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We found 23471 matches on Performance Comments, 4403 matches on Performance Title, 4338 matches on Event Comments, 57 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Bensley; Philotas-Kemble; Melanthon-Packer; Phocion-Barrymore; Arcas-Staunton; Callippus-Chaplin; Herald-R. Palmer; Greek Officer-Phillimore; Dionysius-Palmer; Euphrasia-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: Euphrasia Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith; Colonel Briton-Palmer; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Waldron; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabella-Mrs Ward; Inis-Miss Collins; Violante-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Aickin; Cacafogo-Moody; Juan-Packer; Sanchio-Phillimore; Alonzo-R. Palmer; Copper Captain-King; Margaretta-Mrs Ward; Old Woman-Mr Baddeley; Maid-Mr Waldron; Estifania-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: The Miser-Moss (from the Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin, 1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Whitfield; Clerimont-Barrymore; Decoy-Fawcett; James-Burton; Ramilie-Palmer; Mariana-Mrs Brereton; Harriet-Miss Collins; Lappet-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: Osmyn-Holman; King-Hull; Gonsalez-Gardner; Garcia-Davies; Selim-Macready; Alonzo-Fearon; Hali-Cubitt; Perez-Thompson; Zara-Miss Brunton; Leonora-Miss Platt; Almeria-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Brown
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Berengaria Actor: Mrs Billington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17860916, but Lady Sneerwell-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Lady Sneerwell Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17860921, but Alithea-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Tidswell; Miss Grantham-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Brereton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17860928, but Mause-Mrs A. Palmer; Madge-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mause Actor: Mrs A. Palmer
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Forster.

Song: Singing, as17861009, but _Williames

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Holman, Farren, Macready, Pope, Miss Platt, Miss Brunton. Cast from Morning Chronicle, 21 Dec.: Villiers-Holman; Hainhault-Farren; Courcy-Macready; St. Preux-Pope; Emma-Miss Platt; Eloisa-Miss Brunton; Prologue-Pope; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Martyr.

Dance: As17861212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Performance Comment: [Partial cast from score (Longman and Broderip 1787]), and Morning Chronicle, 27 Dec.: Magicians-Darley, Cubitt; Necromancer-Davies; Harlequin-Brown; Zany-Wewitzer; Ballad Singer-Gaudry (who sang "The American Ballad" [i.e. Yankee Doodle]); Hymen-Mrs Martyr; Colombine-Miss Wilkinson; [Larpent MS also lists: Genius of the Wood-; Animals-; Crier-; Shewman-; Master of the Quay-; Mayor-; Giants-; Judge-; Councillor-; Goaler-; Boatman-; Neptune-; Dr Graham-; Bailiff-; Bacchanal-; Nymphs-.
Cast
Role: Hymen Actor: Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17861129, but Lucy-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wilson.
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17861028, but Clara-Miss Barnes; Altea-Mrs Love.
Cast
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Love.
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17861028, but Belinda-Mrs Lewis.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Lewis.
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bates
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Hymen Actor: Mrs Martyr
Event Comment: Artaxerxes is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Billington. Receipts: #243 14s. 6d. (241.6.0; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Hymen Actor: Mrs Martyr

Dance: As17861023

Song: As17861211, but Vocal Parts-_Pemberton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17870129, but Queen-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Cast
Role: Priscilla Tomboy Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Dance: As17870201

Song: As17870201

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Cast
Role: Lady Tremor Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Prisoner Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Gregory-Edwin; Sir Jasper-Fearon; Leander-Macready; Davy-Wewitzer; Squire Robert-Helme; Doctor Hellebore-Booth; Charlotte-Miss Stuart; Dorcas-Mrs Webb.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Webb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 (selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His commemoration In Westminster Abbeyv And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784])

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Dignum, Miss George, Mrs Crouch, Mme Mara; 1st Violin-Shaw.

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Count of Narrbonne, but "The Play was changed, on the illness of Mrs Crouch-who never slacks, but when thus, unable to perform. Douglas was the substitute" (World, 2 Apr.). Afterpiece in place of Richard Coeur de Lion, announced on playbill of 29 Mar.] Receipts: #223 1s. 6d. (193.4.0; 28.2.6; 1.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Jordan.
Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. The Romp [announced on playbill of 16 Apr.] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Jordan. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #285 12s. (126.18.0; 13.17.6; 2.16.6; ticket2: 140.0.0;) (charge: #107 8s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act II mainpiece) Jewish Courtship

Afterpiece Title: The Mistake of a Minute

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister Jun., Dignum, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch. Larpent MS lists the parts: Tim, Tom, Daisey, Nettle.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Anne Bullen Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Hewardine (1st appearance on any stage); Sir Jasper Wilding-Thompson; Young Wilding-Davies; Beaufort-Cubitt; Old Philpot-Quick; Maria-Mrs T. Kennedy; The original Epilogue-Hewardine, Quick.
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy

Song: As17870326

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: As17860926, but Col. Townly-Staunton; Lory-R. Palmer; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Forster.
Cast
Role: Miss Hoyden Actor: Mrs Forster.
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Box-Lobby Loungers

Performance Comment: Sir Peter Pippin-Baddeley; Dicky Dash-Bannister Jun.; Scotchman-Suett; Lounger-R. Palmer; Office@Keeper-Phillimore; Box@keepers-Staunton, Chaplin, Wilson; Lobby Danglers-Spencer, Newbold; Irishman-Moody; Orange Girl-Miss Tidswell; Lady Patty Plaid-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Lady Patty Plaid Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Crouch.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Performance Comment: As17870516 , but Mrs Poussin.
Cast
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Goody Muzzy Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Signora Estella Actor: Mrs Poussin

Entertainment: Monologue. As17870516

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Ledger, Rowson, Bott, Varley, Cox, Robson, W. Ansell, Mrs Davenett will be admitted (Account-Book). Receipts: #297 12s. (83.18.6; 2.15.6; tickets: 210.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Davenett

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, as17870131, but Miss _Cranfield, Miss Rowson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17870509, but Shepherdesses-Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart.
Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart.
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Fatima Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Cast
Role: Mrs Margaret Maxwell Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Morton.

Dance: As17870131