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910 results for: Keyword - the Simsons
We found 1014 matches on Roles/Actors, 284 matches on Performance Comments, 32 matches on Event Comments, 22 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

476
09 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson; W. Vaughan & Ackman. black Guard Audience-(poor Mossop) (Cross). Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: Wilder

477
10 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnson and Sanderson. Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet

478
19 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Particular Desire. The lamp at ye Alter boil'd over & Frank Heath was burnt in ye loins in getting it out (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet

479
21 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SShuter having engag'd with Mr Rich Garrick in Bayes said you are a good Actor & I am sorry you have left me-a Clap (Cross). Both plays put up for last time of performing this season. Full prices throughout performance. No money returned after curtain is up. Tis hoped no gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the scenes or into the orchestra, the Entertainment depending chiefly upon the Machinery and Music. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Smith-Burton; Johnson-Palmer; others-Yates, Lacey, Havard, Taswell, Blakes, Shuter; Scrase, W. Vaughan, Wilder, Marr, Simson, Vaughan, Raftor, Mozeen, Clough, Rooker, Gray, Miss Minors, Mrs Simson, Miss Mills, Miss Simson; With an additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: others Actor: Yates, Lacey, Havard, Taswell, Blakes, Shuter
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet

480
26 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Leviez, Blakes, Ackman, Atkins, Little Swiss, Mrs Toogood, Master Reinhold, Mlle Mariet, Dennison, Mad Lussant.

481
16 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Clough, Blakes, Leviez, The Little Swiss, Mas. Simson
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auguste, Granier.

Dance: II: Mlle Prudhomme

482
27 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performance Comment: As17531117, but The Dances-Mlle _Prud'homme.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Mlle _Prud'homme.
Role: Others Actor: Clough, Blakes, Leviez, The Little Swiss, Mas. Simson
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auguste, Granier.

Dance: IV: L'Entree de Flore, as17531123

483
28 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

484
18 December 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

485
29 December 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Philips, Blakes, Clough, Miss Minors, Mrs Jefferson, Mlle Mariet
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

486
02 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Philips, Blakes, Clough, Miss Minors, Mrs Jefferson, Mlle Mariet
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

487
09 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: and with a New Dance Actor: for the Conclusion
Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

488
10 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: and with a New Dance Actor: for the Conclusion
Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

489
21 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: and with a New Dance Actor: for the Conclusion
Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

490
23 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

491
21 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Johnson, _Phillips, Mlle _Lussant.
Role: and with a New Dance Actor: for the Conclusion
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

492
26 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Auretti. Last time of performing mainpiece this season. Part of Pit rail'd into the Boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. [Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock.] Tickets of Mad Auretti, at her house in Leicester Fields, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd La Passecalle de Zaid-Mlle Auretti; III: New Dutch Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti; IV: Hornpipe-Granier; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

493
18 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs James and Miss Haughton. Tickets of Miss Haughton at a Grocer's, the corner of Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and of Mrs James at Mr Dale's Watch-maker in Little Wild St., and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

494
02 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Miss Minors. Tickets of Burton at the Lock and Key in Brownlow St., Long-Acre; of Miss Minors, at a Baker's in Bridges St., and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out by Marr, Miss Batchelor, and Mrs Gibbons will be taken. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Song: II: A New Ballad-Beard; IV: A New Song call'd The Return-Vernon

Dance: III: Country Amusements, as17540416 V: A Minuet-Gerard, Miss Batchelor

495
07 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell and Morris will be taken. Tickets of Mrs Mills at her lodgings at Gardyner's a Printer, in Russel St., and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Song: I: The School of Anacreon-Beard; IV: A Ballad-Beard

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17540416 III: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; the Clown-Shawford; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

496
15 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, Shawford, Reinhold, & Gerard, he run away (Cross). Mons Gerard left England. His tickets not admitted (Winston MS 8). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Song: Dialogue call'd% Damon and Chloe-Master Reinhold, Miss Thomas

497
16 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Song: IV: Miss Thomas

498
18 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Song: II, IV: Singing-Miss Thomas

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard II Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: III: Hornpipe to tune of Ali Croaker-Walker

499
28 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time this season for the afterpiece. By Particular Desire. Receipts: 100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: and with a New Dance Actor: for the Conclusion
Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Dennison, Mlle Lussant, others.

500
30 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton. Last time of the Company's performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: Country Amusements-; Devisse, Mlle Auretti