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We found 2031 matches on Event Comments, 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 141 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Paid Mr Duquesney 3 weeks not on list #9; Paid salary list #437 14s.; Rec'd stopages #4 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #115 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #3 10s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book).Receipts: #146 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Not acted these 2 years. [See 27 Oct. 1764.] Paid French on account #30; and Frederick for cloath #6 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #115 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #248 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Music: I: A Concerto on the Harpsichord, as17661203

Dance: II: The Jealous Peasant, as17661111; End: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid chorus singers 2 nights #5 11s.; Gastrill & Co. (mercers) #149 3s. (Treasurer's Book). A new edition of Thespis published. Receipts: #104 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Lord Plausible Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #4 1s. 6d.; Paid Salary list #440 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #4 11s. 9d.; Paid Rollett on his note #10. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #242 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: N.B.: The Cunning Man is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Rec'd Condell's first [fruit concession] payment #20; Paid French on account #20; Mr John Palmer on his note #10. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #127 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: [G$Genest, V, 119, suggests The Deuce is in Him for afterpiece with King as Prattle and Miss Reynolds as Bell. Treasurer's Book, however, states Queen Mab. Cunning Man-deferred. Mrs Arne Ill. Wonder reviv'd after two years. See 13 May 1765.] Receipts: #103 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. The Cunning Man oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Arne's indisposition. Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Paid Blandford's (tallow chandler) 3rd bill #47 2d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #97 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011; End: Comic Dance The Jealous Peasant, as17661111

Event Comment: Tragedy, never before acted, by Dr T. Franklin. Published at 1s. 6d. [See A Letter from the Rope Dancing Monkey in the Hay-Market to the acting Monkey of Drury Lane on the Earl of Warwick (London, 1767) which damns the play as a flat and insipid plagiarism from de la Harpe's tragedy Le Conte de Warwick, Paris, 1764. Especially severe on Colman's Prologue and Garrick's Epilogue.] Rec'd stopages #4 11s. 6d.; Paid salary list #440 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts. #194 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: Paid Mr Russel for cloathes (men's lac'd) #6 16s. 6d.; Watkins for gloves #3 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #56 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #4 11s. 6d.; Paid salary list #438 19s.; Keen on his note #4 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #175 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. For the Author. House Charges #73 10s. [Profit to Dr Franklin #98 8s.] Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #3 11s.; Barrow & Co., for oil, #56 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #171 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Paid Mr Highley in Full of his bills #218 7s. 6d.; Paid Mr Cole (turner) bill, #32 8s. 6d.; and Chettle's bill for Timber #53 1s.; DeBrose (linendraper) #31 1s.; Waller (hosier) #13 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #164 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid salary list 4 days at #73 8s. 2d. per diem, #293 12s. 8d.; Chorus Singers 1 night #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #127 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Paid Ben Johnson's Head #2 12s. 9d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #172 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid Pointer's 2 Bills #16 14s. (Treasurer's Book). [This year were published The Theatrical Campaign (44 pp.), an examen of productions this season; The Stage the High Road to Hell (43 pp.); Theatrical Entertainments Consistent with Society, Morality and Religion: or, A Letter to the Author of the "Stage the High Road to Hell," shewing that writer's arguments to be fallacious, his principals enthusiastic, and his authorities (particularly from the ancients) misconstrued and perverted.] Receipts: #176 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Music: II: A Concerto on the Harpsichord-Mr Burney Jr

Event Comment: New Scenes, Dresses, Machinery and other Decorations. Book of the Entertainment to be had at 1s. 6d. at Theatre. A Dramatic Romance by David Garrick, Music composed by Michael Arne. Gave King's Footmen and Chairmen #4 4s.; Queen's ditto; Dukes of York and Gloucester ditto (Treasurer's Book). [A memorandum dated 22 August 1766 (Folger Library, Garrick Album, 520 MS, Cage) explains that Michael Arne was to compose the Music for Cymon, and as compensation shall be intitled to and receive one third part of the profits of the three first nights which the author shall take for his own Benefits." Zachariah Stephens was witness. See 15 Jan. 1767.] Receipts: #196 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #5 12s.; Paid salary list #440 9s.; Williams one night, Musical Lady, 10s. 6d.; Chorus singers 2 nights #4 11s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #180 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Event Comment: Paid one year's Insurance to Xmas Next #15 (Treasurer's Book). [Probably a renewal of the same #4000 policy held, with Sun Fire Office referred to on 22 Dec. 1749.] Receipts: #215 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Event Comment: BB. Johnson's Head Bill #4 15s. 6d. Paid two practices in procession #2 4s.; Chorus singers 2 nights #4 11s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #119 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Event Comment: Paid Mr Coggs (wax chandler) Bill #11 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #192 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon