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6340 results for: Keyword - Henry Woodward
We found 3375 matches on Author, 2052 matches on Performance Comments, 1249 matches on Performance Title, 525 matches on Event Comments, and 45 matches on Roles/Actors.

3876
25 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Sedgwick; Simkin-Russell; Skirmish-Bannister Jun.; Flint-Webb; Serjeant-Trueman; Louisa-Mrs Crouch; Jenny-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Kelly

Song: V: a song, as17990214

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-

3877
24 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Clarke; Simkin-Suett; Skirmish-Bannister Jun.; Flint-Webb; Serjeant-Trueman; Louisa-Mrs Crouch; Jenny-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Kelly

Entertainment: Vaudeville In II afterpiece: Military Manoeuvres-; [the Dead March-; [the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

3878
29 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Performance Comment: Henry (the Deserter)-H. Johnston; [Simpkin-$Bologna Jun. (see18000527)] Louisa's Father-Lewiss; Jailer-Hawtin; Country Lads-Platt, Blurton, Wilde, L. Bologna, Curties, Lee; Skirmish-Delpini; Jenny-Mrs Mills (1st appearance in that character); Louisa's Mother-Mrs Whitmore; Lasses-Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Bologna, Ms Cox, Ms L. Bologna, Ms Norton, Ms Carne; Louisa-Mrs H. Johnston (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: H. Johnston

Entertainment: Vaudeville In course Evening: an entire New Song, The Seaman's Lamentation for the Loss of the Royal Charlotte (The Words by G. S. Carey, and composed by Mazzinghi)-Incledon; Dancing-Mr and Master Michell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance)

3879
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

3880
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performances

3881
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

3882
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

3883
05 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry the Eighth [announced on playbill of 3 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #209 6s. (205/18; 3/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

3884
01 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera a new Ballet (composed by D'Egville) L'Amour Jardinier by Vestris, Fabiani, Sga Carolina Pitrot, Mlle Mozon, the two Mlles Simonet, Duquesney Jun., Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli

Performance Comment: , Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli .

3885
28 December 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Com1cal History Of Don Quixote

Dance: A new Rural Dance proper to the Play by Delagarde, Sandham, Evans, Woodward, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove. Coquette by Mrs Bullock. Comic Dance by Vallois. Dutch Skipper by d'Vallois and Mrs Bullock

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Pantomime Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: The Genii, Arabian Night's Entertainment Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Fortunatus Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Proteus; or, Harlequin in China Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Queen Mab Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Tit for Tat, or One Dish of his own Chocolate Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: A Lick at the Town Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Harlequin Ranger Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Marplot in Lisbon Author(s): Henry Woodward
Related Work: Harlequin's Jubilee Author(s): Henry Woodward

3886
02 December 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Delane; Modely-Giffard; Freehold-Hulett; Sir John-Penkethman; Lurcher-Bardin; Carbuncle-Lyon; Shacklefigure-Norris; Doublejugg-Rosco; Vulture-Wetherilt; Sneak-Woodward; Longbottom-Martin; Flora-Mrs Giffard; Aura-Mrs Roberts .
Cast
Role: Sneak Actor: Woodward

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

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

Dance: A new Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Miss Sandham

3887
12 December 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Miss Sandham

3888
13 January 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Miss Sandham

3889
13 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Dance: Scotch Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Mrs Vallois

3890
10 April 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward. III: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: Scot's Dance, as17350329

Song: II: By Mrs Chambers. IV: By Mrs Chambers

3891
24 April 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: III: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: II: A Song with French Horns by Miss Jones. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

3892
01 May 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: Cephalus and Procris: With The Mistakes Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: III: A Song by Miss Jones

3893
04 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17350917, but Frederick-Woodward; Flora-Mrs Roberts .
Cast
Role: Frederick Actor: Woodward
Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: II: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. IV: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. End of Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

Song: V: By Mrs Chambers

3894
16 February 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward

3895
01 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: III: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. IV: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Danc e by Houghton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: II: By Mrs Chambers

3896
06 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

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 Lover His Own Rival

Dance: I: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. IV: English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

Song: III: English Song by Mrs Chambers. V: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

3897
19 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: A new Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter, Livier, Mrs Thompson, Pelling, Rector, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

Music: Select Pieces-

3898
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Cast
Role: Gardeners and Wives Actor: Pelling, Rector, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

3899
13 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Woodward

Song: Proper to the Play.The Musick by Mr Arne-; Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne, Miss Jones, others

Dance: Mainpiece:IV: Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Cook, Davenport, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Davenport; In V: Dance of Furies-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Davenport

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

Cast
Role: Pilgrims Actor: Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward

3900
21 September 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Entertainment: Before the Play: (By Particular Desire) The New Occasional Prologue-Woodward