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7760 results for: Keyword - Mr
We found 4812 matches on Roles/Actors, 4224 matches on Event Comments, 1138 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, and 18 matches on Author.

2726
10 March 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #282 3s. 6d. (211.7.0; 61.18.6; 8.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17951230.

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Performance Comment: As17951229.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17950919, but Mrs Caddy-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mr Caddy Actor: Benson

2727
10 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #206 2s. 6d. (202.12.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Performance Comment: As17960218.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960202.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2728
12 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #268 17s. (261.6; 7.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Performance Comment: As 27 Feb.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960202.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2729
15 March 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of First Love, advertised on playbill of 14 Mar. In it the playbill retain Palmer as Frederick Bertram and Miss Farren as Eliza Ratcliffe, but "The Publick are most respectfully informed that in consequence of the Indisposition of Palmer and Miss Farren, the Characters of Charles [sic] Bertram and Eliza in The Jew will be performed by C. Kemble and Mrs Goodall" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (102.3.0; 38.5.0; 5.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: As17951003, but Frederick Bertram-C. Kemble; Eliza Ratcliffe-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Goodison-Mrs Heard.
Cast
Role: Mr Saunders Actor: Maddocks

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17960305 .

2730
28 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, advertised on playbill of 19 Mar.] Receipts: #318 8s. (308.3; 10.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17960314but Host of the Garter-_; Jack Rugby-_.
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Pope
Role: Mr Page Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

2731
29 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30, and during the rest of the Season. Receipts: #185 14s. 6d. (183.8.6; 2.6.0). aHarlequin's Treasure 0. As 17 Mar.Receipts: #202 5s. 6d. (188.4.6; 14.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Performance Comment: As17960315ut Emmeline-Miss Chapman in place of Miss Wallis .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Performance Comment: As17960312 .
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

Song: As17960312

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

2732
02 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [More than one contemporary account alludes to The Lie of the Day as being acted, presumably by coincidence, on the same night as Ireland's Shakespeare forgery.] Receipts: #273 1s. 6d. (270.9.6; 2.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Performance Comment: As17960330 .

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960202, but Servants and Sailors-_; Mrs_ Castelle; Mrs_ Norton; Miss_ Kirton. Mrs_ Castelle; Mrs_ Norton; Miss_ Kirton.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

2733
04 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #246 10s. (231.5; 15.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17960328 .
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Pope
Role: Mr Page Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performance Comment: As17960317 .

2734
05 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #196 18s. (146.11; 42.1; 8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Performance Comment: As17950917, but Frederick Mowbray-Benson; Servants-_; Waiting@woman-_.
Cast
Role: Mr Wrangle Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: As17960401, but Perez-_; Shopman-_.

2735
06 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Aylmer for Chorus to 29th sxr. #18 12s. 6d. Receipts: #273 12s. (195.17.6; 71.6.6; 6.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: As17960227, but Freeman-Benson; Splitcause-_; Booksellers-_; Boy-_; Bailiffs-_; song-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17950919.
Cast
Role: Mr Caddy Actor: Benson

2736
07 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #162 8s. 6d. (159.18.6; 2.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Performance Comment: As17960330 .

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960402.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performance Comment: As17960319 .

2737
08 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Oracle, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #296 1s. (156.18.6; 14.15.0; tickets: 124.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Performance Comment: As17951104, but Julia (1st time)-Miss Mansel.

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: As17951104, but How much I love thee-_.
Cast
Role: Whim Actor: Mr Rees.

Entertainment: MonologueAfter dancing: Belles! Have at ye All-Mrs Mattocks

Performance Comment: Have at ye All-Mrs Mattocks.

Ballet: End: Dermot and Kathlane; or, The Irish Wedding (composed by Byrn). Dermot-Byrn; Darby-Jackson; Patrick-Holland; Father Luke-Platt; Norah-Mlle St.Amand; Old Kathlane-Miss Smyth; Kathlane (only time [i.e. appearance] this season)-Mme Rossi. [And see17931018.

Performance Comment: Dermot-Byrn; Darby-Jackson; Patrick-Holland; Father Luke-Platt; Norah-Mlle St.Amand; Old Kathlane-Miss Smyth; Kathlane (only time [i.e. appearance] this season)-Mme Rossi. [And see17931018.]And see17931018.]

2738
14 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Publick are most respectfully informed that the New Tragedy of Almeyda [advertised on playbill of 13 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred [see 20 Apr.] on account of the Indisposition of Palmer. Receipts: #205 1s. (145.5.0; 55.5.6; 4.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17951005.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17960310 .
Cast
Role: Mr Caddy Actor: Benson

2739
14 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #189 14s. 6d. (185.6.6; 4.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Performance Comment: As17960227, but Cross_.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960202, but Miss_ Kirton.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2740
16 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Macleish, printer [of the playbills] #118 19s. 6d. Receipts: #193 7s. 6d. (181.4.6; 12.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17960314but added: Simple-Simmons; Pistol-Williamson; Bardolph-Rees.
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Pope
Role: Mr Page Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Performance Comment: As17951012, but Bards-Miss _Kirton.

2741
26 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett 1st piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq. Never performed at that Theatre. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with universal Applause. With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Written by the Author of The Way to Get Married [Thomas Morton]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Oracle, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-Court-Road, opposite Howland-street. Receipts: #507 9s. 6d. (185.7.6; 10.0.0; tickets: 312.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Performance Comment: Zorinski-Holman; O'Curragh-Johnstone; Casimir-Pope; Zarno-Munden; Witski-Fawcett; Rodomsko-Toms; Radsano-Middleton; Amalekite-Townsend; Naclo-Williamson; Winifred-Mrs Martyr; Rachel-Mrs Mountain; Rosolia-Miss Wallis.

Afterpiece Title: A Nicknackatory

Performance Comment: Consisting of the following Songs: Master Thedy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnegin Delany's History of Himself-Johnstone; Black@Ey'd Susan-Incledon; The Quarrel of the Alphabet-; or, A Jig by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z Fawcett. or, A Jig by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960414, but Servants and Sailors-_Gray.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Festivity, as17951125

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts-Linton, Williamson, Blurton, Street, Abbot, Holland, Rees, Lee, Little, Miss Logan, Miss Ives, Miss Leserve, Miss Walcup, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Watts

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and recited at Free-Mason's Hall, last Winter, with universal Applause)-Fawcett

Performance Comment: End: Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and recited at Free-Mason's Hall, last Winter, with universal Applause)-Fawcett.

2742
27 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 1s. 6d. (147.3.6; 15.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17960416, but Dr Caius-Wilde.
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Pope
Role: Mr Page Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

Performance Comment: As17960423 Prologue as17960423 .

2743
28 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. "Neither in conception nor in power is [Mrs Jordan] adequate to the character...This play has not often been so ill performed in a London theatre as it was on this evening" (Monthly Mirror, May 1796, p. 50). Receipts: #231 8s. (162.14.6; 67.15.6; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17960425, but Romeo-Wroughton.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17960310 .
Cast
Role: Mr Caddy Actor: Benson

Song: Dirge, as17960425, but Miss _DeCamp

2744
28 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #181 3s. (176.7; 4.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Performance Comment: As17960414, but Julia Faulkner-Miss Mansel.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960426.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2745
29 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Claudius-Packer; Hamlet-Wroughton; Polonius-Dodd (1st appearance in that character); Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-C. Kemble; Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Marcellus-Benson; Bernardo-Phillimore; Ghost of Hamlet's father-Bensley; Players-Maddocks, Hollingsworth; 1st Grave@digger-King (1st appearance in that character); 2nd Grave@digger-Burton; Gertrude-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Ophelia-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character in London]); [in which she will introduce an additional Air by Linley-Mrs Jordan; Actress-Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17960426.
Cast
Role: Mr Milden Actor: Packer
Role: Mr Contest Actor: C. Kemble

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Performance Comment: End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King.

2746
05 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. 2nd piece: Written by David Garrick, Esq. Morning Herald, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, No. 63, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #367 8s. 6d. (127.15.0; 62.1.0; 9.17.6; tickets: 167.8.0; odd money: 0.7.0) (charge: #210 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Performance Comment: As17950917, but Servants-_; Waiting@woman-_.
Cast
Role: Mr Wrangle Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: A Much Admired Scene from Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Abraham-Waldron; Mrs Snip-Mrs Hopkins; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: Goodwill-Packer; Blister-Suett; Coupee-Bannister Jun.; Quaver-Dignum; Miss Lucy-Mrs Jordan; Timothy-Mrs Jordan.

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages, as17960429

Performance Comment: End: Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages, as17960429.

2747
05 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #167 16s. 6d. (162.12.6; 5.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Performance Comment: As17960218, but Cross_.

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960426.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2748
10 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book, 11 May: Paid Hoare the author of Mahmoud 5 nights at #33 6s. 8d., #166 13s. 4d. Receipts: #227 14s. 6d. (181.5.6; 45.10.0; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Performance Comment: As17960507.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17960426.
Cast
Role: Mr Milden Actor: Packer
Role: Mr Contest Actor: C. Kemble

2749
13 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #119 7s. (114.12; 4.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude And Hibernian Friendship

Performance Comment: As17960405, but Sedgely-_.

Afterpiece Title: Speculation

Performance Comment: As17951116, but Epilogue-_.
Cast
Role: Cornhillv Actor: Mr Deputy Gobble's Housev

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performance Comment: As17960426.
Cast
Role: Female Savage Actor: Mr Goosetree.

2750
16 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Notice on playbill of 13 May: Mrs Siddons having consented, at the desire of many Ladies and Gentlemen who were disappointed of Places for the New Tragedy, to delay her departure from Town [see 2 May] His Majesties' Company will perform Almeyda on Monday next. Being positively the Last Night of Mrs Siddons's Appearance this Season. Receipts: #448 16s. 6d. (377.14.0; 68.19.0; 2.0.6; ticket not come in: 0.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almeyda

Performance Comment: As17960420.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17960426, but Lord Rakeland-Russell.
Cast
Role: Mr Milden Actor: Packer
Role: Mr Contest Actor: C. Kemble