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6134 results for: Keyword - Mr Betterton
We found 4319 matches on Event Comments, 1376 matches on Performance Comments, 529 matches on Performance Title, 309 matches on Author, and 22 matches on Roles/Actors.

3026
24 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: Incidental: Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak their songs; To welcome mirth and harmless glee-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak; I have a silent sorrow here-Mrs Bland

Dance: Incidental to mainpiece: Principal Dancer-Sga Bossi DelCaro. [These were the same in all subsequent performances, except on 5 May.

3027
28 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Hooly and Fairly; or, The Highland Lad and Lowland Lass

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Reel-; In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Song: In V 1st piece: a Dirge, as17970925; In 2nd piece: Highland Laddy-; Hooly and Fairly-; Katharine Ogie- [recte Oggy]; Andrew and his Cutty Gun-; Todlen Hame-; Tulloch Goram-; The Little Farthing Rushlight-Graham

3028
25 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Miss Betterton.

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Song: In course of Evening: The Bells of Aberdovy-Townsend; accompanied on the harp-Weippert; The Mid Watch-Incledon; The Beggar, in character,-Townsend; The Pledge of Love, as17980515; a favorite Comic Song-Fawcett

Entertainment: Imitations.An Exhibition of Theatrical Portraits-Townsend

3029
06 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ugly Club

Afterpiece Title: The Castle-Spectre

Afterpiece Title: A Nosegay of Weeds; or, Old Servants in New Places

3030
12 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: In course: Fal Lal , from The Cherokee,-Mrs Bland

Entertainment: End 2nd piece: a variety of Imitations (for that night only)-Caulfield

3031
13 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

3032
19 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

3033
21 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

3034
14 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

3035
23 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambro-britons

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End II: (by permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane) the favourite song in The Stranger I have a silent sorrow here (The Words by R. B. Sheridan, Esq., the Air by her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire)-Mrs Bland; End: A Musical Elegy on the late Mr Palmer- (composed by The Earl of Abingdon; the words from The Stranger); The United Englishmen-Munden; A favourite song-Mrs Hindmarsh; Little Taffline ; or, The silken sash-Mrs Bland

3036
25 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

3037
03 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: Hamlet; Prince of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

3038
07 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: An Olla Podrida

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

3039
22 September 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

3040
03 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

3041
24 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

3042
30 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

3043
25 January 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Cast
Role: Caroline Actor: Miss Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

3044
02 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The Old Cloathsman

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Cast
Role: Headlong Actor: Betterton

3045
08 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fun And Frolic

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

3046
25 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolic

Dance: The Highland Lovers [see17990423]-; with Un Pas de Trois-Bologna, Miss E. Cabanel, Miss H. Cabanel; Un Pas Seul Serieux-Miss H. Cabanel; Un Pas Seul de Demie Caractere-Miss E. Cabanel, Platt

Song: End II: The Death of Admiral Benbow-Incledon; End IV: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; The Tight Little Island-Townsend

3047
05 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Song: As17990529

3048
05 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Horse And The Widow

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The School for Arrogance

Dance: In II 2nd piece: Negro Dance, as17990513, but added: Blurton

Song: In course Evening: Young William was a Seaman true-Incledon; A favorite new song-Miss Waters; comic song-Munden; Old Towler-Incledon; Boxing the Compass-Fawcett

3049
20 June 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

3050
29 June 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick