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4782 results for: Keyword - the younger Hilligsberg
We found 3165 matches on Performance Comments, 768 matches on Performance Title, 750 matches on Author, 566 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3876
02 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Westminster Magazine adds Augustin Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End Opera: The Italian Gardeners, as17751011

3877
07 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Westminster Magazine adds Augustin Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End Opera: La Soiree A@la@mode, as17751207

3878
16 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Old Norval Actor: Barry, being their first appearance in those characters

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Webster (with Songs in character and One New Composed by Dr Arne); Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Thompson, Young; Bacchanals, Bacchants-Reinhold, Miss Dayes, DuBellamy, Baker, Miss Ambrose; The Song of Sweet Echo-Mrs Mattocks; Bacchant, Euphrosyne-Mrs Farrell (first appearance in that character); Pastoral Nymph, Sabrina-Miss Weller; Lady-Mrs Barry (first time).
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Thompson, Young
Role: The Song of Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

3879
18 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: A Tragedy by the author of Douglas [John Home], never acted there. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock, and come as early as possible to avoid Confusion and Trouble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Thompson, Young
Role: The Song of Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

3880
23 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Mainpiece: With the characters for the time in old English Dresses, By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

3881
28 March 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Tickets deliver'd for The Siege of Damascus (for that night) will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid 8 extra trumpets #3; Mr Cook's singing boys, 17 nights #25 10s. Receipts: #187 15s. 6d. Charges: #78 16s. 6d. Profits to Bensley: #99 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Smith; Clytus-Bensley; Perdiccas-Whitfield; Eumenes-Farren; Aristander-Wrighten; Cassander-Palmer; Thessalus-Wright; Lysimachus-Brereton; Hephestion-Davies; Polyperchon-Bransby; Roxana-Miss Younge; Statira-Mrs Yates; Parisatis-Miss Hopkins; Sysigambis-Mrs Johnston; Slave-Griffiths; With the Grand Triumphal Entry-.
Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Wright
Role: With the Grand Triumphal Entry Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Dance: End: The Grand Garland Dance, as17760311

3882
10 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Dance: End: The Grand Garland Dance, as17760311 but Sga Pacini

3883
15 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Wrighten. This Farce wrote by Mr Vaughan pretty well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). [The Westminster Magazine for April damned the afterpiece as to plot and characters. Allowed it passible only as a beneift piece.] Paid 2 extra flutes 10s. Receipts: #90 5s. Charges: #66 9s. Profits to Mr and Mrs Wrighten: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: Loves Metamorphoses

Performance Comment: Parts by King, Packer, Davies, Everard, Vernon, Mrs Siddons and Mrs Wrighten. Young Dormer-King; Moody-Vernon; Sir John Murray-Packer; Col. Murrary-Davies; Maria-Mrs Siddons; Feather-Mrs Wrighten (Genest, V, 494); Prologue-King; a Cantata Epilogue-Vernon, Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Feather Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Comic Dance-the two Miss Stagledoirs, scholars to M. LaRiviere

3884
17 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Westminster Magazine adds Augustin Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: the Edition lists Lovelace Actor: Booth, who took over the part on 11 April.

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

3885
19 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409 but Mrs _Willems; The Dance, as17760409

Performance Comment: End: True Blue, as17760409 but Mrs _Willems; The Dance, as17760409.

3886
22 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Performance Comment: Binnacle-A Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage; Commodore Flip-Moody; Worthy-Usher; Dorcas Zeal-Mrs King, first time; Mizen-Dodd; Sir Charles Pleasant-Brereton; Rovewell-Lamash; Cockswain-Wrighten; Indent-Griffiths; Hatchway (With a song)-Bannister; Arabella Zeal-Mrs Greville; Belinda-Miss Hopkins; Lt. Cribbage-Davies; Lt. Easy-Norris; Jiltup-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny Private-Miss Platt; Barmaid-Mrs Davies; Advocate-Mrs Millidge; to finish with a Grand Naval Review in which is introduced a Dance of Sailors-Blurton, Mrs Sutton;, and the Favourite song of Rule Britannia-Davies, Fawcett.
Cast
Role: and the Favourite song of Rule Britannia Actor: Davies, Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

3887
22 April 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlin. Benefit for Mrs Fisher. Deferr'd from 11 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 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: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Catherine-Mrs Fisher; Petruchio-Gentleman (who performs Biron ); Humorous Epilogue on Everybody-Somebody, in the character of No Body - Master Fisher.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Fisher
Role: Humorous Epilogue on Everybody Actor: Somebody, in the character of No Body - Master Fisher.
Role: in the character of No Body Actor: Master Fisher.

3888
26 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Barsanti. Mainpiece [a comedy by Arthur Murphy]: Never acted there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Monologue: Before: The Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

3889
01 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. Mainpiece [a tragedy by John Jackson]: Never perform'd there. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred; Or, The British Freeholder

Performance Comment: Eldred-Jackson; Elidure-Lewis; Brennus-Aickin; Locrine-Hull; Eliud-Young; Morgan-Thompson; Eliza-Miss Ambrose; Edwena-Mrs Jackson; the Original Prologue, Epilogue-Mr and Mrs Jackson.

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

3890
02 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Westminster Magazine adds Augustin Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: the Edition lists Lovelace Actor: Booth, who took over the part on 11 April.

Dance: End Opera: Rural Merriment, as17751220

3891
13 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Dance: End: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Cast
Role: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Marke Actor: Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini
Role: to conclude with the Pony Races Actor: .

3892
20 May 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: a Country Dance incident to the piece Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

3893
27 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Westminster Magazine adds Augustin Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: the Edition lists Lovelace Actor: Booth, who took over the part on 11 April.

Dance: End Opera: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Cast
Role: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Marke Actor: Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini
Role: to conclude with the Pony Races Actor: .

3894
27 May 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: The Haymakers-

3895
31 May 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

3896
29 July 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Performance Comment: Sir Thomas-Foote; Sir Peter-Whitefield; Bever-Aickin; Younger-Fearon; Pact-Lloyd; Dactyl-Gardner; Staytape-Jones; Robin-Griffith; John-Stephens; Rust-Mrs Parsons; Juliet-Mrs Whitefield.
Cast
Role: Younger Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: Tambourine Dance-

3897
25 September 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Reynolds. [Afterpiece usually acted as The Man of Quality.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii; With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

Performance Comment: King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh [unidentified]); Duke of Buckingham-Stacy; Duke of Norfolk-Comerford; Duke of Suffolk-Kenny; Earl of Surry-Garland; Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)-Lewis; Gardiner (Bishop of Winchester)-Massey; Lord Sands-Ware of Deptford; Lord Chamberlain-Johnson; Cardinal Campeius (the Pope's Legate)-Sparrow; Cromwell (Gentleman Usher)-W. Smith; Doctor Butts (Physician to the King)-Ward; Cardinal Wolsey-Stokes; Queen Katherine-Miss Reynolds; Anne Bullen-Mrs West; Patience (with a song in character)-Mrs Davies; Dame Prattle-Mrs Ross; Lady of the bed chamber [to Queen Katherine-Miss C. Reynolds.
Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Miss Reynolds
Role: to Queen Katherine Actor: Miss C. Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Hoyden; or, The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington (the man of quality)-Smith; Young Fashion-Sparks; Sir John Friendly-Ward; Lory-Johnson; Coupler-Lewis; Shoemaker-Dancer; Mendlegs (the hosier)-W. Smith; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-The Gentleman who performs King Henry; Miss Hoyden (with a song)-Miss Reynolds; Nurse-Mrs Ross.
Cast
Role: Sir Tunbelly Clumsey Actor: The Gentleman who performs King Henry

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Marklew

Song: Between Acts: Singing-Mrs Davies

3898
26 September 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Young Meadows-Dodd; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-King; Margery-Mrs Wrighten; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda-Miss Jarratt; Rosetta-Mrs Baddeley (1st appearance in that character these 5 years).

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand; or, Trip to Newmarket

Dance: I: a Country Dance- incident to the main piece; End II: The Sailors Revels-Blurton

3899
28 September 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mr Baker made his first Appearance in Jerry Sneak--he is a tall, thin, awkward Figure, looked like a Pinmaker, is a very strong Copy of poor Weston, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in low Comedy--pretty well received. [Note added by $J. P. Kemble: Mr Baker, I have heard, had at this Time just received an Inheritance of fifteen thousand Pounds, which he so quickly dissipated as to be reduced within five years after to the Condition of Coachman to a Bristol Diligence] (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #181 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

3900
02 October 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Comerford; Aboan-Smith; Hotman-Johnson; Captain Driver-Saul; Blandford-Newport; Stanmore-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Jack Stanmore-Dancer; Daniel-Kenny; Governor-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Imoinda-A Young Lady of Rotherhithe [unidentified]; Widow Lackit-Mrs Ross; Lucy Weldon-Miss Taylor; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Wilks.
Cast
Role: Imoinda Actor: A Young Lady of Rotherhithe
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: Jemmy Twinkle-A Young Gentleman [unidentified]; Griskin-Massey; Sotherton-Smith; Chamberlain-Johnson; Cupid-Master Russell; Fillagree-Mrs Ross; Landlady-Mrs West; Miss Flack-Miss Taylor; Miss Griskin-Mrs Wilks.
Cast
Role: Sotherton Actor: Smith

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Monologue.Before: Bucks have at ye all-Master Russell; Imitations, as17760930