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2140 results for: Keyword - Edward Morris
We found 979 matches on Performance Comments, 939 matches on Author, 268 matches on Event Comments, 118 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1476
06 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller

Performance Comment: Principal Character by Lee Lewes, Wilson, Delpini, Rayner, Brunsdon, L'Estrange, Jones, Baker, Wewitzer, Robson, Egan, Stevens, Ledger, Reinhold, Mrs Kennedy, Miss Morris, Miss Brown. Cast from Songs (G. Kearsly, 1779); Morning Chronicle, 7 Oct.; Larpent MS 464: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Keel-Wilson; Scaramouchi-Delpini; French Officer-Wewitzer; Pierrot-Reinhold; Feridon-Mrs Kennedy; Colombine-Miss Brown. For additional, unassigned characters listed by Larpent MS, see17790104.

Dance: In afterpiece: Dagueville, Miss Valois. [The dancing, as here assigned, was included in all subsequent performances.

1477
25 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Shade & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Gardner, Gibson, Morris and Leslie will be taken. Receipts: #15 6s. 6d. (12.19.0; 2.7.6; 0.0.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: Dance, as17791122; II afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17791208

1478
26 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Enoe & Morris. Receipts: #305 19s. (23.16.6; 3.4.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 278.16.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End I: Hornpipe, as17810525; End: The Devonshire Minuet, as17810517

1479
24 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy .

1480
02 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by W. Bates, Wilson, Jones, Booth, Newton, L'Estrange, Baker, Robson, Egan, Doyle, J. Wilson, Stevens, Ledger, Davies; Miss Morris (1st time), Miss Langrish, Mrs Kennedy. [Partial cast from Songs (G. Kearsly, 1779) and playbill of 11 May 1782: Harlequin-W. Bates; Keel-Wilson; Feridon-Mrs Kennedy.] hathi. hathi.

1481
17 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Cast
Role: Iris Actor: Miss Morris

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Elrington, &c

Performance Comment: Wilson, Baker, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Elrington, &c .

1482
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

1483
06 May 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Wife; Or, The Female Gallant

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Barrett, Swords, Johnson, Jackson, Barnes, Lyon, Alfred, Morris; Miss Atkinson, Mrs Sauley, Miss Brice, Miss Churchill, Miss Williams. Cast not known. With a Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer Nonsuited

Dance: End of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Middleton

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms; End of Act V The Merry Roundelay, both by Miss Hemet

Monologue: 1782 05 06 End of afterpiece Bucks have at ye All by Middleton

1484
31 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. [Palmer's 1st appearance as Archer was at the HAY, 17 Aug. 1779. Afterpiece in place of The Alchymist, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #254 17s. (36/2; 19/6; 0/0; tickets: 199/9) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

1485
12 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Edwin, Staunton, Egan, Usher, Wewitzer, Darley, Davis, Barrett, Painter, Kenny, Massey, Webb, Stevens, Swords, Ledger, Parsons; Miss Morris, Mrs Webb. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Palmer .

Dance: As17820611

1486
22 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17820606 but Miss Morris (1st time of performing in that piece) in place of Miss Harper .

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece, as17820620 End of mainpiece, as17820606

Song: As17820620

1487
13 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17820613 but Miss Morris (1st appearance in this piece) in place of Miss Harper .

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17820613

1488
20 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: . As17820914, but Mrs Wilson in place of Mrs Wells; Miss Morris of Miss Harper .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Dame Furrow Actor: Mrs Morris
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Morris. With a Ranelagh Masquerade. Characters out of character: Fighting Quakers-Barrett, Kenny

Dance: As17820826

1489
07 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, and a Minuet by Harris and Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession, with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Mahon, J. Wilson, Darley, Doyle; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Mahon, J. Wilson, Darley, Doyle; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy .

1490
18 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Adcock, &c

Performance Comment: Wilson, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Adcock, &c .

1491
12 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17821102, but Daviesin place of Reinhold ; Mrs Bannister [i.e. formerly Miss Harper (see17830129)]; Miss Morris (1st time) in place of Mrs Wilson; omitted: Davies from his original part .

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830510

1492
30 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. Receipts: #297 4s. 6d. (18/13/0; 5/14/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 272/13/0) (charge: #106)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003

1493
01 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: A favourite Overture by Haydn, scene I. A Forest. The Death of the Stag. Sportsmen, Horses and Dogs returned from the Chace. No Sport to the Chace can compare (the Music by Dr Arnold) by Brett, scene II. The Cave of Echo. They say there is an Echo here (composed by Herschel) by Brett, Wood, Gaudrey and others, scene III. A Wood. The Triumph of Diana. With Horns and with Rounds (the Music by Boyce) by Miss George. SCENE IV. A Sea Shore and Cottage. The celebrated Sequel to Auld Robin Gray, taken from the Movement of Haydn's Overture, by Brett and Miss Morris. Scene V. A Cobler's Cottage. The Loves of John and Jane (the Music by Dibdin) by Wilson. Scene VI. Description of a Battle. Stand to your Guns, my Hearts of Oak (the Music by Carter) by Bannister, scene VII. A Palace and Banquet. Come, honest Friends (singers not listed'). The Dances by Mr and Miss Byrne. Principal Attendant Genius-Miss Painter .

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

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

1494
27 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, Egan, Blissett, Stevens, Williamson; Miss Morris. [Larpent MS lists certain performers as appearing in this piece in their own persons, but their names do not correspond with the names printed on the playbill.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Cast
Role: Wife Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Maria Goodall Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Edward Actor: Wood
Role: Maids of Honour Actor: Miss Morris, &c.
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Morris

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

1495
26 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Morris & Palmer Sen. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #223 6s. 6d. (24/6/0; 8/13/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 189/19/0) (charge: #105 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17840320athi

1496
02 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Leonard Macnally. Prologue by ---- Chalmers. Epilogue by ---- Norris (see text, but London Chronicle, 4 Apr., says by Thomas Morris). In 1792 this was acted at this theatre reduced to 3 acts]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr. 1785: This Day is published Fashionable Levities (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

1497
03 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Performance Comment: As17960521, but added: The Town and Country (by permission of Captain Morris)-Dignum; the Catches and Glees-Bannister, Sedgwick, Wathen, Dignum.

Song: End II: The Little Waist- (composed by Hook); End IV: The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

1498
06 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Lloyd, W. Bayzand, Timkins (box-keeper), Street, Barnes, Morris, Rye, Dosel, Wells, King, Timkins (carpenter), Thompson (near Stage), Coates, Roberts, Thompson, (gallery door-keeper) will be admitted.] Receipts: #419 1s. (38.16; after-money: not listed; tickets: 380.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick

Dance: End: a Scotch Reel-Bayzand, King, Mlle St.Amand

1499
08 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Hall (b[ox-keeper]), Warwhick, Robson (p[it door-keeper]), W. Ansell, W. Linton, West, Purkins, Standen, Ashwin, Hill, Morris will be admitted. Receipts: #334 0s. 6d. (35.18.0; 3.13.0; tickets: 294.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: End: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Young Standen

1500
23 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Anacreontic Society Revived [i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-Sedgwick; who will introduce the celebrated [Anacreontic] Song The Silver'd Waters Roam-Sedgwick [, from The Pirates (composed by Storace); Our Tars so Fam'd in Story- (1st time; composed by Stevens); O bring me Wine- (composed by Shield); Sweet Lillies of the Valley- (composed by Hook); a new Loyal Song (written by Captain Morris and composed by Sir William Parsons)-Dignum; [To conclude with a Glee and Chorus-.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon