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10485 results for: Keyword - Sir J. Duncomb
We found 6725 matches on Performance Comments, 1617 matches on Author, 1361 matches on Event Comments, 556 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10151
24 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

10152
21 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

10153
09 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

10154
22 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

10155
18 March 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

10156
01 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

10157
05 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Younger for writting parts #10 4s. 9d.; Paid Mrs Giles for a Blue & Silver suit of women's cloaths #9 9s. (Account Book). To Covent Garden. Beggar's Opera and Commissary. Found the Pit not over fifth full, and on the 4th bench from orchestra orange woman showed me Pol. Kennedy alias Mrs Bevon, on which I went and sat immediately before her, and talked with her much during the play. Pol. Kennedy in cloak and large hat. She is tall, large and raw-boned. Irish features, yet had something in her face and person necessarily attracting notice--was very civil, curteous, and chatty (Baker, Diary, p. 270). [Pol. Kennedy was the Irish actress and contralto who later appeared as Mrs Farrell at dl in 1776 in Arne's Caractacus.] Receipts: #122 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

10158
14 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10159
28 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10160
06 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Partridge (hosier) #36 15s.; Lowe & Lewis (woollen drapers) #22 1s. (Account Book). Receipts: #167 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

10161
04 April 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller of Mansfield

10162
14 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #185 15s. Charges: #74 14s. Profit to Mrs Smith: #111 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

10163
22 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Monologue: Interlude.True Blue. As 12 April

10164
12 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: End I: The Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms-Miss Catley

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17740415 but Orange Woman-Miss Stede[; with Sixfold Hornpipe as17740415

10165
24 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Symonds, Norbury, Francis. Tickets deliver'd by Perry, Roberts, Wooley, Stevenson, Singleton, Shuter, Miller, Walker, and Real as well as those deliver'd for The Recruiting Officer will be Taken. [No charges. House rec'd the ready money receipts plus half-value of the tickets deliver'd:] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value Half Value@Symonds 27 50 107 #27 16s. #13 18s.@Norbury 23 33 31 #13 14s. #6 17s.@Francis 13 36 17 #9 8s. #4 14s.@Perry 4 14 25 #6 3s. #3 1s. 6d.@Roberts 9 80 191 #38 18s. #19 9s.@Wooley 3 24 3 #3 12s. #1 16s.@Stephenson 14 107 64 #23 16s. #11 18s.@Singleton 3 48 10 #7 1s. #3 10s. 6d.@Shuter 11 39 86 #19 11s. #9 15s. 6d.@Miller 8 74 49 #16 #8@Walker .. 95 19 #12 7s. #6 3s. 6d.@Read 7 65 21 #11 8s. #5 14s.@Total 122 665 618 #189 14s. #94 13s.@ Paid Symonds for performing 5 nights in The Fair to 13 Nov. last 5s., and for 25 nights in The Sylphs to the 4th of April #1 5s. Receipts: #57 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

10166
26 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Entertainment: End Opera: Bucks Have at Ye All-Palmer

10167
26 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. Last time of the company's performing this season. [The Epilogue recites the mock burial of this King of Brentford reviewing certain high points of his management. A mock heroic written by Colman and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1774 (p. 280). He sold his share for #20,000, which was #5,000 more than he paid for it. (See Page, George Colman, The Elder.) Rec'd half value of ticket returns from 13 servants amounting to #98 3s. 6d. Receipts: #124 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Entertainment: After Opera: the Last New Occasional Epilogue, on the Departure of the Manager,-Miss Barsanti

10168
06 September 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

Monologue: An Interlude,Piety in Pattens. As 1 June, but Mrs Candy-Mrs Love

Entertainment: After the Interlude: Abel Drugger's Return-Weston, as17740829; Imitations-Bannister

Dance: Giorgi's Scholars

10169
12 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928

10170
28 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: No Ones Enemy but His Own

Dance: II: The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Miss Besford. [See17711030.

10171
18 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: II: The Reel, as17741028

10172
26 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Sir Patrick Actor: Moody

10173
12 January 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

10174
28 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

10175
20 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Druids