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10242 results for: Keyword - Mr The: Cibber
We found 4554 matches on Event Comments, 3633 matches on Author, 3064 matches on Performance Comments, 534 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8801
25 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Cast
Role: Mother Midnight Actor: Hough
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: HHornpipe-Phillips

8802
09 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Pelling

8803
11 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17381102

8804
18 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Pelling

8805
22 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Pelling

8806
08 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Avory and others. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: A Hornpipe (by Desire)-Taylor

8807
20 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

8808
21 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

8809
26 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 27 Nov, Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Pelling

8810
29 December 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 29 Dec.: Mr Handel has hir'd the Opera-House in the Hay-Market for the Season, and intends to entertain the Town twice every Week with Oratorios

Performances

8811
04 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Hengist-Delane; Aribert-Hale; Offa-Rosca; Seofrid-Johnson; Oswald-Hill; Rodogune-Mrs Hallam; Ethelinda-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

8812
05 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Cast
Role: Margery Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Esther? Young

Dance: As17381213

8813
06 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. N.B. Mr Bullock hopes his great Age, upwards of Threescore and Twelve, will plead his Excuse, that he cannot pay his Duty to his Acquaintances and Friends, whose Good Nature may engage them to assist him in this Decline of Life, in order to make the Remainder of his Days easy and comfortable to him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17381016, but Fryar-Bullock, who has not appeared upon the Stage these Six Years, .
Cast
Role: Fryar Actor: Bullock, who has not appeared upon the Stage these Six Years, .

Song: Leveridge, Salway, Roberts

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

8814
08 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Tho. Parry, formerly a Wine-Merchant in Crutched-Fryars. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: A new dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; A Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A Serious Dance-Mlle Roland

8815
09 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Cast
Role: Margery Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Esther? Young

Dance: As17381213

8816
10 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber Jr.

Dance: Proper to the Opera

8817
10 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. N.B. And whereas building Benches, &c. on the Stage obstructs the Performance, and gives great Cause of Complaint, Mr Carey chuses rather to relinquish that Part of his Profit than incommode his Friends, and hopes no Person will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Cast
Role: Margery Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Esther? Young

Dance: As17381213

8818
13 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Centlivre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

8819
18 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

8820
19 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Parracide. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [A letter to the Daily Post, 19 Jan., by the author of The Parracide states that after his play was damned on 17 Jan. he was offered a benefit; at first he chose his own play, then decided to offer The Way of the World.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Song: Roberts

Dance: As17390115

8821
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Jan.: Last Saturday Night his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princesses, with several Foreign Ministers and their Ladies, were at [cg]: So great a Concourse of People came in order to see his Majesty there, as has scarcely been seen; many Persons who came to the Play-House at Four o'Clock, offering any Price, if they could possibly be admitted. In the Fury Dance of Macbeth, Mr Haughton had the misfortune to dislocate his Ankle-Bone, and fell down upon the Stage, and was obliged to be carried off; upon which his Majesty was graciously Pleased to send him Ten Guineas instantly, and to order him to be taken Care of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Salway; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Thompson; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Mrs Chambers; Mercury-Vincent; Amazons-Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Infernals-Leveridge, Haughton, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Thompson; Hussar-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-James; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus, a Fawn-Glover.
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald

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

8822
24 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald

8823
17 February 1739 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: With several Concertos on the Organ-; other Instruments-.
Cast
Role: With several Concertos on the Organ Actor:
Role: other Instruments Actor: .

8824
20 February 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Feb.: We hear that Mr Walker [of cg], who had the Misfortune of burning his Foot very severely some Time since...hopes in a short Time to be able to appear on the Stage again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

8825
13 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [Tickets at Delane's Lodgings, the Golden Ball in Exeter-Court, the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland