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We found 23589 matches on Performance Comments, 10798 matches on Author, 4586 matches on Event Comments, 4237 matches on Performance Title, and 137 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17670724 but Desdemona-Mrs Jefferies.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Jefferies.
Role: Aemilia Actor: Mrs Burden

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: End: Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17671010, but Queen-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Baddeley, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Claudio-Palmer; Dogberry-Parsons; Don Pedro-Packer; Leonato-Havard; Balthazar (with song)-Vernon; John-Aickin; Antonio-Hurst; Borachio-Ackman; Town Clerk-Baddeley; Sexton-Weston; Beatrice-Miss Pope; Hero-Mrs Baddeley, 1st time; In Act II, a Masquerade Dance proper to the play, -Grimaldi; To Conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Baddeley, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Abington.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17671014, but Jessica-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: III: A New Comic Dance, as17671024; IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17671028, but Jessica-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: III: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; IV: A New Tambourine Dance, as17671119

Event Comment: Benefit for a Public Charity. [Specified in Account Book, as the Lock Hospital, which received #11 3s. over and above house charges and sundries (candles, kettle drum, side drum, wardrobe) plus #23 5s. for disposing of 93 Box tickets.] @Receipt #97 15s.@House Charges #84@Candles #1 5s.@Kettle Drum 5s.@Side Drum 2s.@Wardrobe #1@Total #86 12s.@Balance due the Hospital #11 3s.@93 Box Tickets valued at #23 5s.@Money #97 15s.@Total in House #121 (Account Book).@ N.B. Received of Mrs LaRoche her half value of Tickets for 12th Inst. #59 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Evans.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Event Comment: [N$Neville stood in the Pit this evening]: Iachimo by Smith, but I like Holland better in that character; Cloten by Yates, tho' not equal in it to King...Afterpiece concluded by an original dance by Mr Arnauld and Mrs Thomson (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #193 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: The Garland, as17671214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17671121, but Portia-Mrs Bulkley, 1st time; Lorenzo-Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Bulkley, 1st time
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Performance Comment: As17670921, but Lady-Mrs DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs DuBellamy.

Dance: III: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; IV: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17671013, but Queen-Mrs Reddish.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Reddish.
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Baddeley, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Oliver Goldsmith]: Never Perform'd Before. [Quick, mentioned by Genest, does not appear on the playbill. The Edition of 1768 casts Mrs White as Landlady, and Cushing as Butler. It does not include Morris or Morgan, but adds Post@Boy-Quick; Bailiff-R. Smith; Dubardieu-Holtom. (See 1 Feb.) The Theatrical Monitor, No XI (6 Feb.), reviews the mainpiece in a lukewarm, judicial manner.] Receipts: #227 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Performance Comment: Parts by Powell, Shuter, Woodward, Bensley, Clarke, Dunstall, Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Green, Mrs White, Mrs Bulkley. Croaker-Shuter; Honeywood-Powell; Lofty-Woodward; Leontine-Bensley; Sir William Honeywood-Clarke; Jarvis-Dunstall; Bailiff-R. Smith; Postboy-Quick; Miss Richland-Mrs Bulkley; Olivia-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Croaker-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Garnet-Mrs Green (Genest, V, 189);Also Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs White.Also Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs White.
Cast
Role: Miss Richland Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mrs Croaker Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mrs Garnet Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17680114, but Macbeth-Garrick; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard; Fleance-_; Dance of Furiesin Act IV,-Grimaldi, Duquesney, Giorgi, Shuter.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Jeffries.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Mary Oldboy Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Catherine-Mrs Green; Petruchio-Woodward; Grumio-Yates.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: End Opera: New Comic Dance, as17671126, but Miss Capon, Miss _Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17680229, but Nerissa-Mrs Vincent; Solanio-_; Salarino-_.
Cast
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: I: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Macklin; III: The Provenzales, as17680301 IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17670917, but Richard-Reddish, 1st time; King Henry-Burton; Buckingham-Aickin; Norfolk-Hurst; Lady Anne-Mrs Reddish.
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Reddish.
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Johnston
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-King, Cautherly, Baddeley, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Abington.

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Dancer
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Jeffries
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220; IV: By Particular Desire, The Medley (Not perform'd these 3 years)-Shuter, Mrs King

Entertainment: End: Linco's Travels-King with his Particular remarks on London

Event Comment: Benefit for Messink, Giorgi, Mrs Johnston. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Johnston
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Dancer
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680220; IV: The Medley, as17680416

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17680129, but Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Bellarius-Burton (?).
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Baddeley, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Ackman.
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Love.

Dance: II: The Cow@Keepers (with alterations and additions)-Grimaldi's apprentices; III: Grand Dance The Lilliputian Camp, as17671202; V: By Particular Desire, The Cotillion, as17680406 but Miss Egan to list of dancers

Event Comment: The Last time of the company's performing this season. [Following deficiencies for this season paid up: Richard Smith, Lewes, Dumay, Condell, Potter, Thomas Smith, Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Simmonds, Pullen, Stephenson, Asbury, Wilde, Francis, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, and Sharratt (Account Book). This includes payment of half value of tickets for those who were granted partial benefits on that basis.] Music forfeits at end of season #17 6s. 11d. Neville MS Diary: Went...to see Cymbeline...chiefly to hear Powell speak an occasional prologue. Would not have gone had I known it was only a stale piece of flattery to George. [See The Gentleman's Magazine, 9 July p. 346: "On shutting up the playhouse in Covent Garden at the end of the season, admission into the theatre having been denied to Mr H and R through any other passage but Mr Powell's House, those gentlemen at the head of a large posse on the 17th of last month, [June] made a forcible entry by breaking open a window near the playhouse door in Hart street; after which they expelled by violence Mr Sargeant the Housekeeper, all his family and others; but the acting managers not being inclined to submit to the arbitrary proceedings of their colleagues, immediately applied for redress, where redress was effectually to be had, and this day they were formally expelled by virtue of a warrant from under the hand and seal of the high sherrifs of London and Middlesex, and the old housekeeper, Mr Sargeant, restored to his office of trust, to the great mortification of one of the champions who had been heard to say: That he had now got possession and d--n him if he would not keep it while he had a drop of blood in his body, and while there was one brick upon another belonging to the house."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Nysa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mysis Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Dance: III: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Gardner; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Casey; Sparkish-Loveman; Alithea-Mrs Graham; Country Wife-Miss Ogilvie.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Graham

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Dyer; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Perry; Alithea-Mrs DuBellamy; Country Wife-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs DuBellamy

Dance: I: A Comic Dance, as17681007; II: The Tartars, as17681004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Woodward; Grumio-Yates; Catherine-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: I: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17680928; II: The Tartars, as17681004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Holland; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Dodd; Belville-Cautherly; Lucy-Miss Pope; Alithea-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Country Girl-A young Gentlewoman[, 1st appearance [Miss Burton]., 1st appearance [Miss Burton].
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Jeffries, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: II: A New Dance called The Hunters-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: As17680926, but Osmyn-Barry; Almeria-Mrs Barry; Gonzales-Packer.
Cast
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Lenora Actor: Mrs Johnston
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Parts by: King, Cautherly, Parsons, Hartry, Strange, Mrs Johnston, Miss Platt, Miss Pope. Martin-King; Saville-Cautherly; Item-Strange; Boy-Mas. Cape; Myra-Miss Platt; Linger-Parsons; Lucetta-Miss Pope; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Johnston; Caveat-Hartry (Winston MS 10).
Cast
Role: Mrs Watchly Actor: Mrs Johnston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Phillips; Iago-Henry; Duke-Foster; Brabantio-Martial; Cassio-Palmer; Gratiano-Smith; Lodovico-Wooller; Montano-Moss; Roderigo-Vandermere; Emilia-Miss Thomson; Desdemona-Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Smith.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Vandermere; Flash-Henry; Loveit-Smith; Puff-Moss; Tagg-Miss Thomson; Biddy-Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Smith.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17690111, but Cordelia (for that night only)-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Yates.
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs DuBellamy

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Fine Gentleman-Dyer; Old Man, Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Aesop-King; Mercury-DuBellamy; Charon-Bates; Frenchman-Holtom; Drunken Man-Dunstall; Bowman-Davis; Fine Lady-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-, Double Hornpipe, as17690408