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2544 results for: Keyword - Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
We found 1881 matches on Performance Comments, 633 matches on Event Comments, 197 matches on Performance Title, 44 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2426
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

2427
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

2428
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

2429
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

2430
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

2431
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

2432
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

2433
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

2434
01 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Lawrence is identified in European Magazine, Dec. 1785, p. 467, which notes that he "formerly performed in Dr Stratford's Lord Russell [at DL, 20 Aug. 1784]."] Receipts: #137 11s. (89/13/0; 43/17/6; 4/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

2435
13 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid Licenses [from the Lord Chamberlain] for Omai and The Fool #4 4s. Receipts: #274 5s. (273/3; 1/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851112

2436
06 March 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Griffiths, formerly of Drury-Lane Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Tickets delivered by Griffiths for the 27th of February will be taken. Tickets and Places to be had of Griffiths, at the Theatre, every Morning from 10 till 12. Fires are kept to keep the Theatre warm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: After the Imitations, The Dwarf Dance by Powel

Song: Between the acts of mainpiece several Catches and Glees by some of the principal performers in London. imitations. End of mainpiece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Decastro

2437
29 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts and Violin as17860310elections as17860322but Where is this stupendous stranger? [i. e. Verdi prati] by Master Pring; He masbrought as a lamb [i. e. Nel riposo] by Bellamy; Holy Lord God Almighty [i. e. Dove sei] by Miss George; added: When the earth was without form by Arrowsmith; Master Pring as soloist in In sweetest harmony .

Music: End of Part I concerto on the violoncello by Mason

2438
19 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Performance Comment: Don Julio-Benson; Don Caesar-Waldron; Don Vincentio-Wilson; Don Garcia-Hill; Gaspar-Sadler; Vasquez-Watts; Pedro-Price; Don Carlos-Gibbons (who performed JafHer [on 5 July] and Lord Gayville [on 10 July]); Victoria-Mrs Chambers; Minette-Mrs Clarke; Marcella-Miss Phillips; Inis-Mrs Johnston; Laura-Miss Williams; Donna Olivia-Miss Fenton (who performed Belvidera [on 5 July] and Lady Emily [on 10 July]) .on 5 July] and Lady Emily [on 10 July]) .

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: Between the Acts and after the mainpiece, by Price, Miss Phillips, Mrs Clarke

2439
23 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd

Performance Comment: Puff-King; Sneer-Palmer; Dangle-Dodd; Interpreter-Baddeley; Sir Fretful Plagiary-Parsons; Mrs Dangle-Mrs Hopkins; Principal Tragedians-R. Palmer, Fawcett, Waldron, Suett, Wright, Wilson, Chaplin, Phillimore, Bannister Jun., Miss Pope. [Cast of Tragedians adjusted from playbill of 12 Oct. 1781: Earl of Leicester -R. Palmer; Justice -Fawcett; Sir Christopher Hatton -Waldron; Sir Walter Raleigh -Suett; Beefeater -Wright; Constable -Wilson; Lord Burleigh -Chaplin; Governor -Phillimore; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos -Bannister Jun.; Tilburina -Miss Pope.]
Cast
Role: Lord Burleigh Actor: Chaplin

2440
01 November 1786 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Lord Chamberlain sent an order, between four and five in the evening, to the two theatres to cease representing any plays, till after the funeral of the late Princess Amelia [daughter of George II; she died on 31 Oct.] (Morning Chronicle, 2 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2441
08 January 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Harwood, late prompter of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Harwood's respectful compliments to his Friends in particular, and the publick in general, and assures them every effort in his power shall be exerted to render the Evening's Entertainment agreeable, and humbly hopes for their well-known candour and protection on the above occasion. Tickets and Places to be had of Harwood, next door to Drury-Lane Theatre, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Harwood was prompter at dl from 1780 to 1786. Hooke was from cg.] Afterpiece: Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Entertainment: End: a variety of Theatrical and Senatorial Imitations-Kean

2442
12 March 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Griffiths. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had of Griffiths, No. 3, Southampton-buildings, Holborn; at the Royalty Coffee-house, Well Close Square; King's Arms, Leadenhall-street; Band Coffee-house; Sun-tavern, Foster-lane; Grotto, Southampton-buildings; Angel, St. Giles's; Cock and Bottle, Upper Brook-street; Nag's Head, Carnaby-market; One Tun, St. James's Market; Fox's Coffee-house, Bow-street; the Go, the Jump, and the Finish; and of Rice, at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End: This is the life of a frolicksome fellow-the Gentleman who performs Young Dudley; Four@and@twenty fidlers-Simpson

Entertainment: After Singing: Theatrical Imitations, vocal and rhetorical,-Weston (1st appearance on any stage)

2443
26 March 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Entertainment: End: a variety of Imitations-Kelly; Monologue. After which: A Monody on the late Mr Henderson-the Gentleman who performs Zamti

2444
30 April 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Lady Pentweazel sitting for her Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End III: Bow wow wow (from Patrick in Prussia [i.e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm

2445
08 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 (selected From The Great And Favoprite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His commemoration In Westminster Abbeyv, And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784])

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Performance Comment: Public Advertiser, 11 Feb., notes that Pious orgies [Judas Maccabaeus]-Mme Mara; Angels ever bright and fair [Theodora]-Mme Mara; Lord what is man? [Semele]-Mrs Crouch; Verdi prati [Alcina]-Mrs Crouch; Oh had I Jubal's lyre [Joshua]-Miss George; The sword that's drawn [Occasional Oratorio]-Reinhold.

Music: End II: a new concerto on the hautboy-Parke

2446
09 April 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville and Mrs Hunter. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for the 7th and by L'Estrange will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I 3rd piece: Hornpipe-Alison

2447
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

2448
22 December 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Farrer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: Never acted here. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Tickets delivered for Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; Or, The Fall Of Bajazet, Emperor Of The Turks

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: IV: To Thee O Gentle Sleep-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [unidentified])

Entertainment: Monologue End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Jackson

2449
23 February 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman elder.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Song: End: The Noon Tide Airfrom Comus-Mrs Farrer; The Soldier tired of War's Alarms-Mrs Nathan

Entertainment: Monologue. After Singing: A Monody on the Death of the late Mr Henderson (2nd time)-Baker

2450
20 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Fifth Grand Concerto-; Let me wander not unseen-Miss Mahon; And young and old-Chorus (L'Allegro); Music spread thy voice around-Harrison, Chorus (Solomon); O magnify the Lord-Miss Cantelo (Chandos? Athems); May no rash intruder, [the] Nightingale Chorus-(Solomon); Gentle Airs-Harrison (Athalia); O God who in thy heavenly band-Chorus (Joseph); The Prince unable to conceal his Pain-Sga Storace (Alexander's Feast); The King shall rejoice-.
Cast
Role: O magnify the Lord Actor: Miss Cantelo

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Overture-(Ariadne); From wave to wave-Sale; Thy right hand O Lord-Chorus (Israel in Egypt); Pleasure my former ways resigning-Harrison; Happy if still we reign-Chorus (Time and Truth); Pious Orgies-Miss Cantelo [Judas Maccabaeus]; But bright Cecilia-Sga Storace; As from the power of sacre lays-Chorus (Dryden's Ode); God save Great George our King-Greatorex.
Cast
Role: Thy right hand O Lord Actor: Chorus

Music: End II: As17890227; End Part I: Concerto by Handel on organ-Greatorex