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8571 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in Goodman's Fields
We found 5062 matches on Event Comments, 2735 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8501
11 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On account of Mrs Jordan's indisposition the new Drama of The Castle-Spectre [advertised on playbill of 9 Dec., and originally announced for 2 Dec., but deferred for the same reason] is again obliged to be deferred for a few days. Afterpiece [in place of The Virgin Unmask'd, advertised on playbill of 9 Dec.]: The Musick by Attwood. Receipts: #237 9s. 6d. (173.8.6; 62.13.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Song: As17971107

8502
14 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 5, by Matthew Gregory Lewis; incidental music by Michael Kelly (see 2 Feb. 1798), with one selection from Jomelli. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (Monthly Mirror, Dec. 1797, pp. 357-58)]: With new Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations. The Scenery designed by the late Mr Greenwood [who died on 1 Nov.], and executed by his Son, Pugh, and others. Times, 15 Jan. 1798: This day is published The Castle-Spectre (2s.). "There is a sufficient number of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, Cells and Trap-doors to serve for a pantomimical exhibition of the most extravagant nature, and the whole may, with no breach of propriety, be termed a Speaking Pantomime, of which Kemble is made the Harlequin and Mrs Jordan the Columbine" (Morning Herald, 16 Dec.). Receipts: #316 18s. 6d. (257.6.6; 58.17.0; 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

8503
02 January 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces Nina, but "Last night the grand tragic opera of Semiramide was revived, in which Mme Banti and Viganoni received all their usual applause. [In the new dance] there is a charming pas de deux by Didelot and Rose" (Morning Chronicle, 3 Jan.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramide

Dance: End I: Divertisement Ballet, composed by Gallet, La Chasse d' Amour- [see below]; End Opera: Ariadne et Bacchus, as17971216

8504
09 January 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy [i.e. Secrets Worth Knowing, advertised on playbill of 8 Jan.] is unavoidably deferred till Thursday, on account of the Indisposition of two Principal Performers. Receipts: #187 18s. 6d. (173.6.6; 14.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Quixotte

8505
09 January 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera: With entire new scenes by Marinari

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramide

Dance: As17980102

Music: In opera: the favourite air of Guglielmi-Mme Banti; accompanied on the violin-Viotti

8506
11 January 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald (his Miscellaneous Poems, 1801, p. 88). Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (London Chronicle, 12 Jan.)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Morning Herald, 14 Apr. 1798: This Day is published Secrets Worth Knowing (2s.). Receipts: #311 6s. (307.9; 3.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Quixotte

8507
18 January 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On account of the Indisposition of a principal performer, the new Comedy of Knave or Not [avertised on playbill of 17 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday next. Receipts: #325 0s. 6d. (208.5.6; 111.13.0; 5.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8508
23 January 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On account of the indisposition of Suett the New Comedy of Knave or Not [advertised on playbill of 22 Jan.] is obliged to deferred till Thursday next. Receipts: #388 18s. (264.6.6; 122.7.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8509
12 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Merry Wives of Windsor, advertised on playbill of 10 Feb.] Afterpiece [1st time; BALL. P 1 (?), by John Cartwright Cross. Airs (T. Woodfall, 1798)]: The Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations entirely new. The Music by Reeve. The Scenery painted by Richards, Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, and Blackmore. The Machinery by Cresswell, Sloper, Goostree, &c. The Dresses by Dick, Mrs Egan, &c. Receipts: #294 0s. 6d. (270.16.6; 23.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Joan of Arc; or, The Maid of Orleans

8510
20 February 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new grand Serious Opera, with Chorusses [1st time; SER 2, by Lorenzo DaPonte]; the Music composed here by Bianchi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cinna

Dance: As17980210

8511
02 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea 0

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea 3 [i

Music: End I: serenata concerto on violin-G. Ashley; End II: a new concerto, with a military rondo, on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek

Performance Comment: Ashley; End II: a new concerto, with a military rondo, on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek.

8512
10 March 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed under this title, with revised libretto by Lorenzo DaPonte, at Vienna, 1798; originally with libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, as La Dama Pastorella, at Rome, 1780]): the Music by Salieri

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cifra

Dance: As17980306

8513
13 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Musical Farce of A Devil of a Lover [advertised on playbill of 12 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred till Saturday (on account of the indisposition of a Principal Performer). Receipts: #142 14s. (138.5; 4.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: He's Much to Blame

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

8514
17 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The New Play of The Stranger [advertised on playbill of 15 Mar.] is unavoidably postponed till Thursday next. Receipts: #327 8s. (253.18.6; 70.2.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8515
24 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Benjamin Thompson, altered from Menschenhass und Reue, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue by William Linley; Epilogue by Matthew Gregory Lewis (European Magazine, Mar. 1798, p. 260)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. With Musick [by Thomas Shaw]. "Mrs Siddons was succesful in all the impassioned parts; but she cannot sustain a mixed character. She is the Muse of Tragedy herself, and when she descends from her lofty state to the level of familiar dialogue, she instantly ceases to astonish and we to admire" (Monthly Mirror, Apr. 1798, p. 234). "The dialogue must be considerably abridged, as well for the purpose of preserving the interest of the piece, as for shortening the time of representation, which is at least an hour too long, it being half past ten before the curtain dropt" [see 26 Mar.] (Morning Herald, 26 Mar.). Receipts: #420 7s. 6d. (378.11.6; 40.18.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: Incidental: Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak their songs; To welcome mirth and harmless glee-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak; I have a silent sorrow here-Mrs Bland

Dance: Incidental to mainpiece: Principal Dancer-Sga Bossi DelCaro. [These were the same in all subsequent performances, except on 5 May.

8516
26 March 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: A Naval Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Jerry Sneak (with an old new song)-Cussans; Sir Jacob Jollup-Meredith; Bruin-Wilkinson; Roger-Harley; Major Sturgeon-Egerton; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Egerton.

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Song: 2nd piece: With Songs-

8517
17 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 2nd piece [1st time; D 5, by Joseph Trapp, adapted from Siri Brahe; oder, Die Neugierigen, by J. A. Gruttschreiber, itself a translation of Siri Brahe, by Gustavus III. Larpent MS 1206; not published. Prologue and Epilogue by John Taylor (Poems, I, 56-57)]: Written by the Late King of Sweden. Times, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 73, New-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #231 16s. (138.12.0; 4.10.6; tickets: 88.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude; Or, An Escape From France

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

8518
21 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 1st piece: The Airs (with the exception of When sable Night) new composed for the Occasion. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 15, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #528 10s. 6d. (275.9.6; 5.10.0; tickets: 247.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: Forecastle Fun; or, Saturday Night at Sea

Song: End 1st piece: All I wish in her obtaining-Mme Mara, Incledon; In the course of the Evening: Black Ey'd Susan, Old Towler, Young William, The Storm-Incledon

8519
25 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17970929, but Spado-Quick; Lorenza (with new Songs, in particular, Agitata)-Mme Mara; Rapino-_; Calvette-_; Oft on a plat of rising Ground-_.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: As17971012

8520
10 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Lionel-Incledon; Col. Oldboy-Munden; Sir John Flowerdale-Murray; Jessamy-Betterton; Harman-Clarke; Jenkins-Townsend; Diana-Mrs Mountain; Lady Oldboy-Mrs Davenport; Jenny-Mrs Martyr; Clarissa (with new songs)-Mme Mara (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: As17980430

8521
11 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Piece of A Day in Rome [advertised on playbill of 10 May] is obliged to be withdrawn till next season [see 11 Oct. 1798], on account of Fawcett's illness. [3rd piece in place of Botheration, advertised as above.] Receipts: #59 0s. 6d. (36.15.0; 22.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: An Address to the Audience, as17980209

8522
15 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Mr and Mrs Knight

Entertainment: Singing and Monologues.End: a Dialogue Duet (1st time), The Pledge of Love; or, British Tar's Farewell-Incledon, Mrs Mountain (the Music entirely New); The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs (including his Own Wig, The Doctor's Wig, Counsellor's Wig, The Lover's Wig, Coachman's Wig, etc.)-Knight; Ode on the Passions-Mrs Pope; Old Towler-Incledon

Performance Comment: End: a Dialogue Duet (1st time), The Pledge of Love; or, British Tar's Farewell-Incledon, Mrs Mountain (the Music entirely New); The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs (including his Own Wig, The Doctor's Wig, Counsellor's Wig, The Lover's Wig, Coachman's Wig, etc.)-Knight; Ode on the Passions-Mrs Pope; Old Towler-Incledon.

8523
17 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On account of the Indisposition of a principal performer the new Comedy of She's Eloped! [advertised on playbill of 16 May] is obliged to be deferred till Saturday next. Receipts: #266 (192.11; 68.5; 5.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8524
21 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409, but added; Mrs Powell [the only time her name is in the playbill of this play (and see17971214)]; Wentworth_; Gibbon_; Original Epilogue-Mrs Jordan; (for that night only) a new Additional Dialogue[, written by M. G. Lewis, Esq., Author of the Play,-Mrs Jordan, Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Escape

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

8525
08 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Times, 5 June: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red Lion-square. Receipts: #635 16s. 6d. (46.14.0; 55.0.0; 1.14.0; tickets: 532.8.6) (charge: #220 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End II 1st piece: I never lov'd any dear Mary but you-Dignum (composed by Hook); End 1st piece: The Fight off Camperdown-Dignum; End I 2nd piece: The Town and Country-Dignum (composed [i.e. words] by Capt. Morris); End 2nd piece: an Answer to the above, Country and Town-Dignum