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18476 results for: Keyword - Blakes</i>, deleted.] Receipts:
We found 18079 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

16251
03 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and Composer [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 10s. (141.18.0; 16.16.6; 2.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

16252
03 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "The Pantomime has undergone some curtailment. The last scene was omitted, and Milbank [sic] played Harlequin instead of Boyce, which are alterations certainly for the better" (Public Advertiser, 4 Dec.). Receipts: #242 15s. 6d. (229.11.6; 13.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

16253
04 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Beggar's Opera (in place of The Maid of the Mill, advertised on playbill of 3 Dec., but "deferred on account of the Indisposition of Johnstone") and The Touchstone. But "Mrs Billington was taken ill & The Merry Wives of Windsor with The Deserter & Devil on Two Sticks were substituted for B. Opera & Touchstone" (MS annotation on BM bill: cg, Vol. VII). World, 5 Dec., states that The Mayor of Garratt was the afterpiece, but the Account-Book lists The Devil upon Two Sticks.] Receipts: #126 18s. (115.0.6; 11.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Dance: The Deserter-[, See17891113

16254
05 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Henry Mackenzie, based on La Fausse Inconstance; ou, Le Triomphe de l'Honnetete, by Fanny de Beauharnais. Larpent MS 852; text 1st published in Mackenzie's Works, Vol. VIII (Edinburgh, 1808), as False Shame; or, The White Hypocrite; it assigns no parts. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]. [Afterpiece in place of Love and War, advertised on playbill of 4 Dec.] Receipts: #202 13s. 6d. (191.3.6; 11.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

16255
07 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces King Henry the Fifth, but it was not acted "on account of the indisposition of Kemble" (Public Advertiser, 8 Dec.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #167 5s. 6d. (106.4.0; 58.0.6; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

16256
07 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Highland Reel and The Follies of a Day, advertised on playbill of 5 Dec.] Receipts: #167 6s. (163.0; 4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: As17891109

16257
08 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #201 17s. 6d. (175.18.0; 25.3.0; 0.16.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

16258
08 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Force of Fashion, advertised on playbill of 7 Dec.] Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (122.8.0; 4.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

16259
10 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [never previously acted at this theatre. Baker had acted at Dublin and at Margate (Thespian Dictionary)]. Receipts: #214 2s. 6d. (188.12.0; 24.8.6; 0.19.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17891204

16260
12 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but she "being ill, Miss Hagley played her Part" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #207 10s. 6d. (172.4.0; 33.9.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17891204

16261
14 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Island of St. Marguerite, advertised on playbill of 12 Dec.] Receipts: #131 6s. 6d. (106.9.0; 22.13.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Sir Walter Ralegh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

16262
14 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #168 14s. (161.3; 7.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

16263
15 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Lokes & Co., Wax Chandlers, to Nov. 25, #72 10s. Receipts: #157 15s. 6d. (141.13.0; 15.14.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In: Dance, as17891204; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17891201

16264
16 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent Confusion Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their Servants to keep Places by Half past Four o'Clock. God save the King was sung "by the performers and by the audience five times: twice on the entrance of the King and Queen, once after the Play, twice after the Farce" (World, 19 Dec.). And see 23 Apr. 1790. Account-Book: In the Pit of this Night 525 Persons, this is the greatest Number ever remembered to be in at any One Time. R. P. [i.e. Richard Peake, sub-treasurer]. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (279.13.0; 9.18.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

16265
18 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Way of the World, Love and War, and The Deserter, but "King being ill, the play was worse. For instead of Congreve's brilliant dialogue in The Way of the World there was, what few epithets can reach, The Castle of Andalusia" (World, 19 Dec.). The substitute for Love and War is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #140 18s. (136.16; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

16266
19 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Trick upon Trick, advertised on playbill of 18 Dec.] Receipts: #204 2s. (177.10.0; 24.16.6; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17891204

16267
21 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by James Wild. Text (no publisher, 1790)]: Being a Collection of favorite Scenes from the Following celebrated Pantomimes: Harlequin Sorcerer, Mother Shipton, Choice of Harlequin, Lord Mayor's Day, Druids, Fryar Bacon, Harlequin Freemason, Norwood Gipsies, Omai, Magic Cavern, and Harlequin Rambler. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Original Scenery, Machinery, &c. painted by Lambert, Dall [both deceased], Carver, Hodgins and Richards-and now all repaired and repainted. The Music selected by Shaw from Pepuch [sic], Dr Arne, Dr Arnold, Dr Fisher, ?M.? Arne, Vincent, Dibdin and Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 31 Dec.: Paid Wild for his Attention to the Pantomime #30; Boyce for Ditto #15; Shaw for Ditto #10. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (204.8.6; 28.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

16268
22 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2 (?), by John Philip Kemble. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from Woman's Revenge [by Christopher Bullock]. Kemble Mem.: Trick upon Trick is taken from Bullock's Match in Newgate [i.e. the 2nd title of Woman's Revenge]...my handy-work. Receipts: #200 16s. (172.9.0; 27.11.6; 0.10.6; ticket not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Trick upon Trick

Dance: As17891204

16269
23 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband, advertised on playbill of 22 Dec.] Paid House & Window tax, 1@2 Yr., #56 13s. 8d. Public Advertiser, 24 Dec.: [Pearce, who was from the Bath theatre, has] a clear bass voice, which he occasionally relieves by a falsetto...His first song was encored though sung much out of tune. Receipts: #113 4s. (77.2; 35.12; 0.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

16270
26 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Consisting of the most Approved Scenes of the following Pantomimes: The Witches, The Cauldron, The Genii, Fortunatus, Queen Mab, The Elopement, &c. The Music from Eminent Masters. The Scenes by Greenwood. [This is not the same as the pantomime of the same name acted at cg, 26 Dec. 1776.] [In mainpiece the playbill retains Barrymore as Claudio, but "Benson [was] the substitute of Barrymore in Claudio" (London Chronicle, 28 Dec.). Dubois, in the afterpiece, was from Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #217 4s. 6d. (186.9.0; 28.16.6; 1.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks or The Power of Witchcraft

Dance: In II: As17891209; Afterpiece conclude: Grand Ballet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp [which was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

Song: As17891209

16271
04 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, advertised on playbill of 2 Jan:] Receipts: #163 1s. 6d. (141.10.0; 21.2.0; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

16272
04 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Harley's youth and vigour so repeatedly got the better of his endeavours to conceal them under the veil of assumed debility that it was rather the grandson of Lear, who was rehearsing the part of that injured Prince and parent, than the good old King himself" (Diary, 5 Jan.). Receipts: #269 8s. 6d. (266.13.0; 2.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

16273
09 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece Kemble Mem. lists The Island of St. Marguerite, but the playbill for 8 Jan. has "15th Night," for 13 Jan. "16th Night," for 15 Jan. "17th Night," &c. The enumeration for Harlequin's Frolicks is likewise consistent.] Receipts: #242 (222.12; 18.11; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: As17891204

16274
09 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Love in a Village [advertised on playbill of 8 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #210 10s. 6d. (202.11.6; 7.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

16275
12 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Inkle and Yarico, advertised on playbill of 11 Jan.] Receipts: #217 0s. 6d. (211.8.0; 5.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17891231