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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.

5726
12 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by the late Mr Dryden. Daily Advertiser, 12 Dec: We hear the Company ... are now rehearsing the three celebrated Plays of Ben Johnson, viz. the Fox, the Alchymist, and the Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Mills; Amphitryon-W. Mills; Mercury-Shepard; Sosia-Harper; Gripus-Griffin; Alcmena-Mrs Butler; Phaedra-Mrs Pritchard; Bromia-Mrs Shireburn .

Music: Select Pieces

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: Scaramouch by Janno. Tambourine by Miss Robinson. Harlequin by Nivelon

Performance Comment: Tambourine by Miss Robinson. Harlequin by Nivelon .

5727
18 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Dennis. Daily Advertiser, 19 Dec: There was an exceeding crowded Audience of Persons of Distinction ... at Mr Dennis's Benefit, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was pleased to send twenty Guineas as a present to that Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17331013 With a new Prologue [by Alexander Pope] .

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Performance Comment: As17331215.

5728
20 December 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. As Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late

Performance Comment: Troilus-Ryan; Hector-Walker; Achilles-Hale; Ulysses-Aston; Diomedes-Chapman; Ajax-Hall; Priam-Morgan; Aeneas-Houghton; Pandarus-Hippisley; Agamemnon-Lacy; Calchas-Neale; Patroclus-Salway; Menelaus-Wignell; Thersites-Quin; Nestor-Dawson; Andromache-Mrs Buchanan; Cressida-Mrs Bullock .

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: hathi.

5729
28 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne. Egmont, Diary, I, 474: I went to ... see the Alchymist, wrote by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: As17331220.

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Performance Comment: As17331029, but Bailiff-Tench .

Dance: In Afterpiece: Les Bergeries by Essex, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett .

5730
07 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tro1lus And Cress1da

Performance Comment: As17331220, but Nestor omitted .

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: hathi.

5731
07 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17331123 .

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17330926 .

Dance: Les Amants Constants by Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett .

5732
08 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17331201. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17340101.

5733
09 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere, by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17331212 .

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: As17340102.

Music: Select Pieces

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: V: Grand Dance in Mom us, as17331231

Performance Comment: hathi.

5734
11 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17331101 .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17331010 .

5735
12 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Second Piece: Written by the late Barton Booth, Esq; Set to Musick by Mr Arne. The Scenes, Machines and Habits all new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Performance Comment: Norfolk-W. Mills; Morton-Mills; Cecil-Berry; Davison-A. Hal lam; Gifford-Harrington; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Butler; Queen Mary-Mrs Heron; Douglass-Mrs Charke .

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Performance Comment: Dido-Miss Arne; Aeneas-Miss Jones; Cupid-Master Arne; Mercury-Kelly. Also The Burgomaster Trick'd. Harlequin-Francisque; Colombine-Miss Mann; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Servant-Cibber; Scaramouch-Janno; Peasants-F. Tench, H. Tench, Janno. Peasant Women-Mrs Pritchard, Miss Dancey, Miss Oates .

Dance: Les ombres des Amants Fideles by Essex, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett .

5736
17 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by the late Barton Booth, Esq; Set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Gloster-Cibber; Hastings-W. Mills; Dumont-A. Hallam; Bellmour-Berry; Ratcliff-Bowman; Catesby-Oates; Jane Shore-Mrs Butler; Alicia-Mrs Charke .

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aneas

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Dance: As17340112

Performance Comment: hathi.

5737
22 January 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17331102, but Buckingham-Hewit .

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: As17340121.

Dance: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport

Performance Comment: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport .

5738
22 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: as 19 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17331205 .

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Dance: As17340112

Performance Comment: hathi.

5739
23 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17331205 .

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: As17340102.

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: Les Amants Constants by Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: hathi.

5740
28 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17331116 .

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Arne; Princess-Miss Arne; King Arthur-Kelly; Dolalolla-Jones; Grizzle-Cropponi; Doodle-Ellis Roberts; Glumdalca-Corse .

Dance: By Nivelon, Miss Robinson, Miss Mann

Performance Comment: hathi.

5741
08 February 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Second Piece: As 19 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17331025 .

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17340208.

Dance: As17340129

Performance Comment: hathi.

5742
16 February 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Second Piece: Written by the late Barton Booth, Esq; Set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law

Performance Comment: As in edition (12 Feb.), but Joseph, Constable omitted .

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Performance Comment: As17340112.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17340208.

Dance: As17340129

Performance Comment: hathi.

5743
18 February 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: As17331121, but Widow Blackacre-Mrs Martin .

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle. Pigmalion, as17340114

Performance Comment: Pigmalion, as17340114.

5744
04 March 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17330926. With the same Prologue and Epilogue which were spoken by Mills and Mrs Heron at the opening of the House .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17331010 .

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: By Nivelon, Miss Mann, Essex, Miss Robinson

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: Hush, Hush, ye little Warbling Choir by Miss Arne. Per le Porte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne

Performance Comment: Per le Porte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne .

5745
05 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Comedy: Written by the late Mr Gay. [Not published before 1743, and no cast available.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Wife

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, Quin, Neal, Chapman, Aston, Salway, Morgan, Hall, Mrs Younger, Mrs Buchanan, Miss Binks, Miss Norsa, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Younger, Mrs Lacy, Mrs Forrester .

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: hathi.

5746
11 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17331006 .

Dance: Scots Dance, as17341004 French Sailor and his Lass by Maker and Mlle Salle. The Nassau by Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Miss Norsa, Le Sac, Mrs Ogden, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Pigmalion, as17340114

Performance Comment: The Nassau by Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Miss Norsa, Le Sac, Mrs Ogden, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Pigmalion, as17340114.

Song: By Miss Norsa

Performance Comment: hathi.

5747
11 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: dvertiser, 11 March: We hear, amongst other publick Diversions that are prepaid for the Solemnity of the approaching Nuptials, there is to be perform'd [at King's, 13 March] a Serenata, call'd Parnasso in Festa: The Fable is Apollo and the Muses celebrating the Marriage of Thetis and Peleus. There is one standing Scene, which is Mount Parnassus, on which sit Apollo and the Muses, assisted with other proper Characters emblematically dress'd, the whole Appearance being extreamly magnificent; nor is the Musick less entertaining, being contriv'd with so great a Variety, that all sorts of Musick are properly introduc'd in single Songs, Duettoes, &c. intermix'd with Chorus's something in the Stile of Oratorios, People have been waiting with Impatience for this Piece, the celebrated Mr Handel having exerted his utmost Skill in it.hathiBenefit Delane. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

Performance Comment: hathi.

5748
13 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1734 lists: Apollo-Carestini; Orfeo-Scalzi; Clio-Signora Strada; Calliope-Signora Durastanti; Cloride-Signora Maria Caterina Negri; Euterpe-Signora Rosa Negri; Proteo-Waltz .

5749
14 March 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: Amongst the many Rejoicings made on Account of the Royal Nuptials ... on Thursday Night Mr Giffard order'd 12 triomphal Arches to be erected before the House, which were finely illuminated, a large Bonfire to be made, Fireworks to be play'd off, and plenty of Drink given to the Populace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17340124.

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17340211.

5750
26 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As at HAY, 5 Dec. 1733 .

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17340316.

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. Watteau by Miss Robinson. English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. Revellers, as17340319

Performance Comment: Watteau by Miss Robinson. English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. Revellers, as17340319.