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We found 13751 matches on Performance Comments, 4403 matches on Performance Title, 1720 matches on Event Comments, 170 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: As17761220, but Clarissa-Miss Ambrose; Tattle-Mrs Poussin.
Cast
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Valois.

Dance: End III: Minuet de la Cour, Allemande-Mr and Mrs Holloway; End IV: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770215; End: a Minuet-Dumay, Sga Tinte; Afterpiece: Rural Dance, as17770121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17760923, but Capt. Brazen-Lee Lewes (1st appearance in that character); Rose (1st time)-Miss Leeson; Lucy-Mrs Poussin.
Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Leeson

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17761123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Miss Jenny Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: St Helena; or, The Isle of Love

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Jefferson, Davies, Waldron, Legg, Kear, Follett, Carpenter, Holcroft, Barrett, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Collett, Mrs Smith, A Lady (1st appearance) [Mrs LeBlanc] (London Magazine, July 1777, p. 377, which states that she acted the part of Emma); [Larpent MS 412 lists the parts: Capt. Haleyard, Mr Trinket, Ned Raymonde, Sam Scupper, Jack Jeers, Mrs Trinket, Leda, Emma, Priscilla.] Prologue-Barrett (in the character of a sailor).

Dance: End II: a Hornpipe, as17770430

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tailors

Performance Comment: Master Tailors: Francisco-Parsons; Regniades-R. Palmer; Campbello-Bannister; Flints: Abrahamides (the Chief)-Palmer; Isaacos-Fearon; Jackides-Jackson; Barnardo-Davis; Dungs: Zacharydes-Egan; Timotheus-Stevens; Tailors' Ladies-Mrs GardnerMrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Jewell; Genest, V, 582 specifies: Tittilinda-Mrs Gardner; Dorothea-Mrs Jewell. Prologue as17770515.

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Performance Comment: As17770513, but Capt. Dormer-Powell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance in London); Miss Dormer-Mrs Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: End I: a new cantata, Diana-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Epilogue: concerto on the violin-Fisher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Foote, Parsons, Fearon, Massey, R. Palmer, Griffiths, Jackson, Bransby, Egan, T. Davis, Stevens, Peirce, Palmer, Mrs Hunter, Miss Hale, Mrs W. Palmer, Mrs Gardner. [Morning Chronicle, 3 June: Sir Matthew Mite-Foote; Mr Mayor-Palmer. Edition of 1778 (T. Cadell), which assigns the cast for season of 1772, lists the other parts: Sir John Oldham, Mr ThomasOldham, Young Oldham, Touchit, Antiquarians, Secretary, Rapine, Nathan, Moses, James and Putty, Conserve, Waiter, Lady Oldham, Sophy, Mrs Match'em, Crocus.] Prologue as17770515. Prologue as17770515.

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-L'Estrange; Sneak-Baker; Bruin-Vowell; Sir Jacob Jollup-Trotter; Crispin Heeltap-Graham; Mob-Roger, Walters, Jefferson, Hubert; Mrs Bruin-Miss Essex; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Russell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Miss Essex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Gregory-Newton; Sir Jasper-Graham; Leander-Vowell; Davy-Baker; James-Walters; Henry-Trotter; Charlotte-Miss Essex; Dorcas-Mrs Symmonds.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Essex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Performance Comment: Don Felix-L'Estrange; Frederick-Vowell; Gibby-Graham; Lissardo-Henry; Don Pedro-Newton; Don Lopez-Trotter; Colonel Briton-G. Graham; Donna Isabella-Mrs Bolingbroke; Flora-Miss Essex; Inis-Mrs Russell; Donna Violante-Mrs Graham.
Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Miss Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Russell; Gayless-Vowell; Justice Guttle-Newton; Beau Trippet-Trotter; Cook-Walters; Kitty-Mrs Russell; Mrs Gadabout-Miss Essex; Melissa-Mrs Bolingbroke.
Cast
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Miss Essex

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Palmer; Old Philpot-Parsons; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Beaufort-Egan; Quildrive-Stevens; Dapper-T. Davis; Corinna-Mrs W. Palmer; Maria-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Farren

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Foote; Young Cape-Aickin; Sprightly-R. Palmer; Vamp-Edwin; Governor Cape-Fearon; Robin-T. Davis; Printer's Devil-Master Hitchcock; Poet-Jackson; Arabella-Miss Platt; Mrs Cadwallader-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Platt

Dance: End: The Merry Lasses, as17770611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17770609 but Nysa-Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Nysa Actor: Miss Twist.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Newton; Cassio-G. Graham; Roderigo-Russell; Brabantio-Graham; Lodovico-Vowell; Duke-Sidney; Montano-Trotter; Iago-Henry; AEmilia-Mrs Graham; Desdemona-Miss Powell.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Miss Powell.

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-G. Graham, Graham, Vowell, Newton, Henry, Walters, Trotter, Baker, Mrs Graham, Miss Essex.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: Leander-Bannister; Pantaloon-Edwin; Colombine-Mrs Hitchcock; Isabel-Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Miss Twist.
Event Comment: [Digges refused to make use of "the too familiar modern manner of speaking blank verse" (London Chronicle, 30 Aug., which also identifies Fotteral, although misspelling his name as "Fotheril").

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Buckingham-Palmer; Cranmer-Younger; Surry-Davies; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Jackson; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Norfolk-T. Davis; Suffolk-Fearon; King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in London [Fotteral]); Anne Bullen-Mrs Colles; Patience (with a song)-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Patience Actor: Miss Twist

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Miss Twist.
Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Miss Farren

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. The Out-standing Tickets of Mr Jewell [from his benefit on 3 Sept.], and those issued for King Richard III will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; Mat o' th' Mint-Griffiths; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Miss Hale; Mrs Peachum, Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs W. Palmer; Polly-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Jackson [Public Advertiser: Massey]; Bruin-Griffiths; Heel@tap-T. Davis; Jerry Sneak-Parsons; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Burden (1st appearance in London these 8 years).
Cast
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Miss Platt

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: New Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Hutton

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Digges. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Morning Post, 7 Oct.: Digges, far advanced in the autumn of his life, wanted that fire which is so indispensable to Macheath. His dress was beyond measure ridiculous, and his songs...discordant and tedious. [His 1st appearance as Macheath was at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 10 Oct. 1752.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Digges (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Peachum-Moody; Lockit-Edwin; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Bradley (1st appearance on this stage); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love (of dl); Polly-Miss Jarratt.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Jarratt.

Afterpiece Title: A Farce and Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Macklin; Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-Wroughton; Gratiano-Lee Lewes; Lorenzo (with songs)-Mattocks; Duke-Fearon; Tubal-Thompson; Launcelot-Quick; Salanio-Booth; Solarino-L'Estrange [Public Advertiser: Davis]; Jessica (with a song)-Miss Dayes; Nerissa-Mrs Lessingham; Portia-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).at this theatre]).
Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Performance Comment: Sir Archy MacSarcasm-Macklin; Squire Groom-Lee Lewes; Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan-Mahon; Mordecai-Quick; Sir Theodore Goodchild-Dunstall; Charlotte-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Ambrose.

Dance: End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770924; End IV: As17771008

Event Comment: Some of the Audience having objected to the Omission of a Scene on Friday night, that Scene will be restored this Evening. [Public Advertiser, 18 Oct., specifies the scene as that of Diana Trapes in Act III, the exclusion of whom "breaks a principal Link in the Chain of the Plot."] Paid Guard [master carpenter] for Scene-men #19 15s. Receipts: #287 16s. (286.8; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performance Comment: Grub-Wilson; Chapeau-Lee Lewes; George Bevil-Whitfield; Consol-Jones; Robin-Wewitzer; H. Bevil-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771001

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Performance Comment: Heartley-Whitfield; Champignon-Wewitzer; Oclabber-Mahon; Maclaymore-Wilson; Lyon-Booth; Brush-Death; Haulyard-Reinhold; Block-Quick; Harriet-Miss Dayes.
Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Dayes.

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Jackson, Miss Besford.

Song: conclude Afterpiece: The Glorious Ninety@Two-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Macklin; Heartfree-Bensley (of dl); Col. Bully (with a song)-Mattocks; Razor-Quick; Justice-Thompson; Taylor-Jones; Lord Rake-Mahon; Constant-Wroughton; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Mattocks; Belinda-Miss Leeson; Mademoiselle-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Brute-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Leeson

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Dayes.

Dance: As17771016

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Performance Comment: Horatius-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Tullus Hostilius-Aickin; Valerius-Brereton; Publius Horatius-Smith; Valeria-Miss Hopkins; Horatia-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Valeria Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Fatima Actor: Miss Collett
Role: Liesbia Actor: Miss Abrams

Music: With a Grand Triumphal Entry of Publius, with theoriginal Music by Boyce-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Don Jerome-Wilson; Antonio-Reinhold; Father Paul-Mahon; Friars-Fox, Baker; Carlos-Leoni; Clara-Miss Brown; The Duenna-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Dayes.

Dance: As17771010

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Performance Comment: As17771027, but song-Miss Dayes.
Cast
Role: song Actor: Miss Dayes.
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Dayes.

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017