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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.

5976
08 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Xeno. Music by Broschi.] Lucy Wentworth, 8 Jan.: My mama has been so good to give me leave to goe to the Opera to night with Lady Anne. 'Tis to be a new one call'd Merophe, but the foolish Buffo's are to be left out which I am very glad of, but am sorry they are to have five hundred pound a piece for acting that silly stuf two nights if one may believe Mr Hamilton.The Opera is to be heard but once for he says 'tis the worst that ever was composed.-Wentworth Papers, p. 528. phay The Defeat of Apollo. Rehearsed. DDaily Advertiser, 11 Jan.: The Prologue to The Defeat of Apollo, which, in Compliment to some Gentlemen, was spoke last Saturday at the Rehearsal, encourages the Town to hope for what is new and entertaining. [For additional puffs, see Daily Advertiser, 11 and 12 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Edition of 1736 lists: Merope-Signora Antonia Merighi; Epitide-Carlo Broschi called Farinello; Polifonte-Francesco Tolve; Argia-Signora Eliz. duParc called Francescina; Trasimede-Signora Marg. Chimenti called Droghierina; Anassandro-Antonio Montagnana.

5977
10 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Belmour-Walker; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Marshall; Setter-Chapman; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Mullart; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Araminta-Mrs Templer; Sylvia-Miss Bincks; Lucy-Mrs Stevens.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: See17360917, but Hob-Laguerre.

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Hornpipe-Ferguson

5978
14 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17361216, but Lucy-Miss Rogers.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17361228.

5979
19 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: As17361214, but Bedamar-Berry; Renault-Chapman; Belvidera-Mrs Porter.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17370118.

5980
19 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17361113, but Plume-Wright; Brazen-Giffard; Scale-Hamilton; Scruple-Richardson; Constable-Hewitt; Melinda-_; Rose-_; Lucy-_.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performance Comment: As17370115.

Dance: II: La Caprice (new)-Mons Granier, the first time of his appearing on this stage, Miss Oates

5981
20 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17370114.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17361008.

5982
22 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 24 Jan.: We hear that the new grand Pantomime Entertainment, design'd to be perform'd in a few Days at [lif], was practis'd there on Saturday last before a great many People of Quality and Distinction, who gave particular Marks of their Approbation to every Change, and were highly pleas'd with the Musick, compos'd b Mr Jones

Performances

5983
24 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Two Misses Scott, Scholars of Nivelon. [Tickets at Mr Scott's, in Tavistock Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: See17361202.

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Performance Comment: As17361006.

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-the eldest Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, the Misses Scott

5984
25 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Performance Comment: Achilles-Salway; Lycomedes-Bridgwater; Periphas-Walker; Ajax-Mullart; Ulysses-Chapman; Diphilus-Aston; Diomedes-Laguerre; Agyrtes-Leveridge; Thetis-Mrs Mullart; Theaspe-Mrs James; Philoe-Miss Rogers; Lesbia-Miss Brunette; Artemona-Mrs Kilby; Deidamia-Miss Bincks.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17361008.

5985
26 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17361122, but Cassander-Cibber; Polyperchon-Berry; Perdiccas-Turbutt; Aristander-Shepard.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17361103, but Burgomaster-Pelling.

5986
26 January 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: First Piece: A Dramatic Satire on the Times. Third Piece: A Farce of two Acts. N.B. As Mr Green could not possibly be sure of the House till Monday Night late, he hopes the Shortness of Time will plead his Excuse for not waiting on his Friends, and that they will favour him with their Company notwithstanding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mirrour

Afterpiece Title: The Defeat of Apollo

Performance Comment: Blunt-Green.

Afterpiece Title: The Mob in Despair

5987
26 January 1737 @ Loriner's Hall

Event Comment: Acted in Loriners Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Precieuses Ridicules

Performance Comment: The Scholars of Mr Fell; Master of the French Academy in Old Broad Street, behind the Royal Exchange.

5988
05 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southerne. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toyshop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Performance Comment: Isabella-Mrs Porter; Baldwin-Rosco; Villeroy-Mills; Biron-Quin; Carlos-Cibber; Fernando-Griffin; Sampson-Harper; Jaqueline-Miller; Frederick-Este; Belfort-Winstone; Victoria-Mrs Thurmond; Julia-Mrs Pritchard; Nurse-Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17370129.

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; In III: Muilment; V: Denoyer

5989
10 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Sir W. Davenant and Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Berry; Ferdinand-Este; Caliban-Johnson; Hippolito-Miss Holliday; Miranda-Mrs Walter; Ariel-Miss Cole; Dorinda-Mrs Clive; Trincalo-Miller; Sailors-Mechlin, Cross, Ray; [with] Vocal Parts-Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive; dances-Mlle Roland, Thurmond, Muilment, Liviez, Pelling, Dukes, LeSac, Rector, Peters, Harper.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17370129.

5990
10 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17370114.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: As17361229.

5991
16 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: See17361115.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17370214.

Dance: Denoyer, Mlle Roland

5992
18 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17361006, but Polyperchon-Boaman.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: See17370214.

5993
22 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop. [For Occasional Prompter XXIII (partly on disturbances in the footmen's gallery), see Daily Journal, 22 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17361103.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17370214.

Dance: I: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; In III: Muilment; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

5994
24 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Pit and Front Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Servants may keep Places on the Stage, Side-Boxes, and the two Corner Front-Boxes on each Side of the Pit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: As17361111.

5995
25 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Mayor of Pasquin, Mr Dove. This Play will be acted by Pasquin's original Company. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

5996
04 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hyde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17361217, but Carlos-Hyde.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: As17360918, but Timothy-attempted (after the manner of the late facetious Mr Penkethman) Hyde.

Dance: II: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

5997
05 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Reading, Wife of Mr Thomas Reading, Attorney at Law of Salisbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Mrs Sullen-Mrs Reading; Archer-Roberts; Aimwell-Lacy.

5998
15 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: See17370114, but Macheath-Walker; Polly-Miss Bincks; Lucy-Miss Rogers; Peachum-Hippisley; Lockit-Mullart; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Martin; Filch-Clarke; Mat-Stoppelaer; Player-Paget; Beggar-James; Jenny-Mrs Forrester; Sukey-Mrs Templer; Mrs Slammeiin-Mrs Kilby.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Performance Comment: Sir Timothy Tough-Hippisley; Sprightly-Houghton; Cut'em-James; Toby-Salway; Leonora-Miss Bincks; Robin-Dan French.

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Miss LeBrun; In III: Hornpipe-Ferguson; End Afterpiece: Glover's Dance of Sailors-

Song: V: As I saw Fair Clara-Beard, Salway

5999
17 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop. [For a letter on the disputes between the footmen and the gentlemen, see Grub St. Journal, 17 March.] [There is in the Bennett Collection, I, 93, in the Birmingham Library, an exceptionally curious advance notice for a performance to be given at Drury Lane soon after Easter of The Conscious Lovers and The Devil to Pay, with no cast for either play in the bill. The announcement appears to refer to the spring of 1737 and presumably appeared around the middle of March. It is intended for the benefit of a Widow under Misfortunes and the bill bears the heading: Gift and Pleasure. According to the announcement, the widow has been left Italian pictures, antiqees, jewels, and precious stones; and she intends, for the encouragement of her benefactors, to make a gift of all the objects, which will be placed in three hundred parcels. Tickets for the performance are advertised at five shillings, and no one is to be admitted without a ticket. The pit and boxes are to be put together at two tickets for each person, and the first and second galleries are placed together at one ticket for each spectator. The tickets are not to be left with the door-keepers as usual, but only shewn and kept. On the day following the benefit a raffle will be held, by Mr Foubert's Patent Mathematical Machine, at Hickford's Great Room in Brewers Street, Golden Square, and only holders of tickets will be admitted to the raffle, After this entry was set, an advertisement was found in the Daily Advertiser, 18 April 1738, announcing this performance for 13 May 1738. The Daily Advertiser on 5 May 1738, however, announced that the proposed performance had been cancelled.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Scornful Lady-Mrs Furnival, the first time of her appearance on that stage; Elder Loveless-Mills; Young Loveless-Cross; Welford-Milward; Savil-Johnson; Morecraft-Shepard; Sir Roger-Griffin; Poet-Oates; Captain-Winstone; Martha-Miss Holiday; Widow-Mrs Grace; Abigail-Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17370214.

6000
22 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 375: I went...to see The Historical Register, wrote by Mr Fielding. It is a good satire on the times and has a good deal of wit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Performance Comment: See17370321.