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7269 results for: Keyword - George Saville Carey
We found 6205 matches on Author, 705 matches on Performance Comments, 657 matches on Event Comments, 188 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6476
06 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Performance Comment: As17901117, but Lawyer's Clerk-_; Servant to Saville-_; Servant to Flurry-_.
Cast
Role: Saville Actor: Kemble
Role: Servant to Saville Actor: Lyons

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

6477
19 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17961025, but Doricourt-Barrymore; Saville-C. Kemble; Courtall-Russell; Kitty Willis-Miss Stuart; Dick-_; Gibson-_.
Cast
Role: Saville Actor: C. Kemble
Role: Sir George Touchwood Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed

6478
24 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Will And No Will Or Wits Last Stake

Performance Comment: Linger-King; Saville-Russell; Caveat-Maddocks; Item-Sparks; Martin-Bannister Jun.; Mrs Watchly-Miss Tidswell; Myra-Miss Heard; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Saville Actor: Russell

Afterpiece Title: Trials of the Heart

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Song: End 2nd piece: The Country Club-Bannister Jun.; In 3rd piece: In the dead of the Night-Mrs Jordan

Entertainment: Monologue End: Foote's Prologue to The Author-King; in which is introduced the well-known Fable of The Man the Boy and the Ass-King

6479
02 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17990126, but Doricourt-Archer (1st appearance in that character); Hardy-Wewitzer; Saville-Trueman; Letitia Hardy-Miss Mellon (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Saville Actor: Trueman
Role: Sir George Touchwood Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

6480
05 February 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Appius And Virginia

Performance Comment: Edition of ca. 1709 lists: Appius-Booth; Claudius-Keen; Virginius-Betterton; L. Icilius-Wilks; M. Icilius-Bickerstaff; Horatius-Thorman; Valerius-Husbands; P. Numitorius-Carey; C. Numitorius-Smith; Virginia-Mrs Rogers; Cornelia-Mrs Knight; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Numitorius Actor: Carey

6481
07 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17160731 but Aeolus-Carey.
Cast
Role: Aeolus Actor: Carey.

Music: All the Musick by Mr Weldon and perform'd Compleat, as at the Revival of the Play-

6482
26 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Coffee House

Performance Comment: Harpie-Griffin; Bays-Macklin; Booswell-Harper; Hartly-Havard; Gaylove-Winstone; Puzzle-Ray; Bawble-Beard; Butterfly-Green; Gamesters-Turbutt, Raftor; Coffee Boy-Leigh; Mrs Notable-Mrs Grace; Cibber a Comedian-Cibber; Miss Kitty-Mrs Clive; edition of 1738 adds: Prologue-Cibber; two songs by Henry Burgess Jr-; three songs by Henry Carey-.
Cast
Role: Henry Carey Actor: .

Dance: V: Ballet, as17380120

6483
10 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. N.B. And whereas building Benches, &c. on the Stage obstructs the Performance, and gives great Cause of Complaint, Mr Carey chuses rather to relinquish that Part of his Profit than incommode his Friends, and hopes no Person will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Related Works
Related Work: Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon: Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: As17381213

6484
17 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow and Four Small Children of the late Henry Carey. Tickets at the stage door, or at the Widow Carey's in Cross St., Hatton-Garden; at Langbourn-Ward Coffee House; and of Mrs Suertt, at the Apple Tree in Cold Bath Fields. N.B. The Unfortunate Widow humbly hopes that the Good Nature and Humanity of her Friends will admit her melancholy circumstances, and the shortness of time, as a sufficient excuse for not waiting on them, and continue the favours, formerly shown to her late Husband, to her and her Distress'd Family, being left entirely destitute of any provision

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: n Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

6485
04 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Performance Comment: Sullivan-Henderson; Montgomery-Wroughton; Daggerly-Aickin; Davy Dangle-Lee Lewes; Drelincourt-Hull; Pat Carey-Edwin; Bumboat-Fearon; Tipple-Thompson; Joyce-Stevens; Servant-J. Wilson; Sir Solomon Dangle-Quick; Agnes-Miss Satchell; Kitty Carrington-Mrs Wilson; Partlet-Mrs Pitt; Lady Dangle-Mrs Webb .
Cast
Role: Pat Carey Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

6486
14 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Tenducci (1st appearance at that theatre these 8 years), Saville, Reinhold, Miss Storace, Miss Harrop (1st public appearance).

Music: End of Part I: concerto on the violoncello-Cervetto; End of Part II: concerto on the violin-Lamotte

6487
27 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17900407, but Whitfield's and Phillimore's names listed in playbill Villers-Phillimore; Letitia Hardy-Mrs Goodall; Gentlemen-_; Mountebank-_; French Servant-_; Porter-_; Dick-_; Gibson-_; Saville's Servant-_; Tradesman-_.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: In course: a song-Miss Barnes; The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum

Entertainment: Vaudeville. End: an Epilogue in the character of Harlequin-Banks

6488
15 March 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey.] A new Farce on one Act. Benefit Quin. Receipts: money #67 12s.; tickets #73 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Hanging and Marriage or The Dead Mans Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: Hanging and Marriage; or, The Dead-Man's Wedding Author(s): Henry Carey

6489
10 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Robinson, the Dancer. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Prologue: in The Poems of Henry Carey, p. 65. Epilogue: Written by Mr Welsted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: End I: Polonese-Miss Robinson, Rainton; III: A new Passacaille-Miss Robinson; V: A New Comic Dance-Miss Robinson, Rainton

Music: II: 2d Concerto of Corelli-; IV: Select Piece with Hautboys and Flutes-

6490
20 August 1730 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: [Edition of 1730 lists airs by Henry Carey, Charke, J. Sheelis.] At Oates-Fielding Booth. [Advertised also 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Aug.; 1, 2, 13, 4, 5, 6, 7 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Free Mason Or The Constant Lady With The Comical Humours Of squire Noodle And His Man doodle

Dance: St.Luce, Mlle Delorme; particularly Wooden shoe, Pierrot and Pierraite, Black Joke-

6491
13 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera (after the Italian Method). [Text by Henry Carey. Music by John Frederick Lampe.] Subscribers' Tickets will not be taken after the first four Nights. Pit and Boxes 6s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Henry Carey

6492
25 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. As 21 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Henry Carey

6493
24 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: [Author not known, but probably Henry Carey; see 28 Nov.] The Scenes, Machines, and Habits entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: An Impromptu Revel Masque On the Joyous Occasion of the Royal Nuptials

Related Works
Related Work: An Impromptu Revel Masque; On the Joyous Occasion of the Royal Nuptials Author(s): Henry Carey

6494
28 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Carey, Author of The Happy Nuptials

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Nuptials The Festival

Dance:

6495
22 February 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Afterpiece: A new Tragedy of half an Act [By Henry Carey]. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law

Afterpiece Title: Chronohotonthologos

Dance: As17340221 Also A new Overture. With Songs (in the Italian Stile) a propos [to the Afterpiece]

6496
01 October 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorksh1re man

Dance: As17350926

6497
09 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Burlesque Opera. [By Henry Carey.] Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Margery or A Worse Plague than the Dragon Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley

Related Works
Related Work: Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon: Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: With Dances, incident to the Opera,-Glover, Lalauze, Haughton, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre, Thompson, Miss Oates, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Bullock

6498
02 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick, who perform'd King Richard. Pit and Boxes 4s. Gallery 1s. 6d. Tickets to be had at Garrick's Lodgings in Mansfield Street, Goodman's Fields, Bedford's, Tom's, Carey's, and Fleece Tavern. The Stage will be built after the Manner of an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, and likewise in the First Boxes, but not in the Pit, who are desire'd to be at the House by Three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6499
30 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. [Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon, by H. Carey, a sequel to Dragon of Wantley.] Tickets at stage door and at Mrs Lampe's and Miss Young's Lodgings, at the Golden Ball, in Brownlow St. Tickets deliver'd out for She Wou'd and She wou'd not will be taken for this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Dragoness

Dance: New Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Sailor's Dance, as17420427 Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

6500
04 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: HHenry Carey died. We are informed, General Theophilus Cibber arriv'd in Town on Saturday Morning. He made a Campaign this last summer in Dublin, where he maintained the Field, with great reputation against the illustrious Count Sheridan. We further hear the ioung Gentleman has taken up his Winter Quarters in the Territories of Covent Garden; but his scene of action, 'tis said, will be Drury Lane. Tis rumored he will be soon join'd by some Auxiliaries, draughted from the Forces on the Irish Establishment, who are to supply vacant commissions of the present Theatrical Mutineers and Deserters--Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy