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6418 results for: Keyword - English, French, Dutch Characters
We found 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3951
10 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: II: a Masquerade, Dance, proper to the play-; To conclude with: [a Country Dance-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

3952
23 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Clown-Cushing; Farmer-Messink; Mother Shipton-Mr Baker; Colombine-Sga Tinte; other Characters-Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.
Cast
Role: other Characters Actor: Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.

Dance: In: As17770929; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: End IV: Solemn Dirge, as17770929, but _Reinhold, Battishill

3953
12 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: other Characters Actor: Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.

Song: As17771008

3954
26 March 1778 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Marchese Villano

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Rovedino, Sga Todi. [Libretto (Venice, 1762) lists the parts: Il Marchese Giorgino, Il Marchese Tulipano, Palamede, Il dottore Galerino, Vespina, Belisa, Dorilla.]Libretto (Venice, 1762) lists the parts: Il Marchese Giorgino, Il Marchese Tulipano, Palamede, Il dottore Galerino, Vespina, Belisa, Dorilla.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Jermoli, Rossi, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Rovedino, Sga Todi.

Dance: As17780203

3955
02 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom, Sga Todi. [Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom, Sga Todi.

Dance: As17780203 throughout

3956
04 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Performance Comment: As17780330but Characters-Mrs Morton, late Miss _Dayes [see above].see above].
Cast
Role: 780330but Characters Actor: Mrs Morton, late Miss _Dayes
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Mahon, Baker, Miss Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

3957
23 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: As17780422

3958
25 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: The Sailors' Revels-Blurton

3959
25 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Wroughton; Col. Briton-Whitfield; Lissardo-Lee Lewes (their 1st appearance in those characters); Don Lopez-Dunstall; Don Pedro-Quick; Frederick-Booth; Gibby (1st time)-Fearon; Isabella-Miss Leeson; Flora-Mrs Pitt; Inis (1st time)-Mrs Wilson; Violante-Mrs Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

3960
28 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Poney Races, as17780421; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17771121

3961
01 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: The Poney Races, as17780421

3962
02 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings (pupils of Aldridge); End II: [The Cricket@Match [sic]The Cricketters, as17780128; [in which part of the celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge[, originally composed and danced by him; III: Hornpipe, as17771017

Ballet: End: a new, Grand Marine Pantomimical Dance, suited to the times, The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth; or, British Glory. in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile

Performance Comment: in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile.

3963
06 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: St

Song: Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Mahon, Baker, Fox, Miss Brown, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems, Miss Valois, Miss Green

3964
21 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End: Hornpipe, as17780518

Song: In I: song-Miss Abrams

3965
03 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed

Song: End: Master Nelson

Entertainment: Monologue. Before: Address to the Town, in the character of Marplot-Russell

3966
15 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: Comical Courtship; or, The Battle Royal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Cooke, Everard, Russell, Mrs West, Mrs Russell.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cooke, Everard, Russell, Mrs West, Mrs Russell.

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

3967
14 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.

Dance: Afterpiece: The dances-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Valois. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.

3968
22 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Miss Matthews, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Morton, Sga Tinte.[For parts see17800506.]For parts see17800506.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Miss Matthews, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Morton, Sga Tinte.

Dance: In afterpiece: Dagueville, Langrish, Miss Lings, Miss Valois. [These were the same in all subsequent performances.

3969
21 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Spendthrift; or, A ChristmasGambol

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Quick, Whitfield, Dunstall, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Booth, Robson, Fearon, Jones, Cushing, Mrs Willems, Mrs White, Mrs Morton; Larpent MS 463 lists the parts: Sir Clement Courtly, Young Courtly, Save Charges, Plunder, Hazard, Bumper, Bondage, Bobbin, Trusty, Bottlerack, Marrowbone, Trip, Servants, Miss Worthy, Dorothy, Margery. New Prologue-Lee Lewes.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Whitfield, Dunstall, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Booth, Robson, Fearon, Jones, Cushing, Mrs Willems, Mrs White, Mrs Morton

3970
22 December 1778 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fraschetana [recte Frascatana]

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Sestini. Libretto (T. Cadell, 1776) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Giocondo, Nardone, Don Fabrizio, Pagnotta, Donna Stella, Violante, Lisetta.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Sestini. Libretto

Dance: End I: La Noche Hollandoise, as17781124; End II: new ballet, Les Moissonneurs (the music by the celebrated Paisiello) with a Pas de Deux Anacreontique,-Mme Simonet, Slingsby, Banti, Sga Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, LeDet; End: Les Nymphes de Diane, as17781124

3971
23 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: a Dance of Cupids-; IV: [a Dance of Daemons-; V: Grand Dance [Grand Ballet [sic], as17781102; End I afterpiece: Minuet de la Cour, as17780919; [and Allemande, as17780919

3972
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Wright, Grimaldi, Waldron, R. Palmer, Burton, Griffiths, Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Fawcett, Chaplin, Nash, Bannister, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Miss G. Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirby, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Waldron, R. Palmer, Burton, Griffiths, Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Fawcett, Chaplin, Nash, Bannister, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Miss G. Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirby, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett.

3973
11 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: As17790104, but Principal Characters-_Rayner.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: _Rayner.
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

3974
27 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Performance Comment: As17790108, but Principal Characters-Gaudry, in place of _Bannister.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Gaudry, in place of _Bannister.

3975
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren
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