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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.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 30 Apr. 1791). Receipts: #191 17s. 6d. (186/5/6; 5/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: THE QUAKER

Song: Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings, as17931118, but Mrs Clendining in place of Miss Barnett

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By the Particular Desire of the Cherokee Chiefs [see 12 Nov.]. Receipts: #209 7s. 6d. (204.13.6; 4.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #197 4s. (155.16; 37.10; 3.18; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by Harriet Pye Esten (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Morning Herald, 3 Dec. 1793: This Day is published THE WORLD IN A VILLAGE (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #313 1s. 6d. (307/7/6; 5/14/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: TWO STRINGS TO YOUR BoOW

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Fawcett, but "Fawcett's part is entirely cut out" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1793, p. 3 59). His name is omitted from all subsequent playbills.] Receipts: #257 10s. (246/16/6; 10/13/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE SPRIGS OF LAUREL

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #239 9s. (227/16/6; 11/12/6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Event Comment: The Follies of a Day. As 29 Oct. 1st piece: Altered from The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare [2nd piece in place of Love a-la-Mode, advertised on playbill of 26 Nov.] Receipts: #171 2s. 6d. (160.5.6; 10.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17931123

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 15 June 1787). Receipts: #238 15s. (226/11; 12/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: NINA

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #208 1s. 6d. (196/3/6; 11/18/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: HARTFORD BRIDGE

Dance: As17930916

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Comus, advertised on playbill of 29 Nov.] Receipts: #164 7s. (123.12.0; 33.17.6; 6.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 28 Sept. 1792]. Receipts: #206 8s. 6d. (195/8/0; 11/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE FLITCH OF BACON

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill). Receipts: #158 13s. 6d. (144/8/6; 1 4/5/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE FLITCH OF BACON

Dance: As17931015

Event Comment: The Public is most respectfully informed that in consequence of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Jordan the New Comedy is unavoidably deferred. [The original playbill and Public Advertiser both announce the 6th night of Better Late than Never (see 29 Dec.). The above is from a second playbill for this night in BM (Burney 937.c.7). "Mrs Jordan's Illness defers...Better Late than Never" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitutes play).] Receipts: #123 5s. (83.19.0; 33.4.6; 6.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Event Comment: Paid 1@2 yrs Kings Taxes for Theatre #84 2s. 6d. Receipts: #146 3s. 6d. (140.3.6; 6.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: End I in V: As17931020; In afterpiece: Dancing, as17931123

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #489 12s. 6d. (483/13/6; 5/19/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: TWO STRINGS TO YOUR BOW

Dance: As17931015

Song: "Incledon twice sung Rule Britannia" [not listed on playbill; see World, 5 Dec.]

Event Comment: 2nd piece: With Alterations. "On the first night Ethelberta died; at the succeeding representations her life was spared" (Edward Jerningham and his Friends, ed. Lewis Bettany, 1919, p. 97). 3rd piece: In 3 acts. Receipts: #219 13s. 6d. (202/11/6; 17/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF BERWICK

Afterpiece Title: THE MISER

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #218 16s. 6d. (204/3/6; 14/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE POSITIVE MAN

Dance: As17931022

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. A new and accurate Edition of the Tragedy to be had at the Theatre. "[Mrs Siddons's] eyes possess a peculiar brilliancy and animation...Her voice is sonorous and variable" (Candid Strictures, 33). Receipts: #311 13s. (296.3; 13.0; 2.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: In III: Epithalamium-; Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Miss Hagley

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Music composed by Shield. Receipts: #198 15s. 6d. (193/12/6; 5/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: MODERN ANTIQUES

Dance: As17931015

Event Comment: THE WORLD IN A VILLAGE [advertised on playbill of 9 Dec.] is obliged to be deferr'd till Friday next on account of Johnstone's Illness. [Afterpiece in place of THE POSITIVE MAN, also advertised as above.] Receipts: #233 10s. 6d. (219/15/6; 13/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: THE MIDNIGHT WANDERERS

Dance: As17931022

Event Comment: By Desiire of the Cherokee Chiefs [see 12 Nov.]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [European Magazine, Dec. 1790, p. 468, says that this was Mrs Ferguson's 1st appearance in London; she was from the Richmond theatre.] Receipts: #205 5s. (202.8.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End II: The Irish Lilt, as17931020

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 2nd piece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. 2nd piece: With Alterations. Receipts: #211 3s. 6d. (183/18/6; 27/5/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF BERWICK

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Account-Book: Paid House & Window tax 1@2 year #56 13s. 8d. Receipts: #297 6s. 6d. (274.19.0; 18.19.6; 3.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of THE DUENNA; afterpiece of THE IRISH MAN IN LONDON, both advertised on playbill of 13 Dec. In mainpiece "Mrs Follett was the Lucinda of the third act, in the room of Mrs Mountain, who was suddenly taken ill towards the close of the second" (Public Advertiser, 16 Dec.).) Receipts: #230 6s. (225/9/6; 4/16/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

Dance: As17931102