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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: The Real Air Balloon [see 3 Feb.] having been found, in the confined Air of a Theatre, to be not only very offensive, but in a Degree dangerous, it cannot be again exhibited. Receipts: #145 13s. (141/17; 3/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Event Comment: Mrs Crawford continuing hoarse, The Grecian Daughter [announced on playbill of 7 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed. Receipts: #156 11s. (153/10; 3/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Song: As17831218, but omitted: Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 17 May 1774]. "Bensley, whose Sense and Sensibility are always apparent, though not perhaps always successful, fell far short of Henderson in Old Norval" (Public Advertiser, 13 Feb.). Receipts: #274 15s. (258/5/0; 15/8/6; 1/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Dance: As17831213

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Henry Mackenzie; Prologue by the author (Knapp, p. 274)]: Altered from Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. Gazetteer, 29 Apr. 1784: This Day is published The Shipwreck (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #180 17s. 6d. (166/12/0; 14/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Lord Morelove and Henderson as Sir Charles Easy, but "an apology was made for the Illness of [Henderson], and Wroughton became his substitute, Wroughton's Place in Lord Morelove being supplied by Williamson from the Haymarket" {Public Advertiser 13 Feb.). Afterpiece in place of Rosina, announced on playbill of 10 Feb.] Receipts: #277 6s. (269/9; 7/17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Event Comment: Account-Book, 13 Feb.: Paid Macklin for 4 Nights Performance #126. Receipts: #241 14s. (236/0; 5/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: "The appearance of Mrs Abington in the two characters of the Capricious Lady and Lady Bab Lardoon cannot fail of being considered as a high Treat ... as the first exhibits the coy, formal Manners of the last Age, and the latter the free degagee Breeding of the present" (Public Advertiser, 13 Feb.). Receipts: #227 12s. 6d. (211/10/0; 16/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830917; In Act I of afterpiece Dance by Harris, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Miles Peter Andrews. Prologue and Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text)]: With new Scenery and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 26 Feb. 1784: This Day at Noon will be published The Reparation (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #161 1s. (148/16/0; 11/19/6; 0/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude as17831104

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of The Devil upon Two Sticks, announced on playbill of 13 Feb.] Receipts: #126 3s. 6d. (122/12/0; 3/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #112 14s. (85/8/0; 26/17/6; 0/8/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Gave the Poor of Covent Garden Parish #2 2s. Receipts: #159 17s. (152/15; 7/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #164 13s. 6d. (162/11/0; 2/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Mainpicce: Not acted these 3 years. "[As Cleopatra] the Form of Miss Younge is sufficiently lovely—but her Countenance, without speaking of it all prophanely, is surely not sufficiently venereal" (Public Advertiser, 25 Feb.). Receipts: #195 1s. (190/12; 4/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Event Comment: Account-Book, 1 Mar.: Paid Mrs Abington on Account #100. Receipts: #243 15s. (241/7; 2/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #180 12s. 6d. (179/5/0; 1/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Afterpiece: Taken from Soliman the Magnificent of Marmontel. Receipts: #276 17s. 6d. (271/13/6; 5/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as the Countess of Salisbury was at Bath, 25 Nov. 1778.] "So thoroughly wretched, so utterly destitute of all Requisites is this Tragedy ... that it excites with Wonder not a little Indignation that the unexampled Genius of such an actress [as Mrs Siddons] should be wasted on Dullness if possible yet more unexampled" {Public Advertiser, 8 Mar.). Receipts: #275 0s. 6d. (256/7/0; 16/19/6; 1/9/0; ticket not come in: 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Harriet Horncastle Hook]: The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by Hook. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. "After four Hours sitting at Hamlet, and Half an Hour more at Miss Hamoir's Ballet, we were cheered indeed by the Overture to the Double Disguise" (Public Advertiser, 11 Mar.). Morning Chronicle, 20 Mar. 1784: This Day is published The Double Disguise (1s.). Receipts: #167 12s. 6d. (116/8/0; 50/19/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Ballet, The Return of the Hunters, by Mr and Miss Hamoir. [Beginning with the 3rd performance, on 11 Mar., this was entitled The Sportsmen's Return.]

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid One-half Yrs. Land Tax on the Theatre #52 10s., and One-half Yrs. Window Lights [tax] for Theatre #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #327 14s. (323/19; 3/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 16, Upper Seymour-street, Portman Square. Receipts: #307 2s. (212/3; tickets: 94/19) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830917

Song: In Act I of afterpiece a favourite song by Sga Sestini; In Act II she will introduce the celebrated tune of Marlborough, with English words adapted to it

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #106 11s. 6d. (77/2/0; 28/15/6; 0/14/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Event Comment: Mrs Siddons continuing so ill that it is impossible for her to perform on Saturday; her Benefit announced for that Evening is unavoidably postponed till further Notice [see 24 Apr.]. Receipts: #163 11s. (162/1; 1/5; ticket not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Love a-la-Mode [announced on playbill of 16 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #222 11s. (220/9; 2/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Rosin a

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17830917; End of Act IV The Rival Symphs, as17831119, but Mrs Goodwin [i.e. formerly Miss Byrn]

Event Comment: Edward the Black Prince [announced on playbill of 20 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #139 13s. (138/3; 0/10; tickets not come in: 1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17840320End of Act IV, as17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Mainpiece: Never acted here. In Act V a Grand Procession. Receipts: #275 12s. (161/4; tickets: 114/8) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: In Act II of mainpiece an Anthem (singers not listed)