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6991 results for: Keyword - Mr Kemble
We found 4608 matches on Event Comments, 2039 matches on Performance Comments, 533 matches on Performance Title, 476 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2801
09 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Never performed here. [Miss Thornton is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Address by Horatio Edgar Robson (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 369).] 2nd piece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 31, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 6s. 6d. (138/15/6; 3/6/0; tickets: 138/5/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman

2802
18 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. [Macready was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Miss Ogle to Mrs T. Kennedy, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Lewis's.] "The dress worn by Lewis, with small buttons innumerable, that gave it the air of a Hussar's jacket lengthened, was lately a coat won by the Prince of Wales" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (239.19.6; 2.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

2803
16 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces Julia and Richard Coeur de Lion, but "Kemble was so ill that he could not appear...The substituted play was The Fair Penitent" (World, 17 Apr.), and "Harlequin's Invasion [was] substituted" (Morning Herald, 17 Apr.).] Receipts: #171 7s. 6d. (137.11.0; 31.18.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

2804
24 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. [Sga Storace was from the Opera, Vienna.] Morelli "was an actor such as the Italian stage has seldom witnessed. He was, I used to think, in his prime, quite upon a par with King of Drury Lane Theatre. Like him, he was distinguished for neat articulation, and an unremitting attention to the business of the whole stage" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 449). Receipts: #165 19s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

2805
07 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons [whose 1st appearance as Alicia was at York, 26 Apr. 1777]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street. [In the interim she changed the play. The Announcement of 27 Apr. advertises Romeo and Juliet, by Kemble and Mrs Siddons, in which play she did not appear until May 1789.] Receipts: #337 16s. 6d. (146.1.0; 8.7.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 182.14.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

2806
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

2807
03 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble, but he "did not act. Barrymore...was his substitute for Percy" (World, 4 Jan.).] Receipts: #191 18s. (157.17.0; 32.11.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2808
14 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. By Beaumont and Fletcher, with Alterations [by Thomas Harris (Boaden, Kemble, I, 378)]. Public Advertiser, 15 Jan.: The alterations consisted of many curtailments, the last scene of Act IV being entirely omitted. [Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall Jun. (European Magazine, Dec. 1787, p. 503; Feb. 1788, p. 105).] Receipts: #150 2s. (146.18; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Song: II: a Grand Chorus-Johnstone, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Blurton, Janson, Bonville, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Byrne, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Miss Paye, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

2809
25 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Heiress, but "on the sudden indisposition of Kemble, the play was changed to The Wonder, where Miss Farren, King and Miss Pope had much applause" (World, 26 Jan.).] Receipts: #130 17s. (109.6; 20.17; 0.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2810
13 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5.30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of Regattav. Kemble Mem.: No Manager [i.e. King had resigned as acting manager; but see 23 Sept.]. Ivory Tickets introduced. [These tickets, also called "bones," were for the use of actors and other members of the company in gaining admission for themselves or their friends to the front of the house. They replaced paper orders (World, 18 Oct. 1788).] Receipts: #112 3s. 6d. (75.6.0; 35.10.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

2811
09 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 7th night of The Pannel, but it was not acted (see 14 Jan.). Kemble Mem. and the Account-Book both list the substitute play.] Receipts: #142 18s. (106.15.0; 32.19.6; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

2812
05 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #133 14s. 6d. (103.10.0; 23.13.0; 6.11.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

2813
11 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #107 18s. 6d. (86.9.0; 19.15.6; 1.14.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2814
10 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Gamester [advertised on playbill of 9 Mar.] cannot be acted on Account of Mrs Siddons's Hoarseness. [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 20th night of The Doctor and the Apothecary, but it was not acted (see 14 Mar.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #25 19s. 6d. (19.5.0; 2.16.0; 2.16.0 [sic]; tickets not come in: 1.2.6). [This sum is the lowest recorded for this theatre between 1776 and 1791, the year of its demolition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: As17890220

2815
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

2816
31 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Keating is identified in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (95.4.0; 23.6.0; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

2817
06 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Valentine, but "he could not play--Whitfield was Valentine" (World, 7 Nov.).] Receipts: #112 16s. 6d. (77.12.0; 32.7.0; 2.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: As17891026

2818
26 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #207 5s. 6d. (177.10.0; 28.12.6; 1.3.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

2819
03 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and Composer [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 10s. (141.18.0; 16.16.6; 2.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

2820
12 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but she "being ill, Miss Hagley played her Part" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #207 10s. 6d. (172.4.0; 33.9.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17891204

2821
09 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece Kemble Mem. lists The Island of St. Marguerite, but the playbill for 8 Jan. has "15th Night," for 13 Jan. "16th Night," for 15 Jan. "17th Night," &c. The enumeration for Harlequin's Frolicks is likewise consistent.] Receipts: #242 (222.12; 18.11; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: As17891204

2822
29 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of High Life below Stairs, advertised on playbill of 28 Jan., and erroneously listed in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #225 2s. 6d. (198.15.0; 25.3.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: As17891204

2823
08 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: ["The Play to-night was to have been The Confederacy, by Desire of the Duchess of Leinster, with The Spoiled Child (both advertised on playbill of 7 May), for Mrs Jordan's benefit...but she suspecting the House would be thin, pretended to be ill, would not act" (Kemble Mem.). "Love for Love (announced in playbill of this present night) and The Spoiled Child were deferred on account of the indisposition of Mrs Jordan, and The West Indian and The Island of St. Marguerite substituted...Aickin and Packer...could not be met with, and no other means of presenting The West Indian remained than Messrs Williames and Maddocks being permitted to read the parts of Stockwell and Capt. Dudley. This the audience refused to comply with, and insisted on having their money returned, which was at last done. The pit was cleared, not even one person remaining; but during the second act, four people came in...About thirty stayed in the boxes, and not a sufficient number to fill the front rows in the galleries...The West Indian, with two parts in it read, and a house thus uncomfortably thin, dragged dismally through the three first acts. The half-price produced considerable amendment in the appearance of the house" (London Chronicle, 10 May).] Receipts: #45 0s. 6d. (11.13.0; 32.5.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

2824
09 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Follies of a Day, but "In consequence of an accident to Miss Farren The Follies of a Day was unavoidably postponed, in lieu was represented The Liar [which is also listed in the Account-Book]. Mrs Kemble being indisposed, Miss Collins personated Miss Grantham in a manner which greatly added to Miss Collins's reputation" (Diary, 11 Oct.). And see 10 May 1791.] Receipts: #289 7s. 6d. (239.15.0; 48.7.6; 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

2825
11 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Musick by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Linley Jun. Afterpiece: 30th [recte 29th] time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. The Overture, new Songs and Accompaniments by Shaw. Receipts: #199 18s. 6d. (157.10.0; 40.8.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Danby, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Mrs Crouch; III: a Chorus of Furies-; V: the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick, Amphitrite Mrs Edwards