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We found 6394 matches on Event Comments, 1268 matches on Performance Comments, 134 matches on Performance Title, 88 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Lewis, first time; Capulet-Clarke, first time; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Mercutio-Woodward; Benvolio-Whitefield; Escalus-Fearon; Paris-Booth; Tibalt-Lewes; Peter-Quick; Lady Capulet-Mrs Hull; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Dayes, 2nd time in that character; In I, a Masquerade Scene-incident to the play; End IV, The Funeral Procession-of Juliet; with the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Leoni, Fox, Mrs Baker, Miss Valois, Miss Brown, Miss Wilde, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-Whitefield; Brothers-Thompson, Harris; The Lady with the Song Sweet Echo-Mrs Mattocks; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Bacchanals, Bacchants-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Mrs Baker; Euphrosyne, Sabrina-Miss Catley.

Dance: III: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Entertainment: Interlude. End: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Baker

Performance Comment: End: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Baker.
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Role: Parts Actor: Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Baker.

Dance: End Interlude: The Merry Sailors, as17741026

Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson, Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Brereton, W. Ansell, Miller (constable), Smallwood, Haliburton, R. Ledger, Baker and Whittington will be received. Receipts: #286 6s. 6d. [151.0.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 134.12.0]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Dance: End II: The Arts and Sciences, as17780509; in which an Assault-Master Dagueville, Master Holland; with a Minuet-Master Dagueville, Miss Bullock; Prince of Wales's New Court Minuet-Master Holland, Miss Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love & Mrs Johnston. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw, at Nichol's, baker, Bridge Street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Love, No. 36, Gerrard Street, Soho; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, near Craven Buildings, Drury-lane. Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (31.10.0; 20.13.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 67.11.0) (charge: #66 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: As17790503

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton, Longley, Colley & Robson. Tickets delivered by Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Wm. Ansell, Smallwood, Baker, Shuter, Painter will be admitted. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Afterpiece: With an Indian Processionv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strategem

Afterpiece Title: Gallic Gratitude

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 14 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster at his house, No. 2, Paul Baker's Court, Doctors Commons. Receipts: #207 15s. 6d. (57.2.0; 19.3.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 131.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: As17791122

Event Comment: Benefit Will Bowen. Whereas Will Bowen has deliver'd several Tickets to his Friends, in order to see the Committee...and the Gentlemen that have the Directions of Affairs relating to the Theatre Royal, have thought it adviseable to change that Play for the Funeral...which is a Comedy equally receiv'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. Note, That the Tickets which were deliver'd out for Hamlet will be taken at this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. An exact Computation being made, how many the Pit and Boxes will hold, with ease; they are to be put together, and such a Number of Tickets will be printed, and no more; to be deliver'd this present Tuesday, at Boman's Chocolate-House in Bridges-Street, no Money being to be taken at the Theatre, but for the Gallery. N.B. By desire the Play is not to begin till 9 a Clock, by reason of the Heat of the Weather; Nor the House to be open'd till Eight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: As17170524

Event Comment: Benefit Christopher Bullock. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And no Persons to be admitted into the Boxes but by printed Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Box Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Womans A Riddle

Dance:

Event Comment: Whereas the Liberty of the Scenes has been lately abus'd by Rioting, and disturbing the Audiences, none for the future will be admitted, but who shall take Tickets at the Stage Door, which will be deliver'd out at Half a Guinea each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Music: Between the Acts: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Vocal Parts-Mr Alexander Gordon lately arriv'd from Italy; accompany'd-the best Masters

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: None will be admitted into the Boxes but by printed Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #98 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa or The Intrigues of Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. The Words of the Incantation will be printed, and deliver'd Gratis at the Theatre. Receipts: money #22 9s.; tickets #31 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Dance: French Peasants, as17360223 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Event Comment: Benefit Sga Barberina. Mainpiece: By His Majesty's Command. Pit and Boxes put together, and none admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office at the Box Doors, at 5s. Gallery 2s. The Gallery doors will be open'd at three o'clock, and the Box Doors at Five o'clock. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. To begin exactly at six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17420206; A New Dance call'd Les Amants Heureux-Desnoyer, Sga Barberina

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: None will be admitted to the Boxes but by printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby. [Customary notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: Mr Cook; being the 1st time of his performance since his arrival from the Opera at Paris. Also Les Demoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti; Two French Girls, being the 1st time of their appearing on the English Stage

Event Comment: A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

Event Comment: Text-Vanneschi; Music-Galuppi (Burney). A new Opera [Description as before] but the Silver Tickets will be deliver'd to the Subscribers at the Opera-Office, where Attendance will be given from Nine to One for that Purpose. [Not entered as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

Event Comment: In a short time will be perform'd at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, a Concert of Music; and the Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice. The character of Othello will be new dress'd agreeable to the Manner and Custom of his own Country. As both these entertainments will be perform'd by a set of Gentlemen for their own Diversion, no Money will be taken, nor any person admitted but by printed Tickets; which (by order of the Gentlemen) will be deliver'd gratis by Mr Machlin, at his House in Bow-Street, Covent Garden; where Ladies, by sending their Servants, may take Places for the Boxes.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: A Concert of Musick, after which will be acted Gratis the Tragedy. The Character of Othello will be new dress'd after the Custom of his Country. No Money will be taken at the Doors, nor any Person admitted but by printed Tickets, which will be deliver'd by Mr Macklin, at his House in Bow St., Covent Garden. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd that day, at the Office at Covent Garden Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The Galleries to be open'd at Half an Hour after Four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six (General Advertiser). New Oratorio by Handel (Account Books, Egerton 2268). We hear that Mr Garrick, who has been lately very ill, is now out of danger (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Occasional Oratorio

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the said Office at Half a Guinea apiece. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command no Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open at 4 p.m. Pit and Boxes at 5 p.m. To begin at 6 p.m. [This notice regularly repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus