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6809 results for: Keyword - New York
We found 3237 matches on Event Comments, 2688 matches on Performance Title, 1650 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

4001
17 September 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowel-Gibson; Young Knowel-Dyer; Wellbred-Mattocks; Bobadil-Woodward; Mas. Stephen-Shuter; Brainworm-Dunstall; Downright-Gardner; Clement-Morris; Mas. Matthew-Cushing; Cash-Perry; Formal-Wignell; Cob-Massey; Cob's Wife-Mrs Pitt; Bridget-Mrs Baker; Dame Kitely-Mrs Bulkley (late Miss Wilford); By Particular Desire, The New Occasional Prologue-Powell.
Cast
Role: The New Occasional Prologue Actor: Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: Serious Dance, as17670916

4002
18 September 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Morris, 1st time; Woodcock-Shuter; Sir William-Bennet; Young Meadows-Mattocks; Eustace-Dyer; Hodge-Dunstall; Margery-Mrs Baker; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda-Mrs Mattocks; Rosetta-Mrs Pinto; Servants at the Statute-Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White; With a Dance- incident to the opera; The New Occasional Prologue-Powell.
Cast
Role: The New Occasional Prologue Actor: Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: Serious Dance, as17670916

4003
15 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Love; Frankly-Palmer; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-Dodd; Tester-Weston; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Palmer; Lucetta-Mrs Love; Jacintha-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Clarinda-Miss Pope; Concluding with a new Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Concluding with a new Country Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

4004
07 November 1767 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera--Music-Piccini. New Dances, Cloaths, Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

4005
26 December 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Afterpiece a New Pantomime with New Music, Habits, Scenes, Machines and Decorations. Full Prices. [This note continued on all subsequent bills for Elopement this season. It will not be further mentioned here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

4006
16 January 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new serious Opera, Music entirely new-Guglielmi, a Neopolitan Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

4007
27 February 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera, Music entirely new by Felice Alessandri

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Moglie Fedele

4008
26 March 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, composed by Guglielmi. New Dances, Cloaths, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Ratto De La Sposa

4009
24 May 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music entirely new-Pietro Guglielmi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Ridicoli, Tornati In Italia

4010
02 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17680511, but Sally-Mrs Mattocks; new song-_.
Cast
Role: new song Actor: DuBellamy.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

4011
19 September 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Lee; Johnson-Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage; Smith-Casey; Prince Volscius-Keasberry, from the Theatre Royal in Bath; Prince Prettyman-Loveman; Gentleman Usher-Vandermere; Physician-Graham; Drawcansir-Hamilton; Tom Thimble-Brownsmith; Chloris-Mrs Graham; also a Grand Battle-Mr Bayes new rais'd Regiment of Horse.
Cast
Role: also a Grand Battle Actor: Mr Bayes new rais'd Regiment of Horse.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Keasberry; Arcas-Casey; Corydon-Graham; Cimon-Hamilton; Mopsus-Vandermere; Phillida (with a new song in character)-Miss Edwards.

4012
10 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17680923, but Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Gawky-Quick; Rural Swain-_; Nymph-_. *u§™cg A+A New Occasional Interlude: The Royal Garland. [Parts by: Mahoon, DuBellamy, Barnshaw, Mrs Baker, Mrs Mattocks Genius of England-Mahon; Old Shepherd-Barnshaw; Young Shepherd-DuBellamy; Calliope-Mrs Baker; Young Shepherdess-Mrs Mattocks (Edition of 1768); [to conclude with a Grand Ballet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; Chorusses of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-. [See Larpent MS 286 for parts.]See Larpent MS 286 for parts.]
Cast
Role: Nymph Actor: _. u§™cg A+A New Occasional Interlude: The Royal Garland.

4013
19 November 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic opera, Musick entirely new by Pietro Guglielmi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Viaggiatori Tornati

4014
03 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Hoole] never perform'd. Paid Younger for a license for Cyrus & the New Occasional Prologue, #3 3s. (Account Book). [Account of the plot of the mainpiece, but without observational comment appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2-5 Dec.] Receipts: #229 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Country Wife

4015
05 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: See17681129, but with a New Allemande-Dagueville, Sga Vidini; short bill, only Harlequin-Rooker; Colombine-Mrs King listed.
Cast
Role: with a New Allemande Actor: Dagueville, Sga Vidini

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

4016
10 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17681230, but Masquerade-new characters.
Cast
Role: Masquerade Actor: new characters.
Role: with a New Allemande Actor: Dagueville, Sga Vidini

4017
21 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17690104, but Diana-Mrs Thompson; and new scene-WITH ADDITIONS.
Cast
Role: and new scene Actor: WITH ADDITIONS.
Role: to Conclude with a new scene Actor: .

4018
10 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gideon

Performance Comment: Parts for five characters and a Chorus; Gideon-; Joash-; Eliakim-; a Priest of Baal-; Oreb-; Chorus of Israelites-.*m1769 2 10 cg The First Violin, a Concerto-Sga Paganini; a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischer.*c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell (Biographia Dramatica). We cannot commend this piece, it being altogether a very tedious and heavy performance (Theatrical Register). Charges: #35.
Cast
Role: a Concerto on the Hautboy Actor: Fischer.c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell

4019
13 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17690209, but Peirrot-Lalauze, 1st time in tha character these 8 years; Harlequin-Miles; Venus-Mrs Baker; Colombine-Mrs Dyer. [The New Character would seem to be Venus-Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.]
Cast
Role: The New Character would seem to be Venus Actor: Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.
Role: New Character Actor: .

Dance: IV: The Lamplighters, as17681101

4020
23 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Home]. New Scenes and Dresses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

4021
25 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be published by Subscription: A General History of The Stage, for the last ten years; comprehending all remarkable Occurrences during that Period, the Production and Success of every new Piece, and Anecdotes of the Principal Performers. By Joseph Younger. Prompter to the Theatre Royal In Covent Garden. Printed Proposals to be had Becket and DeHondre in the Strand, and of Griffin in Catherine Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The New Character would seem to be Venus Actor: Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.
Role: New Character Actor: .

4022
21 June 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: new comedy in three acts by Bickerstaffe; but Act I, ii, written by Foote. Afterpiece: new musical farce by Bickerstaffe; music by Dibdin and others. An alteration from Dryden's Don Sebastian.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Doctor Last In His Chariot

Afterpiece Title: The Captive

Dance: As17690515

4023
29 August 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: As17690809, but Guzzle-Kearny; new Prologue-Miss Rose; Epilogue-Miss Rose.
Cast
Role: new Prologue Actor: Miss Rose

Dance: DDouble Hornpipe-Vandermere, Miss Street; Country Dance-the characters

4024
05 September 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser, 5 Sept. 1769: Mr Crawford and Co. beg Leave to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, with the following List of their new Singers, and others engaged for the serious and comic Operas next Season. Those marked thus& are new Performers, viz. Principal Singers for the Serious Operas: &Signior Guadini, first Man. &Signora Cecilia Grassi, first Woman. For comic or serious: Signor Lovattini, first Man. &Sig Zamperini, &Signora Guadini, first Women. &Signor Piatti, 2nd Man serious. &Signor Bianchi, Tenor, Signora Zamperini, Sig Morighi, Signora Piatti. Composer: Sig Guiglielmi. Principal Dancers: Mr Slingsby, &Signor Galiotti, &Signor Siminon, &Signora Guidi, Signora Radicatti, &Signora Gardel. Ballet Master: &Sig Campioni. [See 7 Nov.

Performances

4025
23 November 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Reddish; Amphitryon-J. Aickin; Mercury-Jefferson; Judge Gripus-Parsons; Phoebus-Hurst; Polidas-Wright; Tranio-Fawcett; Sosia-King; Phaedra-Miss Pope; Bromia-Mrs Bradshaw; Night-Miss Platt; Alcmena-Miss Young; In Which will be introduc'd an Interlude of Dancing and Singing- the Music entirely new; Plutus-Bannister; Wit-Mrs Scott; The Dance-The Daiguevilles, Sga Vidini.
Cast
Role: In Which will be introduc'd an Interlude of Dan Actor: the Music entirely new

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Singing Actor: New Dresses, Scenes