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8900 results for: Keyword - Mr Love
We found 4468 matches on Event Comments, 3294 matches on Performance Title, 2078 matches on Performance Comments, 117 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6026
06 December 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Silla

Dance: End of Act II an entirely new Dance (composed by D'Auberval; the music by Barthelemon) The Pastimes of Terpsycore, an Allegorical Ballet, by Vestris Jun. (1st appearance at this theatre these 3 years), Blake (1st appearance), Henry, Zuchelli, Monetti, Lepicq, Mme Theodore D'Auberval (1st appearance this season), Mme Simonet, Mme Rossi; End of Opera a new Anacreontic Ballet (composed by D'Auberval) Friendship leads to Love by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Mme Simonet, Vestris Jun., Mme Theodore

Performance Comment: (1st appearance at this theatre these 3 years), Blake (1st appearance), Henry, Zuchelli, Monetti, Lepicq, Mme Theodore D'Auberval (1st appearance this season), Mme Simonet, Mme Rossi; End of Opera a new Anacreontic Ballet (composed by D'Auberval) Friendship leads to Love by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Mme Simonet, Vestris Jun., Mme Theodore .

6027
05 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: In 1st piece Love in her Eyes was sung by Norris; O ruddier than the cherry by Reinhold; Consider, fond shepherd by Mrs Kennedy; Heart, thou seat of soft delight by Miss George. The concerto consisted of "two Movements made up of common Ballads."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Drydens de

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill

6028
03 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both announced on playbill of 2 Nov. In afterpiece the playbill assigns Young Wilding to Bonnor, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Palmer.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17841022

6029
12 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Performance Comment: Oliver-Dodd; Justice Clack-Waldron; Hilliard-Williames; Vincent-Staunton; Scentwell-Burton; Beggars-Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer; Mrs Love, Mrs Smith, Mrs Booth, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Hale, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, &c.; Meriel-Miss Field; Rachel-Miss Phillips .

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch Dance [performers not listed]

6030
16 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Thalia Or A Dramatic Olio

Afterpiece Title: First Course an Operatic Dish The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Second Course a Comic Dish More Frightend than Hurt

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Booth, R. Palmer; Miss Brangin, Mrs Love, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Webb. Cast not known .

Afterpiece Title: a Desert The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Sapskull-Wilson; Gaylove-Davies; Muckworm-Barrett; Slango-R. Palmer; Blunder-Wewitzer; Arabella-Miss Langrish; Combrush-Mrs Lloyd .
Cast
Role: Gaylove Actor: Davies

Monologue: 1785 08 16 End of Second Course, by way of Entremet, Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson

6031
27 September 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith; Lord Trinket-Kennedy; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Charles-Bannister Jun.; Russet-Aickin; Captain O'Cutter-Moody; Major Oakly-Baddeley; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Oakly-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Lady Freelove Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron or Pantomimical Olio

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Clown-Grimaldi; Colombine-Miss Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred; Mrs Booth, Miss Hale, Mrs Burnett, Miss Cranford, Miss Barnes, Mrs Heard, Miss Palmer, Miss Tidswell, Miss Burnett, Mrs Love. 1st Singing Witch-Chapman .

Dance: In afterpiece, by Mills, Miss J. Stageldoir, and others

6032
02 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Man of the World and Patrick in Prussia [i.e. Love in a Camp; both announced on playbill of 28 Feb.] are obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Macklin and Edwin. Receipts: #143 14s. (13 8/1/6; 5/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17851112

6033
09 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: In Act II of mainpiece an Ode (composed by Dr Cooke). Vocal Parts by Dignum, Danby, Wilson, Phillimore, Alfred, Newbold; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Burnett, Miss J. Stageldoir, Mrs Forster

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Dignum, Danby, Wilson, Phillimore, Alfred, Newbold; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Burnett, Miss J. Stageldoir, Mrs Forster .

6034
15 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Morning Herald, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. "In the apparent assumption of madness [and] the express'd weakness and melancholy of the character Kemble is not equalled by any of his predecessors . . . Till [Mrs Siddons] there never was, in sensible discrimination, as there ought to be, the real madness of Ophelia from the feigned distraction of Hamlet. Till then the dignity, the love, even the pathos of the part [were] but poorly, if at all administered" (Public Advertiser, 17 May). Receipts: #326 14s. 6d. (137/3/0; 7/3/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 182/4/0)(charge: #109 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

6035
22 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Love in a Village, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book. The playbill for 19 Jan. has "17th Time," and for 25 Jan. "19th Time.'] Receipts: #217 6s. (210.8; 6.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

6036
30 April 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Taste or Lady Pentweazel sitting for her Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End III: Bow wow wow (from Patrick in Prussia [i.e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm

Performance Comment: e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm.

6037
16 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and housekeeper. [Afterpiece in place of Love in a Camp, announced on playbill of 15 May]. Receipts: #321 3s. 6d. (45.7.0; 2.17.6; tickets: 272.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: End: The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd- [see17861212]

6038
10 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Love in a Camp, but "Changed to The Padlock" (Account-Book), and see 17 Oct. "Edwin was very much indisposed on Wednesday evening, [which] prevented his appearing(World, 12 Oct.).] Receipts: #145 6s. (137.12.6; 7.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

6039
20 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode [both advertised on playbill of 19 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Macklin. Receipts: #145 5s. 6d. (139.17.0; 5.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

6040
29 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locandiera

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17871208

Ballet: End Opera: a new ballet (1st time), composed by Noverre, L'Amour et Psiche. By Mlle Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mlle Coulon, Chevalier, Vestris, Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala, Coulon. Cast from synopsis (H. Reynell, 1788): Psyche-Mlle Hilligsberg; Adonis-Didelot; Venus-Mlle Coulon; Hymen-Chevalier; Love, or Cupid-Vestris; Graces Furies and Fates-Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala; Mercury-Coulon. The music composed by Mazzinghi; with all new Scenery (by Marinari), Dresses (by Lupino)

Performance Comment: By Mlle Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mlle Coulon, Chevalier, Vestris, Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala, Coulon. Cast from synopsis (H. Reynell, 1788): Psyche-Mlle Hilligsberg; Adonis-Didelot; Venus-Mlle Coulon; Hymen-Chevalier; Love, or Cupid-Vestris; Graces Furies and Fates-Sga Bedini, the two Miss Simonets, Mlle Vedie, Henry, Jacolet, Saulnier, Sala; Mercury-Coulon. The music composed by Mazzinghi; with all new Scenery (by Marinari), Dresses (by Lupino). with all new Scenery (by Marinari), Dresses (by Lupino).

6041
12 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Love in a Village, but "Mrs Billington was taken ill & Rule a Wife was substituted" (MS annotation on BM playbill: cg, Vol. VI); as afterpiece St. Patrick's Day, but in the Account-Book (which also notes the change of mainpiece) it is deleted, and Three Weeks after Marriage substituted.] Receipts: #141 16s. (135.15.6; 6.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

6042
24 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted in place of Love Makes a Man, advertised on playbill of 15 Mar.]. Afterpiece: Loutherbourg's celebrated Pantomimev. Not acted these 3 years [acted 4 Dec. 1786]. With new Decorations, and the Scenery new painted. With a Processionv exactly representing the Dresses, Weapons, and Manners of the Inhabitants of Otaheite, New Zealand, Tanna, Marquesas, the Friendly Islands, Sandwich Islands and Easter Islands, Tschutzki, Siberia, Kamtschatka, Nootka Sound, Onalashka, Prince William's Sound, and the other Countries visited by Captain Cook. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #256 17s. 6d. (250.5.6; 6.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Omai or A Trip round the World

6043
16 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. [Afterpiece in place of Love in a Camp, advertised on playbill of 15 Apr.] Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 83, St. Martin's Lane. Receipts: #256 9s. 6d. (152.1.0; 7.2.6; tickets: 97.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Dance: As17871129

6044
10 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks & W. Purser. Tickets delivered for Love in a Village will be admitted. Receipts: #264 10s. 6d. (18.8.0; 8.14.6; 2.0.0; tickets: 235.8.0) (charge: #106 14s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17880313

Song: End IV: O Say bonny Lass, as17880506

6045
05 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Henry Mackenzie, based on La Fausse Inconstance; ou, Le Triomphe de l'Honnetete, by Fanny de Beauharnais. Larpent MS 852; text 1st published in Mackenzie's Works, Vol. VIII (Edinburgh, 1808), as False Shame; or, The White Hypocrite; it assigns no parts. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]. [Afterpiece in place of Love and War, advertised on playbill of 4 Dec.] Receipts: #202 13s. 6d. (191.3.6; 11.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

6046
21 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Delpini; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Barber (with A Twiggle and a Friz)-Edwin; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Bannister; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Lawyers-Davies, Reeve, Cubitt; Serjeant-W. Powel; 1st Recruit-C. Powell; 2nd Recruit-Cubitt; Artist-Letteney; Carpenter-Lee; Bricklayers-Thompson, Evatt; Doctor-Jackson; Woodcutter-Rock; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; Fishwomen-Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White; Colombine-Miss L. Simonet.
Cast
Role: Lover Actor: Farley

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

6047
23 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Performance Comment: [and see17891221] Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Delpini; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Bannister; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Serjeant-W. Powel; Recruit-C. Powell; Bricklayers-Letteney, Thompson; Carpenter-Lee; Gardener-Ledger; Woodcutter-Rock; Lover's Servant-Platt; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; Fishwomen-Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White; Colombine-Mrs Watts.
Cast
Role: Lover Actor: Farley
Role: Lover's Servant Actor: Platt

Dance: As17891231

6048
06 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Love in a Camp, advertised on playbill of 5 Feb.] Receipts: #273 16s. (252.11; 21.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Lover's Servant Actor: Platt
Role: Lover Actor: Farley

Dance: As17891125

6049
10 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Love in a Camp, advertised on playbill of 9 Feb.] Receipts: #209 15s. 6d. (191.4.6; 18.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17891125

6050
15 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Follett; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Cubitt; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast, my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Serjeant-W. Powel; Recruit-C. Powell; Bricklayers-Letteney, Thompson; Carpenter-Lee; Sportsmen-Cross, Evatt; Gardener-Ledger; Woodcutter-Rock; Lover's Servant-Master Simmons; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Davies, Reeve [Public Advertiser: Linton], Miss Williams, Mrs Mountain; Colombine-Mrs Watts.
Cast
Role: Lover Actor: Farley
Role: Lover's Servant Actor: Master Simmons

Dance: As17901020