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4530 results for: Keyword - the Pope
We found 5551 matches on Roles/Actors, 1259 matches on Performance Comments, 156 matches on Event Comments, 39 matches on Performance Title, and 14 matches on Author.

3576
18 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Johnston

Song: End I: Primroses deck the Banks' green side (composed by Linley? Sen)-Dignum; End I afterpiece: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day (composed by Hook)-Dignum

Performance Comment: Sen=)-Dignum; End I afterpiece: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day (composed by Hook)-Dignum.
Cast
Role: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day Actor: Dignum.

3577
22 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Cast
Role: Viletta Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Cast
Role: the celebrated Anacreontic Song Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

3578
24 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #263 7s. (145.17; 14.1; 0.14; tickets: 102.15) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: As17870201

3579
25 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Cast
Role: Miss Phoebe Latimer Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: As17870113; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Ferrere, Miss Stageldoir

3580
25 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Aickin, Farren, Wewitzer, Fearon, Brown, Thompson, Mrs Wells, Mrs Brown, Mrs Webb, Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17870523

3581
28 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Flippanta Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Song: End III: song-Miss Barnes; End IV: O! Nanny wilt thou go with me (composed by Carter)-Dignum; End: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day-Miss Barnes

Performance Comment: Nanny wilt thou go with me (composed by Carter)-Dignum; End: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day-Miss Barnes.
Cast
Role: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day Actor: Miss Barnes.

3582
30 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

3583
02 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Thompson
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

3584
05 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alscrip Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

3585
13 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #182 15s. (180.19.6; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Cast
Role: Serjeant Eitherside Actor: Booth
Role: Lady Rodolpha Lumbercourt Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Cast
Role: The Marquis Actor: Lewis
Role: The General Actor: Quick

3586
15 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Grecian Daughter, advertised on playbill of 12 Oct.] Afterpiece: As originally Performed. With new Dresses, the Original Music, Scenery and Decorations. "When the hissing began there was an attempt by the Clown to put the audience in humour, by rolling over and over across the stage with a woman, or a man dressed in women's clothes. If this were a coup d'oeil for the Galleries, it was certainly an insult to the Boxes...We are glad to say that obscenity failed to rescue folly" (World, 16 Oct.). Receipts: #262 4s. (261.3; 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Cambray
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice; or, The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Performance Comment: [Edition of 1739 (Tho. Wood) lists the parts: Orpheus, Pluto, Ascalax, Furies, Friends, Harlequin, Pantaloon, Gawkey, Drudge, Taylor, Shoemaker, Drawer, Hostler, Porter, Eurydice, Rhodope, Nymphs, Bacchants, Colombine, Mrs Mannerly, Witch, Frothwell, Maid, Dwarf Woman.]

3587
16 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Muslin Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

3588
22 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, but "The Beggar's Opera being performed in lieu of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not (because of Mrs Jordan's illness) was very well received." Reference is made to Dignum as Macheath and Mrs Crouch as Polly (Public Advertiser, 23 Oct.).] Receipts: #110 10s. 6d. [83.11.0; 26.3.0; 0.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

3589
23 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Pope.

3590
26 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Farce of The Farmer [advertised on playbill of 25 Oct., and see 31 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the sudden Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #154 17s. 6d. (150.11.6; 4.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Helme
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Booth

Song: As17871022

3591
29 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

3592
01 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: III: a song-Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

3593
05 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene with Dancing-Hamoir, Ferrere, Miss Stageldoir

Song: Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke.

3594
07 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alscrip Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17871101

3595
09 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

Song: As17870925

3596
10 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Harriet Lee. Prologue by Richard Cumberland (see text). Epilogue by the author (World, 28 Nov.)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 26 Nov. 1787: This Day is published The New Peerage (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #209 4s. (188.1.0; 19.14.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage; Or, Our Eyes May Deceive Us

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-King, Bannister Jun., Suett, Packer, Lamash, Phillimore, Wilson, Benson, Spencer, Alfred, Wroughton, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Farren. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787): Mr Vandercrab-King; Lord Melville-Bannister Jun.; Sir John Lovelace-Suett; Medley-Packer; Virtu-Lamash; Allen-Phillimore; Servants-Wilson, Benson, Spencer, Alfred, Lyons; Charles-Wroughton; Miss Harley-Mrs Crouch; Miss Vandercrab-Mrs Hopkins; Kitty-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Charlotte Courtley-Miss Farren; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Miss Farren. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Pope.

3597
14 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 14 Nov.: Orders #8 5s., Free #2 8s. [#10 13s.]; 21 Nov.: Orders &72 8s., Free #5 10s. [#77 18s.]. Receipts: #251 7s. (234.12.0; 16.2.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

3598
15 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Lewis, Quick, Pope, Farren, Macready, Davies, Fearon, Booth, Thompson, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

3599
16 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cambray (the last Time of his performing here this Season). Public Advertiser, 8 Nov.: Tickets to be had of Cambray, No. 18, Norfolk-street. Receipts: #185 1s. 6d. (184.6.0; 4.15.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: Vocal Parts, as17871001, but Janson

3600
23 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Tender Husband [advertised on playbill of 22 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred to Monday [q. v., and 5 Dec.], on Account of Edwin's Indisposition. Receipts: #95 19s. (84.17; 11.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Lewis, Quick, Pope, Farren, Macready, Davies, Fearon, Booth, Thompson, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17871029