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7870 results for: Keyword - Daughter of the late Mr Farquhar
We found 5195 matches on Event Comments, 1330 matches on Performance Comments, 1076 matches on Author, 924 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7001
18 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #119 5s. Rec'd 10 nights' rent from Mr Handel's Oratorios at #25 per night, #250, plus #2 2s. for Coals used for the Oratorios. Barry's 1!3 of the surplus this night came to #13 1s. 8d. Paid 54 Old Rentners' interest on 54 shares for Handel's Oratorios at 1s. 8d. per share, or #5 8s. per night, for 10 night, #54. [Mrs Lecuss came in as a regular renter for 1 share.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Cast
Role: Theodosius Actor: Smith
Role: Aranthes Actor: White
Role: Athenais Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

7002
21 March 1758 @ no theater listed

Performances

7003
30 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Farce wrote by Mr Murphy. Went off Indiff (Cross). [It was sent to Licenser one year before, 16 March 1757 (Larpent MS 131).] Garrick first announced for Ghost [Hamlet] which he afterwards declined having new part in the farce. Part of Pit into Boxes. Amphitheatre on stage (Winston MS 9). Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

7004
01 April 1758 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman in great Distress. To begin at half an hour past Six. A greater number of Tickets being disposed of than Mr Hickford's Room can contain, makes it necessary to remove the performance to Dean St. Books of the Serenata will be sold at the place of performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: Vocals by Beard, Champnes, Soaper, Miss Young. Deutsch, Handel, p. 797: Acis-Beard; Polyphemus-Champnes; Damon-Soaper; Aalatea-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Aalatea Actor: Miss Young.

Music: First Violin-Brown; Second Violin-Froud; First Violoncello-Gordon; Harpsichord-Cooke; Between I and II: a Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent

7005
19 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd

Dance: I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Toogood, Apprentice to Lalauze; III: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408 IV: By Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Lalauze, Miss Toogood; V: Savoyards, as17580408

7006
20 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

7007
27 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins and Crudge. Receipts: #34 15s. 6d. Charges #71 10s. [The charges were split: Collins, #31 10s.; Crudge, #40. The prorated deficits of Collins (#14 2s. 3d.) and Crudge (#22 12s. 3d.) were covered by income from tickets: Collins, #63 17s. (boxes 18; pit 277; gallery 178); Crudge, #98 (boxes 179; pit 301; gallery 81).] Rec'd from His Majesty by Mr Finch, #10 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: the Gentleman who performs Johnson.

Dance: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408

7008
02 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not acted these 10 years. [See 18 Dec. 1749.] Music for Afterpiece compos'd by Mr Arne. Tickets deliver'd by Clough, Mossop, Peacop and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Britannia-Mrs Jefferson; Vocal Parts-Beard, Vernon, Champnes, Atkins, Miss Young; To conclude with Rule Britannia-; Britons Strike Home-; with the Original Prologue in the Character of a Drunken Sailor-Yates.
Cast
Role: with the Original Prologue in the Character Actor: Yates.

Dance: IV: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Mrs Addison

7009
01 June 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Jones ye author of the play. A Gift Night. Mrs Pritchard ill, Mrs? Bennet read ye Queen . So ended the Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: others Actor:

Dance: II: A New Dance Call'd The Prussian Sailors-Master Settree, Miss Twist, being their first time of appearing on that stage; IV: The Faggot Binders-Master Settree, Miss Twist

7010
10 June 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: There are Places inclosed for the Ladies to sit, and it is humbly hoped that the Gentlemen will not be offended, as it is impossible to accommodate everyone with Seats. To begin at Six. Public Advertiser, 12 and 13 June: Sga Seratina and Mr Reinhold distinguished themselves beyond expectation and the Company was pleas'd to say that Sga Seratina was in no way inferior to the famous Spiletta. Performed before a very genteel and numerous audience with great applause. It will continue to be performed Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

7011
27 June 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser: The Uncommon Applause of the new Entertainment...has excited the curiosity of a great many of the Nobility and Gentry that had never seen Marybone before. Sga Seratina and Mr Reinhold have distinguished themselves surprisingly; and though this Entertainment is performed in the English Language, clearly proves, that it is in the Power of an Englishman, to excel even the Italians in that kind of performance; Sga Seratina (though an Italian) expresses the English Dialect with all the Graces, and proper Expressions, which that kind of performance requires. [Books of the performance to be had at the Bar 6d. each.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

7012
22 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: [Not listed in Public Advertiser, but notice of continuation at admission price of 1s. is given.] Before the performance Sga Seratina and Mr Reinhold and others will sing several new songs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

7013
06 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Yates@Shuter Booth. [The Daily Advertiser notes: "the pleasure Mr Shuter gives to every Audience by an unwearied Display of that masterly Genius...and notwithstanding his laboring thro' so many Drolls daily with uncommon Spirit, yet his executing the London Cries at the end of Interlude, and each time new to the hearers."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Turn'd Bully

7014
18 September 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Crudge at the stage-door of the theatre. To begin exactly at six o'clock. [These customary announcements on all playbills will not be noted again; only significant differences will be noted during remainder of season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

7015
10 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLucio by Mr O'Brien, (The young gentleman who perform'd Capt Brazen). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #167 2s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

7016
13 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Fleetwood in ye fight with Paris in ye last Act, having a Sword by his Side instead of a Foil, run Mr Austin (Paris) into the belly, he lay some time but at last call'd to be taken off--a Surgeon was sent for--No harm, a Small Wound, & he is recover'd (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #153 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: With the Additional Scene Representing the Funeral Actor:
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Champnes, Miss Young
Role: a Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the Play.

Dance: TThe Millers, as17581012

7017
25 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

7018
10 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Yesterday died Mr Benj. May many years principal Director of Entertainments at king's Theatre (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #148 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: other characters Actor: Clough.
Role: The Flemish Feast Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Noverre, Sga Lucchi, Mrs Vernon.

7019
02 February 1759 @ Covent Garden

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 office, at Half-a-Guinea each. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries will be open'd at Four, Pit & Boxes at Five, and to begin at half an four after Six o'clock. Tickets delivered out for 25 Jan. will be take. Subscribers tickets may be had of Richard Dawson, at his house near Henry the Seventh's Chapel, Westminster, who is empower'd by the Society to deliver them, and receive the subscriptions. N.B. Tickets deliver'd to subscribers to this charity will admit one person into any part of the House. Benefit for Increase of a Fund establish'd for the support of Decay'd Musicians, or their Families. [The governors report that they have expended from June 1757 to June 1758 #541 8s. 6d. from this fund.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Performance Comment: With several new Songs composed by Mr Arne. The Vocal Parts-Sga Frasi, Miss Brent, Miss Frederica, Beard, Selves, Master Soper, the Gentlemen of the Choirs; First Violin-Dubourg; Concerto on Violincello-Pasqualino; Concerto on Hautboy-ThomasVincent; Concerto on Violin-Dubourg.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Sga Frasi, Miss Brent, Miss Frederica, Beard, Selves, Master Soper, the Gentlemen of the Choirs

7020
03 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Mr Crisr Smart, an Ingenious young Man In poetry, but now confin'd in a Mad house the farce had universal applause (Cross). Afterpiece: A new Comedy in 2 Acts. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Tickets delivered out for the 26th of January will be taken. Receipts: #285 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

7021
23 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Judas Maccabaeus: a Sacred Drama. Set to Music by Mr Handel, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Printed for J. Watts and sold by B. Dod at the Bible and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabeus

Performance Comment: The parts were: Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite woman-; Chorus-; Simon-(Brother to Judas); Messenger-; Eupolemus- (Jewish Ambassador to Rome) (Larpent MS 65).

7022
24 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

7023
28 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This Day Publish'd elegantly printed in one Volume Octavo (Dedicated to the Right Hon. Garret, Lord Mornington) A General View of the Stage, by Mr Wilks, of Dublin. Printed for J. Coote. [Contains 355 pages on the stage and its usefulness in presenting tragedy, comedy, opera, farce and pantomime. Discusses the art of acting, reviews plays and parts. Chapter VI on [Dress and its propriety" suggests the growing interest in historical authenticity in costume: [The judicious propriety in 'dress' adapted with sufficient exactitude to the age, time, and circumstances of [the] character...may be call'd the last colourings and finishings of [the] picture; and in this case very much will depend on knowledge of ancient history and historical paintings." Thirty-two pages praising Garrick the actor, and discussing in some detail all the characters he had performed to that time.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

7024
16 April 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. The Burletta, with the Addition of a new Act and a new Character, as originally performed at the Theatre Royal in Naples. At the Great Room in Marybone Gardens properly and elegantly fitted up for that purpose. 7:30 p.m. Admittance 3s. N.B. Mr Trotter's dauthter continues to make the rich seed and plumb cake, so much admired by the Nobility and Gentry at 2s. 6d. each, and likewise makes almond cheesecakes in a small size at 2s. per dozen. Six or eight make a Dish, and are hot every day one o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

7025
20 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Tickets of Davies at No 16 in New Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Miss Mathews