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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.

451
01 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Statute Scene with a Dance by the Characters; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Wright

452
02 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #262 13s. 6d. (246/6/0; 16/0/0; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

453
08 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Duenna, announced on playbill of 7 Dec. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Morton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Inchbald. And see 10 Dec.] Receipts: #85 6s. 6d. (82/16/6; 2/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Cast
Role: Lord Lighthead Actor: Palmer
Role: Servant to Lord Lighthead Actor: Swords

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

454
07 June 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: End of mainpiece song by Price

455
29 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: Bustleton-Palmer; Manager-Aickin; Gentleman in the Balcony-Bannister Jun.; Easy-R. Palmer; Irishman in the Pit-Booth; Actresses-Miss Brangin, Mrs Poussin, Miss Francis, Miss Palmer; Caller-Mrs Love; Lady in the Balcony-Mrs Webb .
Cast
Role: Gentleman in the Balcony Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Irishman in the Pit Actor: Booth
Role: Lady in the Balcony Actor: Mrs Webb
Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

456
30 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Charles to Bannister Jun., but he "being suddenly taken ill, Barrymore was under the necessity of reading the part" (Morning Herald, 2 Oct.).] Error Smith, pit office-keeper, #2 11s. Receipts: #219 15s. (169.7; 49.15; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

457
29 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17860921, but Alithea-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

458
11 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Baronet

Dance: End II: As17870113; I: a Country Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-

Song: [Kelly introduced a song, Love thou maddening power, and a duet, Each joy in thee possessing, neither one listed on playbill. Both were composed by Gluck, and both had English words by Elizabeth Sheridan (Kelly, I, 301-2)]

459
27 September 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End II: As17870920; I: Country Dance incident to the Piece-

460
03 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorn-Darley; Hodge-Blanchard (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Carter-Wewitzer; Footman-Bonville; Cook-Rock; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Madge-Mrs Wells; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; House Maid-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

461
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

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: Vocal Parts, as17871001, but Janson

462
10 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #198 3s. 6d. (190.15.0; 7.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Young Mirable-Pope; Old Mirable-Quick (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Dugard-Macready; Petit-Brown; Bravoes-Cubitt, Thompson, Gardner, Stevens; Duretete-Ryder; Oriana-Mrs Bernard; Lamorce-Mrs Platt; Bissarre-Mrs Abington (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

463
28 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 5 Nov. 1779]. The Music chiefly composed by Hook, the rest compiled from the most eminent Masters. With new Songs and other Alterations [and restorations; the names of almost all the characters have been changed (see 23 Nov. 1778)]. Public Advertiser, 12 Jan.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Billington, No. 53, Poland-street. Receipts: #365 3s. 6d. (244.0.6; 2.12.0; tickets: 118.11.0) [charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End II: Leap Year-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In afterpiece: (for that Night only) Sweet Bird-, from L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel Mrs Billington; accompanied on the flute-W. Parke

464
08 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Sir Andrew Ague@cheek-Dodd; Sir Toby Belch-Moody; Orsino-Whitfield; Sebastian-Lamash; Fabian-R. Palmer; Antonio-Phillimore; Clown, the original Epilogue Song-Suett; Malvolio-Bensley; Viola-Mrs Jordan; Maria-Mrs Kemble; Olivia (with songs)-Mrs Crouch.
Cast
Role: the original Epilogue Song Actor: Suett

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

465
25 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17880408, but Sir Toby Belch-Palmer (1st appearance there this season).

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17880313

466
15 September 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] No Money to be returned. Receipts: #294 0s. 6d. (292.12.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorne-Bannister (1st appearance on this stage these 4 years); Hodge-Blanchard; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Carter-Wewitzer; Cook-Rock; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Madge-Mrs Wells; Lucinda-Mrs Mountain; Maid-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End II: Mirth by Moonshine-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

467
16 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Account of the Numerous Complaints which have been made by the Frequenters of the Theatre, of the Interruption given to the Performances by the Persons insisting on having the Doors of the Boxes or the Pit opened after the House is apparently filled, and also to prevent many other Inconveniences to the Audience, the Public are requested to observe that No Money received can be returned at any of the Offices. [Throughout the season the playbills carry the notice: "No money to be returned."] Hamlet [advertised in Public Advertiser, 15 Sept.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Kemble. Receipts: #109 18s. 6d. (71.17.0; 37.3.6; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Conjugal Frolick-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Song: In I: Sheep@shearing Song-Mrs Forster

468
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett.
Cast
Role: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee Actor: Death
Role: Dance Actor: the Miss Simonets

469
13 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End: The Capricious Lovers-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

470
01 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music by Shield. With entire new Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #207 9s. 6d. (197.9.0; 10.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Song: In II: a song-Mrs Kennedy

471
04 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by John O'Keeffe. Not in Larpent MS; not published. This is an unusual instance of the playbill containing, on the 1st night of a new play, the full cast]: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Gamester. Receipts: #345 13s. (256.2.6; 4.3.6; tickets: 85.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Cast
Role: Metheglin Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performance Comment: As17881208, but The Characters-_Aickin.
Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: _Aickin.

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet Bird, as17890126

472
02 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Fontenelle. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Fontenelle at her house, No. 271, Holbourn. 2nd piece: Compressed into 3 short Acts. "Miss Fontenelle...is the best Romp we ever saw, Mrs Jordan alone excepted...We were sorry to see [her] fall over the groove of the scene; but as practice is more forcible than precept, we hope it will teach her the truth of Friar Lawrence's caution, 'they stumble who run fast'" (Diary, 4 May). Receipts: #219 19s. (133.14.6; 6.8.6; tickets: 79.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Metheglin Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Piping Pedlar-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

473
05 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: The Music by Hook; the rest compiled from the most eminent Masters. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 12, Norton-street, Portland Chapel. Receipts: #313 17s. (166.16.6; 12.2.6; tickets: 134.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon [i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. Principal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Edwin; President (with the Anacreontic Song)-Bannister; Come come all Noble Souls-; Jack thou'rt a Toper-; How shall we Mortals spend our Hours?-; When Bibo went down to the Regions below=-Bannister; Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, Blanchard, Bannister; Sing Old Rose and burn the Bellows-; God save the King-Full Chorus.
Cast
Role: When Bibo went down to the Regions below Actor: Bannister
Role: Sing Old Rose and burn the Bellows Actor:
Role: God save the King Actor: Full Chorus.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

474
18 September 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: Vulcan-Quick; The Squire-Johnstone; Joe-Davies; Bacchus-Reeve; Serjeant-Darley; Grace-Mrs Mountain; Maudlin-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Johnstone

Song: In II: song-Mrs Martyr

475
20 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End II: Divertissement, as17891002