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8365 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing
We found 5182 matches on Event Comments, 2242 matches on Performance Title, 1938 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7351
22 October 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in ten years. [See 28 April 1749.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

7352
05 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Havard; Moneses-Jackson; Bajazet-Holland; Hali-Young Gentleman, 1st appearance there; Selima-Miss Bride; Arpasia-Mrs Pritchard; Omar-Lee; Axalla-Packer; Dervise-Bransby; In Act IV, the original song of O! Gentle Sleep-Mrs Vincent; Usual Prologue-Lee.
Cast
Role: Bajazet Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Lamplighters, as17641029

7353
17 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these Two Years. [See 8 April 1763.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-Powell, 1st time; Horatio-Holland; Sciolto-Havard; Altamont-Packer; Lavinia-Miss Plym; Rossano-Ackman; Lucilla-Mrs Hippisley; Calista-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

7354
24 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 8 May 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Miss Twist, Miss Pitt, Miss Daw.

Dance: III: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

7355
27 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Holland; Duncan-Bransby; Macduff-Havard; Ross-Lee; Malcolm-Packer; Angus-Fox; Lenox-Parsons; Seyward-Moody; Seaton-Ackman; Donalbain-Mas Burton; Fleance-Miss Rogers; Wounded Captain-Jackson; Hecate-Champnes; Witches-Yates, Love, Granger; Lady Macduff-Mrs Bennet; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard; the Vocal Parts-Vernon, Champnes, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young; In Act IV, a Dance of Furies-.
Cast
Role: Macbeth Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

7356
30 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 2 years. [See 14 Jan. 1762.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Torrismond-Ross; Lorenzo-Smith; Bertran-Clarke; Raymond-Gibson; Dominic-Dunstall; Alphonso-Redman; Pedro-Anderson; Gomez-Shuter; Teresa-Mrs Stephens; Elvira-Miss Macklin; Queen-Mrs Baker; Drawer-Mas. Morgan.
Cast
Role: Pedro Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

7357
07 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 3 Nov. 1761.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Performance Comment: Sifroy-Ross; Glanville-Sparks; Beaufort-Gibson; Beaufort Jr-Dyer; Paulet-Clarke; Ragozin-Anderson; Isabella-Mrs Baker; Cleone-Mrs Bellamy, 1st appearance here in 3 years; Original Prologue-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Ragozin Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: AA Tambourine, as17641015

7358
18 December 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Mirabel-Palmer; Fainall-Havard; Sir Wilful Witwou'd-Yates; Witwou'd-King, 1st time; Petulant-Baddeley; Waitwell-Bransby; Foible-Mrs Bennet; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Clive; Mrs Fainall-Miss Plym; Mrs Marwood-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Millimant-Mrs Pritchard; In Act III, a Cantata-Miss Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

7359
01 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This year was published The Companion to the Playhouse; or, An historical account of all the Dramatic Writers, and their works that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland to the year 1764. Composed in the form of a Dictionary. for the more readily turning to any particular author or performance. Two vols. Dedicated to Garrick. (Who receives eleven and one-half columns of comment, more than any other dramatist.) This is the beginning of the Biographia Dramatica. This year was published Essays on Important Subjects intended to establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, by John Witherspoon (President of Princeton). Vol. II, contained a Serious Enquiry into the nature and effects of the Stage," being an attempt to show that contributing to the support of a Public Theatre is inconsistent with the character of a Christian (112 pp).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Thorogood-Love; Trumen-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Fox; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Maria-Miss Plym; Millwood-Mrs Hopkins; In Act I, a Song-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

7360
08 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Squire-Woodward; Belfond Jr-Smith; Truman-Hull; Lolpoop-Dunstall; Sir William Belfond-Shuter; Cheatly-White; Capt. Hackum-Buck; Shamwell-Cushing; Attorney-Anderson; Termagant-Gardner; Roger-Weller; Mrs Hackum-Mrs Copin; Margery-Mrs White; Sir Edward Belfond-Gibson; Ruth-Mrs Pitt; Lucia-Mrs Baker; Teresa-Miss Hallam; Isabella-Miss Vincent; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Attorney Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Grand Ballet Actor: Fichar, Miss Wilford.
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Weirman, 1st appearance on the stage
Role: Concluding with a Grand Ballet Actor: M Duquesney, Miss Wilford.

7361
07 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17650302 but Parts-Miss _Young, Miss Plym; in Act I of the Entertainment, a New Dance call'd The +Colliers-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers.

7362
23 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Farce in 2 acts written by Murphy for Mrs Yates (Genest, V, 67)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Choice

Dance: I: The Medley, as17641120; End: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

7363
26 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes-Powell, 1st time; Polixenes-Havard; Florizel-Holland; Camillo-Lee; Autolicus-Yates; Clown-King; Hermione-Mrs Pritchard; Perdita-Mrs Yates , 1st time; Old Shepherd-Burton; Paulina-Mrs Bennet; Original Prologue-Yates; the Vocal Parts-Vernon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young; In Act II, a Dance incident to the piece,-Giorgi, Berardi, Miss Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Florizel Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Choice

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

7364
11 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 9 March 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Antony-Smith, 1st time; Ventidius-Gibson; Dolabella-Clarke; Alexas-Dyer; Serapion-Anderson; Myris-Redman; Charmion-Mrs Stephens; Iris-Mrs Godwin; Octavia-Mrs Ward; Cleopatra-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Serapion Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Miss Twist, Miss Pitt, Miss Daw.

Dance: III: A Tambourine, as17641015

Entertainment: After: (for this night only) Serious, Comic, Post-haste Observations in his Journey to Paris-Mr Shuter

7365
13 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 21 April 1763.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Love; Smith-Burton; Johnson-Palmer; Others-Packer, Philips, Lee, Baddeley, Clough, Parsons, Moody, Bransby, Fox, Marr, Ackman, Vaughan, Raftor, Johnston, Strange, Watkins, Miss Pearce, Mrs Hippisley, Miss Mills, Miss Rogers; songs-; Dances-; A Dance of State-; Grand Battle-; in which will be introduc'd an Additional Re-inforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Regiments of Horse and Foot-.
Cast
Role: Grand Battle Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd an Additional Re Actor: inforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Regiments of Horse and Foot-.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: concluding with the landing of Cherokees in Americ Actor: . By desire of Chukatah, the Mankiller of Settico, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation.
Role: To conclude with the landing of the Cherokees in A Actor:

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

7366
23 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17650330 but Sir Jealous-Dunstall; Isabinda-Mrs Mattocks; Miranda-Miss Wilford, 1st appearance as actress.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Wilford, 1st appearance as actress.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17650417 but Termagant-Mrs Green; End Act I, a New Dance-Miss Wilford.
Cast
Role: Rovewell Actor: Davis

Dance: III: Rural Love, as17641212; End: A Minuet-Miss Valois, Miss Wilford

7367
06 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody and Griffith, acted only once these three years. Tickets deliver'd for the Committee, Romeo and Juliet, and A Play will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Grand Battle Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd an Additional Re Actor: inforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Regiments of Horse and Foot-.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Dance: End: Tambourine, as17650427

Song: End: By Particular Desire the Favorite song in the Play Love a-la-Mode,-Moody

7368
13 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Perry, Dibdin. Mainpiece: Acted but once these two years. Afterpiece: Perform'd but twice. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Afterpiece to be sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Montano Actor: Davis
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Artifice

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Mattocks, Dibdin, Mrs Mattocks

Dance: II: A Medley Hornpipe, as17650430 End: Rural Love, as17641212

7369
15 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell, Stoppelaer. None Admitted behind Scenes. Mainpiece: Not acted these three years. [See 31 Dec. 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Phocyas-Ross; Eumenes-Younger; Herbis-Tindal; Artamon-Bennet; Caled-Smith, 1st time; Abudah-Gibson; Daran-Anderson; Sergius-Gardner; Eudocia-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Daran Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: Rural Love, as17641212

Entertainment: After the Play: (this night only) Joe Haynes's Humorous Epilogue riding on an Ass-Shuter

7370
22 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hussey, Curtet, Mrs Viviez, Miss Daw. Mainpiece acted but once these 8 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Serapion Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: A New Dance-Hussey, Miss Pitt; III: A Hornpipe-Miss Daw; IV: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; End: Minuet-Curtet, Miss Barrowby

7371
14 September 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places may be taken from Johnson at the Stage Door. No money will be taken at the stage door. None will be refunded after Curtain is drawn up. To begin at 6 o'clock. [Footnote not further noted. Garrick on his return from the continent first introduced a method of illumination by lights not visible to the audience, thus replacing the huge chandeliers (Genest, V, 86). Published this season, A Critical Balance of the Performers at Drury Lane last Season, a broadside sheet at 1s., printed for C. Moran. This scale of the following twelve values war applied to 43 actors and actresses: (A score of 20 under each heading was perfect.) Figure; Grace; Spirit & Ease, Sensibility & Truth; Dignity & Manners; Expression & Pantomime; Low Humor; Genteel Humor; Elocution and voice; Dress; Dumb show; Noise. Beside each actor was listed his outstanding parts. (See Copy in Huntington Library.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Mat@o'th@Mint-Kear; Beggar-Burton; Player-Strange; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Vincent; In Act III, a Hornpipe-Miss Baker; To Conclude with a Country Dance-; New Occasional Prologue-King.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

7372
26 September 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-a young gentleman [Cautherley, first appearance in man's role]; Thorogood-Havard; Blunt-Parsons; Milwood-Mrs Hopkins; Maria-Mrs Palmer; Trueman-Mr Young, first appearance this stage; Uncle-Burton; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; [In Act I, a Song-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: To Conclude with the landing of the Cherokees in A Actor:

7373
11 October 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 24 Oct. 1763.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Weichsel
Role: Concluding with a Grand Ballet Actor: Fichar, Miss Wilford.

7374
11 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Moneses-Powell (first time); Selima-Mrs Palmer (first time); Arpasia-Mrs Yates (first time); Tamerlane-Havard; Omar-Lee; Prince of Tanais-Ackman; Dervise-Bransby; Hali-Strange; Stratocles-Ackman; Bajazet-Holland; In Act IV, the Original Song of O' Gentle Sleep-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Bajazet Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

7375
25 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. [Garrick made slight additions and some omissions to the altered play (Genest, V, 89).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: Dutch Dance, as17651120