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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Winston MS 9"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Winston MS 9")') 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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2576 results for: Keyword - Winston MS 9
We found 2243 matches on Event Comments, 454 matches on Performance Comments, 27 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
21 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Farce dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8). [See review of the reception and circumstances of publication in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 37), which presents Hill in no good light. See also review of A Letter to the Honourable Author of the Rout (idem.) with its charges against Garrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

252
22 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #153 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

253
23 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by a Daughter of the late Mr Farquhar will be taken. The Farce of The Rout is deferr'd on account of the indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #150 (Cross); #133 10s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: III: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

254
26 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #125 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

255
28 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

256
29 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram (our Painter) dy'd-a worhty honest Man (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #147 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

257
30 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 14s. (Winston MS 8). Sun. Dec. 31, 1758 Mrs Macklin buried at Covent Garden (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

258
01 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram buried at St. Martins (Cross). [This year was translated and published Rousseau's Letter to M D'Alembert (Preface and 190 pp.) on the effect of dramatic entertainments on mankind. Thesis: Aim of the stage is to amuse; authors succeed when they follow the whims of the public. "Let us not then attribute to the stage a power of changing opinions or manners, when it is only that of following or heightening them."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #129 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

259
02 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #187 5s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

260
03 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Play tho' all new dress'd and had Fine Scenes did not seem to give ye audience any great plasure, or draw any applause (Cross). Written by Shakespear. Never Acted there. New Habits, Scenes, and Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken during the Performance. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Orchestra on account of the Music, Decorations, and number of Performers which are necessary to the Representation (playbill). [See "Garrick's Presentation of Antony and Cleopatra," RES, Jan. 1937. The following characters appear in Capel's acting text, 23 Oct. 1958, Maecenas-Atkins; Proculeius-$Austin; Soothsayer-$Burton; Mardian-$Perry; Seleucas-$Burton.] Receipts: #200 ($Cross); #193 14s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

261
05 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #174 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

262
06 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross); #145 11s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: I: Beard

263
08 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Taswell dy'd -an excellent Actor, the best in that Way since Johnson (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

264
09 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #194 10s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

265
11 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Busy Body oblig'd to be deferr'd till Monday. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #164 18s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

266
13 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Provok'd Wife was in the Bills for this Night, but Mr Garrick finding himself ill in ye Morning Fresh bills for Ye Mercht were posted at one o'Clock-two or three hiss'd when the play began, but Mr Havard told 'em ye reason of the Change & all was over (Cross). Receipts: #185 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: IV: Miss Young

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

267
15 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross); #193 2s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Ballet: The Prussian Camp=. As17581214

268
16 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #178 14s. (Winston MS 8). Antony and Cleopatra deferred on account of the indisposition of some of the performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

269
17 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #131 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

270
18 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #184 9s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

271
20 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross); #159 13s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

272
22 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Sunday the 21st about 4 in the afternoon I receiv'd an order form the Duke of Devonshire [Ld. Chamberlain] to Shut up the House 'till farther Notice, -Fryday 26th about eleven in ye Morn[in]g I receiv'd an Order from my Lord to open on the Monday following (Cross). Theatre clos'd from 20 January 1759 on account of the death of the Princess Royal of England, Countess Dowager of Holland & Governant of the United Provinces & of the Miny of the Stadholder (Winston MS 8)

Performances

273
29 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross); #152 3s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

274
31 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow will be reviv'd a Tragedy (not acted these 30 years) call'd The Ambitious Stepmother. Antony and Cleopatra is deferr'd a few days. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 13s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

275
01 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: went off very Dent off very Dull (Cross); Mainpiece: not acted in 30 years. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #148 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Step Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd