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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.

16476
19 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 1st piece]. Receipts: #246 2s. (242.6; 3.16; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17910114

16477
20 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 8th Night (see 17 Jan.). Receipts: #273 9s. 6d. (232.19.0; 33.16.6; 6.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16478
20 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Earl of Essex, advertised on playbill of 19 Jan.] Receipts: #394 0s. 6d. (390.14.0; 3.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

16479
22 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Anatomist, advertised on playbill of 21 Jan.] Receipts: #304 (268.17; 34.4; 0.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16480
25 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 14 years [acted 18 Mar. 1779]. Receipts: #306 10s. 6d. (273.4.0; 29.13.6; 2.3.0; tickets not come in: 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist or The Sham Doctor

16481
26 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Afterpiece in place of High Life below Stairs, advertised on playbill of 25 Jan.] Receipts: #300 8s. 6d. (283.11.0; 16.10.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16482
26 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 8 years [not acted since 17 Nov. 1781]. Receipts: #305 10s. (301.0.6; 4.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

16483
27 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Vernon is identified in Oracle, 31 Jan. Author of Address unknown.] Receipts: #227 2s. (222.9; 4.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Dance: End II: The Wapping Landlady, as17901204

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: an Occasional Address-Harley

16484
28 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, advertised on playbill of 27 Jan.] Receipts: #312 17s. (269.13.0; 43.1.6; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

16485
31 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: ["When the Commemoration of King Charles's Death [on 30 Jan.] falls on a Sunday we always act on Monday. "This occurred for the first time, at both dl and cg, on 31 Jan. 1785. Previously, when 30 Jan. was a Sunday, both theatres had observed the commemoration on Monday 31 Jan. In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Faulkland, but "Mr Benson read FaulklandR for me [this because Kemble was detained returning from Bath to London]" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #231 7s. (180.12.0; 50.1.6; 0.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16486
02 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 1 Dec. 1784]. With some Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy]. Receipts: #241 1s. 6d. (237.8.6; 3.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

16487
03 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #247 14s. (187.18.0; 56.5.6; 3.10.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

16488
04 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft, based on Le Glorieux, by Philippe Nericault, dit Destouches. In 1793 reduced by the author to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (Knapp, 101, 307). This play was originally attributed to James Marshall (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.); on 8 Feb. he wrote a letter to the editor of the Oracle, stating that "The School for Arrogance is not mine, but Mr Holcroft's...By appearing for a time as the ostensible author I hope I have contributed to heal what was most unaccomodating between Mr Harris and Mr Holcroft." And see Genest, VII, 24, 27.] Oracle, 19 Feb. 1791: This Day is published The School for Arrogance (1s. 6d.). "If Mrs Wells could be prevailed upon to speak out, so that the audience might hear, it would be of some advantage to the new play. At present, the performer who happens to be on the stage with her has it all in confidence" (Gazetteer, 9 Feb.). Receipts: #186 11s. (181.8; 5.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

16489
05 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 2 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 23, Howland-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #357 11s. (195.13; 20.19; 1.9; tickets: 139.10) (charge: #115 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

16490
07 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #371 18s. (368.18.6; 2.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17901020

16491
08 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #172 15s. (164.14; 8.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

16492
10 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbilll retains Bannister as Diego, but he, "whose absence from Covent-Garden Theatre on Thursday evening was represented to the audience as the effect of indispostion, appeared that night at the Ranelagh Masquerade. We can remember no instance of disrespect from a performer to the town equal to this" (Gazetteer, 14 Feb.). The name of his substitute is not given.] Receipts: #196 11s. (189.0; 7.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

16493
11 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 2 Jan. 1786]. ["In the review of any performance of this character it must be extremely difficult to command an abstraction from the remembrance of what Mrs Siddons was in it...This is not said to introduce any insinuation that the performance of Mrs Esten was an imitation of that of Mrs Siddons, but to excuse it if it was so...The performance was highly meritorious" (Gazetteer, 12 Feb.).] Receipts: #189 19s. (179.2; 10.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Song: III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; the Music by Shield

16494
12 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 5th night of The School for Arrogance (see 14 Feb.), but it was "set aside, on account of the indisposition of Johnstone, and The Provok'd Husband was the substitute, in which Holman and Mrs Esten represented the characters of Lord and Lady Townly." In afterpiece the playbill retains Johnstone as Edwin, but "Incledon warbled the airs allotted to the part of Edwin" (Diary, 14 Feb.).] Receipts: #205 1s. 6d. (195.16.6; 9.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

16495
14 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Rivals; afterpiece of No Song No Supper, both announced on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #301 4s. (282.3.0; 18.9.6; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

16496
14 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 5th Time (see 12 Feb.). Receipts: #225 12s. 6d. (218.2.0; 7.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

16497
15 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In Afterpiece Elizabeth was originally called Miss Doiley.] Receipts: #238 (191.7.0; 44.18.0; 1.7.6; tickets not come in: 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

16498
15 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Esten. Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Esten, No. 5, Nassau-street, Soho. Receipts: #353 18s. (212.0; 5.10; tickets: 136.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Entertainment: Monologue End: (for that night only) Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten

16499
16 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Never [previously] acted in this Kingdom [by Robert Jephson, altered by the author from his The Hotel; or, The Servant with Two Masters, which was based on Il Servitore di due Padroni, by Carlo Goldoni, and on Arlequin Valet de deux Maitres, by Jean Pierre de Ours de Mandajors, and 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 8 May 1783]. Oracle, 18 Mar. 1791: This Day is published Two Strings to Your Bow (1s). Receipts: #210 3s. 6d. (205.17.0; 4.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17901123

16500
17 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Edition of the Farce to be had at the Theatre. [Afterpiece in place of The Romp, advertised on playbill of 16 Feb.] Receipts: #192 2s. 6d. (160.17.0; 30.17.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay