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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: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 14 Nov.: Orders #8 5s., Free #2 8s. [#10 13s.]; 21 Nov.: Orders &72 8s., Free #5 10s. [#77 18s.]. Receipts: #251 7s. (234.12.0; 16.2.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: [Miss Tweedale is identified in European Magazine, Nov. 1787, p. 390. Mainpiece: Epilogue by David Garrick.] Receipts: #222 4s. (219.7; 2.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Cambray (the last Time of his performing here this Season). Public Advertiser, 8 Nov.: Tickets to be had of Cambray, No. 18, Norfolk-street. Receipts: #185 1s. 6d. (184.6.0; 4.15.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: Vocal Parts, as17871001, but Janson

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #94 14s. (79.12; 14.4; 0.18; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17871101

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I The Banquetv. [In Act IV] the Procession from the Abbeyv at the Coronation of Anne Bullenv. To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christeningv. Receipts: #145 13s. 6d. (143.15.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #136 8s. 6d. (115.3.0; 20.3.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. To conclude with a Splendid Representation of the Fairy's Palacev. The Paintings by Greenwood. The Music compiled and composed by Linley? Sen. Books of the Songs, Introduction, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #121 9s. (92.0.0; 27.18.6; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly or The Fairy of the Well

Dance: In afterpiece: Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Farmer, but "on account of Edwin's illness [it] was changed to Hob in the Well" (World, 23 Nov.).] Receipts: #155 12s. (152.3; 3.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Event Comment: The Tender Husband [advertised on playbill of 22 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred to Monday [q. v., and 5 Dec.], on Account of Edwin's Indisposition. Receipts: #95 19s. (84.17; 11.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17871029

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #108 9s. (82.0; 25.4; 1.5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Tender Husband, and Three Weeks after Marriage, but the former "was last night obliged to be deferred on account of the real or feigned Indisposition of Mrs Abington, of which was sent to the Theatre at Two o'clock. The Merry Wives of Windsor was substituted...Mrs Wells, to whom the part of Mrs Page belongs, could not or would not play...Mrs Bernard read the part. Bernard also supplied the place of Cubitt in Slender. The Farmer was substituted for Three Weeks after Marriage" (Public Advertiser, 27 Nov.).] Receipts: #158 18s. (151.8.6; 7.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: Julia [advertised on playbill of 26 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons. Afterpiece: 7th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Receipts: #81 4s. 6d. (52.17.0; 27.3.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: The Distressd Baronet

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #281 8s. (274.8.6; 6.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: As17871029

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. According to the last, and much approved, Alterations. Receipts: #140 19s. (99.0.0; 40.13.6; 1.5&6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Dresses and Decorations entirely new. [Afterpiece in place of The Distress'd Baronet, advertised on playbill of 29 Nov.] Receipts: #75 15s. (58.11.0; 16.15.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Sir Richard Steele's Comedy. Never acted at this theatre [acted 17 Mar. 1760, and advertised for performance on 10 Apr. 1764]. Receipts: #229 8s. 6d. (213.19.6; 15.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871029

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill lists Mrs Brereton as Louisa Dudley, but she had been married to J. P. Kemble on the morning of this day at St. Giles in the Fields.] Receipts: #80 9s. (60.13; 19.1; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #145 8s. 6d. (114.0.0; 30.17.6; 0.8.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #198 3s. 6d. (190.15.0; 7.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: [Hollingsworth was from the Liverpool theatre.] Receipts: #89 19s. 6d. (57.13.0; 31.7.0; 0.2.0; tickets not come in. 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: a Country Dance, as17870927; End II: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; In afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour, as17871006

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid Yeomen of the Guard #2 2s., King & Queen's Servants #3 9s. Receipts: #290 6s. (280.3.6; 10.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871129

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #164 9s. (135.1; 28.13; 0.15; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Paid One-half Years Land Tax #84 2s. 6d. Receipts: #228 19s. 6d. (224.15.6; 4.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Larpent MS 789; not published. Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall Jun. (London Chronicle, 17 Dec.); Epilogue by Frederick Pilon (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.)]. [Miss Blower had 1st appeared at dl, 27 Apr. 1782, and thereafter in Dublin.] Receipts: #180 7s. 6d. (169.19.0; 10.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All On A Summers Day

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens