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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.

3926
23 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. [Afterpiece in place of The Farm-House, advertised on playbill of 22 Apr.] Gazetteer, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, No. 25, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #326 19s. (64.7.0; 13.4.6; 2.5.6; tickets: 247.2.0) (charge: #116 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17900223, but Trapland-_; Buckram-_; Nurse-_; Jenny-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: As17900215, but Notary-_; Servant-_; Alguaziles-_.

Dance: As17900308

Entertainment: MonologuePrevious: his being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Happy Recovery, British Loyalty; or, a Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: Paul's-Bannister Jun.

Song: After which: the Stage being decorated and illuminated in the same Superb Stile which it was for the Reception of his Majesty on Dec. the 16 last, God save the King-Dignum, Sedgwick, Alfred, Danby, Fawcett, Haymes, Hollingsworth, Lyons, Maddocks, Phillimore

Performance Comment: the 16 last, God save the King-Dignum, Sedgwick, Alfred, Danby, Fawcett, Haymes, Hollingsworth, Lyons, Maddocks, Phillimore.

3927
26 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Rivals, but "Bannister Jun. ill prevented The Rivals" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitute play). "At Drury Lane. Saw Twelfth Night" (Reed, Diaries, 176). As afterpiece the playbill announces No Song No Supper, in which Bannister Jun. had a part. Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play. "Prologue, Mrs Jordan" (Reed, 176).] Receipts: #191 15s. 6d. (148.16.0; 37.17.6; 5.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: See17900409.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: See17900322Prologue as17900322 .

3928
29 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 15s. 6d. (162.17.0; 35.12.0; 1.9.0; tickets not come in: 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17891124, but Baddeley_.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900322 .

Dance: As17891204

3929
03 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #276 3s. (243.2; 32.9; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17900414.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17900416.

3930
06 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Brady, barber's bill, #10 1s. Receipts: #201 19s. 6d. (176.12.0; 24.10.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17891124.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17900220.

Dance: As17891204

3931
10 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #248 4s. 6d. (204.0.0; 43.9.6; 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17900414.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17900416.

3932
11 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson and Williames [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. [The monologue refers to a criminal, Rynwick Williams, popularly known as "The Monster," who with a knife had recently attacked many women on the streets of London (see An Authentic Account of the Barbarities..(S. Bladon, 1790); World, 5 May, et seq.).] Gazetteer, 1 and 6 May : Tickets to be had of Williames and Mrs Wilson, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #225 5s. (40.13; 21.14; 2.16; tickets: 160.2) (charge: #108 2s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: True Blue Or A Bang At The Dons

Performance Comment: Characters-Suett, Dignum, Williames, Mrs Crouch. [Probable cast: True Blue-Suett; Careful-Dignum; Lieutenant-Williames; Nancy-Mrs Crouch.]

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fifth

Performance Comment: As17891001, but Gower-Benson; Scroop-Lyons; Fluellen-Williames; Duke of Gloucester-_; Grey-_; Bates-_; Montjoy-_; Governor-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17891107, but Countess-Mrs Wilson; Agnes-Miss Heard.

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-

Performance Comment: End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-.

3933
12 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: From Samuel? Foote. Gazetteer, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #220 5s. 6d. (39.0.0; 18.17.6; 2.16.0; tickets: 159.12.0) (charge: #106 19s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17900203, but Town@Clerk-_.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Bannister Jun.; Squire-Whitfield; Candy-Miss Tidswell; Polly Pattens-Mrs Crouch; with a song-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17891107, but Marcelina-Mrs Booth; Agnes-Miss Heard.

Dance: As17891209

Song: As17891209

3934
15 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Powell allow'd to bring into the House #40 in Tickets, if any more, the overplus to be paid into the Treasury. Afterpiece: To conclude with the Representation of an Engagement between the English and Spaniards and the Storming of Fort Omoa, in the Bay of Honduras [on 26 Oct. 1779]. Receipts: #137 16s. 6d. (61.14.0; 21.3.6; 2.1.0; tickets: 52.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Performance Comment: As17900308but Lyons_; Webb_; Maddocks_; Alfred_; Master Gregson_; Master Grimaldi_; Miss Gawdry_; Fairbrother_; Mrs Hedges_; Mrs Heard_; Miss Tidswell_; Miss Barnes_.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior or The Magic Cestus

Performance Comment: Characters-Banks, Hollingsworth, Hamoir, Burton, Phillimore, Haymes, Benson, Maddocks, Fawcett, Jones, Alfred, Master Grimaldi, Miss Blanchet, Mrs Booth, Miss Tidswell; Vocal Parts-Dignum, Williames, Sedgwick, Danby, Lyons, Miss DeCamp. [Cast adjusted from playbill of 10 Nov. 1788: Harlequin-Banks; +Clown-Hollingsworth; +Old Harlequin-Hamoir; +French Gentlemen-Burton, Benson; +German Officer-Phillimore; +Valet-Haymes; +Miller-Maddocks; +Cook-Fawcett; +Landlord-Jones; +Taylor-Alfred; +Daemon-Master Grimaldi; +Magician-Dignum; +Officer-Williames; +Fairy-Miss Blanchet; +Old Colombine-Mrs Booth; +French Lady-Miss Tidswell; +Colombine-Miss DeCamp.]

3935
17 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #222 0s. 6d. (174.18.0; 46.3.6; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17900414.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17900416.

3936
18 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1]. Receipts: #247 15s. 6d. (40.8.0; 17.2.0; 1.1.6; tickets: 189.4.0) (charge: #114 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-Wroughton; Beverley-Kemble; Sir William Belmont-Phillimore; Young Belmont-Barrymore; Mr Blandford-Packer; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Burton; Lady Restless-Mrs Ward; Belinda-Miss Farren; Clarissa-Miss Collins; Tattle-Mrs Wilson; Tippet-Miss Barnes; Marmalet-Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: Taste or Frolicks of Fancy

Performance Comment: Prologue [to Barbarossa] (as a Country Boy, from D. Garrick, Esq.)-Bannister Jun.; The Lark at Heaven's Gate-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Miss Romanzini; A Dance-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: As17900430.

Entertainment: Monologue. Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby

Performance Comment: Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby.

3937
19 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Diary, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, the corner of Leigh-street, Red Lyon-square. Receipts: #323 19s. (31.14.0; 8.2.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 283.10.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: As17900507, but Millamour-Wroughton.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: As17900512, but song-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17891223, but Steady (1st time)-Sedgwick.

Song: End II: The Lass of Richmond Hill (composed by Hook)-Dignum; End IV: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum; End: Poor Jack-Dignum

3938
24 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #240 9s. (197.0.0; 42.5.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17900414.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17900416.

3939
25 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Haymes & Miss Hagley. Diary, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Haymes, No. 2, Broadway, Blackfriars [others not listed]. Receipts: #222 (32.5; 14.1; 1.19; tickets: 173.15) (charge: #106 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17890926.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17900511, but Characters-Mrs _Crouch, Miss Hagley.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17900519, but Solomon (1st time)-Burton; Easy-Maddocks.

Song: End IV: The Lass of Richmond Hill-Dignum

3940
28 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Mrs Hedges. Receipts: #195 15s. (20.16; 12.2; 1.4; tickets: 161.13) (charge: #109 15s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17891031, but Oroonoko-Whitfield; Governor-Benson; Captain Driver-Fawcett; Jack Stanmore-Haymes; 1st Planter-Maddocks; Widow Lackit-Mrs Hedges; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Wilson; 3rd Planter-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17891024, but Shopman-Lyons.

Dance: As17900308

Song: End II: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum; End IV: Poor Jack-Dignum

3941
31 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Spencer and Nix. 1st piece: Some of the Music compiled from the best Masters. The rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompaniments, &c. by Linley? Sen.. Receipts: #252 4s. 6d. (44.17.0; 27.0.0; 3.11.6; tickets: 176.16.0) (charge: #110 11s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Performance Comment: Aldobrand-Suett; Regnalto-Williames; Octavio-Dignum; Montano (with additional songs)-Kelly; Fabio-Phillimore; Firelock-Sedgwick; Lawrence-Bannister Jun.; Roberto-Webb; Viola-Mrs Crouch; Laura (1st time)-Miss Hagley; Alice-Mrs Edwards; Rosa (1st time)-Miss Romanzini.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: As17900519.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Performance Comment: As17900318 .

Song: In course Evening: Rosy Bowers (composed by Purcell)-Mrs Crouch

3942
02 June 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bourk, Brigg, Daglish, Edwin, Fox, Jones, Maddocks, Smith, Walker, Harris, Webb will be admitted. Receipts: #56 5s. (28.7; 27.18; 0.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: As17891118, but Captain Dudley-Maddocks; Lucy-Mrs Heard; Stukely-Benson.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17890912, but Landlord-Maddocks; Snap-Webb.

Dance: End III: Hornpipe-Whittow; End: Minuet de la Cour-Mr and Mrs Brigg; in which Codrile-; to conclude with a Scotch Reel-Whittow

3943
03 June 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks & W. Purser, Kemble Mem.: Benefit the Box-keepers. Receipts: #343 10s. (22.13.0; 5.13.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 314.1.0) (charge: #106 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Performance Comment: As17900115, but Panthion-Lyons; Outlaws-Phillimore, Burton, Webb, Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17900519.

Dance: As17900308

Song: In IV: a Serenade-Dignum; End: Poor Jack-Dignum

3944
21 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900615 but Soldiers-_Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17900615.

3945
23 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Publick is most respectfully informed that, in consequence of the sudden Indisposition of Edwin, The Son-in-Law and The Agreeable Surprise [both advertised on playbill of 22 June] are obliged to be postponed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: As17900614 but Frank-Farley.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17900617.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17900617.

3946
24 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Performance Comment: As17900617.

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: As17900618.

3947
25 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Battle of Hexham [advertised on playbill of 24 June] is obliged to be deferred till Monday next on account of the Insidposition of Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17900619.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale or The Descent of the Balloon

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Moss; Dr Pedant-Barrett; Omar-Chapman; Selim-Abbott; Guard-Cubitt; The Mogul-Williamson; Irene-Mrs Taylor; Sheba-Mrs Cuyler; Zapphira-Miss Heard; Fanny-Mrs Wells.

Dance: End I: a new dance, The Generous Sportsman-Byrn, Boyer [recte Boyce], Platt, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

3948
02 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17900617.

Dance: As17900629

3949
03 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: As17900625.

3950
06 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: As17900623.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.
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