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2030 results for: Keyword - May
We found 1809 matches on Event Comments, 175 matches on Performance Comments, 72 matches on Performance Title, 59 matches on Roles/Actors, and 1 matches on Author.

1776
02 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Mrs Pope not being sufficiently recovered from her Indisposition to perform to-night, Mrs Mattocks has kindly undertaken the part of Lydia Languish , and Margaret of Anjou [advertised on playbill of 1 May] is unavoidably obliged to be changed to The Soldier's Festival. Morning Herald, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #216 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

1777
03 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of All in the Wrong, advertised on playbill of 2 May.] Receipts: #204 1s. (146.12; 49.19; 7.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17930304

1778
03 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT 1, by Thomas Hurlstone, Published by J. Debrett, 1793; in 1795 acted at cg as The British Recruit; or, Who's Afraid?]: The Overture and Music (a Glee and Air excepted) entirely new, by Shield, Giordani and Dr Stevenson of Dublin. To conclude with a Representation of the Grand Fleet under Sail. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 3 May 1793: This Day, at Noon, will be published To Arms (6d.). Morning Herald, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden at his house, No. 6, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #448 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: To Arms; or, The British Recruit

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Mme Rossi

Song: End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

1779
09 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall and Mrs Bland. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Beverley , but "Kemble being ill, Whitfield played Beverley" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, P. 3).] Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Russel-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Bland, No. 12, St. Albans-street, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #432 4s. (74.19.0; 40.1.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 309.15.6) (charge: #169 10s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1780
10 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Samuel Birch. Larpent MS 983; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, May 1793 p. 389]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with selections from Mozart, Ferrari, Martin y Soler?, Linley? Sen.. And a new Overture by Shaw. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at his house, Kennington-Green. Receipts: #379 14s. 6d. (70.18.0; 52.12.0; 3.1.6; tickets: 253.3.0) (charge: #162 5s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Song: As17921030

1781
10 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1. For indication of scenes see 24 May]. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 12, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #469 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Festival; or, All Alive at Portsmouth

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17920920

Song: End I: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

1782
11 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by John O'Keeffe. In 1797 altered by the author as The Rival Soldiers]: With new Music, new Scenes and Dresses. The Music composed and selected [from Handel and Anfossi (BUC, 969)] by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 25 May 1793: This Day is Published Sprigs of Laurel (1s). Receipts: #210 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

1783
14 May 1793 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed at Naples, 1789]); the Music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. With new Dresses, Scenery and Decorations. Diary, 15 May: The Opera, besides exquisite music, abounds with lively trickery and humourous incident...Kelly shifted his dress nine times, and acted with much pleasantry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Zingari In Fiera

Dance: As17930423

Ballet: Iphiginia in Aulide. As17930423

1784
16 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. The Poetry of the additional Songs [in 1st piece] by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot]. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 19, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden. "Mrs Clendining's endeavours to entertain were successful, and Fitzroy by Incledon gave a rich feast to the musical amateur. The air beginning, 'Dear Tom, this brown jug,' had a fine effect by the music being omitted" (Diary, 18 May). Receipts: #273 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Music: End: a concerto of his own composition, on the Grand Piano Forte-King (1st appearance in public)

1785
17 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kemble Mem., 18 May: On account of Whitsun Eve the Opera was yesterday [at king's]; we acted therefore at Mr Colman's Theatre. Receipts: #73 (64.3; 8.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

1786
21 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Chapman. Morning Herald, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Chapman, No. 16, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Music: End I 3rd piece: a sonata from Op. 2, by Clementi, on one of Longman and Broderip's newly invented Grand Piano Forte Harpsichords, by the celebrated-Master Field a Child of Nine Years Old

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

1787
22 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Ward. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by-Fernside, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem., based partly on Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid, probably by Philip Massinger. Incidental music by Richard Suett]. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, under the Great Piazza; of Mrs Ward; No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Morning Herald, 12 June 1793: This day is published The Female Duellist (1s.). Receipts: #469 13s. 6d. (51.4.0; 33.9.0; 8.4.0; tickets: 376.16.6) (charge: #158 17s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Female Duellist

Song: End: As on the pleasant banks of Tweed-Master Welsh

1788
23 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. Morning Herald, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 1, Castle-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #341 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: In course: The Mid Watch-Incledon

1789
27 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Welsh. Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Master Welsh, No. 2, Parliament-street, Palace-yard. Receipts: #263 1s. (106.9.6; 27.0.0; 0.6.0; tickets: 129.5.6) (charge: #167 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Dance: As17930408

Song: End II: a New Song composed by Percy-Master Welsh

1790
27 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by Robert Woodbridge]. Morning Herald, 4 June 1793: This day is published The Pad (price not listed). 3rd piece [1st time; BALL. P 2 (?), by James Byrn, altered from his The Provocation!]: The Incidents partly new, and partly selected from the much admired Pantomime called Provocation. In the course of the Pantomime a representation of an Engagement between an English and French Man of War; A Ship-wreck; The original Allegoric Scene from Provocation: A View of an English Camp; A Naval and Military Procession. Morning Herald, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 46, Drury-lane. Receipts: #335 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude

Song: End: Captivity (Supposed to be sung by an Unfortunate Queen [Marie Antoinette] during her confinement)-; End 2nd piece: Black Eyed Susan-; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon

1791
28 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 3rd piece: Engagement, as 27 May. Receipts: #126 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu, as17930527

1792
30 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bateman. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bateman at her house, the corner of Carlisle-street, Soho-square. Receipts: #397 1s. 6d. (161.18.6; 47.4.0; 1.3.0; tickets: 186.16.0) (charge: #157 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening: [at end of mainpiece (Thespian Magazine, July 1793, p. 50)] Fencing-La Chevaliere D'Eon, Mrs Bateman, an English Officer

1793
30 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Midnight Wanderers, advertised on playbill of 29 May.] Receipts: #233 11s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End I: Scotch Divertisement, as17930504; In V: Dance of Forresters, as17921010; End: The Wapping Landlady, as17921106

1794
01 June 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Caulfield, Miss DeCamp, Miss Tidswell & Miss Heard. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mr Worthy to Benson but "an apology was made for the absence of Benson...His part of Worthy was read by Whitfield" (Thespian Magazine, July 1793, p. 50).] Tickets delivered for the 8th of June will be admitted. Morning Herald, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Caulfield, No. 8, Dartmouth-street, Westminster; of Miss DeCamp, No. 70, Tottenham-Court-Road; of Miss Tidswell, No. 3, Little Charles-street, St. James's-square; of Miss Heard, No. 13, Panton-street, Hay-market. Receipts: #182 3s. (28.17; 3.5; tickets: 150.1) (charge: #86 8s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

1795
03 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets delivered for May the 29th will be admitted. Receipts: #456 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: In 3rd piece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan, as17930510; III: a song in character-Miss Barnett

1796
20 September 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in 2 acts. On 2 and 8 May 1794 it was acted, as originally, in 3 acts.] Receipts: #241 14s. (227.5; 14.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

1797
01 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 11 May 1791]. Receipts: #182 18s. (173/1; 9/17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: LOVE AND WAR

Dance: As17931022

1798
18 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpicce: Not acted these 5 years [acted 19 May 1792). Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 24 Apr. 1792). "When next [Miss Jones, who had acted previously at Birmingham, and who is identified in Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1793, p. 359) plays the part she should endeavour to hold her person erect. The crouching attitudes that she adopted in the breeches scenes, took from the captivating impression that her figure might otherwise have produced" (Public Advertiser, 19 Nov.). [Author of Occasional Address unknown.] Receipts: #291 11s. 6d. (287/11/6; 4/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Song: In Act II of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings by Gray, Linton, Miss Barnett, Mrs Mountain; In afterpiece a new Hunting Song, composed by Shield, by Incledon [this song not listed on playbill, but see World, 19 Nov.]

Monologue: 1793 11 18 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address by Middleton

1799
23 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1800
16 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Mainpiece: By Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare, based partly on LE TABLEAU PARLANT, by Louis Anseaume]: The Music by Storace. "The songs are written with taste, and set to very lively and agreeable tunes by Storace's brother...[They are] calculated to afford her a complete opportunity of displaying that mixture of laughable levity, friskiness and merriment which on the stage give her so much attraction" (Public Advertiser, 18 Dec.). Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland Street, and of Rice at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER