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We found 7172 matches on Event Comments, 2005 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Husband

Dance: As17761223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17770407, but New Prologue-_.

Dance: As17770215

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Clock Case or Female Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman elder, based on Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; music by Samuel Arnold and, by attribution, Pierre Alexandre Monsigny. Prologue by the author (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, II, 209). Epilogue by David Garrick (Garrick's Poetical Works, II, 340). Larpent MS 436; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Dance-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by William Shirley. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 19 Dec. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 23 Dec.). Epilogue by Richard Cumberland (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, IV, 194]: With New Scenes and Dresses. "I have been at another new play, The Roman Sacrifice. It is the old story of Junius Brutus, without a tolerable line. I went to see it, as I had never seen Henderson, and thought I could Judge him better in a new part; but either the part was so bad, or he wants to copy, that I should not have found out he was at all superior to all other actors" (Walpole [23 Dec. 1777], X 170). Receipts: #2223s. 6d. (207.8.0; 13.13.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Sacrifice

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: [the following new Dances composed] by Gallet:I: [a Dance of Cupids-; IV: [a Dance of Daemons-; to conclude: Grand Ballet-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Music: Mainpiece: With a New Overture, and additional Airs, Chorusses-; the whole of the Music composed by Michael Arne

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on The Loves of Mars and Venus, by Peter Anthony Motteux]: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Music chiefly composed by Dibdin. [Dr Arne and Dr Arnold each wrote one air.] Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1778: This Day at Noon is published Poor Vulcan! (1s.). [The playbill lists Reinhold in place of Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mahon's.] Receipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.2.6; 2.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor or The Wishes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

Dance: As17780109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Amazon Queen; or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great Author(s): John Weston

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17780105, but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Escape

Song: As17780331

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17771208, but Betty-Miss Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Crisis or Love and Fear

Dance: As17780109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: Comical Courtship or The Battle Royal

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Medley or Harlequin At All

Dance: Afterpiece: The dances-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Valois. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17780928, but King Lear-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [Rundell]); Cordelia-Mrs Jackson.

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: AEsop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Spendthrift or A ChristmasGambol

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Performance Comment: As17790125, but Harriet-Mrs Morton.

Dance: As17781201

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Performance Comment: As17790209, but Rinaldo-_.

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790222

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17781030, but Lord Townly-A Gentleman (2nd appearance [Daly]); J. Moody-Thompson; Lady Townly-Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Performance Comment: As17790323but Old Belford-L'Estrange.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17790417

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker