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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: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Ballet: (BBy Desire,)The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. [See 27 Jan. 1744.] With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff. Pit and Boxes laid together, and the Stage formed into a commodious amphitheatre. Boxes, pit, and Stage 5s. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock; otherwise, Woodward cannot be responsible for any mistake. Places with tickets to be had of Woodward at his house in the Piazza, cg. This Day Publish'd, The Dramatic Execution of Agis. Price 6d. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: 22 M2 March Died at his lodgings in High Holborn Leveridge in his 88th year sung d[uring] reigns of William, Anne, George I. Retired about 8 years ago, lived with daughters (Winston MS 8). [See Cross' note, 4 Feb. 1755.

Performances

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131, but Blakes_

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Tickets of Beard next door to Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane, and of Varney at stage door. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Song: Beard, Champnes

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Music: A Piece on the Harp-Mr Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: A Song by Arne-Beard; II: The Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, written by Havard, set to music by Dr Boyce,-Beard, Champnes

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross
Event Comment: Farce was cut & went of Well. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for ye British Lying-in Hospital in Brownlow Street. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Miss Young

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580328

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 April 1756.] The great Demand Mrs Cibber has had for places, has oblig'd her to lay the whole Pit into the Boxes; and the Stage form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Tickets deliver'd for Barbarossa 9 March will be taken. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants Dance, as17571004

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross). The Upholsterer is deferr'd till Wednesday Next. The theatre commonly call'd the Duke of York's Theatre in York Buildings is now taken down, and dwelling houses going to be built. The beautiful ceiling was painted by Verrio, but could not be remov'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Tickets and places to be had of Yates in Catherine St., Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 4th will be taken. Being the Last time of Garrick's performing Kitely this Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: New Spanish Dance, as17580410

Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580328

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's Peruke Maker, Russel St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where, Places may be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Mainpiece, Dance, and Afterpiece: By Command of the Prince of Wales. [No receipts in Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places to be had of Blakes at his house in Duke's Court, Bow St., CG; and of Varney at the Stage Door. That there may not be any interruption to the Performance, there will be no Building on the Stage. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: The Prussian Camp. As17580328 but Officer-Blakes