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5795 results for: Keyword - Mr Helme
We found 4240 matches on Event Comments, 1296 matches on Performance Comments, 539 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 11 matches on Roles/Actors.

876
23 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17681022, but Miller-Lewis; Add Kate-Miss Helme; Margery-Mrs Copin.
Cast
Role: Add Kate Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: End of Opera: The Tartars, as17681004

877
12 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Dunstall; Sir Jasper-Herbert; Charlotte-Miss Helme; Dorcas-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Helme

Entertainment: As17691010

878
20 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17691018 but Page-Miss Cockayne; Florella-Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Miss Helme.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: End: The Lamplighters, as17691005

879
24 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Clarke; Don Juan-Hull; Cacagogo-Dunstall; Sanchio-Davis; Alonzo-Perry; Copper Capt.-Woodward; Clara-Miss Mills; Maid-Mrs White; Old Woman-Miss Helme; Altea-Mrs Gardner; Margarite-Mrs Vincent; Estifania-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: Midas

880
20 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17691102, but Cacafogo-Morris; Clara-Miss Helme; With an Occasional Prologue-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

881
02 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17700124, but Landlady-Miss Helme; Buck-_; Snarl-_; Fleece-_.
Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: End Opera: The Dutch Dance, as17691111

882
02 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Dunstall; Sir Jasper-Saunders; Charlotte-Miss Helme; Dorcas-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17700924

883
15 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17710114, but Parts-Mrs _White, Miss _Helme, Mrs _Copin, Mrs _Evans.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Mrs _White, Miss _Helme, Mrs _Copin, Mrs _Evans.

884
23 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-a Young Gentleman who never appeared any stage; Aboan-Bensley; Governor-Perry; Blandford-Hull; Daniel-Shuter; Capt. Driver-Dunstall; Lucy-Miss Helme; Widow Lackit-Mrs Pitt; Charlotte-Mrs DuBellamy; Imoinda-Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere; III: (By Particular Desire) The Old ground Young, as17710318 concluding with: Allemande, as17710318

Monologue: Interlude.End: Press Gang; True Blue. As 18 April, but Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

885
29 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit or Viscount a la Mode

Performance Comment: Colley (Alias Don Chimney Sweeperio)-Shuter; Francisco-Quick; Carlos-Perry; Lopez-Thompson; Guzman-Wignell; Page-Miss Cockayne; Clara-Mrs Cockayne; Isabella-Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Miss Helme.

886
11 October 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Drunken Col.-Yates; Goodall-Dunstall; Oldcastle-Quick; Charlotte-Miss Helme; Mrs Highman-Mrs Ferguson; Lettice-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House-Miss Twist, Fishar, Hussey, Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon

887
23 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Woodward, 1st time; Strickland-Ross; Frankly-Bensley; Bellamy-Wroughton; Meggot-Lewes; Tester-Quick; Buckle-Cushing; Simon-R. Smith; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Mrs Lessingham; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Milliner-Miss Helme; Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Milliner Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: The Reel-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere,Miss Valois, as17711030

888
27 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these ten years. Benefit for Younger. Tickets delivered by Miss Helme will be taken. Charges. #68 6d. Profit to Younger #37 6d. plus #65 10s. from tickets (Box 136; Pit 134; Gallery 114). Miss Helme receiv'd #12 1s. clear from her tickets (Box 5; Pit 42; Gallery 45) (Account Book). Receipts: #105 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, as17720424 Sixfold Hornpipe, as17720424

889
29 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17710927, but Sir John-DuBellamy; Lady Loverule-Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Miss Helme.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton; End: The Provenzale-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford [see17700928]

890
25 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: Commissary-Quick; Young Loveit-Davis; Simon-Fox; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Pitt; Dolly-Miss Helme; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Mrs Macklin-Mrs Gardner. [See additional cast 13 Oct.]See additional cast 13 Oct.]
Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Before: The New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

891
23 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Gardner; Don Juan-Hull; Cacafogo-Morris; Sanchio-Davis; Alonzo-Perry; Copper Captain-Woodward; Clara-Mrs Helme; Maid-Mrs White; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Altea-Mrs Gardner; Margaritta-Mrs Vincent; Estifania-Miss Barsanti, first time, who performed in the PRELUDE.
Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Helme

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

892
11 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Woodward; Strickland-Ross; Frankly-Bensley; Bellamy-Wroughton; Jack Meggot-Lewes; Tester-Quick; Buckle-Cushing; Simon-R. Smith; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Mrs Lessingham; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Milliner-Miss Helme; Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Milliner Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: II: The Old Ground Young, as17720928

893
08 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Quick, Davis, Owenson, King, Saunders, Miss Pearce, Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Quick, Davis, Owenson, King, Saunders, Miss Pearce, Miss Helme.

Dance: After the Interlude: The Whim, as17730426

Monologue: 1773 5 8 End of Play: Interlude. An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis

894
25 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: As17730206, but Dolly-Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Miss Helme.

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miller, scholar to Fishar; IV: A New Dance-Langrish, Miss Besford, as17730426

Music: End: Concerto on Harpsichord-Master Condell

895
15 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis (From Theatre Royal, Dublin, first appearance in this kingdom); Stockwell-Clarke; Capt. Dudley-Hull; O'Flaherty-Shuter; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Baker; House Keeper-Miss Helme; Lucy-Mrs Willems; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Gardner; Charlotte Rusport-Miss Barsanti; Charles Dudley-Wroughton.
Cast
Role: House Keeper Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: Midas

896
22 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer Or The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: Commissary-Quick; Young Loveit-Davis; Simon-Fox; Isaac Fungus-Gardner; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Pitt; Dolly-Miss Helme; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Mrs Mechlin-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Miss Helme

Dance: End: A New Dance-. [See17731021]

897
23 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith; Major Oakly-Shuter; Charles-Bensley; Trinket-Dyer; Russet-Dunstall; Sit Harry-Quick; O'Cutter-Fox; Tom-R. Smith; Paris-Holtom; William-Cushing; Harriet-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Freelove-Mrs Green; Toilette-Miss Helme; Maid-Miss Pearce; Mrs Oakly-Miss Barsanti; Wit a New Occasional Epilogue-Hull, Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Toilette Actor: Miss Helme

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: The Highland Reel, as17731112, after the Epilogue

898
03 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs or Harlequins Gambols

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Principal Sylph-Miss Brown; Other characters-Quick, King, Wignell, Fox, Baker, Thompson, Banks, Wild, Harris, Davis, Hollingsworth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Willems, Mrs Helme, Mrs White; Colombine-Miss Twist; The Dances-Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon; To Conclude with a Capital Scene- never exhibited by Servandoni.
Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Quick, King, Wignell, Fox, Baker, Thompson, Banks, Wild, Harris, Davis, Hollingsworth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Willems, Mrs Helme, Mrs White

899
12 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The South Briton

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Shuter, Lewis, Wroughton, Hull, Dunstall, Fox, Kniveton, Quick, Lewes, Miss Barsanti, Miss Dayes, Mrs P. Green, Mrs Helme, Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Shuter, Lewis, Wroughton, Hull, Dunstall, Fox, Kniveton, Quick, Lewes, Miss Barsanti, Miss Dayes, Mrs P. Green, Mrs Helme, Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: IV: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; End I Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March

900
27 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Performance Comment: As17741226, but Additional scene now specified in the Public Advertiser. For sake of clarity the full bill repeated here: Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Lee Lewes, Dunstall, Quick, DuBellamy, Mas. Loader, Mas. George, Fearon, Banks, Cushing, Hollingsworth, Thompson, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs White, Miss Wilde; Dances-Aldridge, Helme, Daiguville, Sga Vidini, Miss Valois, Miss Besford, Mrs Stephens.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Aldridge, Helme, Daiguville, Sga Vidini, Miss Valois, Miss Besford, Mrs Stephens.