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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.

16501
17 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: #190 12s. 6d. (184.5.0; 6.7.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

16502
21 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #372 14s. (369.1; 3.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

16503
22 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Bon Ton, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] Receipts: #211 8s. (169.3; 40.0; 2.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

16504
22 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Messrs Enderby, Oilmen, #128 7s. 6d. Receipts: #185 14s. (177.18; 7.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

16505
23 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Island of St. Marguerite, advertised on playbill of 22 Feb.] Receipts: #127 2s. 6d. (90.18.0; 30.9.0; 4.10.6; tickets not come in: 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16506
24 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for tha Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #185 8s. 6d. (177.2.6; 8.6.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

16507
26 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Henry Bate]: With new Music, Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music (with a few exceptions) composed entirely new by Shield. And new Scenery designed and chiefly executed by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Williamson was formely a chorus singer at this theatre; Mme Pieltain had sung at the king's in the season of 1788-89. Afterpiece in place of The Deaf Lover, advertised on playbill of 25 Feb.] "The author is very little responsible for his part of the entertainment, which he acknowledges was composed chiefly for the purpose of [the music, which] in the taste of the present day is almost the only essential part of such an entertainment" (Gazetteer, 28 Feb.). Oracle, 7 May 1791: Thas Day is published The Woodman (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #243 2s. (239.17.6; 3.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

16508
28 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #311 6s. 6d. (290.17.0; 19.6.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

16509
28 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies and Gentlemen who have Places for the succeeding Nights, will please to observe, the New Opera will be performed every Night till further Notice. Receipts: #285 11s. 6d. (281.3.6; 4.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

16510
01 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (212.17.6; 4.5.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

16511
02 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kemble Mem.: "King not strong enough to act Puff in the Critic." But The Critic was nowhere advertised for this night. King is listed in the mainpiece as Trappanti, but perhaps he did not act.] Receipts: #146 13s. (107.5.0; 37.6.6; 1.11.6; tickets not come in: 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

16512
04 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #211 14s. 6d. (207.11.6; 4.3.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

16513
07 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Romp, but "Mrs Jordan ill" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitute play).] Receipts: #245 4s. 6d. (202.8.0; 41.9.6; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

16514
07 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #386 12s. 6d. (385.15.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: As17901119

16515
14 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time: F 2, by John O'Keeffe]. Receipts: #248 3s. 6d. (247.16.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques or The Merry Mourners

16516
21 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Mrs Siddons's timid approach [in Act V] to the home of a friend whom she had robbed of a lover: 'She staggers up to the door, timidly lifts the knocker, releases it as if she had committed a mortal sin, seizes it a second time and--knocks. It is impossible to describe how she knocked, but I shall never forget her in this situation, never forget the tone of her voice in answer to the servant, never the timidity, the anguish of her expression and movements.'" (F. W. von Hassell quoted in J. A. Kelly, 144-45). Receipts: #337 7s. 6d. (321.16.0; 14.6.6; 1.5.0, being the largest amount taken at this theatre, on a night not devoted to a benefit, between 1776 and 4 June of this season, q. v.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

16517
22 March 1791 @ 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. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard (later) Sir Richard? Ford. Kemble Mem.: Altered by R. Ford from the Humourous Lieutenant. Epilogue by Henry William? Bunbury. Larpent MS 894; not published]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher (recte Fletcher alone). Oracle, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan at her house, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #346 8s. 6d. (102.18.0; 13.5.0; 3.6.6; tickets: 226.19.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greek Slave Or The School For Cowards

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

16518
24 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. End I afterpiece: A Grand Representation of Mount Vesuvius, at the Time of an Eruption. Oracle, 28 Feb: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (144.1.0; 22.0.0; 4.4.6; tickets: 170.0.0) (charge: #126 4s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Entertainment: Monologue. A Lecture on Oratory: The Pulpit the Senate the Bar and the Stage with a Specimen of Scotch Elocution, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq.-Palmer

16519
28 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Fairy Favour, advertised on playbill of 26 Mar.] Receipts: #329 13s. 6d. (318.2.0; 11.1.6; 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

16520
28 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #295 18s. 6d. (290.16.6; 5.2.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques

16521
31 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #296 17s. (255.10.0; 39.6.6; 2.0.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #114 3s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

16522
04 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit [9 rows (London Chronicle, 5 Apr.)] will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No 49, Marlborough-street. Receipts: #412 11s. (212.2.0; 10.18.6; 0.0.6; tickets: 189.10.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

16523
05 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Robert Merry. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Oracle, 7 May 1791: This Day is published Lorenzo (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #187 3s. (182.19.6; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lorenzo

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

16524
05 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #339 3s. 6d. (145.15.0; 13.1.0; 1.12.6; tickets: 178.15.0) (charge: #132 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

16525
09 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #188 9s. 6d. (174.0.6; 14.9.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lorenzo

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier