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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.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Le Brush Actor: King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Apollo Actor: King

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: King
Role: Sidney Actor: Cautherley

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: King
Role: Sidney Actor: Cautherley

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance call'd The Wake-Sg Giorgi, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow'd Wife

Cast
Role: Syllogism Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. Present Their Majesties and Princess Louisa. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #230 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Apollo Actor: King

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: King
Role: Sidney Actor: Cautherley

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Love
Role: Player King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Prattle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Lovel Actor: Cautherly.
Role: Lovell Actor: King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17680107, but Hopkins the Prompter-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: King
Role: Sidney Actor: Cautherley

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Lovel Actor: Cautherly.
Role: Lovell Actor: King

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow'd Wife

Cast
Role: Syllogism Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Author's 3rd night. Housecharges #66 12s. Balance to Bickerstaffe #151 16s. Gave the Yeoman of the Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #218 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Apollo Actor: King

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307 Provenzales, as17680301

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Last performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King, 1st time

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: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. The Absent Man published at 1s. [During the Easter Week holidays the text of the afterpiece had been changed. The advance bill in the Public Advertiser (31 March) notes "With Additions" and omits Mrs Hopkins from the list of characters.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Love
Role: Player King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Cautherly.
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Le Brush Actor: King

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17671022

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mrs Barry hopes that those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places will be so good as to excuse the Alteration of the Play; as she has given the earliest notice in her power. N.B. Tickets deliver'd for the Countess of Salisbury will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680220

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Matthews

Entertainment: End: A Search After Scrubs-Baddeley

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, Prompter and Mrs Hopkins. Tickets deliver'd for the Earl of Essex will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: The Dances Actor: Sg and Sga Giorgi.

Dance: End: The Medley, as17680416

Entertainment: End: Mr King for that night only will entertain the Audience with a Picture of the Playhouse, or Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Novel Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: the Ehe Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: King
Role: Sidney Actor: Cautherley

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Bobadill Actor: King, 1st time
Role: Matthew Actor: Wingfield

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Love

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680220; IV: The Medley, as17680416

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi (Ballet master) and Moody. Moody as the Irishman in the Farce will introduce the song in Love a-la-Mode (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Cloten Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Le Brush Actor: King

Dance: II: The Cow@Keepers (with alterations and additions)-Grimaldi's apprentices; III: Grand Dance The Lilliputian Camp, as17671202; V: By Particular Desire, The Cotillion, as17680406 but Miss Egan to list of dancers