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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.

14226
01 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: 24th night [see 27 Dec. 1779]. Receipts: #153 2s. (106.6; 45.18; 0.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: As17791126

14227
03 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Fatal Falshood [announced on playbill of 1 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Hartley. Receipts: #189 2s. (186.14; 2.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

14228
03 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 13 years [acted 5 May 1770]. With Alterations and 3 entire new Scenes [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; and new music by Thomas Linley Sen.]. To conclude with a Representation of the Storming of Fort Omoa in the Bay of Hondurasv [when it was captured by the British from the Spaniards on 26 Oct. 1779. This scene was included in all subsequent performances]. The View and Machinery designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. With New Dresses and Decorations. "The scenemen blundered egregiously all through the entertainment. During the siege of the fort so much gunpowder was fired off that the stage was so filled with smoke that the officers, men, were scarcely discernible from the boxes" (London Chronicle, 4 Jan.). Receipts: #203 2s. 6d. (154.7.0;47.17.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14229
06 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Yates being ill, Measure for Measure [announced on playbill of 5 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred. [But it was not acted this season.] Receipts: #137 11s. 6d. (95.7.0; 40.13.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14230
07 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Never acted here. Receipts: #153 (151.0; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

14231
10 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "As soon as the Play was over at Covent Garden Theatre yesterday evening, Reinhold walked forward and told the audience that 'It would be esteemed a particular mark of their Kindness and Favour if they would accept Miss Cranfield's performance of Colombine, Miss Brown having been taken extremely ill"' (Morning Chronicle, 11 Jan.). Receipts: #195 2s. (193.6; 1.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

14232
11 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Flitch of Bacon [announced on playbill of 10 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Miss Brown's Indisposition. Receipts: #116 2s. (114.9; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

Dance: As17791231

14233
12 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Alwin was at Bath, 1 May 1777.] Receipts: #141 1s. (137.16; 3.5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

14234
13 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #178 12s. 6d. (149.6.0; 28.4.0; 1.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14235
13 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Siege of Damascus [announced on playbill of 12 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #114 10s. (112.10; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

14236
14 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid one-half Year's Land Tax #52 10s.Paid Church and Militia Rate for Theatre, 1779, #17 10s. Receipts: #292 13s. (291.17; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End II: As17790922

14237
17 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, announced on playbill of 15 Jan.] Receipts: #153 8s. 6d. (112.16.0; 39.2.0; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14238
17 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: #201 (196.19; 4.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

14239
18 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Charles Dibdin: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Overture, and all the Music entirely new, composed by Dibdin. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Jan. 1780: This Afternoon is published The Shepherdess of the Alps (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #158 13s. (156.16.6; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: As17791022

14240
20 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Elliot is identified by MS anotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #208 1s. (178.2 29.5: 0.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14241
20 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17791022

14242
24 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 25 years [not acte since 30 Apr. 1747. The playbill assigns Caska to Aickin, but "Gardner...read Caska, at a short notice, on Aickin's being taken ill" (Gazetteer, 25 Jan.).]. Receipts: #238 4s. (211.8; 25.18; 0.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14243
25 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Zoraida [announced on playbill of 24 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Aickin's Illness. Receipts: #211 9s. 6d. (175.10.0; 34.11.0; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

14244
25 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 2 Dec. 1773]. Receipts: #121 1s. 6d. (117.16.6; 3.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

14245
26 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author's [of mainpiece] Heirs. Receipts: #129 13s. (92.11.0; 35.5.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

14246
29 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author of Prologue unknown.] Receipts: #152 10s. 6d. (113.10.0; 36.16.0; 2.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14247
29 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Artaxerxes and The Deaf Lover [both announced on playbill of 28 Jan.] are unavoidably obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Leoni and Wilson. Receipts: #98 1s. (96.2; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

14248
01 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 5, by Richard Cumberland. Larpent MS 508, which also lists the following parts: Marsyas, Gumias, Chloris. Text not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 2 Feb. Songs published, without listings parts (G. Kearsley, 1780)]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The Songs set to music and a new Overture by Butler. Book of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 1 Feb. 1780: This Afternoon is published the Songs in The Widow of Delphi (6d.). Receipts: #228 4s. 6d. (227.4.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi Or The Descent Of The Dieties

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

14249
02 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Julius Caesar [announced on playbill of 1 Feb.] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Henry's illness. Receipts: #124 8s. (93.3.0; 26.16.6; 4.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

14250
02 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Frederick Pilon, altered from his The Device (see 27 Sept. 1779); incidental music by William Shield; Prologue by the author (see text)]. Account-Book, 16 June: Paid Pilon for the Deaf Lover #100. Receipts: #192 3s. (190.0.6; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover