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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.

1576
20 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Powell the clear receipt of his Night the 15th Inst.: #178 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #224 11s. 16d. (Account book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Peirrot Actor: Lalauze, 1st time in tha character these 8 years
Role: The New Character would seem to be Venus Actor: Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.
Role: to conclude with the Masquerade Scene Actor: with Additions and a
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1577
25 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be published by Subscription: A General History of The Stage, for the last ten years; comprehending all remarkable Occurrences during that Period, the Production and Success of every new Piece, and Anecdotes of the Principal Performers. By Joseph Younger. Prompter to the Theatre Royal In Covent Garden. Printed Proposals to be had Becket and DeHondre in the Strand, and of Griffin in Catherine Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.
Role: Peirrot Actor: Lalauze, 1st time in tha character these 8 years
Role: The New Character would seem to be Venus Actor: Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.
Role: to conclude with the Masquerade Scene Actor: with Additions and a
Role: The Baby Actor: the Giant

1578
07 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd of Condell for Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). [The advance notice of Woodward's Benefit this day omits mention of Bucephalus (see 4 March) and lists only Cymbeline and a "farce."] Receipts: #224 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1579
06 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1580
12 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

1581
20 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Cyrus is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the illness of Powell. Receipts: #113 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1582
29 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

Dance: B Particular Desire a Ball dance call'd the Louvre, Minuet-Lalauze, his Daughter

1583
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Garton (treasurer) Died this night at Kensington Gravel Pits where she went for the recovery of her health, Miss Morris, the young lady who appeared this season with so much applause at Covent Garden (Public Advertiser). Charges #67 15s. Balance to Garton #20 11s. plus #98 from tickets (Box 186; Pit 258; Gallery 128) (Account Book). Receipts: #88 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

1584
04 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. [Listed as Rotten in the Account Book.] Rec'd from tickets only #5 11s. (Box 12; Pit 17). Charges: 1!2 House charge, plus 1!2 value of tickets, plus half receipts amounted to #66 1s. 6d. and left the actor with an uncovered deficit of #5 19s. (Account Book), which he paid up on 20 May. Receipts; #60 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1585
11 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1586
22 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at Half an Hour after Five. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after six. [The Account Book indicates that the following paid up their deficits of half values of tickets: Rose, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, Doe, Pullen, Fransdorf, Norbury, Robson, Pilfold, Roberts and Singleton.] Receipts: #163 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1587
24 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Hardly worth keeping the theatre open this evening, as running expenses aside from salaries, (i.e., music, wardrobe, properties, Renter's interest, and kettle drum) came to #21 5s. 6d. See Account Book.] Receipts: #26 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks.

1588
27 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Messrs Richards and Dall for their expenses to Stratford #14 14s. (Account Book). [Apparently for gathering material for painting appropriate scenes for Harlequin's Jubilee (see 27 Jan. 1770) or for Man & Wife, 7 Oct.] Receipts: #91 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1589
30 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: with a Dance Incidental to the Opera, Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1590
03 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1591
21 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Cast
Role: Amintas Actor: Tenducci, first appearance that stage these 4 years

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Dance: I: A New Pastoral Dance, as17691215

1592
15 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these two Years, the Interlude but once these 30 years. [See 4 May 1769.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1593
17 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 7 April 1766.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

Performance Comment: Sir John Buck-Dyer; MacRuthen-Shuter; Latitat-Dunstall; Crab-Gibson; Lucinda-Mrs Bulkley; Tallyhoe-Quick; Racket-Cushing; Lord John-Lewes.
Cast
Role: MacRuthen Actor: Shuter

1594
19 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1595
21 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: a Masquerade Scene Actor: incident to the play

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1596
28 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Capon
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1597
03 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

1598
04 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Author

1599
06 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

1600
13 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: Oldrents-Gibson; Hearty-Reinhold; Springlove-Hull; Justice Clack-Shuter; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Hilliard-DuBellamy; Vincent-Mattocks; Amie-Miss Valois; Meriel-Mrs Baker; Rachel-Miss Catley (first time); With the Crutch Dance-incidental to the Opera.
Cast
Role: With the Crutch Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.
Role: Doctor Actor: Banks