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5330 results for: Keyword - Henry Ford
We found 3377 matches on Author, 1223 matches on Performance Title, 807 matches on Performance Comments, 407 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5201
08 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Rich, Pit Officekeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets for the New Medley will be taken. Receipts: #124 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The City Ramble

Dance: delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion

5202
22 June 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Rich, Pit Officekeeper. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #24 14s. and tickets #55 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance:

5203
11 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Husband. With all the Original Musick, Scenes, Machines, Habits and Dances proper to the Play. N.B. That Night (only) the Front of the Gallery will be adorn'd with the Original Pictures of several of our most celebrated Poetsv, particularly those who have been most excellent in the Dramatick Way, as Shakespear, Ben. Johnson, Fletcher, Dryden, &c. together with that of our English Orpheus, the late Mr Henry Purcell. Receipts: money #52 9s.; tickets #43 16s. See also The Censor, No. 73 (9 April) and No. 75 (13 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

5204
27 May 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Rich, Pit Officekeeper. Receipts: money #15 4s. 6d.; tickets #43 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith; particularly Moreau's last new dance-Moreau, Miss Schoolding

5205
20 April 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaff, who has not been able to wait on his Friends, by reason of his being lame. By Command. Tickets for Henry VIII taken. Original Weekly Journal, 25 April: His Majesty was to have come to Drury Lane... but was prevented by the arrival of some important Dispatches from abroad

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Topham, Weaver, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar

5206
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 Man's Wedding

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

5207
15 February 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey, Duke Of Gloucester

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Humphrey-Booth; Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York-Mills; Richard Novil, Earl of Salisbury-Thurmond; Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick-Williams; Henry Beaufort, Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester-Cibber; William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk-Watson; Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckinham-Mills Jr; Margaret-Mrs Oldfield; Eleanor, Dutchess of Gloucester-Mrs Porter; Prologue by Bartholomew Paman of the Middle Temple-Booth; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.

5208
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-

5209
30 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Original Decorations of Rising, Sinking, and Flying. Daily Post, 30 Oct.: The Play of King Henry the Eighth...having met with a very favourable Reception from the Town, we hear that the Players propose to add several different Characters of Dignity to the Procession of Queen Anne Bullen , with other proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches; Or, Teague O'divelly

Performance Comment: Sir Edward-Shepard; Sir Tim-Norris; Squire Heartford-Miller; Tom Shacklehead-Johnson; Teague-Williams; Belfort-Wm. Mills; Doubty-Watson; Lady Shacklehead-Mrs Wetherilt; Isabella-Mrs Horton; Theodosia-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Squire Heartford Actor: Miller

Music: ll the Witches Musick both Vocal and Instrumental, by the late Mr Barret-

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-

Ballet: TThe Cobler's Jealous Wife. Cobler-Boval; His Wife-Roger; Countrymen-Essex, Haughton; Countrywomen-Mrs Brett, Mrs Mills

5210
13 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear. [By Lewis Theobald.] Theophilus Cibber: [Booth's] Illness...returned soon after his playing King Henry VIII. He was then studying the Part of Julio in the Double Falsehood; he rehearsed it several times,-when the Play begin ready for acting, he was prevented appearing in it, by a Relapse into his former Indisposition.-The Part was supplied a few Nights by Mr Charles Williams (a promising Player, who died young) to whom Mr Booth had given the Part to study, as doubting the Certainty of his being able to appear in it himself: But, at Mr Theobald's Entreaty (backed by many Gentlemen and Ladies) he good-naturedly (but fatally) disregarded his Indisposition, which was then an intermitting Fever, and acted that Part from the fifth to the twelfth Night; which was alas! the last time of his Appearance on tle Stage.-Lives and Characters, pp. 82-83

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers

5211
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

5212
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

5213
30 March 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By Henry Fielding.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce; With The Pleasures Of The Town

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

5214
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-

5215
01 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Fielding]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

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

5216
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

5217
10 May 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Woodward and Miss Wherrit. By Desire. Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions, particularly an entire new Scene, call'd Pierot's Encounter with a Bearv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Contrivance

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; II: The Merry Lass-Miss Wherrit; V: Passacail-Miss Wherrit

5218
17 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comedy. [By Henry Fielding.] 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

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

5219
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

5220
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]

5221
10 July 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Tench. By particular Desire. N.B. Mr Tench having labour'd under a violent Fit of Illness, and not being quite recover'd, humbly hopes his Friends will excuse his [not] waiting on them as he could wish, and favour him with their Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

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

Dance: Two Pierrots by Davenport and Oldbeldiston

Song: As17340628

5222
21 September 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. N.B. The Letter from some Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple (desiring the first Part of King Henry the Fourth to be play'd soon) was receiv'd, and, in Compliment to their Request, that Play will be Acted on Tuesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Dance: As17340919

5223
02 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

5224
07 May 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Chapman, Coachmaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song:

Dance:

5225
12 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: II: By a Scholar of Nivelon's. III: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. IV: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover and others

Song: I: Chanson a Boire, to Musick of Mr Handel's, sung by Leveridge and Laguerre. II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England

Performance Comment: II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England .