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7972 results for: Keyword - Mr Powell's House
We found 5723 matches on Event Comments, 2063 matches on Performance Comments, 745 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4126
02 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Fontenelle. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Fontenelle at her house, No. 271, Holbourn. 2nd piece: Compressed into 3 short Acts. "Miss Fontenelle...is the best Romp we ever saw, Mrs Jordan alone excepted...We were sorry to see [her] fall over the groove of the scene; but as practice is more forcible than precept, we hope it will teach her the truth of Friar Lawrence's caution, 'they stumble who run fast'" (Diary, 4 May). Receipts: #219 19s. (133.14.6; 6.8.6; tickets: 79.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Piping Pedlar-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

4127
02 June 1789 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Carlo Francesco Badini, based on Alessandro nell'Indie, by Metastasio]; the Music new by Tarchi. "The House was so pleased with it that they did as is done in foreign Theatres--they gave the Composer specific applause, 'Bravo Tarchi', 'Bravo Maestro'" (World, 3 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: As17890526

4128
11 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #360 4s. 6d. (78.10.6; 5.10.0; tickets: 276.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: As17881021

4129
13 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Palmer. The Proprietors having liberally granted to Palmer (for One Night) the Use of the Theatre, and his Brethren having kindly consented to perform for him, the Public is most respectfully informed that this Evening will be presented...[as above]. Receipts: #131 11s. 6d. (104.15.0; 25.16.0; 1.0.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #45 15s. 2d. [Account-Book: House charge given him]). Account-Book, July-Sept.: Paid Renters #20 14s. apiece; 5 Sept.: Paid Duke of Bedford One Yrs. Rent #343 5s. 1d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End I: The Russian Minuet, as17890519

Song: V: song-Miss Barnes

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Picture of a Play@house or Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

Performance Comment: End: A Picture of a Play@house or Bucks have at ye all-Palmer.
Cast
Role: A Picture of a Play@house or Bucks have Actor: Palmer.

4130
17 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In 3rd piece the playbill retain Iliff, but "On the fifth night of the representation, while R. Palmer was reading the part of Lord Megrim (Iliff being ill) an alarm of fire occasioned a disgreeable tumult; the performers assured the audience there was no danger, it being the opposite theatre (the Opera House, which was consumed) that was in flames. The Ladies, however, still retained their apprehensions, and all were eager to depart; happily this anxiety produced no accident" (Oulton, 1796, II, 52). Iliff perhaps did not act in Vimonda.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Vimonda

Afterpiece Title: As It Should Be

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: British Loyalty or A Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun.; conclude with: God save the King-Chapman, Chambers, Mathews

4131
01 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid 1@2 Years Land and House Tax #106 2s. 7d. Receipts: #187 1s. (182.6.6; 4.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End I: Divertissement=, as17891002

4132
23 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband, advertised on playbill of 22 Dec.] Paid House & Window tax, 1@2 Yr., #56 13s. 8d. Public Advertiser, 24 Dec.: [Pearce, who was from the Bath theatre, has] a clear bass voice, which he occasionally relieves by a falsetto...His first song was encored though sung much out of tune. Receipts: #113 4s. (77.2; 35.12; 0.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

4133
11 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 1st piece: Altered [by MacNamara Morgan] from The Winter's Tale. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas King. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: An Alteration, never yet performed, of Sir John Vanburgh's [sic] Mistake. Public Advertiser, 10 Feb.: Tickets to be had of King, at his house in Gerrard-street. Receipts: #321 2s. 6d. (249.14.0; 4.8:6; tickets: 67.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

4134
05 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Grand Selection 0; Messiah

Performance Comment: As17900226, but End of Part I Bless the True Church and Save the King-Chorus (Athalia), which was encored by the whole House on Wednesday.

Music: As17900224

4135
22 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [When still Miss Younge Mrs Pope had 1st acted Fatima at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 4 Mar. 1771.] Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-moon Street. Receipts: #343 10s. 6d. (230.3.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 105.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

4136
23 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, Sadler's Wells. Receipts: #249 10s. 6d. (133.6.0; 22.7.0; 0.16.6; tickets: 93.1.0) (charge: #115 9s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End: The Treble Hornpipe-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet

Song: End II: Poor Jack; or, the Sweet Little Cherub-Dignum

4137
05 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. 1st piece [1st time]: A Prelude consisting of Song, Dance and Monologue. Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch at her house, No. 26, Bridges-street. Receipts: #295 2s. 6d. (138.2.0; 16.3.6; 0.19.0; tickets: 139.18.0) (charge: #110 19s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Easter Pastimes

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

4138
09 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Gazetteer, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #204 2s. (85.6.0; 13.12.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 104.10.0) (charge: #116 14s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4139
12 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece, which Public Advertiser erroneously announces as The Farm House, in place of The Romp, advertised on playbill of 10 Apr.] Receipts: #148 9s. 6d. (118.0.0; 26.14.6; 3.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

4140
15 April 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Tickets to be had of Jewell at his house, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Dance: End I: Les Caprices, as17900406, but Mlle _Hilligsberg; End Opera: La Jalousie sans Raison-Labourie, Duquesney, Mlle de'Caro, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

4141
23 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. [Afterpiece in place of The Farm-House, advertised on playbill of 22 Apr.] Gazetteer, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, No. 25, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #326 19s. (64.7.0; 13.4.6; 2.5.6; tickets: 247.2.0) (charge: #116 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Dance: As17900308

Entertainment: MonologuePrevious: his being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Happy Recovery, British Loyalty; or, a Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun

Song: After which: the Stage being decorated and illuminated in the same Superb Stile which it was for the Reception of his Majesty on Dec. the 16 last, God save the King-Dignum, Sedgwick, Alfred, Danby, Fawcett, Haymes, Hollingsworth, Lyons, Maddocks, Phillimore

4142
30 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Gazetteer, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aickin at his house, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #209 (116.3; 7.19; tickets: 84.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: End II: The Lamp Lighter (written and composed by Dibdin)-Reeve; End IV: The Doctrine of an Israelite (written by Collins, author of The Brush) sung in character-Reeve; End: a favorite song a Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage)

4143
21 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #320 17s. (45.3; 15.5; 1.7; tickets: 259.2) (charge: #117 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17900308

4144
28 May 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. A new Serious Opera. Under the direction of Federici. Tickets to be had of Mme Mara at her house, No. 8, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromache [recte andromaca]

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900513; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Mlle Hilligsberg

4145
31 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #382 16s. 6d. (92.0.0; 11.15.6; tickets: 279.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Song: End: As17900407

4146
23 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "Yesterday evening Palmer performed the part of Inkle for the first time to a very full house. He went through the two first acts with much credit, and had he been less imperfect in the last scene it would have proved more interesting" (Diary, 24 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Campley Actor: Waterhouse.

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17900701

4147
14 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Account-Book: Paid House & Window tax 1@2 year #56 13s. 8d. Receipts: #297 6s. 6d. (274.19.0; 18.19.6; 3.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

4148
15 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Suspicious Husband, but "The performance at this house was changed yesterday evening in consequence of the indisposition of Lewis, and Rose and Colin with The German Hotel were substituted for The Suspicious Husband"(Diary, 16 Dec.).] Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (135.4.6; 10.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

4149
22 February 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "There were not an hundred persons in the Pit when their Majesties entered, and there were not double the number at any part of the evening. The Royal box being in the centre, fronting the stage, their Majesties were invisible to the Gallery; and on their entrance solemn stillness prevailed, until the Orchestra, for the first time in an Opera-house, for the first time by the Professional Band, Struck up God save the King. Never, we will venture to say, in any Theatre during the present reign, was there so thin an audience when their Majesties were present; and we pretend not to divine the cause. Whether it is the failure of the Theatre as a musical room--the general poverty of the performance--the little notice that was given of their Majesties' intention to be present we know not" (Morning Chronicle, 23 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Ballet: Amphion et Thalie. As17910217

4150
26 February 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Event Comment: "Pacchierotti was taken ill on Saturday and was unable to sing his songs. An apology was made for him, and he walked on and walked off without diminution of the public pleasure. Here was an unanswerable argument for the Pantheon as an Opera-House; for the silence of a singer is no injury to the entertainment" (Morning Chronicle, 28 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17910217

Ballet: End II: Amphion et Thalie. As17910217, but Principal dancers-_Fialon, _Duchesne, _Rousseau, _Boisgirard, _St.Aumer, _Schweitzer, Mme _Vigano, Mlle _Puisieux, Mlle Bithmer _Cadette; Mme _Didelot; Mlle _Bithmer; Mlle _Rousseau; Nymphes a la suite des Muses-Mlle _Vedie, Mlle _Durand