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6823 results for: Keyword - College of New York
We found 3243 matches on Event Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 1654 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6376
14 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2 (?), author unknown. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. has synopsis of plot; assigns Toby Todman-R. Palmer; Billy Dibley-$Bannister Jun.; and lists, unassigned: Mr Stockfield, Sir William Matchem, Mr Harland, Lucetta. Not in Larpent MS; not published. This piece has reference to a prize-fight, on which thousands of pounds were said to have been wagered, which took place at Odiham, Hants, on 9 Jan.]. Public Advertiser, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of $Baddeley, No. 10, New Store-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #323 11s. [107.6.0; 10.2.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 205.9.0) (charge: #109 4s. 2ds.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Related Works
Related Work: The Heiress Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I of mainpiece) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good; or, The Road to Odiham

Dance: End: a Minuet-Master D'Egville, Miss Blanchet

6377
17 April 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre. Tickets to be had of Noverre, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street. 2nd ballet: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour-[See17871208]; End Opera: Adela de Ponthieu-, composed by Noverre [See17880419]

6378
24 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of Animal Magnetism [advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday next. [1st piece in place of The Guardian, advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #159 16s. 6d. (154.1.0; 5.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: As17880310

6379
08 May 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Marchesi. A new Serious Opera [composed by Cimarosa; 1st performed at Vicenza, 1784]. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets to be had of Marchesi, No. 37, Upper James-street, Golden-square. There will be no Opera on Saturday on account of Whitsun Eve. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17880417; End Singing: L'Amour et Psiche-[see17880129]

Song: End Opera: Marchesi will return thanks to the Audience in a piece of Music of his own composing, piece of Music-Marchesi

6380
22 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music compiled and composed by Shield. With entire New Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.] Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (162.18.0; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: In I 2nd piece: As17880204

6381
10 July 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by George Colman, ynger. Prologue by the Hon. Francis North. Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 2 Sept. 1788: This Day is published Ways and Means (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means; Or, A Trip To Dover

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

6382
05 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; P 2(?), by Ralph Wewitzer and --Invill]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Scenery designed and painted by Rooker. The Music by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs (T. Cadell [1788]) to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Gnome; or, Harlequin Underground

Dance: End 1st piece: January and May-[see17880627

6383
09 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Mariana Starke. Prologue by George Colman, elder. Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace; Or, A Voyage Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

6384
13 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Performance Comment: Love: Goldsmith's poem of Edwin and Angelina. Scene, A Hermit's Cell. Edwin-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage unidentified); Angelina-Mrs Plomer; War: Scene I. A Sea-port. Officers carousing. O say Bonny Lass-; Scene II. A Village. Serjeant-Davies; Country Lasses-Mrs Gaudry; Milkmaid-Miss Collett; Admiral Benbow-Bannister; A new dance, The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin.

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

6385
18 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, ascribed variously to John O'Keeffe and to James Foord; adapted from La Gageure Imprevue, by Michel Jean Sedaine. Text prints a Prologue "Supposed to be written by G. Colman, Esq., and intended to be spoken by Bannister Jun.," but "it arrived, by accident, too late at the theatre to be studied and recited" (London Chronicle, 25 Aug.)]. "A new afterpiece was...attempted to be represented, [but] it was not heard out" (Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.). Public Advertiser, 8 Oct. 1788: This Day is published A Key to the Lock (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Key to the Lock

6386
23 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With entire new Dresses and Decorations. The Music by the celebrated Gretry. The Paintings by Greenwood. Kemble Mem.: This day I undertook the Management of dl Theatre. Receipts: #232 15s. 6d. (175.18.0; 56.13.6; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: In III afterpiece: dance-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

6387
25 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by James Cobb, based on Doktor und Apotheker, by Gottlieb Stephanie]: With entirely new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music composed by Carl? Ditters [von Dittersdorf] and with additional music by Stephen? Storace. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #182 13s. (126.1; 55.12; 1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

6388
01 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music by Shield. With entire new Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #207 9s. 6d. (197.9.0; 10.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Song: In II: a song-Mrs Kennedy

6389
06 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe. Beginning with 8 Dec. reduced to an afterpiece of 3 short acts. Prologue by the author (World, 7 Nov.)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. The Music by Handel, Rizzio, J. C.? Bach, Gretry, Corri, and Shield [who compiled the music of the other composers]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Afterpiece: In I act. [Miss Fontenelle is identified on playbill of 22 Nov.] Account-Book, 17 Mar. 1789: Paid O'Keeffe in full for Highland Reel #67 10s. Receipts: #263 11s. 6d. (257.1.6; 6.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

6390
25 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 Nov. 1761]. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. In Act I a Grand Banquetv. In Act II the Trial of Queen Katharinev. In V a Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabethv. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Mrs Siddons's Queen Katharine was "too laboured -particularly the Trial Scene, where the words came so slow and measured that they seemed to be distilled" (Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.). Receipts: #260 11s. (248.12; 11.6; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: In IV: a song (composed by Linley? Sen)-Mrs Crouch

6391
31 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of The Toy [advertised on playbill of 29 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday next. Receipts: #252 19s. 6d. (244.16.0; 8.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: As17881025

6392
03 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. In 1796 altered by the author as The Lie of the Day. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (Public Advertiser, 4 Feb., which also gives the names of the speakers)]: With new Dresses and Scenery. Receipts: #204 11s. 6d. (202.10.0; 2.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

6393
20 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 1st night of Hide and Seek (see 24 Feb.), but "On account of Johnstone's Indisposition, the new Farce is unavoidably deferr'd...Tom Thumb will therefore be performed this Evening" (printed slip on BM playbill, cg, Vol. VI).] Receipts: #220 18s. (207.2.6; 13.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

6394
16 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; ball. P 3, adapted by Sir George Collier from La Mort du Capitaine Cook a son Troisieme Voyage au Nouveau Monde, by Jean Francois Mussot, dit Arnould. For a detailed synopsis of the action, see 13 Apr.]: As now representing in Paris with uncommon Applause. With the original French Music. New Dresses, Scenery, Machinery and Decorations. Books, containing a description of the Ballet [by James Byrne (World, 23 Mar.)], to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #257 16s. 6d. (247.16.0; 10.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

6395
17 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., "Mr Greatheed's third night," but not on the playbill; in the preceding season the play had been acted 8 times, and it was the custom for the author of a new play to have his benefits on the 3rd, 6th and 9th nights]. Receipts: #160 17s. (139.5; 19.8; 2.4; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

6396
24 March 1789 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st performed at Naples, 1783]; the Music by Cimarosa, under the direction of Mazzinghi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Villana Riconosciuta

Dance: As17890317

6397
26 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Delpini being entirely recovered from his late Accident will perform his original Character this Evening in the new Serious Pantomime. [Who had been his substitute, or when the accident had taken place, is not stated] Receipts: #232 16s. (226.4; 6.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

6398
31 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new and accurate Edition of The Pannel to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #219 13s. 6d. (202.1.0; 16.6.6; 0.13.6; tickets not come in: 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

6399
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

6400
04 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by John O'Keeffe. Not in Larpent MS; not published. This is an unusual instance of the playbill containing, on the 1st night of a new play, the full cast]: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Gamester. Receipts: #345 13s. (256.2.6; 4.3.6; tickets: 85.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet Bird, as17890126