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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.

1726
19 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Widow Belmour Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Related Works
Related Work: Linco's Travels Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Dance: End of 2nd piece, as17820223

1727
26 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17820121, but Dumont [here called Shore]-Trew (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Barnes's name listed in playbill; omitted: Derby . Mrs Barnes's name listed in playbill; omitted: Derby .

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17811023, but Comus-Trew; added: Bacchanals-Reinhold, &c; Principal Bacchanal (with the songs of Comus)-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Robson, J. Bates
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Harper
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece the song of Arionelli from The Son-in-Law, as17820419; In afterpiece The Huntsman's sweet Halloo, as17820226

1728
02 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Related Works
Related Work: Cymon Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Cast
Role: Lisetta Actor: Mrs Wrighten. Epilogue in the character of Phoebe spoken by Miss Wheeler
Related Works
Related Work: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: Dance of Daemons as17820418

1729
08 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Related Works
Related Work: Linco's Travels Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

1730
09 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane; of Butler, next door to the stage-door, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (43/0/0; 8/1/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 230/7/0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Related Works
Related Work: Linco's Travels Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller)

1731
13 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. [The playbill announces as mainpiece King Henry the Eighth, and as afterpiece Barnaby Brittle, but the Account-Book has, "Alter'd to the Count of Narbonne" and "Alter'd to Comus."] Receipts: #300 8s. (66/2; tickets: 234/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Lewis
Role: Officers of the Count Actor: Fearon, J. Bates, Painter, &c.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

1732
14 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Spencer, Mrs Pulley & Miss Armstrong. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #298 19s. (34/8; 8/10; 0/11; tickets: 255/10) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Duke-Packer; Petruchio-Aickin; Antonio-Parsons; Peter-Burton; Antony-Phillimore; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; Frederick-Brereton; 1st Constantia-Mrs Sharp; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Landlady-Mrs Love; Nurse-Mrs Booth; 2nd Constantia-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Related Works
Related Work: Linco's Travels Author(s): Michael Arne

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe (for that night only) by Miss Watkins

1733
22 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #294 l8s. (41/10; tickets: 253/8) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Robson, J. Bates
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Harper
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17811211

1734
24 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Robson, J. Bates
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Harper
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

1735
06 March 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pacchierotti. Opera: Not acted these 3 years. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 8, Great Marybone-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II New Divertistment, as17821130, but added: Mme Simonet; End of Act III Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128

Song: Opera: With a new set of Airs, and an additional Scene, with a song from the celebrated Sarti, by Pacchierotti

Monologue: 1783 03 06 End of Opera an Address in English to the Audience, with a song from Handel, by Pacchierotti

1736
15 March 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II Il Riposo del Campo, as17830313End of Act III Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

1737
07 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Principal Bacchanals-Barrymore, Staunton, Williames; 1st Spirit-Aickin; Brothers-Farren, R. Palmer; The Lady-Mrs Brereton; Euphrosyne and Principal Bacchant (with Sweet Echo, accompanied by Parke)-Mrs Wrighten; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Wright; Sabrina-Miss Field .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17821016; End of mainpiece, as17820917

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece A Soldier for Me (composed by Hook for The Best Bidder) by Mrs Wrighten

1738
10 April 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Rossi. Tickets to be had of Mme Rossi, No. 80, near the Opera-house, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128, but added: Mme Simonet, and in which the following Novelties: Sequedilla by Lepicq and Mme Rossi; Fandango by Mme Rossi alone; Pas de Deux by Mme Rossi, in Man's Cloaths, and Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera an entire new Ballet, composed by Lepicq, The Amours of Alexander and Roxana (the music entirely new composed by Barthelemon), by Mlle Baccelli (with 2 Pas Seals), Slingsby, Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Miss Simonet, Mlle Theodore

Related Works
Related Work: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

1739
01 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #132 5s. (130/4; 2/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Widow Wadman Actor: Mrs Kennedy. Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Whitfield
Related Works
Related Work: Tristram Shandy Author(s): Michael Arne

1740
01 May 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II an entirely new ballet, composed by Simonet, Le Dejeuner Espagnol, in Part I of which Sento ch' in Seno by Giordani, sung by Miss Theresa Simonet, only 8 years old, and who will dance a Minuet with her Father, and in Part II the Minuet de la Cour by Lepicq and Mme Simonet, a Gavotte by Henry and Mlle Theodore, a Chaconne, composed by Simonet, by Miss Theresa Simonet, a Fandango and two Pas Seuls, both as17830410; End of Opera Let Ruses de l'Amour, originally composed by Noverre, by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore, Mme Rossi, in which Mme Simonet, in Man's Cloaths, will dance a Pas de Deux, incident to the Ballet, with Mlle Theodore, and another ballet, Les Caprices de Galatee, with Mlle Baccelli. The part of Cupid in the above Ballet by Miss De Camp, daughter to the celebrated Flute Player of that Name

Performance Comment: The part of Cupid in the above Ballet by Miss De Camp, daughter to the celebrated Flute Player of that Name .
Related Works
Related Work: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

1741
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza., Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Miss Younge having refused performing the Part of Viola, Mrs Robinson has kindly undertaken that Character at a short Notice; and Mr Edwin humbly hopes she will be honoured by the Indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #304 0s. 6d. (211/3/6; tickets: 92/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Performance Comment: Malvolio-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Sebastian-Wroughton; Sir Toby Belch-Wilson; Orsino-Whitfield; Clown (with the Epilogue Song)-Davies; Sir Andrew Aguecheek-Edwin; Olivia-Mrs Mattocks; Maria-Mrs Wilson; Viola-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Widow Wadman Actor: Mrs Kennedy. Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Whitfield
Related Works
Related Work: Tristram Shandy Author(s): Michael Arne

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

1742
08 May 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Theodore. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Mlle Theodore, No. 46, Rupert-street, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II Les Ruses de l'Amour (performers not listed, but see17830501), in which two Pas de Deux, as17830501, Sequedilla and Fandango, as17830410, and a Minuet and Gavotte, of her own composing, by Mlle Theodore; End of Opera an entire new Ballet, Tragi-Comic, La Dame Bienfaisante (performers not listed) [Public Advertiser, 10 May: composed by Lepicq], the story taken from a French Opera, the music by Floquet, with two Pas Seuls, as17830410

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

1743
09 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pedro-Lewis; Rodorigo-Aickin; Curio-Davies; Siberto-Mahon; Old Pilgrim-Fearon; Master of the Mad-house-Webb; Alphonso-Wilson; Mad Welshman-Edwin; Mad Tailor-Quick; Mad Scholar-Whitfield; Mad Parson-Booth; Mad Englishman (with a song)-Bannister; Mad Bess (with a song)-Mrs Martyr; Juletta-Mrs Wilson; Fool-Miss Stuart; Alinda-Mrs Robinson .
Cast
Role: Master of the Mad Actor: house-Webb

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Widow Wadman Actor: Mrs Kennedy. Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Whitfield
Related Works
Related Work: Tristram Shandy Author(s): Michael Arne

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a new Ballet in Demi-character (composed by Mons Lunatiq) La Tarantula; or, The Merry Bedlamites, with a grand Pas de Deux, to conclude with a Fandango in the Spanish stile (performers not listed)

Song: In Act iv of mainpiece The Pigeon, as17830507

Monologue: 1783 05 09 End of mainpiece Joe Haynes's Epilogue spoken by Wilson, riding on an Ass

1744
12 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Widow Wadman Actor: Mrs Kennedy. Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Whitfield
Related Works
Related Work: Tristram Shandy Author(s): Michael Arne

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830510

1745
16 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-Thompson; Brothers-W. Bates, Helme; Bacchanals-Reinhold, Davies, Brett; The Lady (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Sharp)-Mrs Bannister; Pastoral Nymph and Sabrina-Miss Morris; Principal Bacchant and Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: W. Bates, Helme
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Bannister
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally Ho!; In afterpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hallo!, both by Mrs Martyr

Performance Comment: ; In afterpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hallo!, both by Mrs Martyr .

1746
20 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: W. Bates, Helme
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Bannister
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17830512

1747
31 May 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act II La Begueule by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Slingsby, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi, with a Pas Seul by Mme Simonet; End of Act III Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830426, but omitted: Mlle Theodore

Related Works
Related Work: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid Author(s): Thomas Arne

1748
06 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule (performers not listed, but probably as17830531); End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830603

1749
27 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 30 Aug. 1780]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Spirit-R. Palmer; Brothers-Wood, Riley; Principal Bacchanals-Bannis-ter, Brett; The Lady (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Foster)-Mrs Bannister; Sabrina and Pastoral Nymph-Miss Morris; Bacchants-Miss Hooke, &c; Euphrosyne and 1st Bacchant-Miss George .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Wood, Riley
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Bannister
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: As17830613

1750
28 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin