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6341 results for: Keyword - Mr Wm. Barry
We found 4379 matches on Event Comments, 1907 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 20 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

326
07 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Account-Book: Paid Mrs Barry on account for finding her own Dresses #50. Receipts: #133 1s. 6d. (131.15.6; 1.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Manly-Clarke; Squire Richard-Quick; John Moody-Dunstall; Count Basset-Lee Lewes; Sir Francis Wronghead-Macklin; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Wronghead-Miss Macklin (1st appearance in that character); Miss Jenny-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Townly-Mrs Barry; Edition of 1776 (T. Lowndes) adds: Mrs Motherly-Mrs Poussin; Myrtilla-Mrs Whitefield; Mrs Trusty-Mrs Willems.
Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17761106

327
16 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Chronicle, 17 Oct.: In Act IV Macklin 'very properly declined the orator, but pleaded from his feelings and the predetermined purpose of his heart.' [Mrs Barry, as Mrs Dancer, had 1st acted Portia at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 9 Dec. 1761, and at dl, 24 Mar. 1768.] Receipts: #205 8s. (204.19.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Macklin; Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-Wroughton; Gratiano-Lee Lewes; Lorenzo (with songs)-Mattocks; Duke-Fearon; Tubal-Thompson; Launcelot-Quick; Salanio-Booth; Solarino-L'Estrange [Public Advertiser: Davis]; Jessica (with a song)-Miss Dayes; Nerissa-Mrs Lessingham; Portia-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).at this theatre]).
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Barry

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770924; End IV: As17771008

328
06 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. With Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy. London Chronicle, 7 Nov., prints a detailed synopsis of the alterations.]. The Characters entirely new dressed; with New Scenery and Decorations. [Morning Chronicle, 7 Nov.: Mrs Barry entered into the character of Mandane with all that strength of conception which characterizes her acting in general. Many of the passages received additional force from the judicious breaks and sudden transitions in her manner of giving them.] Receipts: #200 3s. (199.6; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Performance Comment: Zamti-Ross; Hamet-Wroughton; Mirvan-L'Estrange; Timurkan-Peile; Octar-Fearon; Selim-Booth; Morat-Hull; Orasming-Robson; Zimventi-Thompson; Etan-Lewis; Mandane-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17771104

329
24 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [The playbill assigns Posthumus to Reddish, but "On Saturday afternoon, at four o'Clock, Notice was sent of the extreme illness of Reddish; and Lewis (on Application) finding it impossible to attempt the Character of Posthumus at that very short Notice [not having performed it for some Seasons) it was obligingly undertaken by Brereton of Drury-Lane Theatre" (Public Advertiser, 26 Oct.). Mrs Crawford, as Mrs Barry, had 1st acted Imogen at dl, 1 Dec. 1770.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Brereton [of dl]; Cloten-Lee Lewes; Cymbeline-L'Estrange; Pisanio-Hull; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Wroughton; Arviragus-Whitfield; Caius Lucius-Fearon; Philario-Booth; Iachimo-[W.] Smith (of dl); Queen-Mrs Jackson; Imogen-Mrs Crawford [late Mrs Barry] (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).late Mrs Barry] (1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]).

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: End III: As17780921

Song: II: Masquerade Scene, with Singing-Mrs Morton

330
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

331
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers; Or, The Good Natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

332
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

333
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Cast
Role: Mrs Angelica Actor: Mrs Bowman

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Cast
Role: Mars Actor: Bowman

334
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

335
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

336
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

337
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

338
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

339
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

340
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

341
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-

342
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

343
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

344
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

345
03 June 1685 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

346
April 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

347
May 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Cast
Role: Grimbald Actor: Bowman

348
April 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Very Good Wife

349
November 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

350
February 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Younger Brother; Or, The Amorous Jilt