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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.
Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mrs Billington's severe Illness rendering it impossible to perform Fontainbleau [advertised on playbill of 13 Mar.], Lewis hopes the above Comedy will prove acceptable to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have Places, and to the Public in general. Public Advertiser, 11 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #242 16s. 6d. (156.12.6; 5.10.0; tickets: 80.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: Belville-Lewis; General Savage-Ryder; Conolly-Aickin; Torrington-Quick; Leeson-Farren; Captain Savage-Davies; Leech-Fearon; Ghastly-Wewitzer; Spruce-Brown; Crow-Thompson; Miss Walsingham-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Webb; Mrs Tempest-Mrs Morton; Miss Leeson-Mrs Brown; Mrs Belville-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-[see17880328

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: In 3 Acts [i.e. abridged from the original 5]. Morning Herald, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #347 5s. 6d. (234.1.0; 4.14.6; tickets: 108.10.0) (charge: #105). Pencilled in the Account-Book. 234.1.0-money [taken at the doors] 4.14.6-after money [taken at the doors] 238.15.6 105-charge 133.15.6-owing Lewis [on 18 Apr. he was paid 133.14.0] [The amount of his tickets, 108.10.0, he retained; hence his profit on this night was #242 4s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: Welford-Lewis; Mr Ordeal-Aickin; Captain Douglas-Farren; Nicholas-Munden; Cheaterly-Macready; Colonel Staff-Evatt; Sir Buzzard Savage-Quick; Clara (with a song in character)-Mrs Esten; Constance-Miss Chapman; Widow Volatile-Miss Stuart; Grace-Mrs Harlowe; Mrs Muslin-Mrs Platt; Lady Flippant Savage-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Welford Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Glib (the Author)-Lewis; Sir Toby Fuz-Wilson; Sir Macaroni Virtu-Fawcett; Wilson-Macready; Patent-Powel; Mervin-Evatt; Prompter-Farley; Carpenter-Rock; Lady Fuz-Mrs Webb; Sweepers-Mrs Powell, Mrs Davenett; Miss Fuz-Mrs Davis; Characters in the Burletta: Orpheus-Davies; Shepherds-Powel, Follett, Linton, Cross, Rees, Noble, Letteney, Rowson, Blurton, Milburne, Simmons, Coombes; Old Shepherd-Munden; Rhodope-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Glib Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heigho For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: MISS IN HER TEENS

Afterpiece Title: RULE BRITANNIA

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Actor

Afterpiece Title: Celadon and Florimel; or, The Happy Counterplot

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Entertainment: Monologue.End 2nd piece: an Address-Mrs Kemble on the Occasion of her Retiring from the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: The Magick Banner; or, Two Wives in a House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The Heir at Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cheap Living

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Entertainment.As17971019

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard II Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Secret Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Faults

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour-Miss DeCamp, Mlle Parisot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Sedgwick, Dignum, Trueman, Danby, Brown, Cook, Tett, Caulfield Jun., Sawyer, Danby Jun., Aylmer, Willoughby, Bardoleau, Clark, Mead, Elliot, Ms Crouch, Ms DeCamp, Ms Stephens, Ms Leak, Ms Dufour, Ms Arne, Ms Menage, Ms Roffey, Ms Menage Jun., Ms Jackson, Ms Wentworth, Ms Chippendale, Ms Jacobs, Ms Butler, Ms Bowyer, Ms Williams, Ms Saunders, Ms Gaudry, Ms Benson, Mrs Illingworth, Mrs Coates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Sighs; or, The Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Song: not listed in playbill; see17990824: In II 2nd piece: 'Twas in the solemn mid@night hour-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. The doors to be opened at half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock. [For Gentleman who played Othello, See bill for 25 May.] Charges #73 8s. Profit to Lewis #57 15s., plus #24 10s. from tickets (Box 61; Pit 43; Gallery 28) Receipts: #131 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17731127, but Petruchio-Lewis, first time; Grumio (that night only)-Shuter; Taylor-_; Baptista-_.
Cast
Role: Petruchio Actor: Lewis, first time

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17731007

Entertainment: After dance: Ode on the Passions-the Gentleman who performed Lysimachus

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis, Dancer & J. Smith. Tickets to be had of Lewis at the Europa; of Smith at the Ship, Seven Houses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-Comerford; Worthy-Johnson; Captain Brazen-Russell; Justice Ballance-Lewis; Bullock-Newton; ThomasAppletree-Kenny; Costar Pearmain-Dancer; Serjeant Kite-Smith; Sylvia-Miss Reynolds; Melinda-Mrs West; Lucy-Miss Taylor; Rose-A Young Lady of Rotherhithe (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).unidentified]).
Cast
Role: Justice Ballance Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, Jack in Distress-; [with a Hornpipe [in character,-a Lady from London [unidentified]

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Imitations. As17760930 Monologue. Teague's Ramble to London. Captain O'Blunder-Broderick

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece [1st time; F 3, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from Dryden's Spanish Fryar. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 18s. (164.3; tickets: 82.15) (charge: #66 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Performance Comment: Alwin-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Raymond-Wroughton; Grey-Clarke; Laroche-Whitefield; Morton-L'Estrange; Sir Ardolph-Fearon; Peasant-Booth; Knight-Robson; Eleanor-Miss Dayes; Countess of Salisbury-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Alwin Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Husband

Dance: As17761223

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #194 16s. (143.9; tickets: 51.7) (charge: #66 13s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron (1st time)-Lewis; Count Baldwin-Clarke; Carlos-Whitfield; Belford-L'Estrange; Sampson-Dunstall; Friend-Smith; Pedro-Bates; Child-Miss Francis; Villeroy (1st time)-Wroughton; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Isabella-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).
Cast
Role: Biron Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: The Apprentice Actor: Lewis

Dance: 2nd piece: Aldridge. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: III: Epithalamium-; the vocal parts-Robson, Miss Dayes

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 19 Apr. 1773]. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house, Broad-court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Warwick-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Suffolk-Hull; Pembroke-Whitfield; Officer-Robson; Buckingham-Stevens; King Edward-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Lady Eliz. Grey-Miss Leeson; Lady Clifford-Mrs Poussin; Margaret of Anjou (for this night only)-Mrs Yates; With the original Epilogue, written by Garrick,-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Warwick Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Lewis

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. [Macready was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Miss Ogle to Mrs T. Kennedy, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Lewis's.] "The dress worn by Lewis, with small buttons innumerable, that gave it the air of a Hussar's jacket lengthened, was lately a coat won by the Prince of Wales" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (239.19.6; 2.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Doricourt-Lewis; Sir George Touchwood (1st time)-Farren; Saville-Aickin; Flutter-Macready (1st appearance on this stage); Villers-Hull; Courtall-Davies; French Valet-Wewitzer; Porter-Fearon; Hardy-Quick; Mrs Racket-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Touchwood (1st time)-Mrs Wells; Miss Ogle-Mrs Lewis; Kitty Willis-Miss Stuart; Letitia Hardy-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Doricourt Actor: Lewis
Role: Miss Ogle Actor: Mrs Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Day In Turkey; Or, The Russian Slaves

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, arranged by Thomas Goodwin. Monologue by Miles Peter Andrews (Yale, Folio Pamphlets No. 10, p. 157)]. Morning Herald, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #466 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Johnstone, Macready, Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt; or, The Return from Victory

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Holland, Mrs Watts, Mme Rossi

Entertainment: Monologue. A new Occasional Address in the character of Goldfinch ,-Lewis

Performance Comment: A new Occasional Address in the character of Goldfinch ,-Lewis.
Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: As altered by Garrick. Not acted these 10 years [acted I June 1791]. 2nd piece: In one Act. Morning Herald, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #469 13s. (294/3/6; 26/2/6; tickets: 149/7/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Frederick-Farren; The Duke-Middleton; Petruchio-Macready; Peter-Blanchard; Anthony-Cubitt; Surgeon-Powel; Antonio-Quick//[First] Constantia-Miss Chapman; Mother-in-Law-Mrs Chambers; Landlady-Mrs Leicester; Second Constantia-Mrs Pope .
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: TRISTRAM SHANDY

Afterpiece Title: A DIVERTISEMENT

Dance: In 3rd piece a Ballet by Byrn, Mlle St. Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: In Act II of 1st piece a song by Mrs Mountain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE

Dance: In afterpiece the Ballets composed by James D'Egville; the Principal Dancers-D'Egville, Gentili, and also by permission of the Proprietor of the King's Theatre, Mme Del Caro, Mlle E. Hilligsberg, Mlle Hilligsberg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: THE GAMESTER

Afterpiece Title: BRITAIN'S GLORY; or, A Trip to Portsmouth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day