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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.

6576
16 December 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In 2 acts, taken from Wycherley [by John Lee (Public Advertiser, 14 Dec.)]. Paid Pattinson, Tallow Chandler, #41 19s. Receipts: #167 18s. (166.9.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Lee; The Country Wife (1st time)-Mrs Wilson. see17761221 .

6577
17 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17761025, but Young Bevil-Reddish; Sir John Bevil-Grist; Cimberton-Parsons; Daniel-Waldron; Indiana (1st time)-Mrs Greville.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: End: Comic Dance-the two Miss Stageldoirs

Song: As17761025

6578
28 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Performance Comment: Quicksilver-Dodd; Golding-Brereton; Sir Petronal Flash (1st time)-Farren; Security-Parsons; Captain Seagull (with a song)-Bannister; Fig-Norris; Bramble-Hurst; Scapethrift-Fawcett; Spendall-Follett; Wolf-Wrighten; Waterman-Wright; Holdfast-Griffiths; Constable-Carpenter; Drawer-R. Palmer; Coachman-Chaplin; Touchstone-Baddeley; Mildred-Miss Hopkins; Winifred-Miss Boyd; Mrs Touchstone-Mrs Johnston; Syndefy-Miss Platt; Gertrude (with songs)-Mrs Wrighten.

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

6579
09 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17761231, but Mrs Fainall (1st time)-Miss Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761212

6580
13 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17761230, but Caliban (1st time)-Mahon; Master-_; Boatswain-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

6581
21 January 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3]. The Poetry by Goldoni; the Music entirely new by Tommaso Tragetta [recte Traetta]. Public Advertiser, 27 Jan.: "A senseless, impertinent Opera:...with Music, in point of Dullness, extremely well suited to the Book." [This review notes that the new scenery was painted by Colomba.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Germondo

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: Les Amans Heureux, as17770104; End Opera: a new grand Serious Ballet, L'Epouse Persane-Mons and Mme Simonet, Vallouy, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet

6582
28 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Barrett (1st appearance on this stage); Charles (1st time)-Farren; Russet-Dunstall (of cg); Captain O'Cutter-Moody; Paris-Waldron; Tom-Carpenter; William-Griffiths; John-Everard; Robert-Norris; Major Oakly-Yates; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Miss P. Hopkins; Toilet-Miss Platt; Mrs Oakly-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: In: as17770117

6583
01 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time, i.e. as an alteration of Richard Savage's play; T 5, by William Woodfall. Prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Epilogue by Richard Cumberland (see text)]: with New Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 13 Feb. 1777: Sir Thomas Overbury (the Publication of which was unavoidably postponed) will be ready this Morning, at Ten o'Clock (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #212 4s. 6d. (210.7.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Wroughton. Hull, Whitefield, Thompson, Mrs Jackson, Miss Leeson, Mrs Hartley. [Cast from text (Francis Newbery, 1777): Sir ThomasOverbury-Lewis; Earl of Somerset-Wroughton; Earl of Northampton-Hull; Sir Gervas Elvis-Whitfield; Officer-Thompson; Servant-Stevens; Countess of Somerset-Mrs Jackson; Cleora-Miss Leeson; Isabella-Mrs Hartley; Prologue-Hull; Epilogue-Mrs Hartley. [These were spoken. as here assigned, at the first 9 performances only (see17770503).]These were spoken. as here assigned, at the first 9 performances only (see17770503).]
Cast
Role: Earl of Somerset Actor: Wroughton
Role: Countess of Somerset Actor: Mrs Jackson

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17761015

6584
03 February 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17761023, but Hamlet-Lacy (1st appearance in that character); Ghost-Reddish (1st appearance in that character); Horatio (1st time)-Barrett.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

6585
24 February 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Relapse, by] Sir John Vanbrugh [1st time; C 5, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Prologue by David Garrick (see edition of 1781)]. The Characters new dressed. Receipts: #229 7s. 6d. (217.13.0; 10.8.0; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End III: The Triumph of Love, as17761107:

6586
28 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Oratorio [1st time in public. It had 1st been performed at Oxford, 8 July 1773, as part of the ceremony of the installation of Lord North as Chancellor.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son Judas Maccabaeus

Song: With additional airs-

Music: End Part I: solo on the German flute-DeCamp; End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17770214

6587
01 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Public Advertiser, 3 Mar.: "When [Reinhold] appeared on the Stage [in the afterpiece], after some little Time the excessive Glare of the Lamps affected him so much [because of an incomplete recovery from illness] that he dropped down in the Middle of his Part in a fainting Fit, of which he soon afterwards perfectly recovered in the Green Room. The Audience, with their wonted Indulgence and Humanity, universally insisted that the Curtain should be dropped." Receipts: #259 5s. (257.17; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17770218

6588
11 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Interlude [1st time; M. INT I, by Edward Jerningham]: Interspersed with Music [by James Hook. Text 1st published in Jerningham's Poems, vol. I (J. Robson, 1786)]. Public Advertiser, 20 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge at Thelwall's, Silk Mercer, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #222 9s. (80.14; 18.10; 1.19; tickets: 121.6) (charge: #65 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Margaret of Anjou

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End V: The Irish Fair, as17761031

6589
11 March 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Last Time [i.e. Season] of its ever being exhibited in London. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Lecture On Heads

6590
12 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ode [1st time; composed by Thomas Linley Jun. (see 18 Mar. 1778), text by John Hoadly]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Judas Maccabaeus

Afterpiece Title: The Song of Moses Judas Maccabaeus

Music: As17770214

6591
15 March 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3]: With Grand Chorusses. The Poetry by the Abate Conte Zaccaria de Seriman. The Music entirely new by Tragetta [recte Traetta]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Telemaco

Dance: End I: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Act II: Les Chasseurs, as17771112, but Mme _Vallouy, Mme Simonet; End Opera: a new Ballet Demi-caractere, +La Clochette-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet

6592
18 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Performance Comment: As17761202, but Jenny (1st time)-Miss Dayes.

Dance: As17770125

6593
20 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Funeral, announced on playbill of 18 Mar.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Isaac Jackman]: The Music composed by Carter. Receipts: #233 11s. (190.1.0; 40.16.6; 2.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

6594
07 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece [1st time; F 3, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from Dryden's Spanish Fryar. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 18s. (164.3; tickets: 82.15) (charge: #66 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Husband

Dance: As17761223

6595
07 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss P. Hopkins, Miss E. Hopkins. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Isaac Jackman. Prologue by David Garrick (Poetical Works, II, 334)]. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of the Miss Hopkins', No. 7, Little Russel-street. Receipts: #237 11s. 6d. (88.5.0; 23.15.6; 1.15.0; tickets: 123.16.0) (charge: #65 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End V: The Triumph of Love, as17761107

6596
09 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17770116, but Lucy (1st time)-Mrs Davies; The Original Epilogue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: End II: The Triumph of Love, as17761107

6597
16 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. The Characters dressed in the Habits of the Country. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to Charles Stuart. Author of Address unknown]. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her House, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #224 1s. 6d. (151.19.6; tickets: 72.2.0) (charge: #65 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Experiment

Dance: End: Hunting Dance, as17770218; End I afterpiece: The Villagers, as17770122

6598
17 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17770114, but Abram (1st time)-Baker.

Song: End: The Soldier tir'd With war's Alarms-Miss Abrams

6599
18 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Performance Comment: As17761001, but Jarvis-Lamash; Sir Charles Seymour (1st time)-Davies; Mr Hargrave-Waldron; Susan-Mrs Davies (1st appearance in that character); Clerk-Carpenter.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17761111, but Col. Tivy (1st time)-Norris.

Dance: As17761128

6600
18 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Related Works
Related Work: Artaxerxes Author(s): J.A. Hasse

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17761025, but Dimity (1st time)-Mrs Wilson.

Dance: As17770218