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8951 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, but changed (<i>Winston MS 10</i>). Paid $Mr Cape
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.

6001
21 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #55 17s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #20 15s. 6d. Paid Rich on account #421 (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. 5d. (Account 8ook)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17601216

6002
05 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #37 15s. Paid Ledlay for 10 doz. wax candles #15. 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #156 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

6003
11 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: @540 tickets at 10s.540 tickets at 10s. 6d. #283 10s.@429 tickets at 5s. #107 5s.@472 tickets at 3s. 6d. #82 12s.@1441 present.@Receipts: #473 7s.@ Paid renters #10 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17610206

6004
13 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: @562 tickets at 10s.562 tickets at 10s. 6d. #295 1s.@428 tickets at 5s. #107@496 tickets at 3s. 6d. #86 16s.@1486 present.@Receipts: #488 11s.@ Paid Renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17610206

6005
03 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Receipts: #42 4s. 6d. plus #192 2s. from Tickets (Box 345; Pit 543; Gallery 244). Bought of Lord Holderness's Valet by Blackmore 5 ensembles of clothing amounting to #49 10s. Paid Mrs Marg. Lamb Interest due on #315 due 8 March last: #15 (Account Book). Charges: #66 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17610121, but Comus-Sparks.

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Performance Comment: As17610401 but Charlotte-Mrs Burden.

6006
04 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #19 10s. [Macklin seems to have received nothing for this performance as receipts did not equal the house charges of #63.] Paid Rich on account #100 (Account Book). [The treasurer's balance at beginning of Benefit season, 24 March, was #731 7s. 10d. It had now dropped to #201 17s. 2d.] Receipts: #55 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Ballet: TThe Hungarian Gambols. As17610309

6007
28 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer. No charges. House received the ready money receipts of #35 1s. plus 1!2 of the #109 19s. which Stoppelaer deliver'd in tickets (Box 104; Pit 431; Gallery 193). Paid Mrs Marg. Lamb in full for a Bond due 8 March last #315. plus interest for 51 days from 8 March last #2 1s. 10d. (Account Book). Receipts: #35 1s. plus 1!2 value of tickets: #54 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17601121, but Gibbet-Bencraft; Aimwell-Hull; Cherry-Mrs Stoppelaer, 2nd appearance any stage.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

6008
14 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green, (box keepers). Receipts: #22 10s. plus income from tickets: Evans #102 9s. (Box 278; Pit 151; Gallery 103); Green #90 14s. (Box 259; Pit 147; Gallery 39). Paid to Evans and Green #10 each for attendance at the Boxes this season (Account Book). Charges: #70 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17601020, but Clerimont-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17610417 but Fine Gentleman-Dyer.

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

6009
22 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #4 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only 16 persons were in the Boxes, and the 2s. 6d. indicates that at least one occupant came in after the third act and paid only half price.] Receipts: #26 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17610520, but Water-Mlle Capdeville.

6010
10 March 1764 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Writer of letter to Public Advertiser states that it is not fashionable to attend on Tuesdays. On Tuesday, he continues, there were probably not more than twenty subscribers or a hundred who had paid. But the Upper Gallery never fails to do Honour to Opera. If not more than 20 people of Fashion in the House there are at least 300 in Upper Gallery." His suggestion is that reduction of cost to 2s. 6d. would induce whole musical families to attend and ultimately be beneficial for this form of entertainment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Senocrita

Dance: I: The Turkish Coffee House-; II: Le Tamborine-Fischar; and a new Terzetto-Duvall, Berardi, Miss Tetley; III: As17640221

6011
10 April 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decay'd Musicians and their Families. [The Governors announced #622 4s. paid out during the previous year.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6012
20 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for boxes to be had from Johnston at Stage Door; No money received at Stage Door, nor any returned after Curtain rises. Play will begin at exactly six o'clock; The passage from the Strand up Catherine Street to Drury Lane Theatre will be clear for Carriages. Paid Renters #8 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [A constant expense nightly for 191 nights amounting to #1528 for the season. Will not be further itemized.] Receipts: #82 12s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Dodd; Sir George-Palmer; Sir Francis-Yates; Charles-Packer; Butler-Strange; Isabinda-Miss Plym; Sir Jealous Traffic-Love; Whisper-Ackman; Scentwell-Mrs Bradshaw; Patch-Miss Pope, 1st time; Miranda-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Butler Actor: Strange

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Venetian Travellers-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi

6013
23 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. There is a new passage from the Marquis Buildings, Russel Court, to the Pit. Proper care is taken to keep the House Cool. Paid Supernumaries 13s. 6d.; Drum 5s.; a Lampmen #1 5s.; Carpenter's Bill #5 19s. 2d.; Taylor's Bill #3 1d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [These were constant weekly bills throughout the season amounting to total sums as follows, and will not hereafter be itemized further]: @Item Nightly or Weekly Average Season Total@Supers and Drum #2 5s. Nightly Supers #382; Drum #47 10s.@Lampmen #2 6s. Weekly #84 2s.@Carpenters #2 Weekly #74@Taylors #7 Weekly #259@ Receipts. #195 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

6014
25 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M$Mrs King was formerly Miss Baker (Genest, V, 115).] Paid Watson and Smith (Box Office Keepers) #20 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [This was operating cash, returned 4 June 1767.] Receipts: #135 14s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

6015
02 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 6s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #192 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

6016
06 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 30 Dec. 1762.] Paid Richard Highland a bill of #3 5s. 5d. for the Wardrobe Dinners (Account Book). Receipts: #222 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

6017
09 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid printer's 3 bills...#20 9s.; Mrs Hillman for women's cloathes #23 2s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performance Comment: As17660927, but Others-_West, Moody.

6018
14 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #103 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

6019
14 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Paid Thos. Williamson for 4 pounds spermeceti candles 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #133 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Midas

6020
20 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 9s 5d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

6021
21 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Paid Jones, coal merchant, a bill #104 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #85 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008

6022
23 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Particular Desire. Present the Dukes of York and Cumberland, Princess of Brunswick, and Lady Louisa. Paid for the paragraph of the Royal Family coming in the Ledger and Gazetteer 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Garland-Fishar, Miss Wilford. [See17651003.

6023
13 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #237 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: II: The Jealous Peasant, as17661111; IV: The Vintage, as17661011

6024
19 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid chorus singers 1 night #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #133 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17661008, but Belvidera-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King. His initial title was A Narrow Escape.

6025
22 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd from Blackmore #6 6s. for two spring velvet suits of cloaths in his last bill. Paid John Sutherland playing the Bag Pipes in Faustus 4 nights #1 (Account Book). Receipts: #193 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17661028, but Charles-Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus