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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.
Event Comment: OOccasional Prologue call'd for. Mr Griffith (Son of Griffith an Actor in Ireland) play'd Barnwell: Toll: [erable] (Cross). This day at Noon will be publish'd and sold by the proprietor and the print shops, two portraits of those celebrated Comedians, Mr Woodward and Mrs Clive, in the characters of the Fine Gentleman and Lady in Lethe (as they are to perform them tonight, at Drury Lane) curiously engraved (in Miniature) from Original drawings of the same size. By J. Brooks, Engraver of Silver and Copper plate. N.B. The above prints may be had together or separate (General Advertiser).Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridges; Mercury-Beard; Charon-Winstone; Fine Gentleman-Woodward; Frenchman-Blakes; Drunken Man-Yates; Old Man-Shuter; Tattoo-Marr; Mrs Tattoo-Mrs Green; Fine Lady-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Blakes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17500926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: As17500926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: II: New Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17500918, but no characters listed.
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17501102; End: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Afterpiece: A New farce written by Mr Woodward-for his Benefit, The farce was a kind of dispute among ye Actors, & went off, as it was a Benefit, without Interruption, but I believe will not be play'd agen, ye Epil: was a parody upon Shakespear's Stage of Life, & was Lik'd (Cross). No Part of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets to be had of Woodward at Clarendon's Warehouse, and of Hobson at the stage door. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. [Larpent MS 92, indicates the afterpiece as a criticism from the actors' view of the way they are handled by audiences, and of their own damnation of a play presented to them. All works up to the Epilogue: @'All the town's a farce-he says and swears,@And all the men and women merely players...'@ which is severe upon politicians, doctors, statesmen and connoisseurs. The characters appear under their own names, Cross, Clive, etc.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: A Lick at the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17501231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Entertainment in Italian Grotesque Characters. A blunder in the scenes of ye Entertainment & great noise as No more, Off, Off &c. (Cross). [Inspector No 195 appeared giving another favorable accolade to Mossop (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette).] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: L'Entree de Flore, as17511017; Peasant Dance, as17511017

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17511021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Ballet: Grand Entertainment (not performed these 3 years) call'd The Savoyard Travellers. First Savoyards-Mathews, Mad Auretti; Second Savoyard-Sg Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti; Peasants-Harvey, Sg Piettero; Savoyard Children-the Little Swiss, Miss Poplin. With Proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: Some Hissing, tho' play'd Well-Garrick Kiteley &c. (Cross). Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson, never acted there. Characters Dress'd in the Old English@Manner. Receipts: #200 (Cross). We hear that His Majesty intended to go to the theatre Royal in Drury Lane this evening, to see the Comedy of Every Man in his Humour, wrote by Ben Johnson in 1598, acted the same year by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, and dedicated to the great Mr Camden; and was reviv'd since the Revolution with Great Applause, having a new Epilogue spoken by Ben Johnson's Ghost , written by the late Earl of Dorset (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore, as17511015; Peasant Dance, as17511015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: Madam Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Covent Garden Theatre; or, Pasquin turn'd Drawcansir, Censor of Great Britain

Performance Comment: The parts of the Pit, Boxes, Galleries, Stage, and Town to be performed by themselves, for their diversion; the parts of several Dull, disorderly characters, in and about St Jame's to be performed by certain persons, for example; And the part of Pasquin@Drawcansir to be performed by his Censorial Highness;, for his interest. The Satire to be introduced by an Exordium;, and to conclude by a satirical@panegyrical@ironical@comical@original Peroration upon the Virtues, Vices, Wisdom and Folly, Judgment and Power of the Town. Both to be spoken from the Rostrum-Signor Pasquin.

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216