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25555 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs James
We found 23715 matches on Performance Comments, 7788 matches on Event Comments, 4629 matches on Performance Title, 2166 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4126
07 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17371022, but Florella-Mrs Grace.
Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Grace.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Mills.
Role: Orphan Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Cast
Role: and Pipe Actor: Master Hamilton Sr, Master Brooks Sr, Master Harper, Master Case, Miss Cole, Miss Morrison, Miss Edwards

4127
14 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts, the first time of her appearing on that stage these six years.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: Timothy-Miller; Sir Roger-Griffin; Squire Thomas-Johnson; Peter-Macklin; Joyce-Miss Cole; Kitty-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

4128
31 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Raftor, Rogers. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. [Tickets for Sanders, Fuller, Fulwood also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Marshall
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Grace.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: As17380522, but Lucy-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: I: La Pieraite-Leviez, Miss Thompson; II: Punch-Master Ferg; In III: Hornpipe-Philips; V: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; End Afterpiece: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison

4129
08 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Daniel Actor: James
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Gaylone-Salway; Sapscul-Rosco; Muckworm-Hippisley; Slango-Neale; Blunder-Mullart; Arbella-Miss Dancey; Combrush-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Vincent.

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

4130
18 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17390908, but Daniel-Woodward; Widow Lackit-Mrs Macklin; Jack Stanmore-_.
Cast
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Blandford Actor: Mills
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Woodward

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; In II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: La Matelote-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Le Gout de Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

Cast
Role: Pilgrims Actor: Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward

4131
10 March 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17391219, but Othello (by Desire)-Cibber; Bianca-Mrs Hale; Duke-_.
Cast
Role: Bianca Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; II: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

4132
25 November 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Paget, Now unhappily confin'd in the Fleet Prison. The Audience may depend upon the Entertainments being conducted in regular manner; and the Place is commodious, handsome, and Theatrical. Tickets to be had of Mr Paget, in the Fleet Prison, who has no other Method of getting Subsistence in his confinement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Justice-Paget; Kitty-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

4133
03 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Friday Night last as Mr Lowe, belonging to Drury Lane Playhouse was going down Snow Hill, he was stopt by two fellows, one of whom, without speaking a word, gave him a most violent blow on the Temple, with a great stick, which stunned him so that he fell back against a shop Window, and remained insensible for some time; as soon as he recover'd he felt in his pockets and found they had robb'd him only of 11 shillings in silver, being (as he supposes) disturb'd by some people passing by, for they had not taken his watch, nor a Guinea and a half which he had also in his pockets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17421220, but Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: King Edward V Actor: Mrs Ridout

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

4134
06 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Yates. Tickets at Yates's lodgings, next door to Mr Walsh's Music Shop, in Katherine St. in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Recruits Actor: _Anderson, Ray
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennett

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Kitty-Mrs Dunstall; Beau Mordicai-Liviez; Debauchee-Turbutt; Concluding with a Masquerade Dance-Muilment.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Dance: I: Dance-Mlle Auguste; IV: The Last New Turkish Dance-Muilment, Mlle Auguste

Music: III: Concerto on Violin-Gordon

4135
03 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Whereas it was first intended to lay the pit and boxes together, for the better accommodation of the ladies, who are desirous of having their places kept, the boxes will be enclosed as usual. -General Advertiser. The songs added to the farcical opera call'd the What D'Ye Call It to be performed tomorrow night at cg, were wrote some years ago by a Gentleman since deceased, whose pieces of the Lyric kind have been often admir'd by people of Taste; there is a pleasing variety in them, and they are thought to be well adapted to the several characters in which they are introduced. The Music, which is entirely new, and compos'd by Mr Lampe, is allow'd by all who have heard it, to be an agreeable mixture of humour, spirit, and harmony. -Daily Advertiser. General Advertiser, 4 April: Yesterday was a rehearsal of The What D'Ye Call It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Beard, Reinhold, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards.
Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Reinhold, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards.

4136
15 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Will be perform'd several new exercises of Rope Dancing and Tumbling, by M. Duge, Vangable and others, divided into two Parts. Boxes [as 26 Dec. 1744]. Between the two Parts of the Exercises will be given gratis the Tempest as alter'd by Mr Dryden and Sir William Davenant from Shakespear. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17450305 but Ferdinand-Goodfellow; Antonio-Nailor; Miranda-Miss Haughton; Setebos-Chettle; Mephistopheles-_; Charon-_; Old Dame Stetebos-_; Time-_; Granier, Tucker, Daniel omitted Neptune-Cunningham; Demons-Jones, Young, Nailor, Toole, Fulwell, Jackson; Pluto-Cunningham; Amphitrite-Mrs Carlisle; Hornpipe-Chettle.
Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Goodfellow
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Amphitrite Actor: Mrs Carlisle
Role: Hippolito Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Ariel Actor: Mrs Kennedy with the songs proper to the character
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Cushing
Role: Concluding with Grand Masque of Neptune and Amphyt Actor:

4137
31 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: See17451228, but Hamlet-Banberry first time in that character; Horatio-Cushing; Gravediggers-Morgan, Dove; Ophelia-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Afterpiece Title: Captain O'Blunder; or, the Brave Irishman

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; Wooden Shoe Dance, Hornpipe-Banberry

4138
05 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. The Prince and Princess of Wales present. Paid Mr Davis for a pair of stays for Miss Granier #1 1s. Receipts: #85 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17461108, but Lady Brute-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber.
Role: Taylor Actor: James
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Hale

4139
20 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Beard; Jack Stocks-Woodward; Chloe-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Vincent.

4140
18 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Giuseppe Salomon and Salomon's son. Tickets at Mr Anderson's, Watchmaker, Little Wild St. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17461212; but Beau Clincher-Cibber; Parley-Mrs Macklin; Tom Errand-_; Dickey-_.
Cast
Role: Parley Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Leigh
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Standard Actor: Delane
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Bridges

Dance: Three Grand Entertainments (two of them entirely new)-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook

4141
22 April 1747 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Diversions Of The Morning; Or, A Dish Of Chocolate

Performance Comment: The principal Parts-Foote, Shuter, Cushing, Castalio, Mrs Hallam, Lee, Burton, Hallam, Miss Moreau.
Cast
Role: The principal Parts Actor: Foote, Shuter, Cushing, Castalio, Mrs Hallam, Lee, Burton, Hallam, Miss Moreau.

Afterpiece Title: The Credulous Husband

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Foote; Bellmour-Lee; Laetitia-Mrs Hallam; with an Epilogue-Bedford?/Coffee/House.
Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Hallam

4142
20 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber Play'd (Cross). The Letter sign'd E. L. written in the Name of several Persons of Distinction, is receiv'd; and the Play of King Lear will be acted there, as soon as Mr Garrick is able to perform so long a Character (note "From the Theatre Royal Drury Lane" inserted in the General Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #156 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Pierre-Barry; Priuli-Havard; Renault-Berry; Jaffier-Delane; Duke-Winstone; Bedamar-Blakes; Belvidera-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment (Cross)

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Mozeen.

4143
23 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince &c. (Cross). Lost on Wednesday Night the 21st Instant at Drury Lane Playhouse. A Steel and Gold Sword, with a Silver Gripe, the maker's name Fleaureau. Whoever has taken it up, and will bring it to Mr Fleaureau, Swordcutler in the Haymarket, shall have a Guinea and a half reward, and no Questions asked. N. B.: No greater reward will be offered (General Advertiser). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #176 5s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: Lucy-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: DDance-Cooke

4144
08 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Orlando Actor: Havard
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Horsington
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: Lucy-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: I: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

4145
22 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: Last week the celebrated Mr and Mrs Lampe and Mrs Vincent arrived in Dublin from England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4146
21 November 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: At the New Wells near the London Spa Clerkenwell. By Desire. For one night only. Benefit for Yeates Jun. A Concert, etc. Prices: 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s. To begin exactly at 6 p.m. There will be fires in proper Places to keep the Wells warm. It will be moonlight. Mr Yeates entreats the favor of those Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to honour him...that they will please to come at the time prefix'd on account of the length of the Performances; and they may depend on the whole being conducted with the utmost Decorum (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Yeates Jun; Polly-Mrs Yeates.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Yeates.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Flash-Yeates Jun; Biddy-Mrs Yeates.
Cast
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Yeates.

4147
20 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author Tickets to be had as 9 and 14 Feb. [The Gentleman's Magazine this month gave a nine-column article to the Plan and Specimens of Irene a Tragedy by Mr Samuel Johnsin acted at Drury Lane from 6-20 February inclusive." In it plot was first retold, then excerpts from speeches were given which illustrated the beautiful expression of the moral values contained in the play: "To instance every moral which is inculcated in this performance, would be to transcribe the whole; but, however difficult I shall select a few." No comments are made upon the stage presentation, all is presented upon the basis of examination of the text. William Shenstone thought not much of it as a play. See Letter to Lady Luxborough 22 March.] Receipts: #110 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: As17481123, only Lucy-Mrs Clive listed.
Cast
Role: only Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive listed.
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

4148
12 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Afterpiece: Never performed there before. In it will be introduced the Scene of Harlequin Restored. The Decorations entirely new. N.B. That the entertainment may not be interrupted in the performance, there will be no building on the Stage: And as Mr LaLauze has been at some expence in bringing this Entertainment on the stage, he humbly hopes that the Town will not take it amiss, that nothing under Full Price will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17481222, but Angelina-Mrs Cowper; Don Cholerick-Waistkum; Antonio-_; Charino-_; Sanchio-_; Monsieur-_; Jacques-_.
Cast
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Spaniard-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Phillips; Pierot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Phillips

Dance: Phillips, J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister, others; particularly (by desire) a Minuet-LaLauze, two of LaLauze's scholars

4149
30 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Pope for a wig for Lear, ditto for Grandchamps #1 19s. (Treasurer's Book). [This wigmaker was Miss Pope's father, according to a MS note in the Treasurer's Book make presumably by W. H. Oxberry, 1848. Pope, the wig-maker, also rented space from dl annually, for his shop.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #112 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17491005, but Masquerade Dance-Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison.
Cast
Role: Masquerade Dance Actor: Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison.
Role: Town Clerk Actor: James
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Havard
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: In II a Masquerade Dance Actor: Mathews, Mrs Addison
Related Works
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive.

4150
15 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Don Saverio

Performance Comment: Don Saverio-Beard; Palmerio-Reinhold; Alonzo-Master Mattocks; Violante-Miss Norris; Julietta-Miss Cole; Clarice-Mrs Clive (1st Edition.).
Cast
Role: Clarice Actor: Mrs Clive