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4243 results for: Keyword - C. Lewis
We found 1927 matches on Performance Comments, 1424 matches on Event Comments, 1122 matches on Author, 118 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

3976
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

3977
31 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Percy, but "Lewis being suddenly taken extremely ill...Percy cannot be performed this Evening; instead of which Mrs Farrell will appear in the character of Macheath in The Beggar's Opera. The other characters as usual" (printed slip attached to BM playbill).]Receipts: #143 5s. (141.13; 1.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

3978
02 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: King Lear [announced on playbill of 31 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Hartley and Lewis. The Rehearsal having been found too tedious in Representation, and Part of the Dialogue between Bayes and the two Gentlemen wholly obsolete, it has been thought advisable to...reduce the Piece to Three Acts [from the original five]. Receipts: #219 10s. [216.4.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17780129

3979
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

3980
16 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor; or, The Wishes

3981
31 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

3982
22 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Cast
Role: The Apprentice Actor: Lewis
Role: Sir Charles Racket Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

3983
18 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses-(see17780529); End: Provencalle Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

3984
15 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: Comical Courtship; or, The Battle Royal

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

3985
26 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

3986
11 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

3987
24 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [The playbill assigns Posthumus to Reddish, but "On Saturday afternoon, at four o'Clock, Notice was sent of the extreme illness of Reddish; and Lewis (on Application) finding it impossible to attempt the Character of Posthumus at that very short Notice [not having performed it for some Seasons) it was obligingly undertaken by Brereton of Drury-Lane Theatre" (Public Advertiser, 26 Oct.). Mrs Crawford, as Mrs Barry, had 1st acted Imogen at dl, 1 Dec. 1770.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: End III: As17780921

Song: II: Masquerade Scene, with Singing-Mrs Morton

3988
23 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Lewis

Dance: End II: As17780925; I: a Rural Dance[, incident to the Piece,-Dagueville [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

3989
04 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller

Dance: In afterpiece: Dagueville, Miss Valois. [The dancing, as here assigned, was included in all subsequent performances, except on 4 Feb., 7 Apr., 10 May.

Song: In I: song-Leoni

3990
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak

3991
27 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17790417

3992
28 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

3993
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Shade & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Lewis, Hodges, Gardner, and for Monday, the 31st of May, will be taken. MS annotation on Kemble playbill: "I believe this was the last time of Mr Henderson's acting at Drury Lane, except when he played Jaques in As You Like It for Mrs Robinson's Benefit, April 7, 1780. See October 18, 1779, Covent Garden Bills." Receipts: #301 6s. 6d. (19.14.0; 2.14.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 278.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

3994
01 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: Mainpiece: With Two New Dances-(see17790705

3995
17 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790610

3996
31 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17790818

3997
02 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

3998
05 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

3999
13 November 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Detection; Or, A Sketch Of The Times

Afterpiece Title: The City Association; or, The National Spirit Rous'd

Song: End I: song-Phillips

Entertainment: Monologue.End: (not acted these 10 years) Shuter's comic interlude, Post Haste Observations on his Journey to Paris-Sutton (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh)

4000
31 January 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason