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6088 results for: Keyword - General Theophilus Cibber
We found 3615 matches on Author, 2199 matches on Performance Comments, 1019 matches on Event Comments, 62 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4301
19 August 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 21 Aug.: On Saturday Morning early died at his house the Buffalo's Head Tavern in Bloomsbury Square, Mr Fielding, formerly belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane

Performances

4302
16 September 1738 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 16 Sept.: To be Sold. The Lease (having upwards of 50 Years to come) of the late Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Enquire of Mr Edward Shepherd, at his House in Audley-street, Grosvenor-Square

Performances

4303
07 November 1738 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Nov., for The Case of the French Comedians, a statement signed by Moylin Francisque and J. B. LeSage

Performances

4304
11 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [The King, Duke, Princess Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 12 Jan.: Being the first time of his Majesty's being at any Publick Diversion since the Death of the late Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

4305
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Jan.: Last Saturday Night his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princesses, with several Foreign Ministers and their Ladies, were at [cg]: So great a Concourse of People came in order to see his Majesty there, as has scarcely been seen; many Persons who came to the Play-House at Four o'Clock, offering any Price, if they could possibly be admitted. In the Fury Dance of Macbeth, Mr Haughton had the misfortune to dislocate his Ankle-Bone, and fell down upon the Stage, and was obliged to be carried off; upon which his Majesty was graciously Pleased to send him Ten Guineas instantly, and to order him to be taken Care of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

4306
20 February 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Feb.: We hear that Mr Walker [of cg], who had the Misfortune of burning his Foot very severely some Time since...hopes in a short Time to be able to appear on the Stage again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

4307
13 April 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 April. Letter: Upon my Arrival in Town three Days ago, I was not a little surpriz'd, to find that Mr Handel's last Oratorio, (Israel in Egypt) which had been performed but once, was advertis'd to be for the last time on Wednesday....I was indeed concern'd, that so excellent a Work of so great a Genius was neglected, for tho' it was a Polite and attentive Audience, it was not large enough I doubt to encourage him in any future Attempt

Performances

4308
15 April 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 April: On Sunday about 7 o'Clock, died Mr Hill of [cg], of the Weunds he received by Villains unknown

Performances

4309
19 April 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 19 April, for a letter on Handel. Deutsch, Handel, pp. 481-83, reprints it but states that it appeared in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

4310
05 June 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The bill was inserted in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 June, but not repeated on 5 June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

4311
27 August 1739 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Phillips Booth. 10 a.m. This performance is advertized in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Aug., only, the last day of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Entertainment: A Grand Scene of Cupid and Psyche-; A Scaramouch Dance-Phillips; which he performed at the Opera House at Paris upwards of Forty successive Nights with universal Applause. A Dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

4312
26 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Sept.: We hear, that Mr Theobald has given the last Hand to his Tragedy, called, The Death of Hannibal, attempted in Imitation of Shakespear's Manner, and that it is designed to appear on the Stage this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress or The Ridotto Al Fresco

Related Works
Related Work: Ridotto al Fresco Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17390920

4313
16 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Nov.: The Audience in general last Night [Friday 16]...demanding the last new Farce call'd An Hospital for Fools, and persisting in that Demand so considerable a time, made it impossible to avoid giving it out for [Saturday 17]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Related Works
Related Work: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Mlle Chateauneuf

4314
29 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [A letter to the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 Jan., states that the occasion of the riot at dl, 23 Jan., was the failure of Denoyer and Mlle Chateauneuf to dance. The latter had been ill but on 22 Jan., thought that she could dance on the following night, and her name was placed in the bill; on Wednesday a misunderstanding about the absence of her and Denoyer caused the disturbance. A gentleman concerned in the affair sent the manager #100 for his share of the damage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

4315
06 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 Feb., contains a letter: To Mr John Hill, on his Answer to Mr Rich's Defence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Cast
Role: Pistol Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger; In Afterpiece: Grecian Sailors-Glover

4316
06 February 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 Feb.: In Consideration of the Weather continuing so cold,...Acis and Galatea...will be put off for a few Nights further

Performances

4317
12 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Entertainment of Musick and Grotesque Dancing. Edition of 1740: Set to Musick by Mr John-Frederick Lampe. [For further letters concerning John Hill and Rich, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 and 12 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

4318
14 February 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 14 Feb.: Two chief Singers being taken ill...Acis and Galatea...must therefore be put off performing a few Days longer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

4319
16 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 18 Jan.: Whereas a Bottle was flung out of one of the Galleries into the Pit...on Saturday Night last, during the Time of Performance, which struck a Gentleman on the Head, and very much hurt him, I hereby promise to pay to any one that shall discover the Person who threw the same, so that he may be brought to Justice, the Sum of Twenty Guineas, to be paid on Conviction....John Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4320
10 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #96 6s. (Account Book); #110 (Rylands MS.). See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 10 Nov., for a poem on Mrs Woffington as Sylvia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Brazen Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17401027

4321
04 April 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For a long letter on musical performances, including Handel's, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 April, reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 515-17

Performances

4322
08 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By partiuclar Desire. Benefit Chapman. Tickets at Chapman's House, Corner of Bow Street. [in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 April, Chapman published a letter regretting that this benefit will be on the night Handel has a performance at lif. Chapman states that he owes much to Handel and wishes him success. Because, he states, some 20,000 will want to attend lif, which cannot hold above twenty hundred, Chapman remarks that, if those who cannot get into lif will go to dl, he will be happy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: In II: Lowe; III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Dance: III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Peasants-Muilment

4323
23 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Prisoner in the King's Bench. [Tickets of Laguerre at John's Coffee-House, next door the King's-Bench, Southwark. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 April, Laguerre expressed his thanks to Giffard for giving him this benefit and added that, it being term-time, he had "by the common Licence of a Day Rule," liberty to act on 23 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

4324
04 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. [See Mlle Auguste's letter to the Public in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Dec., accusing Fleetwood of putting her name in the bills after she had renounced his employment, and had gone over to Rich. For her actual 1st appearance see cg 7 Dec.] Receipts: #90

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: Cibber Jr

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Dance: Mlle Auguste (who never appeared on the English stage before); The Swiss, as17410926

4325
21 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRylands MS.: Mrs Clive play'd. London Daily Post and General Advertiser: Mrs Clive, who has been lately dangerously ill at her lodgings in Great Queen St., is so well recover'd that she will perform this night at Drury Lane, in the Famous Comedy of Shakespear's call'd As You Like It. Receipts: #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques Actor: Cibber

Dance: LLe Genereux Corsaire-Fausan, Signora Fausan only; but see17411214