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23817 results for: Keyword - Mrs Day
We found 23446 matches on Performance Comments, 5952 matches on Event Comments, 4695 matches on Performance Title, 325 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

8001
23 March 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Cast
Role: Lord Place Actor: Mrs Charke, from DL, who will also speak the Comedy Prologue

8002
25 March 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 250: I went to the Haymarket Playhouse to see Pasquin again, which was extremely Crowded, though the 17th day of its acting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Cast
Role: Lord Place Actor: Mrs Charke, from DL, who will also speak the Comedy Prologue

8003
03 April 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fifth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Cast
Role: Lord Place Actor: Mrs Charke, from DL, who will also speak the Comedy Prologue

8004
09 April 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Thirtieth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Cast
Role: Lord Place Actor: Mrs Charke, from DL, who will also speak the Comedy Prologue

8005
15 April 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Thirty-Fifth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Cast
Role: Lord Place Actor: Mrs Charke, from DL, who will also speak the Comedy Prologue

8006
27 April 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fortieth Day. Benefit One who has wrote for the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

8007
11 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Fiftieth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick

Cast
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Schoolmistress Actor: Mrs Egerton

8008
07 September 1736 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Lee's Playhouse. 10 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised 7, 10, 13, 14 Sept. Daily Advertiser, 6 Sept., reported that SF would be limited to three days, but Lee advertised that he would perform until 20 Sept. On 13 Sept., Daily Advertiser stated that the booths had been pulled down on 11 Sept., but on 14 Sept. stated that this report was in error.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Of Merlin

8009
19 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Macheath Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Haymakers Actor: Delagarde, Hays, H. Fayting, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughs, Miss Gerrard
Role: Oenone Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Followers Actor: Touchbury, Nichols, Corf, Hussy, Miss Jones, Miss Wilson, Mrs Carter, Miss Thornowets
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.

8010
22 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 24 Jan.: We hear that the new grand Pantomime Entertainment, design'd to be perform'd in a few Days at [lif], was practis'd there on Saturday last before a great many People of Quality and Distinction, who gave particular Marks of their Approbation to every Change, and were highly pleas'd with the Musick, compos'd b Mr Jones

Performances

8011
19 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb.: To the Author, &c. Sir, In a late Paragraph in one of your Papers [4 Feb.] it was insinuated, that there was a Design on foot for erecting a New Theatre, which by some Wise Heads was suppos'd to come from a certain Manager, in order to revive the Playhouse Bill this Session of Parliament; I think it proper therefore, in Justice to the Gentleman levell'd at, to inform the Publick, that it is actually intended for a Company of Comedians every Day expected here, late Servants to their Majesties Kouli Kan and Theodore, who in the mean time will entertain the Town in the true Eastern manner, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, with a celebrated Piece call'd A Rehearsal of Kings. I am, Sir, Yours, &c. Agent for the Company

Performances

8012
28 April 1737 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 28 April: This is to inform the Publick, That the new Tragi-Comedy, entitled, The Free Thinker, or the Fox Uncased, which was to have been play'd on this Day, is oblig'd to be again deferr'd till Friday Se'nnight, being the 6th of May, when it will certainly be play'd [in yb], Pen. Aubin. [See also 14 April.

Performances

8013
29 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Twenty-Fifth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

8014
01 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. [The Duke and the Princesses present.] Daily Post, 2 June: The same day [1 June] the Bill relating to common Players of Interludes pass'd the Hon. House of Commons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

8015
04 June 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For discussion of the Licensing Act, see Craftsman, 4 June, and Common Sense, 4 June. London Evening Post, 4 June: We hear that by the Bill now in the House of Peers against Players of Interludes, &c. all Copies of Plays, Farces, or any Thing wrote in the Dramatick Way, are to lie fourteen Days before his Grace the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household for the Time being, for his Grace's Perusal and Approbation, before they shall be exhibited on the Stage

Performances

8016
22 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Possibly acted on this day, but see17370726 .

8017
26 July 1738 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 July: To be Sold by Auction, On Tuesday, August 1, and the following Days, At the Great-House the Corner of Carlisle-street, Soho-Square...A Large Quantity of Theatrical Goods...late the Property of Mr Henry Giffard...By Bernard Warren, Auctioneer

Performances

8018
16 August 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Yesterday Morning died at his House at Strand on the Green after three Days Illness, Mr Joseph Miller, a celebrated Comedian

Performances

8019
13 April 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 April. Letter: Upon my Arrival in Town three Days ago, I was not a little surpriz'd, to find that Mr Handel's last Oratorio, (Israel in Egypt) which had been performed but once, was advertis'd to be for the last time on Wednesday....I was indeed concern'd, that so excellent a Work of so great a Genius was neglected, for tho' it was a Polite and attentive Audience, it was not large enough I doubt to encourage him in any future Attempt

Performances

8020
14 February 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 14 Feb.: Two chief Singers being taken ill...Acis and Galatea...must therefore be put off performing a few Days longer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

8021
29 February 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: The Ninth Day. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Davids Lamentation Over Saul And Jonathan

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.

Music: As17400222

8022
01 April 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For this Day only in this Season. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

Music: Witha New Concerto for several Instruments-; and a Concerto on the Organ-

8023
18 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third Day. As 11 April. Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

8024
23 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Prisoner in the King's Bench. [Tickets of Laguerre at John's Coffee-House, next door the King's-Bench, Southwark. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 April, Laguerre expressed his thanks to Giffard for giving him this benefit and added that, it being term-time, he had "by the common Licence of a Day Rule," liberty to act on 23 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

8025
11 May 1741 @ James Street

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. For the Benefit of an unfortunate Brother Mason. [This program, which was given in the Old Tennis Court, included a concert; and tickets for 27 April, when the performance was intended but prevented, are received this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston