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2395 results for: Keyword - his R. Highnesses
We found 1743 matches on Performance Comments, 833 matches on Event Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

676
04 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman identified as Owenson by Hopkins MS Notes. Confirmed by Sir Nicholas Nipclose, in The Theatres (2nd. ed. London, 1722, p. 51) speaking of Inchbald's introduction to the London stage with advertisement of "first appearance" though he had been many years an itinerant actor, "this is a trick to gain, from curiosity, what may pay by one night the whole season's pitiful salary of such actors; several mushrooms have vegetated thus; but none more worthless or short lived, than Mr Owenson; brought forward modestly in Tamerlane, some weeks since; without even the requistes of a grown-up school-boy."] Receipts: #180 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Jovial Gardners-Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir, Mr Drouville[, being his 1st appearance. [See17630312.

677
05 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Reel, as17711030

678
09 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Monologue: Between Main and Afterpiece: an Entertainment True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

679
16 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Woodward; Sir George-Smith; Charles-Hull; Sir Francis-Shuter; Sir Jealous-Dunstall; Whisper-R. Smith; Scentwell-Miss Pearce; Isabinda-Mrs Baker; Patch-Mrs Pitt; Miranda-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: Fairy Prince

680
26 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

681
17 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Monologue: Entertainment True Blue. As 14 Dec

682
23 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17711031

683
01 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17711031

684
07 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

685
23 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

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

686
07 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Monologue: True Blue. As 18 Jan., but Principal Parts-Mrs Baker, Mrs _Mattocks

687
11 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: III: The Lilt, as17720326

688
25 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Woodward; Sir George-Mattocks; Charles-Wroughton; Sir Francis-Shuter; Sir Jealous-Dunstall; Whisper-R. Smith; Scentwell-Miss Pearce; Isabinda-Mrs Baker; Patch-Mrs Pitt; Miranda-Miss Macklin; With Marplot's Address to the Public-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Before: The New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

689
28 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young-Aldridge, Mas. Harris, Miss Twist. [See17711030.

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

690
04 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

691
06 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

692
11 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: II: The Old Ground Young, as17720928

693
01 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The preliminary number of The Westminster Magazine this date heartily condemned Colman's Comus "picked down into a skeleton," his production of King Henry VIII, and the new play Cross Purposes.] Receipts: #172 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

694
07 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

695
28 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

696
30 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: Not Acted this season. Charges #72 11s. 6d. Profit to Clarke #55 8s., plus #117 11s. from tickets (Box 239; Pit 284; Gallery 152). Paid Mr Murphy the balances for his 1, 2 & 3 nights of Alzuma #271 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #122 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End II: New Dance, as17730206

697
19 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

698
10 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Monologue: 1773 5 10Before the Play (Seventeenth Time): New Occasional Prelude. As 19 Jan., but Author-Quick

699
12 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Lewis, his first appearance in tragedy; Jachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Cloten-Lewes; Cymbeline-Gardner; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Wroughton; Arviragus-R. Smith; Queen-Mrs P. Green; Imogen-Mrs Lessingham; In II, a Masquerade Scene-; Singing-Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Posthumus Actor: Lewis, his first appearance in tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: III: The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Miss Besford. [See17730519.

700
11 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii Or The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary