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3748 results for: Keyword - Richard Simon
We found 2032 matches on Author, 1051 matches on Performance Comments, 697 matches on Performance Title, 478 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3076
28 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: See17981004, but Dick-Bannister Jun.; Simon-Suett; Charlotte-Miss Mellon No others listed.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Suett

Song: As17990524

3077
10 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: Whimsey-Hollingsworth; Monford-Caulfield; Young Whimsey-R. Palmer; Tim Tartlett-Bannister Jun.; Furnish-Suett; Simon-Russell; Nrs Pattypan-Mrs Walcot; Charlotte-Miss Heard; Nancy-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Russell

Song: As17990529

3078
19 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17990606 but Simon-Wathen; Charlotte-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Wathen

Song: As17990529

3079
26 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Performance Comment: Sir Credule-Davenport; Simon-Palmer; Capt. Nightshade-J. Palmer; Sceptic-Clarke; Miss Die-Miss Heard; Kitty-Mrs Harlowe.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Richard Paul Jodrell

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Frolick

3080
20 September 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Lewis; Strickland-Murray; Jack Meggot-Knight; Bellamy-Whitfield; Tester-Townsend; Buckle-Klanert; Simon-Abbot; Ranger's Servant-Simmons; Chairmen-Wilde, Rees; Frankly-Holman; Mrs Strickland-Miss Chapman; Lucetta-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Mrs Chapman (1st appearance in that character); Milliner-Miss Cox; Clarinda-Miss Betterton (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Abbot

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Entertainment: Monologue As17990916

3081
08 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Feignwell-Bannister Jun.; Freeman-Caulfield; Sir Philip Modelove-Wewitzer; Obadiah Prim-Aickin; Tradelove-Wathen; Perriwinkle-Suett; Sackbut-Palmer; Simon Pure-Hollingsworth; Aminadab-Grimaldi; Gentlemen-Wentworth, Ryder; Stockbrokers-Sparks, Maddocks; Mrs Prim-Miss Pope; Anne Lovely-Miss Mellon; Betty-Miss Tidswell; Lady-Mrs Roffey.
Cast
Role: Simon Pure Actor: Hollingsworth

Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

3082
26 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Wingate-Hollingsworth; Dick-Bannister Jun.; Gargle-Wewitzer; Simon-Suett; Scotchman-Sparks; Irishman-Caulfield; Catchpole-Maddocks; President-Fisher; Spouters-Evans, Grimaldi, Chippendale; Porter-Webb; Watchman-Wentworth; Charlotte-Miss Mellon.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Suett

Dance: As17991019

3083
12 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: Whimsey-Hollingsworth; Monford-Caulfield; Young Whimsey-Palmer; Tim Tartlett-Bannister Jun.; Furnish-Suett; Simon-Surmont; Mrs Pattypan-Mrs Walcot; Charlotte-Miss Heard; Nancy-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Simon Actor: Surmont

Dance: As17991019

3084
11 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Performance Comment: Harcourt-Incledon; Sir Simon Flourish-Emery; Captain O'Neill-Johnstone; Old Testy-Munden; Young Flourish-Fawcett; Young Testy-Knight; Bluff-Gardner; Snare-Claremont; Tipstaff-Simmons; Kitty-Mrs Martyr; Lady Flourish-Mrs Litchfield; Miss Hartley-Mrs Atkins.
Cast
Role: Sir Simon Flourish Actor: Emery

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

3085
15 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: As17991024, but Obadiah Prim-Hollingsworth; Simon Pure-Surmont; Aminadab-Chippendale.
Cast
Role: Simon Pure Actor: Surmont

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

3086
29 October 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Lee; Henry IV-Furnival; Prince-Cushing; Worcester-Pinner; Northumberland-G. Hallam; Vernon-Lynham; Blunt-Edwards; Poins-Baker; Bardolph-Miles; Gadshill-Orpin; Peto-Simms (Daily Advertiser), Simons (Hogan, Shakespeare in the Theatre, p. 185); Lady Percy-Mrs Hallam; Hostess-Mrs Beckham; Carriers-Dove, Beckham; Francis-L. Hallam; Falstaff-Paget.

Dance: 1 As17461027

3087
01 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performance Comment: Judas-Beard; Simon, Eupolemus-Reinhold; 1st Israelite Woman-Signora Gambarini; 2nd Israelite Woman, Priest, Israelite Man-Signora Galli (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 471); Also a new concerto-.

3088
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Cross and Bridges' Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate. A new Dramatick Droll...being founded on a Story in Real Life, as related in the Memoirs of the celebrated Mrs Constantia Phillips. In which will be introduc'd a New Scene of Bedlam...Interspers'd witn a Merry Interlude call'd The Jovial Tars...with the Comical Humours of Nurse Prate and Will Bowling the Jovial Tar; as also of Jack Hanspite, Nick Hatchway, and Simon Bucket, Sailors; with Mary the Chambermaid, Susan of the Dairy, Kate of the Kitchen, and Nan the Spinster. To begin each day at noon. An extraordinary band of music is provided. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Lunatick Or The Generous Sailor

Afterpiece Title: Modern Madness or A Touch of the Times

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee Ball a Grand Scene

Monologue: 1749 8 24 bf I+Interlude The Jovial Jack Tars, or All Well Match'd. Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough

Dance: TThe Medley of Jokes-; the French Peasants-Master Matthews, Mrs Annesley

3089
20 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performance Comment: Parts were: Judas, Israelite Man, Israelite Woman, Chorus, Simon (Brother to Judas), Messenger, Eupolemus (Jewish Ambassador to Rome).

Afterpiece Title: Concerto on the Organ

3090
18 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performance Comment: Parts were Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite Woman-; Chorus-; Simon, Brother to Judas-; Messenger-; Eupolemus, Jewish Ambassador to Rome- (Larpent MS).

3091
22 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

3092
25 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17530327 but Milliner-_; Buckle-_; Chairman-_; Valet-_; Simon-_; Landlady-_. [Winston MS 8 lists the Shepherd's Lottery as the afterpiece and states that Mrs Horton did not act in the either piece. Shepherd's Lottery as17530427 For Chaplet, see17530301] .Winston MS 8 lists the Shepherd's Lottery as the afterpiece and states that Mrs Horton did not act in the either piece. Shepherd's Lottery as17530427 For Chaplet, see17530301] .

3093
12 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus Judith

Performance Comment: As17730226 Parts were: Judas, Israelite Man, Israelite Woman, Chorus, Simon (brother to Judas); Messenger, EupolemusR (Jewish Ambassador to Rome).

Music: As17730305

3094
23 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Parts were: Judas , Israelite Man , Israelite Woman , Chorus , Simon (Brother to Judas ), Messenger , Eupolemus (Jewish Ambassador to Rome ) Principal Vocal parts-Vernon, Champness, Leoni, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Weichsel.

Music: First Violin-Lamotte; after I: Concerto on German Flute-Florio; Part II: Violin Concerto-Lamotte

3095
03 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on La Bohemienne, by Charles Simon Favart. Music by Samuel Arnold]. Books of both Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 10 Aug. 1778: This Day is published The Gipsies (price not listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Gipsies

3096
02 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Annette et Lubin, by Charles Simon Favart and Jean Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre. Music by the author]. Books of the new Musical Piece to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 2 Oct.: This Afternoon at Four is published Annette and Lubin (6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

3097
31 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1776. Mrs Robinson, who was from the Portsmouth theatre, is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill]. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Frances Brooke, based on Les Moissonneurs, by Charles Simon Favart]: The new Music and overture composed, and the Selected Airs compiled [from Paxton and Sacchini], by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 30 June 1784: Paid Shield for composing Rosina #100. Receipts: #158 18s. 6d. (154/5/6; 4/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second Or The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

3098
18 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by A Lady [unidentified], based partly on L'Amitie A l'epreuve, by Charles Simon Favart and Claude Henri de Fusee de Voisenon]: The Overture and the new Music composed by Hook. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar. 1786: This Day at Noon is published The Peruvian (1s. 6d.). [The music was printed under the title of The Fair Peruvian (S. A. & P. Thompson [1786]), which was the original title as given in the MS (Larpent 727).] Receipts: #246 8s. (242/16/6; 3/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peruvian

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

3099
10 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Mainpiece [1st time: C 5, by Simon. Prologue by John Henniker (Town and Country Magazine, June 1791, p. 281). Larpent MS 906; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Post, 11 May]. "Scarcely [any] performer in the piece thought it worth while to charge their memories with words, that they would wish afterwards, if they had, to forget as fast as possible...The imitations were some tolerably true, and a few excellent. Siddons and Storace were outrageous caricatures. Mrs Wells once came infinitely nearer the former. She is now deficient in tone and emphasis--all is shiver and sob. Mrs Crawford, Mrs Jordan and Mrs Abington were worthy her talents in the mimetic art" (Oracle, 11 May). Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 12, Weymouth-street, Portland-place. Receipts: #313 3s. (148.15; 8.7; tickets: 156.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: National Prejudice

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Entertainment: Imitations End II: (for that Night only some) Comic Imitations-Mrs Wells; End: instead of an Epilogue, some Tragic Imitations-Mrs Wells

3100
31 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband Or The Plotting Sisters

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Rashley-Smith; Ranger-Harris; Peregrine Bubble-James Nokes; Old Fumble-Anth. Leigh; Sir Roger Petulant-Sandford; Sneak-Jevan; Spatterdash-Richards; Apothecary-Percival; Emillia-Mrs Barrer; Maria-Mrs Marshal; Cordelia-Mrs Hughes; Betty-Mrs Napper; Governess-Mrs Norrice; Prologue-; Epilogue-Fumble; Edition of 1678 adds: Jeremy-Richards.
Cast
Role: Spatterdash Actor: Richards
Role: Jeremy Actor: Richards.