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9099 results for: Keyword - Mr Walker and Wife
We found 4652 matches on Event Comments, 2929 matches on Performance Title, 2578 matches on Performance Comments, 24 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
17 September 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Mrs Farrell (of cg)

52
13 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Catherine And Petruchio

Dance: As17791022

53
01 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801027

54
08 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Mrs Page to Mrs Wilson, and Mrs Ford to Miss Younge, but on the Kemble playbill both these names are deleted. Mrs Whitfield's name is written above Mrs Wilson's, but the name of Miss Younge's substitute has been cut by the binder; she was almost certainly Mrs Mattocks (see 25 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #155 1s. (149/18; 5/3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17811101

55
17 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

56
11 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "The after-piece-that old obsolete Trash, the Country Madcap, by the aid of Quick and Mrs Mattocks' good Acting, was endured. Reinhold's imitation of Italian Singing . . . got three Peals of Applause" (Public Advertiser, 13 Oct.). Receipts: #150 4s. 6d. (147/1/6; 3/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

57
10 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor

58
11 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stageldoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor

59
13 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17841008

60
01 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill lists Wilson as Justice Shallow in mainpiece, and as Father Luke in afterpiece. On the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, but the substitute name has been cut by the binder. "It is necessary to inform those who may have read a long criticism on Wilson's performance of Justice Shallow, on Tuesday evening [in Public Advertiser, 2 Nov.], that Wilson did not perform that or any other character, as he is laid up, or rather down, with a violent fit of the gout" (General Advertiser, 3 Nov.). For Fearon as Justice Shallow see 30 Apr. 1785, 29 Nov. 1786; for Booth as Father Luke see 25 Nov. 1785.] Receipts: #139 6s. (134/5; 5/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

61
29 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

62
17 September 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Receipts: #213 6s. 6d. (208.10.0; 4.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

63
21 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #297 12s. 6d. (37.17.0; 7.17.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 251.1.0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

64
27 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist; or, Who's Who

65
12 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

Dance: End: Divertissement-[see17881001]

66
09 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

67
13 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

68
14 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Duke's Servant (for that night only)-Lewis; Lovell-Munden; Sir Harry's Servant (with a Mock Minuet)-Knight; Philip-Davenport; Freeman-Macready; Tom-Rees; Robert-Thompson; Coachman-Powel; Lady Charlotte-Miss Logan; Cook-Mrs Norton; Lady Bab-Mrs Davenport; Kitty (with a song and Mock Minuet, for that night only)-Mrs Pope.

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope

Performance Comment: End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope.

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara (words by Shakespeare, music by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; O why to be happy (music by Shield)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton

Performance Comment: ] from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; O why to be happy (music by Shield)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton.
Cast
Role: Ye Gentlemen of England Actor: Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton.

69
07 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15, and so continue for the remainder of the Season [see 23 Mar. 1797]. Receipts: #254 7s. 6d. (244.19.6; 9.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar

Cast
Role: Leda Actor: Mlle St.Amand. The Hesperean Dragon spouting Fire, pursuing Erynnis to recover the Golden Pippin. A Celestial Palace, with a Magnificent Temple, and the Peacock of Juno in Transparency. ACT II. A Plain in Phoenicia, in which Jupiter descends from the Heavens on an Eagle, and Momus on a Goose. A Procession to a Sacrifice. Jupiter in the form of a Bull, bearing Europa, attended by a train of Priests, Virgins, Nymphs, Shepherds. The Sea, with a distant View of the Isle of Crete. Jupiter bearing Europa across the Sea. A View of Mount Idav The Decree of Paris, and the Ascent and Descent of the Deities: Vulcan, Apollo, Mars, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, Ceres, Diana, Cybele, Flora, Pomona, Proserpine, Hebe. Mercury descends on a Cloud, and Iris on a Rainbow. Pluto rises from the Infernal Regions in a Chariot drawn by Dragons

70
27 September 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Castle of Andalusia; afterpiece of The Honest Thieves, both advertised on playbill of 25 Sept.] Receipts: #236 (226.4.6; 9.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

71
05 December 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

72
12 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Sedgwick
Role: Laida Actor: Mrs Bland

Dance: As17930307

73
07 April 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: THE SAILOR'S FESTIVAL; or, All Alive at Portsmouth

Performance Comment: SCENE I. The Deck of a Man of War. Blow bigh, blow low by Incledon. We be three poor Mariners by Johnstone, Incledon, Linton. Jack at the Windlass by Fawcett. The Mid-Watch, When 'tis Night, by Incledon. The good Subjects of England by Incledon, Richardson, Townsend. SCENE II. A Landscape. The Disconsolate Sailor, When my Money was gone, by Mrs Martyr, in character. When Daisies mead by Miss Barnett. SCENE III. Irish Song by Johnstone. Treble Hornpipe by Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi. Rule Britannia by Incledon. With a Representation of the Grand Fleet at Anchor in Portsmouth Harbour .
Cast
Role: . The Mid Actor: Watch, When 'tis Night, by Incledon. The good Subjects of England by Incledon, Richardson, Townsend. SCENE II. A Landscape. The Disconsolate Sailor, When my Money was gone, by Mrs Martyr, in character. When Daisies mead by Miss Barnett. SCENE III. Irish Song by Johnstone. Treble Hornpipe by Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi. Rule Britannia by Incledon. With a Representation of the Grand Fleet at Anchor in Portsmouth Harbour

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Miss Standen
Role: Zephyrus Actor: Holland
Role: Zany Actor: West. III. A Landscape and Water Mill
Role: Bridemen Actor: Cranfield, Ratchford, Blurton, Wilde, Rayner, Jackson, &c.Miller's Wife-Miss Leserve
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Miss Leserve
Role: Philidel Actor: Mrs Mountain. IV. A View of a Country Inn: The Bull and Dog
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Henley. V. A Representation of tht Scaffolding prepared for erecting the New Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, as it appeared in July. Irish Song in character by Rock. Which changes to a View of the above Building, as it will appear when completed
Role: ByrnFlora Actor: Mlle St. Amand. VIII. A Tobacco Warehouse, which changes to an Equestrian Figure by Roubiliac. IX. A Street, in which is introduced two Irish Sedan Chairs
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Byrn, Holland, Mlle St. Amand, Cranfield, Ratchford, King, Blurton, Wilde, Mrs Castelle, Miss Kirton, Miss Leserve, Mrs Follett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Blurton

74
22 April 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The British Recruit

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17941003, but The Page-Miss E. Wallis (1st appearance on this, and 3rd on any stage); song-_; Marcelina-Mrs Platt; Agnes-Mrs Follett; Susan-Miss Wallis (1st appearance in that character).

Song: As17950316

75
26 February 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Cast
Role: Andrew Actor: Caulfield of Wathen
Role: Orlando Actor: Surmont
Role: Rachael Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Vassals Actor: Whitmell, Wells, Garman, Johnston, Goodman, Gauron, Bayzand, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Vining, Ms Riches, Ms Luciet, Ms Drake.