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2179 results for: Keyword - queen dowager
We found 1119 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 447 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1301
15 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the desire of Several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece by Desire. Tickets of Ryan in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. N.B. Finding the Play the provok'd Wife advertised to be perform'd on Saturday at Drury Lane, I was advised to change my Play to the above. I hope those ladies and Gentlemen who have been kind enough to take tickets, will not be displeased with this alteration. Tickets deliver'd for the Provok'd Wife will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: La Provencale, as17420212; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Les Maquignons-Delemain[see17420309; End Farce: The Peasants, as17420210

Song: III: Of English Brown Beer-Leveridge, Roberts, Salway, Bennet; V: When English Roast Beef-Leveridge

1302
29 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: Tom-Miss Cole; King Arthur-Turbutt; Grizzle-Winstone; Gaffer Thumb-Arthur; Noodle-Green; Doodle-Raftor; Foodle-Leigh; Shoulderdab-Ridout; Deadset-Gray; Huncamunca-Taswell; Glumbdalca-Neale; Queen Dollalolla-Macklin.
Cast
Role: Queen Dollalolla Actor: Macklin.

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Bumper Squire Jones (By Desire)-Beard

Dance: III: (At particular desire of several persons of quality) Le Boufon, Italian Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel after the manner of the Fausans

1303
21 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17411223, but Ratcliff-Dighton; Prince Edward-Mrs Dunstall; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs E. Giffard; Tyrrel-Vaughan; Blunt-Naylor.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs E. Giffard
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

Dance: II: The Peasants-Masters and Miss Granier; IV: The Leek, as17420224

1304
30 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Turbutt and Leviez. N.B. There having been a Parcel of Tickets lost or Mislaid, to prevent Impositions on the Publick, notice is hereby given, that proper persons are appointed to attend the Passages of the Theatre, and stop the Admission of Tickets sold by Orange Woman, and others. Tickets deliver'd out by a Gentleman will be taken. Tickets and places to be had of Bradshaw, &c; and at Ben Johnson's Head, in Little Britain; and of Leviez at the Blue Door in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #150

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips; V: a Hornpipe-Phillips

1305
31 May 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Performance Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Ulysses-Machen; Telemachus-Bostock; Eurymachus-Bridgman; Antinous-Pinner; Mentor-Manly; Eumeus-White; Queen-Mrs Morrison; Semanthe-Miss Jones.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Morrison

Song: Paul

Entertainment: TThe Drunken Man-Day

1306
11 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Fryar-Quin; Torrismond-Hale; Gomez-Hippisley; Queen-Mrs Horton; Elvira-Mrs Cibber; Lorenzo-Ryan; Bertran-Cashell; Raymond-Rosco; Alphonso-Ridout; Pedro-Gibson; Teresa-Mrs Hale.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Villageoise, as17421006; Harlequin Dance-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste

1307
13 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Garrick; Richmond-Havard; King Henry-Berry; Buckingham-Mills; Duke of York-Miss Cibber; Queen-Mrs Roberts; Lady Anne-Mrs Mills; Duchess of York-Miss Bennett; Stanley-Winstone; Lord Mayor-Taswell; King Edward V-Mrs Ridout; Tressel-Turbutt; Ratcliff-Woodburn; Norfolk-Blakes; Catesby-Marr; Lieutenant-Ray; Oxford-Green; Tirrel-Vaughan; Forest-Gray; Dighton-Wright; Blunt-Raftor.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

1308
13 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Quin; King Henry-Bridgwater; Richmond-Hale; Tressel-Chapman; Prince Edward-Miss Hippisley; Duchess of York-Mrs Woodward; Lady Anne-Mrs Cibber; Buckingham-Cashell; Stanley-Rosco; Norfolk-Stephens; Catesby-Gibson; Ratcliff-Harrington; Lieut-Ridout; Oxford-Bencraft; Duke of York-Miss Morrison; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: HHappy Lovers, as17421006; La Villageoise, as17421006

1309
11 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Ryan; King-Bridgwater; Queen-Mrs Woodward; Laertes-Hale; Horatio-Cashell; Ostrick-Woodward; Grave diggers-Rosco, Stoppelaer; Polonius-Hippisley; Ophelia-Mrs Vincent; Ghost-Quin.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Woodward

Dance: As17421026

1310
27 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: By particular Desire. Richard-Cibber; Henry VI-Giffard; Richmond-W. Giffard; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Butler; Edward V-Miss Cibber; York-Miss Naylor; Buckingham-Peterson; Stanley-Mozeen; Catesby-Dighton; Ratcliff-Naylor; Norfolk-Freeman; Oxford-Pattendon; Mayor-Dunstall; Blunt-Clough; Tyrrel-Dove; Forrest-Julian; Duchess of York-Mrs Bambridge; Lady Anne-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

1311
03 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17421220, but Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

1312
10 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17430103, but Queen-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto-Piantanida

1313
11 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Torrismond-Delane; Gomez-Macklin; Elvira-Mrs Clive; Bertran-Havard; Lorenzo-Mills; Raymond-Winstone; Alphonso-Turbutt; Fryar-Berry; Pedro-Blakes; Queen-Mrs Roberts; Teresa-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts

Song: I: Lowe

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, call'd Neopolitan Punch, as17421231; IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

Music: III: A Concerto-Piantinida

1314
28 September 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Ryan; King Henry-Bridgwater; Richmond-Hale; Tressel-Chapman; Prince Edward-Miss Hippisley; Duchess of York-Mrs Woodward; Lady Anne-Mrs Hale; Buckingham-Cashell; Stanley-Rosco; Norfolk-Stevens; Catesby-Gibson; Tyrrel-Carr; Lord Mayor-Marten; Ratcliff-Anderson; Lieut-Ridout; Oxford-Bencraft; Duke of York-Miss Morrison; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Horton.

1315
08 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Delane; Southampton-Giffard; Burleigh-Winstone; Raleigh-W. Giffard; Lieutenant-Ray; Rutland-Mrs Giffard; Nottingham-Mrs Bennet; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

1316
12 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Fryar-Bridgwater; Torrismond-Hale; Lorenzo-Ryan; Gomez-Hippisley; Bertran-Cashell; Raymond-Rosco; Alphonso-Ridout; Pedro-Gibson; Elvira-Mrs Vincent; Teresa-Mrs Hale; Queen-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17431003

1317
27 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Fryar-Bridges; Torrismond-Delane; Gomez-Collins; Lorenzo-Giffard; Bertran-W. Giffard; Raymond-Winstone; Alphonso-Anderson; Pedro-Blakes; Elvira-Mrs Giffard; Teresa-Mrs Bennet; Queen-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I, III: Sullivan

Dance: II, IV: As17431015

1318
14 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17430921, but Ghost-Quin; Queen-Mrs James; Laertes-Cashell; Horatio-Hale; Priest-Hayman; Gravediggers-_Stoppelaer, Stoppelaer; Ophelia-Mrs Clive; Player King-_.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs James
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Mullart

Dance: As17431213

1319
17 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Garrick; King Henry-Giffard; Buckingham-Mills; Richmond-Havard; King Edward V-Mrs Ridout; Duke of York-Miss Wright; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Roberts; Lady Anne-Mrs Mills; Duchess of York-Miss Bennet; Ratcliff-Woodburn; Tyrrel-Arthur; Lord Mayor-Taswell; Oxford-Green; Stanley-Winstone; Tressel-Blakes; Catesby-Turbutt; Lieutenant-Ray.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Roberts

1320
31 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17431214, but Hamlet-Sheridan (1st appearance on English Stage); Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1321
19 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Hale; Fluellin-Hippisley; Pistol-Woodward; French King-Cashell; Dauphin-Goodall; Archbishop of Canterbury-Chapman; Exeter-Stephens; English Soldier-Rosco; Constable of France-Bridgwater; Burgundy-Gibson; Queen of France-Mrs James; Catherine-Mrs Hale; French Soldier-Destrade (being the first time of his attempting to speak on the stage); With the Chorus (after the manner of the ancients)-Ryan; In the play will be properly introduc'd the Songs To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold; With a New Prologue for the Occasion-.
Cast
Role: Queen of France Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

1322
13 October 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Dominic-Bridges; Gomez-Yates; Torrismond-Delane; Lorenzo-Giffard; Bertran-Havard; Queen-Mrs Giffard; Elvira-Mrs Woffington; Raymond-Winstone; Alphonso-Turbutt; Pedro-Blakes; Teresa-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: IV: Grand Sailor's Dance, as17441011

1323
24 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-Quin; King Henry-Bridgwater; Richmond-Hale; Buckingham-Cashell; Tressel-Chapman; Prince Edward-Miss Hippisley; Duke of York-Miss Morrison; Duchess of York-Mrs James; Lady Anne-Mrs Hale; Stanley-Rosco; Norfolk-Ridout; Catesby-Gibson; Tyrrel-Carr; Lord Mayor-Marten; Ratcliff-Anderson; Lieutenant-Arthur; Oxford-Bencraft; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

1324
03 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Garrick; Lady Anne-Mrs Woffington; King Henry-Giffard; Buckingham-Bridges; Stanley-Winstone; King Edward V-Miss Budgell; Duke of York-Miss Wright; Tressel-Blakes; Catesby-Turbutt; Lieutenant-Ray; Ratcliff-Woodburn; Tyrrell-Simpson; Lord Mayor-Taswell; Oxford-Green; Duchess of York-Mrs Bennet; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

1325
21 November 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Friar-Quin; Torrismond-Hale; Lorenzo-Ryan; Bertran-Cashell; Gomez-Hippisley; Raymond-Rosco; Alphonso-Ridout; Pedro-Gibson; Elvira-Mrs Vincent; Teresa-Mrs Hale; Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: As17441117