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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.
Event Comment: Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Benefit for the author of the Alterations [in mainpiece]. A Riot to demand admittance at 1!2 price after 3rd act, all times except at the run of New Pantomime, wch. not agreed to, the Mob broke Chandeliers, &c. No Play (Cross Diary). [Fuller account in Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 46 ff., he being the beneficiary that night. Elvira publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 9). See account of riot in Gentlemen's Magazine (p. 31). See Comment 5 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: s 15 Dec. 1762.

Event Comment: Benefit For the Author. A Riot to demand the same [half-price after third act] agreed to (Cross Diary). [Advertised for Drury Lane that particulars will be published in a few days on the charge of innovation in prices which last night prevented the play being heard.] When Holland appeared for the Prologue-hiss'd. Garrick appeared and agreed to take half-price at the end of the third act to all performances except the first [Winter] of a New Pantomime (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Event Comment: AAckman appeared with Moody who would not go down on his knees as they requested. And Garrick was compelled to say he should not appear while under their displeasure (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Dance: I: By Desire, The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: [Mainpiece advertised as for the last time this season and By Particular Desire.] Afterpiece: By Desire. [See 5 May the performance inserted there in the Winston MS probably is this one.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17621231, but Cornwall-Jackson.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: As17630312 but Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Bennet.
Event Comment: [B$Barry, as a new patentee for the Dublin Theatre, set out for Ireland 28 Sept. (Winston MS 9).] Receipts: #187 7s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: I: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 8s. 6d. (Winston MS 9); #116 8s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: The Fingalians, as17631025

Event Comment: Receipts: #214 9s. (Winston MS 9); #214 19s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: As17631217, but Kastril-Baddeley; Surly-Lee.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Event Comment: Receipts: #117 (Winston MS 9); #177 (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Ones Enemy But His Own

Performance Comment: Principals by: Woodward, Shuter, Smith, Ross, Clarke, Cushing, Costollo, Holtom, Mrs Ward, Miss Elliott Careless-Woodward; Sir Philip Figurein-Shuter; Belfield-Smith; Wisely-Ross; Brazen-Cushing; Bdunt-Clarke; Lucinda-Miss Elliot; Hortensia-Mrs Ward (Genest, V, 54); Cribb-Costollo; La Jeunesse-Holtom (Winston MS 9).

Afterpiece Title: What We Must all Come To

Performance Comment: Principals by Shuter, Dyer, Cushing, White, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Green, Miss Hallam, Miss Elhiott; Prologue-; Epilogue-; Drugget-Shuter; Sir Charles Rackett-Dyer; Lovelace-Cushing; Woodley-White; Lady Rackett-Miss Elliot; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Pitt; Dimity-Mrs Green; Nancy-Miss Hallam (Genest, V, 54); Two Songs in character When first the dear youth passing by-Miss Hallam; To dance & to Dress & to Flaunt it about-Miss Hallam(Winston MS 9).
Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 14 April 1758.] Receipts: #247 10s. (Winston MS 9); #247 (MacMillan); Charges: #64 4s. [Profit to Holland: #182 16s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: The Second Night (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Event Comment: TThe Mistake names as mainpiece in Rich's Register (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A comedy in 2 Acts not acted these 2 years. [See 30 April 1763.] The Relapse deferr'd on account of indisposition of Miss Elliot. James Bencraft Died at Covent Garden (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17641025, but Sullen-Gibson.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; End: Rural Love, as17641212

Event Comment: Both pieces By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never performed there. Last night was deposited in the Vault of St Paul's Covent Garden the remains of James Bencraft, that truly honest, amiable, and benevolent man, whose perpetual pleasantry and delectable vein of humour cannot more aptly be described than in the words of Hamlet-"That fellow of infinite jest &c., Alas poor Jemmy" (+Winston MS 9 from The Gazetteer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17641027, but Capulet-Gibson; Juliet-Mrs Bellamy; Minuet-Fichar, Miss Wilford; Solemn Dirge-Mrs Baker, Miss _Miller.

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette or 1765

Event Comment: [R+Rich's Register lists Platonic Wife (Winston MS 9). Probably misdated for 24 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

Event Comment: WWay of the World listed in Rich's Register (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: As17641231, but Widow Bellmour-Miss Pope; William-King; Furnish-_.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Puck Actor: Mas. Cape

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Ash Wednesday. A comedy, by the author of Love in a Village [I. Bickerstaffe] and the Maid of the Mill, will be performed this season at one of the theatres (Winston MS 9). [See 23 April, Thomas and Sally.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber extremely ill, benefit to have been tomorrow deferred. Her death reported (Winston MS 9) [but see 29 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Cast
Role: Colliers Actor: Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers.
Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's death reported yesterday contradicted. She prov'd out of danger (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Books of opera at theatre. [Miss Hallam became Mrs Mattocks on or about Easter Sunday (Winston MS 9).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17650102, but Lucinda-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Send servants to keep places at 3 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for King John will be taken. Garrick returned [from trip to France and Italy] to his house in Southampton St. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Those ladies and gentlemen who have taken places in the Boxes are desired to be at the theatre earlier than usual, to prevent mistakes; and to send their servants by 3 o'clock. [Garrick's first appearance. He afterwards played only occasionally 7 or 8 nights.] Disturbance at Drury Lane. Those not in black insulted, one young gentleman from Bond Street had a sword run into his eye (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: As17651022, but Dances-Miss Wilkinson, Miss _Baker.
Event Comment: QQuin Died (Winston MS 9). Mrs Vincent imperfect in Polly (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17650914, but Beggar-Castle; New Occasional Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performance Comment: As17660106, but Others-_Dodd neithe Dodd nor Mas. Burton is listed.
Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Parts by: Holland, Powell, Yates; King, Palmer, Love, Lee, Baddeley, Aickin, Strange, Miss Pope, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Abington, Miss Plym, Mrs Clive. Lord Ogleby-King; Sterling-Yates; Lovewell-Powell; Sir John Melvil-Holland; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Serjeant Flower-Love; Traverse-Lee; Trueman-Aikin; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Clive; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs Palmer; Chambermaid-Miss Plym; Betty-Mrs Abington; Crochet in the Epilogue-Mrs Abington; Strange; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue-Several; Trusty-Miss Mills (Winston MS 9).