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1379 results for: Keyword - Dr Brown
We found 718 matches on Performance Comments, 446 matches on Event Comments, 273 matches on Performance Title, 82 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
10 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Wilson as The Country Wife, but "Last night Mrs Wilson was taken suddenly ill upon the stage at Covent-garden theatre, and fainted away, in consequence of which Miss Brown read her part in The Country Wife" (Morning Post, 11 Feb.).] Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. (246.1.0; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17761221, but The Country Wife-read byMiss Brown.
Cast
Role: The Country Wife Actor: read byMiss Brown.

77
28 January 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [Mrs Brown was from the Norwich theatre.] Receipts: #200 11s. (198/17; 1/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Lewis; Foresight-Quick; Scandal-Farren; Sir Sampson Legend-Fearon; Jeremy-Davies; Tattle-Wewitzer; Trapland-Booth; Ben (with a song)-Edwin; Mrs Frail-Mrs Bates; Angelica-Mrs T. Kennedy; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Morton; Miss Prue-Mrs Brown (1st appearance on this stage) .
Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Brown

Afterpiece Title: Omai

78
09 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT I; author unknown. MS: Larpent 1022; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 10 May]: Books of the Songs may be had at the Theatre. [In 4th piece Brown is identified in Thespian Magazine, June 1794, p. 226.] Morning Chronicle, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #272 19s. (81/14; 5/12; tickets: 185/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Afterpiece Title: THE FOLLIES OF A DAY

Afterpiece Title: LOVE AND HONOR; or, Britannia in Full Glory at Spithead

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

Performance Comment: Jack Connor-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .

Dance: In 1st piece The Lucky Escape, as17930916, but omitted: Mrs Watts; In 3rd piece, by Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi, &c

Song: In the course of the Evening Water parted from the Sea by Incledon, after the manner of a celebrated Italian Opera Singer; End of Act I of 4th piece Sally in our Alley by Incledon

79
08 June 1798 @ Wheatley's Riding School, Greenwich (location unknown)

Event Comment: Benefit for Twaits, Ives, Hallam, Brown & Mrs Brooks. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Back Seats 6d. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. The above Performers, with the utmost Deference and Respect, inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Greenwich, they have selected those Entertainments which they flatter themselves will meet their Approbation; being compelled to answer their Engagements in another Town, they jointly solicit their Patronage on this occasion, the honour of which will ever be remembered with the most lively effusions of gratitude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas; Or, The Noble Shepherd

Performance Comment: Douglas (the Noble Shepherd)-Brown; Glenalvon-Twaits; Lord Randolph-Ives; Officer-Humphreys; Old Norval-Hallam; Anna-Mrs Humphreys; Lady Randolph-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Douglas Actor: Brown

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood; or, A Trial for a London Engagement

Performance Comment: Fustian-Twaits; Servant-Hallam; Sylvester Daggerwood-Brown.
Cast
Role: Sylvester Daggerwood Actor: Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: Between acts: Twaits, Master Seabrook

80
02 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

81
27 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 25 Jan. 1772.] [Brown identified by Kemble note on playbill. Macklin no longer appears on the playlist. This day is published at 1s. 6d. The Duellist, a Comedy, as it was represented at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. To which is prefixed a concise Narrative of the very Extraordinary Circumstances attending its Reception. T. Evans Bookseller.] Receipts: #188 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-a Gentleman, first appearance any stage [Brown]; Iago-Bensley; Cassio-Clarke; Brabantio-Gardner; Roderigo-Lewes[, first time; Lodovico-Owenson; Montano-Davis; Duke-Thompson; Gratiano-Redman; Emilia-Mrs Green; Desdemona-Miss Miller.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

82
26 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified in European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 309.] Receipts: #113 15s. (91/11/0; 22/2/6; 0/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth (1st time)-Barrymore; Sir Harry Sycamore-Parsons; Fairfield-Aickin; Mervin-Williames; Ralph-Suett; Giles (1st time)-Chapman; Fanny-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Brown]); Lady Sycamore-Mrs Hopkins; Theodosia-Miss Collett; Patty-Miss Phillips (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17821017

83
16 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Brown is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1790 season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Freeport-Aickin; Sir William Douglas-Bensley; Lord Falbridge-Williamson; Owen-Usher; Officer-Chapman; La France-Baddeley; Spatter-Bannister Jun.; Lady Alton-Mrs Whitfield; Molly-Mrs Wells; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Webb; Amelia-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Brown]).Mrs Brown]).

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900615

84
28 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. [Mrs Brown is sister to Miss Biggs of Drury Lane, and...has played frequently in her father's company in the country [i.e. Barnstaple, &c.]" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1798, p. 179). Morning Herald, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17980616 but Yarico-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any [recte this] stage [Mrs Brown]); Sailors-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End: Patents all the Rage-Munden; A Mock Italian Song-Fawcett; The Group of Lovers ; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden; a new song, The British Volunteers-Johnstone; with Chorus-Trueman, D'Arcy, Linton, Waldron Jun., Abbot, Lyons

85
10 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the Richmond theatre" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Roffey as Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was] Miss Tidswell" (Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6; Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-Dowton; Captain Absolute-Powell; Faulkland-Kemble; Acres-Bannister Jun.; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-Hollingsworth; Coachman-Maddocks; Servants-Fisher, Webb, Evans; Mrs Malaprop-Miss Pope; Lydia Languish-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Brown]); Julia-Miss Biggs; Lucy-Miss Heard; Maid-Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

86
31 March 1732 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of several full Pieces of Vocal and Instrumental Musick by antient and modern Authors, viz. Edwardo Lupi, Paulo Pretti, Wm. Bird, Collonna, Stephani, Corelli, Purcel, Dr Pepusch-

87
20 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Lady's Choice

Ballet: The Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

88
08 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

89
31 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old ground Young=, as17711030

90
02 July 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper

Dance: As17730630

91
23 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-LeBrun; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Salomon (1st public performance in this Kingdom)

Entertainment: Monologue.End Oratorio: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Henderson (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.); , accompanied with new Airs, Chorus-Dr Arnold, under whose direction the whole Music will be conducted

92
02 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

93
17 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet, in Spanish Characters, by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Vidini, and others

94
30 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's 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

95
20 August 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

96
28 May 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon

Dance: End of mainpiece, by Master Giorgi, Miss Byrne, and others

97
26 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT; or, A Pantomime Rehearsed

Song: Masque as17931119, but Neptune-Caulfield. Vocal Parts omitted

98
26 December 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago; or, Harlequin the Hero

99
28 December 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

100
23 November 1691 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert