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8059 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) dancing <span class=
We found 5146 matches on Event Comments, 2008 matches on Performance Title, 1835 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6701
10 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Ballet: III: Savoyard Travellers. As17511105

6702
14 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 26 Dec. 1747.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

6703
16 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 15 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet-Grandchamps, Mad Camargo

6704
06 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these six years. [See 17 April 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cyclops Actor: Roberts, Smith, Bennet, Davis

Music: Concerto on the Cymbal-Noell

6705
22 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A little hissing at ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Publish'd, Miscellaneous Observations on Hamlet, &c. 1s. [Contains a thoroughly Neo-Classical Preface and twenty-seven notes on passages in the play. Concerning the Gravedigger's Scene: This incoherent absurdity will forever remain an indelible blot in the character of our poet; and warn us no more to expect perfection in the work of a mortal, than sincerity in the breast of a female.] Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: Madam Auretti

6706
28 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Not acted these 8 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17520127

6707
03 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Suppos'd Garrick's Benefit (Cross). This day publish'd at 1s. Every Man in his Humour, a Comedy written by Ben Johnson [sic] with alterations and additions, as it was perform'd at Drury Lane (General Advertiser). [Inspector No 298 comments on a blemish in the performance of Richard III, where the character of the Lord Mayor has Buffoonry in the handling." Taswell frequently acts it thus, but perhaps is not to blame, the decision as to the manner of the part probably having been made by the Manager (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 13 Feb.)] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

6708
06 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [See 12 Nov. 1745.] Very Dull Play & No Garrick (Cross). We hear the Comedy of the Comical Lovers will be reviv'd for the benefit of Mrs Clive on Monday, 9 March; to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, the part of Fribble by Garrick, being the only time of his performing it this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: GGrand Provincial Dance, as17520204

6709
06 February 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory 1

Performance Comment: As17520204, Castle Tavern, but, Act II, 4. New Occasional Prologueby a Gentleman of the University-; . .

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 3

6710
08 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We hear that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with Prince Edward will be this night at Covent Garden, to see the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and Harlequin Skeleton. On Tuesday 3 March, will be reviv'd a Tragedy call'd Macbeth (as written by Shakespear) the part of Macbeth by Barry, and Lady Macbeth by Mrs Cibber, being the first time of her appearing in that character. To which will be added the Oracle, a new Dramatic piece (of one act) taken from the French, the Principal Part to be perform'd by Mrs Cibber. Pit and boxes laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave

6711
03 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Not acted these seven years. [See 19 Nov. 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake Or The Lovers Quarrel

Related Works
Related Work: The Perplex’d Couple: or, Mistake upon Mistake Author(s): Chalres Molloy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6712
05 March 1752 @ James Street

Event Comment: [If this were the announcement of a bona fide concert, there would be no infraction of the Licensing Act. The singers are not named, as they usually are in advertisements of musical entertainments.] Benefit for Brown. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. No persons to be admitted without tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick Etc

6713
09 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted in seven years [see 7 May 47]. Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber, Esq. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Mad Auretti

6714
14 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Gentleman who acts the part of Glaud

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

6715
18 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Judas Macchabaeus: a Sacred Drama as it is performed at Covent Garden. Set by Mr Handel. Printed for J. Watts. This day Publish'd The Oracle, a Comedy of one act as it is perform'd at Covent Garden, at 1s. By Mrs Cibber printed for R. Dosdley in Pall Mall, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

6716
19 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Gentleman and Gentlewoman who act the Parts of Jenny and Bauldy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

6717
20 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's New Entertainment call'd the Oracle, which was acted last Tuesday for her benefit, met with the most general applause; and she is thought to excel in the character of Cinthia, as much as any she ever performed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

6718
10 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: King-Sowdon; Wolsey-Mossop, 1st time; Buckingham-Ross, 1st time; Norfolk-Palmer; Suffolk-Blakes; Surrey-Lee; Cranmer-Havard; Gardiner-Taswell; Sandys-Shuter; Lord Chamberlain-Winstone; Anne Bullen-Mrs Mills; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Cornwell-Mozeen; Patience (with a proper song)-Miss Norris. Exact representation of the Coronation.
Cast
Role: Patience Actor: Miss Norris. Exact representation of the Coronation.

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

6719
10 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. Afterpiece: Acted for the last time but one. Tickets deliver'd out by Mr Stephens will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

6720
04 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede, Cushing, Redman and Bennet. Mainpiece: Not acted these seven years. [See 21 April 1748.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: Two Pierrots, as17520415 III: Grand Comic Ballet, as17511216; V: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; with Clown-Bennet

Song: IV: If Love's a Sweet Passion-Mrs Chambers

6721
12 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 8 May 1751.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

6722
16 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [see 5 Oct. 1748]. No persons to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money to be returned after the curtain is drawn up. [A customary note for the remainder of the season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

6723
21 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. On Monday Next, Hamlet, On Tuesday will be reviv'd The Silent Woman-dress'd in the Habits of the time. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: LLes Bucherons, as17521017; Les Tonneliers de Stratsburgh, as17521017

6724
26 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 15 years. Written by Ben Johnson. The characters New Dress'd after the Manner of the Times. Receipts: #14O (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epicaene Or The Silent Woman

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Ferrere, Piettro, Miss Rayner

6725
28 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these three years. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Lethe