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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.

13001
15 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Tallow Chandler's 1st bill #42 11s. 6d; Mr Hopkins for last summer #20; Mr Arnick for Men's cloaths #14 14s. Receipts: #126 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

13002
15 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [by Richard Cumberland] never performed there. Paid John Doe for sticking Black Bills #3 12s. Paid Cooper (printer) as per bill #20 2s. (Account Book). [The Westminster Magazine held in reserve its judgment on Lewis as an actor until the reviewer could see him in another part.] Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Midas

13003
16 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Rec'd Stopages #30 14s.; Paid Salary list at #87 3s. per diem #522 18s.; Mr Atkins 11 days additional salary not on list 18s. 4d.; Mr S. Barry's 4 drafts #400; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #4 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #122 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

13004
16 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Performed there but once. Afterpiece: For 1st time this season. Receipts: #180 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13005
18 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Rogers for women's cloaths as per bill #70, and Stennet for a Blue & Silver suit of ditto #10 10s. Receipts: #146 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Midas

13006
19 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Noble for an India Japan Screen #6 10s. Receipts: #146 16s. 6d. [Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13007
19 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 26 years. [See 13 April 1748.] Dressed in The Habits of the Times (playbill). This play is altered by Mr G was well perform'd a New Prologue & Epilogue all receiv'd with Applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs sligntly in wording.] Paid Properties #1 11s. 11d.; Housekeeper's bill #4 13s. Receipts: #153 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

13008
20 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Very great Applause (Hopkins Diary). Pantomime for the last time this season. Receipts: #252 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

13009
20 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. Paid Mr Burton for playing in the Pippin and Sorcerer last season #20. Paid half year's Land Tax for theatre due Mich. last #39 7s. 6d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage #1 8s. 2d.; Paid Window lights for theatre half year #6 10s. 6d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage 15s. Receipts: #224 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13010
21 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Cooke's 8 Boys in Alfred, 7 nights (18th incl.) #19 10s. Receipts: #103 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

13011
22 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Margaretta 1st time by Mrs Robinson not perfect. very B. & Disconcerted Mr G. very much (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] Receipts: #239 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

13012
22 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow, not acted this season, Macbeth, with New Dresses and Decorations. Macbeth-$Macklin, 1st appearance in that character. Receipts: #123 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer Or The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: A New Dance-. [See17731021]

13013
23 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #27 2s.; Paid Salary List #522 18s. Receipts: #152 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

13014
25 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 1 extra trumpet 7 nights in Alfred (18th inst. incl.) #2 12s. 6d.; Two extra clarinets, 2 horns, & 1 bassoon in Ditto #18 7s. 6d.; Properties 16s. 9d.; Housekeeper's Bill #5 3s.; Chorus 2 nights #4 1s. Receipts: #156 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

13015
25 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Rich andCo. one year's rent for House in Bow Passage due Mich. last #40. Receipts: #140 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Midas

13016
26 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid half year's Land tax and Window lights for Cov't Garden to Mich Last #2 18s. 6d. Receipts: #133 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

13017
26 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Raban (coal merchant) #63 17s. Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13018
27 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Lucy identified as Miss Dayes by Kemble note on playbill and by Winston MS 10.] At the opening of this season Justice Sir John Fielding wrote to Garrick not to play the Beggar's Opera fearing it had a bad influence on the minds of the young. But both Garrick and Colman continued to play it (Winston MS 10). Receipts. #183 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: New Dance, as17731021

13019
28 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 9 Nov. 1761.] With Additions and Alterations. [The Additions to The Fair seem to have included a number of actual animals (instead of the men costumed as an Ass and a Hog as used in Mother Shipton), for the Account Book this year for the first time notes payments, 22 March 1774, "for the hire of Horses in The Fair," and 18 June 1774, "To Mr Brooks for attending with the Camels &c. in the Fair." The tradition of bigger and better spectacles seems to have passed on from Rich to Colman.] Receipts: #180 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13020
29 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Paid Powney, stationer, #5 13s.; Mr Landall for Mr Marshall's Funeral #3 10s.; Mrs Chitty for coals #46 3s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #169 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

13021
29 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's Rate for theatre due Mich last #24 15s. 10d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage 17s. 9d. Paid Palmer (wax chandler) #46 8s. Receipts: #136 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13022
30 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #29 10s. 6d.; Paid salary list #522 18s.; Mr King 29 nights additional salary (29th inst. incl.) #14 10s.; Mr Loutherbourg's draft #120. Receipts: #241 15s. 6d. (Treaurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

13023
30 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Before the performance this evening Macklin came to the audience in person with a sheaf of newsclippings in his hand and belabored his detractors, falsely accusing Reddish and Sparks from Drury Lane as leading a planned coalition against him. The play went on with applause, but affidavits sworn under oath by both Sparks and Reddish the following day, brought the dispute to such a head in the newspaper that a riot occured the night of 18 Nov., when Macklin did Shylock (since Colman would not risk Macbeth after 13 Nov.) and announcement was made by Colman that Macklin had been dismissed. See 23 Oct.] Receipts: #152 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

13024
01 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The part of the Widow by Mrs Greville being her 1st appearance upon this Stage. So, So (Hopkins Diary). Paid Properties 14s. 2d.; Mr King (glassman) #5 15s. 2d.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #4 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #163 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

13025
01 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Buxton and Enderby (oyl merchants) #116, and Brown (coal merchant) #44 9s. Receipts: #190 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fair