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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.

15576
13 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb. Prologue by the author (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 22 Jan. 1787: This Evening be published The First Floor (1s.). Receipts: #227 (187.0; 39.4; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: a new Dance, La Soiree Provencalle-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp

15577
13 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 21 Feb. 1784]. Receipts: #318 1s. 6d. (315.5.0; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15578
15 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. In Act III the Procession and Ceremony at the Tomb of Cresphontesv. Vocal Parts-Darley, others. Receipts: #187 3s. (184.14; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15579
19 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Artaxerxes, announced on playbill of 18 Jan.] Receipts: #192 (187.16; 4.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15580
20 January 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Alceste is unavoidable postponed on account of the indisposition of Mme Mara. Receipts: #246 11s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giannina E Bernardone

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870116; End Opera: an allegorical Ballet, composed by Hus, divided into 3 Quadrilles, L'Heureux Evenement-Goyon, Laborie, Mlle Mozon, Henry, Gricourt, Sala, Mme Delfevre, Mme Bithmer, Giorgi, Mme Gervais Perignon

15581
22 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce. Receipts: #266 16s. 6d. (229.3.0; 34.0.6; 3.13.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

15582
22 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Love in a Village, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book. The playbill for 19 Jan. has "17th Time," and for 25 Jan. "19th Time.'] Receipts: #217 6s. (210.8; 6.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15583
23 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford One Year and 9 Mos. Rent for the Theatre, the House in Bow Street, and the House in the passage #336 17s. 6d. Receipts: #180 (176.16; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15584
25 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Richard Coeur de Lion [announced on playbill of 24 Jan.] isis deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #225 9s. 6d. (177.11.0; 46.13.0; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

15585
26 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Mrs Abington's reconciliation scene was particularly fine-no declamation-no attempt at tragedizing-it...carried the full proof of conviction and repentance" (Public Advertiser, 27 Jan.). Receipts: #238 5s. 6d. (235.4.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

15586
27 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, By John O'Keeffe. Prologue by George Colman elder (Colman, Prose, III, 276)]. The curtain was obliged to be dropt before the piece was finished, amidst the disapprobation of a very splendid and numerous audience" (Public Advertiser, 29 Jan.). Receipts: #219 6s. 6d. (216.5.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Man Milliner

15587
29 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Artaxerxes is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Billington. Receipts: #243 14s. 6d. (241.6.0; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Dance: As17861023

Song: As17861211, but Vocal Parts-_Pemberton

15588
31 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #206 18s. 6d. (166.14.0; 37.15.0; 2.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

15589
01 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid One Half Yrs Land Tax #48 2s. 4d. Receipts: #264 18s. (249.1.0; 15.12.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: II: [Dr Cooke]'s Glee, Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke

15590
01 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #206 13s. 6d. (200.2.6; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: As17870131

15591
02 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Friday night, about 20 minutes before eight o'clock, on the conclusion of the third act, a very serious alarm took place at Drury Lane Theatre. A fire broke out at an oil-shop, the corner of Little Brydges-street. The flames appearing through the windows at the back of the upper gallery, the alarm of fire spread through many parts of the house. [The audience was dismissed, those in the boxes] passing over the stage into Russel-street...Some of the box and pit company continued for a time on the stage with the performers, some of whom were dressed in character, others half dressed, and the appearance [was] truly motley" (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.). Receipts: #133 12s. (129.10; "An Alarm of Fire prevented the 2nd Acct."; 3.12; tickets not come in: 0.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife 1st 3 Acts Only

15592
05 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #318 8s. (304.1; 14.2; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: As17870201

Song: As17870201

15593
06 February 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd for a Box #2 2s. Receipts: #129 7s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Dance: As17870120

15594
07 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Mrs Pollard is identified byMS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #141 14s. 6d. (106.16.0; 32.5.6; 2.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

15595
09 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book, 14 Feb.: Paid Mrs Abington for 4 Nights Performance #120. Afterpiece: Taken from Solyman the Magnificent of Marmontel. Receipts: #127 13s. (119.8.6; 8.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, as17870131

Ballet: Afterpiece conclude: with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Byrn; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

15596
10 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Count of Narbonne [announced on playbill of 9 Feb] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons. Receipts: #116 19s. 6d. (77.5.0; 36.13.0; 1.16.6; tickets not come in: 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17870126

15597
10 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Prologue by Thomas Vaughan. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text). Public Advertiser, 14 Feb: Part of Andrews's Epilogue to Eloisa [see 20 Dec. 1786]...was blended with Epilogue spoken on first representation of Such Things Are]: With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 1 Dec. 1787: This Day is published Such Things Are (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #214 10s. (212.10; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15598
12 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Palmer having relapsed, and being incapable of performing, The School for Scandal [announced on playbill of 10 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred. [Afterpiece in place of The First Floor, announced as above.] Receipts: #152 2s. 6d. (118.7.0; 26.16.0; 5.9.6; tickets not come in: 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Song: As17861226

15599
12 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #316 8s. (315.3; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15600
14 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #263 14s. 6d. (258.14.0; 5.0.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier