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1918 results for: Keyword - Frances Street
We found 1434 matches on Event Comments, 288 matches on Author, 203 matches on Performance Comments, 88 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1776
21 April 1796 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mme Hilligsberg, No. 10, St. Alban's-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Modista Raggiratrice

Dance: Between Acts: a new Dance in the Scotch style, Little Peggy's Love (1st time)-Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Bossi, Mlle Barre, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg [the Pantomime and Principal Steps by Didelot [with music by Bossi]; End Opera: L'Amant Statue (1st time, by Onorati) [with music by Bossi]-Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Bossi, Mlle Barre, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg [dl playbill of 25 May adds: Mme Vidi]

1777
25 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Oracle, II Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #658 19s. 6d. (319.0.0; 46.8.0; 1.17.0; tickets: 284.4.0; odd money: 7.10.6) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession- to the Monument of the Capulets; with a Dirge-by Linley? Sen. Vocal PartsBannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Master Welsh, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp

1778
29 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

1779
29 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowden. Account-Book: Received from Campbell for Fruit Rent #200. Oracle, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bowden, No. 6, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #274 7s. 6d. (122.1.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 144.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Song: End I: The Storm-Incledon; End: a Grand Harmonic Selection, Admiral Benbow-Incledon; The Sailor Boy cap'ring on Shore-Fawcett; O bring me wine-Bowden; The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone; The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden; Old Towler-Incledon

1780
02 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons, and the Last Night of her Engagement [see 6 and 16 May]. Mainpiece: Never acted here [1st acted at Bath, 1 Jan. 1788, as Such Things Were. Prologue by Richard Graves (Public Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1788)]. Oracle, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #590 14s. (292.16.0; 51.13.0; 4.10.0; tickets: 235.6.6; odd money: 6.8.6) (charge: #213 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, Such Things Were

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1781
05 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. 2nd piece: Written by David Garrick, Esq. Morning Herald, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, No. 63, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #367 8s. 6d. (127.15.0; 62.1.0; 9.17.6; tickets: 167.8.0; odd money: 0.7.0) (charge: #210 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: A Much Admired Scene from Harlequin's Invasion

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages, as17960429

1782
06 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley, being the Last Time of his Appearing on the Stage. Bensley's defects (chiefly Nature's) were to a stranger disgusting, but on a further acquaintance, hi merit (all his own) not only gained favour, but covered all his faults" (Monthly Magazine, May 1796, p. 320). Morning Herald, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #595 9s. (271.2; 63.14; 6.2; tickets: 250.10; odd money: 4.1) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

1783
09 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square. Receipts: #402 7s. (197.11.6; 62.19.6; 0.16.0; tickets: 141.0.0) (charge: #261 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

1784
10 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. [Philipps is identified in Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1796, p. 315. As Mrs Plomer Sga Salvini had 1st appeared at the hay, 12 June 1788.] Afterpaece [1st time; MF 2, author unknown. Larpent MS 1131; not published]: The Music and Overture by Spofforth. Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mountain, No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #380 18s. 6d. (150.7.6; 5.16.0; 224.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls

Dance: In: The Spanish Fandango-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand; II afterpiece: The Humours of a Country Fair-Holland, Platt, Bayzand, Cranfield, Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Smyth, Mrs Watts

Song: End: Sally in our Alley-Incledon

1785
11 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Welsh. [2nd piece in place of The Sultan, advertised on playbill of 10 May. Medley is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] "A riot took place this evening, occasioned by the performance of Skirmish by a new actor. This person, wanting every quality requisite for the stage, performed so very much to the dissatisfaction of the audience, that the piece was mutilated in such a manner that for some time it was insisted on that the whole should be repeated more perfectly and by another actor. This being impossible, some mischief was threatened, but after a short time the disturbance ceased" (European Magazine, June 1796, p. 396). Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Master Welsh, No. 9, St. Margaret-street, Westminster. Receipts: #292 4s. (84.11.6; 47.15.6; 12.14.0; tickets: 146.19.6; odd money: 0.3.6). (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Smugglers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End: the favourite duett from Sampson, My Faith and Truth-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; End 2nd piece: Listen to the Voice of Love (composed by Hook)-Master Welsh

1786
12 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. "If we make allowances for embarrassment and imperfect study, the performance of Mrs Powell was by no means indifferent" (Monthly Mirror, May 1796, p. 50). Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Morning Herald, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 22, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #466 11s. 6d. (189.3.6; 53.1.6; 4.14.6; tickets: 216.15.0) (charge: #212)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

1787
13 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Leak. 1st piece: Never performed here. The Musick selected, with new Accompaniments and a Scottish Overture, by Dr Arnold. [Miss Andrews is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Leak, Upper Mews Gate, Castle-street, Leicester-square. Receipts: #155 11s. 6d. (84.2.0; 66.10.0; 0.17.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 4.2.6) (charge: #213 0s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

Afterpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: In: Thro the Wood Laddie-Miss Leak; In Masquerade Scene 2nd piece: Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

1788
17 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Middleton. Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Middleton, No. 20, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #287 12s. (144.18.6; 2.15.0; tickets: 139.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Dance: In I: Grand Masquerade-; with the Minuet de la Cour and Allemande, as17950921

Song: End IV: Elegy-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts, as17950921, but Miss _Stuart, Miss _Kirton; After entertainment: Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314but _Bowden; Old Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: End: Monsieur Tonson, as17960426; After which Recitation and Music, as performed last Season with universal Applause at Freemason's Hall, in which Errors of the Press-Holman; Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Middleton; The Story of the Dog (written by Whitehead)-Pope

1789
18 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. 3rd piece: To conclude as 15 Apr. Morning Herald, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 13, King-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #238 4s. (100.15; 15.4; tickets: 122.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui

Dance: In 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In 3rd piece: songs As17960503; In Evening: Mad Bess (1st time), the Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] [from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; Harp-Weippert

1790
21 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #188 6s. 6d. (120.9.6; 61.1.0; 2.17.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 3.18.6) (charge: #218 11s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

1791
23 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble, being the last Time of her Appearing on the Stage. 1st piece [1st time; T 2, by John Philip Kemble, altered from the same by Philip Massinger. Larpent MS 1040: not published]: In Act I the Triumphal Entry of Domitian into the Capitolv. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble, altered from The Comical Lovers, by John Dryden and Colley Cibber. Larpent MS 1133: not published. Genest, VII, 243: C. Kemble on being asked, in 1821, if the above cast was right, said that he believed it was, but that he was ill and did not act]. [Address by Bertie Greatheed (European Magazine, June 1796, p. 397).] Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 13, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. Account-Book: Paid H. S. Hargraves, Box No. 95, his Servant being turn'd out by Force, #1 4s. Receipts: #190 9s. 6d. (130.9.0; 59.10.0; 0.10.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 0.0.6) (charge: #216 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Actor

Afterpiece Title: Celadon and Florimel; or, The Happy Counterplot

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Entertainment: Monologue.End 2nd piece: an Address-Mrs Kemble on the Occasion of her Retiring from the Stage

1792
02 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer and Russell. [Palmer's 1st recorded appearance as Hamlet was at Canterbury, 16 Feb. 1780.] Morning Herald, 31 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 28, Eaton-street, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 250, High Holborn. Receipts: #157 18s. (110.16; 43.10.6; 1.19.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 1.12.6) (charge: #212 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

1793
03 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red-lion-square. Receipts: #148 10s. 6d. (81.10.0; 57.6.6; 2.3.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 7.11.0) (charge: #214 1s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Song: End II: The Little Waist- (composed by Hook); End IV: The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

1794
06 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Lloyd, W. Bayzand, Timkins (box-keeper), Street, Barnes, Morris, Rye, Dosel, Wells, King, Timkins (carpenter), Thompson (near Stage), Coates, Roberts, Thompson, (gallery door-keeper) will be admitted.] Receipts: #419 1s. (38.16; after-money: not listed; tickets: 380.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick

Dance: End: a Scotch Reel-Bayzand, King, Mlle St.Amand

1795
07 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Caulfield, Phillimore & Johnston. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 5 years. To conclude with a superb Prospect of the Infernal Regions, and a Rain of Fire. Morning Herald, 4 June: Tickets to be had of Caulfield, No. 2, William-street, Adelphi [others not listed]. Receipts: #122 17s. (55.17.0; 51.16.6; 5.9.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 9.14.0) (charge: #211 8s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Old Straw

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

1796
30 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer [whose 1st recorded appearance as King Richard was at Canterbury, 8 Mar. 1780]. Morning Herald, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare; Or, Humours And Passions

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge; or, A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

1797
05 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Morning Herald, 30 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Monologue: In which will be introduced The Burletta of Orpheus. Orpheus-Davies; Old Shepherd-Fawcett; Rhodope-Mrs Bland

1798
07 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Elliston. Mainpiece: The Play will be dressed in characteristick Habits. Morning Herald, 3 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Elliston, No. 3, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Dance: I: a Masquerade Scene, in which a Pas Russe-Master and Miss Menage

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession to the Monument of the Capulets, with a Solemn Dirge-

1799
09 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Herald, 1 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

1800
16 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Authority of the Most Noble for Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 4, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End 2nd piece: Pas Russe, as17960907

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Palmer