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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Theatre Royal in Crow Street Dublin"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Theatre Royal in Crow Street Dublin")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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5687 results for: Keyword - Theatre-Royal in Crow Street, Dublin
We found 4551 matches on Event Comments, 828 matches on Performance Title, 705 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3426
06 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, Upper Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17790129

Song: Sweet Echo-Mrs Kennedy, Leoni [i.e. formerly Mrs Farrell]

3427
07 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, No. 11, Tavistock-street. Receipts: #188 10s. 6d. (84.2.0; 19.16.0; 2.6.6; tickets: 82.6.0) (charge: #71 18s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Song: original Music , as17780924, but _Legg, _Carpenter

3428
07 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be taken. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had at the late Dr Arne's, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

3429
10 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17790218

3430
12 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entryv. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (135.6.0; 21.4.0; 5.13.6; tickets: 52.19.0) (charge: #82 5s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

3431
14 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Robinson. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, Great Piazza, the corner of Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #210 14s. (75.0.0: 21.2.6; 0.17.6; tickets: 113.14.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

3432
14 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Tickets delivered for The Earl of Warwick will be taken. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had ff Aickin at his house, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

3433
15 April 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simonet and Mlle Simonet. Tickets to be had of Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira E Azore

Dance: II: Ballet by Genii, as17790302 but Pedal Harp-_; End II: Ballet by Fairies, as17790302End Opera: a new grand Military Pantomime Ballet, La Bravoure des Femmes, in which-Mme Simonet,in the character of Leading Officer, will fight a Duel at Small Sword; The other Principal Parts Mlle Baccelli, Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Slingsby; Minuet-Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli

3434
16 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 15, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #203 19s. 6d. (100.2.0; 15.10.0; 3.15.6; tickets: 84.12.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: End: a Dance-Miss Walpole

3435
19 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 18 Feb. 1773]. Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in 2 parts) of Singing, Dancing and Dialogue. In Honour of Shakespeare. In which will be introduced a Pageant. The Music by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #229 9s. (129.14; 30.18; 2.10; tickets: 66.7) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

3436
20 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Daly. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Daly, No. 8, George-street, York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Midas

3437
24 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17790216

3438
27 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. 3rd piece: Written by D. Garrick, Esq., with Additions. 4th piece [1st time; MF 2, by Charles Stuart]: The Overture and Music chiefly new, by Gehot, and Shield, who composed the music to The Flitch of Bacon. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson, No. 2, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 29 Apr. 1779: This Day is published The Cobler of Castlebury (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Funeral; or, Grief a-la-Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Castlebury

3439
29 April 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Les Oiseleurs, as17790123; End Opera: New Ballet, as17790227

Ballet: End II: Annette et Lubin. As17781124

3440
01 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylonv. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile, North-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Midas

3441
04 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Morton. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, New Crown Court, Russel Street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Morton, No. 15, same address

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Related Works
Related Work: The History of Charles the Eighth of France; or, The Invasion of Naples by the French Author(s): John Crowne

Dance: 3rd piece: As17790405; End IV: Hornpipe-Master Davies (scholar to Hurst; 1st appearance in public)

Song: In III: song in character-Mrs Morton

3442
05 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi, ballet-master, and Lamash. The Rivals [announced on playbill of 4 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Dodd's sudden Illness. Tickets delivered by Kenny, and [for] The Rivals will be taken. Paid Printer [of playbills, weekly throughout season] #9. Public Advertiser, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi at his house, No. 125, Holbourn; of Lamash, No. 3, Air-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #175 5s. 6d. (43.10.0; 17.17.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 113.4.0) (charge: #69 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In: Grand Dance, as17781102, but _Henry, Grimaldi, Master +Mills, Miss +Grimaldi

Related Works
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): John Crowne

Song: As17790413

3443
08 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. [For Wright see 13 May. Mrs Sutton was from dl.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay, Sand-hill, behind the Foundling Hospital; of Harris, No. 42, Wells-street, Cavendish-square; of Holloway, Newington Butts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End II: Minuet-Dumay, Miss Dagueville; and the Minuet de la Cour-Holloway, Miss Besford; End I afterpiece: New Dance-Harris, Mrs Sutton (1st appearance on that stage); with a New Allemande-

Ballet: End: The Humours of Newmarket. As17790503, but Jockeys-Holloway; Ladies-Miss +Besford

3444
13 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Mainpiece: On account of the additional Airs, contracted into 3 Acts. The Music by Purcell, Smith, Arne & Fisher. [Wright is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. And see 8 May.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Condell, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden; of Evans, at Bromfield's, trunk-maker, No. 118, Long-acre; of Curteen, No. 11, Temple-lane, Whitefriars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois

3445
13 May 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sacchini. Tickets to be had of Sacchini, No. 5, Whitcomb-street, Leicester Fields. Opera: With some Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avaro Deluso

Dance: End I: Les Oiseleurs, as17790123; End II: Ballet by Fairies, as17790302End Opera: New Ballet, as17790227

3446
26 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, pit office-keeper, and Carleton Jun., box lobby door-keeper. [Afterpiece in place of The Irish Widow, announced on playbill of 25 May.] Morning Chronicle, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields [Carleton not listed]. Receipts: #280 3s. 6d. (26.1.0; 6.9.0; 0.18.6; tickets: 246.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: Hornpipe, as17790521

3447
10 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dimond. Tickets to be had of Dimond, No. 3, Upper James-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: As17790618

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Hitchcock

3448
13 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Tickets to be had of Jewell, in Suffolk-street. Mainpiece: Written by the late $S. Foote, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

3449
17 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 9, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-Fields. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 23 Sept. 1776]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: End IV: Ted Blarney-Master Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Edwin

3450
25 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Harper. Tickets to be had of Miss Harper, at Guy's, No. 19, Catherine-street, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

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