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1631 results for: Keyword - Topham Jr
We found 917 matches on Performance Comments, 657 matches on Performance Title, 152 matches on Event Comments, 19 matches on Author, and 5 matches on Roles/Actors.

851
28 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. [New Address by Edward Topham (European Magazine, May 1792, p. 389, which also identifies the speaker).] Receipts: #202 19s. (137.12.6; 6.3.0; tickets: 59.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Entertainment: Monologues Preceding: [a New Address, She Couldn't Help It-[by Harley]; End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten; [Imitations End II: Dramatic Imitations [Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells

852
23 October 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by James Boaden. Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text). For this play Reynolds and the cg manager made a new plan for payments to the author. Benefits for the author on the 3rd, 6th and 9th nights were abandoned; instead he received #33 6s. 8d. for each of the first nine nights and #100 on the 20th night. "This was the foundation of that bargain between manager and author which, I believe, exists to the present period [1826]" (Reynolds, II, 182-83)]. Morning Chronicle, 19 Jan. 1795: This Day is published The Rage! (2s.). Receipts: #259 13s. 6d. (255.17.6; 3.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with: a Dance-

853
31 January 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 3, by Miles Peter Andrews and Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by Edward Topham; Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (Crouch, II, 229)]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Music composed, and the rest selected by Shield. Morning Chronicle, 25 Feb. 1795: This Day is published The Mysteries of the Castle (2s.). [Mrs Cornelys was from the Crow Street Theatre Dublin.] Receipts: #243 12s. (241.19; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

854
23 January 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Edward Topham ( see text)]: With new Scenery, Dresses, &c. [Oracle, 1 Feb. 1796, recounts the financial transactions relative to this play. Thomas Harris, the cg proprietor, bought the copyright from Morton for #140; he was also to give Morton #100 on each of his benefit nights, i.e. the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 21st of the run of the play. Morton's profit was therefore #540.] Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (278.9.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

855
09 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe. Altered by the author the following season as The Wicklow Mountains. Dross not listed in Airs, but it is the only other character in Larpent MS 1117]: With new Scenery, Music, and Dresses. The Music partly compiled, and the Overture, new Music, and the Accompanyments to the National Airs, composed by Shield.The Union Pipes and the Harp to be played by Topham and Weippert. The Scenes painted by Richards, Hodgins, Phillips, Hollogan, Blackmore and assistants. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #215 (210.18; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lad Of The Hills; Or, The Wicklow Gold Mine

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Dance: With a new Irish Ballet (composed by Byrn)Spinsters' Lottery-Byrn, Platt, Mrs Watts, Miss Smyth, Mlle St.Amand. [Announced in playbill, but "The dance advertised was changed to another, on account of the indisposition of one of the performers" (Morning Herald, 11 Apr.).

856
16 September 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 42nd [recte 40th] Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season. Epilogue by Edward Topham]. Receipts: #212 17s. (209.6.6; 3.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

857
May 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amboyna

858
June 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wits Led By The Nose; Or, A Poet's Revenge

859
25 April 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

860
03 May 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

861
04 December 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

862
September 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Anthony Love; Or, The Rambling Lady

863
November 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Volunteers; Or, The Stock-jobbers

864
September 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British Worthy

865
October 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Sisters; Or, The Violence Of Love

866
February 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Neglected Virtue; Or, The Unhappy Conquerors

867
May 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim, The Thirteenth Emperour Of The Turks

868
08 May 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Plot And No Plot

869
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

870
28 November 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

871
28 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

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872
18 February 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

873
27 March 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

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

874
20 October 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

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

875
26 April 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia