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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.

8051
08 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates; afterpiece of Tit for Tat, both advertised on playbill of 7 Jan.] Receipts: #156 18s. 6d. (112.5.6; 39.7.0; 5.6.0)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

8052
09 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years [not acted since 28 May 1783]. [Afterpiece in place of The Prisoner, advertised on playbill of 8 Jan.] Receipts: #101 18s. 6d. (67.7.6; 28.1.0; 6.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

8053
10 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: As17921102

Song: As17921102

8054
11 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Heiress, advertised on playbill of 10 Jan.] Receipts: #126 0s. 6d. (91.3.6; 28.16.0; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

8055
12 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: Tit for Tat

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

8056
15 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

8057
16 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #224 4s. (162.6; 53.10; 8.5; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke of Ferrara-Whitfield; Petruchio-Benson; Don John-Palmer; Don Frederick-Barrymore; Antonio-Waldron; Gent. to the Duke-Phillimore, Cooke, Maddocks; Gent. to Petruchio-Caulfield, Bland, Welsh; Peter-Burton; Antony-Wewitzer; Surgeon-Fawcett; Francisco-Hollingsworth; Servants-Webb, Alfred; First Constantia-Mrs Powell; Mother@in@Law to Constantia-Mrs Hopkins; Second Constantia-Miss Farren; Kinswoman-Miss Heard; Landlady-Mrs Booth; Nurse-Mrs Edwin.
Cast
Role: to the Duke Actor: Phillimore, Cooke, Maddocks
Role: Mother@in@Law to Constantia Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett

8058
18 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: As17921016

8059
19 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 Cheats of Scapin

8060
21 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

8061
22 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Performance Comment: As17930119, but Genariello-Caulfield in place of Dignum; Captain of the Guard-Cooke in place of Caulfield.
Cast
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Cooke in place of Caulfield.
Role: Captain of the Ship Actor: Benson
Role: Sailors Actor: Fairbrother, Maddocks, Webb, Bourk

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

8062
23 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: To conclude with a Grand Procession of the Hundred Knights of Chivalry, and the Representation of an Ancient Tournament, under the direction of Dubois. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] With a new Overture and new Additional Musick, by Storace, Shaw, and other Eminent Masters. And new Dresses, Decorations and Machinery. [Miss Redhead is identified in Kemble Mem.] Account-Book, 20 Dec. 1792: Paid Kemble to purchase horses for Cymon #180 14s. 6d. (223.11.6; 55.4.0; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Performance Comment: Merlin-Bannister; Cymon-Kelly; Dorus-Wewitzer; Linco-Bannister Jun.; Damon-Bland; Dorilas-Cooke; Daemon of Revenge-Sedgwick; Cupid-Master Welsh; Urganda-Mrs Crouch; Sylvia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Redhead]); Fatima-Mrs Goodall; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Daphne-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mr Suett; [In Tournament: Knights-Dubois, Fairbrother.
Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

8063
24 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Genest, VII, 88: On this evening there was not any play performed, from respect to the memory of the unfortunate monarch, Louis 16th, who was murdered in Paris on that day [sic] -Kemble, without consulting Sheridan, closed the theatre -Sheridan, who was out of town, arrived late that evening, and finding there was no play, was highly incensed at the shutting up of the theatre upon such an occasion; for, he said, it was an invariable maxim with him, that neither politics nor religion should be taken notice of in his playhouse, yet no man deplored the tragical event more sincerely than he did. (Kelly, Reminiscences, II, 37). [The playbill of 23 Jan. advertises Cymon and The Ghost for this present evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's None

8064
25 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

8065
28 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

8066
01 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Haunted Tower; afterpiece of The Farm House, both advertised on playbill of 31 Jan.] Receipts: #137 14s. 6d. (99.11.6; 36.8.0; 1.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

8067
04 February 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: Tit for Tat

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

8068
06 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

8069
07 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Fugitive, "but in consequence of the indisposition of a principal performer, The Haunted Tower was substituted" (Thespian Magazine, Mar. 1793, p. 218). Kemble Mem. notes the same change.] Receipts: #128 4s. 6d. (83.2.0; 42.1.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett

8070
08 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

8071
11 February 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 Cheats of Scapin

8072
16 February 1793 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Giuochi D'agrigento

Dance: End: Les Epoux du Tempe, as17930205; End Opera: Divertisement, as17930126; but to conclude with a Pas de Trois et de Quatre-to the favourite air of God save the King, with variations

8073
21 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Public is most respectfully informed that The Pirates [advertised on playbill of 19 Feb.] is deferred on account of the Indisposition of Bannister Jun. Receipts: #169 15s. 6d. (123.18.6; 38.9.0; 6.16.0; tickets not come in: 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8074
25 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Catherine? Cuthbertson. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown. Larpent MS 969; not published]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "The [new] piece possessing nothing like a plot, and being perfectly uninteresting, was much disapproved of...Palmer contributed to its bad reception by being absent when he was most wanted on the stage, and occasioning thereby an aukward chasm, which put the audience out of humour. He was otherwise highly reprehensible for his imperfections in his part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Receipts: #375 16s. 6d. (342.13.6; 31.7.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At king's Anna

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

8075
11 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare]: The Musick by Storace. Morning Herald, 27 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Rathbone-place. Account-Book, 4 July: Paid Hoare for Prize #210. ["Sga Storace's person (is) clumsy; her face coarse and ordinary; and yet there is so much enchanting vivacity...that she always delights whenever she appears" (Candid Strictures, 41).] Receipts: #388 12s. 6d. (196.11.6; 38.5.0; 3.10.0; tickets: 150.6.0) (charge: #157 1s. 3d.)

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 Prize; or, 2