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8571 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in Goodman's-Fields
We found 5062 matches on Event Comments, 2735 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5901
19 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

5902
27 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Account of afterpiece in Town and Country Magazine, from Theatre No. XXIII.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

5903
17 January 1771 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Great care will be taken to have additional fires to make warm the said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gioas Re Di Giuda

Music: As17710110

Song: As17710110

5904
15 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston, at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Upper Gallery 2s. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: First Violin-Mr Barthelemon; Concerto on Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violincello-Duport

5905
15 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets and places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjeant (only) at the Stage Door. Books of the performance sold at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin exactly at Half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabeus

Music: End Part I: A Solo-; End Part II: A Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen

5906
08 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Miss Rogers. Music and words by author and composer of Padlock [I. Bickerstaffe]. Book of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears

Song: I: The Sycamore Shade-Mrs Wrighten; IV: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers, his scholar

5907
10 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Order of the Grand Buck. Benefit for Wignell and Barnshaw. Places will be kept in the Boxes for the Brethren of the Most Noble Order, who are desired to meet the Grand Buck and his Council at the Shakespeare's Head, in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden; by Five o'clock, in order to proceed from thence to the Theatre in Procession

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End Opera: Comic Dance, as17701017

5908
15 May 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places to be taken of Mr Jewell at the Theatre. No Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors to be opened at six. To begin at Seven. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: The Cowkeepers-Mas. West, Miss West

5909
06 June 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To begin at 7 p.m. For one night only, being particularly desired by several Persons of Distinction. Performance by a considerable number of the best "catch" singers and instrumental performers. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Books of the Catches and Glees to be had at the theatre. Performance will be over time enough for those ladies and gentlemen who are engag'd at Mrs Cornelys's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catches And Glees

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Song: God Save our Noble King- (in Honor of His Majesty's Birthday)

5910
28 June 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Last Night the unpopular Parson was hissed out of Mr Foote's Theatre before the Conclusion of the second Act (The St James's Chronicle, or, British Evening Post, No. 1614, 27-29 June, 1771)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17710626

5911
28 September 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The first payroll of the season was met this night. It includes 91 actors, actresses and dancers, plus 36 named servants to the theatre and 4 groups (women dressers, charwomen, guards, and barbers). The pay period covered was for 3 days. It came to #168 2s. 6d. The highest paid actor for this period was Ross at #8 5s.; the highest paid actress, Mrs Yates at #8 6s. 6d.; the highest paid dancer, Fichar at #3. The lowest paid in each category were: actors: C. Smith and Hollingsworth at 7s. 6d. apiece; actresses, 11 who receiv'd 10s. each (Mrs Ferguson, Evans, White, Allen, Cockayne, &c.); Dancers: 11 who receiv'd 15s. apiece (male) and 2 (female) who receiv'd 12s. 6d. apiece. The highest paid servant listed was Stables at 15s., and the lowest the charwomen.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5912
02 October 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Kirk for copper tickets as per bill #5 5s. (Account Book). [These copper checks (illustrated in W. J. Lawrence, Old Theatre Days and Ways, London, 1935, p. 86) were supposedly given, by the box office keeper, to each person who entered the boxes. They were there dropped into a slit box by those who paid the money gatherer between the acts, or were returned to the box office by the holder if he left before the third act. The system was devised to check the receipts from the money gatherers against the number of copper tickets issued. Collusion between the Box office keeper and the gatherer could occur, but was checked by a third office, the numberer who counted heads, from his central position, as the gatherers went their rounds.] Receipts: #222 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Midas

5913
24 October 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Land Tax for theatre due Mich. last: #61 5s.; half year's window lights for ditto: #6 10s. 6d.; half year's land tax for House in Bow Passage: #2 3s. 9d., and window lights for same 15s.; Paid Stubbs (timber merchant) as per bill #50; Paid Evans (sawyer) #9 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #240 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: Corsican Sailor's Punch House, as17711011

5914
14 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's rate for Theatre to Mich. Last #20 8s. 4d.; Paid ditto for House in Bow Passage 14s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #233 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

5915
15 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Paving &c. for theatre due Mich last #18 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #209 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

5916
30 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Whitefield for cloaths bought #34 7s. (Account Book). All the differences between the managers of Covent Garden Theatre are settled. They met together without the interposition of any other person, shook hands, dined at Mr Colman's, and put a final stop to all the proceedings at law (Gentleman's Magazine, XLI, 520). Receipts: #186 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

5917
12 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Words of the Epithalamium [in the Tragedy] to be had at the theatre. Paid Shropshire for brushes #4 10s.; Paid Rowson (gunsmith) #2 9s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #151 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

5918
01 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The bill for this night and on subsequent nights specifies the additions "Particularly two views of the Eruptions of Mount Vesuviusv." The Gentleman's Magazine this month contained a four-column review of Nipclose's The Theatres, blasting its contentions.] Receipts: #195 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

5919
17 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Masque, including the words of the additional Scene, to be had at the theatre. Paid Leverton & Co (bricklayers) #32 12s.; Heafford (plaisterer) #12 11s.; Wilford (painter) #15 11s. (Account Book Receipts: #172 10s. (Account Book).)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17711026

5920
31 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Latter end of next month the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, which has been much enlarg'd and Beautified will open with Subs[cription] Jubilee Masque (Winston MS 10). Paid Mr Hopkins, Prompter's Bill, #23 16s.; Mr Calthorpe's 1st payment #157 10s.; Printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #237 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

5921
01 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these 2 Years. [See 6 May 1771.] Paid Mrs Yates, the Balance of the Author's 3 Nights of Zobeide #237 19s. Paid one year's Rector's Rate for theatre due Xmas last #8 15s.; and Watch rate #17 10s. Paid one year's Rector's rate for House in Bow Passage 6s. 3d.; and watch for same 12s. 6d. Paid Mrs Keys for a gold and silver sack coat #14 14s. (Account Book). Receipts: #148 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

5922
08 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: About Ten o'clock this Morning Orders came from the Lord Chamberlain to Shut up the House on Account of the Death of the Princess Dowager of Wales who died this Morn[in]g between 6 & 7 o'clock (Hopkins Diary). [Closed through Sat., Feb. 15. No record in Treasurer's Book save "The Princes Dowager of Wales died this Morning."] Theatres clos'd on 8 Feb. and reopen'd on 17th Feb. for Augusta Princess Dowager of Wales (Winston MS 10). Paid salary list, at #83 9s. 9d. per diem, #500 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths acct, #2; Mr S. French, 1 1!2 days 7s. 6d.; Mr Weston's note to Mr Holman, #8 3s. (Treasurer's Book). [The cast scheduled for mainpiece was that of 4 Feb.; for afterpiece that of 30 Dec. 1771. The dance between was to have been Sailor's Revels of 8 Oct. 1771.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

5923
18 February 1772 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By the unfortunate death of her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales a temporary stop was put to theatrical entertainments to this day. Opera will be performed at this theatre three times or at least twice every week till Passion Week. Such of the Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to the Opera who do not care to keep their Boxes on the Thursday, and have the extra weekly performance reckoned into their Subscription nights are desired to send word

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Felosofo Di Campagna

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

5924
06 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Words from Holy Writ...Music so admirable designed by Handel as to Beggar all description (Theatrical Review). Mr Ponta is Musician to his Serene Highness the Elector of Mentz. Tickets and places for boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjeant at the Stage Door. Box 5s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Books of the performance sold at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at half past Six (Account Book). [Messrs Toms and Arnold were putting on the Oratorios at Covent Garden this season.] Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Part I: Concerto on French Horn-Mr Ponta; End Part II: Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen (Theatrical Review, 214)

5925
09 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece advertised on this bill as Never Performed" (playbill).] Paid John Doe, John Claridge, and John Smith each #1 12s. 6d. for performing 13 nights in the Ass and the Hog [in Mother Shipton] to the 7th inst. (Account Book). [See account of damning of mainpiece in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre No. XXXV). Halfpennies and apples thrown at chandeliers and one broken.] Receipts: #243 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife In The Right

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid