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22309 results for: Keyword - Mrs Brigg
We found 23321 matches on Performance Comments, 4243 matches on Event Comments, 4204 matches on Performance Title, 138 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

19076
02 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: As17371110, but Arabella-Mrs Vincent (late Miss Bincks).
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Fair Quaker Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jiltup Actor: Mrs James
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Ware, the first time of her appearance on that stage

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17371116

19077
10 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17371022, but Parisatis-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Parisatis Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

19078
11 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Milward; Pierre-Quin; Belvidera-Mrs Cibber; Renault-Cibber; Priuli-Boman; Duke-Cross; Bedamar-Hill; Eliot-Winstone; Spinosa-Turbutt.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

19079
20 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17371101, but Foppington-Hallam; Hoyden-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

19080
27 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17371114, but Miranda-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17380121

19081
04 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17371028, but Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Supple-Clarke.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: China Woman Actor: Mrs Martin

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: BBallet, as17380203

19082
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

19083
08 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17380119, but Portia-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Roberts.
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs Butler.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: II: Grand Polish Dance, as17380128; IV: Ballet, as17380203

19084
13 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17371001, but Dutchess of York-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Dutchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Gardeners and Wives Actor: Pelling, Rector, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward

19085
16 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King-Delane; Prince-Ryan; Lancaster-Hallam; Justice-Stephens; Westmoreland-Aston; Moreton-Stevens; York-Chapman; Mowbray-Rosco; Lord Bardolph-Hale; Hastings-Ridout; Falstaff-Bridgwater; Poins-Salway; Bardolph-W. Hallam; Shallow-Hippisley; Silence-Neale; Feeble-Penkethman; Shadow-Bencraft; Bullcalf-Mullart; Wart-Yates; Mouldy-Stoppelaer; Pistol-James; Hostess-Mrs James; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Dancey.
Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Graces Actor: Miss Moreau, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Miss Norman, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby.

19086
18 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17380113, but Altea-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Mullart.
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Ware
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Graces Actor: Miss Moreau, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Miss Norman, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby.

19087
11 March 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Performance Comment: As17371117, but Damaris-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Prudence Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Graces Actor: Miss Moreau, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Miss Norman, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby.

19088
14 March 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Parly Actor: Mrs Kilby.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Gaylove-Salway; Sapskull-Rosco; Muckworm-Hippisley; Slango-Neale; Blunder-Mullart; Arbella-Miss Hillyard; Combrush-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Music: Musical Medley called The Topers; or The Sons of Bacchus. Written and set to Musick, by Sig Carini, Author of The Dragon of Wantley; Vocals-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Roberts

Dance: IV: Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; V: Clown-Nivelon; End Afterpiece: Dance of Sailors-Glover

19089
05 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Ware
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Martin

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17371010, but Valentine-Salway; Betty-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

19090
11 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: As17371026, but Lucy-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bellamy

Song: I: The Truth on Both Sides-Roberts, Miss Hillyard; II: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre; III: By Desire, Purcell's Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway; IV: By particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; V: The Praise of Good English Beer (to the Tune of Trade and Navigation)-Leveridge

Dance: II: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; IV: Grand Ballet, as17380318

19091
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

19092
26 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: As17371012, but Hypolita-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Hypolita Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Rosara Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Violetta Actor: Mrs Kilby.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Graces Actor: Miss Moreau, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Miss Norman, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby.

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A new dance-Desse, Miss Kilby

19093
04 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Davenport and Mrs Gould taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs James
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Ware

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

19094
10 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Pliant Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la Mode

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Philips; Flash-Livier; Conjurer-Beard; Colombine-Mrs Walter; with a Grand Ballet-Lilliputians, scholars to Livier.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: A new Hornpipe-Philips; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Music: III: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

19095
23 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17380213, but Richmond-Wright; Lady Anne-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Dutchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; III: Punch-Master Ferg; IV: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scott

19096
29 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Flippanta Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Clarissa Actor: Mrs Furnival
Role: Mrs Amlet Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Performance Comment: See17380525, but Lucy-Mrs Roberts; Epilogue-Miss Wright, as17380519.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Grand Ballet, in Comic Characters, -the Lilliputians

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Life of a Beau-

Music: II: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

19097
30 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Marshall, Gray, Peploe, Rumball (Boxkeeper), Bishop (Gallery Keeper). Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere by the late Mrs Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Philadephia Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Marshall
Role: Prudence Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; II: La Pieraite-Leviez, Miss Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Song: III: Beard

19098
31 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

19099
22 August 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amasis, King Of Egypt

Performance Comment: Parts-Stephens, Hallam, Roberts, Stevens, Mrs Vincent; edition of 1738 lists no actors' names of parts. edition of 1738 lists no actors' names of parts.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Stephens, Hallam, Roberts, Stevens, Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Vincent.

19100
16 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King-Milward; Prince-Mills; Lancaster-Havard; Justice-Boman; Westmoreland-Winstone; York-Wright; Poins-Cross; Bardolph-Ray; Feeble-Woodward; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Cole; Hostess Quickly-Mrs Cross; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Mann; Shallow-Johnson; Silence-Harper [Egerton 2320: Harper's name in for Silence Griffin play'd it]; Pistol-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Hostess Quickly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Clive.