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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.

2201
02 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Charges #64 12s. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #37 6s. plus #67 12s. from tickets (Box 199; Pit 119). Paid Mr Simpson for wine &c. for the Orchestra at rehearsals of musical performances #5 5s. Mrs Bellamy's balance paid (Account Book). Receipts: #101 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: As17700110, but Mirza-Davis.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17700226, but Young Wilding-Davis.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17670921.

Performance Comment: [See17670921.]

2202
17 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Charges #73. Balance to Mrs Bulkley #40 15s. 6d. plus #122 19s. from tickets (Box 329; Pit 226; Gallery 68) (Account Book). Receipts: #113 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17700324 but Hephestion-Wroughton; Statira-Mrs Bulkley, first time; Roxana (that night only)-Mrs Yates, 2nd time of her ever appearing in that character.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17700402 but Maria-Mrs Bulkley.

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329 I of the Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

2203
12 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Davis, Holtom and Merrifield. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges: half house charge to Davis #32 5s. minus half Receipts, deficit to Davis #18 12s. 9d.; half house charge to Holtom and Merrifield 32 5s. minus half Receipts, deficit to Holtom #9 6s. 4 1!2d.; deficit to Merrifield #9 6s. 4 1!2d.; covered by income from tickets: Davis #76 10s. (Box 97; Pit 259; Gallery 134); Holtom #28 17s. (Box 25; Pit 110; Gallery 61); Merrifield #45 16s. (Box 93; Pit 114; Gallery 57) (Account Book). Receipts: #27 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: As17700222, but Claudio-Wroughton; Escalus-Davis; Elbow-Holtom; Mariana-Miss Ogilvie; Juliet-Miss Garman.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: As17700510, but Flash-Davis; Loveit-Perry; Biddy-Miss Ogilvie; Add Jasper-Holtom.

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe,. As17700420

Performance Comment: As17700420.

2204
23 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter, Hussey. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Charges #81 10s. Deficit to the beneficiaries #18 1s. 10d. apiece. Covered by income from Tickets: Condell #71 12s. (Box 186; Pit 122; Gallery 68); Potter #48 14s. (Box 116; Pit 74; Gallery 86); Hussey #64 4s. (Box 118; Pit 152; Gallery 119); Walters, Dixon, Reed, and Wooley paid up half values of tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #24 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17690920, but Sir George-Davis.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17700519.

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Dyer (Scholar to Fishar); III: The Irish Lilt, as17700402 End: A Minuet-Hussey, Miss Twist

2205
20 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: As17701005.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17701019.

2206
26 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17700926, but Norfolk-Perry; Lady Ann-Mrs Lessingham; Duchess of York-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: As17701023.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17701015

2207
30 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17701023, but Officer-_.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17700926.

2208
01 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. [The Gentleman identified as Savigny in Hopkins MS Notes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Performance Comment: Selim-A Gentleman [Savigny]; Barbarossa-Bensley; Othman-Clarke; Sadi-Hull; Aladin-Gardner; Officer-Fox; Slave-Bates; Irene-Miss Miller; Zaphira-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17701017.

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17701017

2209
03 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted there but once

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Performance Comment: As17701101.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17701017.

Dance: End: The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere. [See17700329.

Performance Comment: [See17700329.]

2210
08 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Several of the songs dew-set by Mr Fisher. [The Tete-a-Tete in the Town and Country Magazine for this month (pp. 569-70) tells of Miss Catley's affair with Col. Lascelles. Her father a hackney coachman, her mother a washerwoman. She met Lascelles in Dublin where she was playing in Mossop's theatre, and condescended to live with him.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Lionel-Mattocks; Col. Oldboy-Shuter; Jessamy-Dyer; Flowerdale-Gibson; Harman-DuBellamy; Jenkins-Dunstall; Diana-Mrs Baker; Jenny (with alterations)-Miss Catley; Lady Oldboy-Mrs Green; Clarissa-Mrs Mattocks, first time.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17701017, but Poet-_; Printer's Devil-_; Robin-_.

Dance: End Opera: The Reel, as17701103

2211
12 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Between the Play and the Afterpiece an Interlude of Singing and Dancing not performed these thirty years. [For comment on this revival, see Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XXII) p. 593.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: As17701010.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue or The Press Gang

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; The Dance-Aldridge.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Chasseur Royal-Barnshaw; Merlin-Legg; Diana-Mrs Baker; Doctor-Banks; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Pierrot-Morris.

2212
15 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these two Years, the Interlude but once these 30 years. [See 4 May 1769.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-Smith; Horatio-Bensley; Altamont-Dyer; Sciolto-Ross, first time; Rossano-Lewes; Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley; Lucilla-Miss Pearce; Calista-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17701108.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17701112.

2213
26 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17701025.

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: As17701124.

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17701017

2214
27 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: As17701005.

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: As17701124.

2215
06 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: As17701204, but Astyages-Perry.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17701112.

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Performance Comment: As17701012, but Puritan-_.

2216
10 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the composer of the Burletta, 10th night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17701129.

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: As17701124.

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17701123

2217
12 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Ballad Farce, never performed there, written by Fielding. New Music by Dr Arne. [This is Fielding's Miss Lucy in Town under a new title (Biographica Dramatica).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: As17701206, but Astyages-Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap in London

Performance Comment: Ballad-Mattocks; Cantileno-Palmer; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Lewes; Thomas-Gardner; Goodwill-Wignell; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Tawdry-Miss Pearce; the Madcap-Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: End: New Pantomime Dance, as17701129

2218
20 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: As17701212.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17701112.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Performance Comment: As17701212.

2219
21 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex-Hospital for sick, and lame, and lying-in women

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Shuter; Frederick-Lewes; Clerimont-Hull; James-Cushing; Ramilie-Dyer; Lappet-Mrs Green; Harriet-Mrs Baker; Mariana-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17701112.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17701108.

2220
22 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit for New General Lying In Hospital, Store Street, Totenham Court Road. Last time of performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17701130, but Betty-Mrs Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Performance Comment: As17701212.

Dance: End: New Pantomime Dance, as17701205

2221
28 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Earl of Essex oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of Miss Miller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17701025, but French Soldier-Holtom.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17701226, but Characters-Mrs _Perry.

2222
31 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17701026, but Lady Ann-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Ferguson; Tressel-Wroughton; Duke of York-Miss Cockayne (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17701229.

2223
02 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17701222, but Truman-_; Traverse-_.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17710101.

2224
05 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17701030, but Priuli-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17710101.

2225
08 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles. [The Gazetteer lists Baker for Reinhold.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17701129, but Belmour-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17710101.