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We found 2720 matches on Event Comments, 1258 matches on Performance Comments, 238 matches on Performance Title, 130 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: [None to be admitted behind scenes. No money returned after curtain is drawn up.] Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: [C$Cross suggested Harlequin Sorcerer as afterpiece.] Maranesi was to have danc'd, but broke his arm in ye practise, ye night before (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter's name first appeared in the Bills (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: As17531018

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 28 Jan. 1746.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: 'TTis said Miss Bellamy, who engag'd lately with Mr Rich is off again. Mr Colthorp who kept her, swears to kick Rich &c. Great noise about it in ye Bedford Coffee House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: [Performance of mainpiece highly praised in Gray's Inn Journal 3 Nov. It is no wonder that in some scenes the Emotions of the Audien ce run so extremely high, as they were acted upon by the two best Tragedians in the world." Garrick and Mossop. Also praises Foote's Fondlewife in previous performances of the Old Batchelor.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: MMrs Bland's husband broke his leg on Friday riding an unruly horse & dy'd yesterday (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Publish'd at 3s. The Actor, in One Pocket Volume. A treatise on the art of playing, interspersed with Observations on the performances of Garrick, Quin, Barry, Berry, Macklin, Ryan, Havard, Woodward, Foote, &c; Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Ward, Mrs Elmy, Mrs Green, Mrs Clive, Miss Bellamy, &c. Also some anecdotes of Betterton, Booth and Wilkes and other celebrated performers; together with occasional remarks upon managers and audiences, and upon the principal Tragedies, Comedies, Masques and Farces. Printed for R. Griffiths in Paul's Church-yard. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Two days ago a Letter [price 1s.] came out to Miss Nossiter in which Mrs Cibber is abu'd & tother greatly extoll'd. The Author has also fell foul upon Mr Murphy author of Gray's Inn Journal. It is wrote by one Morgan an Irish Gent: High words has pass'd at ye Bedford Coff. H. between him and Murphy & 'tis thought a Duel will be ye Consequence (Cross). [See The Authorship of a Letter to Miss Nossiter, Shakespeare Quarterly, January 1952, p. 69.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Neopolitans, as17531101; Dance in Demi@Character, as17531101

Event Comment: The contending Parties [i.e., Murphy and MacNamara Morgan] Met again on Fryday at the Bedford, in order to accomodate Matters, but words arising, because Mr Murphy did not ack[nowledge] pardon and cried enough, as Mr Morgan said, some blows past & swords out-but no mischief. Morgan denies the letter (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End II: The Neopolitans, as17531101; III: The Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012; V: Dance in Demi@Characters-Mlle Proudhomme

Event Comment: RRomeo and Juliet? was to have been, but Barry sick (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: IV: Miss Thomas, proper to the play

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Entertainments-LeFevre, Mlle Prud'homme, Devisse, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Neopolitans, as17531101

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Arabian Night's Entertainment in Two Parts With Proper Decorations. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Genii