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We found 4486 matches on Event Comments, 3200 matches on Performance Comments, 700 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets deliver'd for Grecian Daughter taken. Part of pit laid into boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Rec'd stopages #2 16s.; Paid 4 days salary list #348 14s. 8d; Mr King's extra salary #2 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #271. Charges: #65 13s. Profit for Barry: #205 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930; End I Farce: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Event Comment: Oratorio: Written by the late Dr Hawksworth. Set to music by Stanley. Books of the Oratorio may be had of Mr Condell, in Cross St., Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [This night Wm. Kenrick delivered his tenth, and apparently last, lecture on The School of Shakespeare. It was on King Lear, and very little could be said in favor of any of his remarks on the passages he selected...[he closed by] presenting the audience an act from Falstaff's Wedding." Monthly Miscellany (April 1774, p. 191), which had reviewed all of his lectures, had commented upon the increasing popularity of them as evidenced by the numbers attending, and presented an engraving of Kenrick in action before his audience.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Egypt

Music: As17740218

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. The Tragedy of All for Love, which was to have been performed this evening, is oblig'd to be changed, on account of the indisposition of Mrs Barry and Miss Younge; therefore Mr Aickin humbly hopes that his friends will accept of the Tempest in its stead. Tickets deliver'd for All for Love will be taken. Paid extra flute and hautboy 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Aickin did not act (Winston MS 10). [This month published The Sentimental Spouter; or, Young Actor's Companion. The whole comprising the essence of theatrical delivery, and the beauties of dramatic poetry. Price 1s. 6d. Printed for Wheble (Gentleman's Magazine Register).] Receipts: #123 14s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profit to F. Aickin: #49 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prince Of Agra

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: II: The Song of Mad Tom will be sung in Character-Reinhold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208; After which: New Poetical Interlude, Henry and Emma: Parts-Smith, Hull, Miss Brown, Mrs Hartley; To conclude with: a New Air and Chorus by Dr Arne-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Song: II: Rise Glory-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: A Triple Hornpipe-Miss Matthews, Miller, Eves; being his first appearance. The two last, scholars to Fishar. A New Dance with Baskets of Flowers[, in which introduced, by particular desire, a Minuet and Allemande-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; [her first appearance this season. A New Grand Ballet, The Black Prince's Festival- (that night only); Prince-Fishar; Pages-Blurton, Miller; Favourites-Miss Twist, Miss Valois; [See17720424.] A New Serious Ballet-Miss Parish[, a Child of Ten Years of age, with only 4 months' instruction, Apprentice to Fishar, her first appearance

Ballet: The Favorite Comic Ballet, first time this season, The Wapping Landlady. Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Orange Woman-Miss Twist [see17730424]; [with Sixfold Hornpipe- [see17730424]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Messenger Actor: Griffith

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Monologue: End: (By Desire) Linco's Travels. As 14 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Swindlers

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: A Minuet, Allemande-Master Burn, Miss Burn (Scholars of Giorgi); IV: A New Hornpipe-Master Burn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker; End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: ByMaster Whitlow, Miss Lings; End I Afterpiece: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Mimicry

Event Comment: [The Westminster Magazine for October presented brief critical comments upon eight new actors at Covent Garden who performed this month: Mr and Mrs Whitefield, Young, Clinch, a young Lady (Mrs Armstead), Lee, Melmoth and Mrs Hunter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I of Farce: The Irish Fair, as17740917

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: The Sailors Revels, as17740920