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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.
Event Comment: The Careless Husband [advertised on playbill of 8 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [This was F. Aickin's last appearance in London. Subsequently he acted for several years at the Liverpool theatre, of which he was the manager.] Receipts: #349 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Song: As17921029

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from Vanburgh's [sic] Mistake. Receipts: #272 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Just In Time

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Event Comment: ["Mara pretended illness and ruin'd herself with the Town" (Kemble Mem.). To what this refers is not clear; she performed, as announced, on 10 Nov., and there is no indication that she was supposed to appear on this present night.] Receipts: #173 10s. 6d. (122.7.6; 49.0.0; 2.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 15 Apr. 1793]. Receipts: #279 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of No Song No Supper, advertised on playbill of 12 Nov.] Receipts: #186 4s. 6d. (144.10.6; 39.19.0; 1.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: As17920915

Event Comment: [Miss Morris is identified in European Magazine, Nov. 1792, p. 379.] Receipts: #287 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Pope as Mrs Larron, but "previous to the play, an apology was made by Palmer for the absence of Miss Pope, who by indisposition was prevented from performing, and requested the audience to accept of Mrs Edwards in the part of Mrs Larron, who, it must be confessed, showed no want of spirit in her performance" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 169).] Receipts: #195 0s. 6d. (143.16.0; 48.14.0; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Artaxerxes; afterpiece of High Life below Stairs, both advertised on playbill of 17 Nov.] Receipts: #75 16s. 6d. (44.12.6; 24.6.0; 6.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Romeo and Juliet, advertised on playbill of 17 Nov.] Receipts: #289 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #464 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Song: II: song-Miss Broadhurst

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 961; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, Nov. 1792, p. 393]: The Scenes entirely new, designed and executed by Greenwood. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed principally by Storace, with a few Pieces selected from Anfossi, Bianchi and [La Bella Pescatrice, by] Guglielmi. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 15 Apr. 1793]. "The dialogue of operas now a days is thought of little consequence, and in this instance, the author has certainly strictly adhered to that opinion; however, by the aid of Painter, Composer, Taylor and Performers [The Pirates] will certainly long continue to attract admiration" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 169). Receipts: #359 10s. 6d. (336.6.6; 23.0.0; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Dance: The Dances (composed by D'Egville)-Hamoir, D'Egville, Master D'Egville, Miss Prevot, Miss Menage, Miss Phillips, the Miss D'Egvilles. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances until 8 Apr. 1793.

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #183 6s. 6d. (153.18.0; 29.6.0; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Four Acts. The Music by Dr Arne and Giardini. Books of the Lyric Part of the Drama to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Pollock is identified in European Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 456. "Candour and impartiality compel us to advise this lady to desist from a pursuit that affords her not the most distant prospect of success. She is deficient in every dramatic requisite, her person alone excepted" (Morning Herald, 26 Nov.).] Receipts: #182 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End: A New Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi

Song: In: the Principal Vocal Parts-Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Barnett, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Masquerade as 8 Oct. Receipts: #264 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: the Solemn Dirge, as17921022, but Mrs _Arnold

Music: As17921025

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #225 0s. 6d. (193.10.6; 30.12.0; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #207 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (181.17.6; 28.9.0; 2.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: The Scenes, principally new, designed and painted by Richards, Hodgins, Pugh, Walmsley, and assistants. With entire new Dresses and Decorations. "The management of the earthquake in which the Temple of the Sun is destroyed was a very fine piece of stage mechanism; the effect of which was considerably heightened by the improved performance of the Bold Thunder, and that also of his Electrical Harbinger. The gradations and cadences of the first were superior to anything of the kind we remember within the walls of the theatre...The scene of the rising sun was uncommonly dingy" (Public Advertiser, 3 Dec.). "Mr Morton in full for Columbus #214 10s. 6d." [MS annotation on BM playbill, 26 Dec. 1792 (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Morning Herald, 14 Dec. 1792: This day at noon will be published Columbus (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #301 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus Or A World Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 3 Dec.] Receipts: #69 13s. (48.13s; 17.8; 3.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. For this Evening the Doors will be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Receipts: #494 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 5 Dec.] Receipts: #112 6s. (74.7; 31.7; 6.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 6 Dec. In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Farren as Miss Herbert, but she was absent, and "Mrs Powell was her substitute" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 171).] Receipts: #150 4s. 6d. (105.2.6; 41.10.0; 3.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: Columbus [advertised on playbill of 7 Dec.] is, on account of Lewis's Indisposition, obliged to be deferred till Monday. Receipts: #189 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates; afterpiece of The Virgin Unmask'd, both advertised on playbill of 8 Dec.] 'Mrs Goodall is a very good substitute for Mrs Jordan [who had not yet appeared this season] in Letitia Hardy" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 171). Receipts: #115 4s. (69.0; 37.8; 8.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #120 9s. 6d. (82.18.6; 29.0.0; 8.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Danby [Public Advertiser: Caulfield], Cooke, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Shaw

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards