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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: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #251 11s. (231.10.0; 19.19.6; 0.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: As17791120

Event Comment: [As afterpiece Public Advertiser erroneously announces Belphegor.] Receipts: #133 10s. (100.15; 32.11; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #146 5s. 6d. (113.6.0; 32.11.0; 0.8.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. The Stratagem and The Critic [both announced on playbill of 8 Dec.] are unavoidably obliged to be deferred till to-morrow. Receipts: #106 15s. 6d. (75.11.0; 30.6.6; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Afterpiece Title: os The Dupe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the author of Percy [Hannah More]. 5th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season.Prologue by the author. Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see text).] Receipts: #121 (118.1; 2.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Falshood

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Event Comment: [Delpini's 1st appearance in England was at cg, in pantomime, 26 Dec. 1776. And see cg, 6 Oct. 1779.] Receipts: #183 12s. 6d. (133.12.0; 49.19.6; 0.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: End IV:new Comic Pantomime Dance (composed by Delpini) The Sportsman Deceiv'd-Delpini (1st appearance as a dancer in England), Menage, the Miss Stageldoirs, Sga Crespi

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #268 1s. (266.15; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations by Garrick. Never acted here. Receipts: #160 2s. (157.19; 2.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by William Hodson. Prologue by William Collier, Poems (1800, 1, 241). Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Dresses, and new Scenery and Decorations design'd by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Public Advertiser, 19 Jan. 1780: This Morning at Ten is published Zoraida (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #147 10s. 6d. (118.1.0; 28.12.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Song: See17791214

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #99 3s. (70.6.0; 28.2.6; 0.14.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17791122

Event Comment: [Elliot is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #130 15s. (128.7; 2.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Dance: End II: Dance of Slaves-

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #258 15s. 6d. (242.11.0: 15.18.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: As17791210Delpini, Menage, the Miss Stageldoirs, Sga Crespi

Event Comment: The Mirror is set aside till the Holidays on account of some proposed Alterations and Additions [see 27 Dec.]. Receipts: #111 18s. (110.10; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End I: The Dockyard, as17791204; V: a Dance of Foresters-Dagueville

Event Comment: Benefit for the Welsh Charity School, over against the Foundling Hospital. Receipts: #239 2s. (85.15; 17.11; 0.0; tickets: 135.16) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Event Comment: Paid Wardrobe #9 1s. Receipts: #196 3s. 6d. (194.10.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Receipts: #205 8s. (80.12; 30.8; 0.0; tickets: 94.8) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Selima And Azor

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Performers and Others retiring from the Stage. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: End II: The Dockyard, as17791204

Event Comment: Benefit for the Dispensary for the Infant Poor in Soho-Square. Tickets delivered for As You Like It will be admitted. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Receipts: #193 18s. (117.4; tickets: 76.14) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

Song: End II: As17790927; End II: Song in The Milesian, being a description of a Sea Fight [Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak]-Bannister

Event Comment: Afterpiece: 23rd night [see 11 Dec.]. Receipts: #188 11s. (148.3; 40.2; 0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #90 2s. (88.19.6; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: The Dockyard, as17791204

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 23 May 1778. As afterpiece the playbill announces the 24th night of The Critic, but it was not acted (see 1 Jan. 1780). Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.]. Receipts: #162 2s. (135.2; 26.9; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: I: Masquerade, Dance-

Song: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Edwards, Fawcett, Holcroft, Chaplin, Shaw, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Miss Coats, Mrs Granger, Mrs Booth, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Simson

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Hartley as Imoinda, but she "being taken suddenly ill, Mrs Jackson, though at a very short notice, will appear in the character of Imoinda this Evening" (printed slip attached to BM playbill).] Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions [P 3. This was originally entitled The Mirror; it is billed, correctly, as the 16th time. Synopsis of this alteration in London Chronicle, 28 Dec.]. Receipts: #191 3s. (188.8; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in piace of The Winter's Tale, announced on playbill of 27 Dec.] Receipts: #124 14s. 6d. (99.3.0; 24.9.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Sportsman Deceiv'd, as17791210 but entitled: +The Huntsman Deceiv'd

Song: I: song-Miss Abrams

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Elopement, announced on playbill of 28 Dec.] Receipts: #134 1s. 6d. (106.11.0; 26.1.6; 1.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders Of Derbyshire

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Love for Love, announced on playbill of 29 Dec.] Receipts: #96 19s. (63.6.0; 32.18.6; 0.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Dance: I: As17791103; End I afterpiece: The Sportsman Deceiv'd, as17791228