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11657 results for: Keyword - Mr Henry Roberts
We found 4742 matches on Event Comments, 4255 matches on Author, 2752 matches on Performance Comments, 1775 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4976
26 February 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton

4977
19 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Garman

4978
17 December 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Garman; II afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17991001

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202, but added The Lady of Dunblain-Mlle Privot (1st appearance)

4979
02 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Creation; Grand Selection 0

Music: End I: concerto on the clarionet-John Mahon; End II: concerto on the violin-C. Ashley

4980
07 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End II: a new Musical Address (composed by Horn)-; In course Evening: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms-Miss Stephens; and an entire New Ballad-Miss Stephens

4981
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

4982
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performances

4983
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

4984
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

4985
05 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry the Eighth [announced on playbill of 3 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #209 6s. (205/18; 3/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

4986
01 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera a new Ballet (composed by D'Egville) L'Amour Jardinier by Vestris, Fabiani, Sga Carolina Pitrot, Mlle Mozon, the two Mlles Simonet, Duquesney Jun., Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli

Performance Comment: , Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli .

4987
12 November 1707 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Masters

4988
06 February 1711 @ Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

4989
16 January 1734 @ Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tony Aston's Medley

4990
06 September 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental, by the best Masters from the Operas

Entertainment: And after the Concert is over, at the particular Desire of the King, &c. Mr Topham, from Islington, is to perform all the Experiment of his surprising Strength. With Singing by him, both in Italian and English

4991
01 April 1735 @ Swan Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: By the best Masters. Mr Charles will perform several new Pieces on the French Horn and Clarinet

4992
25 September 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

4993
27 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

4994
11 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Monologue: Before the Play: (By desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772

4995
17 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

4996
15 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930

4997
24 February 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

4998
06 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

Dance: II: Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

4999
17 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

5000
19 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: The Merry Peasants, as17751018