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26788 results for: Keyword - Mrs Cibber</i> gave it up-some days ago ($Cross
We found 23849 matches on Performance Comments, 8748 matches on Event Comments, 4828 matches on Performance Title, 3733 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
07 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: There is now in rehearsal and is to be acted in few days an New Historical Play call'd The Alternative, Tyranny or Liberty

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Riddle Author(s): Colley Cibber

Song: As17460104

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

1127
02 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: Tea

1128
12 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Parisatis Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Woffington
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Morelove Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Related Works
Related Work: The School-Boy: or The Comical Rivals Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: As17551114; Fingalian-Miss Hilliard

1129
26 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Honoria Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Burden.
Related Works
Related Work: Love Makes A Man: or, The Fop's Fortune Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

1130
02 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Holland, Powell, Havard, Bensley, Bransby, Strange, A Young Gentlewoman, Mrs Lee, Mrs Yates, Packer, Aickin, Fawcett
Role: Mrs Abington Aeneas Actor: Powell
Role: Dido Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

1131
24 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Cast
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Dancer
Role: Eleanor Actor: Mrs Burden

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Lady Manlove Actor: Mrs Gardiner.
Related Works
Related Work: The School-Boy: or The Comical Rivals Author(s): Colley Cibber

1132
01 July 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Cast
Role: Parts by Actor: Foote, Weston, Morgan, Castle, Keen, Casey, Lloyd, Pearce, Jacobs, Mahoon, Aickin, Gardner, Strange, Vandemire, Jackson, Graham, Walker, Mrs Gardner, and a Young Gentlewoman, 1st appearance. Devil-Foote
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Saunders.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17680530

1133
29 July 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Cast
Role: Parts by Actor: Foote, Weston, Morgan, Castle, Keen, Casey, Lloyd, Pearce, Jacobs, Mahoon, Aickin, Gardner, Strange, Vandemire, Jackson, Graham, Walker, Mrs Gardner, and a Young Gentlewoman, 1st appearance. Devil-Foote
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Graham
Role: Lady Manlove Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Related Works
Related Work: The School-Boy: or The Comical Rivals Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: As17680530

1134
22 August 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Riddle Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: As17680530

1135
15 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Cast
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Cibber
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Mountfort
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Garnet
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Saunders.

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger, Miss Tenoe

1136
15 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time this season (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Barry, Smith, Sparks, Bransby, Usher, Mrs Bland, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Cibber.
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Vincent
Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219; Les Sabotiers Tyrolese, as17521028

1137
25 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The play of Merope will be reviv'd on Tuesday next, at Drury Lane, in which Mr Holland, who play'd the part of Oroonoko, will appear in the character of Eumenes. The Opera of the Fairies (By Desire) will be performed there someday next week. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Cowper
Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

1138
24 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. This Morning at Ten will be publish'd at 6d. An Epistle from Mr The. Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; to which are prefix'd some occasional verses, Petitions, &c.: @Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,@Whereto the Climber upwards turns his face;@But when he once attains the upmost Round,@He then unto the ladder turns his back,@Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees@By which he did ascend.@Shakespeare@"Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so we would have it; let them not say, we have swallow'd him up," Ps. XXXV. v.25. Printed for R. Griffiths. [A thirty-five-page apologia, and bitter attack upon Garrick for supposed complicity in prohibiting the license of the Haymarket to him.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

1139
29 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Reprisal Publish'd at 1s. "as it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, printed for R. Baldwin, Paternoster Row. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17561217, but Lord Chalkstone-Garrick (Cross).

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance call'd The Millers- [no dancers specified]

1140
12 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Ross, Yates, Bransby, Simson, Vaughan, Usher, Walker, Miss Barton, Mrs Clive. Cadwallader-Foote
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: IV: The Millers, as17570129

1141
14 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney, House-keeper. Afterpiece: Acted but once these 3 years. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Cast
Role: Ladies Actor: Miss Minors, Miss Hippisley, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Mills

Song: IV: By desire, Ellen@a@Roon with variations on the Harp-Parry

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

1142
13 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: AA Letter to Garrick on Opening the Theatre, published at 1s. [See 1 Nov. for answer. This is Edward Purdon's 33-page criticism of Garrick, on his repertoire, his personnel and casting, and his secondary position to cg in the matter of decoration.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Chinawoman Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady's Cure Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

1143
18 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Chinawoman Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady's Cure Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: others Actor: Mrs Vernon, Mrs Abington
Role: To conculde with a Comic Dance call'd The Flemi Actor: Grimaldi, Georgi, Noverre, Miss Baker, Mrs Vernon.

1144
20 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Chinawoman Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady's Cure Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: others Actor: Mrs Vernon, Mrs Abington
Role: To conculde with a Comic Dance call'd The Flemi Actor: Grimaldi, Georgi, Noverre, Miss Baker, Mrs Vernon.

1145
16 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Song: I: Leveridge; II: Song of Diana, as17460313 IV: New Ballad Mirth gives Courage-Leveridge; V: The Wisdom of the Ancients-Leveridge

Dance: II: Drunken Tyrolese, as17460405 V: The Peasants, as17460405

1146
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Cross and Bridges' Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate. A new Dramatick Droll...being founded on a Story in Real Life, as related in the Memoirs of the celebrated Mrs Constantia Phillips. In which will be introduc'd a New Scene of Bedlam...Interspers'd witn a Merry Interlude call'd The Jovial Tars...with the Comical Humours of Nurse Prate and Will Bowling the Jovial Tar; as also of Jack Hanspite, Nick Hatchway, and Simon Bucket, Sailors; with Mary the Chambermaid, Susan of the Dairy, Kate of the Kitchen, and Nan the Spinster. To begin each day at noon. An extraordinary band of music is provided. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Lunatick Or The Generous Sailor

Performance Comment: Charles-Holtham; Constant-Bridges; Mrs Constant-Mrs Greenwood; Peggy (the Fair Lunatick)-Miss Davies.
Cast
Role: Mrs Constant Actor: Mrs Greenwood

Afterpiece Title: Modern Madness or A Touch of the Times

Performance Comment: Keeper-Bridges; Clack-Smith; Master Clack-Master Cross; Mrs Clack-Mrs Daniel; Madam Taste-Mrs Cross; Solomon Overzeal-Clough; Modern Poet-Cross.
Cast
Role: Master Clack Actor: Master Cross
Role: Mrs Clack Actor: Mrs Daniel
Role: Madam Taste Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Modern Poet Actor: Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee Ball a Grand Scene

Monologue: 1749 8 24 bf I+Interlude The Jovial Jack Tars, or All Well Match'd. Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough

Performance Comment: Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough.
Cast
Role: Nurse Prate Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Daniel
Role: Jack Bridle Actor: Cross

Dance: TThe Medley of Jokes-; the French Peasants-Master Matthews, Mrs Annesley

1147
02 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 1st piece: As originally performed in 3 acts. Not acted these 7 years [acted 28 Oct. 1789]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, attributed to John Cartwright Cross. MS: Larpent 1021; not published]. Morning Chronicle, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of lncledon, No. 15 , Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #396 12s. 6d. (122/12/6; 6/0/6; tickets: 267/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Robin Hood (for that night only)-Bowden (1st appearance on this stage these 7 years); Little John-Quick; Allen o'Dale (1st time)-Townsend; Ruttekin-Bernard; Fitzherbert (1st time)-Richardson; Scarlet-Davies; Bowman-Cubitt; Edwin (for that night only)-Incledon//Clorinda- Mrs Martyr; Stella (1st time)-Mrs Mountain; Annette (1st time)-Miss Barnett; Angelina-Miss Poole (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Edwin Actor: IncledonClorinda- Mrs Martyr
Role: IncledonClorinda Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Stella Actor: Mrs Mountain

Afterpiece Title: NAPLES BAY or The British Seamen at Anchor

Related Works
Related Work: Naples Bay; or, The British Seamen at Anchor Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Afterpiece Title: THE FOLLIES OF A DAY

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Marcelina Actor: Mrs Leicester
Role: Agnes Actor: Mrs Follett
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Pope.
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Dollalolla Actor: Mrs Martyr.

Dance: In 2nd piece A Medley Hornpipe in Wooden Shoes by Byrn

Song: End of 1st piece Black-Eyed Susan by Incledon

1148
27 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A Dramatick Satire call'd Lethe is now in Rehearsal at Drury Lane and will be acted in a few days (by Desire). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Prim Actor: Mrs James
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Anne Lovely Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Cast
Role: Mopsophil Actor: Mrs Green

Music: As17481226

Dance: As17481226; the Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison

1149
27 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Florizel And Perdita

Performance Comment: Florizel-Holman; Polixenes-Aickin; Antigonus-Hull; Camillo-Powel; Clown-Cubitt; Autolicus (the Ballad-singing Pedlar)-Blanchard; Dorcas-Mrs Lloyd; Mopsa-Mrs Byrne; Perdita-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Lloyd
Role: Mopsa Actor: Mrs Byrne

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Cast
Role: A Sailor's life's a life of woe Actor: Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Role: Marianne Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Letitia Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Female Indian Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Abergavenny is fine Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: and true he says Actor: Mrs Mountain
Related Works
Related Work: A Divertisement Author(s): John Cartwright Cross
Related Work: The New Divertisement Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Dance: As17901123

1150
16 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Cast
Role: Miss Brunton Vocal Parts Actor: Bannister, Incledon, Mrs Warrell, Miss Williams, Miss Stuart, Mrs Mountain
Role: Fatima Actor: Mrs Rock

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Performance Comment: Characters-Munden, Bernard, Davies, Macready, Powel, Thompson, Cross, Miss Stuart, Miss Brangin, Mrs Harlowe. [Cast from text (C. and G. Kearsley, 1791): Lazarillo-Munden; Borachio-Bernard; Octavio-Davies; Ferdinand-Macready; Don Pedro-Powel; Don Sancho-Thompson; Waiter-Cross [not in text; see17921012]; Leonora-Miss Stuart; Maid Servant-Miss Brangin; Donna Clara-Mrs Harlowe.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Munden, Bernard, Davies, Macready, Powel, Thompson, Cross, Miss Stuart, Miss Brangin, Mrs Harlowe.
Role: Waiter Actor: Cross
Role: Donna Clara Actor: Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Cast
Role: A Sailor's life's a life of woe Actor: Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Role: Marianne Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Letitia Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Female Indian Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Abergavenny is fine Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: and true he says Actor: Mrs Mountain
Related Works
Related Work: A Divertisement Author(s): John Cartwright Cross
Related Work: The New Divertisement Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Dance: As17901123