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We found 1898 matches on Author, 1142 matches on Roles/Actors, 289 matches on Performance Comments, 157 matches on Event Comments, and 22 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Performance Comment: See17581218, but for the only time, by desire of several persons of Quality, Mr Foote's Characters of Lady Pentweazle, and Mrs Puzzle, the Instructor, with Additions by Mr Wilkinson, (in the manner of the Original) in which he will introduce a Mock Italian Burletta-; Carmine-Mrs Packer; Ald Pentweazle-Philips; Caleb-Ackman; Manly-Burton; Crambo-Perry; Freelove-Holland.
Related Works
Related Work: The Diversions of a Morning; or, A Dish of Chocolate Author(s): Samuel Foote
Related Work: The Diversions of a Morning Author(s): Samuel Foote

Dance: NNew Grand Dance, as17590509

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: As17600429 *uòdl SSpecialty. Foote's Prologue to The Author, spoken in the manner of the Original-Wilkinson; and, By Particular Desire, the Scene between Lady Pentweazel and Mr Carmine , from the Comedy of Taste-; Lady Pentweazle-Wilkinson; Carmine-Packer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Minor

Performance Comment: the company who performed with Foote at the Haymarket.

Song: Several New Comic Songs-

Dance: The Dances-the same performers who were with Mr Shuter at Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: By Authority. 7 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. The little Theatre was at this time enlargening, it being very small before the alteration, and having but one gallery with the way into the pit at each angle of the front boxes (Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Foote, Esq. [London, 1777]. Printed for J. Brew)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Event Comment: Benefit for Capitani, now in the King's Bench, singer in the Opera for 20 years past. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at 7 p.m. [A long note hn the Public Advertiser about the nature of Capitani's distresses--death of wife after an expensive illness loss of considerable sums in trade, now in debtor's prison. The Public Advertiser this day Published the following Sonnet V, seemingly a new sort of puff' for Foote]: @To Mr F-@While party rage, my F., distracts the state@And mutual lies contending parties raise,@As int'rest leads, or Pitt or Bute to praise,@Let vet'ran Tories with staunch Whigs debate.@With gen'rous Punch our spirits we'll dilate,@Laugh at those loud-tongued politicians' frays,@And to good Brookman's fame attune our lays,@Whose genial bowl all cares can dissipate.@Safely to Harrogate let Bute retire,@His gout at Hayes lett Pitt in quiet nurse,@And Wilkes at either Secretary rail:@These party feuds unsocial rage inspire,@Destroy all mirth, and all good humour curse,@But shall not o'er our joyous souls prevail.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Dance: Miss Capitani, Master Rogers

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 14 years. Miss Pitt's second appearance as an actress. [N.B. The celebrated Mr Foote is in a Fair way of Recovery (Public Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: Author's Night. [Two more epigrams on Foote appeared in the St James Chronicle.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Event Comment: SSamuel Foote is arrived in Dublin, engag'd by Mossop (London Evening Post)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: LLalauze stated he had been 42 years an inhabitant of this country,--retained by Rich 32 years, who promis'd him an annuity of #50 a year whenever he was incapable of performing. This was not in his Will but the Executors allowed it him 3 years. Having sold the property they discontinued it; The new parties engag'd him last year but they would not this season. So Foote gave him the House of 14 Feb. at Haymarket gratis (Winston MS 10). Paid Henry Williams for performing the Bells 4 nights #1 10s. Paid Wm Gard 4 nights in the Lyon 10s.--and Thos Singleton for same 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, [The Dutch Milk Maid] as17691111

Event Comment: Conductor-Dr Arne. The Theatre thoroughly aired a week before the performance. Music of the Interlude composed by Arne. [Advertized as "Mr Foote's Theatre in the Haymarket."] At the Instance of several persons of Quality, by permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Society at the Thatched House, St James's St. Pit and Boxes 5s. First gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7 p.m. Books of all Catches and Glees and Capochio and Dorinna to be had at the Theatre for 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Catches And Glees

Afterpiece Title: Capochio and Dorinna

Music: After Interlude: Concerto on Violin-Barthelemon. *u¶Ãhay Between the acts: an Interlude. Parts-Mas. Brown, Miss Weller

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is Drawn up. Places for the boxes to be had (only) of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door. The Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Vivant Rex & Regina! [Customary note for each bill. Only significant changes will be further noted. The company was weakened by the loss of Woodward (see 23 Oct.) who accompanied Foote to Edinburgh, and of Mrs Bellamy who was not engaged. Miss Catley, however, returned from Ireland after an absence of 9 years. And Ross returned after four years.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Burton, Miss Besford. [See17691111.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 31 Dec. 1768.] Afterpiece: A Musical Entertainment [by Isaac Bickerstaffe] never acted there. [Letter from Henry Woodward, Clement's Inn, says he fulfilled his seven years engagement and is now going to Scotland with Foote and next to the Hay Market. No direct application was made to re-engage him at Covent Garden or he was ready to meet it (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, as17701017

Event Comment: Positively the last night but one of Mr Foote's company performing this season. By permission of the Lord Chamberlain. A new mock Tragedy of three Acts. Tickets delivered out by Davis and Griffiths will be taken. Twenty box Tickets for the above mock Tragedy being taken out of a lady's pocket at Marybone 27 Aug., those sold at the doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. About this time papers say inside of Foote's theatre with Dressing Room Green Room &c. is entirely pulled down to enlarge the stage which is to be nearly twice the size it was. Woodward is to exhibit two new pantomimes next summer. (Winston MS 10). Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). [Treasurer's Book also indicates that this night #30 4s. of Orders were given out.] Paid 2 Clarinets 6 nights (18th incl.) #9 9s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #173 2s. 6d. Ordinary charges #84. Extra for Invasion #10 10s. Profit for Author #78 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: [Maria Macklin in a MS letter to her father this date (See dl 1 Feb. 73) complains that Elfrida alone drew houses at cg this season, and that even that play failed to fill the galleries; that Colman was difficult to see; that Younger carried on all the business of the theatre, everyone kowtowing to him: "Savigny has been discharged from the theatre; Ross has been laid up all the winter with the Gout, and has lately played Lear to a thin house. The Town is big with expectation of Foote's Puppet Show."] Receipts: #166 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy [by Oliver Goldsmith] never perform'd. [Carried in the Account Book under its secondary title. A long and grudgingly favorable review appeared in the Westminster Magazine: On the whole the Comedy has many excellent qualities: though we cannot venture to recommend it as a pattern for imitation. Still attached to the laudable intent of it, we wish it may keep possession of the stage till a better comedy comes to relieve it." There follows a long account of Foote's Puppet Show.] Receipts: #234 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Dance: After the Interlude: The Whim, as17730426

Monologue: 1773 5 8 End of Play: Interlude. An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis

Performance Comment: An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis.
Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Garrick's last time of performing Ranger (playbill). Rec'd Sga Paccini's Debt in full #75; Condell's 3rd payment: Fruit Office #20. Paid Blandford, Chandler's bill (after deduction) in full #14 12s. 2d.; Balance of Mad. Paccini and Martini's acct. in full #6 10s.; Bensley in full; Everard's debt and costs #5 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [Publish'd this month, Garrick's Looking Glass; or, the Art of Rising on the Stage. Price 2s. 6d. Printed for T. Evans By S. J. Pratt. Informative on most stage fundamentals. A poem in three cantos. Publish'd in July, A Lecture on Mimicry, as it was deliver'd with great applause at the Theatres in Covent Garden and the Haymarket, and the Great Room in Panton St. In the course of which were introduced a great variety of theatrical Imitations, to which is added Jerry Sneak 's return from the regatta and a Lecture upon Lectures. By G. S. Carey. Price 1s. @"I'll...on myself depend.@Inever yet found manager my friend.@By you supported boldly I'll oppose@My mimic powers against a host of foes.' Foote, Barry, and toothless Macklin, singers and dancers.] Receipts: #226 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: I: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Marriage a la Mode [i

Song: II: the grand chorus, See the conquering Hero comes-; Between Acts: Singing, as17760925

Entertainment: Monologue.The Painter's Art-[from Taste, by Samuel Foote]; Lady Pentweazle-Master Russell

Performance Comment: The Painter's Art-[from Taste, by Samuel Foote]; Lady Pentweazle-Master Russell.
Event Comment: [This was Mrs Hitchcock's 1st appearance in London. Miss Farren was from the Manchester theatre. Miss Twist is identified in playbill of 14 July.] Because of Foote's acting scarcely anything but his own plays "a relaxation of discipline has been fallen into at the Haymarket... The audience last night, however, were not less surprized than pleased at the very regular manner in which the Comedy and the Burletta were exhibited. All the business of the stage perfect, all the little parts smoothly given, and the whole rather superior than inferior to a performance at either of the Winter Theatres" (Morning Chronicle, 10 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: The Minor and The Author [both announced on playbill of 15 July] are obliged to be deferred on account of Foote's Illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17770707

Event Comment: The Devil upon Two Sticks [announced in Public Advertiser, 5 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Foote

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Dance: As17770707

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Buxom Joan

Afterpiece Title: Much Ado about Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: As17800107, but Prologue written by Samuel Foote, Esq.,-Master Edwin (1st appearance on that stage).

Song: End: Moderation and Alteration-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash, Holcroft & Norris. 2nd piece: Taken from Foote's Devil Upon Two Sticks. 3rd piece: To conclude with a grand representation of a Regattav. Tickets delivered by Shade and Mrs Pulley will be taken. Receipts: #190 4s. 6d. (27.9.0; 18.6.6; 1.18.0; tickets: 142.11.0) (charge: #92 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Dr Last's Examination Before the College Of Physicians

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman