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6809 results for: Keyword - New York
We found 3237 matches on Event Comments, 2688 matches on Performance Title, 1650 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

6701
15 June 1797 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Didelot. Tickets to be had of Didelot, No. 8, Hay-market. 2nd ballet: 1st time, composed by Didelot, the Music entirely new by Cesare Bossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: End I: Le Rendez@vous, as17970513; Minuet de la Cour, as17970406; End Opera: Acis et Galatie- [see17970617

6702
24 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The New Musical Farce [The Irish Legacy, advertised on playbill of 23 June] is unavoidably postponed till Monday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

6703
06 July 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Upsdell is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1797 season.] 3rd piece: Never acted here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Chapter of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Soldiers

6704
08 July 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

6705
15 August 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; MD 3, by James Boaden]: With new Musick, Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Marinari, Rooker, &c. Morning Herald, 26 Aug. 1797: This Day is published The Italian Monk (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Song: 2nd piece: General Chorus [of Assassins and Nuns (text)]-Linton, Brown, Lyons, Aylmer, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Mrs Andrews, Miss Menage, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brown, Mrs Benson, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Leserve

6706
03 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. On account of the Indisposition of Master Elliot the new Musical Entertainment of The Chimney Corner [advertised on playbill of 30 Sept.] is deferred till Saturday next. Receipts: #303 18s. (214.1; 89.4; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

6707
04 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Acted but once [on 23 May 1797]. The Music and Overture entirely new, composed by Hook. With appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. Receipts: #228 0s. 6d. (203.16.0; 24.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Diamond Cut Diamond; or, The Venetian Revels

6708
07 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On account of the Indisposition of the lady who was to have appeared in the character of Lady Emily, The Heiress [advertised on playbill of 5 Oct.] is deferred till Saturday next. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Walsh Porter. Larpent MS 1180; not published]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Songs, Duetts, &c. composed by Kelly. The Overture by Shaw. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. [Master Elliot had previously appeared in the oratorios at cg.] Receipts: #368 14s. 6d. (239.10.0; 127.16.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Chimney Corner

Song: In V: song-Mrs Bland

6709
20 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Compressed for First Time into two acts, with several new Airs, &c. [Miss Sims was from the Theatre, Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #259 17s. (253.15; 6.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Dance: As17971018

6710
21 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue and Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Morning Herald, 3 Nov. 1797: This Day is published Cheap Living (2s.). Receipts: #348 14s. 6d. (283.4.0; 62.18.6; 2.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cheap Living

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Entertainment.As17971019

6711
10 November 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to the Nore

Performance Comment: As17971109, but added to Bannister Jun.: (With a new song, A Salt Eel for Mynheer-Bannister, by permission of Dibdin).

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Dance: In 2nd piece: As17971109; IV: a Masquerade Scene-; a Minuet-D'Egville, Miss Goddard

6712
09 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions from Dryden; the Musick by Purcell and Dr Arne, and the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #142 7s. 6d. (79.17.6; 60.10.0; 2.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Caulfield, Danby, Brown, Fisher, Evans, Phillimore, Ms Leak, Ms Arne, Ms Wentworth, Ms Butler, Ms Jackson, Ms Benson, Ms Menage, Ms Roffey, Ms Gaudry

Monologue: V: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick; Amphitrite-Miss Dufour

6713
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

6714
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

6715
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

6716
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

6717
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

6718
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

6719
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

6720
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

6721
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

6722
17 February 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Molini is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] "Mrs Jordan...has taken considerable pains with a young lady of the name of Moline [sic], who, under her tuition, has frequently performed at Richmond theatre" (Monthly Visitor, Feb. 1798, p. 175). Receipts: #209 (120.15.6; 85.1.6; 3.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

6723
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

6724
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.

6725
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