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7228 results for: Keyword - Lady Portsmouth
We found 4902 matches on Performance Comments, 2484 matches on Event Comments, 545 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6901
01 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

6902
09 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell, Sg Piettro, and Mr Oswald, as well as those for Lady Jane Gray will be taken. Receipts: #128 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

6903
15 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Provincial Dance, as17520314

6904
20 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

6905
27 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6906
05 May 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

6907
16 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Proclamation: Southwark

Performance Comment: Whereas the Fair, called Lady Fair, in this Borough, is by charter appointed to be held the seventh, eighth, and ninth days of September O.S. yearly, w ll this year begin, and holden this day the 16th day of September, N.S. occasioned by the alteration of the Stile, and continued the two following days, to wit the 19th and 20th and no longer. And whereas the said Fair hath for several years past been continued against Law, for a longer time than the said three days, contrary to the institution thereof, whereby divers Riots, and other Disorders have been committed in breach of His Majesty's peace; for preventing of which misdemeanors and abuses it is thought fit and needful to give this Publick notice that if any persons do presume to keep open any Booth, Shed, or other Building, or permit and further any Stall, or Stand to be and remain before their Door longer than the said 18th, 19th, and 20th days of September NS, with intent to prolong said Fair, and put to sale there goods and wares, or shall act and exhibit any Droll or Show, or foster to be acted and exhibited in any Booth or Dwelling house any Droll, or Show, or other Entertainment of the Stage, or shall play at, or encourage any sort of gaming contrary to the Laws and Statutes of his realm; such person or persons so offending will be prosecuted and punished according to the Law (General Advertiser, 16, 18, 19, 20, Sept. 1752).

6908
17 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

6909
26 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore, as17521122

6910
13 March 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory Concert

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Role: Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt Actor: Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.

Dance: Dancing in the old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timbertoe

6911
20 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Devisse, Ferrere, Mlle Auretti

6912
22 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

6913
02 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

6914
24 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216

6915
12 May 1753 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: In which will be introduced a new solemn dirge- in honor of the heroes who die in the service of their country

6916
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, To begin at Twelve noon during the time of the Fair. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Upper seats 6d. [For security Phillips has erected no Gallery. Presumably the Patent Theatres were demanding more rigid enforcement of the Licensing Act as indicated in the notice from the Daily Advertiser 18 Sept.: Whereas the Fair called Lady Fair...in the Borough of Southwark...any person or persons..who person..(who ) shall act and exhibit any Droll or Shew (after 20 Sept.) shall be prosecuted and punished according to Law.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave; Or, A Wife For Ye All

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

6917
10 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6918
13 November 1753 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nerone

6919
10 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Woman (one Gregory) did Hermione , -Great Applause (Cross). [See Gray's Inn Journal (folio) No 16 for Murphy's praise of her, and Public Advertiser 19 Jan.: Verses on the Young Lady who acted Hermione.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: GGipsey Tambourine, as17531012

6920
21 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Studente A La Moda

Dance: As17540118

6921
04 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

6922
23 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210

6923
13 August 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540808

6924
18 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'arcadia In Brenta

6925
09 December 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Famiglia De Bertholdi, Alla Corte Del Re Alboino

Dance: [Unspecified.]