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5359 results for: Keyword - David Lewis
We found 3988 matches on Author, 1327 matches on Performance Comments, 220 matches on Event Comments, 48 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5326
02 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. [The Public Advertiser assigns Montague twice--to Redman and to Lewis. Redman probably correct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

5327
11 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: As17661016, but Diego-Cushing (playbill); Public Advertiser assigns Diego-$Lewis.
Cast
Role: Public Advertiser assigns Diego Actor: Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

5328
27 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 20 years. Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20; Paid Richards (painter) as per bill #115 15s.; Paid Partridge & Franks (hosiers) #60 5s.; Paid Lowe & Lewis (woolen drapers) #35 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #207 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

5329
01 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Cipriani (painter) as per bill #42. Paid McMillen (Shoemaker) #18 2s., and Love & Lewis (woolen drapers) #11 7s. (Account Book). [Cipriani possibly painted new scenes for Elfrida.] Receipts: #152 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

5330
06 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Partridge (hosier) #36 15s.; Lowe & Lewis (woollen drapers) #22 1s. (Account Book). Receipts: #167 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

5331
03 January 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Gentleman who played Hamlet identified by Winston MS 11 (from O. Smith) as Lewis Hallam, from America, brother to Mrs Mattocks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): David Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

5332
21 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Performance Comment: Rhadamistus-Wroughton; Pharasmanes-Aickin; Teribazus Lewis; Megistus-Hull; Zopiron-Whitefield; Tigranes-L'Estrange; Zelmira-Mrs Jackson; Zenobia-Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Seraglio

5333
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

5334
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

Related Works
Related Work: A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal Author(s): David Garrick

Dance: As17780129

5335
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

5336
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

5337
21 March 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love At A Venture; Or, The Rake Reclaim'd

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by performers engaged from different Theatres: Morris, Barrett, Money, Whitely, Jameson, Sheene, Lewis, Jackson, Middleton, Stanley, Dancer; Miss Fitzherbert, Mrs Sauley, Mrs Waite, Miss Anderson, Miss Brice. Cast not listed. A new Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Monologue: 1782 03 21 End of mainpiece (never performed here) Phelimoguffinocarilocarneymacframe's Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight, with Explanations, by Mrs Kennedy

5338
04 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Tom Thumb, announced on playbill of 3 Oct.] "Covent Garden Theatre. As personal allusions and party views have been attributed to the dramatic satire, called The Wishes, the author thinks he cannot so effectively disclaim them as by entirely withdrawing the piece" (Unidentified clipping, dated 5 Oct. 1782, The Tale Edition of Horace Walpoles Correspondence, cd. W. S. Lewis, 1955, xxix, 219). Paid Guard for Scene Men from 8 June to 21 Sept., on 9 occasions, approximately #900. Paid Music #7 14s.; properties 9s. [both being an average payment throughout the season per night]. Receipts: #221 8s. 6d. (218/11/0; 2/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

5339
26 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not [announced on playbill of 24 Sept.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer [Lewis (Public Advertiser, 27 Sept.)]. Receipts: #178 2s. 6d. (174/2/0; 4/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

5340
24 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Alfred, Stageldoir, Dale, Daglish, Gibson, Blandy, Miss Hale, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Lewis, Miss Barnes will be taken. Receipts: #231 1s. 6d. (15/3/0; 6/9/0; 0/1/6; tickets: 209/8/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Merry Roundelay, by Miss Barnes

5341
23 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Alfred, Stageldoir, Dale, Daglish, Gibson, Blandy, Mrs Lewis, Miss Hale will be admitted. Receipts: #229 13s. (28/12/0; 13/13/6; 1/1/6; tickets: 186/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills; In afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour, as17850111

5342
07 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Wewitzer, Davies, Johnstone; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Webb, Mrs Bannister. [For assignment of parts see17851103].

Afterpiece Title: Barnabv Brittle

Dance: End of mainpiece a new dance (composed by Byrn) The Recruiting Serjeant by Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin

5343
26 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Performance Comment: Don Julio Lewis; Don Caesar-Quick; Don Vincentio-Edwin; Gasper (1st time)-Kennedy; Don Garcia-Davies; Don Vasques-Fearon; Pedro-Stevens; Don Carlos-Wroughton; Victoria-Mrs Bates; Minette-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character); Laura-Mrs Inchbald; Inis-Miss Platt; Sanchia-Mrs Davenett; Marcella-Miss Rowson; Olivia-Mrs Warren (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17851112

5344
29 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Lyon, Sherratt, Gardner, Daglish, Gibson, Gilles, Finney, Barthrope, Aberdein, Purser, Blandy, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Lewis will be admitted. Receipts: #230 7s. (20/5; 3/17; 0/9; tickets: 205/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

5345
25 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil In The Wine-cellar

Afterpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: In 1st piece a favourite glee [singers not listed]. imitations. In the course of 3rd piece various Imitations [of Edwin, Quick, Macklin, Smith, Lewis, Wroughton, Wood, Davies, Robson, Waldron (Public Advertiser, 26 July)] by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: imitations. In the course of 3rd piece various Imitations [of Edwin, Quick, Macklin, Smith, Lewis, Wroughton, Wood, Davies, Robson, Waldron (Public Advertiser, 26 July)] by Bannister Jun .

5346
06 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "When Priuli was relating to the Senators the impending and immediate destruction of their wives and families, the Senators, without discovering any emotion, were very pleasantly surveying the house, and laughing with their friends in the Upper Gallery. These gross enormities, that yet hang about our stage and are its disgrace, call aloud for the correcting hand of an intelligent Manager, to weed them out. Thanks to their own genius the Principals take care of themselves-the Subalterns are a disgrace. Is not King responsible for this part at one house, and Lewis at the other?" (World, 8 Oct.). Receipts: #302 2s. 6d. (274.4.0; 27.3.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour-Hamoir, Miss Stageldoir

5347
06 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Appleby, Bayne, Dale Jun., Daglish, Douglas, Gardiner, Gillis, Kirk, Lyon, Standen, Pilsbury, Mrs Lewis] will be admitted. Receipts: #192 1s. (7.11.0; 2.14.6; 0.15.6; tickets: 181.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour and Allemande-Kirk, Miss J. Stageldoir

5348
09 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Benson, Bourk, Booth, Dale, Johnston, Jones, Purser, Walker, Miss Davies, Mrs Heard, Mrs Lewis, Miss Stageldoir] will be admitted. [Afterpiece in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary, advertised on playbill of 8 June.] Receipts: #257 2s. 6d. (19.7.0; 7.8.6; 1.10.0; tickets: 228.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Related Works
Related Work: A Winter's Tale Author(s): David Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: a Dance-Hamoir, Miss Stageldoir; End: Highland Reel, as17890502, but Bourk, _Keen

Song: I: the Sheep@shearing Song-Miss Romanzini

5349
15 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Suspicious Husband, but "The performance at this house was changed yesterday evening in consequence of the indisposition of Lewis, and Rose and Colin with The German Hotel were substituted for The Suspicious Husband"(Diary, 16 Dec.).] Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (135.4.6; 10.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

5350
11 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry

Performance Comment: Characters-Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames; Larpent MS lists the parts: Count Abeville, Don Lewis, Don Juan, Perroquet, Fabio, Sanchez, Corregidore, Jailor, Grim, Donna Leonora, Inis. Prologue-Bannister Jun.