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6473 results for: Keyword - Mr Door
We found 5127 matches on Event Comments, 1141 matches on Performance Comments, 542 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2351
14 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 1 May 1787]. Receipts: #202 12s. (161.8; 39.18; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

2352
18 December 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2353
08 January 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Harwood, late prompter of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Harwood's respectful compliments to his Friends in particular, and the publick in general, and assures them every effort in his power shall be exerted to render the Evening's Entertainment agreeable, and humbly hopes for their well-known candour and protection on the above occasion. Tickets and Places to be had of Harwood, next door to Drury-Lane Theatre, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Harwood was prompter at dl from 1780 to 1786. Hooke was from cg.] Afterpiece: Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Entertainment: End: a variety of Theatrical and Senatorial Imitations-Kean

2354
12 March 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Griffiths. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had of Griffiths, No. 3, Southampton-buildings, Holborn; at the Royalty Coffee-house, Well Close Square; King's Arms, Leadenhall-street; Band Coffee-house; Sun-tavern, Foster-lane; Grotto, Southampton-buildings; Angel, St. Giles's; Cock and Bottle, Upper Brook-street; Nag's Head, Carnaby-market; One Tun, St. James's Market; Fox's Coffee-house, Bow-street; the Go, the Jump, and the Finish; and of Rice, at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End: This is the life of a frolicksome fellow-the Gentleman who performs Young Dudley; Four@and@twenty fidlers-Simpson

Entertainment: After Singing: Theatrical Imitations, vocal and rhetorical,-Weston (1st appearance on any stage)

2355
30 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 5 Mar. 1778]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30, and so continue for the remainder of the Season [but see 24 May]. Receipts: #215 14s. (207.1.6; 8.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

2356
30 April 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Lady Pentweazel sitting for her Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End III: Bow wow wow (from Patrick in Prussia [i.e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm

2357
01 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #133 11s. (112.8.0; 18.12.6; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: As17870115

2358
16 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not performed these 5 years. In 3 acts; altered from Dryden. [Both Kemble and Moss were from the Edinburgh theatre. Address by George Colman elder (European Magazine, ibid).] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin. London Chronicle, 17 May, refers to it as "from the French"]: The Musick composed by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser. 7 July: This Day is published Harvest Home (1s.). Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue End: Occasional Address (in character)-Young Sestini (European Magazine, July 1787, p. 63)

2359
24 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00, and so continue for the Remainder of the Season. Receipts: #167 18s. (166.0; 1.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement

Song: As17870515

2360
02 June 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 7:00. To begin exactly at 8:00 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #257 6s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Cesare In Egitto

Dance: As17870301

2361
18 September 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Palmer and Bannister having withdrawn from the theatre, The School for Scandal and The Quaker, which were intended for the opening pieces, were changed" (Town and Country Magazine, Oct. 1787, p. 445). [These two actors thought themselves ill-used because of the refusal of the dl management to acknowledge their right to open the Royalty (see 20 June 1787). Oulton, 1796, II, 1-8, prints an exchange of letters between Palmer, Bannister, and King (the dl acting manager) relating to this situation.] "Some twenty of thirty bars of Handel, on the approach of the court to the play [in III. ii of mainpiece]...made a fine preparation for the scene which followed" (World, 19 Sept.). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. Receipts: #186 5s. 6d. (151.0.0; 35.4.6; 0.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

2362
12 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Masquerade Scene as 24 Sept. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Apr. 1788]. Receipts: #154 3s. (150.8; 3.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Song: As17870924

2363
13 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but she "had, in her way to the theatre, been overturned in a coach. Mrs Brereton read the part of Miss Harley " (London Chronicle, 14 Nov.). The playbill also lists the song, as 12 Nov., but it was not sung on this or any subsequent night. As afterpiece the playbill announces Comus, in which Mrs Crouch was to appear, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 23 Apr. 1788]. Receipts: #124 14s. 6d. (107.12.0; 15.15.0; 1.7.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2364
03 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin precisely at 7:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #92 3s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Teodoro In Venezia

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17871208, but Sga _Bedini; End Opera: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

2365
29 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Manager of the Opera, in conjunction with Noverre, the Ballet Master, esteem it their duty to request all persons who are not immediately interested in the performance of the new ballet of L'Amour et Psiche, to keep clear from the stage during the time of its representation, lest any accident should arise from the moving of the Machinery, from the flambeaux to be used therein, and from the opening of the Trap Doors, circumstances which must necessarily take place on the Practices and Representation of that ballet, and which they therefore think it incumbent on themselves to forewarn and caution the Public. "Noverre was unanimously called for on the stage to receive the applause and acclamations due to his merit...This, though common in France, was a new mark of approbation in England" (Burney,II, 901). Receipts: #146 1s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locandiera

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17871208

Ballet: End Opera: a new ballet (1st time), composed by Noverre, L'Amour et Psiche. By Mlle Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mlle Coulon, Chevalier, Vestris, Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala, Coulon. Cast from synopsis (H. Reynell, 1788): Psyche-Mlle Hilligsberg; Adonis-Didelot; Venus-Mlle Coulon; Hymen-Chevalier; Love, or Cupid-Vestris; Graces Furies and Fates-Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala; Mercury-Coulon. The music composed by Mazzinghi; with all new Scenery (by Marinari), Dresses (by Lupino)

2366
26 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Mainpiece: By Permission of George Colman, Esq. [the holder of the copyright]. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #386 7s., as follows: money taken at the doors was #256.0.6, on which he paid charge of #100.11.6, leaving a balance due him of #155.9.0, which he was paid on 7 Apr.; after money, #4.8.6, was retained by the theatre; he sold 411 box tickets, 83 pit tickets, 107 gallery tickets for #125.18.0, free of charge; his total profit therefore was #281.7.0

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: II: a new comic song (1st time), Four@and@twenty Periwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Kensington Stage; or, The Fatigues of a Long Journey (a Comical, Poetical Description)-Edwin

2367
21 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #149 10s. 6d. (141.19.6; 7.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17880129

2368
23 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #261 8s. (81.12.0; 28.8.6; 0.17.6; tickets: 150.10.0) (charge: #108 3s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2369
10 June 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice at the Theatre. [On this night Burton and Phillimore acted in the mainpiece at dl and in the afterpiece at the hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End III: Dance-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

2370
13 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5.30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of Regattav. Kemble Mem.: No Manager [i.e. King had resigned as acting manager; but see 23 Sept.]. Ivory Tickets introduced. [These tickets, also called "bones," were for the use of actors and other members of the company in gaining admission for themselves or their friends to the front of the house. They replaced paper orders (World, 18 Oct. 1788).] Receipts: #112 3s. 6d. (75.6.0; 35.10.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

2371
15 September 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] No Money to be returned. Receipts: #294 0s. 6d. (292.12.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End II: Mirth by Moonshine-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

2372
16 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Account of the Numerous Complaints which have been made by the Frequenters of the Theatre, of the Interruption given to the Performances by the Persons insisting on having the Doors of the Boxes or the Pit opened after the House is apparently filled, and also to prevent many other Inconveniences to the Audience, the Public are requested to observe that No Money received can be returned at any of the Offices. [Throughout the season the playbills carry the notice: "No money to be returned."] Hamlet [advertised in Public Advertiser, 15 Sept.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Kemble. Receipts: #109 18s. 6d. (71.17.0; 37.3.6; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Conjugal Frolick-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Song: In I: Sheep@shearing Song-Mrs Forster

2373
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

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

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

2374
03 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 see 11 May 1789]. Receipts: #122 10s. (91.3.0; 30.16.0; 0.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

2375
03 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 12 May 1789]. Receipts: #191 12s. 6d. (188.2.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Song: As17881013