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3393 results for: Keyword - widow of the late Miles
We found 2147 matches on Event Comments, 688 matches on Performance Comments, 599 matches on Performance Title, 160 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2526
26 September 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Comedians of his Majesty's Revels. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. All the Characters entirely new drest. With new Scenes and Decorations. [This is the opening of HAY by the dissenting actors under Theophilus Cibber. For a Prologue intended to be spoken on this night, see The Honeysuckle (1734), pp. 113-15.] At Common Prices. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Jobson-Harper; Nell-Mrs Pritchard; Sir John-Berry; Lady Loverule-Mrs Grace. With a Prologue and Epilogue address'd to the Town .
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Grace. With a Prologue and Epilogue address'd to the Town
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: By Miss Robinson, Janny, Fisher Tench, Miss Mann

2527
01 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Grace. With a Prologue and Epilogue address'd to the Town
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Music: Select Pieces.

Dance: As17330926

2528
02 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Otway. With a Scene of the Ponte Rialto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

2529
06 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Swedish Dal Karl by De la Garde and Mrs Ogden. Scottish Dance, as17331004

Song: By Leveridge

2530
06 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Music: Second Musick: First Concerto of Corelli. Third Musick: A Trumpet Overture. I: Concerto for French Horns, the French Horns by Charle and Giay, lately arriv'd from Paris. III: Solo for French Horn by Charle

Performance Comment: Third Musick: A Trumpet Overture. I: Concerto for French Horns, the French Horns by Charle and Giay, lately arriv'd from Paris. III: Solo for French Horn by Charle .

Dance: Les Bergeries by Essex, Miss Robinson (the first Characters); F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Song: II: Lempio Rigor del Fato and Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Rise Glory Rise, by Miss Arne, accompanied by French Horns

2531
09 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: As17330925

2532
12 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Alter'd from Shakespeare by the late Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Janno. II: Punches by F. Tench and Janno. III: Watteau by Miss Robinson. IV: Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. V: Les Bergeries, as17331006

2533
15 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake Trapp'd; or, The Disappointed Country Lass

Performance Comment: Toby Slang-Harper; Tom-Berry; Harry-Ridout; James-Roberts; Phillis-Mrs Pritchard; Phillis (the Chambermaid)-Miss Oates; Lucy-Miss Mann; Dorcas-Mrs Shireburn. musIc AND.

Dance: V: Comic Dance by Nivelon, from CG

Song: As17331013

2534
16 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

2535
20 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: Chacon a Boire by Leveridge and Laguerre

2536
24 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17330926 A new Prologue addressed to the Town .
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Grace. With a Prologue and Epilogue address'd to the Town
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant by Janno. III: Punches by F. Tench and Janno. IV: Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. V: La Follette s'cest Ravisee by Nivelon and Miss Mann

2537
25 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: A new Grand Ballad called Les Amants Constants by Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, F. Tench, Janno, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Oates, Miss Brett

Song: I: Quanto Dolce by Miss Arne. In III: Per le porte del tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne

2538
27 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Music: Second Musick: 4th Concerto of 2d Opera of Geminiani. Third Musick: Overture composed by Handel for Tamerlane

Dance: I: La Bagatelle (new) by Essex and Miss Latour, her first appearance on that stage. III: Mock Minuet by Nivelon, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss La Tour, Miss Mann. V: Les Amants Constants, as17331025

Song: II: Hush, Ye Little Warbling Choir by Miss Arne. IV: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond by Miss Arne

2539
29 October 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: As 15 Oct. Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Trim Actor: R. Wetherilt

Dance: IV: Friendly Lasses by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. V: The Amorous Couple by D'Vallois and Mrs D'Vallois

Performance Comment: V: The Amorous Couple by D'Vallois and Mrs D'Vallois .

2540
29 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Poet Laureat. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: V: Les Amants Constants, as17331025 In Afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17331027

2541
31 October 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. With an entire new Sett of Scenes, particularly a view of Stocks-Market. Afterpiece: A new Farcical Ballad Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Trim Actor: R. Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: King and no King; or, The Polish Squabble

Dance: IV: A new Scots Dance by Miss Wherrit. V: Two Pierrots by D'Vallois and J. Delagarde

2542
03 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331031

2543
05 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Poet-Laureat. With New Habits. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr. [See Daily Post, 6 Nov., and London Evening Post, 6 Nov., for prosecution of actors at HAY by officials of DL, CG, and GF.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Milward; Bajazet-Mills; Moneses-A. Hallam; Axalla-Cibber; Arpasia-Mrs Heron; Selima-Mrs Grace. With the usual Prologue .
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Grace. With the usual Prologue

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331031

2544
06 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17331105 With the usual Prologue .
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Grace. With the usual Prologue

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331031

2545
08 November 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. With new Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: By Mons Malter and Mlle Salle, newly arrived

2546
08 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: Les Bergeries by Essex, Miss Robinson, Holt, F. Tench, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

2547
10 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331029

2548
16 November 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Performance Comment: As17331113, but Sea-God-Mountier. The Double Dealer. Double Dealer-Quin; Touchwood-Aston; Mellefont-Walker; Brisk-Chapman; Careless-Ryan; Froth-Neale; Saygrace-Houghton; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Hallam; Lady Froth-Mrs Bullock; Lady Plyant-Mrs Cantrel; Cynthia-Mrs Laguerre; Sir Paul-Hippisley .
Cast
Role: Sea Actor: God-Mountier. The Double Dealer. Double Dealer-Quin
Role: God Actor: Mountier. The Double Dealer. Double Dealer-Quin

Dance: Scotish Dance, as17330922 The Nassau, as17331112

2549
22 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Alter'd from Shakespeare by the late Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Dance: V: Mock Minuet, as17331027

Song: II: O Care Parollette by Miss Arne. IV: Vorei Poterti Amar by Miss Arne

2550
24 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: [Author not known, but probably Henry Carey; see 28 Nov.] The Scenes, Machines, and Habits entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: An Impromptu Revel Masque: On the Joyous Occasion of the Royal Nuptials

Performance Comment: Venus-Miss Ame; Cupid-Master Arne; Shepherds-Kelly, Berry, Roberts, Corse; Shepherdesses-Miss Jones, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Clark, Miss Oates; with a Grand Dance in Momus: Sailor-Nivelon; Lively Lass-Miss Mann; Swains-Essex, Houghton; Nymphs-Miss Robinson, Miss Latour; College Youths-F. Tench, Holt, Janno. With a new Prologue to the Masque .
Cast
Role: College Youths Actor: F. Tench, Holt, Janno. With a new Prologue to the Masque