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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Charles Kemble"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Charles Kemble")') 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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5132 results for: Keyword - Charles Kemble
We found 2829 matches on Author, 2052 matches on Performance Comments, 775 matches on Event Comments, 91 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4851
26 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Antony to Phillimore. On the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, but no substitute is listed. For Waldron see 30 May 1783.] Receipts: #71 13s. (39/5/0; 32/0/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

4852
27 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Davy, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Suett's.] Receipts: #246 4s. (210/5/0; 34/7/6; 1/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

4853
16 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Richmond, and Webb as Lord Mayor. On the Kemble playbill both names are deleted. The name of Wroughton's substitute has been cut by the binder; who acted the part has not as yet come to light. A MS annotation substitutes Bates for Webb.] Receipts: #165 18s. (162/13/6; 3/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

4854
18 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Artaxerxes, but the Kemble playbill deletes it. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #116 10s 6d. (112/9/6; 4/1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

4855
01 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Webb as Glumdalca, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Miss Platt.] Receipts: #280 12s. (154/1; tickets: 126/11) (charge: #105). [Henderson sold 439 tickets in boxes, 74 in pit, 57 in gallery.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17821231

4856
28 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 6 Apr. 1772. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Fainlove to Miss Collett, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted; the substitute name has been cut by the binder. In afterpiece Miss Collett is retained as Patie, but her name is again deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Miss M. Stageldoir's]. Receipts: #220 7s.(67/10; 26/1; 0/2; tickets: 126/14) (charge: #107 9s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: As17821214

4857
05 June 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [Mainpiece acted for the 22nd time this season. The playbill states, "for the 23rd Time"; on the Kemble playbill this has been corrected in MS to 22nd. Genest, VI, 262, says that this play was also acted on both 3 and 4 June. But on those nights the theatre was dark.] Receipts: #270 11s. (260/7; 10/4; after-money not listed). Account-Book, 5 June: Paid Mrs Siddons a Present from the Proprietors #100; 6 June: Paid 100 Renters #20 4s. apiece; 23 June: Received of Their Majesties #156

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

4858
14 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Peachum to Wilson, and Lockit to Booth, but on the Kemble playbill MS annotations substitute Booth and Thompson.] Receipts: #140 6s. (139/2; 1/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I) The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford

4859
21 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In 1st piece the playbill assigns Father Paul to Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Booth.] Receipts: #174 15s. (171/11; 3/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

4860
20 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Serjeant Drill to Staunton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Wilson.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Perspective Representation of the Camp at Cox-Heath [see 15 Oct. 1778. This was included in both subsequent performances]. Receipts: #110 12s. (70/17; 37/0; 0/5; tickets not come in: 2/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

4861
09 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Staunton as King John, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes L'Estrange.] Receipts: #223 13s. (211/18; 11/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

4862
09 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces as mainpiece The Countess of Salisbury, but the Kemble playbill deletes it. The Account-Book also deletes it, and lists the substitute play. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: The tragedy was "unavoidably deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons." Receipts: #144 17s. (121/16; 22/11; 0/5; tickets not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: As17840308athi

4863
08 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Tancred and Sigismunda, but "[Mrs Siddons] again appeared in Lady Randolph, for on the sudden illness of Kemble, Tancred was thus forced to be changed" (Public Advertiser, 10 May).] Receipts: #225 18s. (207/18/0; 16/10/0; 0/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

4864
04 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Gordon is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Her 1st appearance on the stage was at the HAY, 30 May 1781, as Miss Lyon.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Gaudry, Doyle, Lloyd; Mrs Kennedy, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Bannister

Related Works
Related Work: The Romp Author(s): Charles Dibdin

4865
03 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both announced on playbill of 2 Nov. In afterpiece the playbill assigns Young Wilding to Bonnor, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Palmer.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17841022

4866
30 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: There are two Kemble playbills for this night, one announcing Douglas, and a second, which reads: "On Account of the sudden and severe Indisposition of a Principal Performer . . . Douglas is unavoidably postponed, and This Evening will be presented . . . Macbeth. Macbeth-Holman; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Bates. The rest of the Characters, with the Vocal Parts, all as usual [see 4 Oct.]."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

4867
08 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Pope is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] "By giving in to the mode of recitation which is now prevalent, [Pope] will lose many of the advantages of his powers . . . Indeed, the principal efTect of acting, since the decease of Garrick, has arisen from the art of recital. . . [which] is substituted for acting" (European Magazine, Jan. 1785, p. 60)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

4868
11 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Ogle to King, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Barrymore.] 2nd piece [1st time: INT I, probably by Robert Baddeley. MS: Larpent 692; not published]. Receipts: #226 3s. 6d. (105/18/0; 30/11/6; 0/16/0; tickets: 88/18/0) (charge: #111 17s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beau's Duel; Or, A Soldier For The Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The St

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair of St. Germain Author(s): Charles Rivière Dufresny

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act I of mainpiece The History of John Gilpin, the Linen Draper by Baddeley

4869
07 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Duke Senior but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Staunton.] Receipts: #233 14s. (214/0/0; 18/19/6; 0/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17850430

4870
20 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Brigg, Pemberton, Bourk, Aberdein, Newbold, Smith, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Heard [Account-Book adds: Mills] will be admitted. [The afterpiece was perhaps changed. On the Kemble playbill it is deleted, but no substitute play is given. The Account-Book lists The Lyar.] Receipts: #220 181. 6d. (43/4/0; 21/0/0; 0/2/6; tickets: 156/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece the Minuet de la Cow by Brigg and Miss Stageldoir; End of Act III Hornpipe by Bourk

4871
01 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill lists Wilson as Justice Shallow in mainpiece, and as Father Luke in afterpiece. On the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, but the substitute name has been cut by the binder. "It is necessary to inform those who may have read a long criticism on Wilson's performance of Justice Shallow, on Tuesday evening [in Public Advertiser, 2 Nov.], that Wilson did not perform that or any other character, as he is laid up, or rather down, with a violent fit of the gout" (General Advertiser, 3 Nov.). For Fearon as Justice Shallow see 30 Apr. 1785, 29 Nov. 1786; for Booth as Father Luke see 25 Nov. 1785.] Receipts: #139 6s. (134/5; 5/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

4872
07 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Winter's Tale; afterpiece of The Jubilee, both announced on playbill of 5 Nov. In mainpiece the playbill assigns the Queen to Mrs Hopkins, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted. The name of her substitute has not come to light.] Receipts: #91 15s. (69/12; 21/13; 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: In afterpiece, as17851018

4873
11 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The great powers of Mrs Jordan cannot be better displayed than in the wonderful contrast of her Country Girl and Viola. In one all archness and vivacity; in the other serious, gentle, tender and sentimental" (Public Advertiser, 16 Nov.). [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Sir Anthony Halfwit, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wilson's. "Parsons was taken suddenly ill & J. Wilson read his part" (MS annotation on British Museum playbill, in Harris, 11).] Receipts: #108 12s. (79/11/0; 28/13/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17851103

4874
08 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Duenna, announced on playbill of 7 Dec. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Morton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Inchbald. And see 10 Dec.] Receipts: #85 6s. 6d. (82/16/6; 2/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

4875
09 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Cubitt as Noodle, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Brett.] Receipts: #134 2s. 6d. (124/17/0; 9/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb