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4521 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, but changed (<i>Winston MS 10</i>). Paid $<span class=
We found 4018 matches on Event Comments, 779 matches on Performance Comments, 57 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4501
23 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "It was with extreme regret that we perceived the ravages of time in the person of [Mrs Crawford, who had not acted in London since 12 Apr. 1785], tho' we were much consoled in observing that his influence is not equally apparent in her abilities...The blaze is gone, but there is a richness in the setting lustre...Kemble is evidently [Johnston's] model, and he followed him so closely, as even to the crossing of the legs in dying; so that where he was best, his efforts seemed to be the effect of imitation" (True Briton, 24 Oct.). "Mrs Crawford has had her day; but the sun of her genius has long sunk beneath the horizon...Many parts of her performance, we were sorry to observe, evinced the most evident decline of powers, and her tremulous accents, the debility of which was rendered the more striking from the want of several teeth, proclaimed that her days of play and action were nearly brought to a close...She was received with reiterated plaudits throughout...Nature has been very bountiful in supplying [Johnston] with a voice of much compass and melody, but he does not appear to have paid much attention to the cultivation of her favours. His transitions are often abrupt, and sometimes discordant; and the management of his tones is of so strange a nature that it appears more like two distinct voices than a judicious modulation of his natural accents" (Morning Herald, 24 Oct.). Receipts: #260 9s. (253.4.6; 7.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: Englands Glory

Dance: As17971018

4502
25 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "We consider Madame Mara, to use vulgar phrase, as upon he last legs...[Her] Polly is downright burlesque; her figure, countenance, and time of life are directly repugnant to our ideas of the character; and her foreign accent and gesticulation complete the absurdity" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1797, p. 299). "Mme Mara is merely a singer; her voice is by no means calculated to give effect to the dialogue of the part; and her performance, although she appears to have paid considerable attention to the degree of action necessary for the part, is greatly deficient in point of feeling...Her deficiency in person and performance, however, is amply compensated for in her ability as a singer" (Morning Herald, 26 Oct.) Receipts: #329 16s. (324.6; 5.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: III: a Hornpipe in Fetters-Blurton

4503
11 November 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Lampmen #6 16s.; Morning Post Advertisements last Year #17 1Os. 6d. Receipts: #257 17s. (161.14.0; 90.12.6; 5.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to the Nore

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

4504
25 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Received of the Earl of Chesterfield for a private box #105; Paid Simonet for 4 rehearsals #8 8s. Receipts: #270 4s. 6d. (259.14.6; 10.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

4505
06 December 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This Evening the Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Account-Book: Paid the Duke of Bedford one years rent for the Theatre, the back of the Theatre, the houses in Bow Street, Hart Street, the Piazza, and Playhouse Passage, as expressed in the Receipt, due Lady Day 1796, #456 4s. Receipts: #459 9s. 6d. (452.5.6; 7.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

4506
18 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Fatigue attending the representation of some of the Characters [in The Castle-Spectre] renders it impossible to repeat the performance every night in the week. The 5th night will be on Wednesday. Account-Book: Paid One years' House & Window Tax #222 0s. 6d. Receipts: #396 5s. (315.9.6; 78.0.6; 2.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17971214, but _Wentworth, _Gibbon.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

4507
09 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Voluntary Contribution now open at the Bank, for the Defence of our Country. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had and Places to be taken of Brandon, at the Stage-Door in Hart-street. Tickets also to be had at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-House. [Prologue by William Boscawen (Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1798, p. 178. Author of Address unknown.] "A subscription was set on foot behind the scenes," to which most of the performers contributed #10 apiece (Monthly Mirror, ibid). Account-Book, 12 May: Paid into the Bank of England in aid of the Voluntary Contribution #394 15s. Receipts: #518 8s. (280.9; 12.2; tickets: 225.17) [the difference of #123 13s. appears to have been the house charge]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor or Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

4508
08 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In I a Grand Masquerade. Account-Book: Paid Sloper [master carpenter] for Scene Men #40 17s. 11d. Receipts: #179 0s. 6d. (176.9.6; 2.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Song: End IV: The Funeral Procession of Juliet and a Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Blurton, Street, Gray, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, Dyke, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Mrs Martyr

4509
10 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Enderby, oil merchants, on acct. of last season #402 13s. 9d. Receipts: #382 5s. (375.19; 6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Cast
Role: Verdun the Butler Actor: Munden

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

4510
12 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Miss Waters is identified in the Songs]: The Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations are all entirely new. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. The Scenery painted by Richards, Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Backmore, &c. [based on drawings of Indian scenery by Thomas Daniell]. The Machinery and Decorations by Cresswell, Sloper, Goostree, &c. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs, also describing the Scenes and Spectacle of the Return from the Tiger Hunt, to be had at the Theatre, price six pence. "The whole [forms] an exhibition of the utmost grandeur...The expense attending the decoration must have been immense...The dailogue is certainly not of the first description of writing, but it forms, on the whole, a very safe vehicle for some of the best music the English stage has for some time been able to boast"(Morning Herald, 13 Nov.). Account-Book, 27 Dec.: Paid Cuthbert for Wheels, &c. for the Elephants #13 18s. Receipts: #364 7s. 6d. (363.19.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog Or Wine Does Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Entertainment: Procession. End II: A Return from a Tiger Hunt- [, to the Rajah's Palace, representing the Rajah on an Elephant, returning from Hunting the Tiger, preceded by his Hircarrahs, or military Messengers, and his State Palanquin-the Vizier on another Elephant-the Princess in a Gaurie, drawn by Buffaloes-the Rajah is attended by his Fakeer, or Soothsayer, his Officers of State, and by an Ambassador from Tippoo Sultaun in a Palanquin; also by Nairs (or Soldiers from the South of India), Poligars (or Inhabitants of the Hilly Districts), with their Hunting-dogs, other Indians carrying a dead Tiger, and young Tigers in a Cage; a number of Seapoys-Musicians on Camels and on Foot-Dancing Girls. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

4511
27 March 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Carpenters #40. Receipts: #276 4s. 6d. (227.10.6; 45.3.0; 3.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Performance Comment: As17990311but Prologue-_; Epilogue-_ [and thereafter].and thereafter].
Cast
Role: 990304but Servants Actor: _Evans, _Ryder, _Webb.

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Cast
Role: 990314but Characters Actor: _Archer, Barrymore.
Role: 990302but Characters Actor: _Sedgwick, _Fisher, _Evans, _Trueman, Miss _Menage, Mrs _Maddocks

4512
09 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Mainpiece: Acted but once [28 Mar. 1795] these 5 years. In IV a Grand Banquet. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to he had of Holman, No. 73, New-street, Hanover-square. Account-Book: Paid George? Papendick for [unspecified] Manuscript Plays of Kotzebue #200. Receipts: #350 2s. (257.6; 6.1; tickets: 86.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Amazon Queen; or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great Author(s): John Weston

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Song: II: the Grand Truimphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Hill, Linton, Street, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, Miss Waters, Mrs Atkins, Mrs Chapman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follet, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Martyr; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End I afterpiece: The Death of Admiral Benbow-Incledon

4513
23 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Thomas Sedgwick Whalley. Prologue, Epilogue by the author (see text)]. Account-Book, 20 May: Paid Whalley for Castle of Montval #100. Receipts: #288 19s. (224.18.6; 63.9.0; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Montval

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Performance Comment: As17990420, but Janizaries-Danby, Caulfield Jun., Brown, Tett, Cook, Mead, Clark.

4514
19 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Mrs Booth, washing bill, #1 14s. 7d. Receipts: #283 3s. (188.19; 94.1; 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Performance Comment: As17991014, but Selim-Kelly.
Cast
Role: Peasants Actor: Ms Arne, Ms Roffey, Ms Wentworth, Ms Jackson, Ms Maddocks, Ms Menage, Ms Butler, Ms Benson, Ms Coates, Ms Gawdry, Ms Saunders, Ms Jacobs, Ms Chippendale

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Garman

4515
02 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Orchestra #61 13s. a week; Peake #10 a week; Soldiers #5 5s. a week. Receipts: #151 4s. (81.13; 65.18; 3.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17990924, but Jenny-Miss DeCamp.

4516
04 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Holford for coals #235 10s. 10d. Receipts: #269 16s. 6d. (262.1.6; 7.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Performance Comment: As17991031, but unassigned-_Wilde, Abbot.

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Dance: As17991007

Song: In afterpiece: As17991011

4517
06 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid Yeomen of the Guard #2 2s.; Their Majesties' Servants #3 19s. 6d. Receipts: #505 19s. 6d. (499.2.6; 6.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

4518
14 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Thomas Knight]: With new Music, new Scenes and Dresses. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. The Scenes painted by Richards and Phillips. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Account-Book, 5 Feb. 1800: Paid Knight for Turnpike Gate #125; Reeve and Mazzinghi for music in same #50. Morning Chronicle, 29 Nov. 1799: This day is published The Turnpike Gate (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #288 17s. (281.2.6; 7.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

4519
18 December 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid One Quarter Land, Window and House Taxes due Michaelmas last #102 6s. 9d. Receipts: #261 10s. 6d. (253.12.0; 8.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Performance Comment: As17991024, but Betty-_.

4520
01 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Bentham for half a year Rat Catching due Xmas last #2 12s. 6d. Receipts: #271 2s. 6d. (265.13.6; 5.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

4521
04 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book, 5 Apr.: Received from John Ashley charge for oratorios #380; Paid One Years Insurance on #10,000 of the Theatre at the Phoenix Fire Office to Lady Day next #115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Creation Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As18000228, but to conclude with Handel's Coronation Anthem-.

Music: End I: concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Master Neate; End II: cobcerto on the violin-G. Ashley