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2223 results for: Keyword - Lord Littleton
We found 1674 matches on Performance Comments, 568 matches on Event Comments, 109 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 4 matches on Roles/Actors.

1876
18 March 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Corbett. [Luttrell, 21 March, states: "This being Passion week, there was a new opera acted last Monday at the old playhouse, which her majestie being informed of resented the same, and ordered the lord chamberlain to suffer no more till after Easter Sunday" (VI, 29). There is no known advertisement of the performance to which Luttrell refers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental music-the best Masters and Voices; with pieces for trumpet and violins composed by William Corbett-

1877
31 December 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [An order of this date by the Lord Chamberlain restricted the queen's to operas, Drury Lane to plays; the change became effective after 10 Jan. 1708.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Ballance Actor: Keene
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Plume Actor: Wilks
Role: Brazen Actor: Cibber
Role: Kite Actor: Fairbank
Role: Bullock Actor: Bullock
Role: Pearmain Actor: Norris
Role: Appletree Actor: Young Bullock
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Rogers.

1878
17 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. [According to Ch. Dering, it was "acted expressly for Lord Marlborough." See Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Cast
Role: Camilla Actor: Mrs Tofts.
Role: Prenesto Actor: Nicolini.

1879
07 June 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Announced but not given. On 6 June the Lord Chamberlain silenced Drury Lane because of its failure to obey an order issued earlier which forbade the deduction of more than #40 from the receipts at a benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

1880
23 July 1715 @ Great Room

Event Comment: Benefit Castrucci, who came lately over from Italy with the Lord Burlington. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; [In which Castrucci] will perform several Solos on the Violin-Castrucci[, intirely New

1881
06 December 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Cibber; Henry VI-Wilks; Buckingham-Mills; Queen-Mrs Porter. Edition of 1718 adds: Prince Edward-$Norris Jr; Duke of York-$Miss Lindar; Richmond-$Ryan; Norfolk-$Boman Sr; Ratcliff-$Oates; Catesby-$Diggs; Tressel-$W. Wilks; Oxford-$Boman Jr; Lieutenant-$Quin; Blunt-$Wright; Lord Mayor-$Miller; Tyrrel-$Weller; Forrest-$Wilson; Dighton-$Higginson; Lady Anne-$Mrs Horton; Duchess of York-$Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Cibber
Role: Henry VI Actor: Wilks
Role: Buckingham Actor: Mills
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Porter. Edition of 1718 adds: Prince Edward-Norris Jr
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Norris Jr
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Lindar
Role: Richmond Actor: Ryan
Role: Norfolk Actor: Boman Sr
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Oates
Role: Catesby Actor: Diggs
Role: Tressel Actor: W. Wilks
Role: Oxford Actor: Boman Jr
Role: Lieutenant Actor: Quin
Role: Blunt Actor: Wright
Role: Lord Mayor Actor: Miller
Role: Tyrrel Actor: Weller
Role: Forrest Actor: Wilson
Role: Dighton Actor: Higginson
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Baker.

1882
23 April 1717 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 27 April: Last Tuesday Night Phormio, a Play out of Terence, was acted by the King's Scholars at Westminster, where were present several Lords and other Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

1883
12 September 1717 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 14 Sept.: On Thursday...Mr Bullock and Mr Leigh were taken out of their Booth in Southwark, as we hear, upon an Information against them; but being carried before the Lord Mayor, they were releas'd upon Bail

Performances

1884
23 September 1718 @ Hampton Court

Event Comment: Steele wrote a Prologue for the opening, but the Lord Chamberlain had already engaged one by Tickell. For Steele's Prologue, see Blanchard, Occasional Verse of Richard Steele, p. 49: for Tickell's, see R. E. Tickell, pp. 231-32. Original Weekly Journal, 27 Sept.: His Majesty beheld the Performance with much Satisfaction. The young Princesses were present, and a very great Concourse of Nobility and Gentry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: ThomasTickell Actor: .

1885
09 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Mrs Moore. On this day a warrant for establishing an Academy of Music was issued. See Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 and 5@157, p. 228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Song: Ray

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow, Wade, Mrs Bicknell, Topham, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar

Music: A new Piece for the Ecchoe Flute-Paisible

1886
27 November 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music initiated arrangements for a new season. For details, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3, Nicoll, p. 286, and Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

1887
30 November 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

1888
02 December 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, Handel, p. 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1889
19 December 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Performance Comment: See17191211 [Cibber's role was presumably read this evening, for he had been silenced by the Lord Chamberlain.]

Song: As17191003

1890
23 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 Jan.: On Saturday Night, after the Actors...had perform'd the Maid's Tragedy, a Proclamation was made upon the Stage from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, signifying that it was his Majesty's Pleasure to suspend for the present any more Acting at that House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Melantius Actor: Booth
Role: Amintor Actor: Wilks
Role: Caliana Actor: Penkethman
Role: Evadne Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Aspatia Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Song: As17191003

1891
02 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Boxes and Pit by tickets only at half a guinea. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [An order of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 284, directs the managers not to allow any benefit before those for Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

1892
16 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 287: I do hereby Order and direct that Mr Gay s Pastorall Tragedy be imediately Acted after Mr Hugh's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

1893
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

Cast
Role: Muzio Actor: Francesco Bernardo , called Senesino
Role: Orazio Actor: Matteo Berselli
Role: Larte Porsena Actor: Boschi
Role: Lucio Tarquinio Actor: Signora Galerati
Role: Clelia Actor: Signora Marg. Durastanti
Role: Irene Actor: Mrs Anastasia Robinson
Role: Fidalma Actor: Signora Madalena Salvai.

1894
14 April 1722 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: London Journal, 21 April: The Scholars of Mr Weston...performed the Play of Tamerlane...before the Lords of the Admiralty, with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

1895
05 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Theophilus Cibber.] Alter'd from Shakespear. Containing the Marriages of King Edward the Fourth , and young Prince Edward , with Lady Gray , and Lady Anne . The Distresses of Queen Margaret . The Deposing King Henry the Sixth . The Battles Fought at St. Albans, Wakefield, Mortimer's-Cross, and Tewkesbury. The Deaths of Lord Clifford of Cumberland , and his Son, the Duke of York , his Steward. And many other True Historical Passages

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Tragedy Of The Civil Wars Between The Houses Of York And Lancaster In The Reign Of King Henry The Vith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Roberts
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Old Clifford Actor: Boman
Role: Young Clifford Actor: Wilks Jr
Role: York Actor: Savage
Role: Edward Actor: Oates
Role: George Actor: Parlour
Role: Richard Actor: Wilson
Role: Warwick Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Queen Margaret Actor: Mrs Campbell
Role: Lady Grey Actor: Mrs Seal
Role: Lady Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Davison
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Brett
Role: Prologue Actor: Th. Cibber.

1896
19 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

1897
20 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

1898
25 February 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: RRich's Register: No Play by reason of a great Fire yesterday at my Lord Cardigans House being next door to the Theatre

Performances

1899
02 May 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Hulett; Tamerlane-Smith; Moneses-Gillow; Axalla-Williams; Dervise-Machen; Omar-Giffard; Prince of Tanais-Downes; Arpasia-Mrs Purden; Selima-Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland; To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from the Lord Viscount Flame to the Mufti of Terra@Australis@Incognita repeated-Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.
Cast
Role: Bajazet Actor: Hulett
Role: Tamerlane Actor: Smith
Role: Moneses Actor: Gillow
Role: Axalla Actor: Williams
Role: Dervise Actor: Machen
Role: Omar Actor: Giffard
Role: Prince of Tanais Actor: Downes
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland
Role: To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from Actor: Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.

Dance:

1900
01 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. [The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, Lord Charles Cavendish, and Colonel Schutz, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Morelove Actor: Mills
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Wilks
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Edging Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda