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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.

1576
22 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Steddy. Receipts: money #28 11s. 6d.; tickets #109 1s. Probable attendance: boxes, 33 by money and 229 by tickets; stage, 5 by money; balcony, 3 by money; pit, 42 by money and 296 by tickets; slips, 7 by money; first gallery, 35 by money and 74 by tickets; second gallery, 87 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock

1577
31 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Cast
Role: Wife Actor: Hallam, Mrs Wetherilt
Role: With a Grand Masque of Heathen Deities Actor:

Dance: Monsieur La Forest, La Forest's Wife , just arriv'd in England

1578
05 June 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #83 4s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 163 paid and 46 orders; stage, 2 paid; slips, 13 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 225 paid and 18 orders; second gallery, 141 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1579
29 September 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #112 1s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 124 paid and 22 orders; pit, 264 paid and 3 orders; slips, 30 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 271 paid and 15 orders; second gallery, 128 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

1580
25 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Cast
Role: Shopkeeper and Wife Actor: Hallam, Mrs Haughton

1581
09 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #136 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 200 paid and 11 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 280 paid and 5 orders; slips, 31 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 312 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 112 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; Sylvans-Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling; Sicilians-Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Spiller; Old Man-Smith; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Old Woman-Miss Latour; Countrymen and Lasses-Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Lanyon, Smith; Earth-Dupre; Air-Glover; Fire-Poitier; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.
Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

1582
18 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #64 11s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 15 orders; Pit, 216 paid and 13 orders; slips, 8 paid and 1 orders; first gallery, 179 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 58 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

1583
21 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Lally, Essex, Boval, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter; particularly Fawns-; Cobler's Jealous Wife-; Dance-Lally's Son, Miss Brett

1584
29 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #91 12s. Proabble attendance: boxes, 128 paid and 12 orders; pit, 186 paid and 10 orders; slips, 21 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 208 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 99 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: See17271109 [and See17271124.

1585
09 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #46 0s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 29 paid and 4 orders; pit, 137 paid and 9 orders; slips, 6 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 93 paid and 12 orders; second gallery, 124 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Man and Woman Actor: Dupre, Mrs Anderson
Role: Mezzetin Man and Woman Actor: Glover, Mrs Pelling.
Role: Mezzetin Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson.
Role: Good and Evil Genius Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Mrs Chambers
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Pelling, Mrs Bullock
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lanyan, Mrs Laguerre
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Mrs Laguerre.

1586
13 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 paid and 4 orders; pit, 110 paid and 8 orders; slips, 5 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 120 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 81 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

1587
25 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: Mrs Booth, Thurmond, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson Jr

1588
23 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Milward and Mrs Berriman. Not Acted these Ten Years. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #34 9s.; tickets #163 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 26 by money and 290 by tickets; stage, 11 by money; pit, 32 by money and 429 by tickets; slips, 3 by money; first gallery, 73 by money and 271 by tickets; second gallery, 145 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Dance: End II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; IV: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock

Song: I: Hey Ho Who's Above?-Salway, Miss Warren; III: Si Caro Cara Si, In the Pleasant Month of May-Miss Warren; V: The Merry Cobler's Tragical End at Last-Leveridge

1589
18 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rowland and Widow Atkins. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #9 9s.; tickets #108 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 by money and 200 by tickets; stage, 2 by money; pit, 8 by money and 256 by tickets; first gallery, 15 by money and 200 by tickets; second gallery, 19 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: LL'Amor Che Parte Sento, Gently Touch the Warbling Lyre-Miss Warren; two part Song-Leveridge, Laguerre

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; Dutch Burgomaster and His Frow-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

1590
12 July 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6:30 p.m. Receipts: #21 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 41 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 51 paid and 69 orders; slips, 5 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 78 paid and 61 orders; second gallery, 35 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Song: Several English and Scotch Ballads-Miss Warren

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Eaton, Mrs Anderson

1591
16 July 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #15 18s. Probable attendance: boxes, 22 paid and 42 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 40 paid and 44 orders; slips, 2 paid; first gallery, 42 paid and 44 orders; second gallery, 27 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Song: As17280712

Dance: As17280712

1592
19 July 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years. Receipts: #19 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 27 paid and 46 orders; pit, 63 paid and 65 orders; slips, 8 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 40 paid and 89 orders; second gallery, 31 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Dance:

1593
23 July 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1594
14 October 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #104 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 88 paid and 23 orders; pit, 248 paid and 18 orders; slips, 23 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 298 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 152 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

1595
16 October 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #67 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 51 paid and 17 orders; pit, 196 paid and 15 orders; slips, 20 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 156 paid and 18 orders; second gallery, 69 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

1596
23 October 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #18 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 6 paid and 9 orders; pit, 58 paid and 32 orders; slips, 11 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 75 paid and 23 orders; second gallery, 46 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Singing Proper to the Play-Leveridge, Legare

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Pastoral-DuPre, Pelling

1597
08 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: Roger, Mrs Mills, Essex, Miss Robinson, Master Lally, Miss Brett; particularly The Pieraite-

1598
13 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command.Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. The King, Queen, Prince William, and three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

1599
15 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In five different Interludes, viz. Three Serious, and Two Comic. All The Scenes painted by Monsieur Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers

Performance Comment: Andromeda-Mrs Booth; Perseus-Lally; Mercury-Essex; Medusa-Thurmond; Gorgons-Houghton, Burney; Followers of Perseus-Boval, Rainton, Houghton, Burney; Attendants on Andromeda-Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar, Miss Robinson Sr; Hours of Sleep-Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar; Tritons-Thurmond, Essex, Houghton, Rainton; Cepheus-Fielding; Cassiopea-Mrs Shireburn; Venus-Miss Biddy; Minerva-Miss Raftor; Juno-Mrs Shireburn; Diana-Miss Smith; Sailors-Burney, Oates, Wright, Wetherilt, Burnet, Grey; Cupid-Miss Robinson Jr; Doctor (Colombine's Father)-Burney; Pierot (Doctor's Man)-Roger; Mezzetin (Colombine's Lover)-Ray; Harlequin (Mezzetin's Man)-Weaver; Colombine (in love with Mezzetin)-Miss Robinson Sr; Mopsophil (Colombine's Maid)-Mrs Walter; Jupiter-Essex.
Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Attendants on Andromeda Actor: Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar, Miss Robinson Sr

1600
29 November 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer