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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.

14876
13 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To prevent Disappointment . . . Mrs Bulkley has obligingly undertaken the part of Portia, on account of Mrs Yates's sudden Indisposition [Mrs Yates having been announced as Portia on playbill of 12 Feb.]. Receipts: #264 15s. 6d. (261/9/0; 3/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17821009; End of Act IV, as17821231

14877
14 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Music and Overture by Carter. Receipts: #95 18s. (94/8; 1/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

14878
14 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Public Advertiser, 13 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 52, Margaret-street, Cavendish Square. Afterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by John O'Keeffe. MS: Larpent 616; not published]: Taken from the Italian of La Serva Padrona [by Gennaro Antonio Federico]. The Music chiefly the Original of Parosasi [i.e. Pergolesi, and so spelled on playbill of 17 Feb.]. The new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #256 5s. 6d. (198/12/0; 7/3/6; tickets: 50/10/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Maids the Mistress

14879
17 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: The Music chiefly the Original of Pergolesi. Receipts: #238 19s. (23 3/4/6; 5/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Maids the Mistress

14880
18 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Mills was from the Edinburgh theatre.] Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. (140/13/0; 32/11/0; 0/0/0; ticket not come in: 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III, as17820917

Song: In Masquerade, by Miss Romanzini

14881
19 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of All the World's a Stage, announced on playbill of 18 Feb.] Receipts: #284 10s. 6d. (274/15/0; 7/13/0; 0/15/0; tickets not come in 1/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

14882
19 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Abington on account of her Salary #250. Receipts: #244 12s. 6d. (235/13/0; 8/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14883
22 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 14 May 1779]. Paid Barratt, Wax Chandler, on Acct. #100. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (126/6/0; 0/7/0; ticket not come in: 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820917; End of Act IV, as17821005

14884
22 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Comedy called A Bold Stroke for a Husband [announced on playbill of 21 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday, on account of Quick's Indisposition. [In mainpiece the theatre playbill lists Fearon as Justice Shallow. Public Advertiser retains Wilson; and in its issue of 24 Feb. reviews him in the part.] Receipts: #148 9s. (139/0/6; 9/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14885
24 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Isabella, announced on playbill of 22 Feb.] Receipts: #300 8s. 6d. (284/0/0; 9/15/6; 0/8/0; tickets not come in: 6/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17821206

14886
25 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Hannah Cowley. Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by John O'Keeffe (O'KeefFe, II, 301); it included a song, music by Carter, When I was a little baby, written by Hannah Cowley]: New Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 26 Jan. 1784: This Day is published A Bold Stroke for A Husband (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #199 5s. 6d. (194/13/0; 4/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

14887
27 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14888
28 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Catherine and Petruchio, announced on playbill of 27 Feb.] Receipts: #240 13s. (227/5/0; 10/8/0; 0/7/6; tickets not come in: 2/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

14889
03 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #97 16s. (89/6; 2/15; tickets not come in: 5/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance proper to the Play

14890
03 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

14891
06 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Clandestine Marriage [announced on playbill of 4 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Afterpiece: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Camp at Cox-Heath [see 15 Oct. 1778]. Receipts: #145 4s. (99/7/0; 45/4/6; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece, as17821003; End of Act II, as17821016

14892
08 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14893
13 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14894
18 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons [who had 1st acted Zara at Liverpool, 21 Oct. 1776]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Part of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #329 16s. 6d. (154/17/0; 3/4/6; 0/0/0; tickets: 171/15/0) (charge: #108 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

14895
22 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Siddons was "below herself. . .There was no Storm of Applause; there was not any of that Stillness of Attention which always precedes the Storm" (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.). Receipts: #280 5s. (266/7/0; 9/11/6; 0/16/6; tickets not come in: 3/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

14896
24 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by William Hodson, based on The Coffee House Politician, by Henry Fielding. Prologue by the author (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 2 May 1783: This Day is published The Adventures of a Night (ix.). Receipts: #166 7s. (112/9; 52/3; 0/10; tickets not come in: 1/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

14897
25 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #326 14s. (142/12/0; 6/14/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 177/0/0) (charge: #67 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

14898
25 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Man of the World [announced on playbill of 24 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #212 10s. (207/19; 4/11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14899
29 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #145 17s. (140/0/0; 5/9/6; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #66 7s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17821016

14900
29 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: none listed (charge: #65 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Rosina