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5625 results for: Keyword - Mr Gar.
We found 4225 matches on Event Comments, 1138 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4301
15 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4302
20 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

4303
10 March 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4304
13 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Comic Dancing-Master J. and Miss Granier

4305
16 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Related Works
Related Work: Miss in her Teens Author(s): David Garrick

4306
20 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Fire at Honiton (Cross). For the sufferers at the town of Honiton by fire. This Benefit was given at the request of a gentleman of Distinction, who is Mr Garrick's particular Friend (Powel). Being the last time of the company's performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #200 (Cross). Charges to the sufferers, #70; tickets were: #199 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: Garrick

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17480920; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

Music: II: Concerto on Flute, as17480917

4307
28 March 1749 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Valet Author(s): David Garrick

4308
30 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. [The Devil to Pay was advertised in today's bill, but "Mrs Clive was taken ill, the Anatomist was Play'd" (Cross). Stage and Pit arranged as of 7 March.] Tickets and places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clarke's an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden. Receipts. #200 (Cross); charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Benedick Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Havard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti; II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: The Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

4309
31 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid

4310
06 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. As the Auctioneer [Foote] gives Tea tomorrow at Covent Garden Mr Woodward (by particular desire) on Saturday next will present him with a dish of his own chocolate, with an addition of one Mew at his cats. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #168 18s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Valet Author(s): David Garrick

4311
10 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Wife (Cross). Three rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mills at Gardyner's Printing Office, in Russel St., Covent Garden; or of Hobson at the stage door. Servants allowed to keep places on the stage. Last time of acting the opera this season. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17490127, but Player-Mills; Hornpipe-Roger, _Harvey; Filch-_; Mat@o@Mint-_; Beggar-_; Mrs Slammekin-_; Sukey Tawdry-_; Jenny Diver-_; Molly Brazen-_.
Cast
Role: Beggar</a> Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Related Works
Related Work: Miss in her Teens Author(s): David Garrick

Dance: I: (By Desire) Savoyards, as17480920; II: Dutch Dance, as17481203

Music: Between Play and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child

4312
12 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Phillips, J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister, others; particularly (by desire) a Minuet-LaLauze, two of LaLauze's scholars

4313
14 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens & Ye Scene of Peace

Performance Comment: As17490410 but Fribble-Garrick; rest omitted; To conclude with the Last Grand Scene of The Triumph of Peace-; (see17490221) in which will be a Grand Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison.
Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Garrick

Dance: III: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; IV: Scotch Dance, as17490118; V: Savoyards, as17480920

4314
15 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Villeneuve, Madem. Contair, her 1st appearance on the English Stage

4315
25 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny-Wilder, Miss Falkner

Dance: CComic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

4316
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Bruodin; Duke-Platt; Anthonio-Reynolds; Ferdinand-Walker; Gonzalo-Hall; Ventoso-Smith; Stephano-Massey; Mustachio-Green; Caliban-Machen; Sycorax-Mrs Miller; Trincalo-Morgan; Miranda-Mrs Sandum; Ariel-Miss Platt; Hippolita-Mrs Morgan; Dorinda-Mrs Laguerre (Hogan), but Mrs Phillips from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden (Daily Advertiser).
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): David Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

4317
23 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

4318
28 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: It being the first time of Mr Garrick's playing since his Marriage, the Jests in Benedick were receiv'd with uncommon applause: he married Mad. Viollete, on ye 22d of June: 1749 (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedict-Garrick; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Don John-Winstone; Claudio-Lee; Friar-Bridges; Borachio-Blakes; Dogberry-Taswell; Balthazar (with a Song in Character)-Beard; Verges-Neale; Conrade-Usher; Town Clerk-James; Sexton-Ray; Hero-Mrs Elmy; Margaret-Mrs Havard; Ursula-Miss Cole; Beatrice-Mrs Pritchard; In II a Masquerade Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Benedict Actor: Garrick
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Havard

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

4319
03 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): David Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Related Works
Related Work: Miss in her Teens Author(s): David Garrick

4320
05 October 1749 @ The Tiled Booth Blackheath

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Harlequin

Dance: [Entertainments unspecified.

4321
10 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Related Works
Related Work: The Little French Lawyer Author(s): David Garrick

4322
11 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4323
19 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar, With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Ryan; Caesar-Bridgwater; Caska-Sparks; Trebonius-Anderson; Metellus-Bransby; Decius Brutus-Ridout; Lepidus-Bencraft; Anthony-Delane; Octavius-Gibson; Legarius-Holtham; Cinna-Redman; Pindarus-Oates; Plebeians-Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Arthur; Calphurnia-Mrs Horton; Portia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Legarius Actor: Holtham

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

4324
02 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Barry; Brabantio-Berry; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Duke-Winstone; Lodovico-Blakes; Gratiano-Simpson; Officer-Usher; Desdemona-Mrs Elmy; Emilia-Mrs Pritchard; Iago-Garrick.
Cast
Role: Iago Actor: Garrick.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4325
06 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid to G. Garrick by order of managers #5 5s.; Paid to Glovers Bill 18s.; Paid a bill per order Mr Garrick #4 2d. (Treasurer's Book). [Further records this season indicate that "Glover's Bill" which occurrs regularly each Monday was a constant sum paid to a tavern or coffee house, rather than to a glover. The average payment was #1 15s. weekly, amounting to about #56 for the season. It will not be itemized further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Valet Author(s): David Garrick