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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Master Arne"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Master Arne")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04
3673 results for: Keyword - Master Arne
We found 1477 matches on Performance Comments, 1179 matches on Performance Title, 796 matches on Author, 670 matches on Event Comments, and 171 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
02 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: New Scenes, Dresses, Machinery and other Decorations. Book of the Entertainment to be had at 1s. 6d. at Theatre. A Dramatic Romance by David Garrick, Music composed by Michael Arne. Gave King's Footmen and Chairmen #4 4s.; Queen's ditto; Dukes of York and Gloucester ditto (Treasurer's Book). [A memorandum dated 22 August 1766 (Folger Library, Garrick Album, 520 MS, Cage) explains that Michael Arne was to compose the Music for Cymon, and as compensation shall be intitled to and receive one third part of the profits of the three first nights which the author shall take for his own Benefits." Zachariah Stephens was witness. See 15 Jan. 1767.] Receipts: #196 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Parts by King, Bensley, Parsons, Champness, Fawcett, Fox, Vernon, Mrs Abington, Mrs Baddeley, Miss Plym, Miss Reynolds, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Arne. Prologue and Epilogue. The Dances-Grimaldi, Guidetti, Duquesney, Giorgi, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, Miss Collet; Cymon-Vernon; Linco-King; Merlin (Enchanter)-Bensley; Dorus-Parsons; Damon and Dorilas-Fawcett, Fox; Demon of Revenge-Champness; Sylvia-Mrs Arne; Urganda (Enchantress)-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Abington; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; 1st shepherdess-Miss Reynolds; 2nd Shepherdess-Miss Plym; Cupid-Miss Rogers; Parts-Mrs Dorman; Prologue for New Year's Day-King; Epilogue (by George Keate)-Mrs Abington (Edition of 1767).
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Arne
Related Works
Related Work: Cymon Author(s): Michael Arne

77
17 March 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Serenata: Composed by the late Dr Arne, with Alterations and additional Chorusses from the Doctor's own Manuscripts. Books of the Serenata to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Arrowsmith, Angier, Wilson; Mrs Arne, Mrs Barthelemon. [Cast from libretto (Harrison and Co., 1784): Genius of England-Arrowsmith; Neptune-Angier; Triton and Shepherd-Wilson; Britannia-Mrs Arne; Liberty-Mrs Barthelemon.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Mrs Arne
Related Works
Related Work: Eliza Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Music: As17840303athi

78
28 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow-Castle, and now adapted to the Stage. The Musick compos'd by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Milward; Younger Brother-Wright; 1st Spirit-Mills; 2d Spirit-Cashell; Lady-Mrs Mills; Euphrocine-Mrs Clive; Bacchanal-Beard; Sabrina-Mrs Arne; With the Dances-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Davenport, Cook, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois.
Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Mrs Arne
Role: With the Dances Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Davenport, Cook, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

79
12 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Music compos'd by Arne. Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Delane; Elder Brother-Milward; Younger Brother-Havard; 1st Spirit-Mills; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Lady-Mrs Mills; Euphrosene-Mrs Clive; Bacchanal-Beard; Sabrina-Mrs Arne; The Dances-M Mechell, Mlle Mechell, Desse, Mrs Walter, Dumont, Leviez, Baudouin, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Rayner, Miss Story.
Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Mrs Arne
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

80
14 January 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Music by Dr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Delane; 1st Spirit-Mills; Nymph, Sabrina-Mrs Arne, 1st Appearance in England for three years; Lady (with the song of Sweet Echo)-Mrs Cibber; Elder Brother-Giffard; Younger Brother-Havard; 2nd Spirit-Woodburn; Euphrosyne-Miss Young; Bacchanal-Lowe; The Dance-Muilment, Sga Bettini, Baudouin, Shawford, Pelling, Miles, Miss Story, Mrs Miles, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Annesley.
Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Mrs Arne, 1st Appearance in England for three years
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

81
15 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: fterpiece by William Shirley; music by Arne.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: King Pepin's Campaign

Performance Comment: King Pepin-Lowe; Puff (a Degraded Field Marshall)-Waltz; Constable of France-Blakes; Lady Abbess-Mrs Sybilla; Nun-Miss Young; Margaret-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Arne.
Related Works
Related Work: King Pepin's Campaign Author(s): Thomas Arne

82
03 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: New Pantomime with Songs by Dr Arne; Scenes in Scotland; background of defeat of the rebellion (Biographia Dramatica). Scenes and Decorations New. No persons can be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Incendiary; or, Colombine Cameron

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Miser-Collins; Carlos-Blakes; Pope-Bibby; Magistrate-I. Sparks; Beau-Liviez; Colombine (with proper songs)-Mrs Clive; Highlander-Winstone; Scotch Servant-Barrington; Thirsis, a Volunteer-Lowe; Amoret-Miss Edwards; With Proper Dances (Scotch and other)-Muilment, the Mechels, Desse, Roger, Shawford, Miles; Victory-Mrs Arne; Fame-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Victory Actor: Mrs Arne
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Incendiary; or, Colombine Cameron Author(s): Thomas Arne

83
24 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 2nd piece: Not acted for more than 20 years [acted 14 May 1782]. The Dialogue by Garrick and King. The Music by Michael Arne and Vernon. Tickets delivered for Friday May 5 [for which day the benefit was first announcedP will be admitted. True Briton, 6 May: Tickets to be had of King, No. 56, New Store-street, Bedford-Square. Receipts: #290 9s. 6d. (111.5.6; 58.4.6; 4.16.0; tickets: 116.3.6) (charge: #211 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Performance Comment: Linco-King; Dorcas-Mrs Maddocks; Arcadians-Maddocks, Cooke, Evans, Phillimore, Welsh, Trueman, Wentworth, Ms Arne, Ms Wentworth, Ms Granger, Ms Butler, Ms Hale, Ms Stuart.
Cast
Role: Arcadians Actor: Maddocks, Cooke, Evans, Phillimore, Welsh, Trueman, Wentworth, Ms Arne, Ms Wentworth, Ms Granger, Ms Butler, Ms Hale, Ms Stuart.
Related Works
Related Work: Linco's Travels Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Master Welsh

Entertainment: Monologue. End I: Kitty Conolly and Jack the Painter (Very lately Versified, and never before presented to the Public)-King

84
21 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to The French Dancing Master, and there with much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see her look dejectedly and slighted by People already. The play pleased us [Pepys and Mrs Pepys] very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Performance Comment: [For authorship, see16610311@2.] Dancing Master-Lacy.
Cast
Role: Dancing Master Actor: Lacy.

85
11 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also The Variety, in Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 149-51; and James Shirley's The Ball; or, French Dancing Master, in Bentley, V, 1079. See also 10 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Performance Comment: [The Variety? by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.] Dancing Master-Lacy?. See16620521.
Cast
Role: Dancing Master Actor: Lacy?. See16620521.

86
26 March 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Downes (p. 30): This Comedy in general was very well Perform'd. Pepys, Diary: I alone to the Duke of York's house, to see the new play, called The Man is the Master, where the house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife and Deb. being there before, with Mrs Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner, whom my Wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. apiece. By and by the King come; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the play. The play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, but not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W. Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though there was here and there something Pretty: but the most of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and the epilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by Harris and another in the form of a ballet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Performance Comment: Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue in a Ballad-Two; [Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 30): Master-Harris; The Man-Underhill; Singing the Epilogue [like two Street Ballad-Singers-Mr Harris, Mr Sandford. [According to the Catalogue of the MS Music, Christ Church, John Bannister set a song for this play.]According to the Catalogue of the MS Music, Christ Church, John Bannister set a song for this play.]
Cast
Role: Master Actor: Harris

87
04 May 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the Editor of Shakespear. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the Antient and Honourable Society of the Free and Accepted Masons. N.B. By Appointment of the Grand Master, the Brethren are desir'd to meet at the Castle Tavern, Drury-Lane, cloath'd; thence to go in Procession, as usual, to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Young Master Oates. II: A new Comic Dance by Master Oates and Miss Oates Jr. V: Grand Dance of Momus, as17340426

Performance Comment: II: A new Comic Dance by Master Oates and Miss Oates Jr. V: Grand Dance of Momus, as17340426.

Song: The usual Songs, adapted to the Subject of Masonry. II: The Enter'd Prentice's Song. IV: On, On, my dear Brethren. V: Let Matrimony be now my Theme

88
09 March 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Arne who never yet appeared in public
Role: 1st Angel Actor: Master Arne
Role: Rosamond Actor: Miss Arne

89
14 March 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Arne who never yet appeared in public
Role: 1st Angel Actor: Master Arne
Role: Rosamond Actor: Miss Arne

90
16 March 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Arne who never yet appeared in public
Role: 1st Angel Actor: Master Arne
Role: Rosamond Actor: Miss Arne

91
06 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17330604

92
08 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17330604

93
11 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: Jones

94
13 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: Jones

95
15 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: Jones

96
18 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: Jones

97
20 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17330615

98
22 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17330615

99
25 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17330615

100
27 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Arne
Role: Cupid Actor: Master Arne