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2588 results for: Keyword - Capt Gulliver's Company of Lilliputians
We found 1887 matches on Event Comments, 671 matches on Performance Comments, 89 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

651
30 September 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Quick; Puff-Dunstall; Captain Loveit-Fearon; Jasper-Thompson; Capt. Flash-Lee Lewes; Tag-Mrs Pitt; Miss Biddy-Miss Leeson.
Cast
Role: Captain Loveit Actor: Fearon

652
30 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-King; Stockwell (1st time)-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Capt. Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Brereton; Fulmer-Baddeley; Varland-Parsons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Baddeley; House@keeper-Mrs Bradshaw; Lucy-Mrs Love; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Sherry; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Abington; The original Epilogue-Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

653
16 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Capt. Absolute-Palmer; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Reddish; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydia Languish-Mrs Abington; The Original Epilogue-Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

654
25 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. Cape-Dunstall; Harlow-Whitefield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green.

Dance: End: The Villagers, as17770122

655
05 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Clarke; Capt. Dudley-Hull; Charles-Wroughton; Major O'Flaherty-Aickin; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Booth; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End II: As17761123; End: The Villagers, as17770122

656
07 February 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17770116, but Capt. Absolute-Smith (1st appearance in that character); The Original Epilogue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17770102

657
20 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Vernon, Dodd, Bannister, Aickin, Burton, R. Palmer, Everard, Moody, Miss Collett, Mrs Davies, Mrs Booth, Mrs Baddeley. [Cast from text (J. Wilkie, 1777), and London Chronicle, 21 Mar.: Belfield-Vernon; Charles Marlove-Dodd [in text: Lamash (see17770403)]; George Belfield-Bannister; Mr Belfield-Aickin; La Flure-Burton; Richard-R. Palmer; Waiter-Everard; Capt. Cornelius O'Gollagher-Moody; Melinda-Miss Collett; Patty-Mrs Davies [in text: Miss Platt (see17770403)]; Mrs Belfield-Mrs Booth; Caroline O'Gollagher-Mrs Baddeley.

658
16 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Experiment

Performance Comment: Characters-Wroughton, Lee Lewes, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Booth, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs Lessingham; [Larpent MS 429 lists the parts: Mr Warren, Sir James Middleton, The Hon. Capt. Turner, Mr Green, Robert, Thomas, Miss Warren, Miss Louisa Warren.] Address to the Public-Mrs Lessingham.

Dance: End: Hunting Dance, as17770218; End I afterpiece: The Villagers, as17770122

659
22 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Captain Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Irishman-Moody; Capt. LeBrush-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Scotchman-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley; Frankly-Davies; Harwood-Lamash [Public Advertiser: Wheeler]; Lord Brilliant-Fawcett; Williams-Wrighten; Margery Moorpout-Mrs Love; Maria-Miss Platt; Melpomene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Doggerel-Miss Pope.

Dance: End II: a New Pastoral Ballet, composed by Helme, The Garden of Love-Helme, Sga Crespi, Miss Armstrong, Sga Ricci; End: Chaconne-Sga Crespi

Song: original Music by Matthew Locke-Bannister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith, Gaudry

660
02 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: General Savage-Wilson; Torrington-Quick; Connelly-Mahon; Capt. Savage-Lee Lewes; Leeson-Whitefield; Belville-Lewis; Mrs Belville-Mrs Jackson; Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Pitt; Miss Leeson-Miss Leeson [sic]; Mrs Tempest-Mrs Whitefield; Miss Walsingham-Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: The Clock-Case; or, Female Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

661
13 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Performance Comment: Sir George Hastings-Lee Lewes; Sir John Dormer-Hull; Mr Willoughby-Aickin; Capt. Dormer-Whitefield; Villars-Lewis; Miss Willoughby-Mrs Hartley; Mrs Willoughby-Mrs Jackson; Miss Dormer-Mrs Whitefield; Miss Montague-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End III: As17761123; In interlude: Langrish

Song: End I: a favourite air (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

662
24 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17760923, but Capt. Brazen-Lee Lewes (1st appearance in that character); Rose (1st time)-Miss Leeson; Lucy-Mrs Poussin.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17761123

663
28 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: St Helena; or, The Isle of Love

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Jefferson, Davies, Waldron, Legg, Kear, Follett, Carpenter, Holcroft, Barrett, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Collett, Mrs Smith, A Lady (1st appearance) [Mrs LeBlanc] (London Magazine, July 1777, p. 377, which states that she acted the part of Emma); [Larpent MS 412 lists the parts: Capt. Haleyard, Mr Trinket, Ned Raymonde, Sam Scupper, Jack Jeers, Mrs Trinket, Leda, Emma, Priscilla.] Prologue-Barrett (in the character of a sailor).

Dance: End II: a Hornpipe, as17770430

664
29 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Performance Comment: As17770513, but Capt. Dormer-Powell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance in London); Miss Dormer-Mrs Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: End I: a new cantata, Diana-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Epilogue: concerto on the violin-Fisher

665
18 June 1777 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Russell; Flash-L'Estrange; Capt. Loveit-Vowell; Puff-Graham; Tag-Mrs Russell; Biddy-Miss Williams.

Entertainment: Monologue. An OccasionalPoetical Address-Russell

666
09 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Advertisement; Or, A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Parsons, Egan, Jackson, R. Palmer, Fearon, Blissett, Walker, Edwin, Mrs Colles, Miss Hale, Miss Platt, Mrs Love, Mrs Gardner. Cast from Public Advertiser, 12 Aug.: Doctor Obstetric-Parsons; Capt. O'Cannon-Egan; Jack Steerage-Jackson; George Wydham-R. Palmer; Sir William Wydham-Fearon; Careful-Blissett; MacLocust-Walker; Snap-Edwin; Mrs Epigram-Mrs Colles; La Bronze-Miss Hale; Lydia Fanlove-Miss Platt; Landlady-Mrs Love; Widow Holdfast-Mrs Gardner; Prologue-Mrs Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

667
26 September 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. Cape-Dunstall; Harlow-Whitfield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green.

Dance: End II: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770924

668
09 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Bellmour-Smith; Heartwell-Bensley; Fondlewife-Yates; Vainlove-Vernon; Capt. Bluff-Moody; Sharper-Farren; Setter-Baddeley; Sir Joseph Wittol-King; Laetitia-Miss Pope (1st appearance in that character); Araminta-Mrs Robinson; Silvia-Miss P. Hopkins; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Belinda-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: Rural Grace, as17771002

669
17 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: New Scene [1st time; by Edward Thompson, with music by Dr Arne. Larpent MS 438; synopsis ("Macheath, after trial, is sentenced to work on the Thames" in London Chronicle, 18 Oct.]. Paid Hull on Acct. of salary as Acting Manager #30. Account-Book, 23 Mar. 1778: Paid Capt. Thompson for writing the new Scene in The Beggar's Opera #25. Receipts: #240 9s. (240.2.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: As17771008; III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford

670
30 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: Millamour-Lewis; Malvil-Wroughton; Bygrove-Aickin; Sir Harry Lizard-Whitfield; Sir John-Fearon; Capt. Bygrove-Booth; Dashwou'd-Lee Lewes; Miss Neville-Mrs Hartley; Mrs Bromley-Mrs Jackson; Lady Jane-Miss Dayes; La Rouge-Miss Ambrose; Lady Bell-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: Afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Mrs Farrell. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

671
19 December 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Booth; Capt. Dudley-Hull; Charles-Wroughton; Major O'Flaherty-Aickin; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Fulmer (1st time)-Mrs Pitt; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Mattocks; Epilogue for that Charity by Richard? Cumberland, Esq-Hull, Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: As17771104

Song: End II: song-Mrs Farrell

672
22 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Irishman-Moody; Capt. Le Brush-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Scotchman-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley; Frankly-Norris; Harwood-Lamash; Lord Brilliant-R. Palmer; Williams-Wrighten; Margery Moorpout-Mrs Love; Maria-Miss Collett; Melpomene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Doggrel-Miss Pope.

673
12 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Capt. Absolute-Palmer; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydis Languish-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

674
09 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: All in the Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. Cape-Dunstall; Harlow-Whitfield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green.

Dance: As17780925

675
14 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: Millamour-Lewis; Malvil-Wroughton; Bygrove-Aickin; Sir Harry Lizard-Whitfield; Sir John-Fearon; Capt. Bygrove-Booth; Dashwou'd-Lee Lewes; Miss Neville-Miss Leeson; Mrs Bromley-Mrs Jackson; Lady Jane-Mrs Morton; La Rouge-Miss Ambrose; Lady Bell-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All

Dance: Afterpiece: The dances-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Valois. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.