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6075 results for: Keyword - Mr Phillip Messinger
We found 4324 matches on Event Comments, 1469 matches on Performance Comments, 645 matches on Performance Title, 98 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
04 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Furnival; Ferdinand-Kennedy; Hippolita-Mrs Phillips; Ariel (with the Songs proper)-Mrs Kennedy; Stephano-Morgan; Trincalo-L. Hallam; Alonzo-Lee; Caliban-Paget; Antonio-Dove; Gonzalo-Blakey; Ventoso-Cushing; Mustacho-Julian; Sycorax-Hallam Sen; Miranda-Mrs Hallam; Dorinda (with the Songs proper)-Mrs Cushing; Setebos-Granier; Pluto-Brett; Demons-Baker, Jackson, Toole; With all the Dances- proper to the Play; Concluding with a Grand Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite-.
Cast
Role: Hippolita Actor: Mrs Phillips

177
31 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: See17451228, but Hamlet-Banberry first time in that character; Horatio-Cushing; Gravediggers-Morgan, Dove; Ophelia-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: Captain O'Blunder; or, the Brave Irishman

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; Wooden Shoe Dance, Hornpipe-Banberry

178
18 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performance Comment: As17451123, but Capt. Otter-Phillips.
Cast
Role: Otter Actor: Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni, Sodi

179
17 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17560924, but Lappet-Mrs Pitt; New Prologue-Smith; Hornpipe-Phillips; New Epiloguein the character of a Boatswain-Shuter.
Cast
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

180
11 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Sevigny, Hull, Clarke, Owenson, Gardner, Thompson, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Yates, Prologue-; Epilogue-; In Act II: an Epithalamium-; vocals-Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Phillips, Mrs Woodman, Miss Valois, Miss Ogilvie, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Athamond-Smith; Indater-Savigny; Hermodon-Clarke; Seyfel-Hull; Haran-Owenson; Sulma-Mrs Vincent; Zobeide-Mrs Yates; Also unassigned-Gardner, Thompson (Edition of 1771).
Cast
Role: vocals Actor: Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Phillips, Mrs Woodman, Miss Valois, Miss Ogilvie, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

181
27 August 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Apollo And Daphne

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performance Comment: Vocals-Reinhold, Phillips, Miss Wilde, Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Vocals Actor: Reinhold, Phillips, Miss Wilde, Mrs Thompson.

182
02 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Richard to Holman, but "Holman being indisposed, Murray assumed the arduous part of Richard this evening. (Monthly Mirror, Oct. 1797, p. 238).] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Account-Book: Paid Music #9 1s. 8d.; Properties #12 8s.; Kettle Drum 5s.; Chorus Singers #1 10s.; Wardrobe #6 10s. 3d.; Supernumeraries #3 11s.; Sloper [master carpenter] for Scenemen #40 13s. 4d.; Phillips and Creswell #4 4s.; Lupino #2 14s. 6d.; Hollogan #2. Receipts: #286 17s. (282.15; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: a Ballet-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

183
16 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Gazetteer, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Phillips, at Swift's, bookseller, Charles-street, St. James's-square. Mainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]. Receipts: #230 10s. (110/15/0; 30/11/6; 0/5/6; tickets: 88/18/0) (charge: #108 9s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Macheath-Barrymore; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Suett; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Williames; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Miss Hale; Polly-Miss Phillips (1st appearance in that character). hathi.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Phillips

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills; End of mainpiece, as17840320athi

184
07 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Tickets to be had of Miss Phillips, at the West-End of Dorville's-Row. Afterpiece: Written by O'KeefFe, set to music by Shield, and performed with greatest applause at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth -Yatesmore; Sir Harry Sycamore-Waldron; Fairfield-Smith; Ralph-Wright; Mervin-Hill; Giles-Price; Fanny-Mrs Waldron; Theodosia-Mrs Clarke; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Johnston; Patty-Miss Phillips (1 st appearance in that character); Gipsies-The rest of the Company .
Cast
Role: Patty Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: Patrick (the Poor Soldier)-Simpson; Dermot-Price; Captain Fitzroy-Smith; Father Luke (the Irish Priest)-Watts; Monsieur Bagatelle-Benson; Darby-Waldron; Kathleen-Mrs Waldron; Norah-Miss Phillips .
Cast
Role: Norah Actor: Miss Phillips

185
04 February 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This performance was recorded by Count Dona of Sweden (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 337-38). Evelyn, Diary: This Evening I saw the Trajedie of Horace (written by the virtuous Mrs Philips) acted before their Majesties: 'twixt each act a Masque & Antique: daunced: The excessive galantry of the Ladies was infinite, Those especially on that...Castlemaine esteemed at 40,000 pounds & more: & far out shining the Queene &c. BM Add. Mss. 36916, folio 62: This night there is a play Acted at court by the Dutchess of Monmouth Countess of Castlemain and others. The Countess is adorned with Jewells to the Value of #200,000 the Crowne Jewells being taken from the Tower for her. There are none but the Nobility admitted to see it. The play is Madam Phillips translation of Corneiles Horace, finished by Sr John Denham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

186
05 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Jones. Afterpiece: A New Ballad Opera of one Act [by Edward Phillips]. [For a puff of the afterpiece, see Daily Advertiser, 25 April, and Daily Post, 2 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake; or, The Intriguing Servants

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Saraband, Minuet-Lally Jr, Miss Mears; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End of Afterpiece: Bartholomew Fair-F. Tench, Mrs Delorme

187
25 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake and Country Lass

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts, composed by Arne, particularly the March in Zara

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: II: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

Song:

188
10 February 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: This day is publish'd at 6d. An Apology to the Town, for Himself and the Bottle. By J. Nick-all. N.B. Mr P- was mistaken in the name. To which is prefix'd an exact representation of the scene of Harlequin's Escape into the Bottlev , introduc'd into the Pantomime of Apollo and Daphne, or the Burgomaster Trick'd, the Character of Harlequin by Mr Phillips. Printed for B. Dickenson, the corner of Bell Savage Inn, Ludgate Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

189
30 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. The Farce of The Knights intended and advertis'd to be acted is oblig'd to be laid aside on account of Mr Phillip's dangerous indisposition, who was to have perform'd the character of Sir Gregory Gazette. Tickets of Yates at Mr Walsh's Music shop in Catherine St. in the Strand, and at the stage door (playbill, 29 March). Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-; Devisse, Mad Auretti

190
05 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Lewis having a severe Hoarseness, Fortune's Fool [advertised on playbill of 4 Nov.] is deferred till Monday. Afterpiece [1st time: BURL 2. by John O'Keeffe. MS: Larpent MS 1141; not published, except for Airs (T. N. Longman, 1796)]: Partly new, and partly taken from The Golden Pippin [by Kane O'Hara]. The Overture and new Music by Reeve. The Selections from Pergolesi, Rousseau, Mornington, Fisher, Carolan, Rizzio, &c. With new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Scenery by Phillips, Blackmore, Hollogan, and assistants. The Dragon, the Car and the Machinery designed and executed by Cresswell. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. "The beauty of the scenery is only to be equalled by the ingenuity of the machinery. The descents and ascents of the Deities were managed with astonishing regularity and adroitness; and the Flying Cupids hovered in the air in very pleasing attitudes...The Pas de Russe, danced by Delpini, a-la-Parisot [see dl. 1 Oct.], in the character of a fine Lady, with Munden, was irresistibly comic" (Morning Herald, 7 Nov.). Receipts: #191 2s. 6d. (185.10.6; 5.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar; or, The Descent of the Deities

191
18 April 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Harrison; Ballance-Mynn; Kite-Machen; Worthy-Hicks; Melinda-Mrs Sandham; Lucy-Mrs Strange; Rose-Miss Palms; Brazen-Pullen; Sylvia-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Dance: HHornpipe-Jones; Dutch Skippers-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

192
21 September 1742 @ Southwark

Event Comment: LLee & Phillips, Great Tiled Booth. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Dorcas-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Phillips.

193
20 March 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Last time of performing this season. Benefit Furnival. [Prices 3s.,2s., 1s.] Tickets delivered out by Mrs Phillips, Cunningham, and Blakey will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Cushing; Kitty Pry-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Song: Cunningham

Dance: The three Graniers

194
24 August 1748 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: An Opera. At Phillips' Booth. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. To begin at Twelve each Day. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Lovers; Or, The Gamester Bit

Performance Comment: Gamester-Villars; Constant-Massey; Cheatwell-Palmer; Waitwell-Richardson; Paddy Drogheda-Morgan; Jenny-Mrs Butler; Mrs Cheatwell-Mrs Hind; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive; or, the Sallee Rover

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Colombine-Mrs Morgan; Captain-Jones; Spaniard-Richardson; Gripe-Smith; 'Squire-Villars; Blunder-Morgan.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips

195
18 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. To begin each day at 12 Noon. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. During the time of the Fair the Town will be entertain'd with an excellent droll, The Distress'd Merchant...Mr Phillips has been at great Expense in getting proper Machinery, Habits, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Merchant; Or, The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin; or, Fribble Trick'd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips.

Dance: Comic Dance,%Humours of Cloth Fair-

196
03 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Phillips. No building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: As17560330 but Osmyn-Smith; Zara-Miss Phillips, first time in that character and fourth time on any stage; With a New Occasional Prologue-Sparks.
Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Miss Phillips, first time in that character and fourth time on any stage

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: LLes Paisans Gallants, as17551203

197
28 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority For one Night only. Benefit for Phillips. By the Particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. To begin at 6:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Phillips; Iago-Henry; Duke-Foster; Brabantio-Martial; Cassio-Palmer; Gratiano-Smith; Lodovico-Wooller; Montano-Moss; Roderigo-Vandermere; Emilia-Miss Thomson; Desdemona-Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Phillips

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

198
08 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Receipts: #243 1s. (98/11/0; 22/0/6; 0/3/6; tickets: 122/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Dignum (1st appearance in that character); Sir Harry Sycamore-Parsons; Fairfield-Aickin; Mervin-Williames; Ralph-Suett; Giles-Bannister; Fanny-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Hopkins; Theodosia-Miss M. Stageldoir; Patty (with additional songs)-Miss Phillips .
Cast
Role: Patty Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Phillips

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills; End of mainpiece The Sportsmen's Return, as17840916

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Lark, from The Spanish Rivals (composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]) by Miss Phillips

Performance Comment: ]) by Miss Phillips .

199
29 October 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. An ancient Story, written by Mr Phillip Massinger, and Acted but twice since the Reign of King Charles the First; now revis'd with Alterations. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman; Or, Love And Liberty

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell

200
06 June 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Walker, to make up the Deficiency of his last. Mainpiece: An Ancient Story Written by Mr Phillip Massenger. Now Revis'd, with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Judge

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger