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1127 results for: Keyword - VanBrugh
We found 1048 matches on Author, 317 matches on Event Comments, 5 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
26 December 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for a Performer, thirty years a Servant of the Publick at Covent-garden and Haymarket Theatres [unidentified]. Mainpiece: Written by the ingenious Mrs Behn, with Alterations by a Gentleman well known in the Dramatick World and Republick of Letters. The Characters new dressed in the Habits of the Times. [Writers and speakers of Prologue and Epilogue unknown.] Afterpiece: Altered from Sir John Vanbrugh. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince

Afterpiece Title: The Battle Royal

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade, and a Minuet de la Cour by Master Corbyn and Miss Keen

Song: End of mainpiece most of the favourite airs from The Poor Soldier [singers not listed]. Vaudeville. End of afterpiece a short Pantomimical Scene, in which Harlequin will leap through a Hogshead on Fire

1127
26 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Dryden [by Thomas King. The original alteration, 1700, was by Sir John Vanbrugh, not by Dryden. The present alteration has been attributed to John Philip Kemble, but in his copy of the play, now in the Huntington Library (K-D 95), he has written "by Thomas King"]. Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787: This Day is published, as now revived with material Additions, The Pilgrim (1s.). Receipts: #85 9s. 6d. (72.5.0; 13.4.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Pedro Actor: Kemble
Role: Roderigo Actor: Barrymore
Role: Seberto Actor: Williames
Role: Curio Actor: Benson
Role: Lopez Actor: Suett
Role: Jaquez Actor: Burton
Role: Outlaws Actor: Spencer, Alfred
Role: Stammering Servant and Mad Englishman Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Mad Scholar Actor: Whitfield
Role: Mad Taylor Actor: Waldron
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Packer
Role: of the Madhouse Actor: Chaplin
Role: Gentleman Actor: Wilson
Role: Beggar Actor: Jones
Role: Drunken Servant Actor: Bates
Role: Porter Actor: Fawcett
Role: Peasants Actor: Lamash, Phillimore
Role: Alphonso Actor: Baddeley
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Taylor
Role: Fool Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Juletta Actor: Mrs Jordan.
Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Cast
Role: Sir Gilbert Pumpkin Actor: Waldron.
Role: Charles Actor: Barrymore
Role: Harry Stukely Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Cymon Actor: Burton
Role: Waiter Actor: Phillimore
Role: Diggery Actor: Suett
Role: Miss Kitty Sprightly Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: End I: a New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs; End III: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End IV: another New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs