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1796 results for: Keyword - Ambrose Philips
We found 1001 matches on Author, 702 matches on Performance Comments, 89 matches on Event Comments, 80 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1726
20 September 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II afterpiece: Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

1727
29 September 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

1728
06 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity

1729
17 December 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Between II and III of the above,Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II 3rd piece: A Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

Song: End I 1st piece: Little Taffline-Mrs Bland

Entertainment: MonologuePrevious 1st piece: Occasional Address-Lacy

1730
28 December 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1731
02 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: The Old Cloathsman

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

1732
19 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: III: When first I began Sir to ogle the Ladies (from The Strangers at Home)-Mrs Jordan; End: There the silver'd Waters roam (from The Pirates)-Sedgwick

Entertainment: Monologue End I: Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (from George? Colman's Night-Gown and Slippers)-Suett

1733
03 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17980920

1734
26 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Red-cross Knights

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss DeCamp

1735
17 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

1736
01 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope

Song: In V: song-Mrs Bland

1737
08 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

1738
16 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: Mainpiece: Chorusses-Denman, Lee, Thomas, Lewiss, Little, Potts, Everett, Oddwell, J. Linton, Tett, Smith, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Baron, Master Goodwin, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Standen, Master Little, Master Speare, Master Sawyer, Master Linton, Ms Trevor, Ms Gilbert, Ms Norton, Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Castelle, Ms Sydney, Ms Burnett, Ms Masters, Ms Lloyd, Ms Blurton, Ms Cox

1739
08 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

1740
28 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Children; or, Give Them their Way

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

1741
06 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wetherilt, Evans, Grey, Peploe. Tickets for Cross, Leigh, Miss Ambrose also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: SScotch Woman-Miss Robinson; Bartholomew Fair-Tench, Miss Brett; The Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Mears

Song: Singing in Italian-E. Roberts

1742
19 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid five days salary at #82 5d. per diem--#411 12s. 1d.; Paid Mr French on Acct #30; Miss Ambrose salary short paid 15s.; Mr J. Richard's for Trumpeter's coats and banners #100 16s.; Miss Hayward 15 nights not on [salary] list #7 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #109 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Peep Behind the Curtain

1743
18 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Performed as an Oratorio, though only a Serenata. Words by Gay...set to music by Mr Handel for that princely nobleman the Duke of Chandos...This being too short for a whole evening's entertainment, Mr Dryden's celebrated Ode, also set by Handel, was performed after the Serenata. End of Part I Concerto on French Horn, by Ponta. End of Part II, Solo on Violincello-Janson (Theatrical Review, 18 March). Ross and Mossop engag'd for Haymarket for tragedy, also Bannister; Aickin, Baddeley, Parsons, Dibdin, Mrs Baddeley, Evans, Miss Miller, Miss Ambrose &c. (Winston MS 10). [For Summer season?]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea, With Dryden's Ode

Music: End Part I: Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; End Act II: Concerto on Violincello-Janson

1744
16 May 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Kennedy Jun. (from Dublin, first time here), Fearon, Aickin, Davis, Jacobs, Bannister, Lloyd, Jones, Courtney, Everard, Johnson, Weston, Mrs Williams, Miss Ambrose, Miss Platt, Mrs Jewell; Prologue-Foote.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End: Giorgi's scholars

1745
30 May 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Wilson, first time (from Edinburgh), Kennedy, Follett, Griffith, Owenson, Fearon, Davis, Jacobs, Jones, Castle, Lloyd, Courtney, Mrs Williams, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17740516

1746
07 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred; Or, The British Freeholder

Performance Comment: Parts-Jackson (from Dublin), Dimond, first time on that stage; Whitefield, Lane, Davis, Chaplin, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Jackson (from Dublin); Prologue-Jackson; Epilogue-Mrs Jackson.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Medley-

1747
31 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Foote; Aickin, Whitefiled, Fearon, Lane, Brett, L'Estrange, Wilson, Jacobs, Jones, Lloyd, Everard, Castevens, Walters, Pierce, Chaplin, Francis, Weston, Miss Ambrose, Miss Platt, Mrs Weston, Miss Francis; with a Reinforcement of Bayes's new-Raised troops-.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: The Medley-

1748
17 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17770107, but Bacchants-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Bacchants Actor: Miss Ambrose.

1749
28 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Lee Lewes, Mahon, Robson, Fearon, Booth, Thompson, Jones, Fox, Wewitzer (with a new song), Miss Ambrose; Partial cast suggested by Genest, V, 567: Don Quixote-Lee Lewes; Sancho-Quick; Dorothea-Miss Valois; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Pitt.

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

1750
27 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude, On The Happy Recovery Of His Majesty

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Truth 0

Performance Comment: Selected by Dr Arnold from Works of the following Great Masters: Handel, Purcell, Dr Arne, Corelli, Jomelli, Sacchini, Haydn, Principal Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Dignum, Kelly, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lockhart, Miss Hagley (pupil of Linley? Sen.), Mrs Ambrose; 1st Violin-Shaw. For a detailed account of what was sung, see17880320 .