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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.

8401
24 October 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. K. & Q. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8402
01 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17701029, but Capulet-Burton; Juliet-Mrs Morland (2nd appearance); the Vocal Parts-Kear, _Bannister, _Dibdin, _Davies, Miss _Radley.
Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Kear, _Bannister, _Dibdin, _Davies, Miss _Radley.
Role: Romeo Actor: Cautherly
Role: Apothecary Actor: Castle
Role: With the Funeral Procession Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8403
05 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Dervise-Bransby; Bajazet-Barry; Tamerlane-Aickin; Moneses-Reddish; Stratocles-J. Aickin; Selima-Mrs W. Barry; Arpasia-Mrs Barry; Axalla-Packer; Omar-Hurst; Prince of Tanais-Ackman; Haly-Wheeler; Original Prologue-Reddish; In Act IV: the Original Song of Oh, Gentle Sleep-Mrs Scott.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8404
06 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Redish; Major Oakly-Love; Charles-Cautherly; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Capt. O'Cutter-Moody; Russet-Burton; Paris-Baddeley; Tom-Ackman; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Egerton (her 2nd appearance); Toilet-Mrs Millidge; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins (first time); Harriet-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8405
10 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Barry; Brabantio-Hurst; Roderigo-Dodd; Cassio-Palmer; Duke-Bransby; Lodovico-Packer; Iago-Reddish; Montano-J. Aickin; Emilia-Mrs Hopkins; Desdemona-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8406
14 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Barry; Macduff-Reddish; Duncan-Bransby; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-Cautherly; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Banquo-Packer; Angus-Keen; Lennox-Fawcett; Seyton-Ackman; Wounded Captain-J. Aickin; Doctor-Wright; Hecate-Champness; Lady Macduff-Mrs Reddish; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Barry; Vocal parts-Champness, Kear, Mrs Scott, Miss Radley, Mrs Dorman; With a Proper Dance-Daigville, others.
Cast
Role: Malcolm Actor: Cautherly
Role: With a Proper Dance Actor: Daigville, others.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: As17701110, but The RejoicingNight-; [in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pageant-. [Also Lieut. (with a song) by Bannister reappears.]Also Lieut. (with a song) by Bannister reappears.]
Cast
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: _Kear.
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17701025

8407
19 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Packer; Ferdinand (with songs)-Vernon; Stephano-Love; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Sparks; Sebastian-Keen; Antonio-Hurst; Alonzo-Bransby; Gonzalo-J. Aickin; Francisco-Wright; Master of Ship-Ackman; Boatswain-Booth; Hyman-Kear; Ceres-Mrs Dorman; Ariel (with songs)-Mrs Scott; Miranda-Miss Rogers, first time; With a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; The Other Dances-Daigueville.
Cast
Role: The Other Dances Actor: Daigueville.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to avoid confusion full cast listed Actor: Parts-King, Moody, Ackman, J. Burton, Hurst, Castle, Booth, W. Palmer, Parsons, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Messink, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love
Role: Dances Actor: Daigueville, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers
Role: In which will be introduced the Pageant Actor: .
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Vernon
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Fawcett, Champnes, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: In Which will be Introduced The Pageant Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

8408
01 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Guiderius Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Wright.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: With the Rejoicing Night Actor:
Role: including the Sailor's pageant Actor: .
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

8409
08 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Guiderius Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to avoid confusion full cast listed Actor: Parts-King, Moody, Ackman, J. Burton, Hurst, Castle, Booth, W. Palmer, Parsons, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Messink, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love
Role: Dances Actor: Daigueville, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers
Role: In which will be introduced the Pageant Actor: .
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Vernon
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Fawcett, Champnes, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: In Which will be Introduced The Pageant Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

8410
27 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Account of afterpiece in Town and Country Magazine, from Theatre No. XXIII.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Lewes, Miles, Morris, Quick, Baker, King, Barnshaw, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Stoppelaer, Banks, Bates, Rayner
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8411
02 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8412
03 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8413
04 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8414
05 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Guiderius Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Wright.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: With the Rejoicing Night Actor:
Role: including the Sailor's pageant Actor: .
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

8415
05 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8416
07 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: With a Dance incidental to the Opera Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8417
08 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles. [The Gazetteer lists Baker for Reinhold.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8418
09 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8419
10 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Parts Actor: Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters,
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8420
01 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Related Works
Related Work: Almida Author(s): Dorothea Celisia

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Wright.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: With the Rejoicing Night Actor:
Role: including the Sailor's pageant Actor: .
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8421
08 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Related Works
Related Work: Almida Author(s): Dorothea Celisia

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Wright.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: With the Rejoicing Night Actor:
Role: including the Sailor's pageant Actor: .
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

8422
04 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Guiderius Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Wright.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: With the Rejoicing Night Actor:
Role: including the Sailor's pageant Actor: .
Role: The RejoicingNight Actor:
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Sailor's Pagean Actor: .
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Kear, Fawcett, Hartry, Booth, Jacobs, Castle, Wheeler, J. Burton, Wrighten, Walker
Role: call'd The Rejoicing Night Actor: .

Dance: III: Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

8423
09 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: Dances Actor: Daigville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: in which will be introduc'd the Pageant Actor: .
Role: to avoid confusion full cast listed Actor: Parts-King, Moody, Ackman, J. Burton, Hurst, Castle, Booth, W. Palmer, Parsons, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Messink, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love
Role: In which will be introduced the Pageant Actor: .
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Vernon
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Fawcett, Champnes, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: In Which will be Introduced The Pageant Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

8424
16 April 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: a Hornpipe Actor: Mrs King

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-, as17701025, but the children here named as Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong

Entertainment: End Opera: A Variety of Imitations-Bannister

8425
17 October 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: Rayner, Quick, Morris, Thompson, Wild, Banks, Bates, Walters, Holtom, Hamilton, King, Baker, DuBellamy, Miss Twist
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder