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9969 results for: Keyword - the King
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

8026
04 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 3 Dec.] Receipts: #69 13s. (48.13s; 17.8; 3.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

8027
06 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 5 Dec.] Receipts: #112 6s. (74.7; 31.7; 6.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett

8028
08 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The BM Burney Collection (937. c. 10) contains a receipted bill from T. Lowndes for printing throughout this week: playbills nightly #1 12s. 6d.; 100 half price cards 2s.; 200 half-sheet office accts. 8s., totalling #10 5d.] Receipts: #272 4s. (226.8; 44.12; 1.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

8029
10 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates; afterpiece of The Virgin Unmask'd, both advertised on playbill of 8 Dec.] 'Mrs Goodall is a very good substitute for Mrs Jordan [who had not yet appeared this season] in Letitia Hardy" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 171). Receipts: #115 4s. (69.0; 37.8; 8.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett

8030
11 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: As17921016

8031
12 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

8032
13 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #120 9s. 6d. (82.18.6; 29.0.0; 8.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Danby [Public Advertiser: Caulfield], Cooke, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Shaw

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards

8033
14 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #485 13s. (444.17; 35.3; 2.19; tickets not come in: 2.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and Apothecary

8034
15 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #147 15s. 6d. (97.9.6; 43.10.0; 6.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

8035
17 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: In III: an Epithalamium-; Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp

8036
19 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Fugitive, advertised on playbill of 18 Dec.] Receipts: #194 2s. (141.15; 41.4; 11.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

8037
20 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

8038
21 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Thrifty-Wewitzer; Gripe-Suett [the assignment of these two parts may be a misprint; see17921222 and thereafter]; Octavian-Whitfield; Leander-Barrymore; Scapin-Bannister Jun.; Shift-R. Palmer; Lucia-Miss Heard; Clara-Miss Collins.

8039
22 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

8040
26 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Characters Dressed in the Habits of the Time. Receipts: #315 4s. 6d. (281.14.6; 32.3.0; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: The Original Music by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses, and additional Accompaniments-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Danby, Caulfield, Maddocks Cooke, Alfred, Shaw, Lyons, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirton

8041
27 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. With the much-admired Shades and Transparencies, representing the Amusements of Harlequin, and the Destruction of the Pantomimical Fleet. Receipts: #217 19s. (158.11; 54.0; 5.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: As17921102

Dance: As17921102; In afterpiece: Dances-the D'Egvilles, Menage, Chatterley, Webb, Melvin, Phillips, Bourk, Bidotti, Whitmell, Walker, Nokes, Keys, Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles, Miss Phillips, Miss A. DeCamp, Miss Menage Jun., Miss Smith, Miss Haskey, Miss Whitmell, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Harris, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk

8042
28 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Othello

Performance Comment: Duke of Venice-Maddocks; Brabantio-Aickin; Gratiano-Phillimore; Lodovico-Packer; Othello-Kemble; Cassio-Barrymore; Iago-Bensley; Roderigo-Dodd; Montano-Whitfield; Julio [i.e. Gentleman ]-Benson; Antonio [i.e. Messenger ]-Caulfield; Officers-Banks, Lyons; Messenger-Bland; Sailor-Alfred; Desdemona-Mrs Siddons; Aemilia-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Patron

8043
29 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

8044
31 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

8045
01 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

8046
02 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: ["In the enchanted Island We were presented with a view of an elegant modern built house -so much for propriety!" (Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 194.] Receipts: #229 2s. (190.10; 35.1; 3.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

Song: Vocal Parts, as17921213, but Sedgwick, Mrs +Crouch

Opera: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. As17921213, but Neptune-Sedgwick

8047
03 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #169 6s. (136.6; 31.0; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8048
04 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792.] Receipts: #218 5s. 6d. (184.6.6; 30.2.0; 3.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

8049
05 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Cast
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

8050
07 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Regent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227