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23951 results for: Keyword - Mrs James
We found 23438 matches on Performance Comments, 4498 matches on Event Comments, 4207 matches on Performance Title, 2186 matches on Author, and 751 matches on Roles/Actors.

21076
16 January 1741 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: Vocals-Andreoni, Mrs Arne; Flute-Weideman; First Violin-Festin; Violoncello-Caporale.
Cast
Role: Vocals Actor: Andreoni, Mrs Arne

21077
05 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #113 11s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [The Account Book states that Mrs Porter received #20 for her performance this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Mourning Bride Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Cross.

Dance: As17410129

21078
05 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17401118, but Clodio-Peterson; Duart-Marshall; Jaques-Vaughan; Angelina-Miss Hippisley; Honoria-Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Honoria Actor: Mrs Jones.
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Lamball
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Steel.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Yates

Song: The Gentlewoman who performed Polly [probably Miss Medina]

Dance: HHornpipe-Yates

21079
06 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Steel
Role: Teraminta Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Hob-Laguerre; Friendly-Mrs Jones; Dick-Yates; Flora-Miss Medina.
Cast
Role: Friendly Actor: Mrs Jones

21080
16 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: As17401103, but others-Gibson, _Bridgwater; Vocals-Leveridge, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Vocals Actor: Leveridge, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.
Role: with Vocals Actor: Leveridge, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

21081
26 February 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Solo on the Violin-Collett; a Concerto on the Harpsichord-Gladwin; several Pieces on the Trumpet-Snow; Likewise the Dead March in Saul-to be performed with the Sackbuts; To which will be added, set to Musick Dryden's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day by Mr Handel-; the principal Voice Part-Mrs Arne

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day by Mr Handel-; the principal Voice Part-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: the principal Voice Part Actor: Mrs Arne.

21082
28 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: As17401107, but Thorowgood-Paget; Millwood-Mrs Steel.
Cast
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Steel.
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

21083
10 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Performance Comment: See17410307 but Hellena-Mrs Giffard; with an Epilogue-adapted to that Character.
Cast
Role: 7410307 but Hellena Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student

Cast
Role: Melpomene Actor: Mrs Lamball
Role: Ganymede Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

21084
14 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audry Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennett

Dance: II: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; IV: La Terpsichore-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Miss Scott

21085
15 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: See17410411 but Heartwell-Bridgwater; Bellmour-Ryan; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Sharper-Hale; Laetitia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Miss _Oates, Mrs Delagarde.
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Followers Actor: Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Mrs Drudge Actor: Hippisley
Role: Villagers Actor: Waltz, Perry, Lad, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.

Dance: TTambourine-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Louvre and Minuet-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

21086
28 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17410224, but King-Winstone; Miller-Shepard; Dick-Havard; Joe-Raftor; Peggy-Mrs Wright.
Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Wright.

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: III: Blow Blow-Lowe

21087
05 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Performance Comment: As17401115, but Aura-Mrs Vincent; Vulture-Anderson.
Cast
Role: Aura Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy, lately arrived; IV: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; V: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

21088
12 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Giffard; Brazen-Yates; Kite-Marshall; Sylvia-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment with The Triumphs of Love

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Mrs Drab Actor: Mrs Bishop
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

21089
13 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Performance Comment: Col. Careless-Giffard; Blunt-Blakes; Ruth-Mrs Giffard; Teague-Yates.
Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment with Triumphs of Love

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Mrs Drab Actor: Mrs Bishop
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

21090
17 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Corin Actor: James
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17411015, but Mercury-Salway; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Chasseur Royal-Roberts; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pluto (Punch)-Davenport; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighillia)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Richardson.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby

21091
21 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber Jr; Smith-Delane; Johnson-Mills; Other Characters-Johnson, Macklin, Neale, Havard, Ridout, Taswell, Arthur, Turbutt, Winstone, Leigh, Green, Wright, Ray, Woodburn, Miss Woodman, Mrs Cross, Miss Story, Miss Cole; Vocal Parts-Beard, Lowe, Johnson, Ray, Raftor; Particularly the Representation of a Battle of the Two Operatical Generals-Per gli Signori Giovanni and Tomasino detti Beard, Lowe; With the Additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Other Characters Actor: Johnson, Macklin, Neale, Havard, Ridout, Taswell, Arthur, Turbutt, Winstone, Leigh, Green, Wright, Ray, Woodburn, Miss Woodman, Mrs Cross, Miss Story, Miss Cole

Dance: I: Ballet, as17411015; II: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: The Swiss, as17410926

21092
24 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17410930, but Marplot-Woodward; Patch-Mrs Mullart; Scentwell-Miss Ferguson.
Cast
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Whisper Actor: James
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby

21093
09 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Ghost-Garrick, Being the first Time of his Appearing in that Character; Hamlet-Giffard; King-Paget; Polonius-Julian; Laertes-Marshall; Horatio-W. Giffard; Osrick-Peterson; Rosencrans-Vaughan; Guildenstern-Naylor; Marcellus-Blakes; Queen-Mrs Steel; Ophelia-Miss Hippisley; Gravediggers-Yates, Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Mrs Steele
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Priscilla Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Vallois

21094
16 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17410921, but Melinda-Mrs Stevens; Constable-Stoppelaer; Scale-Marten; Scruple-Roberts.
Cast
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Pritchard, first appearance on that stage
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Recruits Actor: Hippisley, James

Afterpiece Title: What Dye Call It

Performance Comment: New Epilogue-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: New Epilogue Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: % Scotch Dance, as17411130; Le Matelot, as17411130; Comic Dance, as17411209

21095
17 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17411106, but Serina-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Dunstall.
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: A grand Ballet Actor: Froment, Granier, Osbeldiston, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

21096
23 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17411006, but Amanda-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Egerton.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Cast
Role: Haymakers Actor: Barclay, Gray, Green, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner, Miss Jackson
Role: Ending with a Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner.

Song: I: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Dance: III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; II: Les Matelotes, as17411208; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

21097
28 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17411219, but Edward V-Mrs Ridout; Tirrel-Woodburn.
Cast
Role: Edward V Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Mills

Song: SSee from the Silent Groves-Beard; III: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110; V: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17411128

21098
19 January 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17411106, but Acasto-Davis, his first time at gf; Serina-Mrs Dunstall; Page-Miss Naylor.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Mrs Steele
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Priscilla Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Vallois

21099
20 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Performance Comment: As17411216, but Elvira-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17411030; V: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411214

21100
23 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of All's Well That Ends Well is deferr'd 'till Monday next, on account of the Indisposition fo Mrs Woffington, when it will be acted, with dancing by Sg and Sga Fausan. Receipts: #40

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Macklin

Dance: I: The French Peasants, as17420116; II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; III: The Swiss, as17420119; In III: a Hornpipe-Phillips