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4202 results for: Keyword - Crow Street Theatre Dublin
We found 3709 matches on Event Comments, 590 matches on Performance Comments, 152 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3701
27 September 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Farren (1st appearance at this theatre); Roderigo-Bonnor; Cassio-Davies; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Cubitt; Montano-Thompson; Duke-Booth; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Henderson; Emilia-Mrs Bates; Desdemona-Miss Ranoe .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

3702
28 September 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow and Children of the unfortunate Mr Linton, late of this Theatre. [Linton, a musician belonging to the CG band, had been attacked and killed by footpads on 8 July.] "The band were all dressed in mourning, suited to the occasion, and are entitled to their share of applause" (Public Advertiser, 30 Sept.). Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

3703
12 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 14th Night [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. With new Music [consisting of 6 new songs (Gazetteer, 2 Oct.)], Scenes and Dresses. The new Music and Accompaniments to the adapted Airs by Shield. The Overture by Baumgarten. The Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [It was "represented in an altered state . . . The second act is almost newly written, and the language of the whole opera amended and pointed with great neatness" {London Magazine, Oct. 1784, p. 315).] "At the end of the first act [of mainpiece], Davies came forward and informed the audience that Mrs Kennedy was of a sudden taken dangerously ill, and hoped that Cubitt might be permitted to read the remainder of her part; a request that was immediately complied with" (London Chronicle, 13 Oct.). [Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, announced on playbill of 11 Oct.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: St

3704
18 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Cloten (1st time)-Quick; Cymbeline-Fearon; Pisanio-Hull; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Farren; Arviragus-Davies; Caius Lucius-Cubitt; Philario-Thompson; Iachimo-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Queen-Miss Piatt; Helen-Mrs Poussin; Imogen-Miss Younge (1st time of her performing it at this theatre) .

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Pastoral Sports, as17840922

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr

3705
25 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Holman]); Capulet-Clarke; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Benvolio-Davies; Prince-Fearon; Paris-Bonnor; Tibalt-Cubitt; Montague-Thompson; Peter-Stevens; Apothecary-Jones; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Mrs Poussin; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Younge (1st time at this theatre). Before the play an Occasional Address [spoken by Hull] .spoken by Hull] .

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession, with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Baker, Cubitt, Gaudry, Pemberton, Whitaker, Darley, Doyle; Mrs Bannister, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

3706
04 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Mark Londsale. Prologue by the author {London Chronicle, 10 Nov.)]: The Overture, new Airs and Accompaniments composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1784: This Day is published The Spanish Rivals (1s.). Receipts: #160 2s. 6d. (104/12/0; 54/18/0; 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Stageldoir

3707
09 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: The Pantomime will end with a Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show on the Water. After which will be an Historical Procession of the Several Companies, with their respective Pageants, and the Chief Magistrates belonging to the City of London, from its Foundation. Books of the Songs, with an Explanation of the Procession, to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland in an Air Balloon

3708
13 December 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Peachum-Popplewell; Lockit-Connell; Filch-Decastro; Mat o' the Mint-Ingall; Capt. Macheath (for that night only)-Dighton; Mrs Peachum and Diana Trapes-Mrs Jones; Lucy-Mrs Henley; Jenny Diver-Mrs Barnard; Polly-Mrs Woodman (late of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Fairbrother. vaudeville. End of mainpiece a Scene in a Sporting Club, in which a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical [performers not listed]

3709
27 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Tamerlane, announced on playbill of 23 Dec] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by Ralph Wewitzer and Frederick Pilon. MS not in Larpent; not published. Synopsis of action in Town and Country Magazine, Supp. 1784, p. 717]: With new Scenery, Music, Dresses and Decorations. The Scenes chiefly designed by Richards, and executed by him, Carver, Hodgins, and assistants. The Overture, Songs, Chorusses and the whole Music of the Pantomime new, and composed by Shield. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. The Words of the Songs, &c to be had at the Theatre. "The performance was such as the first performance of pantomimes generally--machinery and scenery not so perfectly executed as when practice has rendered the movements more familiar to those to whom they belong, which, as the beauty of a pantomime depends on the celerity and adroitness of the scene-men, it seldom is discovered on the first night" (Public Advertiser, 28 Dec)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern; or, Virtue's Triumph

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Brett

3710
08 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin. Text (G. Kearsley, 1785) lists cast as above, but omits La Fleur (see 10 Feb.)]: The Music entirely new, composed by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #154 5s. 6d. (105/19/0; 47/14/6; 0/4/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Liberty Hall; or, The Test of Good Fellowship

3711
11 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 51. 1st Gallery 3;. 6d. 2nd Gallery is. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Music That Was Selected For The Commemoration Of Handel, In Westminster Abbey And The Pantheon, The 26th And 27th Of May, 1784

3712
21 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Damascus, announced playbill of 19 Feb.] Afterpiece: 1st Time at this Theatre, and for that Night only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd

3713
02 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Leonard Macnally. Prologue by ---- Chalmers. Epilogue by ---- Norris (see text, but London Chronicle, 4 Apr., says by Thomas Morris). In 1792 this was acted at this theatre reduced to 3 acts]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr. 1785: This Day is published Fashionable Levities (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

3714
12 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by William Pearce. MS: Larpent 696; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, Apr. 1785, p. 209]: With new Scenes and Dresses. The Overture and Airs composed by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Nunnery [is] ... a most powerful narcotic. The Performers--in friendly sympathy--had totally forgotten their parts--and passed the evening in a conversation with the prompter" (Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

3715
14 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: 1st time [i.e. at this theatre]. Receipts: #242 7s. 6d. (226/18/0; 14/18/0; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: Mainpiece: With the original Music, composed by the late Dr Arne; the Vocal Parts by Miss Phillips, Miss Field, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Barnes, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Burnett, Miss Cranford, Mrs Smith, Miss George, Mrs Wrighten

3716
14 April 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lepicq. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Lepicq, No. 33, Pall-mall. "On machinery at this Theatre the less stress is laid the better. The boat, of which, had it been good, there was too much use, was very far from good. The representation of Lepicq swimming transgressed as little the commandment. And as to the ascent of Lepicq in the bucket, that was so badly managed as to put us in heart-felt trepidation . . . The Rivali Delusi was cut very properly by omitting the under singers' airs; yet the curtain did not drop till midnight" (Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: Preceding the Opera an entire new Ballet, composed by Lepicq, the subject taken from a much admired French Opera, Les Amours d'Ete [performers not listed, but Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. makes mention of Lepicq and Mme Rossi]; End of Act I Robin Gray, with the Scotch Reels [performers not listed, but see17850421]; End of Opera Il Convitato di Pietra [performers not listed, but see17850312 in which a Minuet by Lepicq and Mme Rossi

3717
14 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This was Whitsun Eve, on which night the theatres were customarily closed.] Receipts: #241 9s. 6d. (221/13/0; 18/14/0; 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17850430

3718
30 May 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 1st piece: Written by the Author of The Agreeable Surprise, Son-in-Law.&c. [John O'Keeffe]. The Overture and New Airs composed by Dr Arnold. 2nd piece: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of 1st piece, by the two Miss Simonets

3719
18 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Sga Sestini's 1st appearance as Jessamy at this theatre was on 10 Aug. 1784.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Dance: As17850617

3720
28 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Sga Sestini's 1st appearance as Fanny was at this theatre on 17 Aug. 1784.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Dance: As17850623

3721
09 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman, the younger. MS: Larpent 704; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, July 1785, p. 38. Prologue by the author; Epilogue by Edward Topham (European Magazine, July 1785, pp. 70-71)]: The Overture and New Airs compos'd by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

3722
13 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #166 7s. (164/17; 1/10) (charge: #63). [A tally-sheet for this performance in the Harvard Theatre Collection lists the following details: 338 spectators in boxes at #84 10s.; 253 in pit at #37 19s.; 314 in 1st Gallery at #31 8s.; 190 in 2nd gallery at #9 10s. Total of 1,095 spectators at #164 17s. After money #1 10s. Charge #63. Owing Mrs Inchbald #101 17s.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

3723
17 September 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 16 Nov.] . Orders and Free #24 11s. Receipts : #280 16s. 6d. (257/11/0 ; 23/0/6 ; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello-kemble ; Roderigo-dodd ; Cassio-bannister Jun

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

3724
27 September 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lord Trinket to Dodd, but he "having been taken ill, Kennedy of Covent Garden Theatre performed Lord Trinket, and was favourably received" (Public Advertiser, 28 Sept.).] Receipts: #170 18s. (120/7/0; 49/11/6; 0/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron; or, Pantomimical Olio

Dance: In afterpiece, by Mills, Miss J. Stageldoir, and others

3725
17 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 10 Nov. 1779]. [Miss Brunton was from the Bath theatre. Prologue by Arthur Murphy (Works, 1786, VII, 60).] Receipts: #337 18s. (335/7/6; 2/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: In Act v of mainpiece a Roman Ovation. The Music composed by Shield, with a Grand Chorus ["taken from Caractacus" (Public Advertiser, 21 Oct.)] by Dr Arne. Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Davies, Cubitt, Palmer, Darley, Meadows, Doyle; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Gray, Miss Orme, Miss Francis, Miss Browning, Mrs Bannister. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]