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4304 results for: Keyword - Samuel Foote, Esq.
We found 3807 matches on Author, 496 matches on Event Comments, 342 matches on Performance Comments, 28 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4076
24 March 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Qualit(. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. [Two Rows of Pit and part of Stage formed into Side-Boxes. Tickets at Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: I: Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy; II: Je ne scai quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Ball Dance, Minuet-Lally, Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Related Works
Related Work: Pamela Author(s): Samuel Richardson

4077
15 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: a new Dramatic Satire. [By David Garrick.] Tickets at Giffard's Lodgings [Mr Bolney's) in Great Queen Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades

Dance: II: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

4078
25 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stevens and Mrs Vincent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Minuet-Master Gillier, Miss Morrison; IV: Swiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

4079
16 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: L'Allemande-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; III: Punch-Master Ferg

4080
22 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh( and Colley Cibber Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. At Common Prices. 6 p.m. Receipts: #62 13s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17400919

4081
01 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #54 16s. 6d. (Account Book); #70 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: MMiller and Wife, The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

4082
06 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet Laureat. Receipts: #61 18s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: PPeasants, Miller and Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

4083
22 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. Receipts: #47 3s. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

4084
13 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Highness the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #81 11s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Barbarini Sick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; Miller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

4085
06 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17401205

4086
17 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #59 14s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

4087
23 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #87 9s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: TTyrolean-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

4088
07 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez and Desse. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment, Desse, Mrs Walter; IV: Comic Dance-Leviez, Mrs Walter; V: Grand Ballet-Desse

Song: II: Blow Blow-Lowe

4089
19 May 1741 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. At the Tennis Court, James Street. A Concert. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>. Places: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

4090
20 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate, performed by Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Happy Pair, as17411015; III: Non Ch' Amarmi, as17411015

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse; IV: Sailor's Dance, as17411015

4091
03 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: As17420125

4092
20 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Colly Cibber Esq. Benefit Theophilus Cibber. No persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the scenes, but by Box ticket, which will be deliver'd at White's Chocolate House in St. James' St.; Tom's Coffee House in Covent Garden, and of Mr Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes and carefully enclos'd) may be taken at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse passage. Tickets for the Boxes and the stage will also be deliver'd at the proper offices of the theatre. Receipts: #150

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; II: A Cantata by Stanley-Beard; IV: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; V: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

4093
26 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

4094
21 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq., Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Villageoise, as17421006

4095
24 November 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, this Day,will be presented a Comedy. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureat. At Common Prices, viz. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [prices regularly repeated in the bills]. For the better Decorum of the Stage, no Money will be taken behind the Scenes; and 'tis humbly hop'd no Person will desire Admittance there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland

4096
09 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality for the Benefit of Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber Esq., Poet-Laureat. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6d. And the Company will continue to act every Day, Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4097
13 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 15 Feb.: We hear that Miss Budgell, duaghter of the late Eustace Budgell, Esq. who perform'd the part of Polly on Monday Night in the Beggar's Opera, met with such unusual Applause, that several persons of Quality have desired the same performance tomorrow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

4098
16 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4099
16 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate. At the desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4100
10 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet Laureate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203