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49 results for: Roles - with the Beggars

26
23 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mrs Smith.

27
21 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mrs Smith.

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker

28
25 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Kear, _Bannister, _Dibdin, _Davies, Miss _Radley.
Role: Apothecary Actor: Castle
Role: With the Funeral Procession Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mrs Smith.

Dance: III: The Medley-Scholars of Giorgi

29
30 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mrs Smith.

Dance: The Medley-Scholars of Giorgi

30
15 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Wright, Waldron, Kear, Messink, Courtney, Jones, Mrs Love, Mrs Smith
Role: the Crutch Dance Actor: .

Song: II: Rise Glory-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

31
21 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.
Role: the Crutch Dance Actor: .

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

32
16 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.
Role: the Crutch Dance Actor: .

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker; End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

33
23 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: with Dancing Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Sga Giorgi

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.
Role: the Crutch Dance Actor: .

Dance: End: A Hornpipe-Walker

34
01 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Lion
Role: the Original Crutch Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: No One's Enemy but His Own

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: Woodward, Shuter, Hull, Wroughton, Booth, Lee Lewes, Quick, Cushing, Mrs Lesingham, Miss Barsanti.

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928; End: The Reel, as17741028

35
02 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Lion
Role: the Original Crutch Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: With Epilogue Actor: Woodward, Shuter.

Dance: End Opera: The Reel, as17741028

36
04 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Lion
Role: the Original Crutch Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End Opera: The Merry Sailors, as17741026

37
28 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Lion
Role: the Original Crutch Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Aldridge, Helm, Harris, Blurton, Miss Valois, Mrs Stephens, Mas. Holland, Mas. Scriver, Miss Armstrong, Daiguville, Sga Vidini

38
18 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: with Beggar Women Actor: Mrs _Pitt, replaced by Mrs Willems.
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Lion
Role: the Original Crutch Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Cast
Role: Concerto on A Violin Without Strings Actor: OrchestraWith the Last New Scene, Additional Performances. Characters of the Pantomime and Dances as usual.

39
23 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: a Dance of the Furies Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Wright, Legg, Messink, Griffiths, Carpenter, Blanchard, Mrs Love, Mrs S. Smith

Entertainment: End: the Favourite Interlude, Linco's Travels-, with Particular remarks on London; Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw

40
03 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Wright, Legg, Messink, Griffiths, Carpenter, Blanchard, Mrs Love, Mrs S. Smith

Dance: I: A New Ballet (for that Night Only) call'd The Force of Love-M LaRavier (his first appearance on that stage), Sga Hidou, Como, Sga Como, Two Children, first appearance; End: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

41
25 October 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Jones

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: II: the Original Crutch Dance-[This was danced in all subsequent performances.]; End: As17761009

42
11 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Jones

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Cast
Role: Prometheus Actor: Mahon

Dance: As17761226

43
12 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

44
02 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17830918; In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch-Dance [performers not listed; danced in all subsequent performances]

45
12 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: The Plain Dealer Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny

46
17 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: The King Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny

47
01 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny

48
12 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch Dance [performers not listed]

49
02 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: A Whitsun Festival

Cast
Role: The Chapter of Fashions Actor: Munden
Role: The Red Cross Knight Actor: Incledon, Linton
Role: The Beggar's Song Actor: Townsend
Role: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms Actor: Mrs Atkins
Role: The Mid Watch Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: Five Thousand a Year

Cast
Role: Sir Mathew Maxim Actor: Munden

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Song: End I: the Battle Song-Incledon as18000522