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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.

5876
05 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17471104 [notation being made of the second time of Barry's performing the character of Bajazet] .

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5877
21 November 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing the afterpiece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tea

5878
15 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Afterpiece: Being positively the last time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Tea

5879
23 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire; Being the last Time of Performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #179 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: A New Tambourine-Anne Auretti

5880
23 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of acting till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tea

5881
31 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of Twelfth Night, or What you Will (written by Shakespear) is now reviving at Drury Lane Theatre, and will be acted for the first time on Twelfth Night. Receipts. #100 (Cross); #115 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

5882
09 January 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last Time of performing this Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

5883
05 March 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last Time of performing this Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

5884
17 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: As17480213 [General Advertiser gives cast first time, but omits notice of Prologue and Epilogue.]

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Cast
Role: Moor of Moor Hall Actor: Lowe

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

5885
28 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: For the last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets deliver'd out for The Recruiting Officer will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Powel: Rec'd of Mrs Rudd, Fruit Woman, in Part #9. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #78 15s. 6d.; tickets, #99 2s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Lowe

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

5886
29 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets to be had of Yates next door to Mr Walsh's in Catherine St., Strand. Last time of acting the mainpiece this season. Jack Laguerre dy'd (Cross). Receipts #160 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #72 19s.; tickets, #66 19s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Song: II: Mrs Mozeen

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti

5887
31 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard and Mrs Havard. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Being the last time but one of Acting till the Holidays. [The following financial analysis appears in the page reproduced from the Clay MS, in the Oct. 1926 issue of the Connoisseur, p. 93.] @Cash #101 17s.@Tickets #61 6s.@#163 3s.@Stage #15 17s.@#3 1s. 6d.@#18 18s. 6d.@ Receipts: #170 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

5888
02 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Tickets and Places of Mrs Elmy at the corner of Tavistock St. next Southampton St., Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door. Being the last time of acting till the Holidays. Cash, #92 12s.; tickets, #56 8s.; total, #149 (Clay MS page reproduced in Oct. 1926 issue of Connoisseur, p. 93). A few days ago arriv'd in Town Mr Sheridan, Manager of the Theatre Royal in Dublin, and we hear as his stay is to be but short, he intends to perform only once, for the benefit of the poor sufferers by the late Fire (General Advertiser). [The fire happened the 25th in "Exchange alley (London) and in the space of 10 hours consumed a great number of houses occupied by persons in middling circumstances and with large families." Subscriptions were raised and distributed by a committee of ten bankers. See General Advertiser.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cooke, Anne and Janeton Auretti

5889
07 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing [Oratorios]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Afterpiece Title: A Concerto

5890
14 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Faulkner. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Miss Faulkner playing Polly "for the 1st time." Tickets of Page at the stage door in Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Miss Faulkner at her house in Leicester Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

5891
22 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. Last time of acting the Mainpiece this season. The Play of the Lover's Melancholy, and the Farce of the Club of Fortune Hunters, which were to have been acted this evening, for the Benefit of Mrs Macklin, are deferr'd till Thursday the 28th, on account of the Indisposition of Mr Barry; when tickets deliver'd out for the 22nd instant will be taken. Tomorrow, King Lear for the benefit of the suffers by the late fire. Receipts: #28 (Cross); #24 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: The Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5892
23 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being last time of performing the Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Followers of Daphne Actor: Mrs Gondou, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dumont, Mrs LaFont

5893
03 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B.: [This bill] was put up, but Mr Garrick was seiz'd with an ague, & there was no play, nor the Doors open'd (Cross). The Managers of Drury Lane Playhouse paid the sum of #208 1s. [Being the whole money taken at the play of King Lear, for the benefit of the Sufferers by the late Fire] into the hands of Mt Knight and Mt Jackson; and not as mentioned by Mistake in yesterday's paper; and the whole company gave their night's pay for the said benefit. The last new Reviv'd Play, call'd The Lover's Melancholy, will be acted by particular desire next Thursday, at Drury Lane, to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, being the last time of performing it this season (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: Joe Actor: Lowe

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5894
07 May 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera written by Metastasio and the Musick compos'd originally by Signor Hasse. [First time performed in England.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Semiramide Reconosciuta

5895
11 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of acting it this season. Tickets deliver'd out for Saturday the 7th will be taken this night. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #139 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5896
13 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces for the last time this season. Receipts; #40 (Cross); #69 6s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

5897
14 May 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last Time of Performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Semiramide Reconosciuta

5898
17 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality, and for the last time this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #83 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: [III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5899
16 June 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: To begin at 6:30 p.m. Being the last Time of Performing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Footes Tea

5900
24 August 1748 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Hussey's Great Theatrical Booth facing the Hospital Gate. A new Droll...during the short time of the Fair. Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Quaker Or The Humours Of Wapping

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks or The Rambles of Covent Garden

Song:

Dance: tween acts: Cunningham, Master Mattocks, Master Harrison, Mme Dominique; Foote's Vagaries-Master Harrison, Mme Dominique; Italian Fireworks-