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6095 results for: Keyword - Mr Hen. Purcell
We found 4292 matches on Event Comments, 1194 matches on Performance Comments, 631 matches on Performance Title, 369 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5201
13 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 15s. 6d. Bill setter's bill paid, #3 15s. 6d. [Miss Brent enter'd the 8th ins. at 13s. 4d. per night. Mr and Mrs Tariot enter'd ditto at 5s. each per night. Mrs Stephens advanc'd to 5s. per night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17591012; The Threshers, as17591005

5202
15 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

5203
20 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: McRuthen Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17591017

5204
30 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Ranger Author(s): Henry Woodward

5205
01 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

5206
03 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: McRuthen Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17591102

5207
09 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591102

5208
10 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591102

5209
01 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5210
08 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phyllis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

5211
04 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: TThe Plowman, as17591121; a Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

5212
05 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: McRuthen Actor: Shuter

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005

5213
08 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

5214
16 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

5215
19 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

5216
24 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Performance Comment: Actors only in bills, but Macmillan lists: Ferdinand-Holland; Henrico-Fleetwood; Constantia-Mrs Pritchard; Sylvia-Miss Pritchard; Prologue-Garrick in character of a Drunken Poet.
Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

5217
26 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

5218
01 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17600108

5219
11 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

5220
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggar Women Actor: Mrs Stephens, Mrs Pitt, Miss Young, Miss Sledge, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

5221
20 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

5222
21 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. A Tragedy [By John Home]. I went to my Office and then slept [?] in at Drury Lane w here I see Mr and Miss Hayes, Lady Lindores who I see into a coach, I slept in at Covent Garden Gallery before the play, but see nobody I knew so I would not stay, otherwise I would have went out as I had set my mind on the Beggar's Opera for once more, but waived it all & went to my Office (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

5223
29 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: Concerto On Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violin-Giardini

5224
08 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggar Women Actor: Mrs Stephens, Mrs Pitt, Miss Young, Miss Sledge, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

5225
17 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplishd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Song: WWhen Gentle Parthenissa-Lowe

Music: Several pieces on the Harp, particularly the favourite Irish Ballad Ellen@a@Roon, with variations, -Evans

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17591102; The Plowman, as17591121