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2237 results for: Keyword - Lord Craven
We found 1668 matches on Performance Comments, 595 matches on Event Comments, 108 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2101
17 April 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Leonard Macnally; words to some of the songs by Edward Lysaght]: With new Music, Scenes and Dresses. The Music composed by Shield [with selections from Sacchini, Bertoni, Lord Mornington, &c. (Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.); overture by Baumgarten, being the same as that used by him in William and Nanny at CG, 12 Nov. 1779 (Town and Country Magazine, Apr. 1784, p. 171)]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Oct. 1784: This Day is published by J. Almon Robin Hood [listing cast for season of 1784-85] (1s. 6d.). [In the season of 1789-90 this was reduced to an afterpiece of 2 acts.] Receipts: #206 4s. (204/3; 2/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Dance: End of mainpiece a New Dance by Le Bccuf and Mlle Constance (from the King's Theatre in Paris; 1st appearance)

2102
30 April 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Delpini. The Band from the Opera-house. Play: In 3 acts [i.e. reduced from the original 5]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: End of Act I a new pantomimical, operatical, farcical interlude, The Peasant Metamorphosed; or, Delpini's Voyage from Dublin in an Air Balloon, in which Delpini will introduce a specimen of singing in French, Italian and English, and which will conclude with a new Hornpipe by the celebrated Blake (by permission of the Managers of the Opera-house; his 1st appearance on that stage); End of Act II a comic pantomime dance, The Country Squabble, by Delpini, Mrs Dagville, Miss Parish, Duquesney Jun.; End of play a new pantomimical dance, The Rival Clowns, by Delpini, Blake, &c, in which the famous rondo of Orpheo, in Italian, by Delpini, and to conclude with an Allemande in a new comic stile

Song: End of Acts II and III, by a Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

2103
03 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: A Pasticcio

Cast
Role: Lord Hartwell Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Performance Comment: Trappolin (an Usurper transformed by Magic to the Duke of Florence)-Palmer; Brunetto (Prince of Savoy)-R. Palmer; Barbarino and Alberto (Lords and Counsellors to the Duke)-Wilson and Phillimore; Officer-Spencer; Captain of the Guards-Alfred; Count Gulcardi (under the Character of Magosa Magician)-Wrighten; Puritan-Suett; Mason-Fawcett; Whip (the Coachman)-Chaplin; Jailer-Kenny; Supernatural Agents, Attendants upon Trappolin: Eo-Master Whitty; Meo-Master Purser; and Little Fred-Master J. Whitty; Lavinio (the Grand Duke of Tuscany)-Staunton; Officer's Widow-Mrs Love; Old Woman-Mrs Booth; Flametta (Mistress to Trappolin)-Miss Barnes; Prudentia (sister to the Duke)-Miss Tidswell; Isabella (Duchess of Tuscany)-Mrs Hedges .

2104
16 November 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece and afterpiece: Never performed here. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for the 9th will be admitted. The excellency of the Play and Farce are so universally acknowledged that any comment would be impertinent; but the director of the evening's entertainment entreats [sic] the publick to be assured that it shall be conducted with every possible degree of propriety and decorum; that the performers are respectable, and their abilities such as he trusts will merit their approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Affrighted Dwarf, with a whimsical Transformation into Mad Moll (performers not listed)

Monologue: 1784 11 16 End of Act IV of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Cross

2105
13 December 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Dighton. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Fairbrother. vaudeville. End of mainpiece a Scene in a Sporting Club, in which a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical [performers not listed]

2106
24 January 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Raeburn, Stewart and Rae. Mainpiece: In its original state. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Prologue. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre; and tickets to be had at Rae's, No. 4, Wardour-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: The Double Amour

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece the Sbeep shearing Song [Come, come, my good shepherds] by Mrs Raeburn; End of mainpiece, by Permission of the Caledonian Society, their Constitution Song, set to music by an eminent Master, by a Gentleman [unidentified]. imitations. Following 2nd song, a variety of Imitations by a Gentleman who performed for Bannister's Benefit [on 26 Aug. 1784], and others, with universal applause, being his 4th appearance [Kean]

2107
31 January 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [Author and speaker of Prologue unknown.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles I

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera (Last Act only)

Dance: In afterpiece a Hornpipe by Middleton. IMITATIONS. End of mainpiece a variety of new Imitations by a Gentleman [probably Kean (see17850124)]. VAUDEVILLE. After the Imitations A Comic Sketch of the Times by Ryder, Greville, Mrs Hudson; and Bucks have at ye All by Cross

2108
07 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. Subscription tickets [for 5 nights] to be had of Weltje, confectioner, St. James's-street, and of Rice at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2109
10 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, author unknown. MS: Larpent 651; not published]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre; and Tickets to be had of Mrs Williams, the Artificial Flower Warehouse, Store-street, Bedford-square. [Mrs Williams is identified in Morning Post, 11 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

2110
12 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [In 1st piece the cast is not listed; for Decastro's performance in it see his Memoirs, 1824, p. 38.] 3rd piece [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. MS: Larpent 690; not published]: A Commutation Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

2111
21 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: 1st ballet with a Dance by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; to conclude with a Comic Allemande by Baptist, Mme Dagville, Delpini. vaudeville. End of 1st ballet Imitations as17850207, with several Deceptions, with Cards, by Baptist, Interpreter to Pinetti

2112
23 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: Between the Acts an organ concerto (composed by Dr Arne) by [Michael] Arne

2113
24 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Miss Woollery. [Author and speaker of Prologue unknown.] The characters to be new dressed, in the habits of the times. Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster. The Doors be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

2114
28 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: With Dance and Allemande, as17850221 imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207, with a concert on the flute by Monzani

2115
07 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850228

2116
14 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850228

2117
15 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Pinto, formerly Miss Brett [recte Brent]. Afterpiece: With an additional scene, written by the author of the farce [Isaac Jackman], never performed in London. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin precisely at 6:30. Tickets to be had of Mrs Pinto at Mrs Golden's, milliner, Blackmoor-street, Clare-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford (of CG)

Monologue: 1785 03 15 End of mainpiece Shuter's Post-haste Observations in a journey to Paris by Dutton

2118
08 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain (but this notice does not appear on the playbill)]. Benefit for Miss Llewellin. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. Tickets delivered for Monday the 24th, and Thursday the 7th of April will be admitted. Miss Llewellin is the daughter of a late eminent and respectable Merchant in one of our neighbouring islands, whose family have been great sufferers by the late war, and is left with two sisters, orphans. She solicits the patronage of a generous publick for that night only. Tickets to be had of Miss Llewellin, No. 204, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

2119
11 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850214

2120
15 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. 1st piece: With a Kitchen Scene. [The new pantomime is identified in Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. The same newspaper on 2 Apr. states that it was the same as that produced at DL for Delpini's benefit in 1782 [10 May].]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime [don Juan]

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2121
18 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2122
26 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Greville, No. 1, Queen's-court, King-street, Covent-garden. [This was Mrs Pinto's last appearance on the stage (but see 12 May 1786).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Mrs Pinto

Monologue: 1785 04 26 End of Act II of mainpiece Collins's Ode on the Passions by Mrs Walcot. imitations. End of Act I of afterpiece, as 17 Sept. 1784, but An entire new dialogue in the Shades between Foote and Weston; added: Prospero (in the manner of Mossop); omitted: Prologue to Barbarossa

2123
29 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End of pantomime The Devonshire Minuet by the two Miss Simonets. Imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

2124
01 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [1st and 2nd pieces in place of Lord Russel, the Manager in Distress and The Son-in-Law, all three announced on playbill of 31 May.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of 1st piece Divertissement by Byrne, Master Giorgi, Miss Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

2125
16 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where