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We found 15843 matches on Performance Comments, 5895 matches on Event Comments, 5338 matches on Performance Title, 183 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: "Nothing could be more affecting than [Mrs Crawford's] expression of the sorrows in the character; nor anything more languid and undecorous than her level recitation . . . Discharge the fire, and she sinks into a tasteless disregard of the business, which injures, if it does not destroy the illusion. It is in this that Mrs Siddons triumphs over her... But she cannot, so powerfully as Mrs Crawford, assail at intervals the heart" (Gazetteer, 30 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Henderson; Dionysius-Aickin; Philotas-Farren; Melanthon-Hull; Areas-Fearon; Greek Herald-Davies; Calippus-Thompson; Greek Soldier-Booth; Phocion-Wroughton; Erixine-Miss Platt; Euphrasia-Mrs Crawford (1st appearance this season) .
Cast
Role: Erixine Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Euphrasia Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Cast
Role: Celia Actor: Miss Wheeler
Role: Miss Bull Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Gregory-Edwin; Sir Jasper-Fearon; Leander-Cubitt; Davy-Wewitzer; Squire Robert-Helme; Dr Hellebore-Booth; Charlotte-Miss Stuart; Dorcas-Mrs Webb .
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Stuart

Dance: As17841201

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021, but Miss Doiley-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: Colonel Tamper-Palmer; Major Belford-Packer; Prattle-Baddeley; Madam Florival-Mrs Wells; Bell-Mrs Wilson; Emily-Miss Pope .
Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Packer
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Pope
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #171 5s. (150/7/0; 20/0/6; 0/17/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17840918, but Miss Kitty Sprightly-Mrs Wilson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon-Dignum (who performed the characters of Young Meadows [on 14 Oct.] and Cymon [on 26 Nov.]); Palemon-Williames; Pastora-Mrs Wrighten; Laura-Miss Phillips .
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Phillips
Event Comment: Benefit for the Humane Society. [Prologue by Miles Peter Andrews (European Magazine, Dec. 1784, p. 467).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17840924, but Miss Ogle-Mrs Morton. Occasional Prologue spoken by Wroughton .

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Col. Feignwell-Palmer; Sir Philip Modelove-Baddeley; Obadiah Prim-Moody; Freeman-Williames; Sackbut-Wrighten; Tradelove-Fawcett; Simon Pure-Waldron; Perriwinkle-Parsons; Mrs Prim-Mrs Love; Ann Lovely-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Ann Lovely Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: As17840923

Event Comment: [Pope is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] "By giving in to the mode of recitation which is now prevalent, [Pope] will lose many of the advantages of his powers . . . Indeed, the principal efTect of acting, since the decease of Garrick, has arisen from the art of recital. . . [which] is substituted for acting" (European Magazine, Jan. 1785, p. 60)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Pope]); Governor-Davies; Blandford-Hull; Captain Driver-Fearon; Stanmore-Cubitt; Jack Stanmore-Helme; Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Bates; Lucy-Mrs Inchbald; Widow Lackit-Mrs Webb; Imoinda-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Hull
Role: Imoinda Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Cast
Role: Abdiel Actor: Miss Brett

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Dodd; Subtle-Aickin; Sir Epicure Mammon-Chaplin; Surly-Wrighten; Kastril-Burton; Face-Palmer; Dame Pliant-Miss Simson; Doll Common-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Miss Simson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Performance Comment: Tugg-Bannister; Bundle-Staunton; Robin-Suett; Wilhelmina-Miss Phillips; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Wrighten .
Cast
Role: Wilhelmina Actor: Miss Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Performance Comment: As17850120, but omitted: R. Palmer, Williames, Staunton, Wrighten, Miss Hale .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Cast
Role: Agnes Actor: Miss Wewitzer
Role: Susan Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17841028, but Rosina-Miss Wheeler (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Miss Wheeler

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Performance Comment: Castalio-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Acasto-Clarke; Polydore-Farren; Chaplain-Fearon; Ernesto-Thompson; Page-Master Farley; Chamont-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Serina-Mrs Inchbald; Florella-Mrs Poussin; Monimia-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Cast
Role: Abdiel Actor: Miss Brett
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 51. 1st Gallery 3;. 6d. 2nd Gallery is. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Music That Was Selected For The Commemoration Of Handel In Westminster Abbey And The Pantheon The 26th And 27th Of May 1784

Performance Comment: [In subsequent seasons this was performed under the title of Redemption]. Principal Vocal Parts by Norris, Reinhold; Miss George, Miss Phillips. 1st Violin-Richards .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Wroughton; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Lewis; William-Bonnor; Sideboard-Booth; Sir Bashful Constant-Quick; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Bates; Lady Constant-Mrs Inchbald; Muslin-Mrs Wilson; Mignionet-Miss Stuart; Furnish-Mrs Poussin; Widow Belmour (with a song)-Mrs Abington .
Cast
Role: Mignionet Actor: Miss Stuart

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17841008

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserter

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Performance Comment: Characters by Mme Dagville, Miss Simonet, Duquesney, Delpini. imitations. End of 1st ballet, as17850228.
Cast
Role: Skirmish Actor: Miss Simonet
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, Kennington-lane, near Vauxhall. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 13 Apr. 1773]. Receipts: #277 18s. (70/15; 8/18; 0/8; tickets: 197/17) (charge: (#106 16s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Oldcastle-Parsons; Goodall-Suett; Valentine-Williames; Rakish-Staunton; Lord Puff-Phillimore; Marquis-Waldron; Security-Wilson; Slap-Chaplin; Drunken Colonel-Moody; Mrs Highman-Mrs Love; Charlotte-Miss Barnes; Lettice-Mrs Wrighten .
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Barnes

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece a Hunting Cantata; In afterpiece A Soldier for Me, both by Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17841008, but Ferdinand-Johnstone; Jerome-Edwin; Carlos-Leoni (1st appearance in that character these 6 years); Clara-Miss Wheeler (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Wheeler

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17841116

Song: In afterpiece From tyrant Laws and Customs free by Johnstone and Mrs Martyr; Live and love by Johnstone, Mrs Morton, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: With the Procession from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Clarke; Buckingham-Wroughton; Cranmer-Hull; Surrey-Farren; Lord Chamberlain-Bonnor; Cromwell-Davies; Gardner-Wewitzer; Lord Sands-T. Kennedy; Norfolk-Fearon; Suffolk-Booth; Sir T. Lovell-Chalmers; Cardinal Wolsey-Henderson; Anne Bullen-Mrs Inchbald; Lady-Mrs Pitt; Queen Katherine-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17841022

Song: In Act II of mainpiece Tally ho! by Mrs Martyr; In Act III song by Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher [i.e. from Fletcher alone]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 28 May 1782]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Women Pleasd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Johnstone; Jobson (with The Cook in the Coal Hole)-Edwin; Lady Loverule-Miss Platt; Nell-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Miss Platt

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17850119, but Jaffier-Farren (1st appearance in that character); Belvidera-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Dance: As17841116

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. 1st piece: With a Kitchen Scene. [The new pantomime is identified in Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. The same newspaper on 2 Apr. states that it was the same as that produced at DL for Delpini's benefit in 1782 [10 May].]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime don Juan

Performance Comment: Characters by Simonet, Henry, Menage, Mrs Dagville, Miss Cooper, the two Miss Simonets, and Clown-Delpini .

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214, but omitted: Duquesney, Miss L. Simonet. imitations. End of 1st piece, as17850207.
Cast
Role: Skirmish Actor: Miss Simonet
Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Tickets delivered for March 15 and 31 will be taken. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at Mrs Sledge's, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. "In the prominent display of Iago's jealousy, a material question of the play--slightly handled by the poet, and almost untouched by every preceding player--in this, Henderson's claim to praise is quite unrivalled" {Public Advertiser, 25 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17840927, but Othello-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Desdemona-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Magic Cavern, announced on playbill of 30 Apr.] The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17850412, but Calista-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: Barataria