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9607 results for: Keyword - Sir W. Parsons
We found 7667 matches on Performance Comments, 1604 matches on Author, 1216 matches on Event Comments, 503 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8076
05 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-A Young Gentleman [Mr Young]; Peachum-Shuter; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat@o@Mint-Baker; Lucy-Miss Catley (by desire) first time; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Baker; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Polly-Mrs Mattocks; [In III, Hornpipe-Miss Besford; [Concluding with a Country Dance-the characters in the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Woodward; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Classic-Hull; Subtle-Thompson; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with Song)-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor: Fearon

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928

8077
06 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 21 May 1773.] Introductory Interlude played 9th time By Particular Desire. Paid Bassoons & German Flutes in Xmas Tale 2 nights this and last season #3 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #174 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Dr Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Darnley-Reddish; Seyward-Cautherly; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Mawworm-Weston; Lady Lambert-Mrs Greville; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Sir John Lambert Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Cast
Role: Parsons Actor: Parsons
Role: Whittle Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Patrick Actor: Moody

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Parsons Actor: Parsons
Role: Whittle Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Patrick Actor: Moody

8078
07 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Lewis, first time; Myrtle-Wroughton; Sealand-Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Shuter; Humphry-Thompson; Daniel-Hollingsworth; Tom-Woodward; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; [first time; Lucinda-Mrs Whitefield; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Hull; Indiana-a Young Lady [never on any stage [Mrs Armstead]; [In II, a Song-DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Dance: III: A New Grand Ballet, call'd The Vintage Festival-Daguville, Sga Vidini, [first time on that stage, and Mr Helm[, first appearance in England. [See dl 11 Oct. 1766.

8079
21 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Bensley, first time; Major Oakly-Shuter; Charles-Wroughton; Lord Trinket-Lewis[, first time; Russet-Dunstall; Sir Harry-Quick; O'Cutter-Fox; Tom-Hollingsworth; Paris-Wewitzer; John-Bates; Harriet-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Freelove-Mrs Pitt; Toilet-Miss Pearce; Mrs Oakly-A Lady[, first appearance on English Stage [Mrs Hunter]., first appearance on English Stage [Mrs Hunter].
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928

8080
02 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Woodward; Old Philpot-Shuter; Sir Jasper-Dunstall; Young Wilding-Whitefield; Maria-Mrs Mattocks; With Epilogue-Woodward, Shuter.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Dunstall

Dance: End Opera: The Reel, as17741028

8081
03 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Garrick; Scrub-Weston; Foigard-Moody; Bonniface-Usher; Aimwell-Packer; Sir Charles Freeman-Brereton; Sullen-Hurst; Gibbet-Bransby; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Cross; Dorinda-Miss Sherry; Gypsy-Mrs Davies; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Abington; Cherry-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Weston, Parsons, Aickin, Hurst, Bransby, Wright, Ackman, Miss Platt. Bayes-King
Role: Parsons Actor: Parsons
Role: Whittle Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Patrick Actor: Moody

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17740917

8082
04 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Jerry Sneak-Weston; Sir Jacob-Waldron; Lint-Wrighten; Bruin-Wright; Heel@Tap-Bransby; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Waldron

8083
12 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Townly-Barry; Manly-Clarke; Richard-Quick; John Moody-Dunstall; Basset-Lee Lewes; Sir Francis-Shuter; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Pitt; Miss Jenny-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Townly-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: Comus

8084
09 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Grey

Performance Comment: Lord Guildford Dudley-Lewis, first time; Pembroke-Bensley; Northumberland-Hull; Gardiner-Clarke; Suffolk-Fearon; Sussex-L'Estrange; Sir John Gates-Booth; Lieut.-Chaplin; Dutchess of Suffolk-Mrs Hull; Lady-Miss Pearce; Lady Jane Grey-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Sir John Gates Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Cast
Role: Sir Hector Strangeways Actor: Shuter

Dance: End Tragedy: A Comic Dance, call'd Rural Merriment-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens

8085
16 February 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes 5s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Alter'd from Fielding, in 2 Acts. To begin at 7:00 p.m. Singing and music for The Sot under the direction of Dr Arne. Program Desired by many Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sot

Performance Comment: Fairlove-Young Gentlewoman, first appearance; Clarinda-Young Gentlewoman, first appearance; Pert-Young Gentlewoman, fifth appearance; Sir Thomas-young Gentleman, first appearance.
Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: young Gentleman, first appearance.

Song: Catches and Glees-; Diana's Chace-Miss Jameson

Music: After Comic piece: two Ariettas on the Octave Flute in the Polonese taste-a new performer from that country; After Part II Catches and Glees: Concerto on Clarinet with variations on the Wanton God-Mahon

8086
20 February 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger

Performance Comment: Patie-M'Donald; Roger-Stewart; Symon-Middlemist; Glaud (with the Cries of Edinburgh)-Boyack; Bauldy-Walker; Sir William-Hartry; Peggy-Mrs Hartry (with additional song); Madge-Wilson; Mause-Hamilton; Jenny-A Gentlewoman; New Occasional Prologue-Walker.
Cast
Role: Sir William Actor: Hartry

Entertainment: End I: Song-Hartry; II: Tarewoo-M'Donald; III: Hornpipe-; End: A burlesque Tinker's Travels-Hartry

8087
27 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins Diary).Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Tender Husband will be taken. Send Servants by Four to prevent Confusion. [Sir Joshua Reynolds had procured forty places in the front boxes this night. Boswell and Dr Johnson were among his guests. Johnson could see and hear little, but sat out the performance, commenting on Garrick's excellence as a writer of Prologues. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II, 324ff.] Receipts: #287 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs Abington: #223, 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Sir John Lambert Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King
Role: Davy Actor: Parsons

8088
22 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir James Eliot-Davies; Papillion-Quick; Miss Godfrey-Mrs Whitefield; Kitty-Miss Pearce; Miss Grantham-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Sir James Eliot Actor: Davies

Dance: III: The Vintage Festival, as17741007; End: The Frolick, as17741214; End II Afterpiece: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

8089
01 May 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Under the direction of Dr Arne. Being desired again by several persons of Quality. Tickets delivered out for 27 April by Miss Donadieu and Mrs Farrel will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sot

Performance Comment: As17750216, but Clarinda-Miss Donadieu; Fairlove-Mrs Farrel; Pert-Miss Weller; Sir Thomas-A Gentleman; Squire Savage-a Gentleman.
Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: A Gentleman

Song: Catches and Glees-; Cymon and Iphigenia-a Gentleman; a Capital Trumpet Song-Miss Jameson

8090
04 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #159 13s. 6d. Charges: #67 3s. Profits to Mrs Davies: #92 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17750424 but Orpheus-Davies; Sir Toby-Usher.
Cast
Role: Sir Toby Actor: Usher.
Role: Sir Macaroni Virtue Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Toby Fuz Actor: Usher

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17740917

8091
04 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Lewis, first time; Aimwell-Whitefield, first time; Scrub-Quick; Gibbet-Booth; Bonniface-Dunstall; Sir Charles Freeman-DuBellamy; Sullen-Thompson; Foigard-Fox; Dorinda-Mrs Mattocks; Cherry-Miss Brown; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: DuBellamy

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Cranfield; II: The Pilgrim, as17750503

8092
06 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17750504, but Orpheus-Vernon; Sir Toby-Bransby; Add Norris. Add Norris.
Cast
Role: Sir Toby Actor: Bransby
Role: Sir Macaroni Virtue Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Toby Fuz Actor: Usher

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp-, not performed these 6 years

8093
09 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Lewis; Tattle-Woodward; Scandal-Hull; Jeremy-Lee Lewes; Sir Sampson-Dunstall; Foresight-Quick, first time; Trapland-Massey, first appearance on that stage these 8 years; Ben (With song)-Shuter; Mrs Frail-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Prue-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Baker; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Angelica-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Entertainment: End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Massey

Dance: After Entertainment: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

8094
10 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Brereton, first time; Sealand-J. Aickin, first time; Cimberton-Waldron; Daniel-Burton; Myrtle-Jefferson; Tom-King; Sir John Bevil-Bransby; Phillis-Miss Pope; Lucinda-Miss Platt; Indiana-Miss Younge; Humphrey-Keen; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Johnston; In Act II, Singing-Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

8095
22 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17750502, but Woodcock-Waldron; Sir William-Wrighten; In Act I, a Country Dance- incident to the piece.
Cast
Role: Sir William Actor: Wrighten
Role: Justice Woodcock Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Weston, Parsons, Aickin, Hurst, Bransby, Wright, Ackman, Miss Platt. Bayes-King
Role: Parsons Actor: Parsons
Role: Whittle Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Patrick Actor: Moody

Dance: II: The Pirates, as17750422

8096
16 June 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cozeners

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Jobson-Wilson; Butler-Fearon; Conjurer-Lloyd; Sir John-Brett; Lady Loverude-Miss Platt; Nell-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Brett

Dance: The Medley-

8097
07 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred; Or, The British Freeholder

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Fearon; Sir Jasper-Lloyd; Leander-Lane; Hellebore-Jones; Davy-Jacobs; James-Everard; Hartry-Castevens; Charlotte-Mrs Palmer; Dorcas-Mrs Love.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Lloyd

Dance: The Medley-

8098
21 August 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Dutchman

Performance Comment: Parts by Bannister, Brett, Wilson, Walters, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Love, Miss Weller. Dutchman-Bannister; Sir William-Brett; Thomas-Wilson; Claussen-Walters; Dutchman's Wife-Mrs Love; Miss Sophy-Mrs Weller; Lettice-Mrs Wilson; Dutchwoman-Mrs Weston.
Cast
Role: Sir William Actor: Brett

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

8099
16 September 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Performance Comment: Scrub-Weston; Archer-Whitefield; Aimwell-Davis; Bonniface-Williams; Sullen-Fearon; Foigard-L'Estrange; Gibbet-Griffith; Sir Charles-Chaplin; Hounslow-Walters; Bagshot-Castephens; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Williams; Dorinda-Miss Platt; Cherry-Mrs Whitefield; Gipsey-Mrs Weston; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Entertainment: Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

8100
18 September 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Weston, first time; Belmour-Aickin; Heartwell-Fearon; Vainlove-Baker; Sharper-Lane; Setter-Everard; Nollbluff-Williams; Barnaby-Jacobs; Sir Joseph-Whitefield; Belinda-Miss Ambrose; Araminta-Miss Platt; Sylvia-Mrs Palmer; Lucy-Mrs Whitefield; Letitia-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Sir Joseph Actor: Whitefield

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

Entertainment: Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister