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2170 results for: Keyword - Edward Phillips
We found 944 matches on Author, 931 matches on Performance Comments, 326 matches on Event Comments, 197 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
17 April 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Leonard Macnally; words to some of the songs by Edward Lysaght]: With new Music, Scenes and Dresses. The Music composed by Shield [with selections from Sacchini, Bertoni, Lord Mornington, &c. (Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.); overture by Baumgarten, being the same as that used by him in William and Nanny at CG, 12 Nov. 1779 (Town and Country Magazine, Apr. 1784, p. 171)]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Oct. 1784: This Day is published by J. Almon Robin Hood [listing cast for season of 1784-85] (1s. 6d.). [In the season of 1789-90 this was reduced to an afterpiece of 2 acts.] Receipts: #206 4s. (204/3; 2/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood Or Sherwood Forest

Related Works
Related Work: Robin Hood; or, Sherwood Forest Author(s): Edward Lysaught

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Dance: End of mainpiece a New Dance by Le Bccuf and Mlle Constance (from the King's Theatre in Paris; 1st appearance)

102
11 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Topham, with incidental music by Shield. MS not in Larpent; not published. Prologue by George Colman, the younger (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 370)]. "An old and established rule among the youth of Westminster [School will] not permit any exhibition on the stage reflecting upon their body ... In the second act Mrs Wells made her appearance in the dress of a Westminster scholar, when a general uproar [instigated by the scholars] took place, and the [rest of the] piece was prevented from being heard" (Town and Country Magazine, May 1786, p. 235). Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 188, Oxford-street. Receipts: #282 17s. (166/0/6; 21/19/6; tickets: 94/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage

Afterpiece Title: Small Talk or The Westminster Boy

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): Edward Topham

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dance, as17860424; End of Act I of afterpiece Leap Year, as17860227

103
01 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Topham. Larpent MS 772; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 3 May. Prologue by George Monck Berkeley (European Magazine, June 1787, p. 411)]. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 417, Strand. Receipts: #257 3s. 6d. (160.4.6; 5.7.0; tickets: 91.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement or The Loves of Bengal

Related Works
Related Work: Bonds without Judgement; or, The Loves of Bengal Author(s): Edward Topham

Dance: As17870217

104
18 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Duke of Bedford 1 Yrs. Rent #343 5s. 1d. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Morris. Author of Prologue unknown]: With new Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr. 1790: This Morning is published The Adventurers (1s.). Receipts: #260 8s. (226.5.0; 31.16.0; 2.4.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Related Works
Related Work: The Adventurers Author(s): Edward Morris

Dance: As17891204

105
18 March 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. 2nd piece: Written by Edward Jerningham, Esq., with Alterations and Additions (interspersed with Music, after the manner of Rousseau's Pygmalion). The Music composed by Hook. The subject of the above Performance is taken from a remarkable incident in the Life of Margaret . Morning Herald, 2 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, No. 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #368 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Margaret of Anjou

Related Works
Related Work: Margaret of Anjou Author(s): Edward Jerningham

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Fawcett

Song: In 3rd piece: a Planxty descriptive of Ireland,-Johnstone

106
13 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; T 4, by Edward Jerningham. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)): With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Times, 24 Dec. 1793: This day is published THE SIEGE OF BERWICK (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #284 6s. 6d. (258/10/6; 25/16/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Berwick

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Berwick Author(s): Edward Jerningham

Afterpiece Title: ANNETTE AND LUBIN

Afterpiece Title: THE SCHOOL FOR ARROGANCE

107
05 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: With Alterations. "On the first night Ethelberta died; at the succeeding representations her life was spared" (Edward Jerningham and his Friends, ed. Lewis Bettany, 1919, p. 97). 3rd piece: In 3 acts. Receipts: #219 13s. 6d. (202/11/6; 17/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nina

Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Miss Standen

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF BERWICK

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Berwick Author(s): Edward Jerningham

Afterpiece Title: THE MISER

108
10 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. At the particular Desire of his Excellency the Ambassador [see 7 May] from the Sublime Porte:. 3rd piece: At End of Act I of the DIVERTISEMENT. Written by Edward Jerningham, Esq., with Alterations and Additions, interspersed with Music, after the manner of Rousseau's PYGMALION. Morning Chronicle, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope, Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #231 17s. (138/14; 3/3; tickets: 90/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: A DIVERTISEMENT

Afterpiece Title: MARGARET OF ANJOU

Related Works
Related Work: Margaret of Anjou Author(s): Edward Jerningham

Song: In Act V of 1st piece, as17931216; End of 1st piece Black-Eyed Susan by Incledon

109
17 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Edward Jerningham. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by Henry Seymour Conway (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 22 May 1795: This Day is published The Welch Heiress (2s.). Receipts: #309 12s. 6d. (246.1.6; 51.15.6; 11.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Welch Heiress

Related Works
Related Work: The Welch Heiress Author(s): Edward Jerningham

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

110
06 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Russell & Dowton. 1st piece [1st time; B 1, by Edward Henry Iliff. The title-page has "by Edmund Spenser, Ynger." On his copy, now in Huntington Library, J. P. Kemble has written, "Iliffe [sic] is the real Name of the Authour"; he has made a similar notation on the playbill]: Founded on the 17th Number of The Spectator. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1. Larpent MS 1219; not published. The characters are all taken from previous plays by John O'Keeffe, as follows: Sadboy (The Young Quaker); Signor Arionelli and Bowkitt (The Son-in-Law); Motley (The Dead Alive); Tully (The London Hermit); Lingo and Cowslip (The Agreeable Surprise); Ephraim Smooth (Wild Oats); Nipperkin (Sprigs of Laurel); Jemmy Jumps and Betty Blackberry (The Farmer); Mrs Casey (Fontainbleau)]: Written by Mr O'Keeffe. Times, 4 June: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 2, Queen's-row, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street; of Dowton, No. 5, Strand-lane, Surry-street, Strand. Receipts: #413 11s. 6d. (76.17.6; 37.7.0; 1.0.0 tickets: 298.7.0) (charge: #215 10s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ugly Club

Related Works
Related Work: The Ugly Club Author(s): Edward Iliff

Afterpiece Title: The Castle Spectre

Afterpiece Title: A Nosegay of Weeds or Old Servants in New Places

111
02 March 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Edward Morris. Prologue by Charles Morris; Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]: With new Dresses and Decorations. Morning Chronicle, 14 Mar. 1799: This Day is published The Secret (2s.). Receipts: #371 18s. 6d. (319.17.0; 49.14.6; 2.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Related Works
Related Work: The Secret Author(s): Edward Morris

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

112
27 April 1747 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre. Benefit Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Phillips

113
15 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Mrs Phillips. A Concert. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips.

Dance: Phillips

114
01 August 1748 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for Mr and Mrs Phillips. A Concert, etc. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Wildair-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Wildair Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Phillips

115
18 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For One Night Only. For the Benefit of Mr Phillips. At the New Playhouse, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. Sylvius went to see Hamlet but was distracted by a beautiful woman nearby (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 20 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Phillips

Song: Platt, Master Phillips

116
14 November 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Performance Comment: Selim-Barry; Edward-Lewis; Gloster-Hull; Theald-Clarke; Assassin-L'Estrange; Officer-Thompson; Daraxa-Mrs Mattocks; Eleonora-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End Tragedy: The Pilgrim, as17750927

117
20 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince Or The Battle Of Poictiers

Performance Comment: English: Edward-Kemble; Lord Audley-Farren; Earl of Warwick-Barrymore; Earl of Chandos-Williames; Salisbury-Fawcett; Arnold-Brereton. French: King John-Staunton; Dauphin-Phillimore; Duke of Athens-R. Palmer; Charney-Packer; Archbishop of Sens-Chaplin; Cardinal Perigort-Aickin; Ribemont-Palmer; Mariana-Miss E. Kemble .
Cast
Role: : Edward Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

118
21 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Afterpiece: A new Serenata, Compos'd on the present Joyous Occasion of the Royal Nuptials. The Words by Mr Tho. Phillips. The Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Love and Glory

Related Works
Related Work: Love and Glory Author(s): Thomas Phillips

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

119
26 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: The Sixtieth Day. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Bacchus one Day Gaily Striding: When Fanny, Blooming Fair [Thomas Phillips.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains or The Impostor Unmaskd

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Captains; or, The Impostor Unmask'd Author(s): Thomas Phillips

120
10 February 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Turkish Ambassadour. Benefit Phillips, in confinement in King's Bench. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s.] Mr Phillips humbly begs leave to inform his Friends, being under Confinement in the King's Bench, He has not at present an Opportunity to wait on such Gentlemen and Ladies, as he may have hopes to esteem his well wishers. But in order to render Mrs Phillips's Entertainment as agreeable as possible to the Publick, Mr Phillips will be there on that Night. Tickets at Mrs Phillips's / Lodgings, at Mrs Norman's in Ayliffe St.; and of Mr Phillips in the King's Bench Prison, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: Foppington-Kennedy; Hoyden-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Lettice-Mrs Phillips; Colonel-Phillips.
Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Phillips
Role: Colonel Actor: Phillips.

Dance: I: Sailor's Hornpipe-Phillips late Harlequin of Drury Lane, his first in this Kingdom for three years; II: Quaker's Sermon on Viola-Phillips; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Ballet: V:Pantomime Dance call'd Harlequin and Clown. Harlequin-Phillips

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips.

121
04 August 1740 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: At the Tottenham Court Fair. At Lee-Phillips Booth. Beginning at 11 a.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Juno

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy or Jack Spaniard Bit

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips, from Drury Lane; Spaniard-Parry; Pierot-Closson; Colombine-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips, from Drury Lane
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Entertainment: GGrand Scaramouch Dance-Phillips, others, as he performed it at the Opera House in Paris, upwards of Forty Nights successively, with universal Applause; Scotch Dialogue-Parry, Mrs Phillips; A new Song-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon; Sailor Dance-Phillips; A Grand Dance call'd Vertumnus-Phillips

122
23 August 1740 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Phillips Booth. 10 a.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ephalus With The Death Of Procris

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Colombine-Mrs Phillips; Squire Shallow-Middleton; Noodle-Closon; Tragedy-Adams, Mrs Spiller, Mrs Lax; Comedy-Sunderland, Harrolt, Jones; Milkmaids-Miss Rogers, Mlle Closson, Miss Man, Mrs Middleton; Conjuror, Savoyard-Parry.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Phillips

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips; Hornpipe-Phillips; The Parting Lovers-Phillips

Song: TThe Maid's Wish-Mrs Phillips; A song by Lampe-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon upon his taking Chagre Castle

123
20 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Morning Herald, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Phillips, No. 56, Drury-lane. Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 29 Mar. 1773]. The Music composed by the late celebrated Dr Boyce. Receipts: #236 16s. (94/13/0; 32/16/6; 0/14/6; tickets: 108/12/0) (charge: #105 19s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: As17811002, but Varland-Waldron; Louisa Dudley-Miss Phillips (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon (1st time)-Mrs Cargill; Palemon-Williames; Pastora-Mrs Wrighten; Laura-Miss Phillips (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Phillips

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

124
09 October 1740 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips. At the Playhouse on the Bowling Green. The plays to be acted gratis. The Doors to be open'd at Four, and to begin precisely at Seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Charlotte-Mrs Phillips; others-Gentlemen, Ladies for their Diversion.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; II: A new Miller's Dance-Phillips; V: Scene of the Skeleton, with the Skeleton-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Song: III: A new Whimsical Welsh Song-Hemskirk

Music: By particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the Quaker's Sermon on the Violin-Phillips

125
01 May 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: PPhillips and Hussey's Company. 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 6d. [Concert formula used.] To begin at 12 and end at 10 p.m. Mainpiece: [first announced on 26th and 29th as The Careful Father; or, The Extravagant Son. Notice of performance repeated 2,3,6 (but Cushing as Drunken Peasant), 6,7 (but Phillips as Drunken Peasant), 12, 13, 14, and 15 May. Probably acted every day of May Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son With The Comical Humours Of Sir John Oldcastle And A Pert Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Lettice-Mrs Phillips; Drunken Colonel-Phillips (Daily Advertiser, 3 May).
Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Phillips
Role: Drunken Colonel Actor: Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips his first appearance on that stage in England in three years; Beau Mordecai the Jew-Bennett; Miss Kitty-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips his first appearance on that stage in England in three years
Role: Miss Kitty Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Dance: NNew Hornpipe, Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Sailor's Dance called the Jovial Crew-Phillips

Song: Grand Chorus in Honor of his Royal Highness the Duke on his brave Defeat of the Rebels-