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4459 results for: Keyword - Bellamy</i> ($Cross
We found 2739 matches on Event Comments, 1794 matches on Performance Comments, 242 matches on Performance Title, 112 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4251
07 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, sub-treasurer and Widow Cross. No building on Stage. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [See 5 Dec. 1755.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Vincent; IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: Miss Young; End: Mrs Vincent

4252
05 June 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. N.B. As part of the Serenata must be performed in the upper Gallery, it is humbly hoped the Nobility and Gentry will not take it amiss that servants cannot be admitted this night. The last night of performing this season. Sga Mattei humbly desires Subscribers for the ensuing season to pay their subscription money to Mess. Andrew Drummond and Co., Bankers, at Charing Cross; or to Mr Crawford, Agent and Treasurer of said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianna E Teseo

4253
21 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Vernon-Macheath, 1st time; Mr Parsons-Filch, Mrs Parsons-Mrs Peachum (Cross Diary). Mr William Parsons came with Mr James Love from Edinburg, and Made his first appearance on the stage in London this evening; He died of an asthma on Tues. 3 February in the severe winter of 1795, and was buried in the churchyard of Lea-Church near Blackheath in Kent; he was in his 60th year (Macmillan [Hopkins MS Notes]). Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 19 Oct. 1759.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End Opera: A Dutch Dance-Vincent, Sga Giorgi

4254
25 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Love Falstaff 1st time (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak-Vincent, Miss Baker

4255
05 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T+The Occasional Prologue is Larpent MS 214 wherein Woodward crosses the stage sneakingly, "Behold the Prodigal return'd quite tame..." and apologizes for his recent venture in Ireland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

4256
07 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Jackson did Oroonoko for the first time (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

4257
14 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By CommandSga Fiorentini. [The name of the dance unspecified.

4258
21 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

4259
25 October 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Request of several Scotch Nobility, as benefit for Mr Gibson, who perform'd Donald MacGregor in The Orators 38 Days...will be performed a Concert of Music...after which, &c. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr Gibson, next Door to the Golden Star in Lower Cross St., near Hatton Gardens...He will make it his chief care to conduct the whole with Regularity. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Entertainment: A Prologue, Singing, a Dutch Story, Hippisley's Drunken Man-, with alterations and additions

4260
12 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

4261
18 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick Richard. The Play dress'd in the habits of the times (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4262
03 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The good sense of the audience condemned this piece to oblivion, after, we think, two representations (Biographia Dramatica). [Contrived by Guerini (Nicoll, Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 355). Victor says Guerini played Pantaloon (History of Theatre, III, 48.] Sunday 2 January, Mr Pritchard Died (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Magician of the Mountain

4263
13 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

4264
21 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. A fire in the Strand hurt the house (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

4265
25 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Benefit for the author of the Alterations [in mainpiece]. A Riot to demand admittance at 1!2 price after 3rd act, all times except at the run of New Pantomime, wch. not agreed to, the Mob broke Chandeliers, &c. No Play (Cross Diary). [Fuller account in Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 46 ff., he being the beneficiary that night. Elvira publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 9). See account of riot in Gentlemen's Magazine (p. 31). See Comment 5 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: s 15 Dec. 1762.

4266
26 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit For the Author. A Riot to demand the same [half-price after third act] agreed to (Cross Diary). [Advertised for Drury Lane that particulars will be published in a few days on the charge of innovation in prices which last night prevented the play being heard.] When Holland appeared for the Prologue-hiss'd. Garrick appeared and agreed to take half-price at the end of the third act to all performances except the first [Winter] of a New Pantomime (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

4267
09 February 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

4268
12 February 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

4269
30 April 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vincent. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Cross, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Rogers, and others will be taken. No Building, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Comic Dance call'd the Old Fool, or the Farmer Trick'd-Vincent, Miss Rogers; IV: Dutch Dance, as17630425 V: By Desire, a Louvre and Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers; By Particular Desire a Hornpipe-Vincent

4270
05 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The Winston entry appears to be an insert accompanied by the following note: N.B. by the Bills it appears there was no performance on Thurs. Mr Woodrg Bills say on Fri King Lear. J. W."] No Performance. Thanksgiving (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb (Winston MS 9)

4271
07 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson. No building on Stage. Mr Blakes died (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

4272
16 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Receivers (Cross Diary). Smith, Watson, Cridland, Dalton (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

4273
05 September 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston and Mrs Daly. Tickets to be had of Mrs Daly at Mr Allen's in Great Suffolk St., near the Haymarket; and of Mr Weston, in Monmouth Court, Hedge Lane, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Contented Cuckold

Dance: Master Clinton, Miss Street

4274
17 September 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Love play'd Mrs Peachum very bad. Her fit seem'd a very Aukward Imitation of Mrs Pritchard in the Jealous Wife (Hopkins). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money received at the Stage Door. None returned after the curtain is up. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Customary notice, which will not be repeated here, Sept. 15 David Garrick & his Lady set out for Italy from his house in Southampton St. Covent Garden (Winston MS 9). Winston also refers to a Sept. 9 Letter from T. Davies, cg, to the poet Charles Churchill begging he would not introduce so unimportant a person as himself in his Smithfield Rosciad.] Receipts: #248 9s. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4275
20 September 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Baddeley-Polonius, first time (Cross Diary). Receipts: #194 17s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe