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4948 results for: Keyword - Scots and English Songs
We found 2179 matches on Performance Comments, 2062 matches on Performance Title, 1166 matches on Event Comments, 122 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4626
30 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 21 May 1782]. An Operatic, Comic Pantomime, with material Alterations and Additions, particularly a Grand Spectacle, being a Representation of a Jubilee Procession of the Nobles, Clergy, and People at Rome ["which consisted of artificial figures, horse and foot, cars, &c.; it was very well managed" (Morning Post, 1 Dec.).]. The new Airs, Chorusses, &c. by Reeve. With new Music, Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Words of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #264 19s. (255.4; 9.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: Partial cast from Diary, 1 Dec.: Harlequin-Boyce; Pierrot-Reeve; Kit Keel-Ryder; Colombine-Mrs Mountain. [And see17891203] .And see17891203] .

4627
09 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene, Minuet and Gavot-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Song: In II: Stevens's Glee, Sigh no more Ladies-Dignum, Sedgwick, Williames, Miss Hagley, Miss Romanzini

4628
21 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by James Wild. Text (no publisher, 1790)]: Being a Collection of favorite Scenes from the Following celebrated Pantomimes: Harlequin Sorcerer, Mother Shipton, Choice of Harlequin, Lord Mayor's Day, Druids, Fryar Bacon, Harlequin Freemason, Norwood Gipsies, Omai, Magic Cavern, and Harlequin Rambler. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Original Scenery, Machinery, &c. painted by Lambert, Dall [both deceased], Carver, Hodgins and Richards-and now all repaired and repainted. The Music selected by Shaw from Pepuch [sic], Dr Arne, Dr Arnold, Dr Fisher, ?M.? Arne, Vincent, Dibdin and Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 31 Dec.: Paid Wild for his Attention to the Pantomime #30; Boyce for Ditto #15; Shaw for Ditto #10. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (204.8.6; 28.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Delpini; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Barber (with A Twiggle and a Friz)-Edwin; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Bannister; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Lawyers-Davies, Reeve, Cubitt; Serjeant-W. Powel; 1st Recruit-C. Powell; 2nd Recruit-Cubitt; Artist-Letteney; Carpenter-Lee; Bricklayers-Thompson, Evatt; Doctor-Jackson; Woodcutter-Rock; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; Fishwomen-Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White; Colombine-Miss L. Simonet.

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

4629
23 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband, advertised on playbill of 22 Dec.] Paid House & Window tax, 1@2 Yr., #56 13s. 8d. Public Advertiser, 24 Dec.: [Pearce, who was from the Bath theatre, has] a clear bass voice, which he occasionally relieves by a falsetto...His first song was encored though sung much out of tune. Receipts: #113 4s. (77.2; 35.12; 0.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Whitfield
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

4630
19 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Baron of Oakland Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17891204

4631
03 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Island of St. Marguerite, advertised on playbill of 2 Feb. Beginning with this night Kemble, as acting manager, rearranged the order of listing the dramatis personae on the playbills, i.e., not, as had hitherto been the universal custom, according to the importance of the character in the play or the importance of the actor, but according to the social rank of each character. See also Genest, VII, 57-58, who remarks, inter alia, that "the vast importance which actors attach to the situation of their names in the bills, and to some other points of theatrical etiquette, must appear ridiculous to every body but themselves."] Receipts: #126 17s. 6d. (89.18.0; 34.10.0; 2.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: In II: As17891209; End: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

Song: As17891209

4632
04 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End: The Deserter, as17891113; In I afterpiece: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

4633
19 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Among the Instrumental Performers are G. Ashley (leader of the Band), Sperati, Sarjant, Patria, Reinagle, C. Ashley, Boyce, Mahon, Mountain, Holmes, Lyon, Schram, Kaye, the Leanders, &c. Double Drums by J. Ashley. The Organ on Fridays by Knyvett, and on Wednesdays by Greatorex. The whole conducted by Harrison and Ashley. The Band will consist of 150 Performers. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon, at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. No Money to be returned. Places may be taken in the Theatrical Orchestra at 5s. each [i.e. at the oratorios the instrumentalists sat on the stage]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performances, with the names of the performers to their respective songs, to be had at the Theatre. And to prevent imposition in the Streets, the Managers have directed that they should be sold in the Theatre, at 6d. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah, Preceded By god Save The King(coronation Anthems)

Performance Comment: Principal Singers-Harrison, Sale, Griffiths, Champness, Gore, Webb, Reynoldson, Saville, Miss Poole, Miss Mahon, Miss Dall (1st appearance), Miss Cantelo, with the Choristers of His Majesty's Chapel-Royal and Westminster-Abbey.
Cast
Role: 's Chapel Actor: Royal and Westminster-Abbey.
Role: Royal and Westminster Actor: Abbey.

Music: End II: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot (from Paris)

4634
27 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Honeycombe-Suett; Ledger-Williames; Scribble-R. Palmer; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Hopkins; Polly (with a new song, and the original Epilogue)-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Nurse-Mrs Booth.

Dance: As17900210

Song: As17890922

4635
01 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

4636
22 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit [9 rows (World, 23 Mar.)] to be laid into the Boxes. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, probably by Isaac Bickerstaffe, but also ascribed to Mrs Jordan and to Richard Ford. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1799]. Kemble Mem.: The Farce is written by Mr Bickerstaffe. World, 29 Apr. 1790: The Spoil'd Child was sent to Mrs Jordan from Bickerstaffe in Italy, where her fame had reached. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan at her house, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #352 18s. 6d. (137.13.0; 12.4.6; 1.7.0; tickets: 201.14.0) (charge: #111 6s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performance Comment: Little Pickle (with songs)-Mrs Jordan; Old Pickle-Suett; Tagg-R. Palmer; John-Burton; Miss Pickle-Mrs Hopkins; Maria-Miss Heard; Margery-Mrs Booth; Susan-Mrs Edwards; Prologue-Mrs Jordan.

4637
13 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Mrs Wells had 1st acted Macheath at the hay, 14 Sept. 1781; Bannister had acted Polly at the same theatre, 16 Sept. 1785.] Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. "There is now a most vehement rage of innovation in language, government, religion, and everything else...On the British stage, with infinite applause, young and beautiful actresses perform sometimes the Parts of highwaymen; and some singing actors squall in an affected voice resembling, and intended to imitate, that of women; the most humourous dramatic pieces are frittered away into songs; and I should not be surprised to hear that henceforth Miranda and Juliet are to be personated by grim-visaged grenadiers seven feet high, and Falstaff by a slender miss just entered her teens" (Universal Magazine, Mar. 1795, p. 171). Receipts: #285 14s. (162.4.6; 5.9.6; tickets: 118.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

4638
26 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

4639
30 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Osmand Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

4640
01 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17891106, but Shylock-King (1st appearance in that character at this theatre); Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Salanio-Evatt.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17891106

4641
12 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Bannister Jun.; Squire-Whitfield; Candy-Miss Tidswell; Polly Pattens-Mrs Crouch; with a song-Mrs Crouch.
Cast
Role: Candy Actor: Miss Tidswell

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: As17891209

Song: As17891209

4642
18 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. [Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews. Monody by Robert Merry (European Magazine, May 1790, p. 390).] Gazetteer, 11 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #168 6s. (87.8; 7.9; tickets: 73.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: End II: The Memorable 13th of September; or, The Defeat of the Spaniards before Gibraltar-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Monody to the Memory of [that distinguished Philanthropist, John Howard Esquire [on whom the character of Haswell was founded]-Mrs Pope[, in the character of a Female Captive

4643
19 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Cast
Role: Candy Actor: Miss Tidswell

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: End II: The Lass of Richmond Hill (composed by Hook)-Dignum; End IV: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum; End: Poor Jack-Dignum

4644
20 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Apollo [i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-R. Palmer; In which (for that night only) The Anacreontic Song-Sedgwick; [following glees: Now is the Month of Maying (Morley), Could a Man be Secure (Goodwin)-Dignum, Sedgwick; Sigh no more Ladies (Stevens), Poor Jack (Dibdin)-Dignum; Welcome the Covert (Mellish), Here's a Health to all good Lasses, Wake Sons of Odin (Stevens)-Sedgwick; Sing Old Rose and Burn the Bellows-.
Cast
Role: Sing Old Rose and Burn the Bellows Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Comus

4645
26 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17891009, but Bagatelle (with additional songs)-Delpini (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: Preceding: As17891113

4646
31 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Spencer and Nix. 1st piece: Some of the Music compiled from the best Masters. The rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompaniments, &c. by Linley? Sen.. Receipts: #252 4s. 6d. (44.17.0; 27.0.0; 3.11.6; tickets: 176.16.0) (charge: #110 11s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Performance Comment: Aldobrand-Suett; Regnalto-Williames; Octavio-Dignum; Montano (with additional songs)-Kelly; Fabio-Phillimore; Firelock-Sedgwick; Lawrence-Bannister Jun.; Roberto-Webb; Viola-Mrs Crouch; Laura (1st time)-Miss Hagley; Alice-Mrs Edwards; Rosa (1st time)-Miss Romanzini.
Cast
Role: Aldobrand Actor: Suett

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Cast
Role: Candy Actor: Miss Tidswell

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Maddocks

Song: In course Evening: Rosy Bowers (composed by Purcell)-Mrs Crouch

4647
03 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Duffey and Cox. Diary, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Duffey, No. 115, St. Martin's Lane [Cox not listed]. Receipts: #315 10s. 6d. (94.12.0; 6.3.6; tickets: 214.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: End I afterpiece: Tho' Bacchus may boast (composed by Shield)-Duffey; End II: Mad Tom (composed by Purcell)-Duffey

4648
05 June 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: 's and Phillimore's names listed in playbill Ville Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

4649
16 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow Fearon, and her Eight Orphan Children. Tickets to be had of Mrs Fearon, No. 6, Spur-street, Leicester-Fields; and of Brandon, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken. [Fearon had died 30 Sept. 1789.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

4650
16 July 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; CO 3, by John Scawen]: The Music, with a new Overture, by Dr Arnold. The Scenery designed and painted by Rooker. The Dances by Byrn. Books of the Songs [T. Cadell, 1790] to be had at the Theatre. Diary, 27 Aug. 1790: This Day is published New Spain (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: New Spain; or, Love in Mexico

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister, Ryder, R. Palmer, Davies, Cubitt, Waterhouse, Evatt, Ledger, Bannister Jun.; Mrs Goodall, Mrs Iliff, Miss Fontenelle, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Bannister; Chorus of Indians-Chapman, Abbott, Lyons, Dorion, Guishard, Linton; Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790): Alkmonoak-Bannister; Don Lopez-Ryder; Secretary to Don Lopez-R. Palmer; Don Juan-Davies; Zempoalla-Cubitt; Don Garcias-Waterhouse; Servant-Ledger; Fabio-Bannister Jun.; Leonora-Mrs Goodall; Julia-Mrs Iliff; Flora-Miss Fontenelle; Caduga-Miss Palmer see17900719; Ulah-Mrs Edwards; Iscagli-Mrs Bannister; unassigned-Evatt see17900719.

Dance: III 2nd piece: A Grand Indian War Dance-