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1918 results for: Keyword - Frances Street
We found 1434 matches on Event Comments, 288 matches on Author, 203 matches on Performance Comments, 88 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
31 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #234 8s. 6d. (174.19.6; tickets: 59.9.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771222

1127
31 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Follet, Smith & T. Smith, late of the Bear, Westminster-bridge. Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, Little Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of T. Smith at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother Free Masons, Bucks, &c., Gentlemen of the Welsh Society, Hereford Society and West-moreland Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

1128
02 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at Mahon's, the corner of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #222 19s. (108.19.0; 18.17.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 94.16.0) (charge: #65 1s.). Account-Book totals the charge as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Sup[ernumeraries] 3s.; K[ettle] D[rum] 5s.; 6 Ext[ra] Carp[enter]s 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

1129
04 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #219 4s. (124.0; tickets: 95.4) (charge: #66 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

1130
06 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house in New Ormond-street, Queen's-square. Receipts: #245 7s. 6d. (102.15.0; 19.9.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 122.16.0) (charge: #68 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

1131
07 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 74, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #227 17s. 6d. (120.10.0; 22.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 85.7.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: Several newairs (never performed) by Michael Arne-for the characters of Cymon and Sylvia, on this occasion

1132
07 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Aickin at his house in Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #128 5s. (91.8; tickets: 36.17) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17780121

1133
09 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, at Pope's, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #265 5s. (94.8; 17.7; 0.8; tickets: 153.2) (charge: #69 1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: End II: Slingsby's grand ballet The Savage Hunters, as17780324but Fitzgerald

1134
09 April 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Freeman [who, as Chamont, is identified in Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.]. Tickets to be had of Freeman, Vine-street, Piccadilly; of Massey, at Marshall's, Bedford-court, Covent Garden. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

1135
09 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Pozzi. Tickets to be had of Sga Pozzi, No. 18, Sherrard-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vera Costanza

Related Works
Related Work: La Vera Costanza Author(s): Francesco Pittini

Dance: As17780203

Song: II: new song (composed by Sacchini)-Pozzi; accompanied on the flute-Florio; III: Che dirnen so-Jermoli

1136
20 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Prologue printed in Westminster Magazine, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

Dance: As17780109

1137
21 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Moody at the New Inn Coffee-house, Wych-street. Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. [98.17.0; 12.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 61.3.0) [charge: #66 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17780409

1138
21 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Morning Post, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-Place. Tickets delivered for The Merchant of Venice will be taken. Receipts: #184 18s. (85.16; tickets: 99.2) (charge #69 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End II: The Poney Races-Dagueville, Sga Tinte

1139
22 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. [This was included in both subsequent performances.] Afterpiece [1st time; C 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 23 Apr.]. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bulkley, No. 10, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #195 13s. 6d. [166.16.6; tickets: 28.17.0) (charge: #73 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

1140
23 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [In afterpiece Prologue by David Garrick.] Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #132 16s. 6d. (55.15.0; 26.3.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 50.10.0) (charge: #75 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: As17780422

1141
24 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her house, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #160 7s. (100.18; tickets: 59.9) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End III: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois; End IV: as17780421

1142
25 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, the Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. [77.0.0; 13.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 156.1.0) (charge: #65 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: The Sailors' Revels-Blurton

1143
25 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

1144
27 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in two parts) of Singing, Dancing and Dialogue in Honour of Shakespeare. In which a Pageant. The Music by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 7s. (169.5; 21.0; 1.2; tickets: 89.0) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

1145
28 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #237 3s. 6d. (79.15.6; tickets: 157.8.0) [charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Poney Races, as17780421; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17771121

1146
29 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #205 6s. (82.16; tickets: 122.10) (charge: #66 9s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Entertainment: Monologue.As17780427

1147
30 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Baccelli. Tickets to be had of Mlle Baccelli at Chanu's, No. 46, Rupert-street, Leicester-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Serious Ballet, as17780120; End II: Masquerade Dance, as17780303Minuet de la Cour and Gavot, as17780303Provencal, as17780303Allemande a la Strasbourgoise, as17780303End Opera: La Serenade Interrompuee, as17780224

1148
01 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Miss Hopkins'. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2 (?), by Thomas Holcroft. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music [by William Shield (European Magazine, Jan. 1782, p.59)] entirely new. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr. Tickets to be had of the Miss Hopkins', No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #129 8s. 6d. (61.15.0; 24.5.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 43.7.0) (charge: #66 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Crisis; or, Love and Fear

Dance: As17780109

1149
01 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Farrell. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Farrell, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #266 3s. 6d. (135.1.6; tickets: 131.2.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: The Poney Races, as17780421

1150
04 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren and Miss Sherry. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entry. Tickets delivered by Thompson will be taken. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at Rumler's, Clare-court, Drury-lane; of Miss Sherry at Nichol's, Baker, Bridges-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #265 7s. (84.5; 15.9; 0.1; tickets: 165.12) (charge: #75 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425