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1088 results for: Keyword - Dr Ford
We found 480 matches on Performance Comments, 400 matches on Event Comments, 243 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

926
14 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Performance Comment: Upon dedicating a Building, and erecting a Statue to Shakespeare, as originally performed at the Jubilee, at Stratford upon Avon (on 7 Sept. 1769), recited-Henderson; Principal Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Morton, Mrs Kennedy.

Dance: As17790922

927
11 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: In 2nd piece an ode: The Wooden Walls of England (the words by Henry? Green, the music by Dr Arne)-Reinhold, J. Wilson, Miss Morris

928
23 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Wordsworth, Jackson, Painter, J. Bates, Fox, Besford, Eves, Mrs Sharpe, Mrs Templeton, Miss Bassan, the widow of the late Miles, and the widow of the late Dr Arne will be taken this evening. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #219 2s. 6d. (43.14.0; 4.5.6; tickets: 171.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End IV: Triple Hornpipe-Eves, Ratchford, Miss Lings; End: new dance, The Rakes of Mallow-Jackson, Miss Lings

929
08 July 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Fire and Water

930
02 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: In afterpiece: Master and Miss Byrne.[This dance was included in all subsequent performances.

931
25 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: Harlequin-W. Bates; Justice-Messink; Gypsies-Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton; Clown-Stevens; Justice's Wife-Miss Platt; Maid - Mrs Sharpe; Pierrot's Wife [in all subsequent bills: Clown's Wife]-Miss Matthews; Colombine-Mrs Ratchford.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Ratchford.

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

932
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)

933
12 June 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End I: Dance-Master Byrn, Miss Byrn

934
16 June 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wood, Wewitzer, Blissett, Stevens, Webb, Usher, Kenny, Painter, Ledger, Pierce, Edwin, Mrs Webb, Mrs Wilson, Miss Harper. Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1781): Sir Walter Weathercock-Wilson; Edward Sandford-Wood; Degagee-Wewitzer; Plume-Blissett; Sheers-Stevens; Coachman-Webb; Dennis-Usher; Black-Kenny; Motley-Edwin; Miss Hebe Wintertop-Mrs Webb; Comfit-Mrs Wilson; Caroline Sandford-Miss Harper; unassigned-Painter, Ledger, Pierce.
Cast
Role: Edward Sandford Actor: Wood
Role: Caroline Sandford Actor: Miss Harper

935
09 July 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakengatchdern

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17810612

936
18 July 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Silver Tankard; or, The Point at Portsmouth

937
08 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: III 2nd piece: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn, in girl's clothes (London Chronicle, 9 Aug., and see17810810) This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances

938
04 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

939
24 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

940
28 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, Love's Labyrinth

Related Works
Related Work: Loves Labyrinth; or, The Royal Shepherdess Author(s): Thomas Forde

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

941
20 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: After song at end of mainpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece How sweet in the Woodlands by Bannister and Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms by Miss Phillips

942
06 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: A Fete, scene I

Afterpiece Title: The What d'ye Call It

Performance Comment: JonasDock (alias Timothy Peascod)-Lee Lewes; Sir Roger-Booth; Sir Humphrey-Fearon; Justice Statute-Jones; Steward-Thompson; Ghost of Jeffry Cackle-Baker; Mother's Ghost-Gushing; Ghost of a Child unborn-Master Langrish; Ghost of the Mother-Besford; Smut, the Farrier's Ghost (with a song)-Darley; Squire Thomas(alias ThomasFilbert)-Quick; Dorcas-Mrs Morton; Joyce-Miss Langrish; Kitty (alias Kitty Carrots)-Mrs Wilson; Susan (with 'Twas when the seas were roaring)-Mrs Kennedy. Prologue to the Tragedy spoken by Lee Lewes .
Cast
Role: Ghost of the Mother Actor: Besford

943
08 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

944
04 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

945
05 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17820613

946
25 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

947
14 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Maid's the Mistress

948
05 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In mainpiece Vocal Parts by Mrs Bannister, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Kennedy, &c

949
23 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of Malta; Or, The Humourous Dane

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost, or, The Devil to do about Her

Dance: As17821231

Song: In the Ceremony, by Reinhold, Mrs Martyr, and others

950
19 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: A Fete