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5235 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.

3801
28 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Receipts: #260 2s. (135.16; 20.0; 1.16; tickets: 102.10) (charge: #131 14s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17890131.

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17890110.

Song: As17890330

3802
29 April 1789 @ 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: #181 17s. 6d. (159.6.0; 19.12.0; 2.19.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: As17890203.

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: As17881128.

3803
01 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Farren, "but on account of the sudden indisposition of Miss Farren her part in the play was read by Mrs Ward, who gave it with great effect, and having studied Miss Farren's manner, was a very tolerable substitute" (Diary, 2 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble]: Taken from [The Country Lasses; or] The Custom of the Manor [by Charles Johnson]. Diary, 6 May 1789: This Day is published The Farm House (1s.). And see 6 May. Receipts: #165 3s. (125.12.0; 34.18.6; 4.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Performance Comment: As17890420, but Countess-read by Mrs Ward; Prologue as17890420 Epilogue-Mrs Ward?.

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Performance Comment: Characters-Wroughton, Suett, Whitfield, Fawcett, Phillimore, Alfred, Aickin, Mrs Kemble, Mrs Jordan. Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1789): Modely-Wroughton; Shacklefigure-Suett; Heartwell-Whitfield; Sir John English-Fawcett; Constables-Phillimore, Alfred; Freehold-Aickin; Flora-Mrs Kemble; Aura-Mrs Jordan.

3804
07 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. Receipts: #210 13s. (36.12; 30.4; 3.18; tickets: 139.19) (charge: #113 13s. 9d.). #113 )

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17881112, but Fainall-Wroughton; Waitwell-Suett; Witwou'd-Dodd; Millamant-Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17881007, but Principal Tragedians-_Lamash, Suett.

Dance: End: The Drunken Swiss-West (1st appearance in London these 10 years), Miss Stageldoir

3805
08 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. [Afterpiece in place of Arthur and Emmeline, advertised on playbill of 7 May.] Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 1, Southampton-street, Strand. Receipts: #251 4s. (44.18.0; 16.13.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 188.0.0) (charge: #107 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17881023, but Sir Clement Flint-Kemble; Lord Gayville-Barrymore; Mrs Sagely-_; Tiffany-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17890314 .

Dance: As17890507

3806
12 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #89 6s. (62.15.0; 24.10.6; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Performance Comment: As17890420 Prologue and Epilogue as17890420 .

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Performance Comment: As17890501.

3807
13 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. Receipts: #160 5s. (50.12.0; 15.12.0; 0.16.6; tickets: 93.6.0) (charge: #107 12. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17881004, but Malvolio-Kemble; Viola-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17890314 .

3808
15 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Receipts: #239 16s. (49.1; 17.16; 0.12; tickets: 172.7) (charge: #113 8s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17881009, but Sir Clement Flint-Kemble; Mrs Sagely-_; Tiffany-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17890507.

Song: End: The Welsh Cantata, The Bells of Aberdovey, composed by Dibdin-Williames

Entertainment: Monologue. After the Singing: as17890430

Performance Comment: After the Singing: as17890430.

3809
16 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #92 2s. 6d. (69.1.0; 21.18.6; 1.3.0; tickets: none listed ) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Performance Comment: As17890420 Prologue and Epilogue as17890420 .

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: As17881128.

3810
21 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #84 17s. (64.10; 18.18; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17890319 .

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17890314 .

3811
04 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Miss Barnes & Miss Tidswell. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 20 May 1783]. [Kean was from the hay.] Receipts: #283 11s. 6d. (15.12.0; 15.3.6; 0.16.0; tickets: 252.0.0) (charge: #106 1s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Performance Comment: George Hargrave-Barrymore; Drummond-Packer; Justice-Waldron; Sir Charles Seymour-Whitfield; Jarvis-Lamash; Mr Morely-Aickin; Mr Hargrave-Moody; Lady Dinah-Mrs Hopkins; Emily (1st time)-Miss Barnes; Susan-Miss Tidswell; Harriet-Mrs Kemble; Bella-Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17890221, but Mrs Cole-Mr Kean (1st appearance on that stage).

Song: Between acts: Miss Barnes

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

Performance Comment: As17890527.

3812
08 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Spencer and Nix. Receipts: #229 9s. 6d. (39.16.0; 9.13.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 179.6.0) (charge: #107 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17890528, but Mate-Williames.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: As17890220.

Song: As17890528

3813
10 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Answorth, Appleby, Bayne, Daglish, Dale Jun., Gardner, George, Gillis, Keen, Pilsbury, W. Purser, Smith, Sherratt, Standen, Whittow, Woollams] will be admitted. Receipts: #303 8s. 6d. (33.11.0; 5.6.0; 0.1.6; tickets: 264.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: As17880920.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17880930.

Dance: End: As17890415; End IV: Highland Reel, as17890527, but Whittow, _Hamoir

Song: As17880920

3814
12 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton, Wilson, J. Shade, Gibson. The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #256 13s. (22.8; 9.8; 0.5; tickets: 224.12) (charge: #106 0s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: As17890123, but Corinna [without a song]-Miss Barnes; Araminta-Miss Collins; Mrs Amlet-Mrs Booth; Clarissa-Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17880916, but Miss Grantham-Miss Collins.

Dance: End: The Irish Bird@Catchers, as17890519

Song: In the course of the evening: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Sedgwick

3815
23 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Minor; afterpiece of Ut Pictura Poesis!, both advertised on playbill of 22 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17890619.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17890619 but Cudden-Ledger; Stump-Painter.

Dance: As17890619

Song: In III: a favourite Catch and Glee-Reeve, Chapman, Chambers, Mathews

3816
01 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: As17890615 but Servant-Abbott [Public Advertiser: Lyons].Public Advertiser: Lyons].

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17890622.

Entertainment: Monologue British Loyalty ; or, A Squeeze for St Paul's, as17890617 God save the King, as17890617 but Reeve

3817
02 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace

Performance Comment: As17890630.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17890627.

3818
03 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17890619.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Tipple-Edwin ; Captain Wilson-Bannister; Captain Greville-Davies; Justice Benbow-Usher; Kilderkhn-Ledger; Ned-Burton; Major Benbow-Moss; Eliza-Mrs Bannister.

Dance: As17890619

Song: As17890623

3819
04 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Performance Comment: As17890624.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: Sheepface-Edwin; Scout-Bannister Jun.; Justice Mittimus-Usher; Charles-Johnson; Snarl (1st time)-Baddeley; Kate-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Scout-Mrs Webb.

3820
08 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Spanish Barber; 2nd of The Mayor of Garratt, both advertised on playbill of 7 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17890623.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17890622.

Dance: End: a new Dance, The Happy Sisters-Menage, Miss DeCamp, the two Miss Simonets

3821
10 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Performance Comment: As17890629.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17890627.

Dance: As17890708

3822
13 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Inkle and Yarico, advertised on playbill of 11 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Performance Comment: As17890626.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17890627.

3823
14 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17890625.

Afterpiece Title: The Family Party

Performance Comment: As17890711.

3824
16 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Performance Comment: As17890626.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17890622.

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Byrn, Miss Simonet

3825
17 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

Performance Comment: As17890612.

Afterpiece Title: The Married Man

Performance Comment: As17890715.

Afterpiece Title: The Family Party

Performance Comment: As17890711.
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