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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.

14901
31 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: dl Receipts: #149 12s. 6d. (106/12/0; 41/4/0; 0/4/0; tickets not come in: 1/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: dl THE ADVENTURES OF A Night

Dance: dl As17830118

14902
31 March 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge [who had 1st acted Monimia at DL, 21 Feb. 1772]. Receipts: #249 11s. 6d. (133/6/6; tickets: 116/5/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

14903
01 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Webb as Glumdalca, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Miss Platt.] Receipts: #280 12s. (154/1; tickets: 126/11) (charge: #105). [Henderson sold 439 tickets in boxes, 74 in pit, 57 in gallery.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17821231

14904
03 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. 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. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope at her house in Great Queen-street. Receipts: #278 3s. (86/14; 21/9; 0/10; tickets: 169/10) (charge: #106 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17830329athi

14905
03 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid One-half Year's Land Tax #52 10s. Receipts: #238 (231/2; 6/18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

14906
05 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. The Music composed by Dr Arne. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #233 11s. (123/6; tickets: 110/5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In mainpiece Vocal Parts by Mrs Bannister, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Kennedy, &c

14907
07 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, Kennington-lane, near Vauxhall. Receipts: #247 12s. 6d. (56/2/0; 17/14/6; 0/2/0; tickets: 173/14/0) (charge: #110 14s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17821016; End of mainpiece, as17820917

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece A Soldier for Me (composed by Hook for The Best Bidder) by Mrs Wrighten

14908
07 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Public Advertiser, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad-court, Bow-street. Afterpiece [1st time in London; co 2. MS: Larpent 620; not published]: Written by the Author of The Castle of Andalusia, The Agreeable Surprise, Son-in-Law, &c &c. [John O'KeefFe, 1st acted at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 15 Apr. 1777, and altered in the CG season of 1783-84 as The Poor Soldier]. The Airs Select [ed by the author from] Irish [airs]. With a New Overture and Accompaniments by Shield, who composed the music of Rosina. The Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #256 9s. (201/10; tickets: 54/19) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Shamrock or The Anniversary of St

Dance: As17830221

14909
08 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. 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: #315 5s.(133/11/0; 5/6/6; 0/2/6; tickets: 176/5/0) (charge: #108 1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

14910
08 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Receipts: #197 17s. (148/16; tickets: 49/1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Shamrock

Dance: As17830221

14911
10 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. 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. "I could wish an actor of Brereton's merit would avoid tones in speaking which approach to something like singing" (Davies, m, 251). Receipts: #311 7s. (131/15/0; 6/9/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 173/1/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

14912
12 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 15s. 6d. (275/1/0; 6/9/6; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Song: As17830329athi

14913
12 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Receipts: #255 12s. 6d. (214/5/6; tickets: 41/7/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17821231

14914
21 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Alexander the Great, announced on playbill of 12 Apr.] Receipts: #142 18s. (127/0/0; 12/7/0; 2/3/6; tickets not come in: 1/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Williames

14915
22 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Receipts: #319 8x. (198/16; tickets: 120/12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Besford

14916
23 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brereton. Receipts: #184 13s. 6d. (62/4/0; 24/16/0; 0/15/6; tickets: 96/18/0) (charge: #113 19s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

14917
23 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont [recte Massinger] and Fletcher. With Alterations [by Leonard Macnally (Not. Dram.)]. To conclude with a Representation of the Ceremony of receiving a Knight of the Order of Malta. The Music by Dr Arne. Afterpiece: Never performed here. Receipts: #292 13s. (197/1; tickets: 95/12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of Malta Or The Humourous Dane

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost or The Devil to do about Her

Dance: As17821231

Song: In the Ceremony, by Reinhold, Mrs Martyr, and others

14918
24 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 35, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Mainpiece: Not acted these 15 years [acted 24 Apr. 1777]. Receipts: #258 6s. (56/16/0; 14/12/6; 0/0/6; tickets: 186/17/0) (charge: #65 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

14919
25 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Afterpiece in place of The Apprentice, announced on playbill of 24 Apr.] Receipts: #184 1s. (99/19/0; 35/14/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 48/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17821122. imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

14920
25 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Lee Lewes in lieu of a Benefit #105. Afterpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. Receipts: #157 1s. 6d. (153/19/0; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece a Dance by Harris, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford

14921
25 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Chapman. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 24, King Street, Holbourn; of Chapman, No. 49, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. The Music by Barthelemon. Receipts: #160 15s. (39/5; 10/4; 0/4; tickets: 111/2) (charge: #108 18s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor or The Wishes

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss J. Stageldoir; End of Act IV The Butterfly by the Miss Stageldoirs

14922
26 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Afterpiece [1st time; c 2]: By the Author of Retaliation [Leonard Macnally, with incidental music by Michael Arne. Prologue by Chalmers (see text, S. Bladon, 1783)]. The Persons represented to be dressed from the Caricatures of Hogarth. Receipts: #191 15s. 6d. (140/1/6; tickets: 51/14/0) (charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: As17820927

14923
28 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. The great Overflow from Covent-Garden Theatre, on Tuesday last, has induced many of Mr Bannister's Friends to desire he would again perform the Part of Polly. In Compliance with the Wish of those to whom he is under so many Obligations, he will, this Evening, make his Appearance in that Character, for the last Time of his appearing in Petticoats [but see 3, 13 May]. Tickets delivered for Alexander and Acis and Galatea will be admitted. Receipts: #276 10s. 6d. (167/11/6; tickets: 108/19/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Poney Races by Harris, Miss Matthews, and others; In Act III, as17830422

14924
29 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Massinger. Receipts: #143 18s. 6d. (56/15/0; 21/6/6; 0/7/0; tickets: 65/10/0) (charge: #108 11s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Madam

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17821107

14925
29 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17820927