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We found 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties, Receipts: #483 2s. (476.19.6; 6.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick or Blunders at Brighton

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This Evening the Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Account-Book: Paid the Duke of Bedford one years rent for the Theatre, the back of the Theatre, the houses in Bow Street, Hart Street, the Piazza, and Playhouse Passage, as expressed in the Receipt, due Lady Day 1796, #456 4s. Receipts: #459 9s. 6d. (452.5.6; 7.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 1, by John O'Keeffe. Larpent MS 1188; not published]: The Overture and Music by Attwood. European Magazine, Jan. 1798, p. 42: Written with allusion to Their Majesties' attendance at St. Paul's [on this day, at a thanksgiving service held in honor of the recent naval victories of Howe, St. Vincent and Duncan]. Receipts: #289 17s. (286.11; 3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Britains Brave Tars

Song: As17971102

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 6 Dec. Receipts: #437 5s. 6d. (434.19.6; 2.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #491 2s. 6d. (487.18.6; 3.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Quixotte

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #358 9s. 6d. (351.10.6; 6.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Quixotte

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Secrets Worth Knowing, advertised on playbill of 29 Jan.] Receipts: #329 19s. 6d. (327.15.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 6 Dec. 1797. Receipts: #367 8s. 6d. (359.9.6; 7.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Song: As17971118

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #386 19s. (379.8.6; 7.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hes Much To Blame

Afterpiece Title: Joan of Arc

Music: As17980214

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 6 Dec. 1797. Receipts: #472 2s. 6d. (463.14.0; 8.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hes Much To Blame

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro ed Il Pensieroso 0 Messiah

Afterpiece Title: LAllegro Il Pensieroso 3

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of He's Much to Blame, advertised on playbill of 27 Feb.] Receipts: #373 15s. 6d. (370.6.6; 3.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Joan of Arc

Music: As17980214

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 6 Dec. 1797. Receipts: #335 14s. (327.3; 8.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Balthazar to Gray, but "Incledon...condescended to take the part of Balthazar, which Townsend [who acted it on 6 Oct.] was too ill to perform, and sung 'Sigh no more, ladies' with much sweetness and effect. In the entertainment Johnstone introduced the song of 'Queen Bess" (Morning Herald, 16 Mar.).] Receipts: #372 1s. 6d. (362.8.6; 9.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: As17971006

Song: In afterpiece: Queen Bess [not listed on playbill; see below]-Johnstone

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #419 (411.11.6; 7.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #302 11s. (291.6; 11.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Return

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Dance: End 1st piece: Peggy's Love- in which, by permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House, who has generously allowed Principal Dancers and Whole Corps de Ballet to appear, the following Ladies and Gentlemen will exert their well known Abilities:Laborie, Didelot, Mme Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg; End 2nd piece: La Vengeance d'Amour, in which the Pas de Quatre de Panurge-Laborie, Didelot, Mme Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr. Burney, 1958, II, 351, the title of the new song (misdated 1799) is given as Song on the Naval Victories.] Receipts: #439 (433.17.6; 5.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Song: [not listed on playbill] End: A new Loyal Song and Chorus- which recounts all the recent victories fo our Naval Heroes"Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill [, the music by Dr Burney (Morning Herald, 8 Nov.)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This Eve #514 6s. (512.15; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, as 21 Nov. Receipts: #464 14s. (461.4; 3.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. Receipts: #470 5s. 6d. (466.11.6; 3.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #449 13s. (442.17; 6.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Albert and Adelaide

Dance: As17981211

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #530 12s. 6d. (524 19s. 6d.; 5.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [The Mouth of the Nile, also advertised on playbill of 19 Jan., was not acted on this night.] Receipts: #408 7s. (405.17; 2.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Entertainment: Procession End II: A Return from a Tiger Hunt, as17981112

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #418 4s. (414.4; 4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimic or Blunders at Brighton