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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.

4626
18 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is recover'd & plays tonight-Mr Garrick taken ill, Holland did Chamont (Cross). [Probably Havard of Davies did Polydore, as both were familiar with the part.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Chamont-Garrick; Acasto-Berry; Ernesto-Simson; Monimia-Mrs Cibber; Page-Cautherly; Castalio-Ross; Polydor-Holland, 1st time; Chaplain-Blakes; Serina-Miss Minors; Florella-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

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

4627
19 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M+Mercury Harlequin seems to have been the afterpiece. The Public Advertiser carried the following notice under news from London: "Mr Garrick was prevented from appearing in the character of Chamont last night, by a sudden and violent Indisposition, but we hear that he is better, tho' not quite free from pain."] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: [Lilliput, ]Mercury Harlequin

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

4628
24 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We hear that Mr Garrick is so well recovered, as to be able to perform some day this week (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

4629
22 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Foote for ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece:Not acted these 12 years. [See 20 Nov. 1745.] Austin did Bertran r(first time) (Indiff) (Cross). Tickets to be had of Foote at the Whalebone Warehouse in James St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the stage door. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4630
08 March 1757 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

4631
14 March 1757 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

4632
28 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17570202, Masquerade scene including Minuet-Miss Macklin; songs-Beard, Miss Young; Short cast, only Garrick, Palmer, Woodward, Mrs Davies, Mrs Clive, Miss Macklin listed. Short cast, only Garrick, Palmer, Woodward, Mrs Davies, Mrs Clive, Miss Macklin listed.
Cast
Role: Don Felix Actor: Garrick, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: By particular Desire, Ellen@a@roon-Mrs Clive

4633
31 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Kitely Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: The Country Wedding-Beard; II: The Bonny Broom-Miss Young; III: By Desire, Music: Sir Watkins Delighton the Harp-Parry; IV: The Toast-Beard; V: A Duetto When Phoebus the top of the Hills does Adorn-Beard, Miss Young

4634
04 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4635
13 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. No Building on the Stage. Tickets of Dyer at Mr Eastgate's, Hosier, in Great Russel St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Beggar</a> Actor: Holtom

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329

4636
19 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: As17570103

4637
25 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

4638
26 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Tickets to be had at Mr Pervil's Auctioneer in Bow St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Poitier Jr; II: Old Scotch Dance-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Revels, as17570329 V: Louvre and Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard

Song: IV: A song-Mrs Chambers

4639
02 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Hayes will be taken. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 2 Feb. 1753.] This month was published An Answer to that Important Question Whether it is lawful for the Professors of the Christian Religion to go to plays (32 pp.) [Advises members of the Congregation to read Scriptures instead.] Also published A Letter of Abuse to David Garrick. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: II: A Comic Dance [dancers unspecified]-; III: A Hornpipe-Harrison; IV: A New Comic Dance-

4640
02 May 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

4641
03 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood [Sub-Treasurer]. Mainpiece: For last time this season. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Minors will be taken. Tickets to head of Wood at Mr Burn's in James St., Covent Garden, &c. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Melissa-Mrs Jefferson; Gayless-Jefferson; Sharp-Yates; Kitty Pry-Miss Minors; Epilogue on Lying written by Garrick,-Yates.
Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Valet Author(s): David Garrick

4642
05 May 1757 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

4643
27 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We Play'd at Covent Garden the Beggars Opera & ye School Boy for Mr Morgan's Benefit, several of our Company play'd, with leave from ye Managers (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4644
27 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Morgan, the Oldest Actor in England. Last time of the company's performing this season. Tickets to be had at the Bedford Coffee House and of Mr Crudge at the Stage Door. [This charitable performance included a composite group from Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17570413 but Lockit-Berry; Player-Walker; Beggar-Marr; Filch-Clough; Twitcher-H. Vaughan; Sukey Tawdry-Miss Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Beggar</a> Actor: Marr

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Country Lass, as17570512; II: Dutch Sailor, as17570525; III: Dutch Peasant, as17570512

4645
05 July 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert And Auction

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

4646
05 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4647
10 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Beard; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Berry; Filch-Raftor; Mat of the Mint-Blakes; Beggar-Walker; Player-Mozeen; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Cross; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Polly-Miss Macklin; Diana Trapes-Mrs Havard; In Act III a Hornpipe-Mathew; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the Opera.
Cast
Role: Beggar</a> Actor: Walker

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4648
16 September 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

4649
29 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Smith-Burton; Johnson-Palmer; other characters-Yates, Usher, Philips, Blakes, Mozeen, Clough, Scrase, Bransby, Atkins, Marr, Austin, Vaughan, Raftor, Walker, Allen, Rooker, Gray, Miss Minors, Mrs Hippisley, Miss Mills, Mrs Simson; With an Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New@rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal Author(s): David Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

4650
06 October 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004