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We found 6320 matches on Event Comments, 250 matches on Performance Comments, 2 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: A Serious Opera [1st time; ser 3, by Giovanni de Gamerra; a pasticcio, with music by Anfossi, Gluck, Alessandri, Martini, Sarti, Giordani]; the Music under the Direction of Anfossi. With new Scenes, painted by Novosielski, new Dresses and Decorations, both for the Opera and Dances. By their Majesties Command, no Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout season]. The Subscribers' Tickets are ready to be delivered at the Office in Unionstreet. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages, they are most respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-Mall. The Door in Market-lane for Chairs only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Silla

Dance: End of Act II Divertisement, with a Passe-a-caille by Lepicq, a Pas Seul by Henry, a Pas Seul by Mme Simonet; End of Opera Hew Divertisement, in which a Pas Seul by Henry, and to conclude with a Caledonian Reel, being part of the ballet of Auld Robin Gray, which for want of time could not be completed, by Lepicq, Slingsby, Mme Rossi

Event Comment: Receipts: #114 8s. (85/8/0; 27/0/0; 1/7/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Acted but once [12 May 1783] these 8 years. Receipts: #108 4s. (71/18/0; 34/7/0; 0/11/6; tickets not come in: 1/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17830918; In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch-Dance [performers not listed; danced in all subsequent performances]

Event Comment: Paid Window and House Tax 1/2 Yr. to Michaelmas #38 9s. 1d. Receipts: #184 9s. 6d. (146/14/0; 28/8/6; 1/2/0; tickets not come in: 8/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: FORTUNATUS

Event Comment: Receipts: #102 13s. 6d. (75/4/0; 26/7/0; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a New Comic Ballet by Mr and Miss Hamoir (from the Theatre-Royal, Brussels; their 1st appearance on that stage)

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by William Jackson. MS: Larpent 638; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Dec. 1783, pp. 553-54]: With entire new Music composed by Jackson. Receipts: #146 1s. 6d. (121/6/0; 23/11/6; 0/1/6; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17831103, but Simon-Suett; added: Watchman-Kenny; Spouters-R. Palmer, Phillimore, Fawcett, Spencer, Williames, &c .

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

Event Comment: "Palmer's Stukely was exactly infamous, his Scene with Mrs Beverley was just on both hands, each seemed to gain Spirit by the Nature and Exactness of the other-it was inimitable. Kemble's Beverley was all we could wish; his Manner, peculiar as it is, gave us home Sensations" (Public Advertiser, 9 Dec). Receipts: #226 13s. 6d. (202/6/0; 23/10/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Kemble's 1st appearance as King John was at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 18 Apr. 1782; Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Constance was at Bath on, by coincidence, the same day.] Receipts: #300 9s. (289/8/0; 10/3/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Event Comment: "Particular Commendation is to be given to the death of Arthur; it is very bold, and well disposed of. The jump is the highest we ever saw" (Public Advertiser, 15 Dec). Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #257 4s. (230/7; 26/7; 0/5; tickets not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Fotunatus

Event Comment: Receipts: #161 10s. 6d. (144/3/0; 16/2/6; 0/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Fortunatus, announced on playbill of 16 Dec] Receipts: #86 11s. (62/15; 22/19; 0/7; tickets not come in: 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17831213

Event Comment: Paid Home & Co., Coal Merchants #166 18s. Receipts: #244 4s. (218/8/0; 24/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17831213

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Receipts: #233 7s. 6d. (207/15/0; 24/17/0; 0/8/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Lady Randolph was at Manchester, 5 Feb. 1777.] "The Siddons, younger and more rich in natural Gifts, certainly offers much to the Mind, and yet much more to the Eye. The Crawford, by some means or other, offers more to the Heart" (Public Advertiser, 24 Dec). Receipts: #303 8s. 6d. (156/2/0; 10/13/0; 0/13/6; tickets: 136/0/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17831020

Event Comment: Receipts: #78 13s. 6d. (47/0/0; 29/14/6; 1/1/6; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Receipts: #123 8s. 6d. (101/2/0; 21/6/6; 0/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: King Richard the Third [announced on playbill of 27 Dec] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #110 12s. (87/0/0; 19/0/0; 3/9/6; tickets not come on: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Williames

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17831020

Event Comment: Receipts: #84 9s. 6d. (57/12/0; 25/5/0; 1/7/6; tickets not come in: 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

Event Comment: Paid Kingswood for Italian flowers #3 3s. Receipts: #110 5s. 6d. (67/5/0; 42/8/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III The Devonshire Minuet by the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: In Masquerade Scene a New Song by Miss George