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7799 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in low Comedy--<span class=
We found 4810 matches on Event Comments, 3422 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3801
25 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton Jun., Hind, Shade & Bayne. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Tickets delivered for a comic opera [Love in a Village, announced on playbill of 23 May] and by Barrett and McDonald will be taken. Receipts: #258 11s. 6d. (19.4.0; 7.2.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 232.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508

3802
27 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies, bookseller, and Mrs Davies, who formerly belonged to this Theatre, and who have sustained misfortunes in trade. Public Advertiser, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Davies, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #198 9s. 6d. (69.14.0; 17.10.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 110.12.0) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: End III: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508

3803
29 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Man and Wife, announced on playbill of 27 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses-Master and Miss Byrn

3804
02 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 6 May 1779]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Medley

3805
18 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces this as "By Command of Their Majesties," but "His Majesty intended going to Drury-lane Theatre last night, but was prevented by the multiplicity of business at St James's" (Morning Post, 19 Nov.).] Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 2 May 1776]. Receipts: #212 11s. 6d. (184.8.0; 27.6.6; 0.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

3806
02 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [not acted since 30 May 1772]. [Bannister Jun. was from dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

3807
03 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. With a Mock Processionv, and Triumphal Entry of Chrononhotonthologos. Morning Chronicle, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at Pennington's, watch-maker, opposite Broad Court, Drury-Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Ballet: End: The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockeys-Dagueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga Tinte

3808
06 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by the author of mainpiece (Town and Country Magazine, May 1779, p.269).] Receipts: #146 17s. (110.19.0; 34.15.6; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17790417

3809
07 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Harwood, Thompson & Miss Wright [who had 1st appeared as a singer in the oratorios, 19 Feb.]. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood at Mrs Powel's, New Nelson-street; of Thompson, No.7, Great Marlborough-street; of Miss Wright, No. 136, Drury-lane. Receipts: #267 4s. (69.5.0; 19.2.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 178.10.0) (charge: #105). The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Serjeant Flower Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: As17790503

Entertainment: End: Imitations-Bannister Jun

3810
08 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron and Miss Abrams. Morning Chronicle, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges-street. Receipts: #138 5s. (50.10; 22.17; 0.9; tickets: 64.9) (charge: #71 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In IV: Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: As17790413

3811
11 May 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Opera in place of Enea e Lavinia, announced in Public Advertiser, 10 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: As17790429

Ballet: Annette et Lubin. As17790429

3812
11 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfallv, as it was originally performed. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Wright, No. 24, Bennet-street, Westminster; of Butler, next door to the Theatre. Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (37.11.0; 13.8.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 216.6.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: Harlequin (for that night only)-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Clown-Grimaldi (1st appearance in that character); Pantaloon-Burn; Lover-Burton; Drunken Valet-Griffiths; Scaramouch-R. Palmer; Country Girls-Mrs Colles, Miss Abrams; Colombine-Miss Collett.
Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Grimaldi

Dance: End II: Hornpipe-Wright

Song: As17790503

3813
14 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Every Man in his Humour and The Irish Widow [both announced on playbill of 13 May], which were to have been performed this Evening, for the Benefit of Fawcett and Sga Crespi, are obliged to be deferred till Monday next. Receipts: #216 2s. 6d. (193.7.0; 22.7.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Coopers, as17781211

Ballet: End III: The Humours of Newmarket. As17790503 at cg Jockeys-Dagueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga Tinte, Miss Armstrong

3814
17 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Sga Crespi. Morning Chronicle, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Sga Crespi, No. 26, Poland-street, Oxford-street. Receipts: #194 3s. 6d. (32.8.0; 14.5.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 147.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: Grand Dance, Chaconne (composed by Zuchelli)-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi; and a Minuet-Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End I afterpiece: As17780919

3815
18 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, St. James's, Haymarket; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkeley-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Midas

3816
19 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Colles, the Widow Legg & Miss Kirby. Morning Post, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Kirby, No. 70, Long-acre [others not listed]. Receipts: #225 15s. (37.9.0; 11.11.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 175.120) )charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

3817
20 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth, Mahon & L'Estrange. Tickets delivered for Friday, May 7th, will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 16 Apr. 1773]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Albion Queens or The Death of Mary Queen of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Comus

3818
05 October 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley? Sen. [Miss Wright's 1st appearance, as an actress, was at this theatre on 7 May 1779.] Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions; To conclude with a Grand View of Greenwich Hospital, designed by DeLoutherbourg. Paid Land Tax 3rd & 4th Qtrs. to Lady Day #41 16s. Receipts: #187 3s. 6d. (151.3.0; 35.15.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

3819
16 October 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Grimaldi

3820
06 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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.

3821
27 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3822
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

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])

3823
12 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

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

3824
08 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Grimaldi

3825
17 March 1780 @ Crown Inn, Lower Street (now Essex Road), Islington

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