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We found 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon, L'Estrange, Thompson & Guard. Receipts: #254 1s. (80/18; tickets: 173/3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17821214

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & Palmer Sen. Receipts: #267 3s (14/17; 7/6; 0/14; tickets: 244/6) (charge: #105 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Enoe & the Widow of the late Carleton Sen. Receipts: #264 (39/10/0; 17/2/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 207/0/0) (charge: #107 12s. 2d)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Lady Rusport Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17821214

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. Receipts: #297 4s. 6d. (18/13/0; 5/14/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 272/13/0) (charge: #106)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #347 3s. 6d. (51/2/6; tickets: 296/1/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End of mainpiece The Rival Nymphs, as17830524

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Dance: End of Act II La Begueule by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Slingsby, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi, with a Pas Seul by Mme Simonet; End of Act III Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830426, but omitted: Mlle Theodore

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilford, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Sarjent, Seymour, Sloper, Abbot, Akrey [Account-Book adds Rolles] will be admitted this Evening. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [This was Yates's last appearance on the stage in London; he subsequently acted in Edinburgh in March, 1785. Afterpiece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #255 3s. 6d. (20/5/0; 0/15/6; tickets: 234/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle As17820930 but Jeremy W

Dance: As17821231

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell, and Colborne, box-keepers. [In mainpiece Booth doubled Rosencraus and the 1st Gravedigger.] Receipts: #227 14s. 6d. (72/7/6; tickets: 155/7/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17830530

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally ho.', as17830516

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers. The Orchestra under the Direction of Barthelemon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I Il Riposo del Campo, as17830313but omitted: Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, La Recrue par Force; End of Act III he Tuteur Trompe, as17830506, with a Pas de Deux by Slingsby and Mme Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Beeston, Brereton, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson, Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Smallwood, Jennings, Halliburton, Shuter, Pilbrow, Turtle, Wm. Ansell will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #263 9s. (24/14; 1/18; tickets: 236/17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17821231; End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as n Dec. 1782, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers. Opera: A Comic Opera in 2 acts; the Music entirely new by Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavaro

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule, as17830531; End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830111, but omitted: Slingsby, Mlle Theodore

Event Comment: Benefit for the Servants, above Seventy in Number

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule, as17830531, but omitted Slingsby, and with a Minuet, as17830313End of Opera Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830614

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 1st two pieces]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son in law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17830531; End of mainpiece, as17830702

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: As17830702

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece a favorite song by Miss George. vaudeville. In 2nd piece The Manual Exercise, with the Officer's Salute, &c, by Mrs Wells

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece [1st time; c 2, by James Brown Williamson. MS: Larpent 630; not published. Prologue probably by the author; Epilogue by the author; speakers' names (Public Advertiser, 3 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 18 July 1777]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing Or Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Monologue: 1783 08 20 As 13 Aug. imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by Richard Paul Jodrell. Text 1st published (with cast for later season) by W. Lowndes and J. Barker, 1786]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17830610

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 1st piece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Never acted here. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 15 Aug. 1781]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End of mainpiece Four-and-Twenty Fidlers all on a Row, by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 08 26 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. 1st piece [1st time; prel i, by William Finney. MS: Larpent 635; not published]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, Egan, Blissett, Stevens, Williamson; Miss Morris. [Larpent MS lists certain performers as appearing in this piece in their own persons, but their names do not correspond with the names printed on the playbill.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug