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4930 results for: Keyword - Widow of the late Dr Arne
We found 2524 matches on Event Comments, 1134 matches on Performance Comments, 913 matches on Performance Title, 819 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
26 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Dr Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Darnly-Reddish; Seyward-Cautherly; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Maw@Worm-Weston; Lady Lambert-Miss Ambrose; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Seyward Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Mrs _Wrighten.

577
06 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 21 May 1773.] Introductory Interlude played 9th time By Particular Desire. Paid Bassoons & German Flutes in Xmas Tale 2 nights this and last season #3 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #174 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Dr Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Darnley-Reddish; Seyward-Cautherly; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Mawworm-Weston; Lady Lambert-Mrs Greville; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Seyward Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Greville.
Role: Concluding with the scene of the Waterfall Actor: as it was originally Performed.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Greville.
Role: Concluding with the scene of the Waterfall Actor: as it was originally Performed.

578
03 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there saw good part of The Scornful Lady, and that done, would have taken out Knepp, but she was engaged

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Widow-Mrs Knepp?. See also 27 Dec. 1666.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Knepp?. See also 27 Dec. 1666.
Related Works
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Michael Arne

579
28 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Performance Comment: Widow Rich-by the celebrated Peggy Fryar aged 71.
Cast
Role: Widow Rich Actor: by the celebrated Peggy Fryar aged 71.

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

580
17 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Widow-Mrs Heron; Valentine-W. Mills; Launce-Miller; Shorthose-Cibber; Roger-Harper; Francisco-A. Hallam; Uncle-Shepard; Merchant-Berry; Fontaine-Ridout; Bellamour-Winstone; Hairbrain-Oates; Ralph-Harrington; Humphrey-Wright; Isabella-Mrs Charke; Lucy-Mrs Grace .
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Heron

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Arne
Role: Cupid Actor: Master Arne
Related Works
Related Work: London's Anniversary Festival, Performed on Monday October the 29th, 1688 Author(s): Matthew Taubman

581
28 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Widow-Mrs Heron; Valentine-Mills Jr; Lance-Miller; Shorthose-Cibber; Roger-Harper; Francisco-Cross; Uncle-Shepard; Merchant-Corey; Bellamour-Winstone; Fountain-Este; Hairbrain-Oates; Isabella-Miss Holyday; Lucy-Mrs Grace .
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Heron

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: As17350121, but I: English Maggot. II: Lively Lad and Lass. III: Pierots. IV: Dutchman and his Frow. V: Polonese

582
16 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Performance Comment: Dr Grigsby [so specified on playbill] (for that night)-Fawcett. The other Principal Characters by Holman, Johnstone, Munden, Middleton, Hull, Cubitt, Quick//Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Fawcett, Mrs Platt, Miss Chapman [and see17931123) .and see17931123) .
Cast
Role: ] Actor: Fawcett. The other Principal Characters by Holman, Johnstone, Munden, Middleton, Hull, Cubitt, QuickMrs Mattocks, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Fawcett, Mrs Platt, Miss Chapman

Afterpiece Title: HE WOU'D BE A SOLDIER

Dance: After the Monologue Dermot and Kathlane, as17931022

Song: In the course of mainpiece a Tippetywitchet, the words by O'Keeffe, with new Music by Shield, by Fawcett, in the Character of Dr Grigsby

Monologue: 1794 05 16 End of main piece a Jeu d' Esprit; or, Jerr Sneak's intended Law Suit with the Major, with The Little Pig lays without any Straw, by Fawcett

583
11 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 6 Jan. 1773]. End of mainpiece: The Procession from Westminster Abbey Coronation. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at his house, No. 20, Crown-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #224 18s. (146.1; tickets: 78.17) [charge: #72 6s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Performance Comment: King Henry (1st time)-Wroughton; Archbishop of Canterbury-Hull; Exeter-L'Estrange; Gower-Bowles; Williams-Booth; Capt. Fluellin-Wilson; Burgundy-Robson; French Soldier-Wewitzer; Capt. Jamy-Dunstall; Bishop of Ely-Thompson; Salisbury-Cushing; Capt. MacMorris-Mahon; Bardolph-Fox; Nym-Jones; Pistol-Quick; King of France-Fearon; Dauphin-Whitfield; Boy-Miss Francis; Mountjoy-Baker; High Constable-Clarke; Westmoreland-Smith; Q. of France-Mrs Poussin; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Catherine-Mrs Mattocks; Original Chorus-Hull.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End I: new song, The Cottage on the lawn (composed by Michael? Arne)-Mrs Farrell

Performance Comment: Arne=)-Mrs Farrell.

Ballet: End Procession: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

Cast
Role: Bobby Flip the Boatswain Actor: Aldridge

584
19 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Lady Flame. With an Additional Scene of the Ceremony of Lady Flame's being made a Free Masonv, wherein the Grand Mystery is discover'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet

Song: Song on the Privilege and Happiness of Free@Masonry A very humorous Song on the Charitable Corporation, sent by George Robinson, Esq. late Treasurer, from Italy to his Friends in London-

Performance Comment: late Treasurer, from Italy to his Friends in London-.

585
25 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Related Works
Related Work: Squire Badger Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Song: II: A Cantata (Composed by Dr Boyce)-Beard; III: A Cantata (Composed by Mr Stanley)-Miss Norris; IV: A Cantata (Compos'd by Arne)-Mattocks

586
31 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Beard.
Role: With an Additional Scene representing the Funeral Actor: to the Monument of the Capuletsv
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Champness, Mrs Vernon, Miss Young
Role: In Act I a Masquerade Dance Actor: Proper to the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: A Song by Arne-Beard; II: The Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, written by Havard, set to music by Dr Boyce,-Beard, Champnes

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

587
30 November 1709 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Turner, who sets the Musick for the British Apollo. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of Songs for 1, 2, and 3 Voices (particularly those set for the British Apollo)-; besides several full Pieces of Musick for Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins-Mr Dean, Mr Manship, others; Also a Solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli's-Mr Dean, Mr Bulkley; To which will be added, a Two/part Song-Mr Turner, Mr Reading by the late famous Dr Blowe, never yet perform'd in publick

588
02 February 1726 @ Inner Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; several Songs-by the late famous Mr Henry Purcel; rest by Dr Croft; which whole Performance lasted above an Hour and half; the Vocal Performers-Mr Hughes, Mr Laye, Mr Rowe, Mr Gates, Mr Weely, Mr Church, Mr King, three Boys; they were accompany'd by a proper Number of the best Instrumental Performers

589
02 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang; or, Love in Low Life

Performance Comment: Commodore-Lowe; True Blue-Baker; Careful-Howard; Dreadnaught-Bencraft; Boatswain-Dunstall; Nancy-Mrs Lampe; Jolly Tars, their Lasses-Comedians, Singers, Dancers; In the Sailor's Dance-; by Desire will be introduc'd a Hornpipe-Poitier; Also a New Occasional Epilogue (relative to Naval Preparations)-Cibber.
Cast
Role: their Lasses Actor: Comedians, Singers, Dancers
Role: In the Sailor's Dance Actor:

Song: II: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Donaldson (late Miss Falkner); IV: The Lady's Lesson a Cantata-Arne Jr

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

590
03 March 1738 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne; who will perform some of Farinelli's principal Songs-Mrs Arne; new songs by by Mr Arne-Mrs Arne; The First Violin-Mr Arne; With several Pieces on the Harpsichord, German Flute and Trumpet-Burk Thumoth

591
31 January 1702 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, And the Honourable House of Commons. Undertaken by $Cavendish Weedon, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The First Anthem, Compos'd by Dr William Turner-; The Second Anthem Compos'd by Dr John Blow-; The Third Anthem, Compos'd by Dr William Turner-

Entertainment: The Introductory Poem Upon Musick, Written by Mr Tate, Poet-Laureat to her Majesty-; The Oration-; The Second Poem, Written by Mr Tate-

592
25 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce. [Author not known. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner in the Suds

Dance: I: Minuet, Louvre-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: A new dance-Muilment; III: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: Black@ey'd Susan, disposed into a Cantata, with Recitatives and Airs adapted to the different Expressions in that celebrated Ballad, the Musick New by Mr Arne-Beard, Mrs Arne; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

593
24 April 1741 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: The Last Night. 5s. 7:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: VVedrai Moror Costante-; Come potesti ob Dioby Hasse-Signor Andreoni; Priva del caro Sposo by Vinci-; S'eil pianto mio fastante by Pescetti-Mrs Arne; O the Sweets in Friendship Found by Smith-; Blow Blow thou Winter Wind by Arne-; Del mi Minaccia, O Redder than the Cherry by Handel-Reinhold; Tu unoi ch'io viva o Cara a duet by Vinci-Mrs Arne, Andreoni; Fly ye Graces from these Seats by Smith-Chorus

594
14 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Cast
Role: Father's Ghost Actor: Raftor
Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling
Role: Mother Actor: Yates

Song: As17400213, but Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne, Reinhold, Rainton, Miss Jones; First Nymph-Mrs Arne

Cast
Role: Mr Arne Actor:
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Arne, Miss Jones, others.

Dance: As17400213; Also End I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: French Peasant-Lalauze

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

595
21 May 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, And the Honourable House of Commons. Undertaken by $Cavendish Weedon, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Entertainment: The Oration-; The Anthem, Compos'd by Dr Blow: Te Deum Laudamus-; A Poem Upon God's Omnipresence- , By Dr Braddy; Domine Probasti-; Psal. CXXXIX-; Psalm CVI-; Jubilitat Deo-

596
29 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit fot Beard. Pit laid into boxes, Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; II: The Goldfinch-Miss Young; III: A Bacchanalian Song compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard; V: A New Comic Dialogue compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard, Miss Young

597
02 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Not Acted these Seven Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Marc Antony-Milward; Cleopatra-Mrs Heron; Ventidius-Mills; Octavia-Mrs Butler; Dolabella-A. Hallam; Alexas-W. Mills. With a Prologue written by the late Sir Richard Steele, upon the Revival of the Play in the Year 1716, to be spoke by Mr Cibber .
Cast
Role: Alexas Actor: W. Mills. With a Prologue written by the late Sir Richard Steele, upon the Revival of the Play in the Year 1716, to be spoke by Mr Cibber
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance: The Polonese, as17340401 Grand Dance in Momus: Sailor-Nivelon; Lively Lass-Miss Man; Les Plaisirs-Essex, Miss Robinson; Nymphs-Miss Latour, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Davenport

Song: Per le Porte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne

598
13 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door, Great Queen Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

Dance: I: Miss Scott; I: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; In III: Ballet-Desse; III: A new dance-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Mrs Arne; IV: The Echo Song-Mrs Arne

599
16 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bridges

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Vo Solcando a Favourite song of Farinelli's-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: a Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

600
04 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Arne

Song: I: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; III: When Britons First at Heav'n's Command, with Chorus-Lowe, Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Dance-Muilment