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967 results for: Keyword - Sr Wm Coventry
We found 589 matches on Performance Comments, 217 matches on Author, 118 matches on Event Comments, 59 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
27 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Add. Mss. 36916, folio 128, 2 March 1668@9: The occasion of this [a challenge of the Duke of Buckingham to a duel by Lord Halifax or another friend of Sir William Coventry] there was a new play to be acted on Saturday last called the Country Gentleman, said to be made by the Duke & Sr Robt Howard, wherein tis said that the Earle of Clarendon, Sr Wm Coventry and some other Courtiers are plainly personated, but especially Sr William in the midst of his table of Writings; this he (or some of his relations) would not brooke, but whether he or the Ld Halifax was to fight the Duke is not knowne, but the King hath prevented all; and the play is not acted. [See also Pepys, 4 and 6 March]

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10 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom of Coventry

Performance Comment: Peeping Tom-Benson; Harold-Price; Earl of Mercia-Smith; Hobnail-Johnston; Dumplin-Watts; Mayor of Coventry-Waldron; Emma-Miss Phillips; Mayoress-Mrs Johnston; Lady Godiva-Miss Williams; Maud-Mrs Waldron .
Cast
Role: Mayor of Coventry Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe or Harlequin Friday

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (1st appearance in public); In Act II an incidental song, accompanied by the pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound the Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance)

Monologue: 1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June

3
11 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

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Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: I: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford , Scholar to Poitier Sr; II: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford

4
07 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

5
03 May 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

6
September 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Wits Or The Triumvirate Of Poets At Rehearsal

7
21 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: The New Boy, Cook, Leveridge, Pack, Jones, a Gentleman whose Respect for Mr Bullock engages him to entertain his Friends for that Night only

Dance: duPre, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding; A Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion

8
19 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: A Sea Voyage

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Song: As17160317

Dance: As17151104

9
10 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

10
16 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Dance: As17221016

11
07 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: End: The Taylors, as17740428

12
20 February 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

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

13
20 November 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

Song: I: Favourite Song of Terry Woo-M'Donald

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Mas. Mills; IV: Hornpipe-Rawlins

14
22 April 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: Entertainments of Singing and Dancing

Dance: Conclude: reel-the characters

Song: End I: The Banks of the Tweed-Mrs Moss; End III: Rosilind Castle-Mrs Moss; End: The Banks of Invermay-Mrs Moss

15
15 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

16
16 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

17
17 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: End III: The Force of Love, as17781003

18
19 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

19
20 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

20
21 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

21
23 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

22
24 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: End IV: The Force of Love, as17781003

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26 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

24
27 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: As17780922

Song: In III: an Epithalamium-; with Singing-Miss Collett, Miss Abrams

25
28 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Camp