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3151 results for: Keyword - Her Majesty's United Company of Comedians
We found 2944 matches on Event Comments, 174 matches on Performance Comments, 60 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

701
31 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. N.B. Whereas it has been reported, that several of the best French Comedians would soon return to Paris: This is to certify, that the said Report is totally groundless, for they will remain here all the Winter Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Le Tombeau de Maitre Andre

Dance:

702
20 September 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

703
03 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

704
05 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #25 1s.; tickets #39 9s. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April: Mr Christopher Bullock, the Comedian, died Thursday Morning of a Fistula and a Consumption

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: With several new collected Songs-Mr Legare, never performed by him before

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

705
31 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: British Journal, 5 Jan. 1723: Mr Matthew Birkhead, one of the Comedians [of dl], died on Sunday Morning last [30 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

706
20 September 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

707
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

708
29 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on the foreign comedians, see Mist's, 29 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

709
23 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Daily Journal, 23 Nov.: The Italian Comedians, having not met with the Success they expected, we hear they design to return home soon after Christmas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argentina Strega Per Amore Or Harlequin Multiplied By Argentinas Witchcraft For Love With Their Wonderful Flights And Apparations And The Magick Transformation Of Silvio Cincio And Brighella

Dance: In divers Characters-Poitier, others

710
07 June 1727 @ Marlborough House

Event Comment: A few days before 7 June the Drury Lane comedians presented Tamerlane at the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborugh's House in St. James's. See St. James's Evening Post, 10 June

Performances

711
07 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

712
27 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added the Coronation Scene of Anna Bullen , and the Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hallv; with several additional Decorations. Daily Post, 27 Nov.: The Coronation of Anna Bullenv having met with such extraordinary Success...the Players have been encouraged to give the Town and additional and different View of that Solemnity, by shewing the whole Magnificence at one, with the Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall, &c. And we hear that several Persons of Quality being unwilling to lose their usual Variety of Plays, have desired the Comedians to add the Coronation, &c. as a separate Entertainment, to any other Play the Town may be inclin'd to see

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

713
21 January 1729 @ Bow Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

Performance Comment: A Set of Lilliputian Comedians.
Related Works
Related Work: The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic Author(s): John Christopher Smith

714
24 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: See17290101 and See17281018, but to be perform'd by the Comedians , as usual.

715
11 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #30 5s. 6d. Daily Journal, 11 Jan.: [On Sunday] Night the Corpse of Mr Boheme...was interr'd at Greenwich. The Pall was supported by Mr Quin, Mr Ryan, and 4 other Comedians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

716
01 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Performance Comment: Father Martin-Cibber Jr; Isabel-Miss Raftor; Old Laroon-Shepard; Young Laroon-W. Mills; Old Jourdain-J. Roberts; Beatrice-Miss Williams; edition of 1731 adds: Prologue-William Mills.
Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Cibber Jr

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Performance Comment: Captain Bilkum-Mullart; Lovegirlo-Cibber Jr; Galloon-Paget; Leathersides-Roberts; Chairman-Jones; Mother Punchbowl-Bridgwater; Kissinda-Miss Raftor; Stormandra-Mrs Mullart; Nonparel-Miss Mears; Industrious Jenny-Miss Eliz. Roberts; Prologue-Theophilus Cibber; Epilogue-Miss Raftor.
Cast
Role: Leathersides Actor: Roberts
Role: Mother Punchbowl Actor: Bridgwater

Dance:

717
22 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Applebee's, 31 March: On Thursday 7-Night last at the Performance of...Love runs all Dangers...one of the Commedians took the Liberty to throw out some Reflections upon the Prime Minister and the Excise, which were not design'd by the Author; Lord Walpole being in the House, went behind the Scenes, and demanded of the Prompter, whether such Words were in the Play, and he answering they were not, his Lordship immediately corrected the Comedian with his own Hands very severely

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Dance: End of Mainpiece: Hornpipe-Jones Sr; Concluding with a Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

718
31 March 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress or The Ridotto Al Fresco With a Grand Masque calld The Judgment of Paris or The Triumph of Beauty

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 lists: Harlequin-LeBrun; Beau Mordecai-Stoppelaer; Old Debauchee-Berry; Justice@Mittimus-Mullart; Mons Poudre-Oates; Constable-Jones; Keeper-Burnet; Porter-Peploe; Pompey-Young Grace; Beadles-Gray, Wright; Kitty-Miss Raftor; Madam Decoy-Mrs Mullart; Jenny-Mrs Grace; Beau Brindle-Leigh; Les Capricieux-Essex, Miss Robinson; Hungarians-Houghton, Mrs Walter; Fingalians-Lally Sr, Miss Mears; Scaramouch-Lally Jr; Pierrot-Tench; Mezzetin-Stoppelaer; Ladies of Pleasure-Miss Mann, Miss Atherton, Miss Price; Marquis de Fresco-Arlequin en Chien; but Daily Post, 24 March (not later) adds: Shepherds-Lally Sr, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport; Shepherdesses-Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Grace, Miss Mann, Miss Price; Paris-Denoyer; Helen-Mrs Booth; Juno-Mrs Walter; Pallas-Miss Mears; Mercury-Stoppelaer; Power-Ellis Roberts; Venus-Miss Robinson; Thalia-Miss Raftor; Euphrosyne-Mrs Mullart; Aglaia-Miss Atherton; Fame-Young Cunningham.
Cast
Role: Ladies of Pleasure Actor: Miss Mann, Miss Atherton, Miss Price
Role: Shepherds Actor: Lally Sr, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Grace, Miss Mann, Miss Price
Role: Aglaia Actor: Miss Atherton

719
28 May 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Vallois and Mrs Vallois (late Widow to Monsieur Roger, the Pierrot in Drury Lane, Deceas'd). Acted by the Comedians form the Theatre in Goodman's Fields. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Townly-Havard; Manly-Hulett; Sir Francis-Morgan; Richard-Norris; Basset-Giles; Moody-Pearce; Jenny-Miss M. Hughes; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Norris; Myrtilla-Miss J. Hughes; Trusty-Mrs Vallois; Lady Townly-Mrs Leonard; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Christian; Lady Grace-Mrs Houghton.
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Norris

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Minuet, a new Ragadoon-De Vallois, Madam De Vallois; II: French Peasant-; III: Pierrot and Pierroress-De Vallois and Madam De Vallois; IV: Pastoral-De Vallois and Madam De Vallois; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-De Vallois, Bowford, Pawlet

720
18 June 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: On Monday last died Mr William Bullock, one of the Comedians of Goodman's-Fields, and Master of a Coffeehouse in that Neighborhood

Performances

721
15 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Heron

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Robinson. Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann

722
16 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: London Evening Post, 17 Nov.: Yesterday the Court of King's Bench granted a Habeas Corpus, directing the Keeper of Tothill-Fields Bridewell, to bring up the Body of John Harper, one of the Haymarket Comedians; and he is accordingly to be brought up on Monday next . . . that he may be admitted to Bail

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331115

723
10 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [For Preliminary Articles of Peace among the Patentees and Comedians, see Grub St. Journal, 10 Jan.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Heron

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob's Father Actor: Harper
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Music: Second and Third Musick as17331201. Also Se mei Turbo (a Song in Porus) on the Flute Traverse. The Cuckoo composed by Vivaldi

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. Tambourine by Miss Robinson

724
29 May 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: The Black and White Joke by Le Brun and Miss Mann. II: Pierrots by F. Tench and Davenport. III: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. IV: The Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. V: Revellers by Essex, Miss La tour, &c

725
29 October 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: Doctor Faustus Author(s): Christopher Marlowe