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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.

7801
27 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch as Urganda, but Mrs Powell probably acted it (see 26 and 30 Jan.). Mrs Crouch was absent from the theatre from 21 Jan. to 5 Feb.] Receipts: #357 5s. 6d. (296.11.6; 55.4.0; 5.4.0; tickets not come in: 0.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

7802
28 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #468 18s. 6d. (426.11.6; 41.9.0; 0.15.0; ticket not come in: 0.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Palmer; Sir John Buck-Phillimore; Subtle-Waldron; Classic-Packer; Marquis-Wewitzer; Kitteau-Banks; Roger-Hollingsworth; Solitaire-Maddocks; Dauphine-Caulfield; Gamut-Fawcett; Servant-Webb; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Booth; Lucinda (with a song)-Miss DeCamp (1st appearance in that character).

Dance: In II afterpiece: a Minuet-Hamoir, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

7803
30 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [This is the only occasion in the 18th century when a play was acted in London on this date. "The performance at the Haymarket on the 30th of January has been noticed by his Majesty in a manner which is still a topic of conversation in the higher circles...There will be no more theatrical performances on the 30th of January" (London Chronicle, 28 Feb.). On 3 Feb. the Lord Chamberlain wrote to Sheridan as follows: "Sir--Information has been received at this Office that Theatrical Entertainments were exhibited at the Theatre, under your direction, in St. James's Haymarket on the 30th of Last Month, contrary to all precedent, and repugnant to Decency, being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles the First. I do not know by what Authority such a Step was taken but, as Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, think it my Duty to desire that you will be pleased to Cause the Practice to be discontinued in future. I am, Sir, Your Obedient, Humble Servant, Salisbury" (MS Letters to Sheridan from Various Correspondents,II, 64, in Harvard Theatre Collection). The Morning Chronicle on 31 Jan. offered another opinion: "It gave us infinite pleasure that last night we happily broke through one of the most absurd fasts in the calendar. The Managers of Drury Lane, with proper regard to the public, rescued them from the common dullness of a 30th of January." But the absurd fast remained in force until 1843.] Receipts: #339 18s. (291.4; 40.0; 8.11; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

7804
31 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #447 11s. (402.9; 43.7; 1.9; tickets not come in: 0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

7805
23 February 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Genest, VII, 51, remarks that "The bill is rightly printed as the characters were called originally," i.e., on the playbills it had become customary to call Norval Douglas, Stranger Norval or Old Norval, and Matilda Lady Randolph.] Receipts: #308 (276.17; 26.15; 3.19; tickets not come in: 0.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Author

7806
23 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #246 17s. (260.14.6; 4.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

7807
25 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #295 15s. (289.15.6; 5.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Marian

7808
06 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With additional Music by Reeve. Afterpiece: 1st Time at this Theatre [1st acted at the hay, 2 July 1788]. Receipts: #174 14s. 6d. (158.0.6; 16.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus And Eurydice

Cast
Role: Shepherds Furies and Shades of departed Heroes Actor: Linton, Rowson, Tett, Kenrick, Street, Watson, Clark, Hart, Dixon, Letteney, Dawes, Rowe, Master Craig, Master Davis, Master Pulley

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

7809
12 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. In IV a Grand Banquet. Morning Herald, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman at his chambers, No. 14 John-street, Adelphi. "There is a deficiency in the length of [Holman's] upper lip that continually exposes his teeth to the audience...He has a method of hurrying over the latter part of a sentence, as if to give it more effect, but in reality destroys the intention and solemnity of the scene" (Candid Strictures,45-46). Receipts: #280 11s. 6d. (188.10.6; 3.16.0; tickets: 88.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Lysimachus-Farren; Hephestion-Davies; Cassander-Cubitt; Polyperchon-Macready; Thessalus-Evatt; Clytus-Aickin; Statira-Mrs Merry; Sysigambis-Mrs Platt; Parisatis-Miss Chapman; Roxana-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques

Song: II: Grand Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-; Vocal Parts-Johnston, Incledon, Darley, Cubitt, Marshall, Gray, Rock, Rowson, Letteney, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Broadhurst, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Cross, Mrs Powell, Miss Leserve, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Miss Taylor, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Martyr; End: Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure-Johnstone, Incledon; with new Accompaniments by Shield-

7810
27 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill. In mainpiece the playbill retains King, but "Mr King being ill I acted his Part to-night" (Kemble Mem.).]. Account-Book, 12 May: Author's Charge 3rd night of Fugitive enter'd short by error #12 16s. Receipts: #408 5s. (365.1; 41.0; 2.4; tickets: none listed) (charge: #147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

7811
16 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett [who had 1st acted Jemmy Jumps at York, 28 Apr. 1788]. Tickets delivered for The Female Pursuit will be admitted. Morning Herald, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 153, Drury-lane, facing Long-Acre. Receipts: #282 4s. 6d. (155.1.6; 6.17.0; tickets: 120.6.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performance Comment: As17910912, but Jemmy Jumps (for that night)-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character in London).
Cast
Role: Molly Maybush Actor: Mrs Martyr

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: In 3rd piece: As17920421

Entertainment: MonologueEnd II: [a Jeu D'Esprit[; or, Jerry Sneak's intended Law Suit with the Major-Fawcett; [My] Little Pig lays without any Straw-Fawcett

7812
17 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Mainpiece: In Act V a Masquerade. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #416 13s. (80.1; 34.8; 7.2; tickets: 295.2) (charge: #157 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: Conclude: with a Country Dance-the Characters

7813
18 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. 1st piece: In Three Acts. Morning Herald, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 51, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #308 14s. 6d. (104.2.0; 6.13.6; tickets: 197.19.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17920410

Song: End II 1st piece: a new Comic Song, The Ups and Downs of Life-Munden; in 3rd piece: Give me Wine rosy Wine, Nor on beds of fading flowers-Incledon

7814
19 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall and Mrs Harlowe. Mainpiece: In Act V a Grand Battle between the Britons and Romans. Morning Herald, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Marshall, No. 17, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Harlowe, No. 54, Drury-lane. Receipts: #256 7s. (104.2; 1.10; tickets: 150.15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Cast
Role: The Speaking Characters Actor: Johnstone, Wilson, Blanchard, Incledon, Darley, Cubitt, Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Arnold. Cast adjusted from Songs

Dance: End III: A Divertisement, as17920410; In afterpiece: the Dances-Byrne, Mlle St.Amand

Song: II: Masquerade, in which Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Incledon, Marshall, Gray, Linton, Darley, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; End II: (for that night only) The Lucky Escape; or, The Ploughboy's return from the Sea (composed by Dibdin)-Mrs Harlowe in Character

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Incledon, Marshall, Gray, Linton, Darley, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; End II: (for that night only) The Lucky Escape; or, The Ploughboy's return from the Sea (composed by Dibdin)-Mrs Harlowe in Character.
Cast
Role: The Ploughboy's return from the Sea Actor: Mrs Harlowe in Character.

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: Jeu D'Esprit, as17920516; Little Pig lays without any Straw, as17920516

7815
28 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill. In afterpiece the playbill retains Palmer as Petruchio, but "Mr Palmer not coming to the Theatre tonight, I acted Petruchio for him" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (186.3.6; 40.1.0; 5.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #178 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

7816
25 September 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns the Dauphin to Barrymore but, "Benson performed the Dauphin instead of Barrymore" (Thespian Magazine, Nov. 1792, p. 125). It is not stated who acted Duke of Gloster; doubling these two parts is not likely.] Account-Book: Paid The Prince of Wales's Porter for Performances in Cymon [on 31 Dec. 1791, et seq.] #13 10s. Receipts: #169 9s. 6d. (118.6.6; 46.8.0; 4.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

7817
25 October 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: 39th [recte 40th] time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season, when it had been acted 39 times]. The Ballet composed by Byrn. The Music composed, and the Ancient Scots Music selected and adapted, by Shield. The Overture by Reeve. Receipts: #323 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Johnstone, Macready, Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters in the Ballet-Byrn, Follett, Farley, Cranfield, Blurton, Mme Rossi (1st appearance on this stage); Musical Characters-Munden, Darley, Gray, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Martyr. Cast adjusted from Songs (T. Cadell, 1791): Oscar-Byrn; Carrol-Follett; Morven-Farley; Draco-Cranfield; Fingal-Blurton; Malvina-Mme Rossi; Pedlar-Munden; Bards, Peasantry-Darley, Gray, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters in the Ballet Actor: Byrn, Follett, Farley, Cranfield, Blurton, Mme Rossi
Role: Musical Characters Actor: Munden, Darley, Gray, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Martyr. Cast adjusted from Songs

Music: In afterpiece: the Harp and Pipes-Weippert, Courtney

7818
26 October 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 24th [recte 25th] time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season, when it had been acted 24 times. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews]. Receipts: #262 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

7819
02 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [This was Wilson's last appearance in London; subsequently he acted at Edinburgh, Manchester, &c.] Receipts: #250 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Just In Time

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

7820
03 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by William Pearce]: With new Music, Dresses, &c. The Music composed by Haydn, Sacchini, and Shield. The Scenery by Richards. Books of the Songs [W. Woodfall, 1792] to be had at the The Theatre. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr. 1793: This Day is published Hartford Bridge (1s.). Receipts: #294 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Munden, Incledon, Blanchard, Fawcett, Macready, Powel, Thompson, Cross, Rock, Farley, Rees, Mrs Harlowe, Mrs Cross, Mrs Clendining (1st appearance on any stage). Cast from text (W. Woodfall, 1793), and Larpent MS 960: Sir Gregory Forester-Quick; Peregrine Forester-Munden; Captain Fieldair-Incledon; Peter-Blanchard; Cartridge-Fawcett; Captain Forester-Macready; Travellers-Powel, Thompson, Cross, Rock; Waiter-Farley; Hostler-Rees; Susan-Mrs Harlowe; Mrs Jangle-Mrs Cross; Clara-Mrs Clendining.

7821
09 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Careless Husband [advertised on playbill of 8 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [This was F. Aickin's last appearance in London. Subsequently he acted for several years at the Liverpool theatre, of which he was the manager.] Receipts: #349 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Song: As17921029

7822
12 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 15 Apr. 1793]. Receipts: #279 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Dionysius-Farren; Phocion-Macready; Melanthon-Hull; Arcas-Powel; Calippus-Thompson; Greek Herald-Davies; Greek Soldier-Evatt; Philotas-Holman; Erixene-Mrs Platt; Euphrasia-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

7823
24 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Four Acts. The Music by Dr Arne and Giardini. Books of the Lyric Part of the Drama to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Pollock is identified in European Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 456. "Candour and impartiality compel us to advise this lady to desist from a pursuit that affords her not the most distant prospect of success. She is deficient in every dramatic requisite, her person alone excepted" (Morning Herald, 26 Nov.).] Receipts: #182 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End: A New Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi

Song: In: the Principal Vocal Parts-Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Barnett, Mrs Martyr

7824
28 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #207 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-Lewis; Lord Morelove-Pope; Servant-Evatt; Sir Charles Easy-Farren; Lady Easy-Mrs Pope; Edging-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Fawcett; Lady Betty Modish-Mrs Esten (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

7825
15 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #147 15s. 6d. (97.9.6; 43.10.0; 6.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Performance Comment: Modely-Wroughton; Freehold-Aickin; Shacklefigure-Suett; Heartwell-Whitfield; Sir John English-Fawcett; Constables-Phillimore, Alfred; Aura-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character); Flora-Mrs Kemble.