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We found 14174 matches on Performance Comments, 4592 matches on Performance Title, 1881 matches on Event Comments, 211 matches on Author, and 41 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taylors

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Entertainment: BBuilder's Prologue-, by Desire, as17670529

Dance: Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

Dance: Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: End: Charles Gondorff, a Hungarian. He mimicks three Voices at one and the same time-Charles Gondorff ,to wit the natural sound of the Base, the Bassoon and Flagolet (the latter has the sound of a small organ) all which is performed without the least movement of the lips

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Cast
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: None

Cast
Role: Catharine Actor: Miss Pope, 1st time

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

Performance Comment: Cape=, Miss Taylor.]
Event Comment: MMiss Morris was a pupil of Mr Colman's--She was very much approved by the public in the character of Juliet. On the sixth night of her appearance on the stage she was taken ill, and died before the end of this season. See the Bill for her Benefit (Hopkins MS Notes). Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 19 May 1762.] [The Occasional Prologue, by Colman, is Larpent MS 288, which introduces Miss Morris as Juliet, and stresses the qualms and fears of a new performer.] Receipts: #227 19s. 6d. (Account Book). Lloyd's Evening Post, 28-30 Nov.: Sir: The managers of both theatres have of late, in order to put a stop to the Public complaint against a dearth of actors, given trials to several stage candidates that seemed to have any promising requisite. Such experiments have not proved fruitless. The most brilliant and interesting of which was the young lady's appearance on Covent Garden Theatre last night, in the character of Juliet. So great was her terror, on presenting herself for the first time before a crowded audience, that, deprived of all her powers, she fell down on the stage in a swoon. The first act in consequence, was all terror on her side, all compassion and anxiety on that of the audience. But having had time between the first and second Acts to recover from her panic, she shone forth in the Balcony Scene the most pleasing promise of a young tragic actress that has been seen for half a century past, and continued so throughout. Her person is genteel, her tone of voice insinuating, variable, and melodious; her recitation is just and sensible; very affecting in the pathetic parts; condescending, free, and polite are the familiar speeches with the Nurse. She is happily devoid of all stage whine, and tragedy Cant. The manner she has been rudimented in does great honour to her instructors, who have so judiciously prevented the so excellent actor of this verily a Shakespeare's Juliet, from being sophisticated by the studied tricks, and false ornamenting of mistaken modern and degenerate art

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17680926, but Tibalt-Mahon; Escalus-Gardner; Juliet-a young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage [Miss Morris]; [With a New Occasional Prologue-Powell.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: End: Hippisley's Drunken Man with additions and Alterations-Shuter

Dance: TThe Tambourine, as17700501

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For Dotage

Song: Miss Catley

Event Comment: Mrs Smith Polly (first time) very well (Hopkins Diary). Paid Salary list #513 17s. 6d.; Miss Mansell and Mr Dimon 5 guineas each per order, #10 10s.; Mr Clinch ditt, #5 5s.; Rec'd stopages #20 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023; II: Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville

Performance Comment: Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [Miss Smith is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Wou'dbe-Wroughton; Young Wou'dbe-Lee Lewes; Richmore-Whitefield; Teague-Egan; Alderman-Dunstall; Fairbank-Fearon; Clearaccount-L'Estrange; Poet-Jones; Subtleman-Wewitzer; Balderdash-Booth; Trueman-Lewis; Constance-Mrs Jackson; Mrs Clearaccount-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Aurelia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Smith]).Miss Smith]).

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [Mrs Sage is identified in Morning Chronicle, 27 Apr.] On account of Miss Catley's Indisposition Comus [announced on playbill of 26 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred. Paid Atkins, coal merchant, #33 12s. 6d. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks, Great Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 5s. 6d. (153.13.6; tickets: 39.12.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Song: As17791018Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems

Performance Comment: Wilson, Baker, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Books of the Songs, with Miss Harper's Additional Airs, to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Massey, Wewitzer, R. Palmer, Egan, Stevens, Edwin; Miss Harper (with several additional airs). [For assignment of parts sec 27 Aug.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820606

Event Comment: Tickets to be had and Places [for the boxes] to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. New Lady's Magazine, Mar 1786, p. 110: performance under the direction of Dr Arnold, who conducted from the organ. I know that my redeemer liveth sung by Miss George; He was despised and rejected by Master Pring; How beautiful are the feet by Mrs Forster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts by Bellamy, Arrowsmith, Carter, Master Pring; Mrs Forster, Miss George .
Event Comment: Benefit for Browne. [Miss Eccles, who was from the York theatre, is identified in European Magazine, July 1787, p. 64.] Public Advertiser, 16 July: Tickets to be had of Browne, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Browne; Priuli-Aickin; Renault-Gardner; Bedamar-R. Palmer; Duke-Usher; Spinosa-Lawrence; Elliot-Swords; Officer-Johnson; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Eccles]).Miss Eccles]).

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Monologue End: a monody, The Shadows of Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare's Characters doing Homage to Garrick (written by Samuel Jackson? Pratt)-Browne

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Goodwin. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Yesterday the 28th will be admitted. [The Satiric print, The Prince's Bow, had 1st appeared on 17 Mar. 1788; it was not by Bunbury, but by Frederick George Byron (Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires...in the British Museum, 1938, VI, 557).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End IV: Double Hornpipe-Mr and Miss Bourk

Song: End I: Crazy Kate-Chambers; End III: song-Arrowsmith

Entertainment: End II: Imitations-a Gentleman [unidentified]

Monologue: Vaudeville. End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini

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

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Death; Wilding-Cooper; Sir Jasper Wilding-Gaudry; Beaufort-Smith; Quildrive-Grace; Dapper-Watts; Servant-Abbott; Old Philpot-Follett [Sen.]; Corinna-Miss Dancer; Maria-Mrs Bolton.
Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Dancer

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

Performance Comment: 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.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: the Miss Simonets
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Farley and Mlle St.Amand, but they "being indisposed, the hero and heroine were submitted to other hands" (Morning Herald, 26 Jan); probably to King and Miss Francis (see 28 Jan.).] Receipts: #247 10s. (233.15; 13.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Performance Comment: As17911027, but King; Miss Francis; Byrne_.

Music: In afterpiece: As17911219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 22 June 1790. Miss Logan is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1795 season. Mrs Kemble's 1st recorded appearance as Portia was at Edinburgh, 26 Jan. 1795]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Bannister Jun. (1st and only appearance in that character); Anthonio-Bensley; Gratiano-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character); Old Gobbo-Wathen (1st appearance in that character); Tubal-Waldron; Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Launcelot-Suett; Duke-Benson; Salanio-Caulfield; Solarino-C. Kemble; Leonardo-Lyons; Balthazar-Ledger; Bassanio-Barrymore (1st appearance in that character); Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Bland; Nerissa-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Logan]); Portia-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance in that character [in London]).in London]).

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 4 Dec. 1786]. With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. [Miss Allingham is identified in playbill of 24 Nov.] Receipts: #200 5s. 6d. (196.2.0; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Mahomet (1st time)-Pope; Alcanor-Murray; Pharon-Macready; Mirvan-Toms; Ali-Davenport; Ammon-Lee; Hercides-Cranfield; Citizens-Blurton, Abbot, Wilde, Thompson; Zaphna-Hargrave; Palmira-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Allingham]).Miss Allingham]).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Event Comment: [Miss Harper was taken ill; The Irish Widow was thereupon substituted and begun, but the audience was clamorous, and insisted on The Son-in-Law. A long delay ensued until the proper acters had been brought back to the theatre and until they were dressed. Mrs Jewell read Miss Harper's part. While trying to find out what the audience wanted, Bannister retorted sharply from the stage to one of the noisiest of the objectors. This action caused several letters to be written to various newspapers debating the right of a "servant of the public" to reprimand a member of the audience even when that member might be in the wrong (Morning Chronicle, 16 Sept., et seq.).] The last Night of the Season

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Miss Lucy-Miss Scott; Blister-Bridges; Quaver-Anderson; Coupee-Yates; Goodwill-Taswell; Wormwood-Cross.
Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Miss Scott

Song: I: Sullivan

Dance: III: A New Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter, Leviez, Shawford, Miss Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Quin; King Henry-Bridgwater; Richmond-Havard; Buckingham-Cashell; Tressel-Chapman; Prince Edward-Miss Hippisley; Duke of York-Miss Morrison; Duchess of York-Mrs James; Stanley-Davies; Norfolk-Ridout; Catesby-Gibson; Tyrrel-Carr; Lord Mayor-Marten; Ratcliff-Anderson; Lieutenant-Arthur; Oxford-Bencraft; Lady Anne-Mrs Horton; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Miss Lucy-Miss Hippisley; Coupee-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley
Event Comment: Miss Younge being ill, Mrs King play'd Arpasia very bad much hiss'd (Hopkins Diary). Paid salary list #626 16s. 6d.; Collett #2 13s. 2d.; Mr Packer on note #30; Mr Sadler for cloth #1 15s. Rec'd Stopages #14 2s. 6d. Receipts: #153 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Dance: End: The Savage Hunters, as17751020