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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.

6001
02 September 1734 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Performance Comment: Both by Mills, Cibber, W. Mills, Miller, Harper, Milward .

6002
03 June 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Performance Comment: As17350423 An Epilogue (written by Jo. Haines, Comedian, of facetious Memory) to be spoken by Cibber, riding on an Ass .

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts composed by Handel, Geminiani, and others. First Musick: A Concerto for two Hautboys composed by Dr Pepusch. Second Musick: The third Concerto of the first Opera of Geminiani. Third Musick: Handel's Overture composed for the Opera of Ariadne

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Song: rv: Mock Italian-English Ballad by Roberts

6003
15 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. Being the last of that kind he intends ever to compose. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. No one admitted into the Boxes but by Silver Tickets or printed Tickets from the Office. [Preface points out that DL had the copy nine months, promising to perform it and returning it at the end of the season. Then Cibber Jr requested it for his summer company; it was rehearsed and then the company forced to close.] The Airs by Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: Concerto for Two Hautboys by Woodbridge and Neale. A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey

Dance: houvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. V: Two Pierrots by Vallois and his Scholar

Song: By a Scholar of Carey's

6004
08 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Cibber. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

6005
16 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 15 Dec: The Opera of Adriano, now performing with great Applause, particularly for some fine Songs in it, compos'd for Signior Farinello, having been thought by the King to be rather too long, M. Veracini has shorten'd it, and his Majesty has declar'd his Intention of being present at it [Tuesday 16]. We hear, that after this Opera has had its run, there will be a new one call'd Mithridates, the Drama of which is wrote in English by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat, and translated from thence into Italian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

6006
25 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Trueman Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake and Country Lass

Performance Comment: Livery Rake-Este; Phillis (Country Lass)-Mrs Clive; Landlord Toby-Salway; Phillis (Chambermaid)-Mrs Pritchard; Harry-Turbutt; James-Raftor; Lucy-Mrs Villeneuve; Dorcas-Mrs Cross. With an Epilogue (wrote by Jo. Haines, Comedian, of facetious Memory), to be spoke by Mr Cibber, riding on an Ass .

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts, composed by Arne, particularly the March in Zara

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Song:

6007
03 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Founded on Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. By the Author of the Man of Taste. [For an Epilogue designed to be spoken to King John, as amended by Colley Cibber, see Grub St. Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Dance: Muilment

6008
24 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

6009
12 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine-French Girl; Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

6010
18 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Rylands MS.: Cibber sick, I did Bayes. Bayes-I .

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

6011
17 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #59 14s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

6012
09 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Garrick to Peter Garrick (Dec. 1741): You perhaps would be glad to know what parts I have play'd, King Richd-+Jack Smatter in Pamela-Clody fop's fortune-Lothario fair Penitent-Chamont Orphan-Ghost Hamlet-& Shall soon be ready in Bays in ye Rehearsal-and in ye part of Othello-Both of which I believe will do Me and Cibber">Giffard great Service-I have had great Success in all, & 'tis not yet determin'd whether I play Trajedy or Comedy best-$Old Cibber has spoke with ye Greatest Commendation of my Acting, as to playing a Harlequin 'tis quite false-Yates last Season was taken very ill & was not able to begin ye Entertainment so I put on ye Dress & did 2 or three Scenes for him, but Nobody knew it but him & Giffard; I know it has been Said I play'd Harlequin at Covent Garden but it is quite false.-Little, Pineapples, pp. 28-29

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6013
23 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 Feb.: Handel has set up an Oratorio against the Operas and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces [i.e., Kitty Clive] and the singers of Roast Beef [i.e., Lowe] from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice [i.e., Beard] and a girl without ever a one [i.e., Mrs Cibber]; and so they sing.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

6014
09 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: MMrs Tame (see 15 April hay) had announced for her benefit this night The Old Batchelor, with Cibber as Fondlewife, Giffard as the Old Batchelor, and Mrs Giffard as Laetitia, to be followed by Tom Thumb, with Mrs Tame playing Tom Thumb, but a notice of 11 April states that Mrs Tame was ill and the performance had to be deferr'd

Performances

6015
15 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Tuesday next will be presented The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, the part of Lord Foppington to be perform'd by Mrs. Cibber. [This day appeared in the papers an account of the salaries of present-day actors compared with those in the time of Wilkes and Betterton, suggesting great overpayment of Garrick, Macklin, &c. This, according to Mrs Clive (Case, p. 8) was a false account.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Song: II: Song-Sullivan

Dance: III: Dance, as17431013; V: a New Dance-Muilment, Desse, Liviez, Mrs Walter

6016
18 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Relapse is deferr'd on account of the sudden indisposition of Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II, IV: Sullivan

Dance: As17431015

6017
09 June 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HHandel to Jennens: I have taken the Opera House in the Hay-marketh, engaged, as Singers, Signora Francesina, Miss Robinson, Beard, Reinhold, Mr Gates with his Boyes's and several of the best Chorus Singers from the Choirs, and I have some hopes that Mrs Cibber will sing for me. She sent word from Bath (where she is now) that she would perform for me next winter with great pleasure if it did not interfere with her playing, but I think I can obtain Mr Riches's permission (with whom she is engaged to play in Covent Garden House) since so obligingly he gave leave to Mr Beard and Mr Reinhold.--Deutsch Handel, pp. 591-92

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

6018
05 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: In a puff announcing opening the following week, Knerber is listed as the First Violin, and an allusion is made to those who have seen Miss Jenny Cibber rehearse the character of Juliet

Performances

6019
06 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TTamerlane is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Cibber's indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

6020
10 November 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Announced as 1 Nov., but not performed as theatre was closed by order of the Lord Chamberlain. See T. Cibber's letter in the Daily Post, 12 Nov., cited by Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, I, 69

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

6021
05 January 1745 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Musical Drama, compos'd by Mr Handel. Libretto by Thomas Broughton. [Mrs Cibber was scheduled to sing the part of Lichas, but was indisposed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hercules

6022
09 January 1745 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber being perfectly recovered of her late indisposition will certainly perform on Saturday next in Hercules

Performances

6023
25 January 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow. [See a curious allusion to Colley Cibber for not helping out in the present exigency, in today's Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

6024
18 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Day [i.e., Benefit Cibber]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny

Related Works
Related Work: Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John Author(s): Colley Cibber

6025
01 March 1745 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A letter in Daily Advertiser 4 March complains of Mrs Cibber's absence from this revival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson