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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.

3576
12 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 12s. 6d. (152.3.0; 16.18.0; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Performance Comment: As17870312but Lapelle-Benson in place of Bates; Prologue-Barrymore. Prologue and Epilogue as17870324 .

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

3577
14 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Robert Jephson. Prologue by Edmond Malone. Epilogue by John Courtenay (see text)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 18 Dec. 1787: This Day is published Julia (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (201.5.0; 15.11.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia Or The Italian Lover

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Bensley, Aickin, Whitfield, Packer, Chaplin, Benson, Kemble, Mrs Brereton, Mrs Ward, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Siddons. Cast from text (Charles Dilly, 1787): Marcellus-Palmer; Durazzo-Bensley; Manoa-Aickin; Camillo-Whitfield; Duke of Genoa-Packer; Mentevole-Kemble; Olympia-Mrs Brereton; Fulvia-Mrs Ward; Nerina-Miss Tidswell; Julia-Mrs Siddons; Chaplin, Benson are unassigned; Prologue-Kemble; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

3578
17 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. The Romp [announced on playbill of 16 Apr.] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Jordan. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #285 12s. (126.18.0; 13.17.6; 2.16.6; ticket2: 140.0.0;) (charge: #107 8s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17861113, but Jaffier-Pope (of cg).

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17860921, but Charlotte-Miss Collins.

3579
18 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Morning Herald, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 6, Leicester-street, Leicester Fields. Receipts: #280 9s. 6d. (92.2.0; 15.14.0; tickets: 170.18.0) (charge: #106 12s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17860928, but Sir Clement Flint-Fearon (of cg).

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Performance Comment: Sir Richard Evergreen-Parsons; Lord Heartwell-Barrymore; Sam-Burton; Tinsel-Dodd; Rose (1st time)-Miss Romanzini; Miss Dorothy Evergreen-Mrs Hopkins; Emily-Mrs Crouch.

Dance: As17870115

3580
19 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Parsons his Benefit Allowance [i.e. in lieu of a benefit] #100. Receipts: #197 5s. (171.13.0; 24.6.6; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17861202, but Macduff-Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: As17870215.

Song: Singing, as17861202, but Mrs _Wrighten

3581
20 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kelly was from the Court Theatre, Vienna.] Receipts: #114 6s. 6d. (93.0.0; 20.15.6; 0.8.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: Lionel-Kelly (1st appearance on the English stage); Colonel Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Williames; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Miss Collett; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Forster; Clarissa-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

Song: [Kelly introduced a song by Giuseppe Sarti with English words by Richard Tickell, and a duet composed by himself and Stephen Storace with words by French Laurence (Kelly, I, 296). Neither one of these is listed on the playbill]

Performance Comment: Neither one of these is listed on the playbill].

3582
21 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #208 9s. 6d. (178.17.0; 26.2.0; 3.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17870327 .

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: As17860930.

3583
24 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Sultan, announced on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #117 13s. (92.10.0; 24.15.6; 0.2.6); ticket not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17870420.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17870411.

3584
26 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kemble continuing extremely hoarse, Julia [announced on playbill of 25 Apr.] is of necessity deferred till further notice. [It was not acted again this season.] Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (145.11.0; 17.15.6; 2.0.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17870102.

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17870417.

3585
30 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 28 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of Kelly. Receipts: #97 18s. (70.13; 24.7; 2.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: As17861226.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17870411.

Dance: As17870115

Song: As17861226

3586
02 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brereton. [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Sultan, but "The Public are most respectfully informed, that, in consequence of Mrs Jordan's sudden Indisposition, The Lyar will be performed this Evening instead of The Sultan" (printed slip attached to BM playbill: Burney 937. C.I.). Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Brereton, No. 15, Catherine-street, Strand. Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (85.3.0; 19.9.0; 1.2.6; tickets: 126.0.0) (charge: #106 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17870226.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: See17861129.

3587
05 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #153 3s. 6d. [120.18.0; 28.15.6; 3.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Performance Comment: As17870501. [Prologue and Epilogue as17870324 .

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17870417.

3588
10 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, Kennington-lane, near Vauxhall. Receipts: #254 8s. 6d. [64.9.0; 11.13.6; 0.19.0; tickets: 177.7.0) (charge: #106 3s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17860928, but Chairman-_; William-_; Mrs Sagely-_; Tiffany-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Performance Comment: As17870425.

Dance: As17870115

3589
12 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #236 14s. 6d. (212.0.0; 23.11.6; 1.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17870327 .

Afterpiece Title: The Distressd Baronet

Performance Comment: As17870503.

3590
14 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 12, Catherine-street, Strand. Receipts: #292 17s. 6d. (65.17.0; 14.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 212.9.0) (charge: #106 11s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17870226.

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17870417.

Song: End II: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Dodd

3591
21 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [i.e. 3rd piece]. Receipts: #98 6s. (82.4.0; 15.18.6; 0.3.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; William-Baddeley; Sideboard-Burton; John-Phillimore; Sir Bashful Constant-King; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Ward; Muslin-Miss Pope; Lady Constant-Mrs Brereton; Mignionet-Miss Hale; Widow Belmour (with a song in character)-Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Box Lobby Loungers

Performance Comment: As17870516, but Sir Peter Pippin-Benson.

Afterpiece Title: The Distressd Baronet

Performance Comment: As17870503.

3592
24 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #263 7s. (145.17; 14.1; 0.14; tickets: 102.15) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17870129, but Posthumus-Bensley.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17861012.

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: As17870201

3593
29 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #198 12s. 6d. (177.10; 20.4; 0.11; tickets not come in: 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17870413, but Rosalind-Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

Dance: As17870126

Song: In: the Cuckoo Song-Caelia; V: a song-Mrs Forster

3594
31 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Alfred, Brigg, Bourk & Walker. Receipts: #233 14s. 6d. (40.12.0; 23.4.6; 2.0.0; tickets: 167.18.0) (charge: #105 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Bannister Jun.; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Fulmer-Baddeley; Stukely-Benson; Sailor-Bates; Servant-Alfred; Varland-Parsons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17870417.

Dance: End I: a Hornpipe-Bourk; End III: Minuet de la Cour-Brigg, Miss J. Stageldoir; End: Highland Reel-Bourk, the Miss Stageldoirs

Performance Comment: Stageldoir; End: Highland Reel-Bourk, the Miss Stageldoirs.

3595
02 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #249 9s. (237.11; 10.13; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17861202.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

Song: Singing, as17870419, but Miss Collett, Miss +Romanzini

3596
05 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 14s. 6d. (128.16.0; 41.5.6; 1.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17870510.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17870411.

3597
07 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #273 19s. (22.11.0; 8.17.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 240.18.0) (charge: #105 18s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17861115, but Downright-Phillimore; Bridget-Miss Barnes; Tib-Mrs Love.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17870509.

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Johnston; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17870525

3598
09 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 21 July: Received of Their Majesties and the Princess Royal #66. Receipts: #206 6s. 6d. (195.1.0; 10.8.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17861113.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17870113.

3599
19 June 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Performance Comment: As17870611.

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Performance Comment: As17870521.

3600
26 June 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: As17870621.

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Watty Cockney-Meadows; Captain Sightly-Johnson; Old Cockney-Barret; Barnacle-Chapman; Penelope-Mrs Garrett; Miss La Blond-Miss Brangin; Priscilla Tomboy-Miss George.