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8853 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, but changed (<i>Winston MS 10</i>). Paid $Mr <span class=
We found 7165 matches on Event Comments, 1877 matches on Performance Comments, 585 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5451
26 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: As17751117, but Portius-Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

5452
06 March 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha Alexanders Feast And The Coronation Anthems

Performance Comment: As17760301 but Parts were: Jephtha-; Zebul (his brother)-; Storage (his wife)-; Iphis (his Daughter)-; Hamor (in love with Iphis)-; Chorus of Israelites-(Larpent MS); Principal Singers-Dine.

Music: End I: Organ Concerto-Stanley; II: Violin Concerto-Linley Jr

5453
20 April 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caio Mario

Dance: I: Grand Ballet, with Chaconne-Fierville, Mlle Baccelli; II: Ballet Pastoral, as17760328 End Opera: Diane et Endymion, as17760312

5454
04 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: by Shakespeare, in 5 acts. With New Music, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 6 Jan.: The Shipwreck, which opened the Piece, was designed and executed under the Direction of DeLoutherbourg. The new Airs and Chorusses are composed by Linley Jun. The Musical Instrument (played behind the Scenes) is the Invention of Merlin. Morning Chronicle, 6 Jan.: Caliban is by much the best performed character in the piece... The dresses were rich, but to our amazement those of Ferdinand, Sebastian, &c. were in the Spanish taste. [Ibid., 8 Jan., remarks that the entire omission of I. i is to be regretted. Miss Field and Mrs Cuyler are identified by MS annotations on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #231 9s. 6d. (211.19.0; 17.5.6; 2.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: I: a Dance of Spirits (composed by Gallet)-Mlle Dupre; III: [a Fantastic Dance-Grimaldi; [Both these dances, as here assigned, except on 14, 25 Apr. and 0 May, were included in all subsequent performances.] End IV: The Double Festival, as17761107, but Giorgi, +Blurton

Performance Comment: and 0 May, were included in all subsequent performances.] End IV: The Double Festival, as17761107, but Giorgi, +Blurton.

5455
22 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

5456
04 February 1777 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Geloso In Cimento

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: a new Comic Ballet-Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: a new Masquerade Dance-; in which: a Provencal-Vallouy@le@cadet; a Scaramouch-Sg and Sga Zuchelli; Minuet-Mons and Mme Simonet; to conclude with: Country Dance-all the Characters

5457
07 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Husband

Dance: As17761223

5458
24 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17770407, but New Prologue-_.

Dance: As17770215

5459
02 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Clock Case or Female Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

5460
30 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman elder, based on Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; music by Samuel Arnold and, by attribution, Pierre Alexandre Monsigny. Prologue by the author (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, II, 209). Epilogue by David Garrick (Garrick's Poetical Works, II, 340). Larpent MS 436; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Dance-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

5461
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

5462
18 December 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by William Shirley. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 19 Dec. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 23 Dec.). Epilogue by Richard Cumberland (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, IV, 194]: With New Scenes and Dresses. "I have been at another new play, The Roman Sacrifice. It is the old story of Junius Brutus, without a tolerable line. I went to see it, as I had never seen Henderson, and thought I could Judge him better in a new part; but either the part was so bad, or he wants to copy, that I should not have found out he was at all superior to all other actors" (Walpole [23 Dec. 1777], X 170). Receipts: #2223s. 6d. (207.8.0; 13.13.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Sacrifice

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

5463
17 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: [the following new Dances composed] by Gallet:I: [a Dance of Cupids-; IV: [a Dance of Daemons-; to conclude: Grand Ballet-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Music: Mainpiece: With a New Overture, and additional Airs, Chorusses-; the whole of the Music composed by Michael Arne

5464
04 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on The Loves of Mars and Venus, by Peter Anthony Motteux]: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Music chiefly composed by Dibdin. [Dr Arne and Dr Arnold each wrote one air.] Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1778: This Day at Noon is published Poor Vulcan! (1s.). [The playbill lists Reinhold in place of Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mahon's.] Receipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.2.6; 2.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

5465
16 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor or The Wishes

5466
20 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

Dance: As17780109

5467
22 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

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: True Blue

Cast
Role: 780330but Characters Actor: Mrs Morton, late Miss _Dayes
Role: 780328but Nancy Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

5468
30 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17780105, but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Escape

Song: As17780331

5469
01 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17771208, but Betty-Miss Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Crisis or Love and Fear

Dance: As17780109

5470
15 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: Comical Courtship or The Battle Royal

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

5471
14 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Medley or Harlequin At All

Dance: Afterpiece: The dances-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Valois. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.

5472
21 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

5473
09 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17780928, but King Lear-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [Rundell]); Cordelia-Mrs Jackson.

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

5474
19 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: AEsop

5475
21 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Spendthrift or A ChristmasGambol

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