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2844 results for: Keyword - the Doctor
We found 2596 matches on Roles/Actors, 890 matches on Performance Title, 571 matches on Performance Comments, 60 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1326
04 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Sowdon for the first time; Stratocles-Palmer; Selima-Mrs Elmy; Bajazet-Barry; Moneses-Havard; Arpasia-Mrs Cibber; Axalla-Lee; Omar-Winstone; Prince of Tanais-Blakes; Dervis-Berry; Haly-Usher; Usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Tamerlane Actor: Sowdon for the first time

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

1327
18 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft

1328
19 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The play of Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespear, is now in rehearsal. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #144 6s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: a Masquerade Dance Actor: Matthews
Role: to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the Characters.
Role: Benedick Actor: Garrick for the first time

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

1329
28 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Palmer; Pinchwife-Bridges; Sir Jasper Fidget-Yates; Sparkish-Woodward; Country Wife-Mrs Clive; Harcourt-Havard; Dorilant-Blakes; Quack-Winstone; Harry-Simson; Alithea-Mrs Willoughby; Lady Fidget-Mrs Mills; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Dainty Fidget-Miss Pitt; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Willoughby

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Music: III: Piece of Music By Desire-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; IV: Savoyards, as17480920; V: Vertumnus and Pomona, as17481112

1330
08 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: with a new Masquerade Dance proper to the p Actor: .
Role: Apothecary Actor: Simpson
Role: with a new dance proper to the play Actor: Cooke, Miss Janneton Auretti.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

1331
15 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: with a new Masquerade Dance proper to the p Actor: .
Role: Apothecary Actor: Simpson
Role: with a new dance proper to the play Actor: Cooke, Miss Janneton Auretti.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

1332
19 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

1333
27 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

Cast
Role: Doctor Baliardo Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: Miss Falkner, Miss Norris

Dance: A Scaramouche-Phillips; Comic Dance-the Graniers; a Grand Masquerade Dance-

1334
29 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17481203; Italian Cabaret, as17481109

1335
12 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft

Dance: As17490111

1336
16 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1337
17 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. ["We have in Rehearsal a new Tragedy call'd Irene--Author, as yet, unknown."--Charles Adams to John Gilbert-Cooper, Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), pp. 138-39.] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #143 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, as17481203

1338
23 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child; III: Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118; V: Savoyards, as17480920

1339
24 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft

1340
04 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Music: I: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison; V: Scotch Dance, as17490118

1341
16 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17490118

1342
01 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets to be had of Berry at Mr Pope's, Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden and of Hobson at the Stage Door. [From the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books for this month: An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Tragedian, Mr Thomas Betterton, containing a distinct relation of his excellencies in his profession and character in private life, and interspersed with an account of the English theatre during his time. Printed for J. Robinson.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17490302, but Montague also omitted. In Place of the Masquerade Dance%.
Cast
Role: with a new Masquerade Dance proper to the p Actor: .
Role: Apothecary Actor: Simpson
Role: with a new dance proper to the play Actor: Cooke, Miss Janneton Auretti.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: In I: a Dutch Dance, as17481203; Savoyards, as17480920

1343
02 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Master Shawford; V: The Periot's Dance-Master Shawford, Master Morrison

1344
08 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ray, George Burton, Mrs Pitt. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 16 May 1744.] Tickets and places to be had of Hobson at the stage door. N.B. Tickets sold by the Orange@women at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Music: Between the acts: Flute-the Child

Dance: Between the acts: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: Between the acts: George Burton

1345
16 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17490410 but Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Sukey Tawdrey-Mrs Yates; Jenny Diver-Miss Royer; Lucy-Mrs Green; Polly-Mrs Clive; Player-Bransby; Molly Brazen-Mrs Vaughan [a contemporary inked entry in a blank space]; Filch-Raftor; Mat-Blakes; Beggar-Winstone; Hornpipe-Matthews.
Cast
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Matthews.
Role: In III Hornpipe Actor: Matthews, Vaughan, Shawford, Marr, Roger
Role: Whole to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the Characters of the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes

Music: II: A Piece on the Flute-the Child

1346
25 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1347
27 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Delane; Myrtle-Ryan; Sir John-Bridgwater; Sealand-Sparkes; Cymberton-Arthur; Humphrey-Marten; Daniel-Collins; Tom-Dyer from the theatre in Dublin, his 1st appearance this stage; Lucinda-Mrs Barrington; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Bambridge; Indiana-Mrs Vincent; Phillis-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Dyer from the theatre in Dublin, his 1st appearance this stage

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Song: II: Lowe

1348
03 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1349
04 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Delane; Moneses-Ryan; Axalla-Lee; Omar-Sparkes; Prince of Tanais-Anderson; Bajazet-Quin; Dervise-Arthur; Stratocles-Ridout; Haly-Baker; Selima-Mrs Vincent; Arpasia-Mrs Woffington; With the song, O gentle Sleep!-Lowe; With the Usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With the Usual Prologue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1350
11 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald