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5069 results for: Keyword - Theatre-Royal in Dorset-garden
We found 4063 matches on Event Comments, 768 matches on Performance Title, 515 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2351
24 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #156 17s. 6d. (127.4.6; tickets 29.13.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

2352
28 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russell-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #165 14s. 6d. (85.14.0; 25.10.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 54.7.0) (charge: #108 14s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

2353
04 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Davies, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 17s. (145.12; tickets: 48.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

2354
15 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Mainpiece: Never performed Here. [Miss Stuart was from cg.] Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb, No. 15, Bedford-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End: The Italian Peasants-Master Byrn, Miss Byrn

2355
02 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton, Broad Court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #151 2s. (119/7; tickets: 31/15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Grand Divertisement, The Gala. The Minuet and Allemande by Aldridge and Miss Besford; the Quadrilles and Cotillons by Harris, Langrish, Dumay, Ratchford, Miss Matthews, Miss Rowson, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, and others; The whole to conclude with a Grand Figure by all the Characters

2356
12 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Mainpiece: With a Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aickin, No. 6, York Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #187 ior. (144/5; tickets: 43/5) (charge: #74 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: As17820409

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Auld Robin Grey, as17820409

2357
16 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Morning Herald, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #204 14s. 6d. (108/5/6; tickets: 96/9/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17820409

2358
18 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 13 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: The Music composed by Michael Arne. With a Grand Procession of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalry. Receipts: #217 5s. (113/9; 35/8; 0/1; tickets: 68/7) (charge: #115 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece a Dance of Daemons (performers not listed); End of Act I of afterpiece New Dance, as17820121

2359
19 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hopkins. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Hopkins, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #158 17s. (81/4/0; 26/12/6; 0/15/6; tickets: 50/5/0) (charge: #105 14s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Dance: End of 2nd piece, as17820223

2360
23 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 13, York-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #208 4s. 6d. (63/19/0; 15/1J/6; 0/1/0; tickets: 128/9/0) (charge: #65 16s. 11d)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17820302athi

2361
23 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 22, Piazza, Russel-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Receipts: #235 7s. (178/3; tickets: 57/4) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Song: End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1782 04 23 After the song A Prologue on Everybody, to be spoken by Somebody in the Character of No-body

2362
24 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wheeler. Morning Herald, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Wheeler, No. 11, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. 2nd piece: Altered from Prior's Nut-brown Maid. With Airs and Chorusses composed by Shield. Afterpiece: Not acted these 15 years. Receipts: #213 3s. 6d. (95/7/0; 32/2/6; 0/14/0; tickets: 85/0/0) (charge: #108 10s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

2363
09 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane; of Butler, next door to the stage-door, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (43/0/0; 8/1/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 230/7/0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller)

2364
01 June 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Blower. The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Public Advertiser, 23 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Blower, No. 12, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Account-Book, 14 June: Paid various renters #19 16s. apiece. Receipts: #118 9s. (60/17; 28/4; 0/10; tickets: 28/18) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223; End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

2365
05 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. The Music composed by Dr Arne. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #233 11s. (123/6; tickets: 110/5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In mainpiece Vocal Parts by Mrs Bannister, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Kennedy, &c

2366
25 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Afterpiece in place of The Apprentice, announced on playbill of 24 Apr.] Receipts: #184 1s. (99/19/0; 35/14/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 48/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17821122. imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

2367
29 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Massinger. Receipts: #143 18s. 6d. (56/15/0; 21/6/6; 0/7/0; tickets: 65/10/0) (charge: #108 11s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Madam

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17821107

2368
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza., Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Miss Younge having refused performing the Part of Viola, Mrs Robinson has kindly undertaken that Character at a short Notice; and Mr Edwin humbly hopes she will be honoured by the Indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #304 0s. 6d. (211/3/6; tickets: 92/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

2369
12 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1st acted at Richmond, Aug. 1782, as The Belle's Stratagem; or, The Female Fortune-Hunters, and again at the HAY in 1794 as Heigho for a Husband! Prologue by the author (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, 100). Author of Epilogue unknown. MS: Larpent 599; not published]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. The Indisposition which prevented King from performing last Friday continuing, Palmer has very kindly undertaken and studied the Character King intended to have appeared in this Evening. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (34/5/0; 21/18/6; 2/15/0; tickets: 67/17/0) (charge: #106 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

2370
26 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Never acted here. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 15 Aug. 1781]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End of mainpiece Four-and-Twenty Fidlers all on a Row, by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 08 26 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, by Edwin

2371
18 February 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Gave the Poor of Covent Garden Parish #2 2s. Receipts: #159 17s. (152/15; 7/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

2372
27 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Never acted here. The Music by Dr Arne. With a Grand Procession of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalry. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #252 8s. 6d. (177/14/6; tickets: 74/14/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Cupids; In Act IV a Dance of Daemons; In Act V a Grand Ballet (performers not listed)

2373
29 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #262 18s. 6d. (167/0/6; tickets: 95/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

2374
13 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Kemble. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [Afterpiece in place of Who's the Dupe?, announced on playbill of 12 Apr.] Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kemble, No. 25, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #290 15s. (164/0/0; 11/2/0; 1/18/0; tickets: 113/15/0) (charge: #106 17s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

2375
15 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [Afterpiece in place of Too Civil by Half, announced on playbill of 14 Apr.] Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, Charles-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #317 19s. (133/13; 12/11; 0/9; tickets: 171/6) (charge: #107 15s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17840311athi