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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.

13951
18 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #253 2s. (251.12.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End III: As17771222

13952
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Hamlet [announced on playbill of 18 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Abraham Portal. Larpent MS 445; not published]: The Overture and Music [by Thomas Linley Jun.] entirely new. With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Words of the Songs, Chorusses, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 19 Feb. 1778: This Day at Three will be published the Songs in The Cady of Bagdad (6d.). Receipts: #180 0s. 6d. (130.9.0; 49.7.6; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

13953
20 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of St. Patrick's Day, announced on playbill of 19 Feb.] Receipts: #168 5s. 6d. (166.15.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

13954
21 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Character of the Dyer's Daughter [in afterpiece], performed by Waldron, will be changed. Receipts: #154 0s. 6d. (121.1.0; 32.12.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

13955
23 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Alterations. Receipts: #274 18s. 6d. (256.3.0; 18.9.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

13956
23 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 23 May 1774]. Receipts: #199 10s. 6d. (198.12.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: In: As17770929; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: End IV: Solemn Dirge, as17770929, but _Reinhold, Battishill

13957
24 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 15 Jan. 1772]. Receipts: #231 15s. 6d. (213.0.0; 18.13.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17780211

13958
25 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 10s. (264.17.0; 8.6.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17771014

13959
25 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 24 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Wilson's sudden and violent indisposition. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #138 10s. (135.4.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

13960
02 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 7 years [on 1 Nov. 1776]. Receipts: #206 12s. (205.1; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

13961
05 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Henderson's 1st appearance as Valentine was at Bath, 1 Feb. 1777.] Receipts: #192 8s. (171.12.0; 20.14.6; 0.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: As17771009

13962
09 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 11s. (280.11.6; 1.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: a new dance, All in the Downs or Farewell to Deal-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

13963
14 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq. Receipts: #171 8s. (169.9; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End IV: as17780309

13964
16 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Bingham is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Miles Peter Andrews, based on Le Bucheron; ou, Les Trois Souhaits, by Jean Francois Guichard. Music by Francois Hippolyte Barthelemon]: With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Books of the Songs, Chorusses, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar, 1778: This Day is published the Songs in Belphegor (6d.). [Text 1st published in Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1788.] Receipts: #196 0s. 6d. (156.5.0; 38.13.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor or The Wishes

13965
19 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Love for Love is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #261 14s. (241.11; 20.3; 0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17780109

13966
23 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, as altered by Thomas Hull]. Translated from [Iphigenie en aulide, by] Racine by Boyer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barry, No. 26, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #273 19s. 6d. (157.18.6; tickets: 116.1.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia Or The Victim

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17771222

Song: V: will be introduced a Sacrifice-;, with new Music by Fisher-; the vocal parts and chorus-Miss Brown, others

13967
24 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of Belphegor. Receipts: #99 18s. 6d. (83.9.0; 15.17.0; 0.12.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: End II: will be revived Slingsby's grand ballet, The Savage Hunters-Slingsby, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Crespi

13968
24 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Daily Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, Tavistock-Row, Covent-Garden. [Mrs Bulkley's 1st appearance as Portia was at this theatre, 1 Jan. 1768.] Receipts: #212 8s. (132.1; tickets: 80.7) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: La Soiree a@la@Mode, as17771103; End IV: As17780309

13969
26 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Morning Chronicle, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Smith at his house, Beaufort-buildings, Strand. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen are desired to send servants before Five o'Clock, to keep their Places; and those who have Places in the Pit are requested to come early, to prevent Confusion and Inconvenience to themselves. Receipts: #284 6s. (145.4: 10.15; 1.6; tickets: 127.1) (charge: #62 2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

13970
28 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [As afterpiece Genest, VI, 25, lists The Romp, "1st time," with partial cast. In an advance notice of Mrs Mattocks' benefit in Public Advertiser, 20 Mar., the farce advertised for 28 Mar. is The Romp, "1st time," with full cast; this appears to have been Genest's source. But in the same newspaper for 25, 26, 27 Mar. the farce advertised is Three Weeks after Marriage. The Romp was 1st acted at the Capel Street Theatre, Dublin, 23 Jan. 1771, and in London at the hay, 12 Nov. 1781. See also dl, 21 Nov. 1785.] Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks at her house in Covent Garden. Receipts: #160 9s. (101.19; tickets: 58.10) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: After Epilogue: All in the Downs; or, Farewell to Deal, as17780309but _Besford, Mrs White

13971
30 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #194 16s. (143.9; tickets: 51.7) (charge: #66 13s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: 2nd piece: Aldridge. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: III: Epithalamium-; the vocal parts-Robson, Miss Dayes

13972
30 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entryv. [Public Advertiser, I Apr., identifies the Epilogue as an alteration by Garrick of his epilogue to Alfred.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by J Hough]: The Music composed by William? Bates. Tickets delivered for The Brothers will be taken. Books of the Performances to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge at Thelwall's, Silk Mercer, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 13s. 6d. (141.9.0; 11.15.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 132.7.0) (charge: #76 19s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great Or The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Second Thought is Best

13973
31 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. [Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Macbeth at Bath, 12 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #275 18s. [156.2; 9.1; 0.0; tickets: 110.15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17780324

Song: In: the original Music, as17780105, but _Edwards, Philimore, Mrs +Gaudry, Mrs +Wrighten

13974
31 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #234 8s. 6d. (174.19.6; tickets: 59.9.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771222

13975
02 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at Mahon's, the corner of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #222 19s. (108.19.0; 18.17.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 94.16.0) (charge: #65 1s.). Account-Book totals the charge as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Sup[ernumeraries] 3s.; K[ettle] D[rum] 5s.; 6 Ext[ra] Carp[enter]s 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

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