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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.

1876
27 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainebleau

Performance Comment: As17841117.

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Performance Comment: As17841008, but Susannah-Mrs Bates .
Cast
Role: Mr Shandy Actor: Hull

Dance: AS 22 Oct

Performance Comment: hathi.

1877
07 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Performance Comment: As17841202.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021, but Miss Doiley-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

1878
11 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17841113, but Justice Shallow-Fearon .
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mr Page Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17840921, but Father Luke-Booth .

1879
15 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #265 16s. (250/9/0; 14/15/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Performance Comment: As17841202.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841207.
Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

1880
12 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #273 18s. 6d. (259/11/0; 14/0/0; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17850207.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021 .
Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

1881
12 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Beaumarchais' New Comedy [The Follies of a Day announced on playbill of 10 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed, on Account of Mrs Bates's Indisposition. [Afterpiece in place of The Poor Soldier, similarly announced.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17841027 .
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: As17841027 .

Dance: Afterpiece to be concluded as17841027

Performance Comment: hathi.

1882
17 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Damascus; afterpiece of The Critic, both announced on playbill of 15 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17841027 .
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Besford

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Performance Comment: As17841120, but Clodpole-Fearon; added: Damaris-Mrs Wilson .

Dance: As17841001

Performance Comment: hathi.

1883
21 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Performance Comment: Characters by Rossi, Baptist, Mme Dagville, Delpini .

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: 1st ballet with a Dance by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; to conclude with a Comic Allemande by Baptist, Mme Dagville, Delpini. vaudeville. End of 1st ballet Imitations as17850207, with several Deceptions, with Cards, by Baptist, Interpreter to Pinetti

Performance Comment: vaudeville. End of 1st ballet Imitations as17850207, with several Deceptions, with Cards, by Baptist, Interpreter to Pinetti .

1884
28 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Performance Comment: As17850221.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: With Dance and Allemande, as17850221 imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207, with a concert on the flute by Monzani

Performance Comment: After the Dancing, as17850207, with a concert on the flute by Monzani .

1885
05 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #257 18s. (233/10/0; 23/6/6; 0/11/6; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17850207.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021 .
Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

1886
07 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Performance Comment: As17850221.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850228

Performance Comment: As17850228.

1887
10 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Performance Comment: Characters by Mme Dagville, Miss Simonet, Duquesney, Delpini. imitations. End of 1st ballet, as17850228.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

1888
14 March 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Performance Comment: As17850221.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850228

Performance Comment: As17850228.

1889
04 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: As17850402.
Cast
Role: : Mr Ordeal Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17850315athi .

1890
09 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: As17850402.
Cast
Role: : Mr Ordeal Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17850315athi .

Dance: End of mainpiece Damon and Musidora by Harris and Miss Besford

Performance Comment: hathi.

1891
11 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Performance Comment: As17850221, but omitted: Baptist .

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: As17850221 imitations. As17850214

Performance Comment: As17850214.

1892
15 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. 1st piece: With a Kitchen Scene. [The new pantomime is identified in Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. The same newspaper on 2 Apr. states that it was the same as that produced at DL for Delpini's benefit in 1782 [10 May].]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime [don Juan]

Performance Comment: Characters by Simonet, Henry, Menage, Mrs Dagville, Miss Cooper, the two Miss Simonets, and Clown-Delpini .

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214, but omitted: Duquesney, Miss L. Simonet. imitations. End of 1st piece, as17850207.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

1893
16 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #139 17s. 6d. (124/3/0; 14/13/6; 0/8/6; tickets not come in: 1/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Performance Comment: As17850414.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021 .
Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

Song: As17850414

Performance Comment: hathi.

1894
16 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: As17850402.
Cast
Role: : Mr Ordeal Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Performance Comment: As17850412.

Dance: End of mainpiece Leap Year, as17841022, but Miss Matthews in place of Mrs Goodwin

Performance Comment: hathi.

1895
18 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Performance Comment: As17850415.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214 imitations. As17850415.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

1896
21 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17841027 .
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Besford

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17850305athi .

Dance: As17850416

Performance Comment: hathi.

1897
26 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: As17850402.
Cast
Role: : Mr Ordeal Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Performance Comment: As17850412.

1898
29 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: As17850402.
Cast
Role: : Mr Ordeal Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Performance Comment: As17850412.

Dance: As17850416

Performance Comment: hathi.

1899
29 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Performance Comment: As17850415.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17850214, but specifying: Henry-Miss L. Simonet; omitted: Duquesney . omitted: Duquesney .
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: End of pantomime The Devonshire Minuet by the two Miss Simonets. Imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

Performance Comment: Imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207.

1900
30 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17841211, but Mrs Page-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mr Page Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17841211 .