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1454 results for: Keyword - Gay
We found 1396 matches on Author, 130 matches on Event Comments, 11 matches on Performance Comments, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 7 matches on Performance Title.

1
10 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Opera. Written by the late Mr Gay. With New Habits and Scenes. Receipts: #207 11s. 6d. Daily Courant, 12 Feb.: Mr Pultney and Mr Pope were in the Pit....They were in the House before any body else was admitted. Sir William Windham was also present at this Performance; but notwithstanding the Countenance given to it, there was so much Obscenity and Scurrility in it, that it raised a general Abhorrence in the Audience. [See also The Bee, 17 Feb., for a puff concerning this performance and the play in general.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 lists; Lycomedes-Quin; Diphilus-Aston; Achilles-Salway; Ulysses-Chapman; Diomedes-Laguerre; Ajax-Hall; Periphas-Walker; Agyrtes-Leveridge; Thetis-Mrs Buchanan; Theaspe-Mrs Cantrell; Deidamia-Miss Norsa; Lesbia-Miss Binks; Philoe-Miss Oates; Artemona-Mrs Egleton; Prologue by Gay-Quin.
Cast
Role: Gay Actor: Quin.
Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

2
25 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Salway. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #68 14s.; tickets #90 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Cast
Role: Gay Actor: Quin.
Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Scottish Dance, as17330424 Grand Dance of Fawns, as17330423

Music: The celebrated Water Musick by Mr Handel-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Job Baker; accompany'd with Trumpets and French Horns-

3
25 April 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, the first time of his appearing on the stage since his misfortune, Hippisley, Walker, A. Hallam, Chapman, Neale, Mrs Horton, Miss Norsa, Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Templer, Miss Bincks, but edition of 1736 lists: Sir William Courtlove-Hippisley; Young Courtlove-Walker; Gay life-Hallam; Jerry-Chapman; Frank-Neale; Bellair-Ryan; Harriet-Mrs Horton; Fanny-Miss Bincks; Rose-Mrs Kilby; Jenny-Mrs Templer; Mrs Plyable-Mrs Martyn; Violetta-Mrs Buchanan; Lettice-Mrs Stevens; Widow Lettwell-Mrs Mullart. Prologue written by Aaron Hill and spoken by Mrs Buchanan. Epilogue written by the Author and spoken by Mrs Horton .
Cast
Role: Gay life Actor: Hallam

4
13 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Sisters of the deceas'd Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #153 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

5
19 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Sisters of the Deceas'd Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #165 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

6
24 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 9s. 6d. Benefit the Sisters of the deceased Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

7
12 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

Related Works
Related Work: The Wife of Bath Author(s): John Gay

8
23 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Gay.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

9
16 January 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay and others.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Three Hours After Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: Three Hours after Marriage Author(s): John Gay

10
15 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Captives Author(s): John Gay

11
21 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. See also A Letter to Mr John Gay on his Tragedy call'd The Captives (1724), by Elizabeth Harrison, who attended a performance during the initial run

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Captives Author(s): John Gay

12
29 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #169 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 247 paid and 3 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 7 paid; pit, 301 paid and 1 order; slips, 56 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 437 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 191 paid. For the first night, see Schultz, pp. 1-5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

13
12 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts. #170 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 306 paid and 2 orders; staoe, 46 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 263 paid and 2 orders; slips, 59 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 417 paid; second gallery, 180 paid. Daily Journal, 12 Feb.: The Beggar's Opera is continued acting...with the greatest Applause, and to an Audience as numerous as ever. And we are informed, That most of the Boxes are taken to the 25th Night. [See also Gay to the Earl of Oxford, 12 Feb., in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

14
15 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #162 8s.; tickets #13 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 204 by money and 54 by tickets; stage, 43 by money; balcony, 2 by money; pit, 269 by money; slips, 58 by money; first gallery, 424 by money; second gallery, 180 by money. [For the fortunes of the play, see Gay to Swift, 15 Feb. in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473-74.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

15
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

16
15 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Huddy. At the Particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Afterpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggars Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

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Dance:

17
27 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

18
16 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

19
16 December 1732 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #108 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: new French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; II: Comic Dance, as17321209

20
26 December 1732 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #93 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; II: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

21
03 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Dance:

22
12 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #179 3s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

23
14 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Woolley and Mrs James. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Afterpiece: By particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: HHornpipe-R. Jones , from gf

24
15 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #174 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

25
17 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #163 12s. [See Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 162-63.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay