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10969 results for: Keyword - New Theatre on Wind-mill Hill
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10651
15 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 11 years. With new Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #142 3s. 6d. (105.17.0; 35.13.6; 0.13.0)

Performances

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

Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Dance: End: As17870113; Afterpiece: With a Grand Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, Miss Fuse, the Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

10652
10 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The New Comedy of Seduction [announced on playbill of 8 Mar.] is unavoidably deferred 'till Monday. Receipts: #128 5s. (98.3; 28.13; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

10653
12 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft. Prologue by the author (Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.). Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (Knapp, 81)]: With new Scenery, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar. 1787: This Day is published Seduction (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #187 15. (162.14.0; 24.1.6; 0.17.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

10654
14 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Robert Jephson. Prologue by Edmond Malone. Epilogue by John Courtenay (see text)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 18 Dec. 1787: This Day is published Julia (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (201.5.0; 15.11.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, The Italian Lover

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Bensley, Aickin, Whitfield, Packer, Chaplin, Benson, Kemble, Mrs Brereton, Mrs Ward, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Siddons. Cast from text (Charles Dilly, 1787): Marcellus-Palmer; Durazzo-Bensley; Manoa-Aickin; Camillo-Whitfield; Duke of Genoa-Packer; Mentevole-Kemble; Olympia-Mrs Brereton; Fulvia-Mrs Ward; Nerina-Miss Tidswell; Julia-Mrs Siddons; Chaplin, Benson are unassigned; Prologue-Kemble; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: Camillo Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

10655
17 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera; the music by Tarchi. Mme Mara being indisposed, the new serious Opera, L'Amore Protetto dal Cielo; o sia, La Vestale, is unavoidably postponed; and Sga Benini will appear this evening for the first time in the character of Virginia. Receipts: #104 0s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870116; End Opera: La Jardiniere, as17870322

10656
23 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, probably by Robert Baddeley. Larpent MS 765; not published]. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 766; not published]: The Overture and Music entirely new. Public Advertiser, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 (96.3.0; 14.1.6; 0.18.6; tickets: 173.17.0) (charge: #105 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act II mainpiece) Jewish Courtship

Afterpiece Title: The Mistake of a Minute

10657
01 May 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; by Carlo Francesco Badini]; the music entirely new by Venanzio Rauzzini. Receipts: #178 16s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vestale; O Sia, L'amore Protetto Dal Cielo

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870428; End Opera: Sylvie, as17870322but Mlle _Mozon

10658
09 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: The Overture, new Airs, and Accompaniments by Dr Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Attorney

Cast
Role: Lord Millamour Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Curzola

Dance: As17870702

10659
15 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Grecian Daughter, advertised on playbill of 12 Oct.] Afterpiece: As originally Performed. With new Dresses, the Original Music, Scenery and Decorations. "When the hissing began there was an attempt by the Clown to put the audience in humour, by rolling over and over across the stage with a woman, or a man dressed in women's clothes. If this were a coup d'oeil for the Galleries, it was certainly an insult to the Boxes...We are glad to say that obscenity failed to rescue folly" (World, 16 Oct.). Receipts: #262 4s. (261.3; 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice; or, The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

10660
22 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Dresses and Decorations. Afterpiece: With Alterations. Receipts: #260 8s. 6d. (257.6.0; 3.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander the Great; or, The Conquest of Persia Author(s): Krazinsky Miller

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: II: the Grand Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Cubitt, Brown, Darley, Doyle, Rock, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

10661
26 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Farce of The Farmer [advertised on playbill of 25 Oct., and see 31 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the sudden Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #154 17s. 6d. (150.11.6; 4.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander the Great; or, The Conquest of Persia Author(s): Krazinsky Miller

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: As17871022

10662
30 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Dresses and Decorations entirely new. [Afterpiece in place of The Distress'd Baronet, advertised on playbill of 29 Nov.] Receipts: #75 15s. (58.11.0; 16.15.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

10663
11 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Performed but once [on 14 Apr. 1787]. With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. [Prologue by Edmond Malone; Epilogue by John Courtenay (see text). Afterpiece in place of The First Floor, advertised on playbill of 10 Dec.] Receipt2: #223 10s. (195.13.0; 27.8.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, The Italian Lover

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Kemble, Bensley, Aickin, Whitfield, Packer, Chaplin, Benson, Wroughton, Mrs Kemble, Mrs Ward, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Siddons. [Cast from text (Charles Dilly, 1787): Mentevole-Kemble; Durazzo-Bensley; Manoa-Aickin; Camillo-Whitfield; Duke of Genoa-Packer; Marcellus-Wroughton (in text: Palmer); Olympia-Mrs Kemble; Fulvia-Mrs Ward; Nerina-Miss Tidswell; Julia-Mrs Siddons; unassigned-Chaplin, Benson; Prologue-Kemble; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Camillo Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

10664
22 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Public Advertiser, 26 Dec. prints one of Ferdinand 's new songs, Mark'd you her eye of heavenly blue?] Receipts: #238 11s. (235.12.6; 2.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

10665
26 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by Ralph Wewitzer. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 28 Dec.]: With new Music, Scenery, Dresses, Machinery, and Decorations. The Music composed by Walter? Clagget. The Scenes designed and executed by Richards, Carver, Hodgins and others. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Receipts: #192 2s. (188.12; 3.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake; or, The Regions of Fancy

Dance: [not listed on playbill]. "A dance based on a print entitled The Long Minuet (by H. W. Bunbury) was well attempted" (World, 27 Dec.)

10666
15 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera, in 2 acts, never performed [in London; 1st performed at Rome, 1778, as L'Italiana in Londra]. The Music composed by Cimarosa, under the direction of Mazzinghi. Receipts: #84 11s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locandiera

Dance: End I: The Military Dance, as17880112, but Henry; a +Pas de Deux (composed by Noverre)-Didelot, Mlle Coulon; Pas de Deux (composed by Vestris)-Vestris, Mlle Hilligsberg; End Opera: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

10667
28 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 5 Nov. 1779]. The Music chiefly composed by Hook, the rest compiled from the most eminent Masters. With new Songs and other Alterations [and restorations; the names of almost all the characters have been changed (see 23 Nov. 1778)]. Public Advertiser, 12 Jan.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Billington, No. 53, Poland-street. Receipts: #365 3s. 6d. (244.0.6; 2.12.0; tickets: 118.11.0) [charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End II: Leap Year-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In afterpiece: (for that Night only) Sweet Bird-, from L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel Mrs Billington; accompanied on the flute-W. Parke

10668
25 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb]: Some of the Airs compiled from the best Masters; the rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompaniments, &c. by Linley? Sen. With variety of new Scenery ["A view of Calcuttav, from a painting done on the spot by Hodges, opens the piece" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.)], Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar. 1788: This Day is published Love in the East (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #207 8s. 6d. (172.8.0; 33.9.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The East; Or, Adventures Of Twelve Hours

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Cast
Role: Waiter Actor: Phillimore

10669
29 March 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Bertie Greatheed. Prologue by the Rev. David Williames. Epilogue by Hester Lynch Piozzi (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 20 May 1788: This Day is published The Regent (1s. 6d.). Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 29 May 1779]. "I do think that Mrs Siddons for Vigour of Action, pathetic Tone of Voice, & a sort of Radiance which comes round her in Scenes where strong heroic Virtues are displayed, never had her Equal" (Thraliana, II, 715). Receipts: #226 13s. (211.1; 14.4; O.18; tickets not come in:0.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Kemble, Aickin, Barrymore, Packer, Bates, Wilson, Phillimore, Chaplin, Benson, Alfred, Spencer, WRoughton, Mrs Ward, Mrs Siddons. [Cast from text (J. Robson and W. Clarke, 1788): Manuel-Kemble; Solerno-Aickin; Ansaldo-Barrymore; Gerbin-Packer; Diego-Bates; Servant-Wilson; Banditti-Phillimore, Chaplin; Pedro-Benson; Gomez-Wroughton; Carlos-Master Gregson; Paula-Mrs Ward; Dianora-Mrs Siddons; Alfred, Spencer; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Banditti Actor: Phillimore, Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The King-Whitfield; Richard-R. Palmer; Joe (with a song)-Williames; Lord Lurewell-Benson; Courtiers-Phillimore; Peggy-Miss Collins; Margery-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Courtiers Actor: Phillimore

10670
08 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Lady Eglantine Wallace. Prologue by Joseph Jekyll (World, 14 Apr.). Epilogue by Thomas Morris, with five lines added by Edward Topham (Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: This Day is published The Ton (18d.). "On the next representation we hope the other performers will not give the audience reason to believe that the prompter has a part in the play from his frequent audibility" (Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.). Receipts: #295 18s. 6d. (294.9.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ton; Or, Follies Of Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

10671
17 April 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre. Tickets to be had of Noverre, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street. 2nd ballet: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour-[See17871208]; End Opera: Adela de Ponthieu-, composed by Noverre [See17880419]

10672
24 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of Animal Magnetism [advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday next. [1st piece in place of The Guardian, advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #159 16s. 6d. (154.1.0; 5.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: As17880310

10673
08 May 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Marchesi. A new Serious Opera [composed by Cimarosa; 1st performed at Vicenza, 1784]. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets to be had of Marchesi, No. 37, Upper James-street, Golden-square. There will be no Opera on Saturday on account of Whitsun Eve. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17880417; End Singing: L'Amour et Psiche-[see17880129]

Song: End Opera: Marchesi will return thanks to the Audience in a piece of Music of his own composing, piece of Music-Marchesi

10674
10 July 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by George Colman, ynger. Prologue by the Hon. Francis North. Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 2 Sept. 1788: This Day is published Ways and Means (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means; Or, A Trip To Dover

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Bannister Jun., Aickin, Williamson, R. Palmer, Moss, Usher, Barrett, Burton, Phillimore, Johnson, Lyons, Painter, Besford, Bannister, Mrs Webb, Miss Prideaux, Mrs Love, Miss Francis, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Kemble. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788): Random-Palmer; Sir David Dunder-Bannister Jun.; Old Random-Aickin; Scruple-Williamson; Tiptoe-R. Palmer; Quirk-Moss; Paul Peery-Usher; Carney-Barrett; Packet and Coach Passengers-Burton, Phillimore; English Waiter-Lyons; Bailiff-Painter; French Waiter-Besford; Roundfee-Bannister; Lady Dunder-Mrs Webb; Kitty-Miss Prideaux; Mrs Peery-Mrs Love; [Other] Packet and Coach Passengers-Miss Francis, Mrs Gaudry; Harriet-Mrs Kemble; unassigned-Johnson; Prologue-Palmer; Epilogue-Palmer. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Packet and Coach Passengers Actor: Burton, Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

10675
09 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Mariana Starke. Prologue by George Colman, elder. Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace; Or, A Voyage Of Love

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Baddeley, Williamson, R. Palmer, Kemble, Wewitzer, Burton, Johnson, Phillimore, Lyons, Painter, Farley, Abbot, Bannister Jun., Mrs Kemble, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Edwin, Miss Brangin, Miss Francis, Miss Farren. [Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1789), and European Magazine, Aug. 1788, p. 100: Lieutenant Dormer-Palmer; Resident-Baddeley; Mr Edwards-Williamson; Supple-R. Palmer; Mr David Northcote-Kemble; Mazinghi Dowza-Wewitzer; Caesar-Burton; Gentlemen-Johnson, Lyons, Painter, Abbot; Jefferys-Bannister Jun.; Miss Louisa Moreton-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Tartar-Mrs Lefevre; Mrs Garnish-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Gobble-Mrs Edwin; Miss Bronze-Miss Brangin; Ladies-Miss Francis, Miss Palmer, Mrs Gaudry; Miss Eliza Moreton-Miss Farren; unassigned-Phillimore, Farley; Prologue-Palmer; Epilogue-Miss Farren. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: Phillimore, Farley

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt