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4263 results for: Keyword - J
We found 2783 matches on Roles/Actors, 876 matches on Performance Comments, 447 matches on Event Comments, 94 matches on Performance Title, and 12 matches on Author.

3976
15 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #269 15s. 6d. (268.15.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17770106, but Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17770308 .

3977
04 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A Trip to Scarborough [announced on playbill of 3 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Mrs Yates's Illness. Receipts: #210 11s. 6d. (180.5.0; 30.6.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770131.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17770308 .

Dance: As17770110

3978
14 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #157 14s. (131.13.0; 24.5.6; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770131.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17770308 .

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770104, but Mlle _Dupre, Sga +Ricci; In IV: +The Chaconne, as17770405

3979
25 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter & Butler. Tickets delivered by Mrs Veal will be taken. Receipts: #299 8s. (39.3; 3.18; 0.0; tickets: 256.7) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770131, but Chorus of Spirits-_Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17770129.

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; IV: +Grand Dance i.e. The Chaconne, as17770405

Performance Comment: e. The Chaconne, as17770405.

3980
02 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Booth, Miss Armstrong & Everard [who are named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #114 4s. (46.10; 10.8; 1.11; tickets: 55.15) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770425, but Ferdinand-Davies.

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17770501. Prologue as17770501.

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; In IV: Grand Dance, as17770425; The Court Minuet, as17770403; Allemande, as17770403

3981
07 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #219 15s. 6d. (204.16.0; 13.17.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770502.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17770405.

Dance: As17770110

3982
19 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant, box-book keeper. Tickets delivered for Monday the 12th will be received. Receipts: #253 17s. (67.16; tickets: 186.1) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770213.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17770513.

3983
21 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Receipts: #295 4s. 6d. (68.8.6; tickets: 226.16.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17770315but Lucy (1pt time)-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love (of dl).

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Performance Comment: As17770515.

3984
30 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Carleton Sen. & Walton. Tickets delivered by Page, Barthrope and Whittey will be admitted. Receipts: #235 4s. (20.1; 3.18; 0.0; tickets: 211.5) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770425, but Gonzalez-Grist.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17761214.

Dance: In IV: The Triumph of Love, as17761107; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

3985
17 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. The Out-standing Tickets of Mr Jewell [from his benefit on 3 Sept.], and those issued for King Richard III will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; Mat o' th' Mint-Griffiths; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Miss Hale; Mrs Peachum, Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs W. Palmer; Polly-Mrs Jewell.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Jackson [Public Advertiser: Massey]; Bruin-Griffiths; Heel@tap-T. Davis; Jerry Sneak-Parsons; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Burden (1st appearance in London these 8 years).

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: New Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Hutton

3986
20 September 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Storm Scene will (by desire) begin the 2d Act. [This notice is included in all subsequent performances.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Money to be taken at the Stage-Door, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for the Boxes to be had of Fosbrook, at the Stage-Door. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 9 Oct.]. Receipts: #183 4s. (154.2; 27.16; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Packer; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannister; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Davies; Ariel-Miss Field; Miranda-Mrs Cuyler; Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: Sir Gilbert Pumpkin-Baddeley; Charles Stanley-Farren; Harry Stukely-Barrett; Diggery-Parsons; Miss Kitty Sprightly-Miss Hopkins; Miss Bridget Pumpkin-Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits-Miss Armstrong; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.] V: a Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by Gallet, The Double Festival-Gallet, Slingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre

Performance Comment: ] V: a Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by Gallet, The Double Festival-Gallet, Slingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre.

3987
06 October 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Digges. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Morning Post, 7 Oct.: Digges, far advanced in the autumn of his life, wanted that fire which is so indispensable to Macheath. His dress was beyond measure ridiculous, and his songs...discordant and tedious. [His 1st appearance as Macheath was at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 10 Oct. 1752.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Digges (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Peachum-Moody; Lockit-Edwin; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Bradley (1st appearance on this stage); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love (of dl); Polly-Miss Jarratt.

Afterpiece Title: A Farce and Entertainments

Performance Comment: Not specified.

3988
17 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: New Scene [1st time; by Edward Thompson, with music by Dr Arne. Larpent MS 438; synopsis ("Macheath, after trial, is sentenced to work on the Thames" in London Chronicle, 18 Oct.]. Paid Hull on Acct. of salary as Acting Manager #30. Account-Book, 23 Mar. 1778: Paid Capt. Thompson for writing the new Scene in The Beggar's Opera #25. Receipts: #240 9s. (240.2.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath (with additional songs)-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in that character); Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Baker; Lucy-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Polly-Miss Brown; To conclude with a New Scene-. [This was included in all subsequent performances, although notice of it is omitted from the playbills of 8 and 15 Dec., 2 and 14 May 1778.]This was included in all subsequent performances, although notice of it is omitted from the playbills of 8 and 15 Dec., 2 and 14 May 1778.]

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: As17770924.

Dance: End: As17771008; III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford

3989
20 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Some of the Audience having objected to the Omission of a Scene on Friday night, that Scene will be restored this Evening. [Public Advertiser, 18 Oct., specifies the scene as that of Diana Trapes in Act III, the exclusion of whom "breaks a principal Link in the Chain of the Plot."] Paid Guard [master carpenter] for Scene-men #19 15s. Receipts: #287 16s. (286.8; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771017, but Diana Trapes-Mrs White.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performance Comment: Grub-Wilson; Chapeau-Lee Lewes; George Bevil-Whitfield; Consol-Jones; Robin-Wewitzer; H. Bevil-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs Green.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771001

3990
22 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #246 15s. (246.2; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020.

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Performance Comment: As17771021.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771021

Song: As17771021

3991
24 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Land Tax one-half year on Theatre #52 10s.; Tax on Window Lights #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #171 11s. 6d. (171.3.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020, but Peachum-Moody (of dl).

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17770929.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771008

3992
27 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #259 7s. 6d. (258.17.0; 0.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020, but Peachum (1st time)-Booth.

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Performance Comment: As17771023, but Fearon's name listed in playbill.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771021

3993
31 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 15s. 6d. (168.4.0; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020.

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Performance Comment: As17771027, but song-Miss Dayes.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017

3994
03 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 18s. (167.15.6; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020.

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: Patrick's Day. Lieut. O'Connor (1st time)-Mahon; Justice Credulous-Lee Lewes; Doctor Rosy-Quick; Serjeant Trounce-Dunstall; Bridget-Mrs Pitt; Lauretta-Miss Brown; song-Miss Brown.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: La Soiree a@la@Mode-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Sga Tinte

3995
08 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 6 May 1776]. With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley Sen?.. Public Advertiser, 10 Nov.: "Jenny Diver forgot her song...and continued inflexibly silent till a Wag behind the Scenes assumed her Voice, and sung the Song for her"; ibid, 15 Nov., identifies this wag as Bannister, who sang "in a feigned voice." [Webster was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (167.2.0; 24.16.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Macheath-Webster (1st appearance upon this stage); Peachum-Moody; Lockit (1st time)-Baddeley; Filch-Parsons; Player-Farren; Beggar-Waldron; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Johnston; Jenny Diver-Mrs Davies; Polly-Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17770930.

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Blurton. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

3996
11 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Baddeley as Polly, but she "being indisposed Miss Walpole played the part of Polly on Tuesday night' (London Chronicle, 12 Nov.).] Paid Chettell, timber merchant, #286 13s. Receipts: #135 15s. 6d. (118.10.0; 16.18.6; 0.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771108, but Polly-Miss Walpole.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: As17771110.

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771107, but Master _Holland, Henry

3997
12 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 6s. 6d. (183.3.6; 1.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771020.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Racket-Lewis; Lovelace-Booth; Woodley-Thompson; Drugget-Quick; Dimity-Mrs Green; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Pitt; Nancy-Miss Dayes; Lady Racket-Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771111

3998
14 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 18 Mar. 1776]. Receipts: #116 13s. 6d. (91.18.0; 22.15.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770920, but Prospero-Bensley.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Servant-Dodd; Lord Duke-Palmer; Philip-Baddeley; Robert-Griffiths; Tom-Kear; Freeman-Farren; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Davies; Lady Bab-Mrs Johnston; Kitty (with a song)-Miss Pope.

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002 II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.]

3999
17 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 1s. 6d. (144.12.0; 25.9.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771111, but Miss Walpole's name listed in playbill.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17771031.

Dance: As17771111

4000
25 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 11s. (101.8.0; 25.13.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17771117.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17771002.

Dance: End II: New Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong