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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.

8001
09 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #236 8s. 6d. (188.4.0; 47.16.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir Clement Flint-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Lord Gayville-Palmer; Alscrip-Parsons; Chignon-Baddeley; Mr Blandish-Bannister Jun.; Mr Rightly-Aickin; Prompt-R. Palmer; Chairman-Chaplin; William-Wilson; Clifford-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Miss Alscrip-Miss Pope; Miss Alton-Mrs Crouch; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Sagely-Mrs Booth; Tiffany-Miss Tidswell; Lady Emily-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: Arthur-Kemble; Oswald-Barrymore; Merlin-Aickin; Conon-Packer; Osmond-Phillimore; Aurelius-Whitfield; Grimbald-Sedgwick (1st appearence in that character); Matilda-Miss Collins; Emmeline-Miss Farren; Philidel-Mrs Forster; Venus-Mrs Crouch; Rest of the Vocal Parts-Kelly, Williames, Miss Collett, Miss Romanzini.

Song: In II: song in character-Mrs Crouch [who sang it in all subsequent performances]

8002
27 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #182 17s. (180.0.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Molly Maybush Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

8003
28 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years. Receipts: #170 10s. 6d. (166.2.0; 4.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17880924

8004
08 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Afterpiece in place of The Critic, advertised on playbill of 6 Nov. For Banks see also 10 Nov.] Receipts: #103 15s. (75.2.0; 27.14.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Comus

8005
10 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by James Wild]: Reduced [from the same by Henry Fielding] into 3 Acts. Receipts: #287 8s. 6d. (282.2.6; 5.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: Quick, Edwin, Bannister, Aickin, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Fearon, Booth, Miss Reynolds, A Young Lady
Role: Sandy Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: As17881107

Music: Mainpiece: new Scotch Overture by Shield-

8006
11 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #203 1s. 6d. (170.4.0; 31.17.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

8007
12 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Witwou'd to Dodd, but "In Dodd's absence, Suett was Witwou'd' (World, 13 Nov.). As afterpiece the playbill announces the 9th night of The Doctor and the Apothecary, but it was not acted, presumably because of Dodd's absence. Both Kemble Mem. and the Account-Book list the substitute play. See 15 Nov.] Receipts: #81 17s. 6d. (65.7.0; 16.4.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

8008
15 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cymbeline[advertised on playbill of 14 Nov.] is deferred on Account of Mrs Siddons's Indisposition. Afterpiece: The Ninth Night [see 12 Nov. Acted in place of The Lyar, advertised on playbill of 14 Nov.]. Receipts: #120 5s. (84.9.0; 34.6.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Varland Actor: Baddeley
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

8009
17 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [Mrs Farmer is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Her 1st two appearances had been at the hay on 29 Aug. 1787 and 9 Sept. 1788.] Receipts: #157 19s. 6d. (121.1.0; 36.12.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Kemble; Fryar Lawrence-Packer; Capulet-Aickin; Paris-Barrymore; Benvolio-Whitfield; Tibalt-Williames; Prince-Phillimore; Montague-Fawcett; Peter-Burton; Apothecary-Waldron; Balthazar-Banks; Sampson-Hollingsworth; Mercutio-Dodd; Lady Capulet-Mrs Ward; Nurse-Mrs Hopkins; Juliet-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on that, and 3rd on any stage [Mrs Farmer]).Mrs Farmer]).

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Barrymore

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession to Monument of Capulets-; In which a Dirge by Linley? Sen-; Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Danby, Wilson, Alfred, Lyons, Cox, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Shaw, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Collett, Miss Romanzini

8010
19 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The plays originally intended to be acted on this night were The Man of the World and Rosina, both advertised on playbill of 18 Nov. The playbill for this night, however, announces Love in a Village, with Mrs Billington as Rosetta, and Barataria, and carries the note "On Account of the sudden Indisposition of Macklin, The Man of the World is obliged to be deferred." But a third change had to be made; in place of Love in a Village and Barataria were substituted The Conscious Lovers and Hob in the Well, occasioned by the sudden indisposition of Mrs Billington" (World, 20 Nov.).] Receipts: #158 3s. (150.14.6; 7.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: As17880915

8011
01 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #186 7s. 6d. (178.5.6; 8.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: A Young _Lady, Miss Fontenelle.
Role: Sandy Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: As17881107

8012
06 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #212 8s. 6d. (188.15.0; 23.1.0; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: As17881125

8013
06 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In Three Acts. Paid Macleish, Printer [of playbills] #9 6s. [this sum paid weekly]. Receipts: #233 17s. 6d. (226.15.0; 7.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

8014
08 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: In Three [shortened] Acts. Receipts: #231 1s. (228.15; 2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

8015
13 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Richard Bentley. Beginning with 4 Feb. 1789 reduced to an afterpiece of 2 acts. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 15 Dec.]: With entire new Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations. The Music partly selected from the works of Haydn, Purcell, Pleyel, Anfossi, Cimarosa, Gretry, Giordani, Sacchini [the score (Longman and Broderip [1788]) adds: Irwich]; and partly composed by Shield. With a Grand Overture by Salieri. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #245 3s. 6d. (238.6.6; 6.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Ryder, Quick, Edwin, Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Booth, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Webb, Mrs Billington. Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1788): Vizier-Ryder; Rathmud-Quick; Selim-Edwin; Sultan-Bannister; Carlos-Johnstone; Lazarus-Blanchard; Heli-Booth; Ismene-Mrs Martyr; Amra-Mrs Webb; Farruknaz-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End: a New Dance, as17881107, but Mrs _Ratchford

8016
18 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #118 8s. 6d. (81.8.0; 34.19.0; 2.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Palmer; Frankly-Wroughton; Bellamy-Barrymore; Jack Meggot-R. Palmer; Tester-Burton; Buckle-Benson; Ranger's Servant-Phillimore; Mr Strictland-Bensley; Jacintha-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Kemble; Lucetta-Miss Tidswell; Clarinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Mr Strictland Actor: Bensley
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

8017
22 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #223 7s. (182.19; 38.14; 114)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Banks, Bourk, Suett, Williames, Spencer, Phillimore, Fawcett, Fairbrother, Wilson, Jones, Benson, Alfred, Lyons, Cox, Hollingsworth, Mrs Booth, Miss Stageldoir. [For parts, and a brief synopsis of the action, see dl, 26 Dec. 1796].For parts, and a brief synopsis of the action, see dl, 26 Dec. 1796].
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Banks, Bourk, Suett, Williames, Spencer, Phillimore, Fawcett, Fairbrother, Wilson, Jones, Benson, Alfred, Lyons, Cox, Hollingsworth, Mrs Booth, Miss Stageldoir.

Dance: Afterpiece: Conclude with Dance-Hamoir, Miss Blanchet. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

8018
06 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Recepts: #121 5s. (92.18.0; 24.6.6; 4.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

8019
09 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 7th night of The Pannel, but it was not acted (see 14 Jan.). Kemble Mem. and the Account-Book both list the substitute play.] Receipts: #142 18s. (106.15.0; 32.19.6; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

8020
13 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Afterpiece in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary, advertised on playbill of 12 Jan.] Receipts: #145 10s. 6d. (125.10.0; 19.8.0; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-Palmer; Belmont-Barrymore; Blandford-Williames; Sir William Belmont-Phillimore; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Burton; Footman-Spencer; Servant-Alfred; Beverley-Kemble; Lady Restless-Mrs Siddons; Clarissa-Miss Collins; Tattle-Mrs Wilson; Tippet-Miss Barnes; Marmalet-Miss Tidswell; Belinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Williames

Afterpiece Title: Comus

8021
15 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #221 4s. 6d . (213.18.0; 7.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Johnstone, Bannister, Blanchard, Darley, Fearon, Thompson, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Billington.

8022
29 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Inkle and Yarico [advertised on playbill of 28 Jan.] is deferred on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Account-Book, 2 Feb.: Received of Brunton [manager of the Norwich theatre] for [permission to act] Highland Reel #30. Receipts: #242 5s. (231.13; 10.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Entertainment: Vaudeville As17890127

8023
04 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Reduced into 2 Acts. Receipts: #200 14s. 6d. (192.12.0; 8.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy

Performance Comment: As17890203 Prologue and Epilogue listed on playbill, as17890203, but the Epilogue-_ because on the 1st night it "was felt as offensive" (London Chronicle, 5 Feb.). It is not listed on any subsequent playbill.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Aickin, Blanchard, Booth, Thompson, Middleton, Miss Fontenelle, Mrs Webb, Mrs Bernard, Miss Stuart, Miss Brunton. Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. III

Afterpiece Title: The Prophet

8024
16 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [Epilogue by Robert Jephson.] Afterpiece: Written by D. Garrick, Esq. Public Advertiser, 31 Jan.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (166.10.0; 11.0.0; 1.4.6; tickets: 161.11.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Lethe; or, AEsop in the Shades

Performance Comment: Lord Chalkstone-Bannister Jun.; Mercury-Kelly; songs-Kelly; AEsop-Aickin; Fine Gentleman-R. Palmer; Frenchman-Baddeley; Drunken Man-Moody; Charon-Williames; Bowman-Lamash; Old Man-Parsons; Fine Lady (with song in character, and for this night only)-Mrs Siddons.

8025
26 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Windham Diary (26 Feb. 1789), 164-65: Play incomparably well acted throughout; no part, in my opinion, better than Miss Pope's. Receipts: #211 2s. (182.4; 28.3; 0.15)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Davis