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5325 results for: Keyword - R
We found 6691 matches on Roles/Actors, 1726 matches on Performance Comments, 226 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Author.

4051
11 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #162 6s. 6d. (112.4.0; 45.8.6; 4.9.0; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Performance Comment: As17910106.

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Performance Comment: As17901227, but Harlequin (1st time)-Fairbrother; Clown-Dubois; Statuary-_; Gardener-_.

4052
14 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Rivals; afterpiece of No Song No Supper, both announced on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #301 4s. (282.3.0; 18.9.6; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: As17901116.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916.

4053
16 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #204 0s. 6d. (151.17.0; 49.4.0; 2.14.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17901103, but Curio-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17901120, but Signor Pasticio Ritornello-_; Under Prompter-_; Italian Girls-Mrs _Bland; Master of the Horse-_; Beef@eater-_; Justice-_; Son-_; Constable-_; Nieces-_; Justice's Lady-_; Confidant-_.

4054
17 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Edition of the Farce to be had at the Theatre. [Afterpiece in place of The Romp, advertised on playbill of 16 Feb.] Receipts: #192 2s. 6d. (160.17.0; 30.17.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17910209, but Maria-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17901020.

4055
19 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #213 11s. (174.4.0; 36.19.6; 2.2.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910210.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Performance Comment: As17901002.

4056
22 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Bon Ton, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] Receipts: #211 8s. (169.3; 40.0; 2.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910210.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17901016, but Old Philpot-Baddeley; Will-_; Tom-_.

4057
24 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #236 9s. (184.16.0; 47.15.6; 3.15.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17901111.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17901209.

4058
25 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 15s. (101.7.0; 38.6.6; 6.19.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17901103.

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: As17910114, but Aurora-Miss Collins.

4059
26 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #223 8s. 6d. (172.1.0; 50.5.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910210.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916.

4060
28 February 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #311 6s. 6d. (290.17.0; 19.6.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17901101.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17901209.

4061
03 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #208 16s. (162.19.0; 43.19.6; 1.10.0; tickets not come in: 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17901110, but Maria-Mrs Crouch; omitted: song. omitted: song.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916.

4062
07 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Romp, but "Mrs Jordan ill" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitute play).] Receipts: #245 4s. 6d. (202.8.0; 41.9.6; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17910303 .

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: See17901214.

4063
08 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #239 5s. 6d. (188.6.0; 49.18.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17901120.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17901120, but Signor Pasticio Ritornello-_; Italian Girls-Mrs _Bland.

4064
10 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #238 17s. 6d. (188.6.0; 49.8.6; 1.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17901206.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17901209.

4065
15 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #241 6s. 6d. (202.9.0; 36.0.6; 2.4.6; tickets not come in: 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910210.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17910128.

4066
17 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #217 16s. 6d. (170.3.0; 46.7.6; 1.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17901027, but Phebe-Miss Barnes.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17910308but Under Prompter-_; Justice's Lady-_; Confidant-_.

Song: As17901027

4067
28 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Fairy Favour, advertised on playbill of 26 Mar.] Receipts: #329 13s. 6d. (318.2.0; 11.1.6; 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Duke of Venice-Fawcett; Brabantio-Aickin; Gratiano-Phillimore; Lodovico-Packer; Othello-Kemble; Cassio-Barrymore; Iago-Bensley; Roderigo-Dodd; Montano-Whitfield; Desdemona-Mrs Siddons; AEmilia-Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17901214, but John-_; ThomasWilliam-_.

4068
02 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #292 4s. (259.1; 31.12; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910319but Characters-Barrymore, _Palmer, _Hollingsworth.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916, but Miss Pickle-Mrs Booth; Margery-Mrs Heard.

4069
07 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #254 1s. 6d. (207.14.0; 43.8.0; 2.4.6; tickets not come in: 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17910331 .

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17910331 .

4070
09 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #266 5s. 6d. (234.17.0; 29.12.0; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910402.

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: As17901112.

4071
14 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #216 (163.4.0; 49.1.6; 3.9.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: As17901018, but Shoemaker-_; Taylor-_; Hosier-_; Jeweller-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916.

4072
26 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Gazetteer, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dodd, No. 8, Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #270 4s. (81.16.0; 19.9.6; 0.7.6; tickets: 168.11.0) (charge: #116 2s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17901101, but Sir Anthony Absolute-Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17901020.

Song: End: (for this night only) Mad Bess-Mrs Crouch, in character

4073
29 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Orlando, but "I had fallen from the Ladder in my Book-room, and bruised my Leg. Mr Barrymore acted Orlando for me" (Kemble Mem.).] Oracle, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, next the Stage-Door. Receipts: #328 18s. (63.0.0; 17.3.6; 2.9.6; tickets: 246.5.0) (charge: #116 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17901027, but Orlando-Barrymore; Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Corin-Waldron; Sylvius-Bland; William-Burton; Charles-Phillimore.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17910105, but Dapper-_.

Dance: End I: The Russian Minuet-Master D'Egville, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17901027

4074
02 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #239 5s. (205.10; 33.7; 0.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Performance Comment: As17910416.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performance Comment: As17900916.

4075
03 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Prince Hoare, based on La Grotta di Trofonio, by Giovanni Battista Casti. Not in Larpent MS; not published]; Written by the Author of No Song No Supper. The Music composed principally by Storace [partly adapted from Salieri, composer of Casti's opera; one song each by Anna Storace, Thomas Attwood, Giovanni Paisiello, Richard Suett]. Oracle, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 26, Bridges-street. Receipts: #280 2s. (100.12.0; 33.13.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 141.3.0) (charge: #119 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: As17901105, but Miss Neville-Mrs Crouch (1st appearance in that character); Charles-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

Performance Comment: Characters by Sedgwick, Bannister Jun., Kelly, Suett, Dignum, Fox, Sga Storace, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Williames, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp. Cast from Songs (no pub., 1791): Aristo-Sedgwick; Dorilas-Bannister Jun.; Amintas-Kelly; Dromo-Suett; Corin-Dignum; Trophonius-Fox; Daphne-Sga Storace; Phaedra-Mrs Crouch; Dorcas-Mrs Williames; Alinet-Mrs Bland; 1st Spirit-Miss DeCamp.