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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "C Cibber Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "C Cibber Esq")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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6694 results for: Keyword - C. Cibber, Esq.
We found 2807 matches on Performance Comments, 2743 matches on Author, 1917 matches on Event Comments, 121 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6676
04 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Siege of Aquileia is deferred by Mrs Cibber's illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

6677
10 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fleetwood. Mrs Cibber's sudden illness has oblig'd Mr Fleetwood to change his play from The Orphan to The Wonder. Tickets deliver'd for The Orphan will be taken. Last time of performing the afterpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

6678
11 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Mainpiece: Not acted for three years. First appearance in Calista for Mrs Yates because Mrs Cibber, ill, could not play the part. Davies advertised before this he had opened a Bookseller's shop opposite Tom's Coffee House, Russel Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6679
14 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Garrick's first appearance in Chamont in 4 years. Mrs Yates in Monimia for first time. Mrs Cibber's illness has oblig'd Mrs Yates to change her Play from Jane Shore to The Orphan. The Afterpiece (for one night only): A Burlesque Opera of two acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Fools Author(s): Colley Cibber
Related Work: The Fair Orphan Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Galligantus

6680
01 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow, Not acted this Season. The Wonder, Felix-$Garrick; Violante-$Mrs Cibber, and On Wednesday will be reviv'd The Second Part of King Henry the 4th, New Dress'd in the Habits of the times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

6681
06 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Lear oblig'd to be deferr'd till next week on account of the indisposition of Mrs Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Dance: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620925

6682
07 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's benefit deferred on account of her dangerous illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

6683
29 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's death reported yesterday contradicted. She prov'd out of danger (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

6684
19 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Afterpiece: A Burlesque traged)'by Colley Cibber. Not acted in 20 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens; or, Death of Alexander the Little

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

6685
02 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is come to town and so well recovered as to be able to appear in Belvidera the latter end of the week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

6686
06 February 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Almena listed in Rich's Register. Mrs Cibber buried in the Cloister Westminster Abbey in the evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

6687
11 March 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser this day contains a long letter from G. F. Theatricus extolling the virtues of Powell, Holland, Yates and Mrs Yates as actors capable of filling the shoes of Garrick and Mrs Cibber, especially with reference to their performance in the Clandestine Marriage, but calling attention also to their excellencies in other parts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

6688
17 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Comedy from Moliere and Cibber. Hopkins Diary: This comedy [Hypocrite] is the Non Juror altered, and two new characters introduced,--went off very well,--some few hisses,--but the play will do.--The alterations are by Mr Bickerstaffe. [Full account of the mainpiece, but without critical observation, appeared in the Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 18-21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

6689
27 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mr Moody Dr Cantwell 1st time--very bad (Hopkins Diary). Theatrical Review, 27 Nov.: Dr Cantwell was, this evening, played by Mr Moody on account of Mr King's illness, and, as we apprehend, it was undertaken on a short notice, we think he executed it with great propriety and justness. [Potter interprets the moral impact of the play considering it an improvement over Cibber's Non-Juror, its source.] Receipts: #108 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

6690
21 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: Altered from Corneille [by Colley Cibber?]. Never Performed There. Pit and Boxes laid together (playbill). Charges #66 7s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Yates #39 7s. 6d., plus #179 from tickets (Box and Pit 716). Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts #5 19s. 9d. Paid John Smith for a Blue cloth suit lac'd with gold #9 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #105 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ximena; Or, The Heroic Daughter

Related Works
Related Work: Ximena, or, The Heroick Daughter Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312 End II Farce: A Comic Dance, as17711031

6691
09 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [by Bickerstaffe, altered from Cibber's Non-Juror]never performed there. [The Young Lady indentified by Kemble note on playbill. The Westminster Magazine commented unfavorably on her action: "Charlotte requires many fine qualities to represent her, none of which Miss Wilde possessed."] Receipts: #112 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Midas

6692
06 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Being possessed of an excellent understanding, and under the general impression of elegant manners, there appears to be no study [in Mrs Abington], no imitation--all is the result of the moment--natural, well-bred, and easy" (Public Advertiser, 25 Nov. 1784). Mainpiece: Altered from Cibber's Non-Jour, and the Tartuffe of Moliere. Not acted these 12 years [acted 12 Oct. 1773]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Rival Nympbs by Harris, Byrne, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin, Miss Matthews

6693
29 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Cibber's Non-Juror, and the Tartuffe of Moliere. Receipts: #141 18s. 6d. (138/16/0; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

6694
04 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber; With Alterations. Not Acted these 12 years [acted 10 May 1784]. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #275 19s. 6d. (194.3.6; 78.19.0; 2.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: Love Makes A Man: or, The Fop's Fortune Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper