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6250 results for: Keyword - Mr Sparks
We found 4256 matches on Event Comments, 1828 matches on Performance Comments, 530 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 7 matches on Roles/Actors.

201
30 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. None admitted behind Scenes. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17650215, but Sir Jealous Traffic-Sparks.
Cast
Role: Sir Jealous Traffic Actor: Sparks.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End of Play: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

202
02 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Benson, Coates, Chatterley, Gregson, Gibson, Purser, Sparks, Smith, Whitmell, Willis, Weber, Wells, Mrs Byrne will be admitted. Receipts: #56 12s. (26.17.0; 28.1.6; 1.13.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17971102, but Don Felix-C. Kemble (1st appearance in that character); Gibby-Sparks; Lissardo-King.
Cast
Role: Gibby Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an Epilogue in the Character of Cupid-Master Chatterley

203
16 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Stokes, Archer, Sparks, Fisher, Chatterley, Chippendale, Miss Heard, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Benson will be admitted.] Receipts: #613 0s. 6d. (125.18.0; 43.11.6; 0.4.0; odd money: 18.18.0; tickets: 424.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17990205, but Alice-Mrs Sparks.
Cast
Role: Alice Actor: Mrs Sparks.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: Sparks, Roffey, Grimaldi

Entertainment: Monologues End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st time)-Miss Heard; Epilogue in the Character of Cupid-Master Chatterley

204
05 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Trueman. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Walcot as Mrs Heidelberg, but "An apology was made on behalf of Mrs Walcot, in whose stead the papt of Mrs Heidelberg was ably sustained by Mrs Sparks" (Dramatic Censor, II, 243. As afterpiece the playbill announces Three Weeks after Marriage, but "Mrs Jordan happening, like other great performers, to be taken ill (it is wonderful how much great actors and actresses are subject to sudden indisposition!) Trueman was under the necessity of subsituting The Prize for the afterpiece" (ibid, p. 244).] Morning Chronicle, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Trueman, No. 38, Norfolk-street, Strand. Receipts: #127 8s. (70.6; 55.6; 1.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #201 2s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As18000220, but Lovewell (1st time)-Trueman; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Sparks; Fanny (1st time)-Miss Heard; Trueman-_ [i.e. the character].i.e. the character].
Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: End: Strike the Harp-Master Suett, Master Heather, Danby; with an accompaniment of Piano Forte-; [a New Loyal Song Secure within her sea@girt Reign [(Dramatic Censor, II, 243)] (written by Dutton and composed by Moorehead,)-Trueman; End IV: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

205
30 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Died Mr Sparks late of Covent Garden theatre (Lloyd's Evening Post, 30 Dec.). Gave Duke of Cumberland's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #172 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

206
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

207
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto Or The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calistos Additional performers

208
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers Or The Good Naturd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

209
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

210
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

211
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

212
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles Or Iphigenia In Aulis

213
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage hater Matched

214
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

215
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

216
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

217
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

218
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

219
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

220
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

221
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

222
12 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Blagdon

223
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

224
03 June 1685 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

225
April 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal