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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.

13801
19 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin [and her last appearance on the stage]. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Macklin, No. 59, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #191 16s. (151.6; tickets: 40.10) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Macklin; End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770215; End IV: The Frolick, as17761120

13802
21 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love & Mrs Johnston. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw, No. 93, near Craven Buildings, Drury-lane; of Mrs Love, at Booth's, Brownlow-street, Long-acre; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, near Craven Buildings, Drury-lane. Receipts: #166 4s. (65.16; 13.14; 0.0; tickets: 86.14) (charge: #65 6s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17761214

Song: End: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister

13803
22 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #282 10s. 6d. (70.17.6 tickets: 211.13.0) (charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: As17761109

13804
22 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Sherry & Sga Crespi. Tickets delivered by Harwood will be taken. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 31 Mar.]. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Sherry, at Nicholl's, Baker, Bridge's-street, Covent Garden; of Sga Crespi, Poland-street, opposite the Back Door of the Pantheon. Receipts: #257 0s. 6d. (91.14.0; 23.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 142.6.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End II: a New Pastoral Ballet, composed by Helme, The Garden of Love-Helme, Sga Crespi, Miss Armstrong, Sga Ricci; End: Chaconne-Sga Crespi

Song: original Music by Matthew Locke-Bannister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith, Gaudry

13805
23 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby & Burton. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bransby, No. 10, New Pye-street, Westminster; of Burton, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #196 1s. 6d. (61.11.0; 24.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 109.13.0) (charge: #64 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End I afterpiece: the Louvre Minuet, Allemande-the Miss Stageldoirs

13806
23 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Afterpiece: In [it] will be introduced the Stockwell Scenes, with a Prologue [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Boaden, Mrs Siddons, I, 107)], in the Character of Harlequin, spoken by Lee Lewes; to conclude with the Escape through the Tub, as in Mother Shipton. [The Stockwell Scenes were included in all subsequent performances. The Prologue and Escape were included in the first 3 performances only (see 3 May).] Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, No. 40, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #282 18s. (119.15; tickets: 163.3) (charge: #69 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

13807
24 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years [acted 20 Oct. 1769. Wolfe is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. For Mrs Cuyler see 4 Jan.]. Receipts: #143 15s. (103.19; 33.14; 6.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: As17770215

13808
25 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter & Butler. Tickets delivered by Mrs Veal will be taken. Receipts: #299 8s. (39.3; 3.18; 0.0; tickets: 256.7) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; IV: +Grand Dance i.e. The Chaconne, as17770405

13809
25 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge, No. 2, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #189 9s. (123.4; tickets: 66.5) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Dance: End II: New Comic Dance-Master Jackson, Miss Parish (A pupil of Aldridge; 1st appearanae on the stage); End III: a new characteristic Irish Dance, The Humours of Leixlip; or, A Jaunt to the Salmon-Leap, in which an Irish Jigg,-Aldridge, Miss Besford; End IV: a new Comic Dance, The Coopers-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Nicols (Scholar to Aldridge; 1st appearance also); End: a new pantomimical Naval Dance, All in the Downs ; or, Farewell to Deal,-Aldridge, Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

13810
26 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi & Hurst. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi, Little Piazza, Covent Garden. [Younger was from the Manchester theatre.] Receipts: #217 0s. 6d. (46.14.0; 17.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 152.9.0) (charge: #65 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

Song: As17761104

13811
26 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bishop. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bishop, No. 15, Bateman's Buildings. Receipts: #176 19s. 6d. (88.13.6; tickets: 88.6.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End II: a New Dance, The Serenade-Bishop, Sga Tinte; in which the Minuet de la cour-; End: Pastoral Dance, as17761123; End I afterpiece: a Minuet-Bishop, A Young Lady (his Scholar)

13812
28 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Prelude [1st time; M. PREL 1, by David Garrick, and others. In a synopsis of the plot the London Chronicle assigns Bannister; it lists the names of the other performers and, separately, their parts. The assignments given above are my own conjecture. Not in Larpent MS; the composer of the vaudeville written by Garrick is unknown]. The Words of the Songs will be given at the Theatre. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to come early, to prevent Confusion. And to send their Servants by Five o'clock to keep the Places. Receipts: #217 8s. 6d. (100.9.0; 25.14.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 91.5.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bundle Of Prologues

Afterpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

13813
28 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: Altered from Fielding; not acted these 17 years [not acted since 10 May 1759]. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick at Boyes's, Coachmaker, Long-Acre. Receipts: #278 15s. (160.15; tickets: 118.0) (charge: #65 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

13814
29 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron & Mrs Greville. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Mrs Greville at the Orange Warehouse, the Corner of King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #178 15s. (69.0; 15.1; 0.0; tickets: 94.14) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761128

13815
29 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. The Words of the Pastoral Dialogue to be had Gratis at the Theatre. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Receipts: #244 6s. 6d. (167.1.6; tickets: 77.5.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End Dialogue: As17761123; End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Brown

Song: End: New Pastoral Dialogue [Tell me Silvia why so sad?] set to music by Dr Arnold-Miss Wewitzer, Miss Brown

13816
30 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Walker, Kirk, house-keeper, & Mrs Cross. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #247 9s. 6d. (45.5.0; 11.12.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 190.12.0) (charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: Grand Naval Review, As17761109; End I afterpiece: a Hornpipe-Walker

Song: As17761109

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All-R. Palmer

13817
30 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Such Tickets as have been delivered for this Day cannot possibly be admitted this Evening, but will be received on Thursday, the Eighth of May. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #243 9s. 6d. (242.18.6; 0.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: End III: The Serenade, as17770426; End: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

13818
02 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Booth, Miss Armstrong & Everard [who are named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #114 4s. (46.10; 10.8; 1.11; tickets: 55.15) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; In IV: Grand Dance, as17770425; The Court Minuet, as17770403; Allemande, as17770403

13819
02 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Interlude [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 433; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 5 May]. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at his House in Tavistock-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #187 1s. (87.8; tickets: 99.13) (charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Clock Case or Female Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

13820
03 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book keeper. Tickets delivered for As You Like It on the 10th of May will be taken this Night. Receipts: #257 2s. (62.3; 17.9; 0.0; tickets: 177.10) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End Act I: Grand Dance, as17770425

Song: As17761009

13821
03 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by the Widow of the late Dall, Sga Tinte, Thompson, Jones and Bates will be taken this Night. Receipts: #283 8s. 6d. (54.5.6; 1.4.6; tickets: 127.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: End: The Serenade, as17770426

Music: End II: solo on the pedal harp-Jones

13822
05 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter, and Mahon. Gazetteer, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 20, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden; of Mahon, No. 6, Paradise-street, Marybone. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by-Richards]: The Music entirely new, composed by William? Bates. Receipts: #256 13s. 6d. (126.0.6; tickets: 130.13.0) (charge: #72 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Device or The Marriage Office

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races, as17770428

Song: End I: A Welcome to the Spring (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

13823
06 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Legg & Kear. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Legg, Market-street, St James's Market; of Kear, No: 2, Stephen-street, Tottenham Court Road. Tickets delivered for Wednesday the 7th Inst. will be taken. Receipts: #229 1s. (36.12; 10.12; 0.0; tickets: 181.17) (charge: #64 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425

13824
06 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Ward. The Country Mad-Cap [announced on playbill of 5 May] is obliged to be set aside on account of Mrs Pitt's indisposition. Tickets delivered for Alexander the Great, for Saturday, May 3, will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Ward at Stacy's, No. 76, the Corner of Long-acre, Drury-lane. Receipts: #197 18s. (82.10; tickets: 115.8) (charge: #66 1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: All in the Downs, as17770425

Song: As17770505

13825
07 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #219 15s. 6d. (204.16.0; 13.17.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17770110