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1647 results for: Keyword - Captain Cooke
We found 1259 matches on Performance Comments, 381 matches on Performance Title, 139 matches on Event Comments, 10 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
17 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Farce [By T. Cooke]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Eunuch; or, The Darby Captain

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 lists: Courtly Sr-Este; Courtly Jr-Stoppelaer; Bevil-Cole; Captain Brag-Mecklin; Needy-Turbut; Trusty-Winstone; Eunuch-Leigh; Dorinda-Miss Brett; Bellinda-Mrs Villeneuve; Lettice-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Captain Brag Actor: Mecklin
Related Works
Related Work: The Eunuch; or, The Darby Captain Author(s): Thomas Cooke

2
25 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the assignment of Captain Cook is from Diary, 27 Apr., which does not state who performed Koah.] Receipts: #234 3s. (222.14; 11.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Performance Comment: As17890413, but Captain Cook-Delpini.
Cast
Role: Captain Cook Actor: Delpini.
Role: Captain Douce Actor: Cubitt

Dance: As17890101

3
21 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: 15th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. 3rd piece: to conclude with a Representation of the Moraiv, with the Interment of the Body of Captain Cookv by the Natives. With the original Scenery, Music, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #238 4s. (235.15; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Performance Comment: Captain Bertram-Munden; Jack Junk-Fawcett; Harry Bertram-H. Johnston; Mr Bertram-Murray; Circuit-Waddy; William-Abbot; Mrs Moral-Mrs Davenport; Ann-Mrs Whitmore; Emma-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Captain Bertram Actor: Munden

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: In 2nd piece: As17991007

Song: In 2nd piece: As17991011

4
04 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and places to be had at Cooke's in Great Ormond St., near Queen's Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke; III: Grand Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla; IV: New Serious Dance-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Mrs Domitilla

5
02 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets of Page at the stage door of the theatre in Bow St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Cooke; II: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq; III: Le Gondalier-Cooke; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Cooke, Mrs Delagarde

Song: IV: Beard

6
31 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Charges #60. Deficiency to Cooke #25 10s., covered by #134 7s. from tickets. Tickets of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Died Dennis Delane, Esq. universally regretted (Daily Advertiser, 3 April). Receipts: #34 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: Dutch Dance, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

7
24 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. At the desire of several persons of Quality. Amphitheatre on stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock to keep places. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Cooke Sen., at his house in Great Ormond St., near Queen Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: I: Les Matelots-Cooke; III: A French Peasant-Cooke; IV: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

8
30 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. [The Devil to Pay was advertised in today's bill, but "Mrs Clive was taken ill, the Anatomist was Play'd" (Cross). Stage and Pit arranged as of 7 March.] Tickets and places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clarke's an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden. Receipts. #200 (Cross); charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti; II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: The Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

9
02 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the desire of several Ladies of Quality. Two rows of Pit will be laid into the boxes. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Grand Ballet-Cooke; II: Drunken Tyrolese-Cooke; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Sga Campioni

10
19 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Grand Ballet, the Gondoliers-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; II: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: (By Particular Desire) Grand Scot's Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Rigadoon concluding with a, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

11
26 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Tickets and Places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer, in James Street, Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #55 17s.; tickets,124 3s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Polish Dance, as17471109; III: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; V: A Ball Dance, call'd The Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

12
12 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Tickets deliver'd for the Orphan 28 March will be taken. Ladies send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: I: Grand Ballet call'd Pigmalion-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: The Gondoliers, as17510117, but _Jardin; III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926; IV: Dancing-Mad Heutte being the first time of her appearing of the English Stage; End: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

13
09 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Les Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207; II: A New Dance Call'd The Grecian Sailors-Cooke; III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

14
12 June 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Denman, Cooke, Stokes, Miss Tidswell, Miss Heard, Mrs Benson. Morning Herald, 9 June: Tickets to be had of Miss Heard at Mrs Fletcher's, No. 239, Piccadilly; True Briton, 5 June: of Mrs Benson, No. 31, Hart-street, Bloomsbury [no others listed]. Receipts: #78 10s. (35.0.6; 41.2.6; 2.7.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #224 15s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Antonio-Dowton; Charino-Hollingsworth; Don Lewis-King; Carlos-Barrymore; Clodio-Palmer; Sancho-Suett; Monsieur-Wewitzer; Governor-Phillimore; Don Duart-Caulfield; Don Manuel-Holland; Priest-Denman; Lawyer-Cooke; Louisa-Mrs Powell; Angelina-Miss Heard; Elvira-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Lawyer Actor: Cooke

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Song: End I: When on board our trim Vessel-Cooke (composed by Carter); End IV: Chelsea Quarters (composed by Schroeder)-Cooke

Entertainment: Imitations. End: a Variety of Imitations-Caulfield

Ballet: Following Imitations: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

15
15 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Master Cooke. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Part of the Stage will be formed into Side-Boxes. [Tickets at Cooke's House, Blue Flower-pot in Devonshire Street, near Red-Lyon Square. Tickets for Tully also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: Maggot-Cooke, Mrs Walter; III: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Muilment; V: The Louvre, with a Minuet-Master Cook, Mrs Walter

16
16 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke, Dancing-Master. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: Glover, Richardson, Villeneuve, Dupre, DelaGarde, Miss Oates,also by Master Cooke, who never performed on any Stage before

17
19 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Entertainment: EEquilibres on Small Wire-Cooke an Englishman and Citizen of London who performs all the Turk did

18
04 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Part of Pit will be laid into boxes. Tickets delivered out for the 22nd will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Italian Peasants, as17531120; IV: Les Charboniers, as17540307 End of Play: (By Particular Desire) Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

19
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Duke; Or, The Conjuror's Bastard; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Tipple

Performance Comment: Conjuror's Bastard-Chapman; Duke Lavinio-Winstone; Mago-Cross; Prince Brunetto-Ware; Barberino-Bembridge; Alberto-Richards; Captain-Spackman; Clout-Gray; Flout-Clough; Isabella-Mrs Cross; Prudentia-Miss Ferguson; Flametta-Miss Dodson; 1st Widow-Mrs Taylor; 2d Widow-Mrs Powel; Miss Sol@Fa-Mrs Booth; Drunken Captain-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Captain Actor: Spackman
Role: Drunken Captain Actor: Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Matrimonial Squabble; or, A Cure for Jealousy

Ballet: TThe Infernals (Grand Ballet). 1st Fury-Bencraft; Attendants-Clough, Richards, Gray, Wright, Bembridge, Spackman

20
13 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Performance Comment: Part I. A Nuptial Procession-; with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony- according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee; Combat between two Natives-; Part II. The Arrival of the Resolutionv. The Disembarkation of the English-; with Ceremonies observed at a Treaty of Peace with the Natives-; Preparation for Human Sacrifice-; Assassination of Captain Cook-; Part III. A Representation of Naval and Military Honoursv erecting a Pile to Memory of Captain Cook, by Officers of Resolution. The Ceremony-; same occasion, according to Natives of O'Whyee. Conclude a representation of a Burning Mountain-.
Cast
Role: Assassination of Captain Cook Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Cast
Role: Captain Douce Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

21
21 September 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Performance Comment: Cast from text (T. Cadell, 1789), and Parke, I, 115: Terreeobo-Blurton; Pareea-Byrne; Koah-Delpini; Captain Cook-Cranfield; His Lieutenant-Evatt; Priest-Darley; Lieutenant of the Marines-Ratchford; Emai-Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.
Cast
Role: Captain Cook Actor: Cranfield
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: As17890914, but Vocal Parts-Lee, W. _Thompson, Miss +MacGeorge, Mrs +Lefevre

22
27 August 1706 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Barcelona; Or, The Soldier's Fortune; With The Taking Of Fort Montjouy; Containing The Pleasant And Comical Exploits Of That Renown'd Hero, Captain Blunderbuss, And His Man Squib

Performance Comment: Colonel Lovewell-Mills; Captain Blunderbuss-Bullock; Squib-Norris; Corporal Scaredevil-Bickerstaff; Maria-Mrs Baxter.
Cast
Role: Captain Blunderbuss Actor: Bullock

Song: The Dame of Honour-Mrs Willis

Entertainment: Vaulting-Simpson, that most celebrated Master, the famous Vaulter, who Performs with Mr Penkethman at the Request of the Quality, being lately arriv'd from Italy

23
21 March 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain; Or, The Usurer Turned Soldier

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Bradshaw; Usurer-Norris; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Woman Captain Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

24
29 June 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Woman Captain Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: A New Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

25
14 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Woman Captain Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Song: Cook

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance-Moreau, Kellom's Scholar, Cook, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle