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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.

651
18 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is recover'd & plays tonight-Mr Garrick taken ill, Holland did Chamont (Cross). [Probably Havard of Davies did Polydore, as both were familiar with the part.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Chamont-Garrick; Acasto-Berry; Ernesto-Simson; Monimia-Mrs Cibber; Page-Cautherly; Castalio-Ross; Polydor-Holland, 1st time; Chaplain-Blakes; Serina-Miss Minors; Florella-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Cibber
Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Orphan Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

652
21 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places, and on the stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre. Receipts: #253 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Garrick; Shore-Mossop; Jane Shore-Mrs Pritchard; Alicia-Mrs Cibber; Catesby-Mozeen; Ratcliffe-Jefferson; Gloster-Davies; Belmour-Blakes; Darby-Walker.
Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: A New Comic Dance-. [Dancers unspecified.

653
25 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17570415 but Masquerade scene not mentioned, Epilogue-_; Sir Francis-Cibber 1st appearance there in 2 years.
Cast
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Cibber 1st appearance there in 2 years.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17570518, but: Chalkstone (introduced for the last time)-Shuter; Esop-Wignel; Mercury-Baker; Old man-Pittard 1st appearance on that stage; Drunken Man-Dunstall; Frenchman-Holtom; Fine Lady (with life of a Belle)-Mrs Green; Bowman-White; Charon-Buck; Fine Gentleman-Cibber 1st time; With an Epilogue-Nobody.
Cast
Role: Fine Gentleman Actor: Cibber 1st time

Dance: II: Dutch Peasant, as17570512; III: Dutch Sailor-Master Settree, scholar to Mr Settree; IV: Country Lass, as17570512; V: A Minuet-Master Settree, Miss Twiste

654
14 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Performance Comment: As17580304 but Euanthe-Mrs Cibber; Sandane-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Euanthe Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

655
06 July 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T$Theophilus Cibber opened the theatre this one night. Mainpiece, a Mock Tragedy by Joseph Reed. Afterpiece, anonymous.] Tickets to be had at the Swan, Westminster Bridge; Forest's Coffee House and Cannon Tavern, Charing Cross; the Tuns in the Borough, Southwark; the Rainbow Coffee House, near the Royal Exchange; and the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden. N.B. Tickets for the Author to be had at Mr Briscall's at Parliament-Street Coffee House; the Bedford Head, Southampton St.; Mr Wells at the Crown and W in Russel Court, Covent Garden; Mr Long's in Little Britain; the Union Coffee House in Cornhill; the White Lion in Talbot Court; and the Sun Tavern, Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Performance Comment: Characters-Mr Cibber; & Co., with a Prologue-; Epilogue-; an Ode-; a Dirge-; a Funeralv and Processionv; With Proper Habits, Scenes, Machines, and All Heroic Decorations. Larpent MS 148 lists parts: Madrigal-; Buckramo-; Straspada-; Lyric-; Acrostic-; Fustiano-; Epigram-; Goosino-; Bodkinda-; Presboradalio-; Yardwandelli-; Buttonelli-; Thimbletorio-; Truletta-; Sculliona-; Scourella-; Ghosts of Cabbagino and Truletta-; Poets-; Taylors-; Drums-; Trumpets-.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Mr Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico or The Mock Nabob

656
30 December 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's first appearance this season (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Holland, 1st time; Indiana-Mrs Cibber; Tom-O'Brien; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Myrtle-Palmer; Sir John Bevil-Burton; Sealand-Havard; Cimberton-Philips; Humphrey-Blakes; Lucinda-Mrs Hippisley; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: Lowe

657
23 March 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit [made into] Amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder Or A Woman Keeps A Secret

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Garrick; Col. Briton-Palmer; Frederick-Packer; Lissardo-Yates; Gibby-Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Davies; Flora-Mrs Clive; Inis-Mrs Brandshaw; Violante-Mrs Cibber, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Cibber, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17601008

658
18 March 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. No Building on Stage. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: As17610924, but Tancred-Garrick; Sigismunda-Mrs Cibber; Officers-Scrase, Castle.
Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: HHearts of Oak-. [See17620209]

659
27 October 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

660
12 December 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

661
09 January 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Dance:

662
30 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

663
13 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Monologue: 1783 08 13 End of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue by Wilson, riding on an Ass

664
05 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

665
21 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

666
15 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17901020

667
12 October 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

668
15 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17931020

669
07 March 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music From The Works Of Handel

670
28 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

671
07 October 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: The Original Music of Matthew Locke and Accompaniments by Dr Arne and Linley? Sen.-; Chorus of Witches and Spirits-Kelly, Master Welsh, Sedgwick, Dignum, Cooke, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Miss Menage, Miss Redhead

672
17 February 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

Song: [omitted from playbill]As17950128

673
12 March 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

674
14 March 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Related Works
Related Work: Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

675
12 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child