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2073 results for: Keyword - Widow Carey
We found 996 matches on Author, 444 matches on Performance Title, 436 matches on Performance Comments, 383 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
08 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman and her Children, who have suffered the loss by Two Ships, to the amount of #2000. Urged at the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets to be had at Mr Harper's at the Corner of Avemary Lane; Mount's Coffee-House, Grosvenor St.; Smyrna Coffee-House, Pall Mall; Sam's Coffee-House in Change Alley, Cornhill; and of Sarjant at the Stage Door, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Ross; Aboan-Sparks; Blandford-Ridout; Charlotte-Mrs Hamilton; Widow Lackit-Mrs Pitt; Imoinda-Mrs Bellamy; Covernor-Anderson; Stanmore-Gibson; Daniel-Collins; Driver-Dunstall; Jack Stanmore-Davis; Lady Weldon-Mrs Baker; With a new Occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: TThe Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

27
21 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Wilford and Ross (Pit door-keepers); A Widow in distress; Trott (lobby door-keeper). No building on Stage Tickets deliver'd by Slater, Darby, Dimmock, Mislebrook, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End Play: The Taylors, as17620107

28
01 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Vincent. House charges #64 15s. 6d. [Deficit Mrs Vincent #20 3s. 6d.] Rec'd by draft on Mr Clutterbuck #200, and from Sinking Fund #287; Paid Blandford (tallow chandler) #27 18s. 11d.; and French on account #12 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Fifteen minutes past 5 went to the 2s. gallery...(Widow Vincent's voice pleases me much. Holland did Oakly,-he imitates Garrick, but is very inferior to him (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #44 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17670430

29
15 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. Being the last of that kind he intends ever to compose. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. No one admitted into the Boxes but by Silver Tickets or printed Tickets from the Office. [Preface points out that DL had the copy nine months, promising to perform it and returning it at the end of the season. Then Cibber Jr requested it for his summer company; it was rehearsed and then the company forced to close.] The Airs by Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: Concerto for Two Hautboys by Woodbridge and Neale. A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey

Performance Comment: A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey .

Dance: houvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. V: Two Pierrots by Vallois and his Scholar

Song: By a Scholar of Carey's

30
12 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Advertiser, 12 Jan.: Mr Carey depends entirely on the Favour of his Friends, hoping they will accept of this General Invitation, and honour him with their Presence as much as if he had attended them with Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

31
18 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. The Bartholomew-Fair Song, sung by Mr Este in the Farce, will be deliver'd gratis at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: As17350715

Dance: Louvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport

Song: English Cantata by a Scholar of Carey's

32
21 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Arne. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. N.B. There is a select Band of Musick engaged for this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: A New Medley Overture, never yet performed, composed by Arne. A new Set of Act Tunes, never yet performed, composed by Arne

Song: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond, sung by Master Osborne, a Scholar of Carey. Se l'Arco, a French Horn Song out of the Opera of Admetus, sung by Master Osborne

33
06 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Britannia; or, The Royal Lovers

Performance Comment: Britannia-Mrs Chambers; Germanicus-Miss Jones; Cupid-Miss Roberts; Victory-Vallois; Dancing by Haughton; Serjeant-Lyon; Grenadiers by Comedians; Watermen-Bardin, Norris, Vallois, Le Sac, Ray, Topham, Delagarde, Dove: With New Songs by Mr Carey, and Harlequin in the City. Colombine-Mrs Hamilton; Colombine's Husband-Rosco; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Clown-Penkethman .
Cast
Role: Watermen Actor: Bardin, Norris, Vallois, Le Sac, Ray, Topham, Delagarde, Dove: With New Songs by Mr Carey, and Harlequin in the City. Colombine-Mrs Hamilton
Related Works
Related Work: Britannia; or, The Royal Lovers Author(s): Henry Carey

34
05 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, who went to see it at DL, but were disappointed. Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

35
24 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Carey, Author of the Dragon of Wantley. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Tickets at Carey's, Cold-Bath Fields.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Related Works
Related Work: The Dragon of Wantley Author(s): Henry Carey
Related Work: Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon: Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: As17380121

36
09 August 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher, and since Revis'd. Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey.] A New Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: Mainpiece: by Henry Purcell

37
20 June 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. First Piece. [By Henry Carey.] Not play'd these Fourteen Years. Second Piece: Not play'd these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrivances; Or, More Ways Than One

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: HHarlequin-Master Lally, Miss Brett; Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr

38
27 October 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey, Author of The Contrivances. [An additional song was printed in Universal Spectator, 25 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Song: With Additional Songs-; a Dialogue proper to the Farce-

39
20 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New English Opera after the Italian Manner. [Text by Henry Carey. Set to Musick by John Christopher Smith.] Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. Receipts: For Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

Related Works
Related Work: Teraminta Author(s): Henry Carey

40
01 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey. Not printed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Betty; or, The Country Bumpkins

Related Works
Related Work: Betty; or, The Country Bumpkins Author(s): Henry Carey

41
22 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: As17350715

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Woodward. Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Le Gout Anglois by Mr and Mrs Davenport

Song: As17350718

42
29 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

43
01 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatom1st; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: Pierrot by Vallois

44
08 August 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. For that Night only. By Desire of several eminent and worthy Citizens. To begin at 7 and conclude at 9. All the Characters and Dances new drest. [Advertised 2 Aug., not later.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Entertainment: A Mezzo Drama; or, Summer Evening's Variety, Consisting of several Entertainments of Vocal and Instrumental Musick and Dancing, both Serious and Comic

45
08 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Cibber. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

46
14 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Este. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. Care will be taken to keep the House cool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: By Mr and Mrs Davenport

47
26 September 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Never Acted there before. Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350924 Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde

48
29 September 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: German Flute Concerto by Mr Buchinger, his second since his arrival in England

Dance: As17350926

49
02 October 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: Passacaille by Mrs Bullock. French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Woodward. Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde

50
06 October 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: III: Pastoral by Castiglione, the first time of his appearing on this stage, and Mrs Bullock. V: Peasant by Castiglione and others