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3165 results for: Keyword - Bell's British Theatre
We found 2604 matches on Event Comments, 540 matches on Performance Comments, 181 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
28 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last time of performing this season. Williams for performing the Bells 7s. 6d.; Gard and Singleton 2s. 6d. each for performing in the lion. LeLewes and Quick paid up deficiencies for last season, and Ansell and Green theirs for the 26th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #155 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

452
24 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale (as Originally Written By shakespeare)

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Music: Select airs and variations on the Triple Harp-Evans

453
18 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

454
06 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

455
17 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

456
29 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Song: Azure God-Mrs Wrighten

457
28 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

458
01 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

459
26 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Omai [and see17851220]

460
15 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17861002

461
07 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

462
01 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Song: Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Bonville, Cubitt, Darley, Doyle, Rock, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Kennedy

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Occasional Address-Pope

463
23 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17880301

464
22 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Performance Comment: . The Sons of Anacreon]. President-Palmer; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Bannister Jun., Davies, Moss, Mathews, Chapman, Master Braham, Edwin; In which The Anacreontic Song-Bannister; Old [recte Poor] Thomas Day-Edwin, Bannister, Davies; The Wolf-Bannister; Moderation and Alteration-Edwin; Bonny Christ Church Bells, Hark the Lark, [Sing] Old Rose and Burn the Bellows-.

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Cast
Role: The British Soldier Triumphant Actor: Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin.

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer

465
24 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Keen

466
29 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

467
24 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: In III: Hornpipe in character-Byrne

468
31 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, Miss Simonet

469
22 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

470
08 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

471
01 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

472
01 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

473
10 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

474
11 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Song: III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; the Music by Shield

475
13 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt; Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: A New Selection

Performance Comment: Concerto on the violin-Master Clement; Gentle Airs Melodious Strains-Miss Broadhurst (Athalia); Let me wander not unseen, Or let the merry Bells-Dignum; And young and old-Chorus; Sweet bird that shun'st-Miss Hagley; accompanied on the violin-Shaw (L'Allegro); Pleasure my former ways resigning-Spence (Time and Truth); Solo on the violoncello-Mason; From rosy Bowers-Mrs Crouch (Purcell); Ah! d'ascolta gia parmi-Miss Davies (Martin y Soler); Awake Eolian Lyre-Reinhold (Dr Arnold); Gird on thy Sword-Chorus (Saul).
Cast
Role: Or let the merry Bells Actor: Dignum