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5444 results for: Keyword - English and Irish Stage
We found 2551 matches on Event Comments, 1762 matches on Performance Comments, 1632 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

526
04 October 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Baker

527
07 October 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Trueman Actor: Mr Young, first appearance this stage

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: I: By Desire, The Irish Lilt, as17651004

528
17 March 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Holland, Yates, King, Palmer, Love, Parsons, Baddeley, Moody, Strange, Keen, Mrs Yates, Miss Pope, Miss Plym, Mrs Hippisley, Mrs Clive. Manly-Holland
Role: Manly Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004; End I Farce: A Peasant Dance-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi

529
22 March 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Antony-Powell; Ventidius-Holland; Dolabella-Lee; Alexas-Dodd; Cleopatra-Mrs Yates; Octavia-Mrs Hopkins; Serapion-Bransby; Myris-Keen; Romans-Ackman, Strange; Antonio-Miss Rogers; Agrippina-Miss Ford; Charmion-Miss Plym; Iras-Mrs Hippisley; In Act III, a Dance incident to the Play,-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker.
Cast
Role: Ventidius Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

530
04 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Young Bevil Actor: Holland
Role: Sealand Actor: Havard
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17651004; End: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

531
05 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Entertainment: End Farce: (For that night only) The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster Abbey-Vernon

532
07 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Holland; Shore-Havard; Gloster-Love; Bellmour-Packer; Derby-Keen; Catesby-Strange; Ratcliff-Ackman; Jane Shore (that night only)-Mrs Pritchard; Alicia-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

533
09 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Powell; Lysimachus-Hurst; Thessalus-Aickin; Eumenes-Strange; Cassander-Havard; Clytus-Love; Polyperchon-Bransby; Perdiccas-Lee; Hephestion-Packer; Sysigambis-Mrs Bennet; Parisatis-Miss Plym; Statira-Mrs Palmer; Roxana (with an Epilogue)-Mrs Fitzhenry; With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Powell
Role: Cassander Actor: Havard
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

534
11 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Bastard Actor: Holland
Role: English Herald Actor: Moody
Role: Cardinal Pandulph Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End I of the Farce: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

535
15 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: An Air by Dr Arne-Miss Polly Young; IV: An Air by Sg Vento-Polly Young

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

536
16 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hobby Horse

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

537
18 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Plym, and Miss Ford. Tickets diliver'd by Mrs Lee will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Powell
Role: Cassander Actor: Havard
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Miss Ford; End: The Irish Milk Maids=, as17651209

Entertainment: End: A New Epilogue-Miss Ford

538
21 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Holland, Yates, King, Palmer, Love, Parsons, Baddeley, Moody, Strange, Keen, Mrs Yates, Miss Pope, Miss Plym, Mrs Hippisley, Mrs Clive. Manly-Holland
Role: Manly Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Song: I: By Particular Desire, Thro' the Wood Laddie-; III: The Lark's Shrill Notes-Mrs Vincent

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

539
23 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Oakly Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

540
26 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Packer and Bransby. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Ventidius Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: By Desire, The Lark's Shrill Notes-Mrs Vincent

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

541
28 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Aldridge. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17651004; Following the Entertainment: a New Tambourine Dance, as17660123

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster Abbey-Vernon

542
03 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody, Hurst, Mrs Dorman. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 23 years. [But see 29 Dec. 1760 and 29 Oct. 1747.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: A Comic Dance, as17660207; V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

543
05 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Rogers, Giorgi, and Evans (subtreasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part 2

Performance Comment: King-Powell; Prince of Wales-Holland; Prince John-Lee; Abp York-Havard; Falstaff-Love; Shallow-Yates; Pistol-King; Silence-Rooker; Poins-Packer; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Lee; Gloster-Miss Plym; Chief Justice-Bransby; Westmoreland-Burton; Page-Miss Rogers; New Progogue-Miss Rogers.
Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Holland
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; III: A New Comic Dance call'd the Venetian Travellers-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Collet; End: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers his scholar

544
06 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman and Mrs Bradshaw. Tickets for This Night will be taken. Mainpiece for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Jachimo Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster-Vernon

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

545
09 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: By Desire, a Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley; End I of the Farce: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

546
12 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Love
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster Abbey-Vernon

547
02 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Powell
Role: Cassander Actor: Havard
Role: Aristander Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, the Tombs of Westminster-Vernon

Dance: TThe Irish Lilt, as17670430

548
04 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins (prompter) and Mrs Hopkins. Charges #64 17s. [Profit to the Hopkins family #30 19s. plus Tickets.] Tickets delivered by Philips will be taken. Paid B. Johnson's Head bill #1 2s. 3d.; Paid Mr J. Johnston, by order #21; Rec'd Mr Pope's rent 1 year at #30 minus King's Tax of #3 8s.: Total #26 12s. receiv'd. Paid Mr Pope's bill #13 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Before 4 dined behind St Clements, and went to ye First Gallery to see the Distressed Mother....We had the Capricious Lovers, Lisetta by Mrs Clive, who took off the ridiculous sing-song at ye Opera House charmingly (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #95 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Performance Comment: Orestes-Powell; Pyrrhus-Holland; Pylades-Packer; Phoenix-Burton; Cephisa-Mrs Bennet; Cleone-Mrs Hippisley; Hermione-Mrs Hopkins, 1st time; Andromache-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Pyrrhus Actor: Holland
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670430 End: Linco's Travels, by Particular Desire-King as17670406

549
09 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Baddeley. House charges #67 9s. 6d. [Profits to Baddeley family 16s. plus tickets.] Tickets deliver'd for this night will be taken. Paid Palmer of Bath for Spermecetti candles #128 4s. Paid Mr Deeble (chorus singer) omitted 3 nights 15s.; Chorus singers 1 night #2 10s. 6d.; Salary list #435 19s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #68 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). I find ye corner of ye orchestra is ye best place to stand in...Holland played Iago very well, and Mrs Baddeley Desdemona pretty well, being her 1st appearance in that character...End of ye play Baddeley spoke a composition of his own, called "Search after Scrubs," to hear which Garrick came into ye orchestra. He looks healthy and strong, and should oftener entertain ye Public to which he owes so much. Entertainment Daphne and Amintor. Daphne (for ye first time) Mrs Baddeley, who does not shine in the singing part, as Mrs Arne does (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Iago Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670430

Entertainment: End: the Particulars of a Humorous Descriptive Search After Scrubs-Mr Baddeley

550
11 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Burton. House Charges #50 9s. [Profit to Bransby and Burton #15 6d.] Tickets deliver'd for this night will be taken. Paid B. Johnson's Head bill #5 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #66 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: In Farce: A Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Egan; End: The Irish Lilt, as17670430