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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: Paid Price for Men's Cloaths #150. Receipts: #111 11s. (108.17; 2.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771125

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of Percy [announced on playbill of 8 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred till to-morrow, on Account of the Indisposition of two principal Performers. Receipts: #99 19s. (97.19; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771125

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; t 5, by Hannah More, based partly on Gabrielle de Vergy, by Pierre Laurent Buirette de Belloy. Prologue and Epilogue by David Garrick (see text)]: With New Scenes, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 19 Dec. 1777: This Day at Noon is published Percy (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #215 (212.12.6; 2.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: After Epilogue: As17770924

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #204 18s. 6d. (197.18.6; tickets: 7.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [For Henderson as Bayes see hay, 25 Aug. 1777.] Receipts: #113 16s. (91.5; 22.7; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Additional Music and Grand Chorusses from Handel; with New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #190 15s. 6d. (145.1.0; 45.12.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Percy (on account of Wroughton's Hoarseness) is obliged to be deferred till To-morrow. Receipts: #153 17s. (153.5; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771125

Event Comment: The School for Scandal [announced on playbill of 15 Dec.] is unavoidably deferred till To-morrow. Receipts: #96 12s. 6d. (63.11.0; 32.16.0; 0.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #185 13s. [179.3; tickets: 6.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by William Shirley. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 19 Dec. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 23 Dec.). Epilogue by Richard Cumberland (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, IV, 194]: With New Scenes and Dresses. "I have been at another new play, The Roman Sacrifice. It is the old story of Junius Brutus, without a tolerable line. I went to see it, as I had never seen Henderson, and thought I could Judge him better in a new part; but either the part was so bad, or he wants to copy, that I should not have found out he was at all superior to all other actors" (Walpole [23 Dec. 1777], X 170). Receipts: #2223s. 6d. (207.8.0; 13.13.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Sacrifice

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Barry as per Agreement #200. Receipts: #146 9s. (143.9; 3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1!2 Yrs Rent #164 12s. 1!2d. Receipts: #141 11s. 6d. (115.2.0; 25.13.6; 0.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Sacrifice

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment for the Discharge of Persons imprisoned for small Debts. [The Society in charge of this charity was located at 7, Craven-street, Strand (Public Advertiser, 15 Dec.).] Receipts: #181 12s. (125.9; tickets: 56.3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: As17771104

Song: End II: song-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #69 19s. (59.12; 9.11; 0.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Sacrifice

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 21 Oct. 1773]. Receipts: #142 1s. (138.7.6; 3.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: As17771104

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #198 3s. (183.8; tickets: 14.15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Performers and Others retiring from the Stage. Receipts: #88 3s. (87.3; tickets: 1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: The Christmas Tale [announced on playbill of 23 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Dodd's Illness. Receipts: #185 19s. [168.19.0; 16.11.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #224 1s. (221.11; 2.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771125

Song: In I: a song-Leoni

Event Comment: Benefit for the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, in Soho-Square. Receipts: #212 0s. 6d. (112.18.0; 22.9.6; 1.3.0; tickets: 75.10.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17771111

Song: In afterpiece: by Desire, Oh what a charming thing's a battle-Bannister

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions, particularly two Grand New Scenes designed by DeLoutherbourg [see 2 Jan.]. Receipts: #163 13s. 6d. (122.15.0; 40.11.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: To conclude with a grand View of Greenwich Hospital designed by DeLoutherbourg. [This was included in all subsequent performances; notice of the two New Scenes (see 1 Jan.) is omitted. Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Capt. Bobadil at Bath, 21 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #230 1s. 6d. (204.9.0; 25.0.6; 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: The School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 5 Jan.] is deferred till Thursday, on account of Mrs Wrighten's Hoarseness. Receipts: #108 18s. (86.0.0; 21.14.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #291 17s. (279.7.0; 12.5.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 3 May 1774]. Receipts: #181 14s. 6d. (148.17.0; 32.9.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab