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1967 results for: Keyword - Alphonso Marsh the Elder
We found 1495 matches on Author, 408 matches on Performance Comments, 104 matches on Event Comments, 38 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1201
18 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1202
20 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1203
23 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1204
27 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1205
28 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge or A Receipt to Make a Benefit

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Bannister Jun., Wilson, Wewitzer, Wood, Usher, R. Palmer, Edwin, Bannister. [Cast from Larpent MS: Grubstreet-Edwin; the other performers, with Hitchcock and Miss Harper added, all in their own persons.] the other performers, with Hitchcock and Miss Harper added, all in their own persons.]

Dance: As17810612

Entertainment: In 3rd piece: Speaking, Singing, Sneezing, Yawning, Acting, Pantomime-; particularly The Military Exercise-Mrs Wells; With Hounds and with Horns-Mrs Cargill; Sweet Echo, Mad Bess(1st time)-Miss Harper

1206
29 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; INT I, by Charles Stuart. Larpent MS 570; not published. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 1 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Damnation or The Play House Hissing Hot

Performance Comment: Dupeall (with Imitations)-Bannister Jun.; Vitriol-Wilson; Fudge-Wewitzer; Drama-Staunton; Phelim O'Bogtrotter-Egan; Prompter-Blissett; Actor-Stevens; Waiter-Barrett; 1st Grinder-Edwin; The other Characters-Painter, Kenny, Pierce, Ledger, Stannard. Larpent MS assigns: Dustman-Painter; 2nd Grinder-Pierce; Sandman-Stannard; Milkwoman-Mrs Palmer; Kenny, Ledger; Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: The other Characters Actor: Painter, Kenny, Pierce, Ledger, Stannard. Larpent MS assigns: Dustman-Painter

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Entertainment: In 3rd piece: Singing, Howling, Crying, Bellowing, Hissing, Groaning, Braying, Grinding, Barking-

1207
30 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1208
01 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The English Merchant; 3rd piece of The Agreeable Surprise, both announced on playbill of 31 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1209
05 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Miss Harper, but she "still continuing [ill], an apology was made, and the audience entreated to allow Miss Hitchcock to read the part of Lapra-a request with which they readily acquiesced" (+London Chronicle, 6 Sept.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17810620

1210
06 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1211
08 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [MS annotation on playbill in Harvard Theatre Collection: "Mrs Cargill run away this day with Colman Jun. James? Winston?." And see 11 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1212
10 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

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

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17810716

1213
11 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill retains Mrs Cargill as Macheath, but "Mrs Cargill and her husband [but see 8 Sept.] took it into their heads to set off suddenly for Bath last week; the consequence was the audience were on Tuesday evening disappointed of their Macheath, and, after an apology, agreed to receive Wood in the character, who played it extremely well, and was much applauded" (Morning Chronicle, 13 Sept.). Who acted Wood's part of Jenny Diver is not stated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1214
13 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

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

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17810716

1215
14 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1216
15 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The last Night of this Season. [On this night Bannister was also acting at dl; on his arrival at the hay he made the following apology, "The instant the opera was finished at Drury Lane I hastened with all possible expedition to execute my duty." But the performance of the 3rd piece was so long delayed that the final curtain did not fall until 12 o'clock (Morning Herald, 17 Sept.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Lyon
Role: Captain of the Guard Actor: Master Edwin

1217
15 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

1218
27 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; 1st Bacchanal-Vernon; Principal Bacchanals-Bannister, Du-Bellamy, &c; 1st Spirit-Aickin; Brothers-Farren, R. Palmer; The Lady-Mrs Sharp; Principal Bacchant (with Sweet Echo, accompanied by Parke)-Mrs Wrighten; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Wright; Sabrina-Miss Field; Euphrosyne-Mrs Cargill .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song [Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen] by Vernon. [This was sung again by Vernon on 9 Oct., but in all subsequent performances by Williams (or Williames; see17811020).]

1219
13 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811004

1220
23 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; 1st Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Robson, J. Bates; The Lady (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Sharp)-Miss Harper; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Martyr; 2nd Bacchant-Mrs Morton; Sabrina-Miss Morris; 1st Bacchant and Euphrosyne-Miss Catley .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Robson, J. Bates
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Harper
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1221
07 December 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #129 14s. 6d. (100/10/0; 29/2/0; 0/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Cast
Role: Crisanthe Actor: Miss Simson

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1222
24 January 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

1223
23 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatic Puffers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Dance: As17820221

1224
28 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #215 13s.(183/13/0; 31/2/6; 0/17/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1225
16 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Monody: Not performed these 3 years [performed 28 Mar. 1781]. With Vocal and Instrumental Music [by Thomas Linley Sen.]. Receipts: #187 10s. 6d. (136/2/0; 51/7/0; 0/1/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #76 14s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: A Monody on the Death of Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder