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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.

6826
06 October 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Sir John-Burton; Cimberton-Taswell; Indiana-Mrs Cibber; Lucinda-Miss Minors; Myrtle-Palmer; Tom-Woodward; Phyllis-Mrs Clive; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Sealand-Berry; Humphrey-Blakes; In Act II, Singing-Beard.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

6827
15 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 24 April 1754.] Receipts: #74 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6828
22 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy reviv'd. Not acted these 3 years [see 18 May 1756]. Receipts: #73 9s. Paid Mr Savage for teaching Mr Frith #10 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

6829
29 October 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The pant: was hiss'd & Dull (Cross). Afterpiece: with new Scenes and Decorations, not acted these 4 years [see 15 Oct. 1753]. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

6830
08 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Beatrice-Miss Pritchard; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Claudio-Palmer; Don John-Bransby; Dogberry-Taswell; Balthazar (with a proper Song)-Beard; Antonio-Walker; Verges-Philips; Hero-Mrs Davies; Borachio-Blakes; In Act II, a Masquerade Dance, in which will be introduced a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard; To conclude with a Country Dance-the Characters of the Play.
Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the Characters of the Play.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

6831
15 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Yates play'd Hermione (Indiff) (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 16 April 1755]. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

6832
19 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward play'd-1st after his illness (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted for 2 years. [See 14 Nov. 1755.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: I: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

6833
22 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Not acted for 2 years. [See 8 March 1756.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

6834
05 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: BBarry play'd at C. Garden some little Noise, on Account of his being ye occasion of ye late Riot, & demanding more Money than usual-but his speech declaring his Innocence; King Lear went on in quiet (Cross). It is hoped that the Ladies and Gentlemen who took places for the Fatal Marriage this evening will excuse its not being acted 'till tomorrow, as it is impossible for Mrs Cibber to perform the character of Isabella without proper respit. The Old Comedy alter'd from Shirley [The Gamesters] will be reviv'd next week (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

6835
08 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted for two years. [See 9 Dec. 1755.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

6836
17 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd The Male Coquette, or 1757, a Farce in 2 acts, As it is performing at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, faning Southampton St. in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

6837
22 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Altered from Shirley by Garrick--(some hissing at it) (Cross). [See Theatrical Review, 1757 and Beginning of 1758 for generally favorable contemporary comment, but one which deplores Garrick's retention of Shirley's obsolete expressions. The printed version contains scenes in Act III not appearing in the Larpent MS] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

6838
24 December 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Cibber having obtained Leave to act Plays, etc. at the Theatre in the Haymarket, humbly solicits Subscription, from his Patrons among the nobility, Gentry, etc. @Conditions. Each Subscriber will have@for Five Guineas 25 Box, or 40 Pit Tickets@for four Guineas 20 Box, or 32 Pit Tickets@for three Guineas 15 Box, or 24 Pit Tickets@for two Guineas 10 Box, or 16 Pit Tickets@for one Guinea 5 Box, or 8 Pit Tickets@for Half a Guinea 4 Pit Tickets or 6 Gallery@ Subscription Tickets will be taken any Night of the first Ten Performances. No Subscriptions will be received after Thursday 1 Jan. 1758, the first Day of Performance. The Play, Farce, and Entertainments will be timely mentioned in the Bills, Advertisements, &c

Performances

6839
26 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Night by the Crowd upon the upper Gallery Stairs two Women & a Man were Kill'd (Cross). 2 or 3 Persons squeezed to death getting into Drury Lane (Winston MS 8). The Tragedy of the Mourning Bride will be acted at the latter end of this week at Drury Lane, in which Mrs Glen will perform the character of Zara, it being the second time of her appearing on that stage. The reviv'd Comedy of the Gamesters and the tragedy of the Fatal Marriage will be played after the holidays. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

6840
11 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.[See 29 April 1756.] Receipts: #127 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6841
13 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Entertainment in Grotesque Characters, not acted these 4 years.[See 2 Dec. 1754.] The Scenes, Habits and Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

6842
16 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Dramatick Piece of Two Acts (taken from Sir Richard Steele's Accomplished Fools)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Numpss Courtship or Love Makes the Painter

Dance: As17580112

6843
21 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Monday will be reviv'd a Tragedy (not acted these 10 years) call'd Mariamne. Receipts: #37 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17571217

6844
26 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day is Publish'd: The Author, a Comedy of two Acts, by Foote. Price 1s. Printed for R. Francklin, Russell St., Drury Lane. Creusa Queen of Athens, a Tragedy, by Wm. Whitehead, Price 1s. 6d. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

6845
27 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Elijah Fenton]: Not acted these 10 years. [See 12 March 1745.] Receipts: #110 15s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 5s. 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

6846
28 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 5 years. [See 15 May 1751.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6847
01 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Dramatic Opera [by Betterton altered from Beaumont and Fletcher; music by Purcell. Not acted these 30 years. New Cloaths, Scenes, and other Decorations incident to the Opera. Nothing under full prices will be taken. To prevent any obstruction either in the Music or Decorations, no persons can be admitted behind the scenes. [Notices repeated for this play this season.] Receipts: #190 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

6848
04 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Cast
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.

6849
02 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross). Box Tickets for the Benefit of the Author of Agis...are to be had of Mr Miller, in the Strand, Dodsley in Pall Mall, and Varney at the Stage Door. This Day at Noon will be publish'd, Price 1s. 6d. Agis, by the author of Douglas. Printed for A. Miller, where may be had the tragedy of Douglas as it was acted at Covent Garden. Price 1s. 6d. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

6850
11 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: not acted 6 years. [See 21 April 1752.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Receipts: #87 15s. 6d. Plus Tickets #167 13s. [box 229; pit 514; gallery 333). Charges #63 Mrs Pudsey entered as a New Renter for 1 share (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217