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18442 results for: Keyword - Blakes</i>, deleted.] Receipts:
We found 18032 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

16926
25 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2. Larpent MS 980; not published]: By a Gentleman of the Bar [Horatio Edgar Robson]. The Story partly founded on the celebrated old Scotch Ballad of the Heir of Lynne. The Irish, Scotch, Italian and French Airs selected, and the new Music and Medley Overture composed by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #488 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Money at a Pinch or The Irishmans Frolicks

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-

Song: In afterpiece: the following songs (incidental to the Piece) The Row, The Land of Potatoes, My sweetest Honoria (to a favorite air of Carolan's)-Johnstone

16927
26 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Palmer as Woodville , but "The curtain was dropped in the middle of the first act, and after a delay of near half an hour, Barrymore informed the audience Palmer was not come to the theatre...and therefore solicited permission for Benson to [act] Woodville, which he had undertaken at a few minutes' notice. Benson (who had played the two first scenes of Vane) agreeable surprised the audience by his representation of Woodville" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 2). Who continued in the part of Vane (which cannot be doubled with that of Woodville) is not stated. R. Palmer, who acted it on 14 Feb., was indisposed.] Receipts: #175 4s. (117.16; 52.14; 4.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

16928
27 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Melanthon and Mrs Siddon as Euphrasia , but "Mrs Powell was the substitute for Mrs Siddons, and acquitted herself very ably. Melanthon was read by Maddocks [which part can be doubled with Greek Herald ]" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #109 5s. (101.0; 8.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

16929
27 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #324 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: As17930418

16930
29 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Orphan Daughters of the late Mr Wrighten, prompter. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Kemble as Charlotte, but "Mrs Ward read Charlotte " (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #548 12s. 6d. (137.4.6; 32.11.0; 2.17.0; tickets: 376.0;0) (charge: #147 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

16931
30 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 29 Apr.] Receipts: #81 19s. (75.10; 6.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

16932
01 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years [never previously acted at this theatre]. Morning Herald, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #349 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: May Day Or The Little Gipsey

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

16933
02 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #168 14s. (114.2; 39.1; 15.11; tickets: none listed) (charge: #158 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

16934
02 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Mrs Pope not being sufficiently recovered from her Indisposition to perform to-night, Mrs Mattocks has kindly undertaken the part of Lydia Languish , and Margaret of Anjou [advertised on playbill of 1 May] is unavoidably obliged to be changed to The Soldier's Festival. Morning Herald, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #216 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

16935
03 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of All in the Wrong, advertised on playbill of 2 May.] Receipts: #204 1s. (146.12; 49.19; 7.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17930304

16936
03 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT 1, by Thomas Hurlstone, Published by J. Debrett, 1793; in 1795 acted at cg as The British Recruit; or, Who's Afraid?]: The Overture and Music (a Glee and Air excepted) entirely new, by Shield, Giordani and Dr Stevenson of Dublin. To conclude with a Representation of the Grand Fleet under Sail. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 3 May 1793: This Day, at Noon, will be published To Arms (6d.). Morning Herald, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden at his house, No. 6, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #448 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: To Arms or The British Recruit

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Mme Rossi

Song: End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

16937
04 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #501 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: Scotch Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi; In afterpiece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

16938
07 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Ariel , but "Ariel was, on account of the sudden indisposition of Mrs Bland, read by Miss Heard" (Diary, 8 May). Miss Heard may also have substituted for Mrs Bland in the afterpiece.] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem. Larpent MS 982; not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross. Receipts: #227 8s. (95.17; 7.5; tickets: 124.6) (charge: #90 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Wheel

Song: In: Vocal Parts, as17921213, Sedgwick, _Kelly, Mrs +Crouch; Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, as17930102 In course of Evening: +The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

16939
08 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 85, Gower-street. Receipts: #395 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

16940
09 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall and Mrs Bland. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Beverley , but "Kemble being ill, Whitfield played Beverley" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, P. 3).] Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Russel-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Bland, No. 12, St. Albans-street, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #432 4s. (74.19.0; 40.1.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 309.15.6) (charge: #169 10s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

16941
10 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Samuel Birch. Larpent MS 983; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, May 1793 p. 389]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with selections from Mozart, Ferrari, Martin y Soler?, Linley? Sen.. And a new Overture by Shaw. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at his house, Kennington-Green. Receipts: #379 14s. 6d. (70.18.0; 52.12.0; 3.1.6; tickets: 253.3.0) (charge: #162 5s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Song: As17921030

16942
10 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1. For indication of scenes see 24 May]. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 12, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #469 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Festival or All Alive at Portsmouth

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17920920

Song: End I: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

16943
11 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by John O'Keeffe. In 1797 altered by the author as The Rival Soldiers]: With new Music, new Scenes and Dresses. The Music composed and selected [from Handel and Anfossi (BUC, 969)] by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 25 May 1793: This Day is Published Sprigs of Laurel (1s). Receipts: #210 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

16944
13 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #491 15s. 6d. (85.0.0; 37.9.6; 2.3.0; tickets: 367.3.0) (charge: #168 2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Dance: End: Minuet-Hamoir, Miss DeCamp

16945
14 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I the Cardinal's Banquet. In Act II the Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine . In Act V a Grand Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth . Receipts: #115 10s. (105.0; 10.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In IV: a song-Master Welsh

16946
15 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #138 15s. (85.5; 46.9; 7.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

16947
15 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 9, on the Terrace, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #273 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: To Arms

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17930503

Song: End: a favorite old Ballad-Incledon

16948
16 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. The Poetry of the additional Songs [in 1st piece] by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot]. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 19, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden. "Mrs Clendining's endeavours to entertain were successful, and Fitzroy by Incledon gave a rich feast to the musical amateur. The air beginning, 'Dear Tom, this brown jug,' had a fine effect by the music being omitted" (Diary, 18 May). Receipts: #273 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Music: End: a concerto of his own composition, on the Grand Piano Forte-King (1st appearance in public)

16949
17 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kemble Mem., 18 May: On account of Whitsun Eve the Opera was yesterday [at king's]; we acted therefore at Mr Colman's Theatre. Receipts: #73 (64.3; 8.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

16950
21 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Ovation and Procession as 23 Feb. Receipts: #128 13s. (113.16; 14.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper