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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.

1901
09 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

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

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Performance Comment: As17850427.

1902
11 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Spencer and Mrs Hedges. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d.(17/3/0; 10/6/0; 0/11/6; tickets: 145/16/0) (charge: #105 11s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; William-Baddeley; John-Phillimore; Sideboard-Burton; Sir Bashful Constant-King; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Hedges; Muslin-Miss Pope; Lady Constant-Mrs Brereton; Mignionet-Miss Hale; Widow Belmour (with a song)-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

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

Song: End of mainpiece Stand to your gum by Bannister; Bright Phoebus has mounted the chariot of day by Dignum; Jack, thou art a toper and Toby's brown jug by Dignum, Suett, Williames, Barrymore

Performance Comment: hathi.

1903
11 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild [prompter]. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 17, Bow-street, Covent Garden. The unfortunate circumstance of breaking his leg . . . has prevented his attending the theatre the whole season [and see 18 Apr.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyers' Panic

Performance Comment: As17850507, but added: Jones, Newton, Thompson, Bates, Darley, Painter, Besford, Bonnor; Miss Brangin; omitted: Cubitt, Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17850305athi .

1904
20 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

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

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17841211 .

1905
24 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17850430, but added: Simple-Kennedy; Rugby-Stevens .
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mr Page Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Performance Comment: As17850412.

Dance: In the course of the mainpiece Hornpipe by Prosser; End of mainpiece The Irish Lilt by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford

Performance Comment: hathi.

1906
09 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I a Statute Scene. [Meadows had 1st appeard in London, from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, at the HAY, 12 Feb. 1785.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Bannister; Justice Woodcock-Edwin; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Hodge-Wewitzer; Eustace-Davies; Young Meadows-Meadows (1st appearance in London); Luanda-Miss Langrish; Madge-Mrs Wells; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Rosetta-Miss George .

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17850603.
Cast
Role: : Mr Winterbottom Actor: Wilson

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17850601

Performance Comment: hathi.

1907
06 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17850623.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17850603 but Wewitzer in place of Wilson .
Cast
Role: : Mr Winterbottom Actor: Wilson

Dance: End of mainpiece The Female Balloonists; or, The Ladies in the Air by Byrne and the two Miss Simonets

Performance Comment: hathi.

1908
16 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. [Afterpiece in place of A Mogul Tale, announced on playbill of 15 July.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17850629.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17850706.
Cast
Role: : Mr Winterbottom Actor: Wilson

1909
13 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #166 7s. (164/17; 1/10) (charge: #63). [A tally-sheet for this performance in the Harvard Theatre Collection lists the following details: 338 spectators in boxes at #84 10s.; 253 in pit at #37 19s.; 314 in 1st Gallery at #31 8s.; 190 in 2nd gallery at #9 10s. Total of 1,095 spectators at #164 17s. After money #1 10s. Charge #63. Owing Mrs Inchbald #101 17s.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17850603.
Cast
Role: : Mr Winterbottom Actor: Wilson

1910
20 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17850603.
Cast
Role: : Mr Winterbottom Actor: Wilson

1911
12 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17850809.

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where

Performance Comment: As17850831.

Dance: As17850811

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

1912
16 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]); Lockit-Mrs Webb; Mat o' th' Mint-Phillimore; Filch-Meadows; Peachum-Wilson; Lucy (1st time)-Miss Langrish; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Polly Cast time)-Bannister. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Performance Comment: As17850819, but Suett in place of Edwin; Phillimore in place of Gaudry; added: Williams. hathi.
Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where

Performance Comment: As17850831.

1913
24 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #284 12s. 6d. (278/19/0; 5/13/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Performance Comment: As17851017.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851022.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

1914
26 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: From Beaumarchais. Receipts: #176 3s. 6d. (172/3/6; 4/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Wewitzer, Booth, Stevens, Thompson, Mrs Martyr; Mrs Bates, Mrs Webb, Miss Orme, Mrs Wilson. [Cast adjusted from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Count Almaviva-Lewis; Don Guzman-Quick; Antonio-Edwin; Figaro-Wilson; Basil-Wewitzer; Doctor Bartholo-Booth; Bounce-Stevens; Doublefee-Thompson; The Page-Mrs Martyr; Countess-Mrs Bates; Marcelina-Mrs Webb; Agnes-Miss Orme; Susan-Mrs Wilson.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851022, but Miss Brangin in place of Miss Stuart .
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

1915
28 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #232 13s. (229/0; 3/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Brunton (1st time at this theatre [i.e. in that character]); Dionysius-Aickin; Philotas-Farren; Melanthon-Hull; Areas-Fearon; Greek Herald-Davies; Calippus-Thompson; Greek Soldier-Gardner; Phocion-Wroughton; Erixine-Miss Platt; Euphrasia-Miss Brunton .

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

1916
29 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Cibber's Non-Juror, and the Tartuffe of Moliere. Receipts: #141 18s. 6d. (138/16/0; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Doctor Cantwell-Aickin; Colonel Lambert-Lewis; Seward-Farren; Sir John Lambert-Hull; Maw worm-Edwin; Darnley-Wroughton; Lady Lambert-Mrs Bates; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Webb; Betty-Miss Stuart; Charlotte-Mrs Abington .

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

1917
10 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Holcroft]: The Overture and the rest of the music entirely new, by Shield. With new Dresses, &c. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1785: This Day is published The Choleric Fathers (price not listed). Receipts: #240 4s. (238/3; 2/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: Characters by Johnstone, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Wewitzer, Palmer, Thompson, Gardner; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Bannister. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Don Fernando-Johnstone; Don Julio Pimiento-Quick; Pedro-Edwin; Don Salvador-Wilson; Fabio-Wewitzer; Don Fabricio-Palmer; Don Velasco-Thompson; Alguazil-Gardner; Footmen-Helme, Swords, Newton, Ledger, Bates; Laura-Mrs Kennedy; Jaquelina-Mrs Martyr; Donna Isabel-Mrs Morton; Donna Zelida-Mrs Bannister.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Recruiting Serjeant [performers not listed (see17851007)]; End of mainpiece new dance, The Piping Pedlar, by Byrn and Mrs Goodwin

Performance Comment: hathi.

1918
12 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #211 0s. 6d. (206/17/0; 4/3/6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: As17851110.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851110, but added: Ratchford

Performance Comment: hathi.

1919
15 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #153 19s. (149/4; 4/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: As17851110.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026, but Prologue omitted, and thereafter .
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: As17851112

Performance Comment: hathi.

1920
16 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #274 4s. 6d. (269/14/6; 4/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: As17851110.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: As17851112

Performance Comment: hathi.

1921
18 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Devil upon Two Sticks, announced on playbill of 17 Nov.] Receipts: #139 12s. 6d. (134/6/0; 5/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: As17851110, but Fearon in place of Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: As17851103

Performance Comment: hathi.

1922
08 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Duenna, announced on playbill of 7 Dec. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Morton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Inchbald. And see 10 Dec.] Receipts: #85 6s. 6d. (82/16/6; 2/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorn-Brett; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Luanda-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Mrs Martyr .

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851026, but Mrs Inchbald in place of Mrs Morton .
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

Performance Comment: hathi.

1923
10 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Warren is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. In afterpiece "Mrs Inchbald had the satisfaction of speaking, vice Mrs Morton, her own neat dialogue" (Public Advertiser, 12 Dec.).] Receipts: #203 16s. 6d. (200/10/6; 3/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Performance Comment: Percy-Lewis; Raby-Aickin; Sir Hubert-Hull; Harcourt-Davies; Edrick-Palmer; Knight-Thompson; Douglas-Wroughton; Birtha-Mrs T. Kennedy; Elwina-A Young Lady (who never appeared on any stage [Mrs Warren]) .Mrs Warren]) .

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: As17851208.
Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick

Monologue: 1785 12 10 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Holman

Performance Comment: hathi.

1924
13 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 5s. 6d. (169/16/0; 10/9/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17851027, but Leon-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Duke-Palmer; Altea-Mrs Davenett .
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17851130.

Dance: As17851112

Performance Comment: hathi.

1925
16 January 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "So much has been curtailed of [The Heiress] that the time of the representation is now three quarters of an hour less than it was on Saturday" (Morning Chronicle, 17 Jan.). Receipts: #250 4s. (227/6/0; 21/6/6; 1/1/6; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17860114, but omitted: Mrs Love, Miss Barnes .
Cast
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mr Rightly Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Palmer; Classic-Packer; Subtle-Waldron; Sir John Buck-Wrighten; Marquis-Burton; Robert-Chaplin; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Love; Lucinda (with a song)-Miss Stageldoir .

Dance: In afterpiece The Minuet de la Cour by Hamoir and Miss Stageldoir

Performance Comment: hathi.