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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.

4776
03 September 1754 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Large Commodious Room at the lower end of the Swan Inn Yard, West Smithfield, during the short time of Bartholemew Fair, which begins this day. The Characters dressed in the Italian manner. Scenes, Cloaths, Machinery, and other Decorations entirely New. To began each day at 12:00 noon. A very extraordinary band of musick is provided, and the Room decorated in an elegant Manner, for the better reception of the Nobility and Gentry. There is a back door to Hosier Lane for the conveniency of those who don't chose to be crowded...The passages will be elegantly illuminated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Afterpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi; or, The Birth of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Love in the Temple of Apollo

4777
27 September 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4778
11 October 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

4779
07 November 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The play revived. The Characters to be Dress'd after the Old Italian and Spanish Manner. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Dance: SShepherd's Holiday, as17541008

4780
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

4781
11 November 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted there. The Principal Characters New Dress'd. As written by Shakespear (Cross). Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

4782
10 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

4783
20 March 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

4784
22 March 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17550203

4785
01 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

4786
07 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17541203

4787
14 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier, Mrs Granier

4788
08 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

4789
25 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

4790
30 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd the Lilliputian Sailors-

4791
17 November 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17551114

4792
26 November 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier, Miss Hilliard; also, by Desire, The Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard

4793
02 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4794
21 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Each of these 3 acts apiece, Alter'd by Garrick, from Shakespear-Applauded. Mrs Clive fell down in ye Farce, and accus'd Woodward wth doing it on purpose (Cross). [The Bill lists neither cast nor characters for either piece, but advertises them with proper music, songs, dances, and decorations. Beginning with 23 Jan. the Bill lists actors names. Casts here taken from the 1756 ed.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

4795
01 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan

4796
27 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Lord George Brilliant-Woodward; Lord Wronglove-Palmer; Sir Friendly Moral-Berry; Lady Gentle-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Davies; Miss Notable-Miss Macklin; Heartshorn-Miss Minors; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Clive(, being the first time of their appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: With a new scene-Garrick; New Mimic Italian Song-Mrs Clive; Lord Chalkstone-Garrick; Mercury-Beard; Fine Gentleman-Woodward; Mrs Riot, Fine Lady-Mrs Clive; Aesop-Bransby; Charon-W. Vaughan; Drunken Man-Yates; Frenchman, Old Man-Blakes; Tatoo-Marr; Mrs Tatoo-Miss Minors (Edition of 1756).

Dance: IV: New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

4797
30 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Song: Beard; II: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-; III: A Tale of a Cock and a Bull-; IV: Genius of England-

4798
21 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Palmer, their first appearance in those characters

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews

4799
23 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Entertainment: IV: (By Desire) Cries of Dublin-Barrington

Dance: V: The Villagers=, as17560315

4800
24 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new farce by Doctor Heffinal [sic] for his benefit. O Sad! (Cross). Tickets at Forrest Coffee House, The Bedford, and Randall's, and author's lodgings at Mew's Coffee House. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 24 April: Sir, Let this suffice for a general answer to all unfriendly whispers or paragraphs against the new farce to be performed tonight at Drury Lane -its author never previously Caballed, never published his sentiments of any stage performance till after the run -then neither the writer nor manager could be injured -its principal characters are Lady Protea, a coquet alarmed at the apprehension of dying amid; Lord Epigram Strainwit, a pert coxcomical witling; Dr Matho, a Virtuoso, Antiquarian, and in love; Dreadnought Broadside, a sea-officer and strenuous Antigallican. I am &c. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Maiden Whim; or, The Critical Minute