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We found 14926 matches on Performance Comments, 4992 matches on Performance Title, 3521 matches on Event Comments, 183 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Performance Comment: Sir George Trueman-J. Aickin; Tinsel-Dodd; Vellum-Parsons; Fantome-Packer; Gardener-Weston; Butler-Love; Coachman-Moody; Lady Trueman-Mrs Hopkins; Abigail-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Miss Pope.
Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #42 8s., and Mrs Lynn for a Lady's white and gold Flower'd suit of Cloaths #12 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #141 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Smith; Mosca-Bensley; Voltore-Hull; Corvino-Clarke; Corbacchio-Shuter; Sir Politic Wou'dbe-Kniveton; Peregrine-R. Smith; Bonario-Wroughton; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Gardner; Caelia-Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Caelia Actor: Miss Miller.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Performance Comment: Sir Novelty-Woodward; Loveless-Ross; Elder Worthy-Clarke; Young Worthy-Wroughton; Sir W. Wisewood-Dunstall; Snap-Shuter; Narcissa-Mrs Mattocks; Hillaria-Mrs Baker; Flareit-Mrs Green; Amanda-Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Miss Miller.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17721117, but Lucy-Mrs Baker; Hornpipe-Miss Besford.
Cast
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Miss Besford.
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Catley
Role: a Hornpipe Actor: Miss Twist.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17721204, but Eustace-Owenson; Margery-Miss Valois; Lucinda-Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's rate for St Martin's to Xmas last #27 10s. Receipts: #143 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Dr Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Darnly-Reddish; Seyward-Cautherly; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Maw@Worm-Weston; Lady Lambert-Miss Ambrose; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Lady Lambert Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Event Comment: All for Love deferr'd. Miss Younge ill. Paid Mr Clinch in full of salary to 23rd Inst. excl. #12 14s.; Mr Powney (stationer) #7 14s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #232 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Barry; Edgar-Reddish; Gloucester-J. Aickin; Kent-Bransby; Bastard-Palmer; Gentleman Usher-Dodd; Burgundy-Yates; Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Hurst; Capt. of Guards-Ackman; Curan-Fawcett; Regan-Mrs Egerton; Cordelia-Mrs Barry; Goneril-Miss Sherry.
Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Miss Sherry.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-King; Beverly-Cautherly; Sir William Belmont-Wright; Blandford-Bransby; Belmont-Packer; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Burton; Lady Restless-Mrs Hopkins; Clarissa-Miss Ambrose; Tippet-Mrs Millidge; Tattle-Mrs Bradshaw; Belinda-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Bransby
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: As17730129, but Surrey-Dyer; Anne Bullen-Miss Ogilvie; Sands-Quick.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Miss Catley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Smith, first time

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Bransby; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Pope.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17730202, but Lear-Garrick; Gentleman Usher-Burton; The Bell Edition 1773 adds Doctor-Wright; Old Man-Hartry; Cornwall's Servant-Keen; Arante-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Arante Actor: Miss Platt.
Role: Goneril Actor: Miss Sherry.

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Musical Lady Actor: Miss Pope
Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy [by Oliver Goldsmith] never perform'd. [Carried in the Account Book under its secondary title. A long and grudgingly favorable review appeared in the Westminster Magazine: On the whole the Comedy has many excellent qualities: though we cannot venture to recommend it as a pattern for imitation. Still attached to the laudable intent of it, we wish it may keep possession of the stage till a better comedy comes to relieve it." There follows a long account of Foote's Puppet Show.] Receipts: #234 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor Or The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17720923, but Hornpipe-Miss Besford.
Cast
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Miss Besford.
Role: with Hornpipe Actor: Miss Twist.
Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Charges #69 12s. 6d. Profit to Woodward #121 2s. 6d., plus #44 10s. from tickets (Box 178) (Account Book). The several Musical Pieces performed last night at Covent Garden, were very agreeably received by a numerous Audience. The well contrasted variety of the Compositions in which each performer exerted their [highest] excellency had the most pleasing effect. Dr Arne's elegant Serenata, as well as the Thunder Ode, composed by Mr Michael Arne, met with the greatest Applause. The Performance will be repeated on Wednesday Next (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #190 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performance Comment: As17730125, but Harlequin (that night only)-Woodward; Colombine-Miss Twist.

Monologue: Interlude.IV: Will be introduc'd an Interlude of Music and Dancing, call'd The Contention of Wit and Wealth. Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Mrs Wewitzer; the Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #75 6s. Profit to Shuter #48 6s. plus #97 3s. from tickets (Boxes 307; Pit 136) (Account Book). Receipts: #123 12s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performance Comment: As17721205, but Principal Parts-Miss Pearce, Mrs _Kniveton.

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Cast
Role: A New Dance Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon

Entertainment: End of Farce: (By Particular Desire) The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Added By Particular Desire. Rec'd from Mr Baks for his deficiency in 1771 #8 5s. 3d., and from Miss Stede her half value of tickets for same season. Rec'd #34 13s. 9d. from Davis, Curtat, Merrifield and Mrs Hartley for their deficiencies last season (Account Book). [Perhaps pressure was put on these actors and dancers to balance their accounts with the theatre before another benefit could be allowed to them.] Receipts: #229 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Miss Catley.
Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. [See note for 6 March.] Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by half past 4 o'clock, and those who have taken places in the Pit requested to come early to prevent Confusion in getting to their seats. Tickets deliver'd for Lady Jane Grey will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Profit to Smith #84 6s. 6d., plus #172 15s. from tickets (Box 640; Pit 85). Paid Blanchville Clark as per certificate from Sir John Fielding 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Earl of Warwick-Smith; King Edward-Bensley; Pembroke-Perry; Buckingham-Wignel; Officer-Thompson; Messenger-R. Smith; Suffolk-Gardner; Lady Eliz Grey-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Clifford-Miss Pearce; Margaret of Anjou-Mrs Yates; The Original Epilogue by Garrick-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Lady Clifford Actor: Miss Pearce

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Helme will be taken. Tomorrow (the Eight Time) the New Comedy She Stoops to Conquor, with (for the last time this season) The Golden Pippin. Charges #71 16s. 6d.; Profit to Younger #74 13s., plus #65 19s. from tickets (Box 116; Pit 149; Gallery 146) (Account Book). Receipts: #146 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Miss Miller
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Pearce

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sutton, late Miss Froment. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Rec'd from Mr Clutterbuck's [account] (1st) #100; Stopages #18 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #181 5s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Mrs Sutton: #106 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: As17721118, but Clown-Wright; Scaramouch-Atkins; and for that night only her own Hornpipe-Mrs Sutton (playbill). [Public Advertiser lists Clown-Ackman.]

Dance: II: A New Grand Turkish Dance, composed by Froment in which-Mrs Sutton will dance the character of a Sultana; IV: By Particular Desire. The Louvre and Minuet, also the Dauphin Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton, his scholar

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Not Acted in 3 years. [See 17 May 1770.] Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #192 7s. 6d. Charges: #64 12s. Profit to Bannister: #127 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wrighten, first time.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Smirk, Mrs Cole-King, for that night only; Shift, with a variety of imitations both rhetorical and vocal-Bannister; Minor-J. Aickin; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Transfer-Parsons; Loader-Palmer; Lucy-Miss Ambrose; Richard Wealthy-Wrighten; Dick-Burton.
Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: King, for that night only
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Ambrose

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17730325

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kniveton. Tickets deliver'd by King will be taken. Charges #72 6s. 6d. Balance to Knivetons #17 3s. 6d., plus #109 3s. from tickets (Box 176; Pit 331; Gallery 155) (Account Book). Receipts: #89 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Miss Miller
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Pearce

Monologue: 1773 5 11 True Blue. As 20 April, but Principal Parts-DuBellamy, _Mattocks, Mrs +Baker, Mrs _Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17721001, but Minuet-King, Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Minuet Actor: King, Miss Macklin.
Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: With a Minuet Actor: Fishar, Miss Macklin.
Event Comment: By Order of the Grand Buck for the Benefit of Wignell and Davis. N.B. Places will be kept in the front boxes for the brethren of the Mcst Noble Order, who are desired to meet the Grand Buck and His Council at the Shakespeare's Head in the Great Piazza, by 5 o'clock, from thence to proceed to the theatre, and bring the ensigns of the Order with them (playbill). Charges #66 3s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #4 6s. 3d. apiece, cover'd by income from tickets: Wignell #78 4s. (Box 82; Pit 290; Gallery 142); Davis #74 4s. (Box 59; Pit 281; Gallery 173) (Account Book). Receipts: #57 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17721019, but Richmond-Davis; Tressel-Wroughton; King Henry-Younger; Norfolk-Perry; Catesby-Fox; Lord Mayor-Wignell; Dutchess of York-Mrs Ferguson; Lady Anne-Miss Ogilvie; Queen-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Miss Ogilvie

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker.

Dance: End: The Whim, as17730426

Cast
Role: A New Dance Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Aickin, Fearon, Davis, Jacobs, Weston, Lloyd, Castle, Moody, Miss Platt, Mrs Fearon, Mrs Jewell.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17730526

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hartle, Mas. Blurton, Walters, Symonds, Francis, and Furkins. Tickets deliver'd by Flight, Longley, Singleton, Shuter, Norbury, Roberts, Frensdorff, Miller, Stevenson, Reed, Robson, and Walker, will be taken. On Monday next (the thirteenth Night) the last New Comedy She Stoops to Conquor...with Harlequin Sorcerer. [No charges. House took half-value of tickets, plus ready-money receipts of #19 2s. 6d. (Account Book).] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value Half Value@Mrs Hartle .. .. .. .. ..@Mas. Blurton 5 11 36 #6 10s. #3 5s.@Walters 5 78 92 #22 3s. #11 1s. 6d.@Symonds 9 68 51 #17 11s. #8 15s. 6d.@Francis 3 33 38 #9 10s. #4 15s.@Furkins 18 45 30 #14 5s. #7 2s. 6d.@Flight .. 41 65 #12 13s. #6 6s. 6d.@Longley 9 156 57 #31 7s. #15 13s. 6d.@Singleton .. 6 14 #2 6s. #1 3s.@Shuter .. 55 16 #9 17s. #4 18s. 6d.@Norbury 10 12 19 #26 4s. #3 2s.@Roberts 6 134 48 #26 8s. #13 4s.@Frensdorf 3 44 19 #9 5s. #4 12s. 6d.@Miller 7 87 84 #18 14s. #9 7s.@Stephenson 12 74 71 #21 4s. #10 12s.@Mrs Read 5 16 37 #7 7s. #3 13s. 6d.@Robson 3 88 35 #17 9s. #8 14s. 6d.@Walker .. 34 61 #11 4s. #5 12s.@Total 95 882 773 #243 17s. #121 18s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: As17730423 but Betty-Mrs Pitt; Page-Miss Francis.
Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss Francis.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton; End: The Cumberland Corn@thrashers, as17730424

Cast
Role: first time Actor: Miller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: As17730527, but Vocal Parts-a Young _Lady, Miss Wilde.