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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.

851
27 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

852
23 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. With alterations and two additional scenes from Harlequin Skeleton and Mother Shipton. Mainpiece: Reviv'd. [See 1 May 1767.] Charges #66 8s. 6d. Profit to Woodward #137 12s. 6d., plus #56 5s. from tickets (Boxes 225). Paid 1!2 year's water rent due Xmas last #2 (Account Book). Receipts: #204 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin (that night only)-Woodward; Infernal Spirit-Reinhold; Miller-Morris; Miller's Wife-Miss Twist; Ballad Singer-Dunstall; Shade of Helen-Mrs Baker; Lady Relish-Mrs Dyer; To Conclude with The Whim-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

Dance: II: The Reel-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere,Miss Valois, as17711030

853
26 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Doe, Claridge and John Smith receiv'd 10s. apiece for performing 4 times in the Ass and Hog [Mother Shipton] to the 17th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #231 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: As17720323 but Harlequin-Lewes; The Whim-_; Dances-Hamoir, Miss Valois added.
Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

Dance: II: The Lilt-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17701116.

854
02 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: With the Epithalamium Actor: Mattocks, Mrs Baker.
Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

855
30 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: R. Smith
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

856
14 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer and Phillips. Charges #76 15s. 9d. [made up from half-house and wardrobe charge #33 2s. 9d. plus half-value of tickets #43 13s. House also received half the ready receipts, #41 14s. 9d. By paying over the other half of the ready money receipts, Stoppelaer still owed #35 1s., which was cover'd by the income from his tickets, #87 6s. (Box 98; Pit 278; Gallery 211). Phillips bore no expense and his tickets were gratis. He rec'd #16 12s. from them (Box 61; Pit 9).] Receipts: #83 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant(Peasant)-Phillips,(who has not appeared on that stage these 20 years; Clown) Banks. [See17650429.

857
01 June 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last time of the Company's performing this season. Receipts: #85 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, as17720312.
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Role: The Characters Actor: _Lewes
Role: The Two Additional Scenes as exhibited in Harle Actor: Dunstall.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

858
25 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 1 June 1772.] With alterations and the Stockwell Scenesv. Receipts: #122 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Infernal Spirit-Reinhold; Sir E. Relish-Wignell; Lady Relish-Mrs Willems; Miller-Fox; Faustus's Man-Banks; Ballad Singer-Dunstall; Gambler-Thompson; French Cook-Holtom; Shade of Helen-Mrs Baker; Miller's Wife-Miss Twist; The Dances-Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon. [See17721130.]See17721130.]
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

Dance: III: Dance-Aldridge, Miss Capon. [See17731014]

859
29 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: a Gentleman, first appearance any stage

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

860
30 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Golden Pippin oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mattocks. Receipts: #139 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: incidental to the opera Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

861
01 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid 1 year's Assurance on #3,000 in the Royal Exchange Office to 15 Dec. 1774, #6 (Account Book). [Query: The insurance policy probably extended to 15 Dec. 1775?] Receipts: #105 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

862
06 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17730929; Double Hornpipe, as17730929

863
10 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

864
14 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of King Henry II, is still oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Hartley. Receipts: #133 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

865
15 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

Dance: III: The Highland Reel, as17731112

866
28 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pantomime will be laid aside after this Night on Account of the preparation for the New entertainment. Receipts: #169 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

867
14 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Song: End Part I: a select song by Dr Arne(the Music entirely new)-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17770214

868
15 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End I: Dance-Master and Miss Byrne

Music: Mainpiece: The Overture-; new Musick composed by Dr Arnold-

Song: with an additionalair-Wilson; [Public Advertiser, 26 June: In the golden barge we ride-[This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

869
30 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Cast
Role: The Devil Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End of mainpiece September the Thirteenth proud Bourbon may mourn, from Gretna Green (composed by Dr Arnold) by Bannister

870
30 July 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Davies
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840727

Song: In the Temple of Health [in afterpiece] (1st time, and for this night only) a new, shocking Electrical Caleb, set to Medical Music by Dr Arnold, sung by Edwin, Bannister, Davies, Brett. imitations. End of mainpiece Various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

871
09 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by John Delap. Prologue and Epilogue by Thomas Vaughan (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 22 Mar. 1786: This Day is published The Captives (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #222 1s. (204/17; 14/16; 2/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis TheobaldThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: In Act II of mainpiece an Ode (composed by Dr Cooke). Vocal Parts by Dignum, Danby, Wilson, Phillimore, Alfred, Newbold; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Burnett, Miss J. Stageldoir, Mrs Forster

872
28 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece: With additional Songs, and Alterations by the Author. Morning Chronicle, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 23, Pall Mall. Receipts: #215 13s. (124/7; 6/17; tickets: 84/9) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The April Fool

Dance: End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar [performers not listed, but sec 12 Nov. 1785]

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Highland laddie (the Music by Dr Hayes) by Johnstone

873
01 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: II: [Dr Cooke]'s Glee, Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke.

874
18 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Entertainment: Monologues End: A Dissertation on Hobby Horses , in which (the speaker) will mount upon their different Hobbies the following Personages: The Ladies , Patriots , Statesmen , Captains , Lawyers , Macaronies , Soldiers , Fidlers , Manager , and his own Hobby-Brown; End afterpiece: Dr Goldsmith's Epilogue in the Character of Harlequin , to conclude with a Leap eight feet high-Brown

875
13 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Gazetteer, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mountain, No. 9, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #251 11s. 6d. (95.12.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 151.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa; Or, The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Song: In: Sweet Passion of Love-Mrs Mountain; End I afterpiece: Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate (with accompaniments by Dr Arnold)-Johnstone, Blanchard, Bannister, Mrs Mountain

Music: Mainpiece: With a new Overture (for that night only)-Pleyel; End I: (for that night only) a duet on the violin and tenor-Mme Gautherot, Mountain; End: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot