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5791 results for: Keyword - Mr Carpenter
We found 4281 matches on Event Comments, 1293 matches on Performance Comments, 537 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1026
25 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, announced on playbill of 22 Sept.] Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the music composed by Dr Fisher. Paid Music 22nd Inst. #7 15s. 4d.; Properties 22nd Inst. 9s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 11s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 19s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #10 19s. 5d. Receipts: #194 13s. 6d. (193.18.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

1027
04 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #226 3s. (29.16.0; 12.15.6; 0.5.6; tickets: 183.6.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End II: a Hornpipe-Master Butler, scholar to Miller

Song: End: As17810424

1028
24 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Trew's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 24 Nov. 1780.] Paid Properties 4s. 4d.; Wardrobe #5; Supernumeraries #1 11s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #11 6s. 4d. Receipts: #208 8s. (207/6/6; 1/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

1029
21 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Carpenters #19 10s. 9d. Receipts: #192 5s. 6d. (153/13/0; 36/16/0; 1/16/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17811117

1030
24 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespeare. Paid Properties 18s. 4d.; Mantuamaker #5 19s. 9d.; Butler, carpenter, #15; Lampmen #3 18s.; Billstickers #3 3s. Receipts: #189 14s. 6d. (147/3/0; 42/8/6; 0/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Monologue: 1782 09 24 As 17 Sept

1031
27 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Printer [of playbills] to 20th Inclusive #19 16s.; Supernumeraries #3 3s.; Daglish, copying Music #10 17s. 9d.; Mantuamaker #1 8s. 6d.; Carpenters #19 4s. 1d. Receipts: #166 7s. 6d. (118/1/0; 47/4/6; 1/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Song: Mainpiece: To finish with a Grand Naval Review, in which a Dance of Sailors by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir, &c, and Rule Britannia by Williames, Staunton, Phillimore, Barrymore

1032
29 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Wardrobe #10 4s.; Supernumeraries #10 17s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #36 0s. 6d. Receipts: #239 8s. 6d. (238/16/6; 0/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

1033
12 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

Performance Comment: imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off .

1034
01 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Butler for carpenters #15 4s. 7d. Receipts: #280 5s. 6d. (248/6/0; 30/10/6; 1/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: Mainpiece: With the original Music, composed by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional accompaniments, by Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Chapman, Barrymore, Williames, Wilson, Fawcett; Mrs Crouch, Miss Field, Miss George, Mrs Wrighten

1035
03 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 2 Nov. 1781]. Paid Wardrobe #6 2s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scenemen #17 15s. 11d. Receipts: #178 9s. (171/19; 6/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1036
01 June 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Furlcins, Turtle, Doe, Rye, Luxmore, Dalby, Crosby, Shuter, Pilbrow, Paddick, Mrs Lampe, Hall (carpenter), Mrs Green will be admitted (Account-Book). Receipts: #224 11s. 6d. (35/0/6; 4/12/0; tickets: 184/19/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17860426

1037
24 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Benson. Tickets to be had of Mrs Benson, No. 8, Dorville's Row. 3rd piece: With two Scenes of the Ombres Chinoises; or, The Lilliputian World, representing the Broken Bridge; or, Insolent Carpenter; and a View of a Sea Fight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Gambols

Song: End of 1st Monologue A Tax on Old Maids, as sung by Mrs Kennedy at Vauxhall, by Mrs Benson. monologues. End of mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into Hammersmith; End of 3rd piece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, both by Benson

1038
25 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 31 Dec. 1783. Pope had acted Beverley in Edinburgh in the summer of 1786 (Morning Post, 26 Sept.). The playbill assigns Stukeley to Aickin, but he "having had the misfortune to lose his wife, Stukeley was played by Inchbald" (Morning Chronicle, 26 Sept.), from the York theatre, 1st appearance on this stage (see 4 Oct.)]. Afterpiece: Never acted there. Paid Properties the 22nd Instant 6s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 2s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scenemen #10 18s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #4 7s. 6d. Receipts: #194 16s. (193.0.6; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

1039
14 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Supernumeraries #9 13s. 6d.; Carpenters #15 12s. 1d. Afterpiece: Written by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. Receipts: #225 12s. (181.3; 43.18; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

1040
24 September 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I a Masquerade Scenev incident to the Play. Account-Book: Paid Music 21st Inst. #7 14s 8d.; Properties 9s. 6d.; Chorus Singers #3; Wardrobe #6 2s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #3 7s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scenemen #12 16s. 3d. Receipts: #220 8s. 6d. (219.15.6; 0.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Cubitt, Brown, Darley, Doyle, Rock, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

1041
27 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Miss Ansell, Luxmore, Arne, Akery, Pilbrow, Hall [carpenter], Saby, the Band, Mrs Davenett, Blant, Gray will be admitted. Receipts: #266 6s. 6d. (28.4.0; 4.13.6; tickets: 233.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1042
20 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Maid of the Mill [advertised in Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Crouch. Paid Booth tailor, #4 6s. 6d.; Scenemen #5 4s.; Carpenters #3 16s.; Renters' Income #30 [this last paid daily]. Receipts: #111 8s. 6d. (71.11.0; 39.4.0; 0.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: In I: song-Dignum

1043
05 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Evatt, Ledger, Farley, Rolles, Hall (carpenter), Halley, Shuter, Simmons, Strahan, Luxmore, Davenett, Walker, Saby, Mrs Ansell, Ratchford, Rowson will be admitted. Receipts: #350 16s. (45.6.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 300.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

1044
12 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Robson[door-keeper], Iredale, Doe, McDonald, Green, Savery, Dosel, Clarridge, Wilkins, Mott, Rolls, Wyatt, Hall [carpenter], Noble, Robson [music porter], Mrs Harris, Rock, Egan will be admitted. Receipts: #364 4s. (45.19.6; 5.4.6; tickets: 313.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Female Adventure

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

1045
02 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Properties 6s. 2d.; 4 Constant Scenemen 2 weeks #10 8s.; Carpenters #4 2s. 1d.; Lampmen #2 14s.; Tailor 4 weeks #5 12s. 10d. Afterpiece: 8th Night [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Receipts: #289 12s. (253.18; 35.0; 0.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

1046
14 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's Performing. Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Green, Harris, Doe, Iredale, Savery, Wilkins, Wyat, Hall [carpenter], Robson [music porter], Mott, Rolls, Mrs Rock, Finley, Dosel, Sturgeon will be admitted. Account-Book, 18 June: Paid Hill, Waxchandler, in full, #143 2s. Receipts: #405 4s. 6d. (39.14.6; after-money: none listed; tickets: 365.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17901204

1047
22 September 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 7 constant Carpenters #2 2s.; 4 Scenemen #5 7s.; The World for Advertisement #1 10s. Receipts: #238 5s. 6d. (166.13.6; 69.11.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1048
19 March 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Jacobs for carpenters bill to 8th Inst. #56 16s.; Powell for Advertisements [in newspapers] #112 16s. Receipts: #598 7s. 6d. (570/10/6; tickets: 19/10/0; 8/7/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: End of Part I concerto on the flute by Ashe; End of Part II concerto on the violin by Giornovichi

1049
25 March 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainville Forest

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Pope, Farren, Middleton, Hull, Powel, Thompson, Claremont, Campbell, Abbot//Miss Morris, Mrs Pope. [Cast from text (Hookham and Carpenter, 1794): Lamotte-Pope; Marquis of Montault-Farren; Louis-Middleton; Peter-Hull; Nemours-Powel; Jaques-Claremont; Laval-Campbell [in text: Blurton]; Phantom-Abbot [in text: Follett]//Hortensia Lamotte-Miss Morris; Adeline-Mrs Pope. Thompson is unassigned.] Prologue spoken by Middleton. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17940503).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Middleton. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17940503).] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: THE POOR SOLDIER

1050
04 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of the Mirza, Prince of Broach. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Charles Dibdin; music by the author. MS: Larpent 1030; not published]: The Words of the Songs, &c. will be given at the different Doors of the Theatre. Tickets delivered for THE BEGGAR'S OPERA [Account-Book: by Heathcote, Bayzand, Egan, Pitt, Masters, Dick, Hall (carpenter), Doe, Goodwin] will be admitted. Receipts: #238 14s. 6d. (26/4/0; 3/17/6; tickets: 208/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: A LOYAL EFFUSION

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Dance: In 2nd piece Hornpipe by Bayzand

Song: 2nd piece: To conclude with a Song and Chorus [Come ye who from your souls (BUC, 281)], in Honor of His Majesty's Birth-Day