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3348 results for: Keyword - James Townley
We found 2140 matches on Author, 1035 matches on Performance Comments, 332 matches on Event Comments, 18 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2201
06 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Dance: 3rd piece: To conclude as17940805

2202
15 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Afterpiece Title: THE AGREEABLE S URPRISE

Dance: 2nd piece: To conclude as17940805

2203
26 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auld Robin Gray

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Afterpiece Title: THE SON-IN-LAW

Afterpiece Title: THE VILLAGE LAWYER

Dance: 1st piece to conclude as17940805

2204
05 September 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auld Robin Gray

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Afterpiece Title: THE SON-IN-LAW

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Dance: As17940826

2205
21 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Auld Robin Gray

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Song: End: Mock Italian Song from The Irish Mimic; or, Blunders at Brighton-Fawcett

Entertainment: MonologueIn evening: Monsieur Tonson-Fawcett

2206
27 January 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelaide

Related Works
Related Work: Adelaide Author(s): Henry James Pye

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

2207
29 January 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelaide

Related Works
Related Work: Adelaide Author(s): Henry James Pye

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

2208
07 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-L. Hallam; Frederick-Townley; Clerimont-Cushing; Ramilie-Kennedy; Decoy-Dove; Sparkle-Tucker; List-Freeman; James-Maxfield; Mariana-Mrs Hallam; Harriet-Mrs Kennedy; Mrs Wisely-Mrs Bainbridge; Wheedle-Mrs Cushing; Lappet-Miss Houghton.
Cast
Role: Frederick Actor: Townley
Role: James Actor: Maxfield
Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): James Wild
Related Work: Fame; or, Queen Elizabeth's Trumpets; or, Never plead's Hopes of being a Lord Chancellor; or, The Lover turn'd Philosopher; or, The Miser's Resolve upon the Lowering of Interest Author(s): James Lacy

Afterpiece Title: More Ways than One to Win Her

2209
29 October 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Ryan; Townley-Walker; Loveday-Egleton; Wiseacre-Bullock Sr; Old Doodle-Hall; Dashwell-Spiller; Lady No-Mrs Vincent; Eugenia-Mrs Purden; Peggy-Mrs Rogeir; Engine-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Walker

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Dance: The Nivelons; particularly a new Scating Dance in the Character of a Dutch Sailor-the elder Nivelon

2210
06 November 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Ryan; Townley-Walker; Loveday-Egleton; Wiseacre-Bullock Sr; Doodle-Hall; Dashwell-Spiller; Arabella-Mrs Bullock; Eugenia-Mrs Ward; Peggy-Mrs Legar; Engine-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Walker

Dance: As17251102

2211
01 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Ryan; Townley-Walker; Wiseacre-Bullock Sr; Doodle-Hall; Dashwell-Spiller; Lady No-Mrs Bullock; Eugenia-Mrs Vincent; Peggy-Mrs Legar; Engine-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Walker

Dance: FFingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock; Pastoral-Glover, Mrs Pelling; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

2212
06 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-the Gentleman who acted Othello [Foote]; Loveless-Macklin; Berinthia-Mrs Macklin; Worthy-Hart; Young Fashion-Townley; Sir Tunbelly-Craggs; Coupler-Head; Lory-Penington; Bull-Nealson; Hoyden-Miss Minors; Nurse-Mrs Hart; Amanda-a Gentlewoman [who never appeared on any stage; Epilogue [in the character of Lord Foppington-.
Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Townley

2213
11 December 1744 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Gayless-Townley.
Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Townley.

Dance: As17441210

2214
20 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17450216, but Ferdinand-Kennedy; Gonzalez-Townley; Stephano-Chettle.
Cast
Role: Gonzalez Actor: Townley

2215
30 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Performance Comment: Lady Townley-Mrs Daniel; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Bainbridge.
Cast
Role: Lady Townley Actor: Mrs Daniel

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

2216
22 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Performance Comment: As17490329 but Townley's Page-Bennet; Pert-Miss Morrison.
Cast
Role: Townley's Page Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: As17490329

2217
09 November 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Ryan; Townley-Giffard; Wiseacre-Collins; Dashwell-Arthur; Doodle-Marten; Engine-Miss Haughton; Jane-Mrs Dunstall; Roger-Cushing; Aunt-Mrs Bambridge; Loveday-Anderson; Eugenia-Mrs Barrington; Peggy-Miss Morrison; Lady No-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Witty Fair One Author(s): James Shirley

2218
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

2219
24 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, The Diversions of the Morning

Performance Comment: Lady Pentweazle and Fustian-Foote; Carmine-Aickin; Townley-Vandermere; Manly-DuBellamy; Alderman Pentwezle-Sparks; Caleb-Weston; Project-Wheeler; Prompter-Farrell; Painter's Boy-Jacobs; Lindamira-Pearce. singing, III: A Favorite Ballad Song, set by Dr Arne-Phillips .
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Vandermere
Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Taste Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Man of Taste; or, The Guardian Author(s): James Miller

Dance: End of Play: The Pedlar, as17700817

2220
05 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander the Great; or, The Conquest of Persia Author(s): James D'Egville

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Marriage-Office

Performance Comment: [Characters by Mattocks, Robson, Mahon, Wewitzer, Thompson, Stevens, Wilson, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Booth, Miss Brown. Cast from Airs, (no pub. 1777)]: Townley-Mattocks; Sharpley-Robson; O'Donnely-Mahon; Lumber-Wewitzer; Colonel Olive-Wilson; Miss Blond-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Olive-Mrs Booth, [in Airs: Mrs Pitt; Miss Olive-Miss Brown; Thompson; Stevens. Thompson; Stevens.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Mattocks

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races, as17770428

Song: End I: A Welcome to the Spring (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

2221
10 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Aid. Doodle-Quick; Aid. Wiseacres-Booth; Mr Dashwell-Fearon; Ramble-Whitfield; Townley-Robson; Loveday-Thompson; Watchmen-Jones, Stevens, Bates; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Peggy Wiseacres-Miss Morris; Eugenia-Mrs Morton; Engine-Mrs Davenett; Jane-Mrs Wilson. A new Prologue by the Ghost of Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor .
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Robson

Dance: As17820409

2222
28 October 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-R. Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Young Fashion-Palmer; Loveless-Wroughton; Col. Townley-Barrymore; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Hollingsworth; Probe-Wewitzer; Lory-Wathen; La Varole-Maddocks; Shoemaker-Banks; Taylor-Wentworth; Mendlegs-Webb; Jeweller-Trueman; Berinthia-Miss Farren; Amanda-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Coupler-Mrs Booth; Nurse-Miss Tidswell; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Townley Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: As17961019

2223
01 January 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: All the Parts to be perform'd by Lilliputians, but edition of 1728 lists: Peachum-Mary Shaftoe; Lockit-James Bencraft; Nimming Ned-James Bencraft; Macheath-Elizabeth Binks; Filch-Henry Woodward; Ben Budge-Henry Woodward; Beggar-Henry Woodward; Crookfinger'd Jack-James Weeks; Wat Dreary-James Weeks; Robin-John Wilson; Harry Paddington-Fisher Tench Charke; Player-Fisher Tench Charke; Mat-John Verhuyck; Mrs Peachum-Esther Wherrit; Diana Trapes-Esther Wherrit; Mrs Slammekin-Esther Wherrit; Polly-Elizabeth Rogers; Lucy-Susanna Rogers; Mrs Coaxer-Margaret Lowe; Dolly Trull-Sarah Foxwell; Mrs Vixen-Mary Vincent; Betty Doxy-Mary Weyman; Jenny Diver-Margaret Gold; Sukey Tawdry-Beatrice Boitar; Molly-Susanna Caun.
Cast
Role: Lockit Actor: James Bencraft
Role: Nimming Ned Actor: James Bencraft
Role: Crookfinger'd Jack Actor: James Weeks
Role: Wat Dreary Actor: James Weeks

2224
23 February 1732 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Performance Comment: Esther-John Randall; Assuerus-James Butler; Haman-John Moore; Mordecai-John Brown; Priest of the Israelites-John Beard; Harbonach-Price Cleavely; Persian Officer-James Allen; First Israelite-James Butler; Second Israelite-James Allen; Israelite Boy-John Brown; Israelites and Officers-Samuel Howard, ThomasBarrow, Robert Denham (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 204).
Cast
Role: Assuerus Actor: James Butler
Role: Persian Officer Actor: James Allen
Role: First Israelite Actor: James Butler
Role: Second Israelite Actor: James Allen

2225
13 February 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Doctor-Rosco; Sir Jasper-Norris; Leander-Stoppelaer; Helebore-Morgan; Davy-Pearce; James-James; Harry-Collett; Dorcas-Mrs Roberts; Charlotte-Miss Wherrit; Maid-Miss Sandham.
Cast
Role: James Actor: James

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; V: French Peasant-de Vallois and Madam Vallois