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We found 6317 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: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [In mainpiece Squire Tally-ho is assigned to Edwin, and he is also listed as acting in the afterpiece, but "On the night of Mrs Mattocks' benefit [he] absented himself from the theatre, and at his next appearance [on 4 Apr.] was obliged to make an apology" (Town and Country Magazine, Apr. 1788, p. 188). Who substituted for him, in both pieces, has not come to light.] Receipts: #249 15s. (180.3.6; 4.7.6; tickets: 65.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: As17871129

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Coulon. Tickets to be had of Mlle Coulon, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. "The Dance between Gardel and Vestris on Thursday is everywhere talked of, in the highest terms of admiration. Such excellence no audience ever before witnessed" (General Advertiser, 5 Apr.). Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: a New Ballet serious and demi-charactere (composed by Noverre)-Gardel, Mlle Coulon, Mlle Hilligsberg, Didelot, Chevalier, Henry, the two Miss Simonets, Miss Harvey, Vestris; End Opera: Euthyme et Eucharis-see17880313 conclude with: the celebrated Pas de Quatre of Panurge-Gardel, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Coulon, Vestris

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Receipts: #198 11s. 6d. (118.2.6; 11.17.0; tickets: 68.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17880129

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville and Mrs Hunter. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for the 7th and by L'Estrange will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I 3rd piece: Hornpipe-Alison

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Afterpiece: With a Sea-Fightv and Processionv. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #124 8s. 6d. (79.12.0; 43.19.6; 0.17.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The East

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. The many Ladies and Gentlemen who have Places for the succeeding Nights [of The Ton] are respectfully informed this Comedy cannot be performed after this Evening. Receipts: #181 13s. (167.0.6; 14.12.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ton

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Part of the Pit [Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: nine rows] will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #296 19s. 6d. (164.19.6; 7.5.0; tickets: 124.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance, as17871107; End: New Divertisement, as17880124

Song: II afterpiece: Ally Croaker in two parts,-Mrs Abington, Johnstone

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]

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #261 8s. (81.12.0; 28.8.6; 0.17.6; tickets: 150.10.0) (charge: #108 3s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #264 12s. 6d. (248.8.0; 15.3.0; 1.1.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Goodwin. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Yesterday the 28th will be admitted. [The Satiric print, The Prince's Bow, had 1st appeared on 17 Mar. 1788; it was not by Bunbury, but by Frederick George Byron (Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires...in the British Museum, 1938, VI, 557).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End IV: Double Hornpipe-Mr and Miss Bourk

Song: End I: Crazy Kate-Chambers; End III: song-Arrowsmith

Entertainment: End II: Imitations-a Gentleman [unidentified]

Monologue: Vaudeville. End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini

Performance Comment: End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill.] Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #92 14s. (70.12; 21.3; 0.19; tickets: non listed) (charge: #106 9s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: In II: a Masquerade and Dance-proper to the Play

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Passions an Ode to Music-Kemble

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #170 1s. (31.15; 14.16; 0.14; tickets: 122.16) (charge: #109 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on Shakespeare [written by Garrick, and performed by him at the Stratford Jubilee [on 7 Sept. 1769], recited-Kemble; Music [by Dr Arne-; Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Williames, Danby, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. [Monologue by Thomas Hull (Moral Tales, 1797, I, 5-12).] Receipts: #164 5s. (82.9; 9.1; tickets: 72.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17871029

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: Virtue its own Rewardexemplified in a Moral Tale, and founded on a Real Event,-Hull

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. Receipts: #201 7s. (103.15.6; 2.16.6; tickets: 94.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: Come come my good Shepherds, as17880411

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (107.7.6; 11.9.0; tickets: 143.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. [The playbill has, as on 26 Apr., Rosa(1st time)-Mrs Mountain. But this may be a misprint.] Receipts: #145 4s. (72.13.6; 9.13.6; tickets: 63.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17871129

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. The Clandestine Marriage [advertised on playbill of 9 May] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Receipts: #209 18s. 6d. (36.13.0; 12.11.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 160.4.0) (charge: #109 15s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17880313

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 1st Piece: 1st Time at this Theatre, and with Permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyright]; written by Joseph Atkinson, Esq. [i.e. altered from his The Mutual Deception (see hay, 29 Aug. 1786)]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years. 3rd piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 23 May 1783]. Receipts: #225 0s. 6d. (113.0.6; 5.5.0; tickets: 106.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End I 1st piece: Oh say Bonny Lass will you carry a Wallet?-Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End II 1st piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #258 2s. 6d. (161.15.0; 34.1.0; 1.6.6; tickets: 61.0.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion