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9969 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

4526
22 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Concluding with the Original Grand Dance Actor:
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

4527
27 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Tickets of Mrs Green in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife will be taken. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #12 15s. 9d. Cash rec'd #77 2s., plus #79 8s. from tickets. Total #156 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #170 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker

4528
05 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMasque with a Prologue, for ye Benefit of Mrs Foster, Grand Daughter to Milton & his only surviving Descendant (Cross). [For Prologue, see Gentleman's Magazine April 1750.] Rec'd cash #76 6s., plus #71 4s. from tickets. Total #147 4s. 6d. Paid for 1!2 year New River Water #1; Paid 1!2 year's scavanger's tax to Lady Day #3 14s. 6d.; Norton 4 Chorus #1 (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd for the 4th will be taken. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17500124, but add to The Dances-Mlle Auretti, +Mathews, Mlle +Contri, _Pelling, _Shawford, G. _Yates,_ther-_; Younger Brother-_; First Spirit-_; Second Spirit-_; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Occasional Prologue by $Dr Johnson">MacNeale, Mrs _Addison, Miss _Baker, Mrs _Shawford, Mrs _L'Font, Miss _Shawford; Elder Brother-_; Younger Brother-_; First Spirit-_; Second Spirit-_; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Occasional Prologue by $Dr Johnson-Garrick.
Cast
Role: add to The Dances Actor:
Role: The Dances Actor: Master Malter, Miss +Forcad.
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Usher
Role: Younger Brother Actor: King
Role: The Dances Actor: Matthews, Mlle Contri
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Tattoo Actor: King

4529
16 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft. [Charges #60?] Balance to Bencraft #15 12s. plus #48 from tickets. Advanced to Servandoni another #5 5s. Receipts: #85 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: With the Original Music Actor:
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Leveridge, Lowe, Waltz, Wilder, Baker, Roberts, Miss Falkner, Miss Young, Mrs Wright
Role: With Dances Actor: and Decorations incident to the play.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Concluding with the Original Grand Dance Actor:
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

4530
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridges
Role: Player King Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School boy-Shuter; Young Rakish-Cross; Friendly-Simpson; Lettice-Miss Cole; Major Rakish-Bridges; Father Dominic-Blakes; Lady Manlove-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Father Dominic Actor: Blakes

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

4531
23 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cross, and Burton. Rec'd cash #36 15s., plus #116 6s. from tickets. Total #153 1s.; Paid Norton 6 Chorus #1 10s.; Paid Mr Dolmain (Embroiderer) #3 (Treasurer's Book). Tickets to be had of Mr Page at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out by Grandchamps will be taken. Publish'd this day, the third edn. of Colley Cibber's Apology for his Life at 6s. With an Historical view of the stage during his own time, to which is now added A short account of the Rise and Progress of English Stage: also a dialogue on old plays and old players. Printed for R. Dodsley (General Advertiser). Receipts: #154 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17500129, but Duncan-Barnet; Lennox-Ackman; The Vocal Parts-Miss Norris.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Miss Norris.
Role: Rosse Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Music: II: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

Dance: I: Black Joke, as17500420 II: Comic Dance-Grandchamps; III: L'Entree de Flore, as17491024; V: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4532
26 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Reinhold and Miss Pitt. Rec'd cash #54 16s., plus #83 from tickets. Total #137 16s. Paid Mrs Reynolds for wax and brick dust 3s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Dollabella Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Song: IIf God could lengthen life forever-Reinhold; (by desire) Honour and Arms from the Oratorio Sampson,-Reinhold

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Maltere; Tambourine-Miss Foulcade

4533
27 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17500212, but Miranda-Mrs Yates; Dorinda-Miss Cole; Stephano-_; Mustachio-_; Ventoso-_; Sycorax-_; Acis & Galatea omitted; To conclude with the Savoyard Travellers-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, the Little Swiss, Miss Popling, Mathews, Mlle L'Contri.
Cast
Role: To conclude with the Savoyard Travellers Actor: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, the Little Swiss, Miss Popling, Mathews, Mlle L'Contri.
Role: To Conclude with a Comic Dance Actor: Mathews, Mrs Addison.
Role: Ferdinand Actor: King
Role: A Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits Actor: in the shapes of four Demons, four Monsters, and four Pigmies
Role: The whole to conclude with the Masque of Neptun Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Dance: III: L'Entree de Flore, as17491024

4534
01 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Wooden Shoe-Master Malter, two Miss Foulcades; III: Dutch Sailor-Mas. Maltere; IV: Les Fantasies de la Dance, as17500428 but-Miss Foulcade; V: Louvre & Minuet-Maltere, Miss Foulcade

4535
02 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Woodward for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Fine Gentleman Actor: King

Dance: I: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219; II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Harrison; III: Punch Dance-Harrison; IV: Black Joke, as17500420

Ballet: V: Drunken Peasant. Peasant-Harrison; Clown-Master Shawford

4536
04 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Salanio Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Song: I: The Reasonable Lover (by Desire)-Master Mattocks

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Mathews; III: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219; V: Black Joke, as17500420

4537
08 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dunbar, Jones, Atkinson, Pritchard, Bride (General Advertiser). Benefit for Dunbarr & Boxkeepers (Cross). Tickets deliver'd for Love's Last Shift will be taken. On Friday next the Roman Father will be acted at Drury Lane, being the last time of the company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: George Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Master King.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Shawford; IV: Black Joke, as17500420 V: Comic Dance, as17500313

4538
29 November 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridges
Role: Player King Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4539
04 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

4540
05 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4541
07 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4542
08 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

4543
11 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. The entertainment of Robin Hood is oblig'd to be deferr'd for a few days on account of the indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

4544
11 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: Player King Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

4545
12 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Publish'd this day A Guide to the Stage, (2nd Edition, with additions) at 6d. [See 10 Dec.] Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Mathews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

4546
15 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

4547
20 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of Several persons of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

4548
15 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Monet. Tickets deliver'd out for the 15th of December will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: With the Original Music Actor:
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Leveridge, Lowe, Waltz, Baker, Roberts, Miss Falkner, Miss Young, Mrs Wright
Role: With the Dances Actor: , Decorations incident to the Play.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

4549
19 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

4550
15 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets at Popes Perke maker Russell St., and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out for 26 March will be taken. At Punch's Theatre in James St., near the Haymarket, this, and every Evening this week, the Town will be entertained with Yeates's inimitable dexterity of Hand; likewise by Mr Punch's Company of performers will be exhibited the play of Jane Shore. To conclude with a New Grand Machine, representing the Temple of the Sunv, at Mexico, in North America, which has given universal satisfaction to the Nobility and Gentry (General Advertiser). Receipts: #212 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Garrick for the first time
Role: King Actor: Berry
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard for the first time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti