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16424 results for: Keyword - Miss Vincent</i>. The scenes and machinery of the Pantomime pretty
We found 14669 matches on Performance Comments, 4822 matches on Performance Title, 3399 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7776
02 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Fifteen Years. [i.e., at dl]. With new Habits, and Scenes proper to the Play. Written by Mr Lee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

7777
03 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With new Habits, and Scenes proper to the Play. Written by Mr Lee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Performance Comment: Theodosius-Williams; Varanes-Booth; Martian-Mills; Atticus-Bowman; Leontine-Thurmond; Athenais-Mrs Porter; Pulcheria-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Theodosius Actor: Williams
Role: Athenais Actor: Mrs Porter

7778
25 January 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: Avec des Scenes Nouvelles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grondeur

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Cartouche

7779
21 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With a new Additional Scene of the Madness of Cobham. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d.; tickets #44 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

7780
07 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Sir John Bevil-Mills; Sealand-Williams; Bevil Jr-Booth; Myrtle-Wilks; Cimberton-Griffin; Humphrey-Shepard; Tom-Cibber; Daniel-Theo. Cibber; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Moore; Isabella-Mrs Thurmond; Indiana-Mrs Oldfield; Lucinda-Mrs Booth; Phyllis-Mrs Younger; Prologue by Welsted-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams
Role: Daniel Actor: Theo. Cibber
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Moore

7781
23 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Subscription. Afterpiece: A new Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Burlesque Characters. With new Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, and other Decorations. N.B. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes but by Subscribers' Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 7s. each. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: subscription and money #111 18s.; tickets #33 19s. [For an essay on the afterpiece, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post. 6 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa or The Intrigues of Harlequin

7782
26 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Francesca Cuzzoni. With an Addition of three new Songs, and an entire new Scene. Whereas this Benefit for Signora Cuzzoni is part of her Contract, the Directors...resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for this Night. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accomodation of the Company. London Journal, 30 March: On Tuesday last was perform'd...Otho...for the Benefit fo Mrs Cuzzoni; and a considerable Benefit it was to her indeed, for, we hear, that some of the Nobility gave her 50 Guineas a Tickets. Daily Journal, 29 March: The Benefit of the famous Seignora Francesca Cuzzoni...we hear amounted to upwards of 700l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho King Of Germany

7783
04 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. No Persons to be admitted into the Front Boxes or behind the Scenes, but by printed Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: As17221012

7784
04 June 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With an Addition of three new Songs, and an intire New Scene. N.B. The Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of their Tickets for the Liberty of the House for this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho King Of Germany

7785
08 June 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With an Addition of three new Songs, and an intire New Scene. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

7786
02 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: Hob or The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Tricks of Harlequin or The Doctor Defeated

7787
16 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By John Breval.] Alter'd from a Comdey call'd The Play is the Plot. Afterpiece: The entire Masque (not perform'd these Fifteen Years). Set to Musick by Mr Eccles. With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strolers

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea or The Country Wedding

7788
06 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Tate, late Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: The Words by Mr Motteux, and set to Musick by Mr Eccles. With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Music: As17230625

Song: Mrs Boman; Smug Upon Tuesday-Mrs Willis; A Dialogue between Two Ballad Singers called A Satyr on All Trades-Harper, Mrs Willis

Dance: Two Farmers and Their Wives-Boval, Mrs Tenoe, others; Passacaille-Mrs Brett; Drunken Man-Harper

7789
22 August 1723 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee's Great Theatrical Booth over against the Hospital Gate. Mainpiece: A Dramatic Opera. A Masque of Paradise, with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Edenv, the Serpent, and all the Creation, the Heavens open, the Sun appears, and an Angel descends and drives them thence. With Scenes, Machines, and Decorations proper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wisdom Of Solomon Or The Two Harlots

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Toby Stag the Huntsman and a Merry Poet

7790
24 September 1723 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At Penkethman's and Dicky's Booth in Southwark. Mainpiece: a Tragi-Comical Interlude. No Person, except the Author, to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Stroller Or The Humours Of Avignon And Cripplegate

7791
24 September 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an intire new Sett of Scenes representing Ancient Rome, Painted by Monsieur Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

7792
26 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Thurmond.] A new Grotesque Entertainment...in the Character of Harlequin, Mephostophilus, Scaramouch, Pierrot, Punch, and the Spirit of Helen. The whole concluding with a grand Masque of the Heathen Deities, (viz), Apollo, Mars, Bacchus, Mercury, Diana, Ceres, Flora, and Iris. All the Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations being entirely New. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. No Money (under the full Price) will be taken during the Time of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

7793
30 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Post, 30 Nov.: Harlequin Doctor Faustus...meets with universal Approbation. The Incidents are taken from the old History of the doctor and several Tricks supposed to be done by the Power of the Black Art, art executed in a very surprising Manner, and the last Grand Scene is superior in Magnificence to any thing that has ever yet appeared on the British Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

7794
19 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

7795
20 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

7796
29 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With several new Scenes of Action, and comical Incidents neverperformed before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

7797
05 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

7798
23 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Boxes, but by printed Tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in at the same Price. N.B. To prevent the Ladies from coming too early, Servants will be admitted to keep Places open on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance:

7799
28 August 1724 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Mrs Lee, daughter of Mrs Minns, at the Great Booth on Bowling Green. With all the Scenes and Machines, with Additions. Mrs Lee had spared no Cost, but used her utmost Care, and most elaborate Industry in this Droll, to surpass even her Mother, the Booth coming as near the Perfection of the Theatre as possible, being adorned by the most ingenious Workmen: Her Head Characters are all Dress'd in real Gold and Silver, beyond what was ever worn at the Fair before, but by her own People

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

7800
30 November 1724 @ Pye Tavern

Event Comment: At the Desire of some adjacent Inhabitants. At the Pye Tavern without Aldgate. The most diverting and vivacious Scenes of his Modest Medley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley