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We found 6387 matches on Event Comments, 1268 matches on Performance Comments, 134 matches on Performance Title, 86 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #121 3s. (97/16; 23/2; 0/5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 52, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. Opera: Reduced to 2 acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: As17820411 throughout

Song: In Act II Sento ch' in Seno by Sga Sestini, and composed for her by Giordani

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #68 4s. 6d. (55/1/0; 12/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell & Colborne, box-keepers. Receipts: #181 16s. 6d. (32/8/6; tickets: 149/8/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. Receipts: #238 0s. 6d. (35/18/6; tickets: 202/2/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a New Quadrille, also The Belle of the Village, as17811101; End of Act IV The Devonshire Minuet and a New Rondeau by Holloway and Miss Besford; End of mainpiece, as17811219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bach (Widow of the late [J. C] Bach). Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mrs Bach, at Zoffany's, Albemarle-street, near Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Le Triompbe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820312End of Act II Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Wilson, Carleton Jun., Hicks & Palmer [Sen.]. Receipts: #246 6s. (27/11/0; 11/7/6; 0/13/6; tickets: 206/14/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820223; In afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour by Zuchelli and Miss Collett

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Williames

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Carleton Sen., Shade & Enoe. [Afterpiece in place of The Flitch of Bacon, announced on playbill of 29 May.] Receipts: #204 6s. C35/5/0; 24/17/6; 0/6/6; tickets: 143/17/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. [Palmer's 1st appearance as Archer was at the HAY, 17 Aug. 1779. Afterpiece in place of The Alchymist, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #254 17s. (36/2; 19/6; 0/0; tickets: 199/9) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Event Comment: Benefit for Le Picq. [Opera in place of La Contadina in Corte, announced in Morning Herald, 4 June.] Tickets to be had of Le Picq, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I New Dance, as17820603 but added: a Minuet by Le Picq and Mme Simonet; End of Act II an entirely new heroic Ballet, composed by Noverre, Apelles and Campaspe; or, The Generosity of Alexander the Great, by Le Picq, Mme Simonet, Gardel, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore. [Partial cast from Morning Herald, 6 June (which also has a synopsis of the action): Apelles-Le Picq; Alexander-Gardel; Campaspe-Mme Simonet.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by George Colman, the younger. It has also been ascribed to Sarah Gardner, but for Colman's authorship see Peake, 11, 99. Composer of music unknown. MS: Larpent 589; not published]: The Words of the Songs are inserted in the Public Papers of this Day. Public Advertiser, 12 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, in Suffolk Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Female Dramatist

Dance: As17820613

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Monologue: 1782 08 27 End of Act I of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue, on an Ass, by Dick Wilson, after the manner of Ned Shuter. imitations. End of 2nd piece, as 9 Aug

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza, Russel Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17820606

Song: End of mainpiece Four-and-twenty Fidlers all on a Row, by Edwin

Monologue: 1782 08 28 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey, by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 31 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge Street, Rathbone Place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Monologue: 1782 09 03 End of 2nd piece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Edwin

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Massey. Tickets delivered by Painter, Kenny, Mrs Lefevre will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe [performer not listed]; In afterpiece, as17820826

Song: In afterpiece The Tobacco Box by Brett and Miss Morris

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Altered from Allen Ramsay. Paid Carleton's expense in stopping the sale of Tickets last season near the Box Office 13s. 6d. Receipts: #96 7s. 6d. (66/1/0; 30/4/0; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Blurton and the two Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st time; com 2, by Filippo Livigni, with alterations by Antonio Andrei]: The Music entirely new by Bertoni. [Bartolini was from the Opera, Milan.] The Music and Orchestra under the direction of Giardini. New Scenes and Decorations by Novosielski. Entirely new dresses by Lupino. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Command of Their Majesties no Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout season]. To prevent inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their carriages, they are most respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their servants to set down and take up with their horses' heads towards Pall-mall. The Door in Market-lane for Chairs only. Subscription tickets will be admitted every Opera Night (Benefits excepted) during the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Convito

Dance: End of Act I a New Divertisement, composed by Simonet [for title, see17821105], by Slingsby, Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Sala, Mlle Theodore; End of Open Apelles and Campaspe by Lepicq, Simonet, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce. Receipts: #121 4s. 6d. (84/13/0; 36/9/0; 0/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #100 13s (79/18/0; 20/8/6; 0/6/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Interview

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Event Comment: It having been discovered that many Persons going in upon Subscription Tickets, have returned and taken Money from the Receivers, No Money will in future be returned at the doors of this Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, as17821114, but added: Pas Seul by Mlle Theodore; End of Opera Apelles and Campaspe, as17821102

Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-in Hospital [in Old-Street, City Road. Author of Epilogue unknown]. Receipts: #270 8s. 6d. (62/14/0; 13/4/6; 0/14/0; tickets: 193/16/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Receipts: #184 14s. (67/10; 25/14; 0/0; tickets: 91/10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: THE ALCHYMIST

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Gardner. Afterpiece: From The Devil upon Two Sticks, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. [Mrs Mills is identified in Morning Chronicle, 1 Jan. 1783. For remarks on this night's performance, including references to Dunstan by Charles Lamb, see Theatre Notebook, VIII, 5.] Gardner having unavoidably been obliged to postpone his night from the 26th to the 30th, he thinks it his duty to inform his friends that tickets delivered for the 26th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Fourth Act of The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lasts's Examination BEFORE THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

Event Comment: Benefit for King [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #152 19s. (148/19; 4/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece: Frederick Pilon]. The 9th Night [i.e., the 1st 7 nights had occurred in the preceding season]. Receipts: #147 3s. 6d. (121/4/0; 25/19/6; 0/0/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage