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We found 4446 matches on Event Comments, 3385 matches on Performance Comments, 508 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: [Henry is identified in playbill of 15 Nov. He had been acting in America since 1767 (Dictionary of American Biography); and see 18 Apr. 1780.] "We cannot but object to [his] calling handkerchief hand-kercher, according to the old Saxon termination. Perhaps he may be justifiable [sic] on the strict rules of etymology, but singularity always looks like affectation" (Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct.). Receipts: #109 2s. 6d. (91.15.0; 17.2.0; 0.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Webster, Moody, Parsons, Bannister, Baddeley, Miss Kirby, Mrs Wrighten. Cast adjusted from playbill of 10 May 1780, and Morning Chronicle, 16 Oct. 1778: William-Webster; O'Daub-Moody; Gage-Parsons; Serjeant Drill-Bannister; Mons. Bluard-Baddeley; Sir Harry Bouquet-Dodd; Nancy-Mrs Robinson; Lady Gorget-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Sash-Mrs Baddeley; Countrywoman-Miss Kirby; Nell-Mrs Wrighten.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 23 May 1778. As afterpiece the playbill announces the 24th night of The Critic, but it was not acted (see 1 Jan. 1780). Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.]. Receipts: #162 2s. (135.2; 26.9; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: I: Masquerade, Dance-

Song: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Edwards, Fawcett, Holcroft, Chaplin, Shaw, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Miss Coats, Mrs Granger, Mrs Booth, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Simson

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for a Gentlewoman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Written by Thomas King, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:30. The Public may be assured that the principal Performers in the above play and farce are Persons accustomed to the Stage, and that the utmost Attention will be paid to the credit of Performance. Tickets delivered by Mrs Lefevre and Blackburn will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Alwin was at Bath, 1 May 1777.] Receipts: #141 1s. (137.16; 3.5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

Event Comment: The 9th Night [Benefit for the Author (on playbill of 7 Feb.)] of Zoraida is obliged to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Yates's Illness. [The same Benefit was announced on playbill of 11 Mar., but the play was again deferred. See 1 May 1781.] Receipts: #132 16s. 6d. (103.17.0; 28.15.6; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer (the Lady who perform'd Calista). [Mainpiece: Prologue by Thomas Baker.] No Person to be admitted without a ticket, which may be had of Mrs Palmer, No. 13 Pierpont-Row; at the King's Head Tavern in the upper-Street; and at the place of Performance. [The date of the performance of The Fair Penitent, of which play Calista is the heroine, has not as yet come to light.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Jubilee, announced on playbill of 6 May.] Receipts: #141 2s. 6d. (109.14.0; 30.10.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets delivered for Know Your Own Mind (which is unavoidably obliged to be set aside) will be admitted this Evening. Public Advertiser, 11 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, No. 55, Hay-market; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkeley-square. Receipts: #277 9s. 6d. (29.12.6; tickets: 247.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Ballet: End: The Humours of New-Market. As17800518

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of As You Like It, announced on playbill of 20 May.] Receipts: #72 5s. (41.7; 30.10; 0.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Carleton Sen., Woollams & Bayne. Tickets delivered by Devoto, Page, Finney and Barthrope will be taken. [Afterpiece in place of Who's the Dupe?, announced on playbill of 22 May.] Receipts: #24 13s. 6d. (19.1.0; 5.2.6; 0.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Opera: The Music by Piccinni. [Sga Sestini's name is in the playbill, but she did not sing. On 29 May she circulated a card (Public Advertiser, etc.) in regard to her Benefit, saying that she "is exceedingly mortified at the Disappointment which prevented her from being able to perform her Part."] Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 18, Sherrard-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Pastoral Ballet, as17800408; End II: New Ballet-Guiardele, Mme Simonet, Sga Tantini; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17800122; Grand Chaconne, as17800122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Performance Comment: Part I. Overture-; songs-Sga Pozzi, Trebbi, Mme LeBrun; who will be accompanied-Cramer; solo oboe-Fischer; Part II. The Representation of the Opera, with Grand Chorusses, accompanied by such a Band as may render it most worthy of an English Audience. Orfeo-Pacchierotti; Hymen-Trebbi; Euridice-Mme LeBrun.
Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. [This was Mrs Bellamy's last appearance on the stage. And see dl, 24 May 1785.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Lewis; Ratcliff-Robson; Gloster-Clarke; Catesby-L'Estrange; Belmour-Hull; Derby-Smith; Dumont-Wroughton; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates; Alicia-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Music: End IV: concerto on the violin-Fisher

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years [not acted since 14 May 1766]. Receipts: #143 10s. 6d. (139.15.0; 3.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake Or The Wrangling Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Dance: As17801018

Event Comment: [Mrs Yates had acted Lady Macbeth at dl, 7 Apr. 1779.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 15 May 1781]. Receipts: #216 12s. 6d. (213.14.6; 2.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Song: Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Mrs Morton, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems, Miss Stewart

Event Comment: Mainpiece; Not acted these 6 years [acted 15 May 1775. Trew is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.]. Receipts: #131 10s. (127.6.6; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Song: Principal Vocal Parts-Davies, Mrs Morton, Miss Morris. [The music by Purcell.

Event Comment: A Comic Opera; the Music by Traetta, and conducted by Bianchi. [And see 20 May 1777.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Serve Rivali

Dance: End I: The Fortunate Escape, as17801216; End II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17801216; Grand Chaconne, as17801216; End Opera: Les Amans Surpris, as17801216, but Mme Simonet

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Such Tickets as have been delivered for this Evening will be admitted on Thursday next, May 3. Receipts: #247 10s. (244.15.6; 2.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip, as17810420

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810427, but SCENE I as17810403; Overture-_; Forester's Dance-_; SCENE II as SCENE V on 3 Apr.; SCENE III as SCENE II on 3 Apr.; SCENE IV as SCENE III on 4 May. We be three poor Mariners-_Davies, Cubitt. SCENE V as SCENE V on 25 Apr. SCENE VI as SCENE VI on 27 Apr.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Event Comment: Benefit for Thompson, Nix, Mrs Booth & Miss Field. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Thompson, No. 7, Great Marlborough-street; of Nix, Mrs Booth and Miss Field, No. 8, Broad-court, Longacre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #180 3s. 6d. (29.15.0; 21.4.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 129.3.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17800930

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye all; or, The Picture of a Playhouse-R. Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [On account of the extraordinary preparations for the Grand Entertainment to be given on Thursday next but deferred until 5 June], under the direction of Vestris Sen., the Opera proposed for this night [Public Advertiser, 16 May: La Fraschetana] is obliged to be deferred.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Opera in place of La Fraschetana, announced in Public Advertiser, 28 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barone Di Torre Forte

Dance: As17810526 throughout

Ballet: Ninette a la Cour. As17810526

Cast
Role: Mayor of the Town Actor: Delpini
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Separate Maintenance, announced on playbill of 30 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [The Grand Entertainment advertised for this day in Public Advertiser, 30 May; and see17810517] is unavoidably postponed to Tuesday next, the 5th of June.