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We found 2331 matches on Performance Title, 420 matches on Performance Comments, 400 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. Advanc'd cash to Quick as per note #50. (Account Book). Receipts: #223 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Twist. [See17720326]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Event Comment: Paid John Doe and John Claridge 12s. 6d. each for performing 5 nights in the Ass [in Mother Shipton] to the 2nd inst. Paid John Smith 12s. 6d. for performing in the Hog in the same. Paid Younger for writing parts as per bill #7 4s. 10d. (Account Book). [N.B. The three Johns receiv'd 2s. 6d. each for making up in the ass and hog each night Mother Shipton was played for the rest of the season. No further notation will be transcribed of this payment.] Receipts: #152 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: III: A New Ballet-Mr Asselin, his first appearance in this kingdom, Miss Valois, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: New Ballet, as17721105; End Entertainment: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before the Play: (By Desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of Guard #2 2s. Paid one year's Assurance on #3000 in Royal Exchange to 15 Dec. 1773, #6. Paid Raban & Kime (coal merchants) #91 10s. Paid Dr Arne for the Music for Elfrida #90 (Account Book). Receipts: #233 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End: The Recruits, as17721117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End II Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: [Maria Macklin in a MS letter to her father this date (See dl 1 Feb. 73) complains that Elfrida alone drew houses at cg this season, and that even that play failed to fill the galleries; that Colman was difficult to see; that Younger carried on all the business of the theatre, everyone kowtowing to him: "Savigny has been discharged from the theatre; Ross has been laid up all the winter with the Gout, and has lately played Lear to a thin house. The Town is big with expectation of Foote's Puppet Show."] Receipts: #166 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17730208; End II Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzuma

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730327 Quadrille, as17730327

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Last time of performing till the Holidays. On Easter Monday (the Sixth Night, for the Author) the New Comedy, of She Stoops to Conquor; or, The Mistakes of a Night (playbill). Charges #67 5s. Profit to Bensley #68 1s. 6d. plus #34 4s. from tickets (Box 135; Pit 3). Paid one-half year's poor's Rate for theatre due Lady Day last #21 17s. 6d. and ditto for House in Bow Passage 15s. 8d. (Account Book). Receipts: #135 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Dance: End: The Bird Catchers, as17721207

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. [See note for 6 March.] Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by half past 4 o'clock, and those who have taken places in the Pit requested to come early to prevent Confusion in getting to their seats. Tickets deliver'd for Lady Jane Grey will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Profit to Smith #84 6s. 6d., plus #172 15s. from tickets (Box 640; Pit 85). Paid Blanchville Clark as per certificate from Sir John Fielding 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: I: New Dance, as17730206; II: A New Comic Dance-Mas. Harris (Scholar to Aldridge), Miss Mathews; End Opera: (By particular desire) will be reviv'd The Whim-Aldridge, Sg Manesiere; End II of Farce: A New Dance-Mas. Langrish (Scholar to Aldridge) his first appearance, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Miss Catley, first time.

Dance: End Opera: a New Dance-Mas. Langrish as17730426; End II of Comedy: A Hornpipe-Miller, scholar to Fishar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Performance Comment: Croaker-Shuter; Honeywood-Bensley; Sir W. Honeywood-Clarke; Lofty-Lewes, first time; Leontine-Wroughton; Jarvis-Dunstall; Mrs Croaker-Mrs Pitt; Olivia-Mrs Baker; Garnet-Mrs Green; Miss Richland (with the original Epilogue)-Mrs Bulkley; In Act III, (by particular Desire) will be restored the Original scene of the Bailiffs-; Bailiffs-Morris, Quick.
Cast
Role: Miss Richland Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17730430 but Lettice-Mrs Mattocks; Landlady-_.

Dance: After the Epilogue: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; End II of Comedy: A New Dance-Mas. Langrish as17730426 being his third appearance

Ballet: The Wapping Landlady, with Sixfold Hornpipe. As17730424

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Banks
Event Comment: Benefit for Perry and Morris. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #7 6s. 6d., cover'd by income from tickets: Perry #68 4s. (Box 33; Pit 231; Gallery 253); Morris #61 5s. (Box 39; Pit 158; Gallery 278) (Account Book). Receipts: #49 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17730503, but add Landlord-Morris.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028; End II of Comedy: A Double Hornpipe-Blurton, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A new Comedy [by Francis Gentleman, first perform'd at Chester, 1760 (Biographia Dramatica)]. By Permission. Benefit for Mrs Williams. Note: For performances at dl and cg 18 and 20 September, see Season of 1773-1774, p. 1745

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife; Or, Love In A Puzzle

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: End of Play: A Comic Medley-Cresswick; and a Variety of Imitations-Hutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Marcourt-Woodward; Kitchen-Dunstall; Cross-Shuter; Mrs Cross-Mrs Green; Charlotte-Miss Valois; Landlady-Mrs Gardner; Lettice-Mrs Kniveton; Sally-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: End: New Dance-Aldridge, Miss Capon. [See17731014 and 6. Feb.

Performance Comment: [See17731014 and 6. Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Mr Lawrence (paper hanger) #19 6s.; Messrs Barrow andCo. (oil merchants) 3 bills, #128 10s.; Mr Jones (worsted laseman) #18 17s. 6d.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #3 16s. Receipts: #241 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter