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5325 results for: Keyword - R
We found 6691 matches on Roles/Actors, 1726 matches on Performance Comments, 226 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Author.

2526
04 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The School for Scandal [announced on playbill of 3 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Abington. Receipts: #160 14s. 6d. (137.10.0; 23.2.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hastings

Performance Comment: As17780124.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: As17780203

2527
06 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 19s. 6d. (120.14.0; 20.4.6; 0.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17780120, but Daemon of Revenge-Gaudry.

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

Performance Comment: As17780202.

2528
07 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #118 7s. (97.18; 20.9; 0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17780102.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17771007.

Dance: As17780203

2529
09 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts. #161 11s. 6d. (135.2.0; 26.6.6; 0.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hastings

Performance Comment: As17780124.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: As17771009

2530
18 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The School for Scandal [announced on playbill of 17 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred till Friday, on account of Palmer's Illness. Receipts: #115 5s. 6d. (96.5.0; 18.17.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17780108.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: As17771009

2531
05 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Henderson's 1st appearance as Valentine was at Bath, 1 Feb. 1777.] Receipts: #192 8s. (171.12.0; 20.14.6; 0.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Parsons; Ben-Yates; Jeremy-Baddeley; Trapland-Waldron; Tattle-King; Angelica-Miss Younge; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Miss Sherry; Miss Prue-Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: As17771009

2532
12 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #136 16s. 6d. (113.9.0; 23.3.6; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Capt. Absolute-Palmer; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydis Languish-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

2533
21 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 17s. 6d. (121.10.0; 25.5.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: As17771017.

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Performance Comment: As17780316 .

Dance: As17771009

2534
31 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. [Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Macbeth at Bath, 12 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #275 18s. [156.2; 9.1; 0.0; tickets: 110.15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17780105, but Macbeth-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Macduff-Farren; Captain-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17771007.

Dance: As17780324

Song: In: the original Music, as17780105, but _Edwards, Philimore, Mrs +Gaudry, Mrs +Wrighten

2535
29 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #244 15s. 6d. (232.13.0; 11.19.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17771022.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

2536
30 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Robinson. Morning Chronicle, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, at Parviso's, No. 114, Long acre. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Mary Robinson. Larpent MS 447; not published]: The Music chiefly compiled. Tickets delivered for King Lear will be taken. Books of the Performances to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #153 17s. 6d. (57.8.0; 21.3.6; 0.10.0: tickets: 74.16.0) (charge: #78 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17780105, but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Escape

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Vernon, Waldron, Dodd, Miss Collett, Mrs Wrighten. Cast from Songs (Printed for the Author [1778]): Edwin-Vernon; Sir Toby Stedfast-Waldron; Venture-Dodd; Maria-Miss Collett; Letitia-Mrs Wrighten.

Song: As17780331

2537
04 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren and Miss Sherry. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entry. Tickets delivered by Thompson will be taken. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at Rumler's, Clare-court, Drury-lane; of Miss Sherry at Nichol's, Baker, Bridges-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #265 7s. (84.5; 15.9; 0.1; tickets: 165.12) (charge: #75 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: As17780330but Lysimachus-Farren; Roxana-Miss Sherry (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17771031.

Dance: End: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

2538
08 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash, Legg & Blurton. Twelfth Night [announced on playbill of 7 May] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of 2 principal performers. Tickets delivered for Twelfth Night by the Miss Stageldoirs and Mrs Pulley will be taken. Receipts: #225 5s. 6d. (30.0.0; 10.6.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 184.18.0) (charge: #67 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17771011, but King Richard-Smith; Buckingham-Aickin; Lord Mayor-Chambers.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Performance Comment: As17771119.

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour-the Miss Stageldoirs; End: Double Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton; 2nd appearance), Miss Stageldoirs; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Blurton, Mrs Sutton [1st appearance this season]

2539
11 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter & Butler. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Carpenter at Sutton's, No. 11, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Butler, next Door to the Theatre. Receipts: #283 15s. 6d. (42.2.0; 7.2.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 234.9.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771117, but Filch-Carpenter; Mat o' th' Mint-Wright.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508

2540
13 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #247 14s. 6d. [234.15.0; 12.11.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17771208.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17780101.

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508; End IV: Rural Grace, as17780113

2541
14 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love & Mrs Johnston. Tickets delivered for The Plain Dealer will be taken. Public Advertiser, 13 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw at Mrs Norolk's, Glazier, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Love, Gerrard-street, Soho; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, Drury-lane. Receipts: #132 16s. (32.3; 20.13; 1.4; tickets: 78.16) (charge: #65 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17771203, but Le Beau-Philimore.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17780502.

Dance: As17780512

Song: End I: He's Aye Kissing Me, as17780428; End II: the much-admir'd song in The Milesian being a description of a Naval Engagement Stand to your guns my hearts of oak-Bannister; In V: song, as17771203

2542
25 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written after the Manner of the worst as well as the best English Poets. Containing, amongst a Variety of Particulars, curious, entertaining and pathetic, the Rebellion of the Journeymen Tailors; their Military Preparations and Election of a Chief; their Skirmishes, Ambushes, Sieges, Councils, and Combats; their Division into Flints and Dungs; with the Defection of the Dungs at the Pass of the Butcher-Row, and total overthrow of the Flints at the famous battle of Temple-Bar; together with the Captivity and fatal End of their valiant Leader

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Performance Comment: As17780521. Prologue as17780518.

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

Performance Comment: See17780521.

Dance: As17780518

2543
26 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for J. Wood, Percey, Cameron & the Widow Robinson. Tickets delivered by Camery and Hodges will be taken. Receipts: #288 13s. (33.3; 1.6; 0.18; tickets: 253.6) [charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17780508.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17771031.

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508

2544
05 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Performance Comment: As17780521. Prologue as17780518.

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17780601.

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses, as17780529; End II: Provencalle Dance, as17780518

2545
08 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; Mat o' th' Mint-Baker; Beggar-Blissett; Player-Davis; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Hitchcock; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt; Polly (1st time)-Miss Harper (who performed the part of Rosetta [on 22 May]).on 22 May]).

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

Performance Comment: As17780521, but Warm@Weather Tragedians-_Walker, Egan.

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Master Byrn. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

2546
09 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17780608.

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

Performance Comment: As17780608.

2547
12 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17780611.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas-Edwin; Apollo-Brett; Sileno-Massey; Jupiter-Legg; Damaetas-Blissett; Pan-Bannister; Daphne-Mrs Hitchcock; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Mysis-Mrs Love; Nysa-Miss Twist.

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses, as17780518; End afterpiece: Provencalle Dance, as17780518

2548
16 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17780611.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17780612.

Dance: End II: Provencalle Dance, as17780518; End afterpiece: The Merry Lasses, as17780529

2549
17 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17780611.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17780612.

Dance: As17780616

2550
18 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Performance Comment: As17780521.

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17780601.

Dance: End I: The Gardeners-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As17780529

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