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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.

6926
17 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker. Not acted for 6 years. [See 7 May 1757.] Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: [Titles and dancers unspecified.]

6927
20 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. No Building on the Stage. Farce not acted these 10 years. [See 12 Nov. 1750.] Receipts: #48 13s. 6d. plus income of #168 15s. from tickets (Box 216; Pit 677; Gallery 132) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

6928
23 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton. Not acted this season. Tickets deliver'd for The Lady's Last Stake will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Fingalian Dance-Miss Dawson

6929
30 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire a Minuet (for the first time)-Noverre, Miss Mowatt. Benefit for Miss Mowatt. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 5 years. No Building on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Miss Mowatt, Upper End of New Bond St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

6930
01 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Full Prices. [Sparked by Victor's publication of his History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, 1730 to the Present, a series of articles on the Rise and Progress of the English Stage appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for May (p. 214 ff); June (p. 264 ff); and July (p. 297).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

6931
15 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross, (pit door-keepers); Slater; and Trott, (lobby door-keeper). Mainpiece: Acted but once these 10 years. [See 15 Jan. 1753.] Tickets deliver'd by Besford, Clark, Darby, Toten, Dimmock, &c. will be taken. [Besford a mistake for Joseph Besworth (porter).] Receipts: #15 15s. plus #100 14s. 2d. as 1!2 value of the tickets deliver'd. @Names Bow Pit Gallery Balue 1!2 Value@Wilford 2 62 18 #11 12s. #5 16s.@Ross 5 162 83 #33 17s. #16 18s. 6d.@Trott 144 53 .. #43 19s. #18 12s. 9d.@Slater 2 57 110 #20 1s. #10 6d.@Derby 4 79 105 #23 7s. #11 13s. 6d.@Toten .. 32 43 #9 2s. #4 11s.@Clingo .. 55 47 #12 19s. #6 9s. 6d.@Clarke .. 40 44 #10 8s. #5 4s.@Besworth .. 24 20 #5 12s. #2 16s.@Dymuck .. 12 53 #7 2s. #3 11s.@Jos. Smith 8 29 25 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Cole 4 61 83 #18 9s. #9 4s. 6d.@S. Griffiths .. 11 12 #2 17s. #1 8s. 6d.@Total 169 677 643 #208 2s. #100 14s. 2d. [1!2 of #208 2s. would seem to be #104 1s.]@ Rec'd of John Crane for the ends of the wax candles sold last season #6 4s., and for those sold this season #23 19s. 4d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6932
20 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for West, Cape, Mortimer, Roberts, Tomlinson. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [The Occasional Epilogue is Larpent MS 197, wherein Tomlinson as the habitual stage mute finally speaks, after having acted in dumb show Prelate, Senator, Page, Soldier, Clown, and Lord, thanks the audience and expresses his desire to please.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Fawcett

Entertainment: II: An Occasional Epilogue (1st time)-Tomlinson

6933
22 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #4 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only 16 persons were in the Boxes, and the 2s. 6d. indicates that at least one occupant came in after the third act and paid only half price.] Receipts: #26 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Cast
Role: Dauphin Actor: Davis

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

6934
30 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The first time Mrs Yates acted since April 2,-See April 14 (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

6935
08 August 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In Two Acts. Last Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Gentleman, Marr, Mrs Johnston, Miss Cockayne, Baddeley, Davis, Miss Ambrose, Miss E. Ambrose.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17610727 Hornpipe-Miss Scott

6936
08 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holland; Mercutio-Palmer; Tibalt-Blakes; Capulet-Burton; Fryar Lawrence-Havard; Lady Capulet-Mrs Bennet; Nurse-Mrs Cross; Juliet-Mrs Cibber; With the Funeral Procession. The vocal parts-Lowe, Champnes, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young; In Act I a Masquerade Dance, proper to the play,-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

6937
10 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Holland; Myrtle-Palmer; Sir John-Burton; Sealand-Havard; Cimberton-Philips; Humphrey-Blakes; Tom-O'Brien; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Lucinda-Mrs Hippisley; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Indiana-Mrs Cibber; In Act II, Singing-Master Leoni.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Harlequin-King; Other characters-Yates, Bransby, Moody, Blakes, Burton, Clough, Packer, Vaughan, Mrs Bennet, Miss Pope; The Vocal Parts-Champnes, Fawcett, Miss Young; The Dances-Grimaldi, Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker; a New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson.
Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Yates, Bransby, Moody, Blakes, Burton, Clough, Packer, Vaughan, Mrs Bennet, Miss Pope

6938
14 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in three years. Full Prices. [See 17 Nov. 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: I: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926; III: The Cow Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

Song: V: Miss Young

6939
19 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 12 Dec. 1759.] Income from Boxes #15 10s. Nightly expenses as usual #39 7d. [See 3 Nov. payment to Shaw.] Receipts: #109 8s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Cast
Role: With a new Song Actor: Beard in the character of a Sailor

6940
03 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Farce not acted in two years. [See 23 Oct. 1759.] Dance taken from the picture by Teniers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Other characters-Miss Baker, Miss Dawson; To conclude with a Comic Dance call'd the Flemish Feast-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Noverre, Sga Giorgi, Miss Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Miss Baker, Miss Dawson

6941
04 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Havard; Bajazet-Holland, first time; Arpasia-Mrs Pritchard; Axalla-Kennedy; Selima-Mrs Davies; Moneses-[by the Gentleman [who played Othello [Bridges]; [In Act IV, the Original Song of O! Gentle Sleep-Lowe; [The Usual Prologue-Holland.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Miss Baker, Miss Dawson

6942
14 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The young gentlewoman was Mrs Hopkins (Genest, IV, 634) and had acted at Edinburgh.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926

6943
14 December 1761 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato

Performance Comment: As17611107 , but a change of the Quartetto at the end of Act II.

6944
07 January 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 12 May 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other character Actor: Grimaldi, Blakes, Clough, Vaughan, Weston, Castle, Mas. Kennedy, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Simson, Mrs Matthews, Miss Rogers, Miss Baker

6945
22 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17611110, but reduc'd to two acts; The Minor-Dyer; Richard Wealthy-Lewis.
Cast
Role: Arethusa Actor: A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage Miss Miller.

Dance: II: The Pedlar Trick'd, as17620107; End: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

6946
28 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 8 Dec. 1752.] Afterpiece: Not perform'd these 10 years. [See 3 Jan. 1753.] No persons can POSSIBLY be admitted behind the scenes or into the orchestra. FULL prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Sodi; Daphne-Sga Manesiere; Followers of Daphne-Mlle Marianne, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Viviez, Mad Jansolin, Mrs Welsh, Miss Daw; Morpheus-Legg; Mystery-Baker; Silence-Mattocks; Harlequin-Miles; Burgomaster-Shuter; Boor Servant-Lalauze; Scaramouche-Gosley; Colombine-Sga Maranesi; Huntsmen-Beard, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Dibdin, Courts; Venus-Miss Miller; Silenus-Beard; Bacchus-Mattocks; Pan-Legg; Diana-Mrs Vernon; To Conclude with a Grand Ballet-Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.
Cast
Role: To Conclude with a Grand Ballet Actor: Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.

6947
29 January 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not acted in 5 years. [See 4 Feb. 1758.] The Drummer was revived at this period at both theatres...to take advantage of the reigning weakness of the people, who went in crowds many days and nights to an Haunted House, by what was called the Cock-Lane Ghost-a delusion set on foot, and very ingeniously carried on by a girl of 12 years of age, daughter of a clerk of St Sepulchre's Church, who resided in Cock Lane near Smithfield. [The Ghost was supposed to be that of one Fanny, a gentleman's mistress buried in the church. By knockings and scratchings she supposedly haunted the girl intimating foul practices concerning her death.] It would be incredible to relate the numbers of persons of distinction that attended this delusion! many of whom treated it as a serious and most important affair...at last the girl's father and three or four others were tried in the King's Bench, found guilty' Pillioried and imprisoned. This most effectively laid the Ghost; and is the best and properest cure for every ghost that may arise hereafter. (Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 18 ff). [The theme exploited again by Garrick in The Farmer's Return from London, dl 20 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other character Actor: Grimaldi, Blakes, Clough, Vaughan, Weston, Castle, Mas. Kennedy, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Simson, Mrs Matthews, Miss Rogers, Miss Baker

Song: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620115; End: An Occasional Ballad by Way of Epilogue, in the Character of Abigail,-Mrs Clive

6948
17 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: As17620215, but Drunken Servant-R. Smith; Peasant-Weller; In Act IV Song of Mad Bess, set to music by Henry Purcell, will be sung in Character-Mrs Vernon.
Cast
Role: will be sung in Character Actor: Mrs Vernon.
Role: Seberto Actor: Davis

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: To Conclude with a Grand Ballet Actor: Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.

6949
26 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces under the Direction of Dr Arne. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Set to Music by Handel. Afterpiece: A Serenata of one Act set to Music by Dr Arne. N.B. Though the nightly expenses attending these performances during the Lent, will be at least equal to any on the like occasion, the Prices will be only Boxes 7s. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. and the Upper Gallery 2s. To begin as usual. Subscriptions will continue through the Lent to be taken at Three Guineas, for which the Subscribers shall receive Twelve Box tickets to be used at pleasure, till all are come in, which tickets may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

6950
13 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Comedy [anon.] in 2 Acts. [A moral Prologue is included with Larpent MS 209.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Benvolio Actor: Davis.

Afterpiece Title: The Love Match

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Dyer, Clarke, Mattocks, Hull, Dunstall, Anderson, Bennet, Cushing, Miss Miller, Mrs Green; Prologue-Smith; Epilogue in character-Mrs Green. [Parts were: Thoughtless, Friendly, Modish, Castparts, Mortgage, Parchment, Whiffler, Ranter, Sg Caponi, Sg Screechi, Sg Scrapo, Sg Caperini, Lady Bellari, Mrs Thoughtless, Sga Trilli, Sga Squealini, Servants, Recruits, Bailiff, Porter (Larpent MS 209).]Parts were: Thoughtless, Friendly, Modish, Castparts, Mortgage, Parchment, Whiffler, Ranter, Sg Caponi, Sg Screechi, Sg Scrapo, Sg Caperini, Lady Bellari, Mrs Thoughtless, Sga Trilli, Sga Squealini, Servants, Recruits, Bailiff, Porter (Larpent MS 209).]
Cast
Role: Epilogue in character Actor: Mrs Green.