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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.

15001
15 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [3rd piece in place of Rose and Colin, announced on playbill of 14 Oct.] Receipts: #198 12s. (193/0/6; 5/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

15002
16 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Triumph of Mirth [announced on playbill of 14 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #97 2s. 6d. (75/14/0; 21/7/0; 0/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17830918

Song: In Act v of mainpiece a song by Miss Field

15003
17 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Bold Stroke for a Husband [announced on playbill of 16 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of Mrs Mattocks's sudden Illness. Receipts: #177 14s. 6d. (171/3/6; 6/11/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

15004
20 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 17 Jan. 1750]. With new Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #193 11s. (169/7/0; 23/14/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince Or The Battle Of Poictiers

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

15005
21 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In 1st piece the playbill assigns Father Paul to Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Booth.] Receipts: #174 15s. (171/11; 3/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

15006
22 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1 Yrs. Rent #339 16s. 3d. Receipts: #164 At. 6d. (132/12/0; 30/6/0; 1/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17831020

15007
22 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command ofTheir Majesties. Receipts: #315 14s. 6d. (312/17/0; 2/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

15008
28 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of St. Patrick's Day, announced on playbill of 27 Oct.] Receipts: #183 19s. (182/15; 1/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Author

15009
29 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Comic Opera called The Poor Soldier [announced on playbill of 28 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Kennedy's Illness [see 4 Nov.]. Receipts: #126 13s. 6d. (124/9/6; 2/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

15010
30 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #198 13s. 6d. (146/18/0; 49/4/0; 0/9/0; tickets not come in: 2/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17831009

15011
31 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Received Norris's salary returned, having left the theatre, #4 15s. Receipts: #289 12s. (273/9/0; 14/0/6; 0/17/6; tickets not come in: 1/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece, as17831018

15012
03 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Isabella was at Bath, 11 Dec. 1779.] Receipts: #281 2s. 6d. (264/6/0; 16/7/6; 0/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

15013
04 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 26 Feb. 1772]. Receipts: #126 3s. (80/5/0; 45/0/6; 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; Afterpiece to conclude with a Treble Hornpipe by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir

15014
04 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Prologue by Nicholas Rowe.] Afterpiece [1st time; co 2, by John O'Keeffe, altered from his The Shamrock (see CG, 7 Apr. 1783); published (1st authorized) as noted above]: The selected Music by the Author of the Piece. The Overture, new Airs and Accompaniments by Shield. With New Dresses, Scenery, &c. The Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 30 June 1784: Paid O'Keeffe for Copyright, &c. of The Poor Soldier #315. Receipts: #218 14s. (215/7; 3/7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In mainpiece To thee, O, gentle sleep by Brett

15015
05 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Smith for Canvas to end of last season #67 Receipts: #291 16s. (281/9/0; 9/14/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Song: As17831013

15016
06 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kemble's 1st appearance as King Richard was at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 26 Apr. 1782.] Receipts: #130 10s. 6d. (99/15/0; 29/5/6; 0/10/0; tickets not come in: 1/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude as17831104

15017
08 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Lord of the Manor [announced on playbill of 7 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Afterpiece: In which will be introduced an Air Balloon. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #154 4s. (108/3/0; 45/8/6; 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Dance by Second, Ferrere and the Miss Stageldoirs. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

15018
08 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; tc 5]: Altered from [The Picture, by Philip] Massinger [by Henry Bate; incidental music by William Shield. Prologue by William Pearce (see text)]. With New Dresses, Scenery, &c. Afterpiece: Written by O'Keeffe. London Chronicle, 10 Nov., prints the words of the Chorus, and also of a song sung by Quick, Poor Hillario, once so jolly, and of one sung by Mrs Martyr, Would you view the loveliest rose. Receipts: #209 16s. (205/3; 4/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

15019
10 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the Procession from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen. Afterpiece: To end with a Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show on the Water. After which will be an Historical Procession of the Several Companies, with their respective Pageants, and the Chief Magistrates belonging to the City of London, from its Foundation. Books of the Songs, with an Explanation of the Procession, to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #198 8s. 6d. (195/9/0; 2/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day or A Flight from Lapland in an Air Balloon

Song: In Act III of mainpiece a song by Mrs Kennedy

15020
11 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Rival Knights and The Country Mad-Cap, both announced on playbill of 10 Nov.] Receipts: #178 13s. 6d. (175/3/0; 3/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

15021
12 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #315 4s. 6d. (312/0/6; 3/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

15022
13 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "With respect to Mrs Siddons, in [Act v of Douglas], there was no question about her superiority [to Mrs Crawford]; and her passions were displayed in the tones of harmony; her great rival seemed to me the first of a school, in latter periods much admired, which deemed discordance the natural ally of anguish, and tortured the ear to overpower the heart" (Boaden, Siddons, 11,76). Receipts: #289 9s. (284/0/6; 5/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

15023
14 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 14 years. Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. (86/14/0; 28/19/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 3/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

15024
17 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Macbeth, announced on playbill of 15 Nov.] Receipts: #157 18s. (153/1; 4/17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

15025
18 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: Never performed here. Receipts: #100 10s. (76/9/0; 20/2/6; 0/1/0; tickets not come in: 3/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover