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6086 results for: Keyword - Henry
We found 3375 matches on Author, 2106 matches on Roles/Actors, 1213 matches on Performance Title, 658 matches on Performance Comments, and 385 matches on Event Comments.

6026
17 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: As17620215, but Drunken Servant-R. Smith; Peasant-Weller; In Act IV Song of Mad Bess, set to music by Henry Purcell, will be sung in Character-Mrs Vernon.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Henry Carey

6027
04 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow (acted but once these 5 years) King Henry IV, Part II. New Dress'd in the characters of the times, to which be added, not acted this season, The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak, as17620925; III: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

6028
03 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Hengist-Smith; Aribert-Ross; Offa-Clarke; Seofrid-Sparks; Oswald-White; Rodogune-Mrs Ward; Ethelinda-Miss Macklin; In which will be introduc'd A Solemn Hymn, set to music by Henry Purcell;-Beard, Tenducci, Peretti, Mattocks, Baker, Miss Miller, Miss Polly Young, Miss Davies, Legg, Ryley, Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

6029
12 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnston [housekeeper]. Tickets deliver'd for 2 Henry IV, and by Miss Berkley will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Entertainment: End of play, for that night only, The Cries of London-Vernon

Related Works
Related Work: The Marriage Night Author(s): Henry Cary, Viscount Falkland
Related Work: The Genii, Arabian Night's Entertainment Author(s): Henry Woodward

6030
03 October 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Hengist-Smith; Aribert-Ross; Offa-Clarke; Seofrid-Walker; Oswald-White; Rodogune-Mrs Ward; Ethelinda-Miss Macklin; In which will be introduc'd a Solemn Hymn, set by Henry Purcell, and-Beard, Mattocks, Squibb, Miss Poitier, Mrs Baker, Baker, Legg, Ryley, Dibdin, Waylin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: End: New Grand Ballet call'd The Garland-Fichar, Miss Wilford

6031
12 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. A sequel to the 2nd part of Henry IV. Written in imitation of Shakespeare, and adapted to the stage with considerable alterations by the author (Winston MS 9). [Play by William Kenrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Falstaff's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: II: A Dance called Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

6032
23 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 31 Dec. 1768.] Afterpiece: A Musical Entertainment [by Isaac Bickerstaffe] never acted there. [Letter from Henry Woodward, Clement's Inn, says he fulfilled his seven years engagement and is now going to Scotland with Foote and next to the Hay Market. No direct application was made to re-engage him at Covent Garden or he was ready to meet it (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, as17701017

6033
23 October 1772 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: On Tuesday last died at Ealing in Middlesex at a very advanced age and much regretted by all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance, Henry Giffard, the Celebrated Manager of Goodman's Fields Theatre. This Gentleman was of a Genteel Family in the West of England (Public Advertiser). [Though him Garrick had come to the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

6034
01 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The preliminary number of The Westminster Magazine this date heartily condemned Colman's Comus "picked down into a skeleton," his production of King Henry VIII, and the new play Cross Purposes.] Receipts: #172 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6035
27 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mrs Baks for walking 13 nights in King Henry VIII to 15th Inst.: #3 5s. (Account Book). [Mrs Baks as a walking super seems to have done better in salary at 4s. 1d. per night than did the men (Gard &c.) who perform'd as Ostriches, Asses, Hogs &c. in the afterpieces at 2s. 6d. per night. The difference may have depended upon whether one was a mute in a mainpiece or an afterpiece.] Receipts: #159 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: IV: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17720921; End: New Dance, as17730206

6036
21 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fox and Owenson. Tickets deliver'd by Holloway and Miss Bassan will be taken. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to beneficiaries #9 11s. 3d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Fox #90 11s. (Box 123; Pit 328; Gallery 106); Owenson #69 7s. (Box 118; Pit 133; Gallery 199). Paid Mrs Singleton for walking 13 nights in Henry VIII, the 8th to 15th February #3 5s. and for walking 28 nights in the Sorcerer to the 13th inst. #3 10s. Paid Mrs Baks for the same #3 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #45 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe (first time)-Miss Bassan; End: A Louvre and Minuet-Mr and Mrs Holloway

6037
14 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of King Henry II, is still oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Hartley. Receipts: #133 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

6038
31 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The tragedy of King Henry II cannot be performed, on account of the indisposition of Miss Miller. Paid Mr Nix the balance for London Lying In Hospital #23 6s.; Paid Garton balance for Theatrical Fund, #89 4s. 6d.; Paid Mr Helme the balance for the Discharge of persons imprison'd for small debts #4 5s. Receipts: #129 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

6039
19 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This night Dr William Kenrick gave his first lecture in his series of The School of Shakespeare, at the Devil's Tavern, in Fleet Street. Topic, I Henry IV. This lecture and those of the two succeeding Wednesday evenings are reviewed in the Monthly Miscellany, Feb. 1774. Receipts: #190 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

6040
26 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for DuBellamy. Charges: #64 5s.; Profit to DuBellamy; #19 17s., plus #187 15s. - from tickets (Box 486; Pit 401; Gallery 61); Paid Singleton for performing 3 nights in the Sorcerer to 11 Oct. last #7 6s., for 5 nights in Henry VIII to 14 Feb. last #1 5s., for 4 nights in Macbeth to 13 Nov. last 10s., and for 40 nights in the Fair and the Sylphs to 4 April #2; Receipts: #84 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416

Song: End I the Farce: (By Desire) The Storm-DuBellamy

6041
06 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pitt and Stoppelaer. Charges #67 15s. Deficit to each #4 6s. 9d., cover'd by income from tickets: Mrs Pitt #53 7s. (Box 48; Pit 185; Gallery 136); Stopplear, #86 5s. (Box 112; Pit 271; Gallery 176). Paid Bates for performing 4 nights in the Sorcerer to 11 Oct. last 10s., 5 nights in Henry VIII to 14 Feb. last #1 5s., and 5 nights in the Fair to 13 Nov. last 5s. Paid half year's Poor's rate for the theatre due Lady day last, #24 15s. 10d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage 17s. 9d. Receipts: #59 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416

6042
03 November 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [in 5 Acts by Sir William Davenant, slightly altered for the stage by Henry Woodward] never acted there. [The lady identified by Hopkins MS Notes and named in the Edition of 1775. The Westminster Magazine for Nov. suggests Shuter instead of Quick for Sancho. The review thought it an indifferent Comedy which "yet could be made a most excellent farce....The dialogue has all the rust of antiquity about it, and the modernizing scenes are left to the discretion of the performers. However, in representation, this piece cannot fail of entertaining....Miss Leeson, who appeared in the character of Isabella, has an agreeable plaasing figure, a good face and a marking eye; her voice is weak, but after she got rid of her fright was sufficiently articulate; there was an ease and nature in her deportment and dialogue that entitles her to encouragement."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End: The Pilgrim, as17750927

6043
09 October 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Russell. Tickets to be had of Master Russell at the Swan, Elephant stairs. Afterpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. In Act I the Triumphal Entry of Tom Thumbv, attended with Giants, Giantess's, Dwarfs, Pigmies, Drums, Trumpets, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Entertainment: Monologues.Preceding: Prologue to Barbarossa in the character of a Country Boy, containing an account of his Journey to London, his different Services there, first in the City, next with a Lord, then with a Lady, and last of all with a starved Poet-Master Russell; End I: a Scene from Lethe: Fine Gentleman-Master Russell; End II: an Harangue in a Tubafter the manner of the celebrated George Alexander Stevens-Master Russell; End: The Drunken Buck-Raymond

6044
04 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Henry VIII, announced on playbill of 3 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Midas

6045
18 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. 2nd piece: By the late Henry Purcell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Music In Bonduca; Alexander's Feast

Music: As17800211

6046
27 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Morning Chronicle, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, Russel-street, Covent-garden. 2nd piece: Founded on Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers [by Henry Carey]. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #203 1s. (179.11; tickets: 23.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed; or, True Blue for Ever

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-see17800401

6047
25 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, announced on playbill of 22 Sept.] Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the music composed by Dr Fisher. Paid Music 22nd Inst. #7 15s. 4d.; Properties 22nd Inst. 9s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 11s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 19s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #10 19s. 5d. Receipts: #194 13s. 6d. (193.18.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

6048
14 March 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: By the late Henry Purcel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Music from Bonduca; Dryden's Ode for St

Music: As17810307

6049
05 June 1781 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'omaggio

Dance: Incident to the piece: Ballets by Vestris Sen.-Vestris Sen., Vestris Jun., Simonet, Slingsby, Traffieri, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sga Crespi, Sga Zuchelli, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Armstrong

Performance Comment: =-Vestris Sen., Vestris Jun., Simonet, Slingsby, Traffieri, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sga Crespi, Sga Zuchelli, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Armstrong.

6050
13 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Spirits by Miss Armstrong, &c.; In Act III a Dance of Fantastic Spirits [performers not listed. These were danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances]. In Act IV a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, &c

Performance Comment: ; In Act III a Dance of Fantastic Spirits [performers not listed. These were danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances]. In Act IV a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, &c .