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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.

15751
11 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Duenna [advertised on playbill of 10 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Mrs Billington's Indisposition. Receipts: #126 16s. 6d. (124.8.6; 2.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement or The Loves of Bengal

15752
12 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Cambray was the stage name of James Fennell; he was from the Edinburgh theatre (and see 16 Oct. 1789). Ryder's 1st appearance as Iago was at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767.] "Ryder wore his villainy on his sleeve, and evinced nothing of the insidiousness ordinarily expressed by other representatives of the part" (Public Advertiser, 13 Oct.). Receipts: #196 7s. (195.16; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

15753
15 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Grecian Daughter, advertised on playbill of 12 Oct.] Afterpiece: As originally Performed. With new Dresses, the Original Music, Scenery and Decorations. "When the hissing began there was an attempt by the Clown to put the audience in humour, by rolling over and over across the stage with a woman, or a man dressed in women's clothes. If this were a coup d'oeil for the Galleries, it was certainly an insult to the Boxes...We are glad to say that obscenity failed to rescue folly" (World, 16 Oct.). Receipts: #262 4s. (261.3; 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

15754
17 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted this season [see 10 Oct.]. Receipts: #225 14s. (220.11; 5.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

15755
18 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Maddocks, mercer, #56 19s. Receipts: #203 13s. (175.1.0; 28.7.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

15756
18 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Songs [in mainpiece] to be had at the Theatre. [London Chronicle, 19 Oct. lists the new songs: in Act I Charming Clorinda by Bowden; in Act II When spring has chac'd the winter's snow by Mrs Wells and When generous wine by Bowden; in Act III The morn, who night adorning and Bright Sol now darts by Mrs Billington.] Receipts: #284 18s. 6d. (283.7.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood Or Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

15757
22 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Dresses and Decorations. Afterpiece: With Alterations. Receipts: #260 8s. 6d. (257.6.0; 3.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: II: the Grand Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Cubitt, Brown, Darley, Doyle, Rock, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

15758
22 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, but "The Beggar's Opera being performed in lieu of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not (because of Mrs Jordan's illness) was very well received." Reference is made to Dignum as Macheath and Mrs Crouch as Polly (Public Advertiser, 23 Oct.).] Receipts: #110 10s. 6d. [83.11.0; 26.3.0; 0.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

15759
24 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, advertised on playbill of 23 Oct.] Receipts: #99 12s. (69.5.0; 27.18.6; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

15760
25 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Receipts: #164 17s. 6d. (144.13.0; 20.1.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17871006

15761
25 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #327 2s. 6d. (325.2.6; 2.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17871019

15762
26 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Farce of The Farmer [advertised on playbill of 25 Oct., and see 31 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the sudden Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #154 17s. 6d. (150.11.6; 4.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: As17871022

15763
26 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Dryden [by Thomas King. The original alteration, 1700, was by Sir John Vanbrugh, not by Dryden. The present alteration has been attributed to John Philip Kemble, but in his copy of the play, now in the Huntington Library (K-D 95), he has written "by Thomas King"]. Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787: This Day is published, as now revived with material Additions, The Pilgrim (1s.). Receipts: #85 9s. 6d. (72.5.0; 13.4.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End I: a New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs; End III: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End IV: another New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

15764
27 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "In his first scenes [Kemble] was judicious, but too studiously so; and though most critically correct in his address to the Senate, evidenced he was more anxious to do justice to the text of his author than the feelings of Othello. But in the subsequent scenes he made ample recompense, and most successfully combined accuracy of expression with spirit of character...We much approve his dressing Othello in the Moorish habit...[but] is it necessary the Moor should be as black as a native of Guiney?" (Public Advertiser, 29 Oct.). Receipts: #117 16s. (102.6; 15.5; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17870929

15765
29 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Artaxerxes [advertised on playbill of 27 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #118 19s. 6d. (104.6.0; 14.6.6; 0.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

15766
31 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by John O'Keeffe]: A new Overture by Tommaso? Giordani, the rest of the Music composed and selected from Paisiello, Storace and Morelli] by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 27 Nov.: Paid O'Keeffe in full for the Farce & Copyright of The Farmer #150. Receipts: #130 11s. 6d. (124.0.0; 6.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

15767
01 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid T. Finch for Fancy Dresses #63. Receipts: #224 9s. (219.19.6; 4.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

15768
05 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "The leaving Percy untaken up [by Falstaff, in V.iv of mainpiece] was an improvement. The best acting was that of Mrs Pitt" (World, 6 Nov.). Afterpiece: With new Music, Scenes, Machinepy, Dresses, and Decorations. A few of the Airs compiled from Purcell, Travers, Sacchini, &c. The rest of the Music composed by Shield. The Scenery and Machinery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and many assistants. To conclude with the Representation of the inside of a Nabob's Palacev. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #199 0s. 6d. (193.16.0; 5.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15769
06 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, elder.] Paid Danby for Chorus #10 10s. Receipts: #174 5s. 6d. (146.12.0; 27.8.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Dance: End I: a New Dance, as17871026

Song: V: song-Mrs Forster

15770
08 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Pugh, oilman, #92 3s. Afterpiece: From the French of Sedaine. The Music by the celebrated Gretry; and the Paintings by Greenwood. Receipts: #180 9s. 6d. (129.12.0; 48.9.0; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: In III afterpiece: Dance-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

15771
08 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Cooper, printer, for last season #64 10s. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #114 18s. 6d. (111.13.0; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day Or The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

15772
09 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Farren's 1st appearance as Shore was at this theatre, 20 Dec. 1785.] Receipts: #182 7s. 6d. (174.16.0; 7.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

15773
10 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Harriet Lee. Prologue by Richard Cumberland (see text). Epilogue by the author (World, 28 Nov.)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 26 Nov. 1787: This Day is published The New Peerage (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #209 4s. (188.1.0; 19.14.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage Or Our Eyes May Deceive Us

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

15774
12 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Masquerade Scene as 24 Sept. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Apr. 1788]. Receipts: #154 3s. (150.8; 3.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Song: As17870924

15775
13 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but she "had, in her way to the theatre, been overturned in a coach. Mrs Brereton read the part of Miss Harley " (London Chronicle, 14 Nov.). The playbill also lists the song, as 12 Nov., but it was not sung on this or any subsequent night. As afterpiece the playbill announces Comus, in which Mrs Crouch was to appear, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 23 Apr. 1788]. Receipts: #124 14s. 6d. (107.12.0; 15.15.0; 1.7.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage