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5228 results for: Keyword - George Granville
We found 4195 matches on Author, 655 matches on Performance Comments, 590 matches on Event Comments, 175 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
16 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Receipts: #148 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #140 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

152
21 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Receipts: #133 15s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

153
03 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Receeipts: #73 15s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

154
21 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by George, Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

155
03 February 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Never perform'd there before. Tis hop'd no Gentleman will take it ill if they are not admitted behind the Scenes, it being impossible to go through the Performance, if the Passages are not kept clear. Tickets at 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. [prices repeated for the run of this play]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Dance: As17420115

156
07 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. Perform'd to a very numerous and crowded Audience. (Daily Advertiser, 8 Oct.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Song: I: Songs-Beard

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: II: Peasant Dance, as17420921; IV: Tyrolean Dance, as17420921

157
06 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never acted there before [i.e., by this company]. Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. Mr Bayes' Troops have been on their March for some Days past from their last Encampment in Goodman's Fields; they march'd in good Order through the City without Beat of Drum, and were received at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they have now pitch'd their Tents with great Acclamations of Joy by the Populace. We hear they will be re-enforced by some Auxiliaries from Covent-Garden; and we can assure the Publick, there will certainly be a Battle of Monday next, so the Report of their going quietly into Winter Quarters without coming to Action, proves a groundless Tale, and was merely calculated to serve some private Ends. Daily Advertiser, 4 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Comic Ballet, as17421203; III: Welsh Boufon, as17421203; IV: Comic Ballet, as17421203; II: La Sabotier-M LaPierre

Ballet: The facetious Grand Dance by the whole Company. Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-

158
24 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berkley, Bride, Pritchard, Saunders, and Keisher. Tickets for Lawley, Lathbury, George will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

159
13 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [see 29 March 1742]. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the play. Also the Additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new Rais'd Troops

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

160
25 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: ctually no play. Death of George II closed theatres three weeks.] Mainpiece: Not acted in 2 years. [See 28 April 1759. There was no income this night, but the play list had to be met. The house carried a profitable balance of #318 16s. 5d. The payroll plus other expenses came to #284 12s. 9d., leaving a thin balance of #34 3s. 8d. (Account Book). Other bills included #14 17s. to Luppino for making dancing dresses; Robertson 10s. for attendance four nights in The Rape; Miss Ibbott #5 5s. for performing the part of Queen Elizabeth in the Earl of Essex; Marenesi and wife advanced weekly #2 2s. till the Theatre opened again (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Related Works
Related Work: The Recruiting Officer Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17601015; III: A Comic Dance not perform'd these 5 years call'd The Colliers-Sg Marenesi, Mlle Capdevlle

161
31 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid half year's rent to the Marquis of Tavistock, due Michelmas last #150 4s. 7d.; Paid George Garrick for use of the managers #21; Paid Mr Barry on his note #30 Mr (Fauxhall acct) #1 1s. Rec'd stopages #3 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #259 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

162
22 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiec : A New Burletta [by George Colman]. The Characters New Dress'd. The Music entirely New composed by Mr Arnold. Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. [Books sold at each subsequent performance this season. See Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No. XII, p. 593) for comment on the afterpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

163
25 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Miss Sherry made her first appearance upon this Stage in Lady Macbeth, a Sensible Speaker pretty good voice Short Clumsy Figure met with Applause--The Farce very well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Afterpiece: A Farce by George Downing. Paid 6 day's salary at #82 19s. 9d., #497 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington on Cloaths acct, #2; Mr S. French 6 days #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #135 1s. 6d. Charges: #68 12s. Profits to Baddeley: #66 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of the Turf

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of the Turf Author(s): George Downing

Dance: End: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

164
17 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Altered from Milton [by George Colman]. Books of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #181 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

165
29 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy (never performed) [by George Colman]. Paid Miller for performing 11 nights in The Sylphs #2 15s. Paid Mr Anderson for 2 suits of women's cloaths #21 (Account Book). [The mainpiece received a scourging review in the Westminster Magazine for Feb. 1774. Gibbon attended, "We dined at the Shakespeare and went in a body to support it....Though we got a verdict for our client his cause was but a bad one. It is a very confused miscellany of several plays and tales" (John Hampden@Journal, p. 18).] Receipts: #258 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Business Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

166
01 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Baddeley who play'd the Lady in Comus got out of the Enchanted Seat before her time & made a great Laugh the Farce was much hiss'd at the End (Hopkins Diary). [The Masque (never performed there) is the version reduced to two Acts by George Colman.] Benefit for Cautherly. Paid Mr J. Aickin in part of #60 in lieu of Benefit (remiting #10 to his credit) #50. Receipts: #197 11s. 6d. Charges: #68 17s. Profits to Cautherly: #128 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: I: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

167
19 June 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; BO 3]: Being the Sequel to The Beggar's Opera, Written by Gay, with Alterations [by George Colman elder; the overture (a compilation of airs from The Beggar's Opera) and 6 new airs by Samuel Arnold]. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Colles is identified on playbill of 9 July.] Public Advertiser, 20 June: This Day is published Polly (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: Polly Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End I: a Dance of Pirates-(see17770611; III: Dance of Indians- (see17770611. [These were danced in all subsequent performance.

168
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

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

169
30 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman elder, based on Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; music by Samuel Arnold and, by attribution, Pierre Alexandre Monsigny. Prologue by the author (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, II, 209). Epilogue by David Garrick (Garrick's Poetical Works, II, 340). Larpent MS 436; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Dance-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

170
18 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Artful Wife, by William? Taverner. [1st time; C 3, by George Colman elder. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 20 May. Public Advertiser, 19 May, notes that the Prologue was the same as that spoken on 15 May 1777. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Servants to keep Places are to be at the door in Suffolk-street by Five o'clock. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. On account of the Performers employed at other Theatres the second Night of Representation cannot be till Thursday, the 21st inst. [On this night, the 18th, Baddeley's name is in the playbills at both dl and hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Chevalier Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses-(see17780529); End: Provencalle Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

171
11 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 8th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season. Prologue by George Colman elder. Epilogue by David Garrick (see 30 Aug. 1777)]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman; or, The First of August

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses, as17780518; End: Provencalle Dance, as17780518

Song: Mainpiece: some additional songs-

Music: Mainpiece: With a new Fandango Overture-

172
11 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; c 4, by George Colman elder. Prologue by the author (Prose on Several Occasions, III, 244). Epilogue by David Garrick (Poetical Works, II, 351). Larpent MS 450; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 11 July Postcript; not published]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Related Works
Related Work: The Suicide Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

173
30 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 150 years [acted 31 Jan. 1723]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher [with alterations by George Colman elder. Prologue by David Garrick (Poetical Works, II, 354)]. The Musick by Purcell. New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 30 July 1778: This Afternoon at five is published Bonduca (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Related Works
Related Work: Bonduca; or, The British Worthy Author(s): George Powell
Related Work: Bonduca Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

174
10 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Flitch of Bacon [announced on playbill of 9 June] is obliged to be deferred. [Mainpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Related Works
Related Work: The Suicide Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: The Country Wake, as17790609

175
31 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 4, by George Colman elder. Prologue by the author (Morning Chronicle, 13 Oct.). Scenery by Rooker (ibid. 1 Sept.). Larpent MS 490; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1779, pp. 405-7]. "The first three acts want business, and the denouement is rather suddenly brought about...The greatness of the task of performing a character of which Mrs Abington had been announced as the intended representative seemed to inspire [Miss Farren] with additional zeal, and helped her to gain additional credit" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17790818