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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: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #191 15s. 6d. (188.15.6; 3.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: As17770107

Event Comment: [For the dance the playbill lists The Savage Hunters, but "Last night Sga Ricci being suddenly taken ill...Gallet and Mlle Dupre undertook at a short notice to dance The Triumph of Love" (Morning Post, 10 Jan.).] Receipts: #217 10s. 6d. (190.14.0; 25.7.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761212

Event Comment: [The playbill lists this as Delpini's 2nd appearance (see 26 and 27 Dec. 1776)]. Receipts: #258 3s. 6d. (257.16.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: As17761226

Event Comment: Paid Harris for his Trouble and Expenses in half a year's superintendence of the Business of the Theatre #250. Receipts: #181 11s. 6d. (181.2.0; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17761106; In afterpiece: Rural Dance, as17761226

Event Comment: [This was Woodward's last appearance on the stage. He died on 17 Apr. 1777.] Receipts: #224 16s. (222.4.6; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Event Comment: Selima and Azor [announced on playbill of 13 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Dodd's Illness. Paid Prompter's Bill #23 17s. 6d. Receipts: #233 13s. (210.2; 22.8; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted here. [Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.] Receipts: #235 17s. (216.14.0; 17.19.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. In Act III The Procession and Ceremony at the Tomb of Cresphontesv. [Peile is identified on playbill of 16 Apr. 1777.] Receipts: #247 17s. 6d. (246.16.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Artaxerxes, announced on playbill of 17 Jan.] Receipts: #181 16s. 6d. (179.18.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17761107

Song: In the Procession and Ceremony: Vocal Parts-Reinhold, others

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Paid Palmer of Bath, Spermacetti Candles #259 16s.; Stacy, Colourman #106. Receipts: #175 3s. 6d. (159.10.0; 15.13.6; 0.0.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #005)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. With a Procession and Sacrifice.[Vincent is identified by a MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #205 4s. (174.11.0; 28.0.6; 2.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #280 2s. 6d. (278.18.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End II: as17761015; End: The Villagers-Aldridge, Master Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Valois

Song: As17770107

Event Comment: Merope [announced on playbill of 24 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Palmer's Illness. Receipts: #186 7s. (150.12; 34.6; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: As17770118

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The orchestra will be considerably augmented. [Public Advertiser, 24 Jan.: Mrs Farrell's new air, with recitative, composed by Dr Arne.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: #273 4s. (272.2.6; 1.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: End: The Villagers, as17770122

Event Comment: The Rivals [announced on playbill of 25 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Palmer's Illness. Receipts: #153 19s. 6d. (133.14.0; 18.19.0; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17770124

Event Comment: The Tempest [announced on playbill of 25 Jan.] is obliged to be postponed. [Afterpiece in place of The Golden Pippin, announced as above.] Receipts: #197 8s. (196.16; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: As17770121

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #263 6s. (249.5.0; 12.7.6; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17770128

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Selima and Azor, but "it could not be performed last Night on Account of Mrs Baddeley's sudden Illness" (Public Advertiser, 1 Feb.). Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #244 12s. (220.14.0; 21.4.6; 2.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17770118

Event Comment: Mrs Green being taken ill, The Old Maid [announced on playbill of 29 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #233 11s. (232.2.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: As17770125

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time, i.e. as an alteration of Richard Savage's play; T 5, by William Woodfall. Prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Epilogue by Richard Cumberland (see text)]: with New Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 13 Feb. 1777: Sir Thomas Overbury (the Publication of which was unavoidably postponed) will be ready this Morning, at Ten o'Clock (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #212 4s. 6d. (210.7.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17761015

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, announced on playbill of 4 Feb.] Receipts: #158 18s. (128.2; 22.14; 8.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Sir Thomas Overbury; afterpiece of Comus, both announced on playbill of 4 Feb.] Receipts: #268 2s. (267.13; 0.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End II: As17761123; End: The Villagers, as17770122

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Leeson, but she "being suddenly indisposed, Mrs Whitefield yesterday, at very short notice, undertook the part of Cleora" (Morning Chronicle, 7 Feb.).] Paid Woodfall on acct. of his Two [Benefit] Nights #150 [and see 20 Feb.]. Receipts: #233 17s. (230.14; 3.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17761123

Song: As17770107

Event Comment: Paid Hewetson & Co., Lacemen. #140 16s. 6d. Receipts: #210 11s. 6d. (185.13.0; 24.18.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17770102

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: In 3 acts, "with the Dialogue contracted, and the Airs least approved of left out" [(Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.).] Receipts: #233 5s. (231.8.6; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew