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836 results for: Keyword - The Gentlewoman
We found 772 matches on Roles/Actors, 266 matches on Performance Comments, 92 matches on Event Comments, 47 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

776
20 February 1730 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. At Topham's Great Room. 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Mhe best Masters from the Opera House

777
24 September 1730 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, alias Little John. At Lee-Harper Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green, Southwark. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Chapman; Aimwell-Pitt; Bonniface-Wilcocks; Sir Charles-Macklin; Gibbet-Ayres; Foigard-Eaton; Scrub-Ray; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Miller; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Elsam; Dorinda-Mrs Talbot (in Daily Journal, 23 Sept.), a Gentlewoman for her Diversion (Daily Journal, 24 Sept.); Cherry-Mrs Careless.

Song: TThe Bath Teazer (that celebrated Ballad) by Leveridge-Ray

Dance: End II: The White Joke-Eaton; III: A new Dance-Hind, Eaton, Mrs Hill

778
10 February 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman in Distress. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

779
10 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Receipts: money #4 11s.; tickets: #17 14s. 6:30 P.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: I: A Concerto for Two Trumpets-; Overture of Siroe-; Two Songs-Montier; Concerto Corelli-; Concerto for the Flute-; A Solo for the Hautboy-; A Concerto for Two French Horns-; II: Overture of Porus-; Concerto Corelli-; Two Songs-Salway; Violin Solo-Petit; Sonata for a German Flute and Violin-; Concerto for Trumpets-

780
28 March 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman who has Wrote for the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Flora

781
23 September 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi, Micho or King of the Yamicraw, Senauki his Wife, and the rest of the Indians. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17340920

782
01 October 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi. .. and Senauki his Queen. For the Benefit of a Family that has sustain'd great Losses. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Roberts; Sancho Panza-Mullart; Badger-Morgan; Fairlove-Aston; Mayor-Lacy; John-Bencraft; Dorothea-Mrs Mullart; Jezebel-Mrs Steel; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Egerton; Mrs Sneak-Miss Jones Sr; Miss Sneak-Miss Jones Jr .
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

Performance Comment: The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before .

783
12 December 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortune. The Stage will be form'd into Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17340920, but Antonio-Mullart; Charino-Morgan. A new Prologue proper to the Occasion .
Cast
Role: Charino Actor: Morgan. A new Prologue proper to the Occasion

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scotch Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, De la Garde, Mrs Ogden, Le Sac, Miss Baston. Also by Mlle Salle

784
29 May 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Zara, Made English [by Aaron Hill]. Applauded Thirty-Six Nights running at Paris. The Characters, by a Sett of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, who never acted before. None will be admitted but by Tickets into the Room that Night, which (by Reason of the Smallness of the Place) will be all commodiously made into Boxes, for the easy Reception of those many Great Personages, who have read and perus'd this Play with Approbation, and desir'd a long Time to see it acted; and charitably agreed to favour and encourage this Design, for the Benefit of [Mr William Bond, the Proprietor], who brings it on at a great Expence (tho' all that act in it, are so good to appear Gratis for him) who has lain ill of the Gout, and Rheumatism, upwards of Four Years. [This bill, in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, differs considerably in phraseology, though not in basic fact, from that in the Daily Advertiser.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

785
11 March 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of a Gentlewoman in Distress. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

786
19 May 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. [Rich's Register states that it was a benefit for a Gentleman.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Polonese by Mlle De L'Isle. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers

787
20 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Receipts: money #18 18s. 6d.; tickets #63 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c

788
01 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Advertised for the benefit of a Gentlewoman, but dismissed .

789
03 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: HHornpipe (by Desire)-Ferguson; Peasant, as17370201

790
29 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman and her Children under Misfortune

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Alguzile Actor: Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: The Early Horn-Miss Jones

Dance: V: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

791
02 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. At the Desire of several Ladies Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze

Song: CCaelia has a Thousand Charms-Beard; The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414

792
11 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Centlivre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: with The Eearly Horn Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

793
02 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Rogers; II: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; III: By Desire, Tambourine-Mlle Villeneuve; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

794
20 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermix'd with Songs. [See Champion, 20 Nov., for a brief discussion of acting.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Faithful Lovers-Desse, Miss Oates; IV: La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

795
19 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Stephens; Desdemona-Mrs Horton; Brabantio-Roberts; Cassio-Hale; Iago-Ryan; Roderigo-Neale; Lodovico-Rosco; Duke-Anderson; Montango-A. Ryan; Gratiano-Arthur; Emilia-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland Elder; V: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

796
19 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington, the first time of her performing upon that stage.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Father Benedict Actor: James

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

797
16 June 1741 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. The Theatre near the Tennis Court in the Haymarket. Tickets at Three Shillings, Two Shillings, and One Shilling. The whole will be conducted with all possible Decency and Regularity. To begin exactly at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Performance Comment: A Prologue- Proper to the Occasion.
Cast
Role: A Prologue Actor: Proper to the Occasion.

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

798
31 March 1743 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress [Concert formula]. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Careless in Hart St., near the Back-Passage of Covent Garden. The Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to honour her with their Company, are desir'd to come as early as possible, she being determin'd to begin punctually at six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance:

799
08 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Picq, and Sga Domitilla. Tickets deliver'd out for Benefit of a Gentlewoman who has met with Misfortunes, will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: LLe Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217; Musette, as17421209

800
07 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. None to be admitted without Ticket, which may be had, and places taken of Mr Page at the stage door. And for the better accommodation of the Ladies, the Stage will be enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom