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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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hobby Horse

Performance Comment: Characters-King, Palmer, Dodd, Love, Moody, Aickin, Parsons, Miss Pope, Miss Plym, Ackman, Burton, Mas. Burton, Clough, Johnson, Watkins, West, Strange, Mrs Hippisley; Prologue-Bensley. [Larpent MS 253 lists parts: Lord Helicon; Sarj. Fallow; Capt. Scarlet; Capt. Dangle; Martingal; Rhymer; Metaphor; Folio; 1st Buck; 2nd Buck; Oats; Joe; John; Pamphlet; Waiter; Miss Flirt; Miss Martingal; Tripit. Farce by Capt. Edward Thompson.]Larpent MS 253 lists parts: Lord Helicon; Sarj. Fallow; Capt. Scarlet; Capt. Dangle; Martingal; Rhymer; Metaphor; Folio; 1st Buck; 2nd Buck; Oats; Joe; John; Pamphlet; Waiter; Miss Flirt; Miss Martingal; Tripit. Farce by Capt. Edward Thompson.]

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

Event Comment: Characters new Dress'd. Receipts: #244 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Event Comment: Characters New Dressed. [The Theatrical Monitor No X (30 Jan. 1768), gives a six-page review of the mainpiece under the usual Aristotelian topics: Fable, Characters, Moral, Sentiment, Diction, rather disapproving of the play on all of them. Praises the performers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Performance Comment: Characters-young Gentlemen, Ladies.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: End: Charles Gondorff, a Hungarian. He mimicks three Voices at one and the same time-Charles Gondorff ,to wit the natural sound of the Base, the Bassoon and Flagolet (the latter has the sound of a small organ) all which is performed without the least movement of the lips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foil'd

Performance Comment: Characters-Sowdon, Mahoon, Bannister, Miss Grace, Miss Edwards. Lord Crafty-Sowdon; Meanwell-Mahoon; Worthy-Bannister; Amilia-Miss Edwards; Sally-Miss Groce (Edition of 1768).

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Performance Comment: Characters-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Perry, Mrs Ward, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates; With a New Epilogue-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: Characters-Lewes, Miles, Morris, Quick, Baker, King, Barnshaw, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Stoppelaer, Banks, Bates, Rayner[, Reinhold, DuBellamy], Mrs White, Miss Helme, Mrs Copin, Mrs Perry, Mrs Evans, Miss Twist; The Dances-Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir; [The Music-Arnold; [Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton-Reinhold; Shepherd-DuBellamy.
Event Comment: Characters in the Mainpiece New Dress'd (Public Advertiser). Paid Garter Supers 8 nights (13th inst. incl.) #39 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #161 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Husband

Performance Comment: Characters-Quick, Lee Lewes, Fearon, Booth [Public Advertiser: Walters], Dunstall, Mrs Mattocks.Public Advertiser: Walters], Dunstall, Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Quick, Lee Lewes, Fearon, Booth

Dance: As17761223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Performance Comment: Characters-Reinhold, Mahon, Baker, Miss Dayes. [Probable cast: Lieutenant Dreadnought-Reinhold; +Careful-Mahon; +True-Blue-Baker; +Nancy-Miss Dayes.]

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: 2nd piece: Aldridge. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: III: Epithalamium-; the vocal parts-Robson, Miss Dayes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Macaroni Adventurer; Or, Woman's A Riddle

Performance Comment: Characters-Payler, Middleton, Swords, Evans, Kennedy, Levi [their 1st appearance on any stage], Davis, Everard, Mrs Shirley, Miss Hiorne, Miss Percey, Miss Dudley (their 1st appearance on any stage), Mrs Lefevre; A new occasional Prologue-; Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: Entertainments ofDancing-

Entertainment: Monologue.End III: Imitations [Vocal and Rhetorical, never attempted, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) accompany himself with the Symphonies (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentified])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Performance Comment: Characters-Mahon, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Morton. [Probable cast: Careful-Mahon; Lieutenant Dreadnought-Reinhold; True-Blue-Baker; Nancy-Mrs Morton.]

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Baddeley, Miss Wood, Mrs Massey. [Cast adjusted from playbill of 10 June 1778: Current-Palmer; +Padlock-Baddeley; +Finette-Miss Wood; +Almadine-Mrs Massey.]

Dance: End: The Provencale-Master and Miss Byrn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed; or, True Blue for Ever

Performance Comment: Characters-Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton. [Probable cast: Lieutenant Dreadnought-Reinhold; Careful-Robson; True-Blue-Baker; Nancy-Mrs Morton.]

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-see17800401

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: Characters-Mattocks, Quick, Wilson, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems, Mrs Wilson. [Cast adjusted from text (G. Kearsly, 1778): Mr Vermilion-Mattocks; Deputy Dimity-Quick; Alderman Tokay-Wilson; Mrs Tokay-Mrs Morton; Mrs Dimity-Mrs Willems; Mrs Vermilion-Mrs Wilson.]

Afterpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Lee Lewes, Wilson, Delpini, Wewitzer, Reinhold, Miss Morris, Miss Francis, Miss Brown. [For partial cast see17791006.]For partial cast see17791006.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail; A Dramatic Proverb

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Gardner, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Cuyler. [Cast adjusted from playbill of 12 Aug. 1786: Current-Palmer; Padlock-Gardner; Finette-Mrs Hitchcock; Almadine-Mrs Cuyler.]

Dance: As17800530

Music: 2nd piece: With an Overture-; Between the Acts: Scots Airs-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Wilson, Blissett, Wewitzer, R. Palmer, Egan, Stevens, Edwin, Miss Farren. [Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 1 Sept. 1777: Count Almaviva-Palmer; Dr Bartholo-Wilson; Basil-Blissett; Argus-Wewitzer; Tall Boy-R. Palmer; Alcade-Egan; Notary-Stevens; Lazarillo-Edwin; Rosina-Miss Farren.]

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Music: With a Fandango Overture-. [This was performed in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: Characters-Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton. [Probable cast: Lieutenant Dreadnought-Reinhold; Careful-Robson; True Blue-Baker; Nancy-Mrs Morton.]

Afterpiece Title: The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: 1st piece: Dance of Sailors, as17800918; End II 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17800927; 3rd piece: Dancing, as17800927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One; Or, The Cartel At Philadelphia

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Who'd have Thought It

Performance Comment: Characters-Wilson, Whitfield, Wewitzer, Cubitt, Thompson, Booth, Lee Lewes, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Webb; [Partial cast adjusted from hay playbill of 7 July 1781: Strap-Wilson; Ishmael-Wewitzer; Broadhem-Mrs Wilson; Caroline-Mrs Lewis; Mrs Strap-Mrs Webb; Larpent MS lists the other parts: Hawser, Spangle, Lord George Willmore, Clinker, Clod, Box, Frank, Pillage.] Prologue-Lee Lewes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performance Comment: Characters-Wilson, Edwin, Wood, Baddeley, Lamash, Barrett, Stevens, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Harper. [Cast adjusted from Public Advertiser, 17 Aug. 1779, and playbill of 29 June 1786: Cranky-Wilson; Bowkitt-Edwin; Bouquet-Wood; Vinegar-Baddeley; Idle-Lamash; Orator Mum-Barrett; John-Stevens; Signor Arionelli-Bannister; Dolce-Mrs Lefevre; Cecilia-Miss Harper. Kenny is unassigned.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge; or, A Receipt to Make a Benefit

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Bannister Jun., Wilson, Wewitzer, Wood, Usher, R. Palmer, Edwin, Bannister. [Cast from Larpent MS: Grubstreet-Edwin; the other performers, with Hitchcock and Miss Harper added, all in their own persons.] the other performers, with Hitchcock and Miss Harper added, all in their own persons.]

Dance: As17810612

Entertainment: In 3rd piece: Speaking, Singing, Sneezing, Yawning, Acting, Pantomime-; particularly The Military Exercise-Mrs Wells; With Hounds and with Horns-Mrs Cargill; Sweet Echo, Mad Bess(1st time)-Miss Harper

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well

Performance Comment: Characters-Bannister Jun., Dignum, Waldron, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, Wilson, Jones, Benson, Spencer, Alfred, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Tidswell, Miss Cranford, Miss Collett, Mrs Wilson. [for partial cast see17871123] .for partial cast see17871123] .

Dance: In afterpiece: Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I of mainpiece) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good; or, The Road to Odiham

Performance Comment: Characters-Baddeley, Moody, Suett, Barrymore, Whitfield, R. Palmer, Lamash, Waldron, Burton, Bates, Hollingsworth, Fawcett, Phillimore, Wilson, Jones, Benson, Alfred, Spencer, Lyons, Bannister Jun., Miss Collins, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson.

Dance: End: a Minuet-Master D'Egville, Miss Blanchet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Performance Comment: Characters-Bannister, Chapman, Davies, Mrs Love, Miss Collett. [Probable cast: John-Bannister; Trusty-Chapman; Richard-Davies; Wife-Mrs Love; Sally-Miss Collett.]

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End 2nd piece: The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mary Queen Of Scots

Performance Comment: Characters-Kemble, Aickin, Barrymore, Whitfield, Packer, Williames, Fawcett, Phillimore, Wilson, Jones, Chaplin, Benson, Wroughton Mrs Ward, Mrs Farmer, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Siddons. [Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1789), and World, 23 Mar.: Norfolk-Kemble; Cecil-Aickin; Herries-Barrymore; Murray-Whitfield; Davison-Packer; Beton-Williames; Paulet-Fawcett; Huntingdon-Phillimore; Sheriff-Chaplin; Shrewsbury-Benson; Lenox-Wroughton; Nawe-Alfred; Lieutenant of the Tower-Lyons; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Ward; Lady Douglas-Mrs Farmer; Lady Scroop-Miss Tidswell; Queen Mary-Mrs Siddons; unassigned-Wilson, Jones; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs