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8924 results for: Keyword - C. Cibber, Esq.
We found 3627 matches on Author, 2807 matches on Performance Comments, 1917 matches on Event Comments, 121 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

526
12 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

527
16 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Miss Young. British Chronicle, 16 April 1760: Died the celebrated Charlotte Charke in the Haymarket, daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq, poet laureate-a gentlewoman remarkable for her adventures and misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: By Particular Desire, My Fond Shepherds-Miss Young; III: The Ode to Echo (Dr Hayes)-Miss Young

528
17 December 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [Prince present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: I: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. II: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland

529
12 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [Prince and Princess present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: Miller and his Wife by Poitier and Mlle Roland. Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

530
26 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: THE NEW DIVERTISEMENT

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Palate, Fieldtree, Ensign Hardy//Patty, Jenny.] Written to introduce the following favorite Songs: Mary's Dream, The moon had climbed the highest hill (composed by Ralph [recte Relfe]), by Miss Poole; The Vestry Dinner, Churchwarden I have been (written by Cross, composed by Reeve), by Rees; The High Mettled Racer, See the course throng'd with gazers (composed by Dibdin), by Incledon (1st time); The Gipsey Ballad, A wand'ring Gipsey, Sir, am I (words and melody by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot], accompaniments by Shield), by Mrs Clendining; Kitty Grogan, Tho' I'm no Dancing Master (written by Collins, composed by Reeve), by Johnstone; The Storm, Cease, rude Boreas (written by George Alexander Stevens), by Incledon; [Auld] Robin Gray, Young Jamie lov'd me well, by Mrs Clendining; From morn till night I take my glass, by Incledon and Johnstone; Vo sol cando (composed by Vinci), by Miss Poole; The Triumph of Wine, What tho' from Venus Cupid sprung (composed by Dibdin), by Johnstone; Father, Mother and Suke (composed by Dibdin), by Fawcett. To conclude with the following Selection of Catches and Glees from Harrison and Knyvett's Vocal Concert: as17940523, but God preserve his Majesty in place of Water parted from the sea .

Afterpiece Title: THE SHIPWRECK or French Ingratitude

Music: End of Act II of 1st piece a Solo on the Union Pipes by Courtney; In the course of the Evening a Duetto on the Union Pipes and Harp by Courtney and Weippert

531
19 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Performance Comment: Principal parts by: Garrick, Holland, Love, Packer, Burton, Ackman, Castle, Fox, Mrs Pritchard, Miss Bride, Mrs Cibber, Prologue and Epilogue. Don Alonzo-Garrick; Don Pedro-Holland; Don Alvarez-Love; Don Roderigo-Packer; Elvira-Mrs Cibber; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Almayda-Miss Bride; Ambassador (?)-Burton; Ramirez-Ackman; Mendozo-Castle; Courtier-Fox; Prologue-Holland; Epilogue (writ by Garrick)-Mrs Cibber (Edition of 1763).
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

532
12 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne. [See Daily Post, 13 Nov., and London Evening Post, 13 Nov., for the trial of Harper. Daily Post, 13 Nov.: It was design'd also to prevent the Company acting last Night, by taking away so principal a Performer in the Play, which was advertis'd, he being conrin'd, &c. and his Hearing by Counsel deferr'd till between Five and Six o'Clock; but the Audience being duly acquainted with this Prosecution very kindly accepted Mr Cibber's reading the Part.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Performance Comment: As17331010, but Hotspur-read by T. Cibber; Northumberland, Douglas, Blunt, Westmoreland, Bardolph, Poins omitted . Northumberland, Douglas, Blunt, Westmoreland, Bardolph, Poins omitted .
Cast
Role: Hotspur Actor: read by T. Cibber
Role: Glendower Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: Wattcau by Miss Robinson. La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss La Tour

533
05 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets and places of Bradshaw, &c, and at Mills' House in Nassau St., near Soho Square. Servants may keep places on stage, which will (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed to form an amphitheatre. Rylands MS.: Cibber elop'd. Receipts: #188

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Delane; Tom-Cibber Jun.; Myrtle-Mills; Sealand-Berry; Indiana-Mrs Mills; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Winstone; Cimberton-Taswell; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Lucinda-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Cibber Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: en Petit Actor: Maitre-Miss Cibber.
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: II: Singing in Italian-Beard; III: Song-Lowe; V: (By Particular Desire) the favourite song of Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive (as she performed it in Dublin)

534
30 December 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miser or Wagner and Abericock

Performance Comment: Miser (Quaker)-Cibber Jr; Pierrot (Starved Servant)-Roger; Wagner (Faustus' Heir, in Character of Harlequin)-Clark; Abericock (Spirit left him by Faustus)-Miss Robinson Jr; Harlequin's Servant (Clown)-Harper; Miller's Wife and Daughter (Quakers)-Mrs Wetherilt, Miss Tenoe; Four Spirits (Quakers) rais'd to entertain Harlequin-Young Rainton, Young Sandham, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter; Spirits rais'd for the Celebration of Harlequin's Marriage: Rural Lass-Miss Robinson; Country Lads-Young Rainton, Young Sandham; Countrymen-Boval, Haughton, Duplessis; Countrywomen-Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter, Mrs Young; Pomona-Mrs Booth; Statues-Thurmond, Lally, Roger, Essex.
Cast
Role: Miser Actor: Cibber Jr

535
07 September 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 7 Love For Love

Performance Comment: Ben-Miller; Tattle-Cibber; Foresight-Johnson; Sir Sampson-Harper; Valentine-Milward; Scandal-W. Mills; Jeremy-Oates; Trapland-Griffin; Mrs Frail-Mrs Butler; Mrs Foresight-Miss Hollyday; Nurse-Mrs Willis; Prue-Mrs Clive; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond, the first time of her performance on that stage these three years .
Cast
Role: Tattle Actor: Cibber

Dance: By Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, particularly The Black and White Joke and Revellers

536
24 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: As17420108, but Constant-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Constant Actor: Cibber.
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Cibber Sr

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story

537
22 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Clarissa-Mrs Woffington; Brass-Macklin; Dick-Cibber; Mrs Amlet-Mrs Macklin; Gripe-Turbutt; Moneytrap-Taswell; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Corinna-Mrs Walter; Flippanta-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: en Petit Actor: Maitre-Miss Cibber.
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; III: A Ballad-Lowe; V: At the particular desire of several ladies of Quality, the celebrated Irish Ballad Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive, as she perform'd it in Dublin

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-the Mechels; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

538
29 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Berry; Sir Paul-Macklin; Brisk-Cibber Jun.; Careless-Mills; Mellefont-Havard; Lord Froth-Neale; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Butler; Lady Froth-Mrs Clive; Lady Pliant-Mrs Macklin; Touchwood-Winstone; Cynthia-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Brisk Actor: Cibber Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Bumper Squire Jones (By Desire)-Beard

Dance: III: (At particular desire of several persons of quality) Le Boufon, Italian Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel after the manner of the Fausans

539
23 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Brisk-Cibber Jun.; Sir Paul Plyant-Yates; Lady Froth-Mrs Mills; Maskwell-Berry; Mellefont-Havard; Careless-Mills; Lord Froth-Neale; Lord Touchwood-Winstone; Lady Plyant-Mrs Roberts; Saygrace-Turbutt; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Cross; Cynthia-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Brisk Actor: Cibber Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: Muilment, Mrs Auguste

Song: BBritons Strike Home-

540
02 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17460117, but Mrs Day-Mrs Cross; A New Occasional Prologue on the Duke of Cumberland's Defeat of the Rebels-Cibber.
Cast
Role: 's Defeat of the Rebels Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Merry Milkmaids of Islington

Song: Miss Young

Dance: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

541
10 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Garrick; Constant-Havard; Heartfree-Delane; Col. Bully-Lowe; Lord Rake-Blakes; Razor-Yates; Taylor-Shuter; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Clive; Lady Brute-Mrs Cibber; Belinda-Mrs Woffington; Mademoiselle-Mrs Green; Justice-Winstone.
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

542
24 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [MS note in hand of Colley Cibber (in R. J. Smith, History of the Stage, Vol. IV. BM 11826r)]: December 25, 1750 Sr. Tho' Death has been cooling his his [sic] heels at my door these three weeks, I have not had time to see him. The Dayly conversation of my friends have kept me so agreeably alive, that I have not passed my time better a great while. If you have a mind to make [?] us, I will order Death to come another day--to be serious I long to see you, and hope you will take the first opportunity. And so wish as merry a Christmas, as many New Years as your heart can hope for, I am Your real friend and Serv't C. Cibber Xmas Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

543
17 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Performance Comment: Mercour-Garrick; Clerval-Dexter; Dorimond-Berry; Marquis of Delville-Havard; Eugenia-Miss Bellamy; Orphisa-Mrs Pritchard; Emelia-Mrs Ward; Prologue-Garrick; Epilogue by Cibber-Mrs Pritchard (1752 ed.).
Cast
Role: Cibber Actor: Mrs Pritchard

544
31 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Performance Comment: Dorimont-Ross; Medley-Havard; Old Bellair-Philips; Sir Fopling-Woodward; Harriet-Miss Haughton; Belinda-Mrs Davies; Emilia-Mrs Cowper; Lady Woodvil-Mrs Havard; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Cibber; Young Belair-Palmer; Lady Townly-Mrs Bennet; Pert-Mrs Cross; Busy-Miss Minors.
Cast
Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End II: The Lilliputian Sailors, as17551030

545
03 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17561213, but Hamlet-Holland, 1st time; Polonius-Taswell; Ophelia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

546
19 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Garrick; Gloster-Burton; Edgar-Havard; Bastard-Palmer; Kent-Bransby; Steward-Castle; Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Blakes; Burgundy-Fox; Aranti-Mrs Hippisley; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Miss Haughton; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Spring

547
02 December 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but the fact that the play was given again on 4 Dec. 1672 suggests that this was the first performance and that it was also acted on Tuesday 3 Dec. 1672. A song, How pleasant is mutual love, set by John Bannister for this play, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673. See Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 155, for Underhill's acting of Justice Clodpate. Downes (p. 33): This Play in general being Admirably Acted, produc'd great Profit to the Company. Note, Mrs Johnson in this Comedy, Dancing a Jigg so Charming well, Loves power in a little time after Coerc'd her to Dance more Charming, else where

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

548
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle or A Wife at her Wits End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett.

549
16 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece: 1st Time at this Theatre. 2nd piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq. [as owner of the copyright]. Morning Chronicle, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #681 2s. (392.3.6; 57.18.0; 7.17.6; tickets: 223.3.0) (charge: #211 14s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Duke Murcia-King; Marquis Almanza-Wroughton; Count Valentia-Bannister Jun.; Seville-Maddocks; Granada-Trueman; Peasant-Aickin; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Goodall; Amanthis-Mrs Jordan; An Occasional Address by Henry Bunbury, Esq.-Mrs Jordan. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In course 2nd piece: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

550
20 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris Taken in the Year 1790

Performance Comment: Speaking Characters: St. Alban-Holman; Captain O'Leary-Johnstone; Patrick-Rock; Catherine-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Miss Brunton; Vocal Characters-Bannister, Incledon, Davies, Blanchard, Cubitt, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Warrell, Miss Huntley, Miss Barnet (Their 1st appearance), Miss Stuart, Miss Francis, Miss Williams, Mrs Mountain; Pantomimical Characters: Harlequin-Boyce; Petit Maitre-Farley; Marquis-W. Powel; Pioneer-Cranfield; Dusty Gentleman-Bernard; Poet-Marshall; Shoe@Black-Rees; Jacobine-Cross; Lemonadier-C. Powell; Poissards-Blurton, Rayner; Gardener-Milburne; Grotesque-Follett; Dancing Nymphs-Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Watts, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Boyce, Mrs Cranfield, Mrs Lloyd; Colombine-Mrs Harlowe; New Prologue-Holman.
Cast
Role: Grotesque Actor: Follett