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2740 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.

1426
13 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Performance Comment: As 11 Mar. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17820316athi .

Dance: As17811219

Performance Comment: hathi.

1427
18 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #149 16s. 6d. (147/10/6; 2/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: As17811212 .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17820316athi .

1428
01 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. Morning Herald, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr at her house, No. 35, Devonshire-street, Queen-square. Tickets delivered for Lionel and Clarissa will be admitted. Receipts: #209 10s. 6d. (105/13/6; tickets: 103/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: As17820129, but King-Hull; Lady Percy-Mrs Lewis .

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17820430.

Dance: End of mainpiece St. David's Day, as17820427

Performance Comment: David's Day, as17820427.

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Cease, gay Seducers; End of Act III Tally Ho, both by Mrs Martyr

Performance Comment: hathi.

1429
14 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Retaliation [announced on playbill of 13 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Quick's and Edwin's Illness. Receipts: #182 5s. 6d. (179/18/0; 2/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: As17811212 .

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: As17820511, but J. Wilson in place of Delpini, Jones in place of Doyle; omitted: J. Wilson from his original part .

1430
25 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. Receipts: #238 0s. 6d. (35/18/6; tickets: 202/2/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: As17820416, but Lady Froth-Mrs Whitfield (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17810921, but Lovelace-Booth; Dimity (1st time)-Mrs Lewis; Nancy-Mrs Whitfield .

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a New Quadrille, also The Belle of the Village, as17811101; End of Act IV The Devonshire Minuet and a New Rondeau by Holloway and Miss Besford; End of mainpiece, as17811219

Performance Comment: hathi.

1431
27 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Mrs Bellamy [Account-Book adds Stevens] for a Comedy will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #137 16s. (122/15; 4/3; tickets: 10/18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17811217, but Hecate-Davies; 3rd Witch-Stevens .

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Performance Comment: As17820116.

Song: As17811217, but added: Davies; omitted: Reinhold, Doyle

Performance Comment: hathi.

1432
19 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Wood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17820916, but Sir William Meadows-Webb; Luanda (1st time)-Miss Francis; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Webb; Rosetta-Miss Morris .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performance Comment: As17820918.

Dance: As17820826

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: As17820918

Performance Comment: hathi.

1433
20 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: . As17820914, but Mrs Wilson in place of Mrs Wells; Miss Morris of Miss Harper .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performance Comment: As17820918.

Dance: As17820826

Performance Comment: hathi.

1434
11 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 (163/11; 4/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Performance Comment: As17821004.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: As17820927, but Ghost-Darley .

Dance: As17821009

Performance Comment: hathi.

1435
15 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Performance Comment: As17821004.

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: Patrick's Day. Lieutenant O'Conner-Mahon; Justice Credulous-Lee Lewes; Doctor Rosy-Wewitzer; Serjeant Trounce-Booth; Blacksmith-Fearon; Corporal Flint-Webb; Bridget-Mrs Pitt; Lauretta (with a song)-Mrs Morton .

Dance: As17821009

Performance Comment: hathi.

1436
26 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #187 9s. 6d. (182/2/0; 5/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Performance Comment: As 8 Oct. but added: Mrs Johnson-Miss Platt .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17821016.

Dance: As17821009

Performance Comment: hathi.

1437
18 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #189 13s. (187/9/6; 2/3/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Henderson; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Banquo-Whitfield; Malcolm-Davies; Lenox-Mahon; Seyton-Thompson; Seywani-Helme; Doctor-Fearon; Hecate-Rcinhold; Witches-Booth, Mrs Pitt, Webb; Gentlewoman-Mrs Poussin; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Yates .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17821016.

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Adcock, &c

Performance Comment: Wilson, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Adcock, &c .

1438
11 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #220 6s. 6d. (216/7/0; 3/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17821207.

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17821016.

Dance: End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode (performers not listed, but see17821206, in which The Minuet de la Cour by Harris and Miss Besford

Performance Comment: hathi.

1439
14 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #192 12s. (189/4; 3/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17821207 .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17821016 .

Dance: As17821231

Performance Comment: hathi.

1440
08 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Mysterious Husband, but its "being, on account of Miss Younge's sudden Illness, set aside, it was very proper to substitute another Piece of Cumberland's, The Walloons" (Public Advertiser, 10 Feb.).] Receipts: #150 6s. (142/7/6; 7/18/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Performance Comment: Probably as17821004 .

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17830129.

1441
20 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 4s. 6d. (175/11/0; 4/13/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17830211.

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: As17821016 .

1442
03 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #165 (160/12; 4/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17831013.

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Performance Comment: As17830922.

1443
05 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 15s. (204/15; 6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17831104.

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17831104.

Song: As17831104eggar's.

Performance Comment: .

1444
18 December 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Venice Preserv'd [announced on playbill of 17 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Crawford. Receipts: #129 8s. (125/6; 4/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17831006.

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17831212.

Song: As17831006, but Johnstone in place of Doyle

Performance Comment: hathi.

1445
29 December 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Richmond, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Kemble's.] Receipts: #226 1s. (221/12; 4/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cg King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17831013, but Richmond-Kemble; Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble [i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

Performance Comment: As17831223.

1446
30 December 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #221 11s. (218/4; 3/7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17831011, but Mrs Page-Mrs Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

Performance Comment: As17831223.

1447
05 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry the Eighth [announced on playbill of 3 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #209 6s. (205/18; 3/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17831020, but Regan-Mrs Davenett; Cordelia-Mrs Kemble [i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

Performance Comment: As17831223 .

1448
20 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ode: Written by Dryden, and set to Music by Handel. Instrumental Performers as 15 Feb., but added: Parkinson, Flack

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast; Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930215.

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Overture-(Ariadne); Captivity (supposed to be sung by the unfortunate Maria Antoinette, Queen of France, during her confinement in the Tower of the Temple) [composed by Storace]-Mrs Crouch; Jehovah crowned-Incledon; He comes-Chorus (Esther); Mad Bess (composed by Purcell)-Mme Mara; Disdainful of danger-Incledon, Kelly, Reynolds (Judas Maccabaeus); He layeth the beams-Bartleman (Ezio); But bright Cecilia, As from the power-Mme Mara; The dead shall live-Chorus (Dryden's Ode); God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: End II oratorio: concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

1449
22 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Oratorio: Written by Milton, and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Pensieroso; Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930215.

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Overture and March-(Scipione); Tears such as tender fathers shed-Bartleman (Deborah); Go baffled coward-Kelly, Reynolds (Samson); Around let acclamations ring-Chorus (Athalia); O come let us worship-Incledon [Coronation Anthem]; A Bravura Song-Mme Mara; Gloria Patri-Full Chorus [Jubilate]; God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: As17930220

1450
27 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930215.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: As17930215, but added: Captivity-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: As17930215.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: As17930215.