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8273 results for: Keyword - Mr Jefferson and Wife
We found 4541 matches on Event Comments, 2818 matches on Performance Title, 1792 matches on Performance Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2676
11 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Jones

2677
15 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mrs Billington's severe Illness rendering it impossible to perform Fontainbleau [advertised on playbill of 13 Mar.], Lewis hopes the above Comedy will prove acceptable to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have Places, and to the Public in general. Public Advertiser, 11 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #242 16s. 6d. (156.12.6; 5.10.0; tickets: 80.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-[see17880328

2678
03 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Jones

2679
23 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17880301

2680
28 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2681
29 April 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Goodwin. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Yesterday the 28th will be admitted. [The Satiric print, The Prince's Bow, had 1st appeared on 17 Mar. 1788; it was not by Bunbury, but by Frederick George Byron (Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires...in the British Museum, 1938, VI, 557).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End IV: Double Hornpipe-Mr and Miss Bourk

Song: End I: Crazy Kate-Chambers; End III: song-Arrowsmith

Entertainment: End II: Imitations-a Gentleman [unidentified]

Monologue: Vaudeville. End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini

2682
23 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macready and Miss Tweedale. Receipts: #167 15s. (51.3.6; 7.6.6; tickets: 109.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

2683
03 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End: The Irish Fair-Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir

Song: End IV: Ma chere Amie-Dignum

2684
04 June 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Ballet: The Wapping Landlady. As17880401

Cast
Role: Wapping Landlady Actor: Mr King

2685
25 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play and Farce designed for this Evening [The Constant Couple and The Romp, both advertised on playbill of 23 Sept.] are changed on Account of Mrs Jordan's Indisposition. Receipts: #170 4s. (124.19; 44.8; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2686
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

2687
14 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

2688
28 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 4, by Elizabeth Inchbald, adapted from Zelie; ou, L'Ingenue, by Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de Saint Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis. Beginning with 6 Dec. this was reduced to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 12 Dec. 1788: This Day is published The Child of Nature (price not listed). Afterpiece: Reduced [from 5] into 3 acts. Receipts: #150 15s 6d. (139.10.0; 11.5.6),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Ryder, Aickin, Farren, Fearon, Macready, Thompson, Mrs Mattocks, Miss Brunton. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), and European Magazine, Dec. 1788, p. 469: Count Valentia-Lewis; Duke of Murcia-Ryder; Peasant (Alberto)-Aickin; Marquis Almanza-Farren; Seville-Fearon; Granada-Macready; 2nd Peasant-Thompson; Servant-Evatt; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Mattocks; Amanthis-Miss Brunton; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks. [This was spoken as, here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken as, here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17880924

2689
03 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Sandy Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17881107

2690
11 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

2691
17 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17881002, but Orlando-Barrymore; William-Benson; Caelia-Miss Collins; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Jordan; Silvius-_; Jaques de Bois-_; Corin-_; Charles-_.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed

Dance: As17881113

Song: As17881002

2692
27 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Cast
Role: Pantaloon's Wife Actor: Mrs White

2693
17 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17890101

2694
19 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Chaplin

2695
10 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: End II: Negro Dance, as17890101; End: Fortune's Favor, as17881010; to conclude: a Ballet to God save the King-

2696
28 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In I afterpiece: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Occasional Address-Mrs Pope

2697
02 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash and Burton. Receipts: #166 19s. (12.9.0; 4.8.6; 1.7.6; tickets: 148.14.0) (charge: #107 14s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

2698
27 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Managed

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke; or, Trappolin's Vagaries

Song: End 2nd piece: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-; In 3rd piece: Quoz-Edwin

2699
29 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

2700
02 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed