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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.

13876
22 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The 21st night [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Account-Book, 21 Nov.: Paid Sheridan Net Rect. of Scl. for Scandal 22d Oct. last #280 11s. Receipts: #280 11s. (274.10.0; 5.8.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In III: song-Vernon. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 20 May 1778.

13877
23 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [The playbill retains Wilson as Maclaymore, but "At the close of the Play Hull came forward and made an Apology for Wilson's not playing Maclaymore...on Account of his being taken suddenly ill with an Ague, and begged their Acceptance of Fearon in the Part, which was accepted with that good Nature which distinguishes a British Audience" (Morning Chronicle, 24 Oct.).] Receipts: #100 15s. 6d. (100.11.0; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: As17771016

13878
24 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Land Tax one-half year on Theatre #52 10s.; Tax on Window Lights #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #171 11s. 6d. (171.3.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771008

13879
28 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With alterations [by the author (Morning Post, 29 Oct.)]. Receipts: #234 9s. (214.17; 14.6; 5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Music: With a Grand Triumphal Entry of Publius, with theoriginal Music by Boyce-

13880
29 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Principal Parts New Dressed. Receipts: #202 15s. (201.10; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17771010

13881
30 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Bon Ton, announced on playbill of 29 Oct.] Receipts: #124 19s. (107.13; 14.17; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17771018

Music: As17771028

13882
30 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In text of mainpiece Sir Harry Lizard is Sir Harry Lovewit, but "Lizard" was the form invariably used in the playbills.] Receipts: #120 13s. (118.4; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: Afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Mrs Farrell. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

13883
31 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman elder.] Paid DeLoutherbourg #41 13s. 4d. [this paid monthly throughout season]. Receipts: #104 3s. 6d. (75.9.0; 27.16.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Dance: II: Masquerade Scene with Dancing-Burton, Henry, Mrs Marklew; End III: Rural Grace, as17771002

Song: II: Masquerade Scene song-Miss Abrams

13884
01 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Characters new dressed in the Habits of the Country. Receipts: #160 3s. (159.1; 1.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13885
04 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Prologue by Nicholas Rowe.] Receipts: #134 9s. 6d. (119.19.0; 12.17.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Song: IV: the original song To thee oh gentle sleep-Miss Abrams

13886
04 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Lear, announced on playbill of 3 Nov.] On playbill of 3 Nov.: Tamerlane [usually acted on this night (see 4 Nov. 1782)] is obliged to be laid aside on account of Mrs Barry's Indisposition. Receipts: #92 18s. 6d. (91.10.0; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End: The Enchantress-Aldridge, Harris, Miss Valois

Song: As17771008

13887
06 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. With Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy. London Chronicle, 7 Nov., prints a detailed synopsis of the alterations.]. The Characters entirely new dressed; with New Scenery and Decorations. [Morning Chronicle, 7 Nov.: Mrs Barry entered into the character of Mandane with all that strength of conception which characterizes her acting in general. Many of the passages received additional force from the judicious breaks and sudden transitions in her manner of giving them.] Receipts: #200 3s. (199.6; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17771104

13888
07 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Kirkpatrick is identified in Morning Chronicle, 8 Nov. He was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #132 11s. 6d. (129.19.0; 2.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Comus

13889
08 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 6 May 1776]. With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley Sen?.. Public Advertiser, 10 Nov.: "Jenny Diver forgot her song...and continued inflexibly silent till a Wag behind the Scenes assumed her Voice, and sung the Song for her"; ibid, 15 Nov., identifies this wag as Bannister, who sang "in a feigned voice." [Webster was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (167.2.0; 24.16.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Blurton. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

13890
10 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfall, as it was originally performed. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #177 7s. (160.4; 16.9; 0.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

13891
11 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Baddeley as Polly, but she "being indisposed Miss Walpole played the part of Polly on Tuesday night' (London Chronicle, 12 Nov.).] Paid Chettell, timber merchant, #286 13s. Receipts: #135 15s. 6d. (118.10.0; 16.18.6; 0.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771107, but Master _Holland, Henry

13892
14 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 18 Mar. 1776]. Receipts: #116 13s. 6d. (91.18.0; 22.15.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002 II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.

13893
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Hull, altered from The School for Guardians by Arthur Murphy. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser 19 Nov.]: With New Dresses, &c. The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by Dr Arne, Sacchini and Fisher. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in Love Finds the Way (6d.). [Miss Courtenay is identified in the Airs.] Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

13894
19 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of a Regattav. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #269 7s. 6d. (259.1.0; 9.11.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

13895
20 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Francis for writing parts #2 11s. Receipts: #108 19s. 6d. (107.3.6; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771111

13896
22 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 7 Feb. 1771]. Receipts: #202 13s. 6d. (186.10.0; 15.0.6; 1.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: As17771018

13897
24 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 2 Feb. 1770]. Receipts: #186 19s. (161.11.0; 24.4.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

13898
25 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by James Messink and Carlo Antonio Delpini. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of action in London Chronicle, 26 Nov.]: The Scenery, Machinery, &c. painted new by Carver, Greenwood and Garvey. The Overture and the rest of the Music composed new by Fisher. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 3 Feb. 1778: Paid Fisher for composing songs, &c. in The Tempest [see 27 Dec. 1776], and other pieces, as per bill, #131 11s. Receipts: #190 16s. (182.18; 7.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: Afterpiece: Dancing-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

13899
29 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 11 Feb. 1774]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Paid Lampmen #4 10s.; Billstickers #2 14s.; Tailor #4 19s. 3d. Receipts: #144 12s. 6d. (126.3.0; 16.19.0; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

13900
04 December 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: With a Grand Procession. [Both the dance and the procession were included in all subsequent performances, except on 23 Apr. 1778. For Henderson as Don John see hay, 19 Aug. 1777.] Receipts: #153 11s. 6d. (125.19.0; 18.0.6; 9.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: In afterpiece: a Dance of Evil Spirits-