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5545 results for: Keyword - Henry Fox
We found 3375 matches on Author, 1295 matches on Performance Title, 993 matches on Performance Comments, 416 matches on Event Comments, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

326
08 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin and Mrs Lee. House Charges #33 8s. Rec'd stopages #2 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd by Sg Giorgi and Miss Berkley will be admitted. Neville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see 2nd part of Henry IV. [Comments on performances of individual characters in general.] Falstaff very well by Love. This last uses his eyes with great propriety in this and many other characters....Pistol by Baddeley (King should have played it)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: A Minuet-Miss Giorgi, Miss Collett Scholars to Sg Giorgi; End I of the Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17670212, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

327
19 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 May 1767.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

328
26 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

329
02 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

330
27 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for 2 Licenses (King Henry II, and The Man of Business) #4 4s. Paid Farrington & Scarr (haberdashers) #26 16s. Receipts: #179 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

331
13 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hartley. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, with New Music, Dresses and Decorations. Interlude taken from Prior's celebrated poem, The Nut Brown Maid. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Adapted by Henry Bate. Charges: #72 9s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Hartley #54 15s., plus #61 18s. from tickets (Box 202; Pit 76). Paid Whitfield for making cloaths #33 17s. 4d.; Paid Mr Walker for trimmings &c. #13 4s. Receipts: #127 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208; After which: New Poetical Interlude, Henry and Emma: Parts-Smith, Hull, Miss Brown, Mrs Hartley; To conclude with: a New Air and Chorus by Dr Arne-

332
02 January 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [On this night Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry and Sga Crespi also danced in 3 ballets at king's. A probable explanation is that the play at dl began three-quarters of an hour earlier than did the opera.] Receipts: #103 4s. (69.16; 31.18; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Countryman Deceiv'd-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Crespi, Delpini

333
20 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Dance: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 1 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 1 Dec. Henry is omitted.] hathi.

334
19 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Related Works
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In mainpiece by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss M. Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Performance Comment: Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.] hathi.
Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Williams, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, &c.; Miss Phillips, Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

335
17 December 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In the 1st ballet the playbill lists Mme Rossi, but she did not dance. As the 2nd ballet the playbill announces Il Ratto delle Sabine, but Mme Rossi was ill, which "rendered a verbal apology unavoidable. 'Mme Rossi was in hopes that her wish to court your favour would enable her to overcome her illness, but it has been as sudden as it is now alarming. She has just been let blood. The manager therefore intreats your indulgence, and that you will accept of Apelles and Campaspe instead of the Grand Ballet, which cannot possibly be performed.' . . . Henry performed the part of Alexander with the greatest propriety" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Convito

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, probably as17821119; End of Open Apelles and Campaspe, probably as17821102, but added: Henry

336
09 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Never performed here. [Miss Thornton is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Address by Horatio Edgar Robson (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 369).] 2nd piece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 31, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 6s. 6d. (138/15/6; 3/6/0; tickets: 138/5/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman

337
18 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "A new Tragedy, called Eloisa [and Richard Coeur de Lion, both announced on playbill of 16 Dec. were] to have been represented last night; but on account of the illness of Farren [were] obliged to be deferred, and Fontainbleau, with Hob in the Well were announced [in playbill of this present night], but on account of the sudden indisposition of Edwin...both pieces were obliged to be changed to Henry IV, with Barataria" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.). Receipts: #117 0s. 6d. (115.0.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

338
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

Performance Comment: As17730518, but Leander-Owenson, first time; Diego-Fox (first time); Leonora-Miss Wewitzer (first time).
Cast
Role: Diego Actor: Fox

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

339
04 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. [Gentleman who played Axalla tentatively suggested as a son of Henry Carey who played Henry IV in 2 Henry IV 27 April 1773 (Winston MS 10). He had been on the playroll since the first of this season at 5s. per night.] Receipts: #160 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Bensley; Bajazet-Smith; Axalla-a Gentleman, his second appearance; Dervise-Gardner; Moneses-Wroughton; Omar-Owenson; Stratocles-Fox; Hali-Davis; Prince of Tanais-Thompson; Selima-Miss Sherman; Arpasia-Miss Miller; With the Usual Prologue-Wroughton; In IV, To Thee O Gentle Sleep!-DuBellamy (playbill).
Cast
Role: Stratocles Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: Comus

340
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

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Havard; Moneses-Jackson; Axalla-Packer; Bajazet-Holland; Dervise-Bransby; Omar-Burton; Prince-Ackman; Hali-Fox; Selima-Mrs Davies; Arpasia-Mrs Pritchard; Usual Prologue-Lee; In Act IV, The Original Song of O! Gentle Sleep-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Hali Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

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

341
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

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Ross; Priuli-Gibson; Bedamar-Perry; Duke-Morris; Renault-Clarke; Elliot-Fox; Spinoza-Wignell; Officer-Thompson; Theodore-R. Smith; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera (first time these 4 years)-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Elliot Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, as17701017

342
07 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces King Henry the Fifth, but it was not acted "on account of the indisposition of Kemble" (Public Advertiser, 8 Dec.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #167 5s. 6d. (106.4.0; 58.0.6; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performance Comment: Marguerite. Principal Characters-Kelly, Barrymore, Suett, Waldron, Sedgwick, Bannister Jun., Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Mrs Fox, Mrs Crouch. [For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Kelly, Barrymore, Suett, Waldron, Sedgwick, Bannister Jun., Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Mrs Fox, Mrs Crouch.

343
11 December 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted Before. [Printed play, Dublin 1762 lists Talthybius-$Castle; Lycus-$Ackman; Cratander-$Moody; Paeonian-$Fox; Officer-$Scrase; Sigea-$Miss Hippisley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hecuba

Performance Comment: Principal parts by Holland, Havard, Davies, Moody, Ackman, Scrase, Castle, Fox, Miss Bride, Miss Hippisley, Mrs Pritchard. Prologue-Garrick; Epilogue-Miss Bride; Eriphilus-Holland; Ulysses-Davies; Melanthus-Havard; Cratander-Moody; Hecuba-Mrs Pritchard; Polyxena-Miss Bride (Genest, IV, 637); Lycus-Ackman; Officer-Scrase; Talthybius-Castle; Paeonian-Fox; Sigea-Miss Hippisley (MacMillan).
Cast
Role: Paeonian Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

344
12 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Quick, Fox, Hamilton, Miss Besford. Tickets deliver'd for an Opera, and Lionel and Clarissa will be taken. Charges #64 5s. Deficit #31 7s. (apportioned equally at #6 5s. 5d. for each beneficiary). Covered by income from tickets (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value @Holtom 16 117 68 #28 7s. @Quick 9 77 69 #20 14s. @Fox 39 162 61 #40 3s. @Hamilton 49 52 88 #28 17s. @Miss Besford 30 56 56 #21 10s. @Money #32 18s. @Total #172 9s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17690506, but Sir John Loverule-Fox.
Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Fox.

Dance: I: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Hamilton (both apprentices to Fishar); End: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Besford

345
22 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Fox, Hamilton and Bates. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 14s. 6d. Deficit to each actor #5 9s. 1 1!2d., covered by income from tickets: Quick #45 13s. (Box 40; Pit 169; Gallery 103); Fox #54 13s. (Box 60; Pit 219; Gallery 68); Hamilton #28 12s. (Box 40; Pit 72; Gallery 78); Bates #27 3s. (Box 28; Pit 69; Gallery 98). Paid Mr Osborne the Balance due for Benefit of New General Lying in Hospital the 22d Dec. last #10 17s. 6d. Half values from tickets receiv'd from Rose, Wilkinson, Mrs Griffiths, Flight, Roberts, Robson, Norbury, Fransdorf, Miller, and Walker (Account Book). Receipts: #43 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17700205, but Gravediggers-Quick, Bates; Ghost-Clarke; Ostrick-Hamilton; Lucianus-Fox.
Cast
Role: Lucianus Actor: Fox.

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

346
22 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington Fox. Tickets deliver'd by Thompson and Master Harris will be taken. Charges #67 4s. 6d. were borne by Barrington and Fox, who faced a deficit of #16 4s. 9d. apiece. It was cover'd by income from tickets. Thompson and Master Harris rec'd their tickets gratis (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Barrington 69 92 50 #36 1s.@Fox 93 194 61 #58 9s.@Thompson 0 24 94 #13 @Mas. Harris 114 61 52 #42 17s.@ Receipts: #34 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17720109, but Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Fox; Widow-Mrs Barrington; Stanmore-_; Jack Stanmore-_; Lucy Weldon-_.
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Fox
Role: Jack Stanmore Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: IV: A Dance-Mas. Harris, Miss Mathews (her 2nd appearance that stage)

Monologue: Interlude. End: True Blue. As 2 May, but Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Mrs Mattocks

347
11 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fox and Owenson. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six o'clock. Charges #65 19s. 6d. Deficit to each #9 4s., cover'd by income from tickets: Fox, #101 17s. (Box 118; Pit 349; Gallery 200); Owenson #86 10s. (Box 138; Pit 206; Gallery 211). Receipts: #46 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Grey

Performance Comment: Dudley-Smith; Pembroke-Bensley; Northumberland-Hull; Gardiner-Gardner; Suffolk-Owenson; Sussex-Davies; Gates-R. Smith; Lieut.-Fox; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs P. Green; Lady-Miss Pearce; Lady Jane Grey-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Lieut. Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740510; End I Farce: A Double Hornpipe-Mr and Mrs Holloway

348
12 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. Mr Love Hiss'd in the Scotchman. Dumont by Mr Powell (Hopkins). Characters Dress'd in Habits of Times. Mr Love was hissed very much in the Scotchman, and the Farce hissed at the end (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). No building on stage. On Saturday Othello with a New Burletta call'd Music A-La-Mode, or Bayes in Chromatics For the Benefit of Vernon. [The principal characters were to have been played by King, Vernon, Packer, Fox, Mrs Mrs Dorman, and Miss Young (Public Advertiser, 13 April). But it was deferred at the last minute and seems never to have been performed. Larpent MS 237 lists the parts: Dr Crochet, Player-Packer; Squire, Justice; Damon; Daphne, Chorus of Shepherds and Nymphs. $J. P. Kemble thought it a burlesque at the expense of Dr Arne (professor of nonharmonic music). The Player wants in it to banish all but four plays (Tamerlane, London Cuckolds, George Barnwell, and Twelfth Night) and fill stage performance with music.] Receipts: #208 14s. 6d. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Profit to Love: #144 10s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Holland, first time; Shore-Powell, first time; Gloster-Love; Alicia-Mrs Palmer, first time; Jane Shore-Mrs Davies; Catesby-Mozeen; Bellmour-Packer; Derby-Fox; Ratcliff-Ackman.
Cast
Role: Derby Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Le Brush-King; Gulwell-Packer; Frankly-J. Palmer; Scotchman-Love; Frenchman-Baddeley; Trickit-Fox; Irishman-Moody; Harwood-Lee; Williams-Ackman; Brilliant-Castle; Maria-Miss Mills; Margery-Mrs Love; Original Prologue-King.
Cast
Role: Trickit Actor: Fox

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922; End I Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Baker

349
23 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wright. Tickets deliver'd by Fox admitted. [See 20 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Thomas-Fox; Sally-Miss Wright; Dorcas-Mrs Dorman; Squire-Vernon; to conclude with a Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley.
Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Fox

Song: II: A Song from the Opera Almena-Miss Wright

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17640929

350
10 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fox, Mrs Simson and Mrs Cross. By Desire. Tickets deliver'd for The Conscious Lovers will be Taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17680122, but Toiler-Mrs Simson; Capt. O'Cutter-Fox; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: O'Cutter Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Trickit Actor: Fox

Dance: End: A Louvre and Minuet-Giorgi, Miss Simson