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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.

6526
07 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Atall Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Principal Bacchanals-Barrymore, Staunton, Williames; 1st Spirit-Aickin; Brothers-Farren, R. Palmer; The Lady-Mrs Brereton; Euphrosyne and Principal Bacchant (with Sweet Echo, accompanied by Parke)-Mrs Wrighten; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Wright; Sabrina-Miss Field .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17821016; End of mainpiece, as17820917

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece A Soldier for Me (composed by Hook for The Best Bidder) by Mrs Wrighten

6527
08 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Shamrock

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: King of the Leprechans Actor: Master Edwin

Dance: As17830221

6528
23 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Wrighten. The other Characters by Burton, Fawcett, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin, Kenny, Phillimore, Norris, Alfred, &c.
Related Works
Related Work: First Faults Author(s): Maria Theresa De Camp

6529
24 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 35, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Mainpiece: Not acted these 15 years [acted 24 Apr. 1777]. Receipts: #258 6s. (56/16/0; 14/12/6; 0/0/6; tickets: 186/17/0) (charge: #65 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

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

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

6530
25 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Afterpiece in place of The Apprentice, announced on playbill of 24 Apr.] Receipts: #184 1s. (99/19/0; 35/14/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 48/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17821122. imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun .

6531
02 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: As17821009

6532
07 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Atall Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act iv of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

6533
08 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Cast
Role: Admiral Dreadnought Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820920

6534
14 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece Time bas not thinn'd my flowing Hair by Williames and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1783 05 14 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all by R. Palmer

6535
27 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: As17821214

6536
03 June 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell, and Colborne, box-keepers. [In mainpiece Booth doubled Rosencraus and the 1st Gravedigger.] Receipts: #227 14s. 6d. (72/7/6; tickets: 155/7/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke
Role: Player King Actor: Mahon

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17830530

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally ho.', as17830516

6537
04 June 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17821231; End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as n Dec. 1782, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129

Performance Comment: 1782, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129 .

6538
23 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Wood
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

6539
01 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Wood, Riley
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Bannister
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson
Role: Giant of the Causeway Actor: Miss Painter
Role: Various other Characters Actor: Stevens, Usher, Swords, Ledger, Painter, Davis, Barrett, Kenny, J. Bates, Mrs Love, Miss Francis, &c
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

6540
15 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Cast
Role: : Sir Walter Weathercock Actor: Wilson
Role: Captain of the Guards Actor: Massey
Role: King of the Fiddlers Actor: Gaudrey
Role: King of the Antipodes Actor: Rayman
Role: Tatlanthe Actor: Mrs Brett

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece a favorite song by Miss George. vaudeville. In 2nd piece The Manual Exercise, with the Officer's Salute, &c, by Mrs Wells

Performance Comment: vaudeville. In 2nd piece The Manual Exercise, with the Officer's Salute, &c, by Mrs Wells .

6541
19 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece [1st time; c 2, by James Brown Williamson. MS: Larpent 630; not published. Prologue probably by the author; Epilogue by the author; speakers' names (Public Advertiser, 3 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Cast
Role: : Sir Walter Weathercock Actor: Wilson
Role: Captain of the Guards Actor: Massey
Role: King of the Fiddlers Actor: Gaudrey
Role: King of the Antipodes Actor: Rayman
Role: Tatlanthe Actor: Mrs Brett

6542
20 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 18 July 1777]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Cast
Role: : Sir Walter Weathercock Actor: Wilson
Role: Captain of the Guards Actor: Massey
Role: King of the Fiddlers Actor: Gaudrey
Role: King of the Antipodes Actor: Rayman
Role: Tatlanthe Actor: Mrs Brett

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Wood
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: 1783 08 20 As 13 Aug. imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun .

6543
27 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, Egan, Blissett, Stevens, Williamson; Miss Morris. [Larpent MS lists certain performers as appearing in this piece in their own persons, but their names do not correspond with the names printed on the playbill.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Cast
Role: : Sir Walter Weathercock Actor: Wilson
Role: Captain of the Guards Actor: Massey
Role: King of the Fiddlers Actor: Gaudrey
Role: King of the Antipodes Actor: Rayman
Role: Tatlanthe Actor: Mrs Brett
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Wood
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

6544
02 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In afterpiece a Mock Minuet by Palmer and Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

6545
04 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "[Kemble's] 'Did not you speak to it?' is an Emphasis not at all justified by the Context... Palmer should not have worn in the Farce the Breeches which but a little before were on Ostrick's thigh" (.Public Advertiser, 6 Oct.). Receipts: #242 16s. (211/3/0; 31/0/6; 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In afterpiece a Minuet by Second and Miss M. Stageldoir

6546
06 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17830923

6547
13 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece to include a Grand View of the Cumberland Fleet sailing for the Cup, and a song and chorus in honour of the Institution. To conclude with a Pageant, Rural and Pantomimical. Paid Danby for Chorus to 9th Inclusive #8 151. The Doors will be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 22 Apr. 1784]. Receipts: #187 (169/14/0; 16/15/6; 0/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Song: In afterpiece the vocal Parts by Chapman, Barrymore, Williames, Phillimore; Miss Field, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

6548
22 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1 Yrs. Rent #339 16s. 3d. Receipts: #164 At. 6d. (132/12/0; 30/6/0; 1/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Arnold Actor: Brereton. French: King John-Staunton
Role: King John Actor: Staunton
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17831020

6549
25 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Cast
Role: Arnold Actor: Brereton. French: King John-Staunton
Role: King John Actor: Staunton
Role: Duke of Athens Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

6550
28 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen