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We found 386 matches on Event Comments, 373 matches on Performance Comments, 233 matches on Performance Title, 42 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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.)

Event Comment: [This day Horace Walpole wrote as follows to George Montagu, forshadowing an event to take place on 27 July: "If you will stay with me a fortnight or three weeks, perhaps I may be able to carry you to a play of Mr Bentley's--you stare--but I am in earnest--nay, and de par le roy. In short, here is the history of it. You know the passion he always had for the Italian comedy. About two years ago he writ one, intending to get it offered to Rich--but without his name--he would have died to be supposed an author, and writing [I, 372] for gain. I kept this a most inviolable secret. Judge then of my surprise when about a fortnight or three weeks ago I found my Lord Melcomb reading this very Bentleiad in a circle at my Lady Hervey's. Cumberland had carried it to him, with a recommendatory copy of verses, containing more incense to the King and my Lord Bute, than the Magi brought in their portmanteaus to Jerusalem. The idols were propitious, and to do them justice, there is a great deal of wit in the piece, which is called The Wishes or Harlequin's Mouth Opened. A bank note of #200 was sent from the Treasury to the author, and the play ordered to be performed by the summer company. Foote was summoned to Lord Melcomb's, where Parnassus was composed of the peer himself, who, like Apollo as I am going to tell you, was dozing, the two Chief Justices and Lord Bute. Bubo read the play himself, with handkerchief and orange by his side. But the curious part is a prologue which I never saw. It represents the god of verse fast asleep by the side of Helicon. The race of modern bards try to wake him, but the more they repeat of their works, the louder he snores. At last "Ruin seize thee ruthless King" is heard, and the god starts from his trance. This is a good thought, but will offend the bards so much, that I think Dr Bentley's son will be abused at least as much as his father was. The prologue concludes with young Augustus, and how much he excels the ancient one, by the choice of his friend. Foote refused to act this prologue, and said it was too strong. 'Indeed,' said Augustus's friend, 'I think it is.' They have softened it a little, and I suppose it will be performed. You may depend upon the truth of all this; but what is much more credible, is that the comely young author appears every night in the Mall in a milkwhite coat with a blue cape, disclaims any benefit, and says he has done with the play now it is out of his own hands, and that Mrs Hannah Clio alias Bentley writ the best scenes in it. He is going to write a tragedy, and she, I suppose, is going--to court."--Horace Walpole's Correspondence with George Montagu. Ed. W. S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown Jr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941), I, 372-73. [IX, 372-373.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: As17610616

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS or The Devil will have his Own

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of several full Pieces of Vocal and Instrumental Musick by antient and modern Authors, viz. Edwardo Lupi, Paulo Pretti, Wm. Bird, Collonna, Stephani, Corelli, Purcel, Dr Pepusch-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Ladys Choice

Ballet: The Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old ground Young=, as17711030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper

Dance: As17730630

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Falstaffs Wedding

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners or A Medley of Suitors

Dance: V: Lonsdale

Song: End: Blow high blow low-Colvill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-LeBrun; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Salomon (1st public performance in this Kingdom)

Entertainment: Monologue.End Oratorio: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Henderson (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.); , accompanied with new Airs, Chorus-Dr Arnold, under whose direction the whole Music will be conducted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Wont See

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet, in Spanish Characters, by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Vidini, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale or The Descent of the Balloon

Dance: End of mainpiece, by Master Giorgi, Miss Byrne, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT or A Pantomime Rehearsed

Song: Masque as17931119, but Neptune-Caulfield. Vocal Parts omitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago or Harlequin the Hero

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: To conclude with the Masque ofThe Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Music: II: A Concerto on the Violin-Hay; End Opera: A Concerto on the Haut@Bois-Simson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lasts Examination before the College of Physicians

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: V: a Grand Funeral Procession-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Wilson, Mrs Fowler, Miss Fowler, Mrs Marriot; Between the Acts: Singing-Wilson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dr Lasts Examination

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: The Day

Entertainment: Imitations End 2nd piece: As17870807

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis