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5860 results for: Keyword - Mr Punch
We found 4237 matches on Event Comments, 1272 matches on Performance Comments, 652 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

1076
17 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bath Unmask'd

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus; or The Mouse Trap

Performance Comment: Mars (Harlequin)-Dupre; Vulcan (Punch)-Lun; Venus (Dame Ragondi)-Mrs Legar; Three Graces (Three Scopian Women)-Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; Hour-Mrs Vincent; Cupid-Hall; Followers of Mars (Scaramouches)-Glover, Lally, Newhouse, Lanyan; Cyclops (Four Carpenters); Foreman of Shop-Spiller; other-Duplessy, Pelling.

Song: Mrs Chambers

Dance: Glover

1077
02 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady; Or, Harlequin's Opera: In The Manner Of A Rehearsal

Dance: Burny, Sandham, Eaton, R. Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon

Performance Comment: Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon.

1078
14 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; II: La Folette s'est ravisee-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; III: Musette-LeSac, Miss LaTour; IV: Scottish Dance, as17330507

Ballet: V: The Cobler; or, The Merry Wife Constant (new). Cobler (Punch)-Newhouse; Petir Maitre (Harlequin)-LeSac; Doctor (Scaramouch)-Dupre Jr; Merry Wive-Miss Baston

Performance Comment: Cobler (Punch)-Newhouse; Petir Maitre (Harlequin)-LeSac; Doctor (Scaramouch)-Dupre Jr; Merry Wive-Miss Baston.

Song: III: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

1079
14 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Janno. Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. Punches by F. Tench and Janno. Watteau by Miss Robinson

Performance Comment: Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. Punches by F. Tench and Janno. Watteau by Miss Robinson .

1080
07 April 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Don Pasquin d'Avalos

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon Comique & Dame Alison & Maitre Gervase

Dance: The last Lilliputian Scotch Dance. A new Lilliputian Chacone of Characters: Harlequin Man and Woman. Pierot and Pierraite. Punch and Dame Ragondy. Scaramouch

Performance Comment: A new Lilliputian Chacone of Characters: Harlequin Man and Woman. Pierot and Pierraite. Punch and Dame Ragondy. Scaramouch .

1081
23 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave: With Jupiter and Europa

Performance Comment: Endymion (as Royal Chasseur)-Beard; Chasseurs-Vincent, Roberts; Nymphs of Chace-Miss Brunette, Miss Male; Diana (Royal Huntress)-Miss Hillyard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits: Cupid-Glover; Graces-Miss Norman, Miss Sandham, Mlle Delorme; Hour-Mrs Ogden; Zephyrs-Tench, Desse, Livier, Delagarde; Psyche-Miss Rogers; Rural Swain and Nymph-Lally, Mlle D'Hervigni; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Lun; Mercury-Stoppelaer; Pluto (Punch)-Delagarde; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Desse; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Tench; Europa-Miss Rogers; Doctor-Nivelon; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Stevens; Doctor's Servant-Lalauze; Country Lads-Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson; Country Lasses-Mrs Kilby, Mrs Forrester, Miss Ambrose .

Entertainment: [Words by Phillips.] The Characters New Drest. With New Scenes, representing the exact Views of the Hermitage, and Merlin's Cave, as taken in the Royal Gardens of Richmond. Receipts: #185 4s. 6d

1082
04 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: End Afterpiece: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Peasant Dance by Tench and Miss Rogers. IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance

Performance Comment: IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance .

Song: I: Mock Italian Song by Roberts. III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c

1083
07 January 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 7 Jan.: We are inform'd, that a certain Author, Tir'd With the vain Attempts he has often made in the Political Way, has taken it into his Head, as unwilling to lay down the Character of a Reformer, to explode the reigning Taste for dumb Shew and Machinery, and has declar'd open War against Harlequin, Punch, Pierot, and all the Modern Poets, viz. Joiners, Dancing-Masters, and Scene-Painters. 'Tis said, that he has dispos'd every Thing in such a manner, and is so forward in his Preparations, that he will open the Campaign next Week, having three new Pieces in Rehearsal on the Stage of the little Theatre in the Hay-Market. The Design is, no doubt, laudable, but the Chance of War is doubtful; he makes head against a powerful Alliance; and we do not hear that he is strengthen'd by any of the Auxiliaries of Parnassus

Performances

1084
14 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Endymion-Beard; Chasseurs-Salway, Roberts; Nymphs of Chace-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Sprites: Cupid-Glover; Graces-Mrs Moreau, Miss Norman, Mlle Delorme; Hour-Mrs Ogden; Zephyrs-Tench, Desse, Davenport, Baudouin; Psyche-Mrs Laguerre; Harlequin-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Baudouin; Neptune (Pantaloon)-DuPre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Davenport; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Tench; Mercury-Laguerre; Country Lads-DuPre, Bencraft, Baudouin; Country Lasses-Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Doctor-Nivelon; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Stevens; Doctor's Servant-Lalauze.

1085
30 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17381028, but Pluto (Punch)-Villeneuve; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Desse; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Haughton; Country Lads-Dupre, Bencraft, Richardson; Country Lasses-Mrs Bullock, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun.

1086
08 September 1739 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Entertainment: A Grand Scene of Cupid and Psyche-; A Scaramouch Dance-Phillips; which he performed at the Opera House at Paris upwards of Forty successive Nights with universal Applause. A Dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; The Drunken Peasant-Phillips; The surprizing Performance of The Mountain Grecian-; A new French Dance-Mlle Richmond, lately arrived from Paris

Performance Comment: A Dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; The Drunken Peasant-Phillips; The surprizing Performance of The Mountain Grecian-; A new French Dance-Mlle Richmond, lately arrived from Paris.
Cast
Role: A Dialogue between Punch and Colombine Actor:

Music: A Compleat Band of Musick-

1087
28 March 1740 @ Ashley's Punch House

Event Comment: At Ashley's Punch House, Ludgate Hill. At the Desire of several Gentlemen. 7 p.m. 1s. [Repeated on 31 March, 3 and 7 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

1088
21 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Endymion-Rochetti; Chasseurs-Rheinhold, Roberts; Nymphs-Miss Burgess, Miss Davis; Diana-Mrs Chambers; Merlin-Leveridge; Jupiter-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Janno; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Haughton; Mercury-Salway; Doctor-Bencraft; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Kilby; Pierot-Lalauze (who has not performed upon that theatre these three years).

Dance: Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini

1089
03 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student; or, The Fall of Pantomime: With the Restoration of the Drama

Performance Comment: Harlequin Student-Yates; Colombine-Miss Hippisley; Mons Venterbleau-Peterson; Mynheer Van Grub-Julian; Tenebroso-Touchbury; Old Shepherd-Marr; Nurse-Olbeldiston; 1st Watchman-Dunstall; 2d Watchman-Charles; 1st Countryman-Dunstall; 2d Countryman-Crofts; 3d Countryman-Nelson; 4th Countryman-Naylor; Pierot-Shawford; John Trott-Dove; with a Grotesque Dance between Punch, Pierot and Scaramouch-Shawford, Vaughan, Olbeldiston; the whole to Conclude with a Representation of Shakespear's Monument-, as lately Erected; Jupiter-Crispe; Mars-Touchbury; Mercury-Brett; Cupid-Master Nanfan; Minerva-Miss Jones; Melpomene-Mrs Lamball; Thalia-Miss Medina; Ganymede-Mrs Dunstall.

1090
17 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17411015, but Mercury-Salway; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Chasseur Royal-Roberts; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pluto (Punch)-Davenport; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighillia)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Richardson.

1091
26 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Performance Comment: Master Punchbowl-Page; Lovegirlo-Mrs Charke.
Cast
Role: Master Punchbowl Actor: Page

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

1092
31 January 1743 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Godwin's Booth, Tyburn Road in Duke St., near Grosvenor Square. Princess Elizabeth, or Rise of Judge Punch, to which will be added by Persons for their Diversion, a farce call'd the Honest Yorkshireman. Pit 1s. First Gallery 6d. Upper Gallery 3s. [In spite of the wording, the entire performance may be a puppet show.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

1093
04 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Salway; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial spirits-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste; Jupiter in character of Harlequin-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pluto (Punch)-Dumont; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzitin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Richardson; Pierrot-LaLauze.

Dance: PPantaloon and his Enamorata, as17421215; Tambourine-Cooke

1094
20 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial Spirits-Picq, Mlle Domitilla, Mrs Delagarde, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mlle Bonneval; Pluto (Punch)-Lamound; Neptune (Pantalon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Picq; Pierrot-Lalauze.

1095
26 December 1743 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, Tony Aston, the oldest approv'd Actor in the three Kingdoms, being deni'd his bread in both Theatres, this Day exhibits his learned comic demonstrative Oratory on the Face, with English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs, in proper habits, Prologue and Epilogue, and all his own Pasquin Invention. 6 p.m. 1s. He is under Misfortunes, and desires the Company of the Ingenious and Humorous. [Repeated 29, 31 Dec.; and with some changes in wording on 2, 5, 9, 25 Jan., 6, 15 Feb. 1744.

Performances

1096
23 February 1744 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, by Inner Temple Gate Tony Aston exhibits a dialogue between Abigail and Vellum, Dorinda and Scrub, Hob and Mary...Prologue, Epilogue, and Pasquin.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

1097
22 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor; With Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits-Cooke, Dupre, Destrade, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; Jupiter in character of Harlequin-Woodward; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Mercury-Reinhold; Pierot-LaLauze; Pluto (Punch)-Rector; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Picq.

1098
29 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits-Cooke; Jupiter Harlequin-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Columbine-Mrs Havard; Pierrot-Lalauze; Pluto (Punch)-Rector; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Picq.

1099
19 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace (General Advertiser)

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Beard; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Woodward; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pierot-Lalauze; Pluto (Punch)-Rector; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Desse.

1100
26 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Jupiter, in the character of Harlequin-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Granier; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Vandersluys; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Desse; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Pierot-LaLauze.