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4577 results for: Keyword - Theo Cibber
We found 2731 matches on Author, 1983 matches on Performance Comments, 463 matches on Event Comments, 7 matches on Roles/Actors, and 6 matches on Performance Title.

4476
25 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Elder Woudbe Actor: Mills
Role: Young Woudbe Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trueman Actor: Cibber
Role: Teague Actor: Miller
Role: Richmore Actor: Berry
Role: Subtleman Actor: Bardin
Role: Alderman Actor: Johnson
Role: Balderdash Actor: Shepard
Role: Clearaccount Actor: Winstone
Role: Frisure Actor: Cross
Role: Comic Actor: Oates
Role: Captain Actor: Cole
Role: Fairbank Actor: Turbutt
Role: Squire Actor: Este
Role: Mrs Clearaccount Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Constance Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Mrs Midnight Actor: Harper

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake and Country Lass

Performance Comment: Livery Rake-Este; Phillis (Country Lass)-Mrs Clive; Landlord Toby-Salway; Phillis (Chambermaid)-Mrs Pritchard; Harry-Turbutt; James-Raftor; Lucy-Mrs Villeneuve; Dorcas-Mrs Cross. With an Epilogue (wrote by Jo. Haines, Comedian, of facetious Memory), to be spoke by Mr Cibber, riding on an Ass .
Cast
Role: Livery Rake Actor: Este
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Landlord Toby Actor: Salway
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Harry Actor: Turbutt
Role: James Actor: Raftor
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Cross. With an Epilogue

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts, composed by Arne, particularly the March in Zara

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Song:

4477
11 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For Occasional Prompter XXI (on Cibber and King John), see Daily Journal, 11 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

4478
03 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Founded on Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. By the Author of the Man of Taste. [For an Epilogue designed to be spoken to King John, as amended by Colley Cibber, see Grub St. Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Cast
Role: Priest Actor: Turbutt

Dance: Muilment

4479
13 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: EEgerton 2320: Receipts: #80. Mr Cibber ill at Kingston, Tom read by Mr Machlin hiss'd when he first came on; but was applauded at last having read it tolerably well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

4480
17 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus, Moliere. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #82. Hamlet Posted for a week but put off upon Mrs Cibber's refusing to do Ophelia for which she was forfeited five pounds--the Miser play'd instead of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Miser Actor: Griffin
Role: Frederick Actor: Havard
Role: Clerimont Actor: Mills
Role: Ramilie Actor: Macklin
Role: James Actor: Turbutt
Role: Decoy Actor: Ray
Role: Sparkle Actor: Lee
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Mariana Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Mrs Wisely Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Wheedle Actor: Miss Brett
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

4481
24 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Manly Actor: Hale.
Role: Townly Actor: Ryan
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Basset Actor: Neale
Role: Richard Actor: James
Role: Poundage Actor: Mullart
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Brunette
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Hippisley.
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Geniuses Actor: Leveridge, Salway
Role: Helen Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Shade of Hero Actor: Miss Younge
Role: Miller Actor: Bencraft
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Miss Oates
Role: Doctor's Man Actor: Hippisley.

4482
12 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Townly Actor: Ryan
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Manly Actor: Hale
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Basset Actor: Neale
Role: Richard Actor: James
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Hippisley.
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Perseus Actor: Salway
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: Laguerre
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs _Rogers.
Role: Cepheus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Ethiopian Actor: Thompson
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mercury Actor: Laguerre
Role: Infernals Actor: Leveridge, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Desse, Fromont
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Hussar's Servant Actor: Hippisley
Role: Valet Actor: James
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

Dance: TTambourine-French Girl; Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs _Rogers, Miss Dancy.
Role: Fawns Actor: Richardson, Dupre, Desse, Delagarde
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne
Role: and Sailor's Dance Actor: Villeneuve, Miss Oates.

4483
15 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Sept.: [cg] is new painted and decorated, and will be open'd on Friday next...the Report of Mr Cibber and Mrs Horton being engag'd to another Theatre, is entirely without Foundation: That Company would have begun acting sooner, but for the finishing of a large additional Building, which is now cover'd in, whereby they will, on some Occasions, be enabled to add near 70 Feet to the Length of the Stage, which was before the longest in England, but will now exceed in Depth, any Theatre in Europe

Performances

4484
18 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Rylands MS.: Cibber sick, I did Bayes. Bayes-I .
Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: I .

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Followers of Eurydice Actor: French _Girl, Mlle Roland.
Role: Nymph Actor: Haughton, Mlle Roland.
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs _Ozanne.
Role: Orpheus Actor: Salway
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Eurydice Actor: Miss Young
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Pantalon Actor: Grimaldi
Role: Gawkey Actor: Bencraft
Role: Mrs Mannerly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Goody Gurton Actor: Arthur
Role: Drudge Actor: Hippisley
Role: Woman Dwarf Actor: French Boy
Role: Country Lads Actor: Delagarde, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl
Role: Swains Actor: Destrade, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Oates Jr, Dupre
Role: Villagers Actor: Waltz, Perry, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Brett, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.

4485
17 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #59 14s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Role: Townly Actor: Ryan
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Manly Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Sir Frances Actor: Hippisley
Role: Basset Actor: Neale
Role: Richard Actor: James
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Mullart.
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

4486
09 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Garrick to Peter Garrick (Dec. 1741): You perhaps would be glad to know what parts I have play'd, King Richd-+Jack Smatter in Pamela-Clody fop's fortune-Lothario fair Penitent-Chamont Orphan-Ghost Hamlet-& Shall soon be ready in Bays in ye Rehearsal-and in ye part of Othello-Both of which I believe will do Me and Cibber">Giffard great Service-I have had great Success in all, & 'tis not yet determin'd whether I play Trajedy or Comedy best-$Old Cibber has spoke with ye Greatest Commendation of my Acting, as to playing a Harlequin 'tis quite false-Yates last Season was taken very ill & was not able to begin ye Entertainment so I put on ye Dress & did 2 or three Scenes for him, but Nobody knew it but him & Giffard; I know it has been Said I play'd Harlequin at Covent Garden but it is quite false.-Little, Pineapples, pp. 28-29

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Ghost Actor: Garrick, Being the first Time of his Appearing in that Character
Role: Hamlet Actor: Giffard
Role: King Actor: Paget
Role: Polonius Actor: Julian
Role: Laertes Actor: Marshall
Role: Horatio Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Osrick Actor: Peterson
Role: Rosencrans Actor: Vaughan
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Naylor
Role: Marcellus Actor: Blakes
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Steel
Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Gravediggers Actor: Yates, Dunstall.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Blakes
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Justice Gattle Actor: Paget
Role: Trippit Actor: Peterson
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Mrs Steele
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Priscilla Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Vallois
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Dick Actor: Yates
Role: Lying Valet Actor: Garrick

4487
23 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 Feb.: Handel has set up an Oratorio against the Operas and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces [i.e., Kitty Clive] and the singers of Roast Beef [i.e., Lowe] from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice [i.e., Beard] and a girl without ever a one [i.e., Mrs Cibber]; and so they sing.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

4488
09 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: MMrs Tame (see 15 April hay) had announced for her benefit this night The Old Batchelor, with Cibber as Fondlewife, Giffard as the Old Batchelor, and Mrs Giffard as Laetitia, to be followed by Tom Thumb, with Mrs Tame playing Tom Thumb, but a notice of 11 April states that Mrs Tame was ill and the performance had to be deferr'd

Performances

4489
15 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Tuesday next will be presented The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, the part of Lord Foppington to be perform'd by Mrs. Cibber. [This day appeared in the papers an account of the salaries of present-day actors compared with those in the time of Wilkes and Betterton, suggesting great overpayment of Garrick, Macklin, &c. This, according to Mrs Clive (Case, p. 8) was a false account.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Delane
Role: King Actor: Winstone
Role: Gonzales Actor: Bridges
Role: Garcia Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Heli Actor: Taswell
Role: Selim Actor: Cross
Role: Alonzo Actor: Anderson
Role: Perez Actor: Ray
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Lenora Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Song: II: Song-Sullivan

Dance: III: Dance, as17431013; V: a New Dance-Muilment, Desse, Liviez, Mrs Walter

4490
18 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Relapse is deferr'd on account of the sudden indisposition of Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Juba Actor: Charles Jones.
Role: Cato Actor: Delane
Role: Charles Jones Actor: Winston MS.
Role: Sempronius Actor: Giffard
Role: Syphax Actor: Bridges
Role: Portius Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Marcus Actor: Cross
Role: Lucius Actor: Winstone
Role: Decius Actor: Taswell
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Egerton.
Role: Lying Valet Actor: Yates
Role: Gayless Actor: Anderson
Role: Guttle Actor: Taswell
Role: Beau Trippet Actor: Neale
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Trippet Actor: Mrs King.

Song: II, IV: Sullivan

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard II Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: As17431015

4491
24 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Samson-Beard; Dalila-Signora Francesina; Micah-Signora Francesina, Sullivan; Harapha-Reinhold; Israelite Woman-Signora Avolio (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 351). Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes, 25 Feb.: Francesina sings most of Mrs Cibber's parts and some of Mrs Clive's. [See Deutsch, Handel, p. 585.]See Deutsch, Handel, p. 585.]
Cast
Role: Samson Actor: Beard
Role: Dalila Actor: Signora Francesina
Role: Micah Actor: Signora Francesina, Sullivan
Role: Harapha Actor: Reinhold
Role: Israelite Woman Actor: Signora Avolio

4492
09 June 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HHandel to Jennens: I have taken the Opera House in the Hay-marketh, engaged, as Singers, Signora Francesina, Miss Robinson, Beard, Reinhold, Mr Gates with his Boyes's and several of the best Chorus Singers from the Choirs, and I have some hopes that Mrs Cibber will sing for me. She sent word from Bath (where she is now) that she would perform for me next winter with great pleasure if it did not interfere with her playing, but I think I can obtain Mr Riches's permission (with whom she is engaged to play in Covent Garden House) since so obligingly he gave leave to Mr Beard and Mr Reinhold.--Deutsch Handel, pp. 591-92

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

4493
05 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: In a puff announcing opening the following week, Knerber is listed as the First Violin, and an allusion is made to those who have seen Miss Jenny Cibber rehearse the character of Juliet

Performances

4494
06 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TTamerlane is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Cibber's indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick
Role: Subtle Actor: Bridges
Role: Face Actor: Cross
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Berry
Role: Lovewit Actor: Turbutt
Role: Ananias Actor: Phillips
Role: Tribulation Actor: Taswell
Role: Surly Actor: Havard
Role: Dapper Actor: Green
Role: Kastril Actor: Neale
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Yates
Role: Young Rustic Actor: Liviez
Role: Clown Actor: Collins
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Mann
Role: Concluding with a Grand Dance Actor: Muilment.

4495
10 November 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Announced as 1 Nov., but not performed as theatre was closed by order of the Lord Chamberlain. See T. Cibber's letter in the Daily Post, 12 Nov., cited by Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, I, 69

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

4496
26 December 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Queen of Hungary's Company of Comedians. Side Boxes 4s. Front boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for Romeo and Juliet, for Miss Cibber's Benefit, that could not come on Monday the 17th, will be taken on Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Royer
Role: Peachum Actor: Haswell
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Mount
Role: Lockit Actor: Holtham
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Chetwood
Role: General Advertiser gives Mrs MacTrapes Actor: a lady from Tiperary
Role: Lucy Actor: a young Actress

4497
05 January 1745 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Musical Drama, compos'd by Mr Handel. Libretto by Thomas Broughton. [Mrs Cibber was scheduled to sing the part of Lichas, but was indisposed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hercules

Cast
Role: Hercules Actor: Reinhold, bass
Role: Dejanira Actor: Miss Robinson, contralto
Role: Hyllus Actor: Beard, tenor
Role: Iole Actor: Signora Francesina, soprano
Role: Lichas Actor:

4498
09 January 1745 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber being perfectly recovered of her late indisposition will certainly perform on Saturday next in Hercules

Performances

4499
25 January 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow. [See a curious allusion to Colley Cibber for not helping out in the present exigency, in today's Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

4500
18 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Day [i.e., Benefit Cibber]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny

Related Works
Related Work: Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John Author(s): Colley Cibber