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We found 2851 matches on Event Comments, 2708 matches on Performance Comments, 328 matches on Performance Title, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Receipts: #130 [Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: HHornpipe, as17540201

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 [Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: Comic Dance-Morris, Mrs Preston

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: A New Tragedy by Dr Philip? Francis, author of Eugenia, --went off very indifferently (Cross). [This tragedy is mercilessly attacked in The Tuner No 2 by Paul Hiffernan, who compares its phrasing in a dozen instances with similar, but more perfect phrasing in Shakespeare.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

Event Comment: Wrote by one Mr Crisp. A Gentlewoman, who never appear'd upon ye Stage before did Marcia (Mrs Graham) & had deservidly great applause, the whole play went off, with General Approbation. Mr Carey had his fiddle broke by an apple playing the first Music--the Prologue & Epilogue much lik'd--both wrote by Garrick (Cross). Gentlewoman-Mrs Graham, afterwards Mrs Yates (Winston MS 8). Tuner Letter the 2nd pub. at 6d.--29 pages

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author with this advertisement: The Receipt of the House not answering on Tuesday last, Mr Rich has taken it to himself & given this night for the author (No charges) (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 6d. The Story on which the new tragedy call'd Virginia, now performing at Drury Lane, is founded. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Marina Giordani. Full Prices (Cross). A new Italian Comic Opera. The Music composed by Balthazar Galuppi. Ladies desired to send servants by Half an Hour after Three. This day publish'd at 1s. La Cameriera Accorta, Opera Comico, per Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Author. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. This day publish'd Virginia, a Tragedy as it is acted at Drury Lane. Printed for J. and R. Tonson. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti; End: Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Last time of acting it this season. [Seven rows of Pit laid into Boxes, and amphitheatre on stage. Send servants at 3 o'clock.] Receipts: #240 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: This was to have been Tamerlane for Mrs Bland's Benefit, but Mr Barry sprain'd his leg and it was Deferr'd. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. [Afterpiece a Comedy in two Acts by MacNamara Morgan from Shakespeare.] Shuter did fine in the farce (Cross). Music composed by Arne. Part of Pit will be laid into the boxes, where and upon stage servants will be allowed to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; or, Florizel and Perdita

Dance: II: Les Jardiniers, as17540307 IV: Les Taileurs, as17531210

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets at Beard's lodgings at Mrs Coleman's in East St., Red Lyon Square, and at the Stage Door. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Rise Glory, in the Opera Rosamond, by Arne-Beard; II: A Song-Miss Thomas; III: (By desire) a Ballad-Beard; IV: A Pastoral Dialogue by Arne-Miss Thomas, Beard

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