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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.

18076
19 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Powel as Mr Pickle, but "Last night, after the performance of Lover's Vows, an apology was made by Murray for Powel who, notwithstanding he performed in the play in apparent good health and spirits, was of a sudden taken so ill that his life is despaired of by his physicians. His part in The Spoiled Child was in consequence...undertaken by Dibdin Jun., which he performed with much humour and discrimination" (Morning Herald, 20 Oct.). Powel died the following morning.] Receipts: #367 4s. (360.7; 6.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

18077
24 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "George? Dance, @R. A., was at Covent Garden on Wednesday evening when his musical Composition of One and All [for a band] was performed before his Majesty, with much applause" (Joseph Farington,@Diary [26 Cct.], 1922, I, 243). Receipts: #628 8s. 6d. (620.17.6; 7.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

18078
25 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife [advertised on playbill of 23 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #188 10s. (134.10.0; 53.3.6; 0.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

18079
25 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Prologue by Richard Cumberland (see text)]: The Overture and Music composed by Attwood, with some favorite Selections from the Works of Dibdin and Mazzinghi. Books of the Songs, including a descriptive Sketch of the Ballet, to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 5 Nov. 1798: This Day is published The Mouth of the Nile (1s.). Receipts: #309 3s. 6d. (303.0.6; 6.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18080
27 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Received of Green, lent to pay the Company, #400. Receipts: #264 2s. 6d. (184.12.6; 79.5.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Outlaws

18081
30 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: In one act. Receipts: #243 3s. 6d. (241.1.6; 2.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18082
31 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: In one act. 3rd piece: In which a Representation of the Battle of the Glorious First of August [1798]. Receipts: #321 0s. 6d. (315.19.6; 5.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18083
03 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Outlaws, advertised on playbill of 1 Nov.] Receipts: #346 10s. (248.8; 95.7; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Music: As17980915

Dance: As17980915

18084
05 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Heiress, advertised on playbill of 3 Nov.] Receipts: #239 9s. (152.7.6; 86.0.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

18085
07 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr. Burney, 1958, II, 351, the title of the new song (misdated 1799) is given as Song on the Naval Victories.] Receipts: #439 (433.17.6; 5.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Song: [not listed on playbill] End: A new Loyal Song and Chorus- which recounts all the recent victories fo our Naval Heroes"Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill [, the music by Dr Burney (Morning Herald, 8 Nov.)

18086
08 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Rival Soldiers, advertised on playbill of 7 Nov.] Receipts: #286 3s. (281.1; 5.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18087
09 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of George Barnwell, advertised on playbill of 8 Nov.] Receipts: #250 7s. (165.7; 81.10; 3.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

18088
09 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 3 May 1791]. Receipts: #263 13s. (260.14; 2.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18089
10 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the Richmond theatre" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Roffey as Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was] Miss Tidswell" (Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6; Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

18090
10 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Enderby, oil merchants, on acct. of last season #402 13s. 9d. Receipts: #382 5s. (375.19; 6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18091
12 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Miss Waters is identified in the Songs]: The Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations are all entirely new. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. The Scenery painted by Richards, Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Backmore, &c. [based on drawings of Indian scenery by Thomas Daniell]. The Machinery and Decorations by Cresswell, Sloper, Goostree, &c. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs, also describing the Scenes and Spectacle of the Return from the Tiger Hunt, to be had at the Theatre, price six pence. "The whole [forms] an exhibition of the utmost grandeur...The expense attending the decoration must have been immense...The dailogue is certainly not of the first description of writing, but it forms, on the whole, a very safe vehicle for some of the best music the English stage has for some time been able to boast"(Morning Herald, 13 Nov.). Account-Book, 27 Dec.: Paid Cuthbert for Wheels, &c. for the Elephants #13 18s. Receipts: #364 7s. 6d. (363.19.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog Or Wine Does Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Entertainment: Procession. End II: A Return from a Tiger Hunt- [, to the Rajah's Palace, representing the Rajah on an Elephant, returning from Hunting the Tiger, preceded by his Hircarrahs, or military Messengers, and his State Palanquin-the Vizier on another Elephant-the Princess in a Gaurie, drawn by Buffaloes-the Rajah is attended by his Fakeer, or Soothsayer, his Officers of State, and by an Ambassador from Tippoo Sultaun in a Palanquin; also by Nairs (or Soldiers from the South of India), Poligars (or Inhabitants of the Hilly Districts), with their Hunting-dogs, other Indians carrying a dead Tiger, and young Tigers in a Cage; a number of Seapoys-Musicians on Camels and on Foot-Dancing Girls. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

18092
13 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Archer's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 13 Dec. 1797.] Receipts: #156 14s. (107.10.6; 48.14.0; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

18093
14 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by Prince Hoare, adapted from Camille; ou, Le Souterrain, by Benoit Joseph Marsollier des Vivetieres]: The Musick entirely new by Dussek [and Kelly]. With new Scenery [by Marinari (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 309)], Dresses, and Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 7 May 1799: On May 9 will be published The Captive of Spilburg (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #209 6s. 6d. (108.10.6; 99.19.6; 0.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Captive of Spilburg

Dance: In afterpiece: a Dance-Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Male, Garman, W. Banks, Goodman, Gauron, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Vining, Ms Luciet, Ms Drake, Ms Riches; New Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

18094
17 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Cory was from the Manchester theatre.] Receipts: #281 5s. (169.19.6; 107.18.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Captive of Spilburg

Dance: As17981114

18095
19 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 11 Mar. 1799]. Receipts: #226 13s. (224.12; 2.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

18096
22 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never [previously] performed at this Theatre; By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. Receipts: #115 17s. 6d. (65.2.0; 47.17.0; 2.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Captive of Spilburg

Dance: As17981114

18097
22 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Never [previously] acted at this Theatre. Receipts: #176 3s. (166.10; 9.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18098
23 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time in London; F2, by Thomas John Dibdin, 1st acted at Maidstone, 12 July 1798]. Receipts: #286 3s. (279.13; 6.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

18099
24 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Epilogue was called for, and "after a short apology [Munden] proceeded with the Epilogue...[which] was not advertised for the night, and had been omitted on the last performance of the play [on 22 Nov.]" (Times, 26 Nov.). Receipts: #313 17s.(299.15; 14.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

18100
27 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 9 Mar. 1799]. Receipts: #148 10s. 6d. (84.5.0; 62.16.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard