 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12386
09 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Masque of the Fairy Prince oblig'd to be deferr'd till Tuesday. Paid Whitefield for making cloaths &c. #72 10s. 5d. (Account Book). Receipts. #129 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Monologue: Between Main and Afterpiece: an Entertainment True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

12387
11 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 7 years. [See 18 Jan. 1765.] Paid Mr Asbridge for exchanging Kettle Drum Banners #4 4s.; Mr Wallis on note #2; Messrs Carver & Messink's Windsor Bill #3 11s. 4d.; Mr Thos French, 7 days-#2 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #189 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12388
11 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 27 April 1770.] Paid Younger #2 2s. for license for Fairy Prince. Paid for 2 fifes 4s. Advanc'd Mr Bulkley as per Note #130 (Account Book). Receipts: #198 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Monologue: Entertainment True Blue. As 9 Nov

12389
12 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [N.B. Comment in Theatrical Review, 12 Nov., which damns each portrayal save those of the Barrys, and heaps scorn on the afterpiece.] Paid Dr Nares & Mr Cooke's Boys in the Garter 12 nights (11th inst. inclusive) #36; Paid Mr Weston's note to Rd. Rice #4 10s. 9d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12390
12 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Masque (in three parts) [by George Colman] never perform'd, in which will be introduc'd the Principal Solemnities at the Installation of the Knights of the Garter. With New Music, composed by Dr Arne, Habits, Decorations and Scenes. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #220 10s. 6d. (Account Book). The greater part is borrowed with some variation from Ben Jonson [Masque of Oberon]. The same liberty has been taken with a few passages of Shakespeare, and a Chorus of the late Gilbert West, Esq. The final chorus is from Dryden...an effort to entertain the public by the combined powers of the most eminent proficients in the arts of Music, Painting and Poetry (Adv. to Printed Edn., Colman's Dramatic Works, IV, London, 1777)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince with Installation of Knights of the Garter

12391
13 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Langford for Woman's cloaths #10 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Garrick?] (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #252 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12392
13 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid John Doe for performing five nights in the Ass to 28 Oct. 12s. 6d.; Paid John Clarridge for ditto 12s. 6d.; Paid John Smith for ditto in the Hog, 12s. 6d. (Account Book). [Apparently animals in Mother Shipton.] Receipts: #230 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

12393
14 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's rate for Theatre to Mich. Last #20 8s. 4d.; Paid ditto for House in Bow Passage 14s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #233 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

12394
14 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Heath for point lace, 9s.; Mr Cropley (linen draper) 2 bills #93 12s. 6d.; 8 extra trumpets for 6 nights, #18; Wax Chandler's Bill #21 3s. 4d.; Mr Squire, Chorus, 15 nights #3 15s.; Printer's Bill #9 6s.; Mr Weston's Note & Bill to Mr Flaherty #5 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Mrs Robinson Angelica-very indifferent (+Hopkins MS Notes). Receipts: #133 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12395
15 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 2 Clarinets 6 nights (13th inst. incl.) #9 9s.; Paid Mr Barrow & Co. for Oil #34 17s. 6d.; Mrs Chitty for coals #46 5s.; Mrs Weston's Bill to Mr Singleton #6 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #130 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12396
15 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Paving &c. for theatre due Mich last #18 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #209 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

12397
16 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid salary list #496 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington on cloaths account #2; Master Thomson, Chorus, 13 nights, #3 5s.; Rec'd stopages #12 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #185 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

12398
16 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Dr Arne for composing the Music for the Fairy Prince #120 (Account Book). Receipts: #230 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Fairy Prince

12399
18 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Burn for Wigs #4 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #248 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: A Dance call'd The Amusements of Strasburgh-Daigville, Sga Vidini, Daigvilles scholars

12400
18 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Hodgson (coal merchant) #27 14s.; Paid Varley (plumber) #11 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #229 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince