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679 results for: Keyword - Society of Free British Fisheries
We found 418 matches on Event Comments, 207 matches on Performance Title, 73 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

676
08 December 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by Counsellor Moore (Monthly Mirror, Dec. 1798, p. 368). Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. "Lewis's Gossamer is one of those characters which no actor could play but himself, because no man has that happy freedom and facility, that fashionable playfulness and spirit, so joyous, free, and unrelaxing, which distinguish all his performances of this nature" (Monthly Mirror, ibid). Morning Chronicle, 8 Mar. 1799: This Day is published Laugh When You Can (2s.). Receipts: #268 10s. (263.17; 4.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Cast
Role: Gossamer Actor: Lewis
Role: Mortimer Actor: Holman
Role: Bonus Actor: Munden
Role: Sambo Actor: Fawcett
Role: Charles Mortimer Actor: Miss Gilbert
Role: Costly Actor: Townsend
Role: Delville Actor: Whitfield
Role: Farmer Blackbrook Actor: Thompson
Role: Waiter Actor: Simmons
Role: Bailiff Actor: Wilde
Role: Gregory Actor: Abbot
Role: Mrs Mortimer Actor: Mrs Pope
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Mansel
Role: Miss Gloomly Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: unassigned Actor: Curties, Platt
Role: Prologue Actor: Holman
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Cast
Role: Mr Pickle Actor: Emery.
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: John Actor: Abbot
Role: Thomas Actor: Street
Role: Tag Actor: Knight
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Sims
Role: Susan Actor: Miss Leserve
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Whitmore
Role: Mrs Pickle Actor: Mrs Davenport.

677
22 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, based partly on Die Indianer in England, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue, Epilogue by the author (see text)]: Written by the Author of The Castle-Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]. Receipts: #706 5s. 6d. (350.16.6; 42.4.0; odd and after-money: 7.4.6; tickets: 306.0.6) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Cast
Role: Lord Listless Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Modish Actor: Barrymore
Role: Rivers Actor: Kemble
Role: Beauchamp Actor: C. Kemble
Role: Walsingham Actor: Aickin
Role: Friponeau Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Squeez'em Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Frank Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Trifle Actor: Fisher
Role: John Actor: Webb
Role: Robert Actor: Evans
Role: Lady Clara Modish Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Mrs Ormond Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Zorayda Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Miss Chatterall Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Slip@slop Actor: Mrs Sparks
Role: Mrs Blab@all Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Lady Hubbub Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Mrs Tiffany Actor: Mrs Coates
Role: Anne Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Cast
Role: Young Cockney Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Barnacle Actor: Suett
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Sightly Actor: Dignum
Role: Priscilla Tomboy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Penelope Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Miss La Blonde Actor: Miss Heard.

678
02 May 1799 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Rose Didelot. Tickets to be had of Mrs Rose Didelot, No. 8, Haymarket. 2nd ballet: 1st time; composed by J. D'Egville. [In all subsequent performances this was billed as Tarare.] "D'Egville, Laborie, and St.Pierre are excellent dancers and fine manly figures. Laborie possesses more elegance than St. Pierre; but the latter greater animation. D'Egville displays much taste and poetical spirit in the invention of ballets...[which] are far richer in naive situations, and possess a more free poetical spirit than those of Paris" (Goede, 265-66)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Cast
Role: Adelvolto Actor: Viganoni
Role: Orgando Actor: Rovedino
Role: Egardo Actor: Benelli
Role: Siveno Actor: Braghetti
Role: Osmondo Actor: DeGiovanni
Role: Elfrida Actor: Mme Banti
Role: Evelina Actor: Sga Pastorelli.

Dance: End I: Hylas et Temire, as17990418; End Opera: Tarare et Irza-D'Egville, Didelot, Laborie, St.Pierre, Fialon, Mrs Rose Didelot, Mrs Hilligsberg, Mrs Laborie, Mrs D'Egville, Miss J. Hilligsberg

679
29 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Morning Chronicle, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #439 12s. 6d. (228.14.6; 40.6.0; 0.16.0; tickets: 169.16.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: _Russell, _Wathen
Role: Ataliba Actor: Powell
Role: Rolla Actor: Kemble
Role: Alonzo Actor: C. Kemble
Role: Pizarro Actor: Barrymore
Role: Almagro Actor: Caulfield
Role: Gonzalo Actor: Wentworth
Role: Davilla Actor: Trueman
Role: Gomez Actor: Surmont
Role: Valverde Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Las Casas Actor: Aickin
Role: Diego Actor: Suett
Role: Orozembo Actor: Dowton
Role: Old Blind Man Actor: Cory
Role: Centinel Actor: Holland
Role: Peruvian Officer Actor: Archer
Role: Attendant Actor: Maddocks
Role: Boy Actor: Master Chatterley
Role: Soldiers Actor: Webb, Fisher, Evans, Chippendale
Role: Cora Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Halfwit Actor: Suett
Role: Dabble Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Frolick Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Beaumont Actor: Caulfield
Role: Blunt Actor: Webb
Role: Servants Actor: Evans, Fisher
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Walcot
Role: Diana Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Mrs Meddle Actor: Miss Tidswell.

Song: Vocal Parts, as17990524, but Mrs _Illingworth, Mrs _Coates