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474 results for: Keyword - Briton
We found 315 matches on Roles/Actors, 128 matches on Performance Comments, 84 matches on Event Comments, 63 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

351
30 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

352
30 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End of mainpiece September the Thirteenth proud Bourbon may mourn, from Gretna Green (composed by Dr Arnold) by Bannister

353
23 April 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

354
27 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece Hornpipe, as17840416

355
04 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

356
03 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

357
05 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Crusade

Afterpiece Title: Nootka Sound

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Bannister

358
07 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Nootka Sound

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Bannister

Song: In: Mad Bess, as17900602

359
09 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Crusade

Afterpiece Title: Nootka Sound

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Bannister

360
14 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Crusade

Afterpiece Title: Nootka Sound

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Bannister

361
01 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: May Day; Or, The Little Gipsey

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Darley, Follett, Blurton, Linton, Rees

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

362
02 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Darley, Follett, Blurton, Linton, Rees

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

363
16 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Darley, Follett, Blurton, Linton, Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Music: End: a concerto of his own composition, on the Grand Piano Forte-King (1st appearance in public)

364
28 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Byrn

Song: In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu, as17930527

365
10 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Byrn

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Byrn

Song: End of 1st piece: Dibdin's song; The Lucky Escape; or, The Ploughboy's Return from Sea in character-Mrs Harlowe; End of 2nd piece: Sally in our Alley-Marshall; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon; Rule Britannia-Marshall, full Chorus; In the course of the Evening: Black eyed Susan-Incledon

366
03 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: ROSINA

Afterpiece Title: THE SHIPWRECK

Cast
Role: . Captain Briton Actor: Byrn
Role: Captain Briton Actor: Byrn

367
24 January 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

368
23 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Reinhold, Full Chorus.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Reinhold, Full Chorus.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Cast
Role: To arms Britons strike home Actor: Incledon, Reinhold, Full Chorus.

Music: End I: Bach's Bach's favourite concertante for flute oboe violin and violoncello-Monzani, W. Parke, G. and C. Ashley

369
19 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: Laoeudaimonos; or, A People Made Happy

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Crouch. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Britannia, Genius of England, Hope, Hygeia, Britons.] SCENE I. Cavern of Despairv. SCENE II. White Cliffs of Albionv. SCENE III. Grove of Hygeiav. SCENE IV. Temple of Gratitudev. In which will be displayed those Superb Transparencies which were exhibited at the Opera House, at the Grand Gala given [on 21 Apr.] in Commemoration of his Majesty's Recovery. The Capitals of the Transparencies will be ornamented with rich Festoons of different coloured Lamps, and the intervening Columns beautifully illuminated with variegated Fire. [There were three transparencies: the 1st representing George I, II and III, the 2nd King William, the 3rd the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester (World, 22 Apr.).]Larpent MS lists the parts: Britannia, Genius of England, Hope, Hygeia, Britons.] SCENE I. Cavern of Despairv. SCENE II. White Cliffs of Albionv. SCENE III. Grove of Hygeiav. SCENE IV. Temple of Gratitudev. In which will be displayed those Superb Transparencies which were exhibited at the Opera House, at the Grand Gala given [on 21 Apr.] in Commemoration of his Majesty's Recovery. The Capitals of the Transparencies will be ornamented with rich Festoons of different coloured Lamps, and the intervening Columns beautifully illuminated with variegated Fire. [There were three transparencies: the 1st representing George I, II and III, the 2nd King William, the 3rd the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester (World, 22 Apr.).]

Dance: End II: The Russian Minuet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Irish Bird@Catchers-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

370
06 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. 1st piece: In 3 Acts. [In 1st piece the playbill assigns Welford to Holman, and in 3rd piece Don Carlos to the same. But "An uncle of Holman expired suddenly on Saturday morning. An apology was made for Holman in the evening, and Macready took the Parts he was to have performed in the Play and Farce" (True Briton, 8 May). In 1st piece Cheaterly is assigned to Macready; who took his place is not stated.] True Briton, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #223 12s. 6d. (118.10.0; 4.2.0; tickets: 101.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bantry Bay

371
08 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland. Text 1st published in his Posthumous Dramatic Works, Vol. II (G. and W. Nicol, 1813); it assigns no parts, but adds George Ivey and David Duncan, acted by Caulfield and Packer. Genest erroneously assigns Sir Adam to Wewitzer and Beau Tiffany to R. Palmer. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (True Briton, 9 May). Songs by Michael Kelly, in Act I harmonized by Sir William Parsons.] True Briton, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #581 15s. (294.18.6; 72.7.0; 3.17.6; tickets: 210.12.0) (charge: #213 6s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In I: The Song [Blest were the hours], Song incidental to the Epilogue-Mrs Jordan

372
13 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Acasto to Murray, but "An apology was made for Murray, who was prevented by illness from playing Acasto, which, at a short notice, was taken by Hull" (True Briton, 14 Oct.).] "This whole of [Mrs Spencer's] performance was marked by such unaffected simplicity that it was almost impossible to consider it as the mere fiction of the scene. This lady is really a great aquisition to the house" (True Briton, ibid). Receipts: #254 6s. 6d. (244.18.6; 9.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: Ballet, as17971002, but Mrs _Watts

373
06 July 1719 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Chetwood, A General History of the Stage, p. 198: Yet a blind Man might have borne with Norris in the Roman Patriot , for he spoke it with all the Solemnity of a suffering Hero; while Penkethman, and the rest of the motley Tribe, made it as ridiculous by Humour and Action: And yet some of the first Rank in the Kingdom seemed highly diverted whilst others invoked the...dead Roman and Briton to rise, and avenge their own Cause. Lady Bristol in. Letter Books of John Hervey, II, 74-75: I had no patience to see [Addison's] play burlesqued as it was last night for the entertainment of their Royal Highnesses...their Audience was much too good for them, for there was a great many people of quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato Burlesqued

374
13 March 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Shaw, Denoye, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Miss Tenoe. The Briton= intended for this day by deferred by Booth's Indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

375
15 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives