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7866 results for: Keyword - Mr Robert Griffin
We found 4489 matches on Event Comments, 2639 matches on Performance Comments, 976 matches on Author, 620 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
20 May 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Dutchman and his Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Song: I: A Mock Italian Air by Roberts. III: Leveridge's Roast Beef Song by Salway

152
30 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Roberts' House in Duke Street, near lif]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queen; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Performance Comment: Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs Roberts; Norfolk-Mills; Davison-Milward; Morton-Turbutt; Cecil-Havard; Giffard-Winstone; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Butler; Dowglas-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Mary Queen of Scots Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Performance Comment: Harry Hunter (as originally)-Mrs Roberts; Phoebe-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Harry Hunter Actor: Mrs Roberts

Song: II: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: In V: By particular Desire, the Dead March in the last New Oratorio, called Saul and David, by Mr Handel-

Dance: V: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

153
18 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Roberts. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment (being one short Act of low Humour) intermix'd with Comic Songs to Old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. Tickets for Hallam and Wetherilt taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife

Performance Comment: Betty-Mrs Roberts; Old Gizzard-Hallam Sr; Constable Wrangle-Norris; Squeak-Wetherilt Jr; Jerry-A. Hallam; Mazzard-Rosco; Richard-Berry; Mrs Stubble-Mrs Wetherilt.
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Roberts

Music: III: Sonata of Corelli, proper to the Play-

Song: End III: A New Ballad to the tune of the Second Joke,-Mrs Roberts

Dance: IV: La Matellote-Miss Robinson; V: Last new Comic Dance-Rainton, Mrs Walter

154
17 December 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Performance Comment: Sir John-Griffin; Reynard-Ryan; Charles Heartfree-Leigh; Indolent-C. Bullock; Cobble Cause-Bullock Sr; Philip-Spiller; Sir Rowland-Boheme; Aminta-Mrs Bullock; Charlotte-Mrs Seymour; Maria-Mrs Knap; Fainwood-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Griffin
Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

155
05 March 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Related Works
Related Work: The Magician no Conjurer Author(s): Robert Merry

Song: As17220210

156
12 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: II: By a Scholar of Nivelon's. III: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. IV: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover and others

Song: I: Chanson a Boire, to Musick of Mr Handel's, sung by Leveridge and Laguerre. II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England

Performance Comment: II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England .

157
12 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

158
08 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: III: The Medley-Giorgi's Scholars

159
10 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: A New Cantata-Roberts; The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge

160
06 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Song: Leveridge, Salway, Roberts

Dance: Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates, Thompson, Richardson, Miss Cantrel, Mrs LeBrun

161
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

162
14 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: I: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; II: Je ne scai quoy-Richardson, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Hornpipe-Yates; V: Glover's Grecian Sailors-

Song: III: Roberts

163
10 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Scruple Actor: Roberts

Song: II: Bacchus Triumphant-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Trio of True Happiness-Leveridge, Roberts, Miss Young; V: An Epilogue in Music, addressed to the Audience,-Leveridge, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Dance: III: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

164
October 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Step-mother

Related Works
Related Work: The Step-Mother Author(s): Sir Robert Stapylton

165
19 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by Sir Robert Howard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Related Works
Related Work: The Indian Queen Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Music: With the Original Vocal and Instrumental Musick , composed by that famous English Master Mr Henry Purcell; The principal Parts-Randall, Renton, Teno, Burkhead, Mrs Willis, Mrs Mills, Miss Booth

Dance:

166
23 August 1718 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: As17180802

167
23 August 1743 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. Taken from Shakespear. [Possibly a puppet show.] The occasion is the Retaking the English Standard belonging to Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Horse by George Darraugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ephesian Duke; Or, Blunder Upon Blunder, Yet All's Right At Last

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Dettingen

Dance: WWooden@Shoe Dance-LaPierre, never performed by any but himself; Le Paisans Leger-LaPierre, Mlle Mariette

Song: Blogg, Miss Atherton; The Whole to conclude with a Song made upon that Occasion, set to Musick, and-Mr Blogg

168
18 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for several: Master Cape, C. Roberts, West, Tomlinson, Mortimer. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [Tomlinson's Epilogue in Larpent MS 213.] The mute speaks again, and mimics tragedians and comedians [See 20 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Related Works
Related Work: The King and the Miller of Mansfield Author(s): Robert Dodsley

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Cape (Scholar to Walker); IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love, as17620513

Entertainment: New Sketch of his own picture drawn from the life by way of Epilogue-Mr Tomlinson, his second time of attempting to speak on the Stage

169
19 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

170
17 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

171
21 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17780409

172
25 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour, Gavotte-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Entertainment: Monologue In IV: Description of a Man of War and Sea Fight-Moody

173
29 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders Of Derbyshire

174
08 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

175
12 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth