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6209 results for: Keyword - George Saville Carey
We found 5131 matches on Author, 705 matches on Performance Comments, 657 matches on Event Comments, 188 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6076
20 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

6077
29 February 1780 @ Crown Inn, Lower Street (now Essex Road), Islington

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Prologue by Richard Cumberland. Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] To begin at 6:00. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Entertainment: Monologue.End: A Sea Fight.Frenchman-Jerrold

6078
19 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sharp and Mrs Brereton. [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman elder.] Receipts: #175 18s. (64.12; 34.2; 0.17; tickets:76.7) (charge: #65 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Dance: End: New Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

6079
19 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Morning Chronicle, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 151, Drury-lane. 1st piece [1st time; M. PREL I, by George Downing]: The Music by Hook. 3rd piece: Not acted these 18 years. With a grand burlesque Procession and triumphal Entry of Alexander into London. The Nobles, Guards, Officers and Attendants will be all dressed in the Habits of the Times. Receipts: #274 14s. (173.9; tickets: 101.5) (charge: #70 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Volunteers; Or Taylors To Arms

Related Works
Related Work: The Volunteers; or, Taylors to Arms! Author(s): George Downing

Afterpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queans; or, The Life and Death of Alexander the Little

Dance: End IV: As17791013

6080
05 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Sophia Lee, based partly on Le Pere De Famille, by Denis Diderot. Prologue by George Colman elder (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 14 Sept. 1780: This Day is published The Chapter of Accidents (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

6081
20 October 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman elder.] Receipts: #90 12s. (64.16; 25.16; 0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Dance: End I: Dance, as17801019; End: The Force of Love, as17801018

Song: As17801005

6082
30 October 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [1st time; M.ENT 3, by George Alexander Stevens. Larpent MS 533; not published. Songs published by R. Snagg, 1780.] The Overture, most of the Airs [see 6 Nov.], and Decorations entirely new. Ne Quid Nimis; or, Too much of one Thing is good for Nothing. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. The Public are respectfully informed that the Upper Gallery will not be opened. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. The Songs, written by G. A. Stevens, are to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cabinet Of Fancy; Or, Evening Exhibition

6083
06 November 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cabinet Of Fancy

Performance Comment: As17801101, but added: Written by George Alexander Stevens, with considerable Alterations and Additions; the Overture, Recitatives, most of the Airs and Chorus entirely new, composed by Claggett.

6084
18 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 1st piece: Never acted here; with Alterations. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, author unknown, based on George Dandin, by Moliere, and on The Amorous Widow, by Thomas Betterton, and on the anonymous No Wit Like a Woman's. Text 1st published by S. Bladon, 1788.]. Receipts: #283 8s. 6d. (186.11.6; tickets: 96.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

6085
28 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One; Or, The Cartel At Philadelphia

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Who'd have Thought It

Performance Comment: Characters-Wilson, Whitfield, Wewitzer, Cubitt, Thompson, Booth, Lee Lewes, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Webb; [Partial cast adjusted from hay playbill of 7 July 1781: Strap-Wilson; Ishmael-Wewitzer; Broadhem-Mrs Wilson; Caroline-Mrs Lewis; Mrs Strap-Mrs Webb; Larpent MS lists the other parts: Hawser, Spangle, Lord George Willmore, Clinker, Clod, Box, Frank, Pillage.] Prologue-Lee Lewes.

6086
06 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #197 9s. 6d. (141/14/0; 55/1/0; 0/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811004

6087
16 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John O'KeefFe, altered from his The She Gallant; or, Square-Toes Outwitted, 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767, and in London at the HAY, 13 Oct. 1779. Incidental music by Michael Arne and William Shield. Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, m, 231)]. Receipts: #228 10s. 6d. (226/14/6; 1/16/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Related Works
Related Work: The She-Gallants Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

6088
01 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Afterpiece: As performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning 6 Aug. 1779]; by the Author of the Son-in-Law, the Agreeable Surprise, &c. [John O'Keeffe]. [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #195 9s. 6d. (161/11/6; tickets: 33/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

6089
16 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; c 5, ascribed to Frances Burney (see Boaden, Siddons, 1, 272). MS: Larpent 596; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, July 1782, p. 312. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, III, 235). The play is anonymous.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

Dance: As17820613

6090
05 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John Dent. Prologue ascribed to George Colman, the elder (see Town and Country Magazine, Aug. 1782, p. 400)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Candidate

Dance: As17820613

6091
01 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "When Brabantio speaks to Iago and Roderigo from the Window, Aickin should not show to the audience that he stands upon a Ladder, which he manifestly does, by getting down first, and pulling the Window down after him ... Mrs Ward and Mrs Hopkins seemed to have forgot their Engagement on the Stage, and dressed themselves for a Card Party ... frizzed, hooped and fly-capp'd" (Public Advertiser, 4 Oct.). [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #152 0s. 6d. (107/7/0; 44/11/0; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

6092
17 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Scornful Lady, by] Beaumont and Fletcher [1st time; c 5, by William Cooke; incidental music by Michael Arne. Prologue by the alterer. Epilogue by George Colman, the elder (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 27 Jan. 1783: Wednesday Morning [29 Jan.] will be published The Capricious Lady (price not listed). "The costume of James's reign was strictly attended to in the dresses of the characters; and I remember the enjoyment of Mrs Abington, in a high ruff and a rich silver silk edged with black velvet" (Boaden, Siddom, I, 371). Receipts: #228 4s. 6d. (218/10/6; 9/14/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17820927

6093
05 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece: Ballet Tragi-Comique, composed by Signior Novestris [i.e. George Colman, the elder]. The Music by Gluck. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Machinist and Painter-Signior Rookereschi. Tailor-Signior Walkerino

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

6094
05 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; c 3, by Denis O'Bryen. Prologue by the author; Palmer was obliged to read it, he "not having received it in due time". Epilogue by George Colman, the elder, with name of speaker (Town and Country Magazine, July 1783, p. 339). MS: Larpent 626; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 7 July]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Friend In Need, Is A Friend Indeed

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

6095
26 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe; text (1st authorized) published in Cumberland's British Theatre, xxxvii. Prologue and Epilogue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, iii, 244, 246, which give names of speakers)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. "It had four new scenes to decorate it, and those extremely well painted. In one of them a portrait of Captain Ambush is exhibited, which presented a very happy likeness of Williamson, by Alefounder" (Universal Magazine, Aug. 1783, p. 76)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

6096
01 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: A favourite Overture by Haydn, scene I. A Forest. The Death of the Stag. Sportsmen, Horses and Dogs returned from the Chace. No Sport to the Chace can compare (the Music by Dr Arnold) by Brett, scene II. The Cave of Echo. They say there is an Echo here (composed by Herschel) by Brett, Wood, Gaudrey and others, scene III. A Wood. The Triumph of Diana. With Horns and with Rounds (the Music by Boyce) by Miss George. SCENE IV. A Sea Shore and Cottage. The celebrated Sequel to Auld Robin Gray, taken from the Movement of Haydn's Overture, by Brett and Miss Morris. Scene V. A Cobler's Cottage. The Loves of John and Jane (the Music by Dibdin) by Wilson. Scene VI. Description of a Battle. Stand to your Guns, my Hearts of Oak (the Music by Carter) by Bannister, scene VII. A Palace and Banquet. Come, honest Friends (singers not listed'). The Dances by Mr and Miss Byrne. Principal Attendant Genius-Miss Painter .

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

6097
27 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts by Norris, Reinhold; Miss George, Mrs Kennedy. 1st Violin by Richards .

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

6098
05 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: In 1st piece Love in her Eyes was sung by Norris; O ruddier than the cherry by Reinhold; Consider, fond shepherd by Mrs Kennedy; Heart, thou seat of soft delight by Miss George. The concerto consisted of "two Movements made up of common Ballads."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's de

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill

6099
03 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: A Pasticcio

Performance Comment: Scene I. A favourite Catch and Glee by Suett, Williames, Barrymore. Scene II. A favourite song by Miss George. Scene III. As Scene III, 26 Apr. Scene IV. Gramachree Molly by Miss Phillips. To conclude with The Sportsmen's Return, as17840311athi .

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

6100
07 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: Written by George Colman, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 20 Dec. 1777]. After which, a Grand Procession of the principal Characters of Shakespeare, as exhibited at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon [in Sept. 1769]. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield at his house, Leicester Court, Castle Street, Leicester Fields. Receipts: #114 4s. (45/18; tickets: 68/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Poney Races, as17840504

Song: Procession to conclude with a new Theatrical Glee, composed by Shield, by Reinhold, Brett, Johnstone