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5895 results for: Keyword - Mr West
We found 4306 matches on Event Comments, 1217 matches on Performance Comments, 711 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
17 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Several. Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

1127
14 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and West. Tickets deliver'd for Rule a Wife (which is oblidg'd on account of Palmer's Indisposition) will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

1128
01 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter and Eddis (playbill). [Account Book lists only Condell and Potter.] Charges #81 10s. Deficit to Condell and Potter #49 10s. 6d. covered by #97 10s. to Condell from tickets (Box 248; Pit 194; Gallery 64) and #73 14s. to Potter from Tickets (Box 159; Pit 157; Gallery 104). Paid Richard Richardson for the Purchase of the Fee Farm of three Houses on the West Side of Bow St. subject to 40s. a year payable to the Duke of Bedford...#1800. Receipts: #31 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

1129
22 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: End of Play: The Pedlar by Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West .

1130
05 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Cast
Role: Jack Actor: Weston

Afterpiece Title: hay The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Jerry Sneak Actor: Weston

Dance: hay II: The Nosegay, as17700611 End of Play: Double Hornpipe by Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West .

1131
24 July 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Dido

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe-Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West.

1132
12 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Masque (in three parts) [by George Colman] never perform'd, in which will be introduc'd the Principal Solemnities at the Installation of the Knights of the Garter. With New Music, composed by Dr Arne, Habits, Decorations and Scenes. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #220 10s. 6d. (Account Book). The greater part is borrowed with some variation from Ben Jonson [Masque of Oberon]. The same liberty has been taken with a few passages of Shakespeare, and a Chorus of the late Gilbert West, Esq. The final chorus is from Dryden...an effort to entertain the public by the combined powers of the most eminent proficients in the arts of Music, Painting and Poetry (Adv. to Printed Edn., Colman's Dramatic Works, IV, London, 1777)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince, with Installation of Knights of the Garter

1133
23 October 1772 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: On Tuesday last died at Ealing in Middlesex at a very advanced age and much regretted by all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance, Henry Giffard, the Celebrated Manager of Goodman's Fields Theatre. This Gentleman was of a Genteel Family in the West of England (Public Advertiser). [Though him Garrick had come to the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1134
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

1135
20 December 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. By Desire of the Most Noble Order of Bucks. Benefit for Griffith. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Tickets delivered for November 22 and for The West Indian will be admitted. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Wrangling Lovers; or, Like Master Like Man

Entertainment: Imitations. After the Epilogue: a Variety of new Imitations-Decastro; Monologue. End IV: Address to the Town, in which several Dramatic Characters will be introduced-Master Russell

1136
14 March 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Subscription for the Relief of the Sufferers in the West India Islands [see king's, 8 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Original Lecture Upon Heads

1137
15 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Norris, Chaplin, Walker & Mrs Booth. Tickets delivered for The West Indian will be taken. Receipts: #246 2s. (46/6/0; 16/7/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 182/16/0) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece the Minuet de la Cour, as17820104; End of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17811015

Song: As17811105

1138
23 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Representation of the late Action in the West Indies. Receipts: #105 7s. (83/6; 21/3; 0/18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair American

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

1139
10 June 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Rachele Dorta. Boxes to be had by applying to No. 80, near the Opera-house, Hay-market. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Rachele Dorta, No. 72, west side of the Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840513; End of Opera Le Deserteur, as17840608

1140
07 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Tickets to be had of Miss Phillips, at the West-End of Dorville's-Row. Afterpiece: Written by O'KeefFe, set to music by Shield, and performed with greatest applause at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

1141
19 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The West Indian, announced on playbill of 17 Feb.] Receipts: #235 10s. 6d. (205.14.0; 27.2.6; 1.6.6; tickets not come in: 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

1142
03 July 1787 @ Royalty Theatre, Well (now Ensign) Street

Event Comment: The playbill concludes with the following note: The frequenters of the Royalty Theatre, from the west end of the town, are hereby informed that there is an excellent access for carriages, from Whitechapel, through Red-Lion Street. [Future performances at this theatre will not be recorded.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Reopened (see 20 June) With Three Burlettas: The Birth-day; Or, The Arcadian Contest [1st Time, Anonymous]

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: Hobson's Choice; or, Thespis in Distress [1st time]

Entertainment: Occasional Address-Palmer

Dance: End: a new dance, The Triumph of Cupid-

1143
16 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. Afterpiece [1st time: F 2, by Stephen George Kemble, altered from The Fair Maid of the West, by Thomas Heywood. Larpent MS 914; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. Morning Chronicle, 15 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, next door to the Old Slaughter's Coffee-house, St. Martin's Lane. "Miss Kemble, though only four years of age, drew forth much applause" (Diary, 17 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Northern Inn; or, The Days of Good Queen Bess

1144
26 November 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Silvester. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Tickets to be had of Silvester, No. 50, Brewer-street, Golden-square, and at No. 25, North Audley-street, Grosvenor-square; of Massey, No. 18, Snow-hill; of Frith, No. 39, King-street, West Smithfield; and of Blandford, Pea-Hen, Bishopsgate-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: After 2nd song: A Pas Seul-Mons Symone

Song: End IV: Tippy Bob-C. Stanley; End: Poor Jack in character-Mrs Kennedy

Entertainment: Monologue After Dancing: The Monody on the Death of the late D. Garrick Esq. (Written by R. B. Sheridan, Esq.)-the Lady who performs Zara

1145
20 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. Morning Herald, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 20, Judd-place West, New-road, St. Pancras. Receipts: #155 9s. (97.9.6; 51.12.6; 4.10.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 1.16.6) (charge: #217 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: As17960428

1146
08 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Hall (b[ox-keeper]), Warwhick, Robson (p[it door-keeper]), W. Ansell, W. Linton, West, Purkins, Standen, Ashwin, Hill, Morris will be admitted. Receipts: #334 0s. 6d. (35.18.0; 3.13.0; tickets: 294.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: End: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Young Standen

1147
19 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Roberts, Norton, Loyd, Atkins, Mrs Pitt, Little, Ince, West, Dyke, Bagley, Berecloth, Young, Noble, Thompson, Coombs, Bonsor will be admitted. Receipts: #307 17s. (30.0.6; 5.5.6; tickets: 272.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

1148
23 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore and Sedgwick. Times, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, Judd Place West, Sommer's Town; of Sedgwick, No. 18, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #518 17s. (88.2.0; 67.11.0; 1.19.6; tickets: 361.4.6) (charge: #213 12s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Anacreontic Society Revived [i

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

1149
04 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Thompson (box-keeper), Webb (door-keeper), Dibdin, Purkins, Pitt, Williamson, Goodwin, Anselmo, Roberts, Loyd, West, Berecloth, Young, Norton will be taken.] Receipts: #374 16s. (38.1.6; 4.18.0; tickets: 331.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: End: A Scotch Divertisement-Jackson, Platt, Dyke, Miss Bologna, Mrs Watts

1150
21 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore and Wathen. Morning Chronicle, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 20, Judd Place, West, Somers Town; of Wathen, No. 4, Park-row, Knightsbridge. Receipts: #148 (84.18.6; 59.8.6; 3.13.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #218 12s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202, but Saundy-_; Donald-_

Entertainment: In which a Trial of Skill, in the exercise of the Austrian and Highland Broadsword-Nine of the First Swordsmen in this Kingdom