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853 results for: Keyword - Jane
We found 734 matches on Roles/Actors, 483 matches on Performance Title, 280 matches on Performance Comments, 69 matches on Event Comments, and 2 matches on Author.

826
10 May 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Alexander. By Authority. Tickets delivered for Jane Shore for 9 May will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Miss Burn

827
14 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Garrick's first appearance in Chamont in 4 years. Mrs Yates in Monimia for first time. Mrs Cibber's illness has oblig'd Mrs Yates to change her Play from Jane Shore to The Orphan. The Afterpiece (for one night only): A Burlesque Opera of two acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Galligantus

828
23 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill for 22 May had announced Jane Shore and Harlequin's Invasion for this night. Probably no performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

829
20 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 2 Feb. 1762.] Tomorrow will be reviv'd All's Well that Ends Well, and on Friday Lady Jane Gray, with a Pastoral (never perform'd on any stage) call'd The Spring

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

830
21 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire.Afterpiece: Never perform'd before. Ladies and Servants by 3 o'clock. Part of Pit laid into boxes; No Building on Stage. [See Theatrical Review; or, Annals of the Drama, 1763, 1 April, pp. 142-46, for critique of the Sketch of a Fine Lady's Return from a Rout. Rather damns the writing and the performance on all counts, Moody's part being so bad, to save his face he commenced Hibernian in his dialogue" to amuse the ears of his audience. The parts are listed in Larpent MS 220: Sir Gregory Jenkings, Mr Nettle (a Lawyer), 1st Clerk, 2nd Clerk, Porter, Footmen, Lady Jenkings, Nancy Jenkings, Fanny Jenkings, Jane (Lady's Maid).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Sketch of a Fine Ladys Return from a Rout

Song: End of Farce: A Mimic Comic Italian Song from the Opera of Il Filosopho di Campagna-Mrs Clive

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers, as17630315

831
28 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wright. Tickets deliver'd for Jane Shore and the Fairy Tale; and for the Benefit of Mrs Cross will be taken. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: Between the acts: several songs-Miss Wright

832
02 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. House Charges #74 10s. [Profit to Mrs Barry #1 18s. 6d. Doubtless she had additional profit from tickets not listed in the Treasurer's Book.] The Indisposition of Mrs Yates obliges Mrs Barry to change her play. Tickets deliver'd for Jane Shore will be admitted. [Mainpiece advertised as for last time this season.] Paid salary list #435 19s. Chorus singers #2 10s. 6d.; Rec'd stopages #3 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, the Tombs of Westminster-Vernon

Dance: TThe Irish Lilt, as17670430

833
18 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for a Tragedy and Jane Shore will be taken. Charges #66 6s. Balance to Clarke #35 plus #142 13s. in Tickets (Box 274; Pit 401; Gallery 140) (Account Book). Receipts: #101 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

834
01 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Doors opened (by Partiuclar Desire) at Five. Play to begin at half past Six. The King of Denmark came to the Farce after seeing Jane Shore at Covent Garden,--came in just before the Play was finished (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680929

835
29 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Shortly will be publish'd Expostulations with George Colman, by Jane Lessingham. Gave Duke of Gloucester's Footmen by Malm #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #200 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

836
06 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. [See 16 April 1751.] With the Decorations prescribed by Shakespeare. The Characters new Dressed in the Haibts of the Times. [The reviewer for Town and Country Magazine preferred Mrs Hartley's acting in Jane Shore to that in Henry VIII, where she frequently sunk into a whining monotony which from the length of some of the speeches became very disagreeable.' She did, however, he thought, do the last scene well.] Receipts: #223 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

837
19 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. [See note for 6 March.] Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by half past 4 o'clock, and those who have taken places in the Pit requested to come early to prevent Confusion in getting to their seats. Tickets deliver'd for Lady Jane Grey will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Profit to Smith #84 6s. 6d., plus #172 15s. from tickets (Box 640; Pit 85). Paid Blanchville Clark as per certificate from Sir John Fielding 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

838
15 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mrs Barry, not being yet sufficiently recover'd of her Indisposition to undertake a Character of so much Exertion as Alicia, The Play of Jane Shore is oblig'd to be deferr'd till Saturday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

839
08 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 14 years. [See 22 Nov. 1760.] Last time of the Company's performing till Easter Holidays. On Easter Monday, the Tragedy of Jane Shore, with the (fifty-fourth Time) Druids. [In original text Douglas is call'd Norval and Norval is called Stranger, or Prisoner.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17750401

Dance: End Interlude: The Merry Sailors, as17741026

840
17 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Jane Shore oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the sudden indisposition of Mrs Barry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

841
05 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Prelude and Mainpiece By Command of their Majesties. Jane Shore is oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of Mrs Yates's being incapable of performing. [MacMillan's note from Kemble "Mr Smith Kitely -dull enough" does not appear in the Folger, Hopkins Diary.] King and Queen Present. Rec'd from Mr Reddish on Acct #50. Paid Printer's Bill #14 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [This weekly payment throughout the season averaged #9 6s., for a total payment of #353 8s. No further itemization of it will be made.] Receipts: #284 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

842
12 November 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Hamlet is obliged to be deferred. [But on 11 Nov. Jane Shore is announced for this night.] Receipts: #124 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: Masquerade Scene,Dancing, as17761026Singing-_

843
14 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. On account of the severe Indisposition of Mrs Yates Jane Shore [announced on playbill of 12 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Buthred

Afterpiece Title: The Medley

844
09 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Jane Shore, announced on playbill of 8 Jan.] Receipts: #284 12s. 6d. (275/7/0; 9/0/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

845
18 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Jane Shore; afterpiece of The best Bidder, both announced on playbill of 17 Jan.] Receipts: #140 12s. (139/2; 1/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820917

846
01 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: A favourite Overture by Haydn, scene I. A Forest. The Death of the Stag. Sportsmen, Horses and Dogs returned from the Chace. No Sport to the Chace can compare (the Music by Dr Arnold) by Brett, scene II. The Cave of Echo. They say there is an Echo here (composed by Herschel) by Brett, Wood, Gaudrey and others, scene III. A Wood. The Triumph of Diana. With Horns and with Rounds (the Music by Boyce) by Miss George. SCENE IV. A Sea Shore and Cottage. The celebrated Sequel to Auld Robin Gray, taken from the Movement of Haydn's Overture, by Brett and Miss Morris. Scene V. A Cobler's Cottage. The Loves of John and Jane (the Music by Dibdin) by Wilson. Scene VI. Description of a Battle. Stand to your Guns, my Hearts of Oak (the Music by Carter) by Bannister, scene VII. A Palace and Banquet. Come, honest Friends (singers not listed'). The Dances by Mr and Miss Byrne. Principal Attendant Genius-Miss Painter .

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

847
05 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted here. Benefit for Mrs Wells [whose 1st appearance in tragedy was as Jane Shore at DL, 30 Apr. 1783; her 2nd was as Isabella at DL, 30 Apr. 1784, on which night she spoke the Address noted above]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Music: End of Act II a concertante for clarinet and bassoon by Mahon

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Mrs Bannister and Miss George

Monologue: 1784 08 05 Previous to mainpiece an occasional Address (2nd time) by Mrs Wells

848
05 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The play is opened by Mrs Beverley and Charlotte, and when Mrs Siddons came on she was hissed because of a widespread report that she had refused to act for Brereton's benefit in Dublin. "A considerable period of time was lost; it might be forty minutes before the play began . . . We could perceive that the lady supported herself with a great degree of firmness under this very aweful trial--a trial which, in great measure, determined her future fame--perhaps her residence in this metropolis" (Town and Country Magazine, Oct. 1784, p. 510). "The Breretons have used her shockingly--Mrs B. was mean enough to sneak off the stage and leave her to stand the insults of a malicious party tho' she knew the whole disturbance was on her account and that her husband had at least been obliged to contradict the reports that concern'd him" (Betsy Sheridan, Journal, 1960, p. 32). Mrs Siddons explained to the audience that the stories circulated against her were "calumnies." She had, in fact, on 19 Aug., acted Jane Shore in Dublin for Brereton's benefit (Dublin Public Register, 19 Aug. 1784). "Though Mrs Siddons delivered this address with her usual judgment and articulation, and it was received with reiterated bursts of applause, yet she was so agitated when off the stage as to be very near fainting, and continued for some time much flurried" (Public Advertiser, 6 Oct.).] Receipts: #304 5s. (291/13; 12/11; 0/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

849
27 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Jane Shore, advertised on playbill of 23 Dec.] Receipts: #231 18s. 6d. (226.8.0; 5.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

850
27 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Jane Shore, advertised on playbill of 23 Dec.] Receipts: #231 18s. 6d. (226.8.0; 5.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris