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1392 results for: Keyword - A. Murphy
We found 1322 matches on Author, 63 matches on Roles/Actors, 57 matches on Event Comments, 20 matches on Performance Comments, and 4 matches on Performance Title.

51
31 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [tragedy by Arthur Murphy]: Never acted there. New Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Related Works
Related Work: The Grecian Daughter Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

52
30 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Last Night of performing before the Holidays. [See first version of this afterpiece under title What We Must All Come To, 9 Jan. 1764. It was damned then but now met with success. A Comedy by Arthur Murphy. The reviewer for the Westminster Magazine for April stamped the afterpiece with his approval.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks After Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: Three Weeks After Marriage Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Entertainment: End: (By Particular Desire) Bucks Have At Ye All, with alterations, spoken-Lewis

Dance: Before Farce: The Merry Sailors, as17760314

53
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

Related Works
Related Work: All in the Wrong Author(s): Arthur Murphy

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.

54
23 September 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Prelude [1st time; PREL 1, by Arthur Murphy]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 21 Nov. 1772]. The Doors to be opened at 5:3O. To begin at 6:3O [see 11 Nov.]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Sarjant (only) at the Stage-door. No persons admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #214 17s. 6d. (214.15.O; O.2.6.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Related Works
Related Work: News from Parnassus Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

55
22 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Arthur Murphy, based on L'Irresolu, by Philippe Nericault, dit Destouches. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by David Garrick (see text)]: A new Scene and New Dresses. Public Advertiser, 2 May 1778: This Day is published Know Your Own Mind (1s 6d.). Receipts: #246 7s. 6d. (245.7.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Related Works
Related Work: Know Your Own Mind Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17761123

56
01 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book, 30 Apr.: Paid Murphy #119 13s. for the 12th night of Know Your Own Mind on Apr. 1st, after deducting charge of #73 10s. Receipts: #193 3s. (192.4.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Related Works
Related Work: Know Your Own Mind Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: As17761226

57
06 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. With Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy. London Chronicle, 7 Nov., prints a detailed synopsis of the alterations.]. The Characters entirely new dressed; with New Scenery and Decorations. [Morning Chronicle, 7 Nov.: Mrs Barry entered into the character of Mandane with all that strength of conception which characterizes her acting in general. Many of the passages received additional force from the judicious breaks and sudden transitions in her manner of giving them.] Receipts: #200 3s. (199.6; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan of China Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17771104

58
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Hull, altered from The School for Guardians by Arthur Murphy. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser 19 Nov.]: With New Dresses, &c. The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by Dr Arne, Sacchini and Fisher. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in Love Finds the Way (6d.). [Miss Courtenay is identified in the Airs.] Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Related Works
Related Work: Love Finds the Way Author(s): Thomas Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Related Works
Related Work: The Upholsterer Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

59
14 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth. Mainpiece: Banquetv, Processionv, Christeningv as 26 Mar. [Afterpiece: Epilogue by Arthur Murphy.] Receipts: #262 10s. (140.14.6; 2.3.6; tickets: 119.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Related Works
Related Work: The Citizen Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Song: As17870326

60
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Citizen Author(s): Arthur Murphy

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

61
02 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 1 Dec. 1784]. With some Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy]. Receipts: #241 1s. 6d. (237.8.6; 3.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Related Works
Related Work: The Upholsterer Author(s): Arthur Murphy

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

62
26 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Jaffier Actor: Murphy

Dance: New Pantomime Entertainment call'd the Italian Bagpiper-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville (lately arriv'd from Paris. Their first appearance on that stage)

63
05 December 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: As17541203

64
23 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Jaffier Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: PPas de Quatre, as17550104; Chinese Dance, as17550104

65
24 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

66
20 March 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Cast
Role: Zamor Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

67
05 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Jaffier Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

68
22 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Young Bevil Actor: Murphy first time

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: Lowe

Dance: II: Italian Peasants, as17550414 IV: Louvre and Minuet-Villeneuve, Sga Balbi; End of Play: Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

69
25 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Murphy first time

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

70
29 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Jaffier Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: CComic Dance-Granier and Mrs Granier

71
06 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Archer Actor: Murphy first time

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: III: Les Charbonieres-Lepie, Lucas; V: Italian Peasants, as17550414

72
08 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, The Dragoness

Song: III: Arm Arm ye Brave-Legg; IV: School of Anacreon-Legg

Dance: As17550420

73
21 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Murphy first appearance there

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Englishman from Paris Author(s): Arthur Murphy

74
25 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Essex Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

75
18 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Essex Actor: Murphy

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival