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4679 results for: Keyword - MMr W. Palmer
We found 4633 matches on Performance Comments, 656 matches on Event Comments, 83 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

401
27 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Foote interrupted in ye Prologue by a Drunk: Gent-nothing (Cross). Afterpiece: Published at 1s. by Foote. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Bellmour Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

402
26 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick better in his health (Cross). [Gray's Inn Journal contained this day two full pages of satiric comment upon pantomimes inprogress at both houses, nothing Blakes' entrance in Fortunatus with a hare and a brace of partriges, and Cook's use of a hare and a gun at Covent Garden, as encouragements to poaching and in violation of the game laws.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Salisbury Actor: Palmer

Music: As17540123

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auguste

403
18 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Benefit tho not in ye bills. Mainpiece by Particular Desire (Cross). Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Bastard Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

404
06 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Devisse has Tickets (Cross). Last till Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Myrtle Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: By Particular Desire. The Louvre and Minuet-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

405
20 January 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Night for ye Pantomime. Receipts: #205 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

406
21 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Leveridge dy'd aged 95 he had left ye Stage some years (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

407
27 May 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick made a Speech and so Ended the Season (Cross). Books of the Masque sold at the Theatre. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

408
28 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Holland did Eumenes-Great Applause ($Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

409
03 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Vernon, in Garcia, tho not meddled with in the 1st Act was in the 5 hiss'd off, on account of the old affair of his Marriage--an Epilogue was spoke to ye farce by Mrs Clive--(Indiff) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

410
31 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Draper (bookseller) dy'd of an Apoplexy (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

411
14 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Benefit (Cross). Receipts: #212 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: NNew Comic Dance, as17560205

412
25 March 1756 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Barbaut's Second Subscription Oratorio, taken from the First Book of Milton's Paradise Regained and set to music by Mr Charles Barbant in two parts with a solo upon the Violin by Signor Marella; a solo upon the German Flute by Mr Tacet; a Concerto on the Lute by Mr Servi?; a Hautboy concert by Mr Barbant; and an organ concerto ditto; and a Great Concerto with Clarinets, French Horns and Kettle-Drums, composed by Mr Barbant. Boxes and Pit put together at Half a Guinea each, Gallery 3s. Tickets to be had at Mr Barbant's, at Mr White's in Marshall St., Carnaby-Market; and at Mr Browne's Stationer [sic], facing the Opera House, Haymarket. To begin at half an Hour after six. N.B. the Books of the Oratorios stitched in Blue Paper at 1s. each are sold at Mrs Browne's [sic] in the Haymarket, and at the House on the night of the performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratorio From First Book Of Paradise Regained

413
01 April 1756 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Barbandt's Third and Last Subscription Oratorio. [Pope's poem set by Charles Barbandt in two parts, with solos interspersed: violin, flute, Lute, Frenchhorn, hautboy, and Organ.] Books of the Oratorio stitch'd in blue paper at 1s. each sold at Mrs Browne's in the Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Prayer

414
17 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Mossop Osmin ye 1st time (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

415
12 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Night for ye Pantomime (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Wellbred Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

416
28 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Vernon play'd his Wife's part & was well receiv'd (Cross). [The Public Advertiser, however, carried her name in the play notice.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

417
28 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Austin did Aboan (Cross). Third time of his appearing on this stage (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

418
15 October 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Foote Play'd (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross). [The Theatrical Review, 1757-58, p. 48, comments on the afterpiece]: I read the farce before I could see it performed; the judgment I then passed on it was not in its favor, and the exhibition did not make any material alteration in my way of thinking. I laughed indeed much more than I had done in reading it, but on recollection I was not a little displeased to find that I was laughing at an individual not at a species

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Author

419
31 October 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward was taken ill, & Mr Yates his part of Lucio, & Mr Rooker did the Harl: (all well) a Disturbance was design'd by the officers occasion'd by a new Scene (which no Effect) about a Captain being in Leading strings, but we left it out & all was Quiet (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

420
07 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward continuing ill Vernon did his Part-(all right) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

421
24 December 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Cibber having obtained Leave to act Plays, etc. at the Theatre in the Haymarket, humbly solicits Subscription, from his Patrons among the nobility, Gentry, etc. @Conditions. Each Subscriber will have@for Five Guineas 25 Box, or 40 Pit Tickets@for four Guineas 20 Box, or 32 Pit Tickets@for three Guineas 15 Box, or 24 Pit Tickets@for two Guineas 10 Box, or 16 Pit Tickets@for one Guinea 5 Box, or 8 Pit Tickets@for Half a Guinea 4 Pit Tickets or 6 Gallery@ Subscription Tickets will be taken any Night of the first Ten Performances. No Subscriptions will be received after Thursday 1 Jan. 1758, the first Day of Performance. The Play, Farce, and Entertainments will be timely mentioned in the Bills, Advertisements, &c

Performances

422
25 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Mossop having receiv'd a letter from several Upholsterers, takes this method of acquainting the Writer, that he shall be very ready to give full Explanation with respect to the contents, upon receiving notice how he may convey an answer; but he must beg leave to decline any further reply in the Public Papers, being unwilling to treat seriously what very possibly may have been intended only as a joke (Public Advertiser)

Performances

423
13 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Fleetwood in ye fight with Paris in ye last Act, having a Sword by his Side instead of a Foil, run Mr Austin (Paris) into the belly, he lay some time but at last call'd to be taken off--a Surgeon was sent for--No harm, a Small Wound, & he is recover'd (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #153 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Mercutio Actor: Palmer

Dance: TThe Millers, as17581012

424
29 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram (our Painter) dy'd-a worhty honest Man (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #147 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Garrick, Sir George-Palmer
Role: Sir George Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Trappolin Actor: Palmer.

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

425
01 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram buried at St. Martins (Cross). [This year was translated and published Rousseau's Letter to M D'Alembert (Preface and 190 pp.) on the effect of dramatic entertainments on mankind. Thesis: Aim of the stage is to amuse; authors succeed when they follow the whims of the public. "Let us not then attribute to the stage a power of changing opinions or manners, when it is only that of following or heightening them."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #129 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Mossop, Yates, Palmer, Burton, Holland, O'Brien, Philips, Mozeen, Ackman, Vaughan, Clough, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard, Miss Pritchard, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin