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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.

3826
08 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Delpini

3827
19 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

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

Cast
Role: Jockies Actor: Master Holland, _Holloway, _Holland.

3828
22 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Serjeant Flower Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

3829
23 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3830
25 May 1780 @ King's Theatre

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

3831
31 May 1780 @ King's Theatre

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.

3832
01 June 1780 @ Covent Garden

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

3833
21 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

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

3834
23 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

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

3835
24 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

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.

3836
19 December 1780 @ King's Theatre

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

3837
26 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

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

3838
12 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

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

3839
16 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3840
17 May 1781 @ King's Theatre

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.

3841
29 May 1781 @ King's Theatre

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

3842
31 May 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Delpini

3843
01 June 1781 @ King's Theatre

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.

3844
05 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by Frederick Pilon (see 10 May 1781).] Receipts: #199 14s. 6d. (198/12/6; 1/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

3845
22 January 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 15 May 1776]. Receipts: #123 1s. 6d. (90/1/0; 31/15/0; 1/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Luns Ghost

Dance: As17820112

3846
02 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Public Advertiser, 2 May: With Alterations (by the Author) in the 5th Act. Receipts: #121 8s. 6d. (116/4/6; 5/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17811219

3847
09 May 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit for Gardel. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Gardel, No. 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. 1st ballet: With entirely new Music, and a new Overture by Carter (Morning Herald, 25 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Leroe Cinese

Dance: End of Act I an entire new Ballet (composed by Gardel Sen.), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411

3848
14 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Retaliation [announced on playbill of 13 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Quick's and Edwin's Illness. Receipts: #182 5s. 6d. (179/18/0; 2/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

3849
20 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Macbeth, announced on playbill of 17 May.] Receipts: #141 7s. (136/5; 5/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Stevens

3850
25 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude as 23 May. Receipts: #75 4s. 6d. (53/1/0; 21/14/0; 0/9/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

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