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2343 results for: Keyword - Edmond Smith
We found 1924 matches on Performance Comments, 361 matches on Event Comments, 232 matches on Performance Title, 13 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2301
16 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Braganza [announced on playbill of 15 Apr.] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of Smith's Indisposition. Receipts: #121 14s. (94.12; 25.18; 1.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2302
18 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; PAST 3]: Taken from [The Winter's Tale, by] Shakespeare [altered by George Colman elder]. Afterpiece: Likewise taken from [A Midsummer-Night's Dream, by] Shakespeare. Books of both pieces to be had at the Theatre. The Musick of both pieces by the most eminent Composers [i.e. Michael Arne, Dibdin, Dr Burney, Hook, Theodore Smith, Dr Arnold]. The Characters new dressed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep-shearing

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: With aPastoral Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; End: As17770707

2303
23 July 1777 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Event Comment: [The play was not allowed to conclude, nor was the afterpiece, All the World's a Stage, performed. "Yesterday evening, during the representation of...A Bold Stroke for a Wife, at China Hall, Rotherhithe, a party of the inhabitants, who had laid an information against the performers, rushed into the theatre, behind the scenes, and seized Mr Russell (who played the character of Colonel Feignwell), and carried him, in his stage dress, before Justice Smith, at the Rotation-Office, St Bennet's-hill, who committed him to the House of Correction, for further examination this morning" (Morning Chronicle, 24 July). What happened to Russell is not known, but because of this occurrence the theatre did not re-open until the following season, on 25 May 1778. See my article on the history of this unlucky playhouse, Theatre Notebook, VIII, 76-80.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

2304
26 September 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Smith 1 night extra playing at Covent Garden [on 21 Sept.] #2 12s. 6d.; Lampmen #4 10s.; Supernumeraries #5 5s. [Afterpiece in place of The Padlock, announced on playbill of 24 Sept.] Receipts: #148 2s. 6d. (111.6.0; 36.12.0; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End I: comic dance, The Cow@keeper-Master Mills, Miss Grimaldi

Song: Afterpiece: As17780917; V: song-Miss Abrams

2305
24 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Brereton [of dl]; Cloten-Lee Lewes; Cymbeline-L'Estrange; Pisanio-Hull; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Wroughton; Arviragus-Whitfield; Caius Lucius-Fearon; Philario-Booth; Iachimo-[W.] Smith (of dl); Queen-Mrs Jackson; Imogen-Mrs Crawford [late Mrs Barry] (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).late Mrs Barry] (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: End III: As17780921

Song: II: Masquerade Scene, with Singing-Mrs Morton

2306
22 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Pierre-Crawford (1st appearance on any stage); Priuli-Hull; Renault-Clarke; Duke-Mahon; Bedamar-Whitfield; Spinosa-L'Estrange; Elliot-Fearon; Theodore-[R.] Smith; Officer-Booth; Jaffier-The Gentleman who performed Douglas [on 14 Jan.: Rundell]; Belvidera-Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2307
13 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Mainpiece: On account of the additional Airs, contracted into 3 Acts. The Music by Purcell, Smith, Arne & Fisher. [Wright is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. And see 8 May.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Condell, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden; of Evans, at Bromfield's, trunk-maker, No. 118, Long-acre; of Curteen, No. 11, Temple-lane, Whitefriars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois

2308
06 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Colles, Miss Abrams & Miss Kirby. Public Advertiser, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Colles at Smith's No. 10, Bow-street, the corner of Martlet Court, Covent Garden; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges Street, Covent Garden; of Miss Kirby at Andrews's, No. 70, Long Acre. Receipts: #203 7s. (28.1; 14.16; 1.11; tickets: 158.19) (charge: #90 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

2309
17 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Messink, Cushing, Wewitzer, Jones, Brunsdon, Smith, Ledger, Guard and Miss Green will be admitted. Receipts: #191 9s. 6d. (30.4.0; 2.7.6; tickets: 158.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: Dancing, as17800510

2310
06 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Hastings to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #225 15s. 6d. (187.5.0; 37.11.6; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

2311
02 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lord Townly Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17811029, but Holcroft in place of Suett; Mrs Smith in place of Mrs Booth .

2312
14 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Smith for Canvas #32 7s. 6d. Receipts: #148 8s. (116/9/0; 31/16/6:0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Lun's Ghost

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223; In Act III a Hornpipe by Blurton; In afterpiece, by the Miss Stageldoirs, &c

2313
25 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Minuet by Lemercier and Miss Stageldoir. With a Masquerade Dance

Song: Mainpiece: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c .

2314
19 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Young Bevil to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (106/19/0; 34/6/6; 0/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17820917

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Monologue: 1782 09 19 As 17 Sept

2315
12 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: Oliver-Dodd; Justice Clack-Waldron; Hilliard-Williames; Vincent-Staunton; Scentwell-Burton; Beggars-Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny; Mrs Love, Mrs Smith, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, Miss Simson, Miss Hale, Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell; Meriel-Miss Field; Rachel-Miss Phillips .

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

2316
22 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Mourning Bride [announced on playbill of 21 May] cannot be performed, on account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #216 11s. (198/0/0; 17/16/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

2317
23 February 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patriot

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wilkinson, Parker, Cross, Hunter, Miller, Powell, Shatford, Smith; Miss Watson Sen., Miss Forde, Miss Watson Jun., Miss Frederick, Miss Hemet. Cast not known. New Prologue [spoken by T. Davis] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Hemet] .

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

2318
16 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Zara [announced on playbill of 15 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #270 18s. (242/18/0; 27/7/6; 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2319
12 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: : Saint Valori Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: Oliver-Dodd; Justice Clack-Waldron; Hilliard-Williames; Vincent-Staunton; Scentwell-Burton; Beggars-Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer; Mrs Love, Mrs Smith, Mrs Booth, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Hale, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, &c.; Meriel-Miss Field; Rachel-Miss Phillips .

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch Dance [performers not listed]

2320
20 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron; or, Pantomimical Olio

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Clown-Grimaldi; Colombine-Miss M. Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, R. Palmer, Burton, Williames, Waldron, Staunton, Wrighten, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred; Mrs Booth, Miss Hale, Mrs Burnett, Miss Cranford, Miss Barnes, Mrs Heard, Miss Palmer, Mrs Smith, Miss Tidswell, Miss Burnett, Mrs Love. 1st Singing Witch-Chapman .

Dance: In afterpiece, by Mr and Miss Hamoir, Mills, Miss Stageldoir. [The dances were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

2321
04 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit [6 rows (Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.)] will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Orestes to Smith, but he "was indisposed . . . Throughout the whole [of his part] Kemble's skill was apparent. In the last scene he displayed as fine a picture of horror as was ever given from the stage" (Morning Chronicle, 6 Mar.).] Morning Herald, 24 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #293 11s. (122/17/0; 10/1/6; 1/2/6; tickets: 159/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

2322
07 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Heiress [announced on playbill of 6 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #99 14s. (80/12/0; 17/4/6; 1/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: As17851017

2323
24 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Nix, Mrs Hedges & Miss Barnes. [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "Smith having an inflammation in his eyes, and Aickin being suddenly laid up with the gout, the play was obliged to be changed [to] The Beggar's Opera" (Morning Herald, 25 May).] Morning Chronicle, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Nix, No. 21, Crown-court, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Hedges, No. 168, opposite New Bondstreet, Piccadilly; of Miss Barnes, at Cateman's, No. 52, Drury Lane. Receipts: #300 0s. 6d. (60/10/0; 19/13/6; 2/0/0; tickets: 217/17/0) (charge: #108 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17860502

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet, O sweet!; End of Act II Niddity Nod; End of Act IV a favourite Hunting Song, all three by Miss Barnes [the 3rd song omitted?, i.e. mainpiece has only 3 acts]

2324
01 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Tickets delivered by the young D'Egvilles, Jones, Newbold, Shaw, Dale, Purser Sen., Smith, Aberdein, Mills, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard, Miss Dancer, Miss Bradshaw, Mrs Haskey, will be admitted. Receipts: #241 8s. 6d. (23.4.0; 15.3.6; 0.15.0; tickets: 202.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End III: The Capricious Lovers-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet (1st appearance), Miss DeCamp; End: The Scheming Jockey and Fortune@Teller-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

2325
05 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Brady, Dale, the D'Egvilles, Jones, Lyons, Powell, Sherratt, Smith, Whittow, Mrs Heard, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Mills, Miss Palmer, Mrs Shaw] will be admitted. [Miss Davies's 1st appearance, billed as "A Young Lady," was at the hay, 28 July 1786.] Receipts: #279 12s. 6d. (16.1.0; 10.8.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 252.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End III: New Dance taken from the Favourite Comic Opera of Gli Schiavi par Amore (recte per)-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Comic Concert, in which will be introduced The Devonshire Reel, Jack Tar's Delight-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss D'Egville, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp