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8638 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields
We found 5160 matches on Event Comments, 2740 matches on Performance Title, 1829 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6351
28 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: For the 1st Time compress'd [anonymously] into 2 Acts. MacNally brought [Arthur Murphy] to Covent-garden Theatre to see [Robin Hood]; when, to the surprise of the author...the opera was that night performed as an afterpiece, having been, without his knowledge, cut down into two acts" (O'Keeffe, I, 45). 3rd piece: Not acted these 16 years [acted 12 Dec. 1780]. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (209.14.0; 3.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: 3rd piece to Conclude: a Dance-

6352
02 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre--and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #396 14s. 6d. (394.8.0; 2.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

6353
10 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [never previously acted at this theatre. Baker had acted at Dublin and at Margate (Thespian Dictionary)]. Receipts: #214 2s. 6d. (188.12.0; 24.8.6; 0.19.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17891204

6354
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Heiress Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

6355
10 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Bland was from the Liverpool theatre.] Receipts: #218 16s. (175.0.0; 41.1.0; 2.12.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Dance: End: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

6356
18 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Performance Comment: As17891002, but Rosa-Mrs Warrell (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17900129

6357
19 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. No Money to be returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah, Preceded By god Save The King(coronation Anthems)

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Master Bridgtower, Son to the African Prince

6358
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

6359
27 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: In 3 Acts. Not acted these 4 years. 3rd piece: Never acted at this Theatre. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, in Bow-street. Receipts: #346 0s. 6d. (254.19.6; 3.8.0; tickets: 87.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

6360
22 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Boyes was from the Worcester theatre.] Receipts: #206 19s. (178.12.0; 25.16.6; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

6361
01 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17891106, but Shylock-King (1st appearance in that character at this theatre); Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Salanio-Evatt.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17891106

6362
20 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who, from their Infirmities, shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. [Prologue by Thomas Hull.] Gazetteer, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, Treasurer to the Institution, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. The Fund at Covent Garden Theatre was instituted in the Year 1765, and confirmed by Act of Parliament, 1776. It has been almost entirely supported by the weekly Contributions of the respective Members, and no Application has been made ot the Public towards its Increase for the space of 19 Years. Notwithstanding the utmost Oeconomy has been practised to promote the Advancement of this Fund, the whole capital Sum hitherto amassed is now become so inadequate to the unavoidable annual Disbursements that the Committee hold it incumbent on them to solicit the Patronage and Encouragement of the Public, at the within specified Performance. "The capital of this fund, invested in various stocks, amounted to #27,710 in the year 1824" (Brayley, 14). Receipts: #128 11s. (104.15; 15.16; tickets: 8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17900417

Entertainment: Monologue. Original Prologue to the Institution [of the Theatrical Fund]-Holman

6363
26 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini. [Mrs Delpini's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 28 May 1789.] Public Advertiser, 26 May: Tickets to be had of Delpini, No. 17, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 2s. (153.2.6; 5.9.6; tickets: 126.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: Preceding: As17891113

6364
14 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00, and begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. [Address by George Colman, ynger (London Chronicle, 21 June).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: Monologue. Before: Occasional Address-Bensley

6365
17 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st two pieces in place of The Chapter of Accidents, advertised on playbill of 16 June. Miss Fontenelle was from the Edinburgh theatre.] 3rd piece: Never performed here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Bannister Jun.; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Sir Jasper Wilding-Burton; Beaufort-Evatt; Old Philpot-Moss; Corinna-Miss Palmer; Maria-Mrs Goodall.
Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: As17900614

6366
26 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Waterhouse (from the Theatre Royal Crow Street, Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage); Lockit-Cubitt; Filch-R. Palmer; Mat o' th' Mint-Chapman; Ben Budge-Abbott; Peachum-Moss; Lucy-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Diana Trapes-Mrs Powell; Polly-Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Dance: III: Hornpipe (in Character)-Byrn

6367
24 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: The Manager of the Italian Opera most respecfully acquaints the Public and the Nobility that this Theatre is going under an alteration for the ensuing winter, which will prevent the Opera taking place, as was intended for this Evening.

6368
30 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. [Miss Webb's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 30 July 1788.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Dance: As17900626

6369
11 September 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No Money to be returned. 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 2 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.] Mainpiece: The Sixtieth Night [but in the previous season (its 1st) the play had been acted 56 nights. On this evening Bannister Jun. acted in the mainpiece at dl and in the 3rd piece at the hay.]. Account-Book, 16 Nov.: Paid Jarvis for 4,000 Songs of Haunted Tower #28 4s. Receipts: #256 2s. 6d. (214.12.0; 40.10.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

6370
13 September 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 2 Nov.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. No Money to be returned. 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.] Mainpiece: In I a Masquerade Scene [incident to the Play. Receipts: #216 9s. 6d. (213.11.0; 2.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with Solemn Dirge, Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Cubitt, Reeve, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Warrell, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Martyr

6371
18 September 1790 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Gazetteer, 20 Sept.: [On Saturday morning] official notice was given from the Lord Chamberlain's Office to shut the Theatres [because of the death of the Duke of Cumberland, brother of George III]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

6372
29 September 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Music the 13th, 15th, 17th Inst. #23 9s. 6d.; Properties Ditto #2 5s.; Kettle Drum Ditto 15s.; Wardrobe #11 1s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 16s. 6d.; Chorus Singers #3; Cox for Scenemen #28 2s. 7d.; Hodgins [painter] #4 4s.; Extra Music #2 5s.; Richards, painter #20. [Wilson's last appearance at this theatre was on 20 Jan. 1786.] Receipts: #222 2s. 6d. (208.16.6; 13.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

6373
20 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Quick; Orlando-Holman; Amiens (with songs)-Johnstone; Adam-Hull; Duke Senior-Powel; Corin-Cross; William-C. Powell; Le Beu-Macready; Sylvius-Evatt; Oliver-Davies; Duke Frederick-Thompson; Charles-Cubitt; Jaques-Aickin; Caelia-Mrs Mountain; Audrey-Mrs Rock; Phoebe-Miss Stuart; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Esten (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

Dance: End I: The Irish Lilt-Mr Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford; In V: Dance of Forresters-

6374
04 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece [1st time: CO 2, by John O'Keeffe; altered by the author from his The Czar. Larpent MS 881; not published]: In which will be introduced a few Scenes and Songs from The Czar, performed last season [on 8 Mar. 1790]. The Music composed and compiled by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Harlowe was from Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #194 11s. 6d. (181.18.6; 12.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fugitive

6375
02 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Munden was from the Chester theatre. "His person is rather under the middle size, his figure good, his features more expressive than anything we have seen for many years, his voice powerful and melodious, and his articulation the clearest and most rapid we ever witnessed" (World, 3 Dec.). "Without the aid of grimace or buffoonery, he gave all the effect to the part that the author intended, and in his general stile of playing he seems to have studied nature more than any living model" (Gazetteer, 3 Dec.).] Receipts: #238 17s. 6d. (228.14.6; 10.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady- [See17901204]