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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.

2151
03 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris and Lewes. Charges #64 10s. Balance due the actors #5 1s 6d. Morris 40 346 #93 7s. Lewes 79 303 236 #88 16s. Money #59 8s. 6d.@Total House Value #241 11s. 6d.@ Reciv'd from Proprieters of the Gazetter for this season #50 for exclusive rights to publishing Play Notices (Account Book). Receipts: #59 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17680116, but Trinket-Lewes; Paris-_; William-_; Toilette-_; Chambermaid-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17680411 but Diana-Mrs Baker; Harlequin-Lewes.

Ballet: III: Wapping Landlady. Double Hornpipe, As17680416

Performance Comment: Double Hornpipe, As17680416.

2152
12 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Stede. Every Man in His Humour oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of a principal performer. Tickets deliver'd for Every Man will be taken. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to Bennet and Stede #23 13s. covered by #45 17s. to Bennet from his tickets (Box 6; Pit 195; Gallery 151) and by #33 14s. to Stede from his tickets (Box 16; Pit 102; Gallery 144). Receipts: #40 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17680223, but Sir Francis-Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17680503, but Harlequin-Miles.

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 1st time (Scholar to Fishar)

2153
13 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit for Dibdin, but not acted,] Princess Louisa Anne, sister to His Majesty died in the morning. All Theatres and Gardens closed for 8 days. Rec'd of Mrs Squibb for her deficiency the 10th Inst. #11 5s. Rec'd of Davis for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. Received of Perry for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. (Account Book).*c1768 05 13 cg [Benefit for Dibdin, but not acted,] Princess Louisa Anne, sister to His Majesty died in the morning. All Theatres and Gardens closed for 8 days. Rec'd of Mrs Squibb for her deficiency the 10th Inst. #11 5s. Rec'd of Davis for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. Received of Perry for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: The Maid of the Mill. As17680427 but to avoid confusion: Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir Harry-Hartry (of Drury Lane); Giles-Mahoon; Mervin-Gentleman, 1st appearance this stage; Fairfield-Gibson; Ralph-Dibdin; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Mrs Baker; Fanny-Mrs Thompson; Patty-Mrs Pinto; End Act I, a Dance incidental to the opera-Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: The Musical Lady. As17671208.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

2154
30 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Sarjant and Son (book and box-keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the 16th will be taken. Charges #81 15s. 6d. Deficit to Sarjant #57 4s. covered by #167 2s. from tickets (Box 450; Pit 272; Gallery 138) (Account Book). Rec'd the 1!2 value of tickets for 28th inst. from Doe, Reed, Robson, Rose, Pilfold, Roberts, Dixon, and Wooley (Account Book). Receipts: #57 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17671110, but Manly-Jackson (from Theatre Royal, Dublin); Sir Francis-Shuter; Jenny-Miss Ward, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17680526.

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307

2155
31 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Casey, Dumai and Bates. Charges #64 12s. Deficit to beneficaries #25 10s. 6d. covered by individual incomes from tickets: Casey #14 4s. (Box 18; Pit 34; Gallery 46); Redman #25 6s. (Box 5; Pit 77; Gallery 125); Dumay #56 12s. (Box 106; Pit 182; Gallery 103); Bates #17 10s. (Pit 48; Gallery 103) (Account Book). Receiv'd of Fransdorf 1!2 value of his tickets 28th inst....#4 2s. 6d. Receipts: #39 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17680411 but Ratcliff-Bennet; Lady Anne-Mrs Lessingham; Duchess of York-Mrs Ferguson; Tressel-Casey; Add Oxford-Redman; Tyrrel-Bates (playbill). Duchess of York-Miss Vincent (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Performance Comment: As17680427.

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Dumai, a Young Lady his scholar; End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

2156
01 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Doors By Particular Desire will be opened at Five. The Play to begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six. Played for the King of Denmark. [The anecodote is recorded by Genest, V, 237, that the king fell asleep. Annoyed, Mrs Yates, playing Alicia, drew near his Box and with violent exertion of voice cried out in her part "O Thou False Lord!" The King aroused declared he would not be married to a woman with such a voice for the world. The London Evening Post, however, for 10 Oct. states, "Mrs Yates had the greatest honour done her, after playing Jane Shore, by the King of Denmark going to her and thanking her for the pleasure she had given him." (Winston MS 10).] Receipts: #157 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17680928.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

2157
19 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Program By Desire. Receipts: #175 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17680922.

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Performance Comment: As17680922.

2158
20 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #131 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17680929, but Sir Francis-Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17681010.

2159
05 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Theatrical Monitor No 7, printed a list of 84 actors, actresses, and dancers belonging to the company, who signed a Petition to the Town in favor of Colman. See Harvard Library ed. of Memoirs of Macklin, II, part 2, p. 14.] Receipts: #115 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17680922, but Tressel-Wroughton.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17681029, but Damaetas-Barnshaw.

2160
12 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #178 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17680928.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17681105.

2161
22 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #159 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17681104, but MacMorris-Fox; Williams-Barrington.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17680922.

2162
25 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #151 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17681020, but Sir Francis-Shuter.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Performance Comment: Moor-Mahon; Gubbins-Shuter; Dragon-Real; Mauxalinda-Mrs Thompson; Margery-Mrs Pinto.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

2163
31 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17681124.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17681226.

2164
27 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #196 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17680928, but Hastings-Smith.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17690126.

2165
16 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants by 4 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for Monday the 16th will be taken. [This was a "Clear Benefit" for which Powell receiv'd #178 8s. plus #105 from sale of 420 Box tickets, and was charged nothing for the House, Wardrobe, Drums or Candles.] Receipts: #178 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17690102, but Hamlet-Powell, 2nd time in that character; Rosencraus-_; Guildenstern-_; Pl. King-_; Lucianus-_.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17690207, but Damaetas-Barnshaw; Pan-Dunstall.

2166
27 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #221 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17690216.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17681004, but Watchman-Morgan; Charlotte-Mrs Evans.

2167
04 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: N.B. On Saturday Next, 11 March, for the Benefit of Woodward will be presented Cymbeline...and a New Tragedy in Two Acts, call'd The Rival Favourites; or, The Death of Bucephalus the Great: Alexander-$Woodward; Philip-$Shuter; Statira-$Mrs Green. With a Triumphal Entry. The Funeral Procession of Bucephalus to the Monument of the Houyhnhnms and a Solemn Dirge [See Comment 7, 9, 11 March.] Receipts: #208 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17681125.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17690228, but Chasseur-Mahon; Doctor-Banks.

2168
27 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #231 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17681105, but Tressel-Dyer; Lady Ann-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Ferguson.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17690307 but short bill; Chasseur-_; Doctor-_.

2169
31 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Charges #66 8s. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #65 19s. plus #45 17s. in Tickets (Box 130; Pit 89) (Account Book). Receipts: #132 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17690216, but Ophelia-Mrs Mattocks, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Performance Comment: As17690311 but Original Prologue-_; short bill only, Careless-Woodward; Knowell-Bensley; Lucy-Mrs Mattocks listed.

Dance: End: The Reel, as17681212

2170
05 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. The Happy Discovery cannot be performed because of Indisposition of Mrs Mattocks. Charges #65 1s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Thompson #88 plus #40 4s. from tickets (Box 123; Pit 63) (Account Book). Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17690127, but Hastings-Powell; Gloster-Hull, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17681013, but Sally-Miss Young [from Drury Lane].from Drury Lane].

Dance: End: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Thompson; End Act I of the Afterpiece: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

2171
27 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Charges #64 15s. Deficit to Aldridge #6 5s. 6d. covered by #62 18s. from tickets (Box 172; Pit 102; Gallery 46) (Account Book). Rec'd of Mrs Green for her deficiency the 26th Inst. #11 4s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #58 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17681125, but Sir Frances-Yates; Isabinda-Mrs DuBellamy.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17690414 but Sally-Miss Young (from Drury Lane.)

Dance: I: (By Particular Desire) a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; III: The Tambourine, as17690314 End: A New Dance call'd the Whim-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere

2172
16 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter (box-keepers) and Eddis. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted. Tickets deliver'd for the Conscious Lovers will be taken. Charges #83 11s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #27 10s., covered by income from tickets: Condell #84 7s. (Box 225; Pit 140; Gallery 71); Potter #60 7s. (Box 142; Pit 93; Gallery 109); Eddis #52 9s. (Box 118; Pit 153) (Account Book). Paid Miss Morris in Full for her performance this season #50 (Account Book). [But see note 1 May.] Receipts; #56 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17690508, but Pisanio-Perry; Bellarius-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17690316 but short bill: Citizen-Woodward; Philpot-Shuter; Maria-Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: III: A Pantomime Dance-Fishar, Miss Capon

2173
18 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell (box-keepers). Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Charges #83 1s. 6d. Deficit #53 13s., covered by income from tickets: Ansell #112 7s. (Box 341; Pit 162; Gallery 28); Green #135 4s. (Box 470; Pit 106; Gallery 18). Rec'd of Condell his deficiency and #20 in full for Fruit Rent this season: also deficiencies from Mrs Naylor and Potter. Paid Mr Scovell for copying Music in Maid of the Mill--#3 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #53 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17690327 but Richmond-Wroughton; Lord Mayor-_; Lieut. of Tower-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17690508, but Termagant-Mrs Green.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

2174
09 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Performance Comment: As17691007.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: As17691007.

Entertainment: As17691007; in Masquerade after III: The Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

2175
10 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Third Day for the Mainpiece. For the Author. Charges: #68 11s. Balance due the author #104 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #173 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Performance Comment: As17691007.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17690927, but Sailor-Barnshaw; Squire-DuBellamy.

Entertainment: As17691009; after the Pageant: Concerto on the Hautboy-Simpson