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24294 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Melmoth
We found 23600 matches on Performance Comments, 7597 matches on Event Comments, 4621 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

21676
23 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Fenn (Stage-Door-Keeper), Fuller, Fullwood, and Walker (Numberer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Mills
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Horsington
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17430104, but Joe-Lowe; Margery-Miss Bennet; Kate-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: I: New Ballet, as17430502; IV: A New Hussar Dance, as17430425

Music: II: New Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth; V: Concerto on Violin-Piantanida

Song: III: The Noontide Air-Sullivan

21677
08 September 1743 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: YYeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Great Theatrical New Built Booth, opposite the old Til'd Booth...during the Time of the Fair. [Notices repeated 9, 10 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plotting Lovers; Or, The Old One Tricked At Last

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rosoman; Clown-Warner; Squire-Yeates; Colombine-Mrs Rosoman.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Rosoman.

Dance: Bath Morris Dancers

21678
01 November 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17431013, but Sir Harry Wildair-Mrs Woffington, 1st appearance this season; Tom Errand-Green.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Mrs Woffington, 1st appearance this season
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Green.
Role: Standard Actor: Delane
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Parley Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Egerton.
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Trippet Actor: Mrs King.

Song: As17431029

Dance: As17431015

21679
25 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Beard; Stocks-Dunstall; Jack Stocks-Chapman; Chloe-Mrs Vincent; Countrymen-Woodward, James.
Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Vincent

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

21680
07 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Clive , in which character will be introduc'd a Song call'd The Life of a Beau
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Wheedle Actor: Mrs Hale

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: As17431125, but Chloe-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: LLes Paisans Moisonneurs, as17431026

21681
10 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At this time died the celebrated Mrs Haywood (Winston MS.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard, her 1st appearance there for 4 years
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: Dance, as17431123

21682
10 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17430928, but Richard-Quin; Duchess of York-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Anderson
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Hayman
Role: James Actor: Anderson
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Norman
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

21683
13 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17431125, but Brute-Quin; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Horton

Dance: SSerious Ballet, as17431003; Les Paisans Moisonneurs, as17431026

21684
16 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Subtle-Mills; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Ananias-Morgan; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Green; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Miss Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Cross; Abel Drugger-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

Dance: III: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

21685
29 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17431210, but Monimia-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Mills.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: As17431123

21686
29 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17431203, but The Vocal Parts-Mrs _Vincent, Miss _Hillyard.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs _Vincent, Miss _Hillyard.
Role: Lady MacDuff Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Donalbaine Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21687
31 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Performance Comment: Pierre-Quin; Jaffier-Ryan; Priuli-Bridgwater; Renault-Chapman; Bedamar-Hale; Duke-Rosco; Spinoza-Anderson; Eliot-Cashell; Officer-Gibson; Belvidera-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Spinoza Actor: Anderson
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21688
03 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17431208, but Calphurnia-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Cinna Actor: Anderson
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: See17431029, but Loverule-Beard; Nell-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21689
05 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs King.

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; The Petit Maitre-Blakes; Pierot-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Mann; Concluding with a New Dance-Muilment.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Mann

21690
11 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King Henry-Stephens; Prince of Wales-Ryan; Prince John-Hale; Archbishop York-Chapman; Pistol-Woodward; Chief Justice-Rosco; Westmorland-Gibson; Mowbray-Cashell; Hastings-Carr; Gower-Anderson; Silence-Stoppelaer; Poins-Hayman; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Mullart; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Hillyard; Shallow-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Gibson
Role: Gower Actor: Anderson
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: 2 The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21691
12 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17431128, but Desdemona-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21692
19 January 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Grand Concert. 6 p.m. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Afterwards will be given Gratis...Daily Advertiser, 20 Jan.: Last Night the Musical Entertainment call'd The Queen of Spain, was receiv'd by a numerous Audience with great Approbation. The Artificial Scene hereafter will be omitted, it not being connected with the rest, not any way answering what was promised by the Projector who offered it. Music by J. F. Lampe; words by James Ayres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain; Or, Fairinelli At Madrid

Performance Comment: King-Waltz; Farinelli-Sullivan; Marquis-Messing; English Sailors-Ashpey; Spaniard-Don Diego DiAspino; Queen-Mrs Lampe; concluding with an Artificial Scene-.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lampe

Music: A new Sonata, in four parts, by Lampe-

Song: New Song The Shepherd's Invitation-Sullivan; A new Song To Sylvia-Miss Young

21693
03 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Caled-Quin; Abudah-Hale; Daran-Cashell; Phocyas-Ryan; Eumenes-Rosco; Herbis-Gibson; Artamon-Ridout; Sergius-Carr; Eudocia-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21694
07 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17431229, but Monimia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, The Miss Scotts, Mlle Auguste.
Role: Harlequin's Wife Actor: Mrs Mann
Role: Hecate Actor: Mrs Avolio
Role: Attendants on Hecate Actor: Morland, Bennet, Morgan

21695
13 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17431216, but Lucy-Mrs Kilby.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17431227, but Apollo-Villeneuve; Aerial Spirits-Mrs _Delagarde.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs _Delagarde.
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.

21696
21 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never before acted [by William Havard, who inserted a long advertisement in the Daily Post with quotations from Roman history and the comment: thus much I think is necessary to be known by everybody who designs to see the play.] Last night the Tragedy of Regulus was perform'd...to a numerous and polite Audience, and met with great Applause.-London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Performance Comment: Corvus-Delane; Decius-Havard; Metullus-Mills; Mutius-Bridges; Manlius-Berry; Quintus-Blakes; First Cartheginian Ambassador-Turbutt; 2nd Ambassador-Usher; Attilus Regulus-Taswell; Scaurus-Green; Emilius-Woodburn; Mantia-Mrs Giffard; Clelia-Miss Budgell; Regulus-Garrick; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue (by Garrick)-Miss Woffington. [From 1st edition, but listed in order of actors given in London Daily Post and General Advertiser.]From 1st edition, but listed in order of actors given in London Daily Post and General Advertiser.]
Cast
Role: Mantia Actor: Mrs Giffard

21697
15 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Muley Zeydan Actor: Anderson
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17440228, but Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

21698
31 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17431214, but Hamlet-Sheridan (1st appearance on English Stage); Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Anderson
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

21699
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Woodward
Role: Abergavenny Actor: Anderson
Role: Anne Bullen Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

21700
19 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lampe

Afterpiece Title: The Kiss Accepted and Returned

Cast
Role: Lysander Actor: Sullivan
Role: Phaebe Actor: Mrs Lampe.