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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.

16026
25 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 Nov. 1761]. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. In Act I a Grand Banquetv. In Act II the Trial of Queen Katharinev. In V a Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabethv. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Mrs Siddons's Queen Katharine was "too laboured -particularly the Trial Scene, where the words came so slow and measured that they seemed to be distilled" (Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.). Receipts: #260 11s. (248.12; 11.6; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: In IV: a song (composed by Linley? Sen)-Mrs Crouch

16027
26 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Twelfth Night and The Doctor and the Apothecary [both advertised on playbill of 25 Nov.] are obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Dodd. Receipts: #130 3s. (110.0; 18.12; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

16028
27 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Rule a Wife and Have a Wife; afterpiece of Arthur and Emmeline, both advertised on playbill of 26 Nov.] Receipts: #63 12s. 6d. (42.6.0; 20.8.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

16029
28 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble, based on 'Tis Well It's No Worse, by Isaac Bickerstaffe]. Morning Chronicle, 13 Mar. 1789: This Day is published The Pannel (1s.). Receipts: #204 8s. (165.3.0; 38.1.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

16030
28 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 4, by Elizabeth Inchbald, adapted from Zelie; ou, L'Ingenue, by Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de Saint Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis. Beginning with 6 Dec. this was reduced to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 12 Dec. 1788: This Day is published The Child of Nature (price not listed). Afterpiece: Reduced [from 5] into 3 acts. Receipts: #150 15s 6d. (139.10.0; 11.5.6),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17880924

16031
01 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 5 Oct. 1786]. [Barr is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #178 12s. 6d. (127.13.0; 45.14.6; 5.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

16032
01 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #186 7s. 6d. (178.5.6; 8.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: As17881107

16033
02 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of A Bold Stroke for a Wife, advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] Receipts: #160 3s. 6d. (138.12.6; 21.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17880924

16034
06 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #212 8s. 6d. (188.15.0; 23.1.0; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: As17881125

16035
06 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In Three Acts. Paid Macleish, Printer [of playbills] #9 6s. [this sum paid weekly]. Receipts: #233 17s. 6d. (226.15.0; 7.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

16036
08 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: In Three [shortened] Acts. Receipts: #231 1s. (228.15; 2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

16037
12 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Country Girl and The Pannel [both advertised on playbill of 11 Dec.] are deferred on account of Mrs Jordan's Indisposition. Receipts: #60 10s. 6d. (36.10.0; 22.10.0; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End: As17881113

Song: As17880916

16038
13 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Richard Bentley. Beginning with 4 Feb. 1789 reduced to an afterpiece of 2 acts. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 15 Dec.]: With entire new Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations. The Music partly selected from the works of Haydn, Purcell, Pleyel, Anfossi, Cimarosa, Gretry, Giordani, Sacchini [the score (Longman and Broderip [1788]) adds: Irwich]; and partly composed by Shield. With a Grand Overture by Salieri. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #245 3s. 6d. (238.6.6; 6.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End: a New Dance, as17881107, but Mrs _Ratchford

16039
15 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The singing of the national anthem had reference to the mental breakdown which had recently afficted George III.] Receipts: #145 8s. 6d. (136.17.0; 8.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: End: God save the King-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Rock, Bonville, Janson, Lee

16040
16 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doctor and the Apothecary [advertised on playbill of 15 Dec.] is deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Crouch. Receipts: #171 8s. (151.2; 19.18; 0.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: As17881028

16041
17 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years. Public Advertiser, 12 Dec.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #282 6s. (143.1.0; 22.19.6; 0.10:6; tickets: 115.15.0) (charge: #107 9s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed

Dance: As17881113

Song: As17881002

16042
18 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #118 8s. 6d. (81.8.0; 34.19.0; 2.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

16043
22 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #223 7s. (182.19; 38.14; 114)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe or Harlequin Friday

Dance: Afterpiece: Conclude with Dance-Hamoir, Miss Blanchet. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

16044
23 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 22 Dec.] Receipts: #211 13s. 6d. (174.19.0; 35.4.0; 1.8.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Song: As17881016, but Chorusses and Accompaniments-Miss _Collett, Mrs _Crouch

16045
26 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by John O'Keeffe. Synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 27 Dec.]: With new Music, Scenery, Machinery, and Decorations. The Scenes designed and executed by Richards, Carver, Hodgins, Pugh, &c. The Music selected from the Works of the most eminent Masters, by A. Shaw. The new Airs composed by Shield, and the Overture by Richardson. Books of the Songs, Recitative, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Receipts: #315 16s. (301.6; 14.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Aladin or The Wonderful Lamp

Dance: In Afterpiece: Byrne, King, Ratchford, Mrs Watts, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Ratchford. [Included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

16046
30 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "This degradation of a theatre royal was properly reprobated by the audience in general" (Town and Country Magazine, Jan. 1789, p. 15). Receipts: #264 (252.3; 11.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Entertainment: Vaudeville In Irish Fair: [scene in afterpiece] [will be introduced (for the 1st time) a Sparring Match-Humphreys, another celebrated Pugilist [Death (London Chronicle 31 Dec.)]

16047
02 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Confederacy, advertised on playbill of 1 Jan.] Receipts: #178 16s. 6d. (121.2.0; 54.11.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

16048
03 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 21 May 1787]. Receipts: #183 18s. (168.17; 15.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

16049
05 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Constant Couple, advertised on playbill of 3 Jan.] Receipts: #132 9s. 6d. (93.15.0; 32.7.6; 6.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

16050
05 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book, 9 Jan.: Paid Mendoza #21. Receipts: #276 11s. (267.7; 9.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Entertainment: Vaudeville Sparring Match-Mendoza, another celebrated Pugilist