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16034 results for: Keyword - Castle</i>. <i>Horatio-$Mr Packer</i>. Several parts of ye play, as it is in $<span class=
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1651
26 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17660930, but Vocal parts-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Vocal parts Actor: Mrs Baddeley.
Role: Benvolio Actor: Packer
Role: Apothecary Actor: Castle

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

1652
09 June 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17720425 but Lady Macbeth-Miss Sherry (2nd appearance in that role); Vocal Parts-Mrs _Wrighten, Mrs _Fitzgerald.
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs _Wrighten, Mrs _Fitzgerald.
Role: Banquo Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End I Farce: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

1653
09 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 years. [See 19 April 1751.] New Scenes, Machines, Decorations &c. The Characters dress'd in The Habits of the times. This Masque is very well got up with New Scenes & Decorations particularly a Representation of the Grand Naval Review design'd by Mons DeLoutherberg & vastly well Executed had great Applause the piece is very dull (Hopkins Diary). [Macmillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] Paid five day's salary at #86 13s. 10d. per diem, #433 9s. 2d.; Miss Younge 6 days not on the list #1; Mr Courtney 3 days not on list 7s. 6d.; Mr J. French on Act #10 (Treasurer's Book). The Songs, Chorusses, &c. in the Masque (in the order they are now performed) to be had at the Theatre. The Music by Dr Arne and other masters (playbill). Receipts: #158 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Performance Comment: Alfred-Reddish; Earl of Devon-Jefferson; Hermit-J. Aickin; Corin-Bannister; Danish King-Palmer; 1st Dane-Brereton; 2nd Dane-J. Bannister; Eltruda-Miss Younge; Edwin-Wright; Attendant-Miss Platt; Vocal Parts-Vernon, Bannister, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Smith; The Dances-Como, Grimaldi, Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs Sutton, Sga Giorgi, Sga Crespi; To conclude with a Grand Occasional Scene-; Edition of 1773 adds Emma-Mrs Smith; Edith-Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, Bannister, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Smith

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1654
25 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Smith; Villeroy-Palmer; Count Baldwin-Jefferson; Belford-Usher; Child-Master Pulley; Carlos-J. Aickin; Sampson-Bransby; Nurse-Mrs Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Yates; In III: Epithalamium-(with a new Duet by Dibdin); the Vocal Parts-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Weston, Parsons, Aickin, Hurst, Bransby, Wright, Ackman, Miss Platt. Bayes-King

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

1655
20 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Performance Comment: As17760409 but Hurry-Waldron, first time; Architect-Norris; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Shepherdess, with songs incident to the piece-Miss Abrams; Vocal Parts-Mrs Smith, Mrs _Scott.
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Smith, Mrs _Scott.
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Scott, Mrs +Jewell, Mrs +Smith.
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Davies, Fawcett, Legg, Kear, Cubitt, Carpenter, Mas. Blanchard, Mrs Scott, Mrs Jewell, Mrs Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: V: (By Desire) The Soldier Tir'd-Miss Abrams

1656
07 May 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Garrick's last time of performing Archer . Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies and Gentlemen most earnestly requested to come early (playbill). Mrs Abington having wrote to Mr Garrick that she intended to quit the Stage at the End of the Season never to return to it again, he very kindly play'd for her Benefit (Hopkins Diary). Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado will be taken. Attempted to get into Drury Lane Theatre to see Mr Garrick in the character of Archer, but the crowd was so great that after suffering thumps, squeezes and almost suffocation for two hours, I was oblig'd to retire without effecting it (Hampden, Journal). Receipts: #129 19s. 6d. Charges: #65 7s. 6d. Profits to Mrs Abington: #64 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: As17760328 but Parts-Everard for $Marr.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Everard for Marr.

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17751003

1657
03 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

Performance Comment: Characters by Lee Lewes, Edwin, Booth, Whitfield, Wewitzer, Fearon, Mahon, Stevens, Thompson, Bates; Mrs Wilson, Mrs Webb, Miss Morris, Mrs Whitfield, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Mattocks. [Cast from London Chronicle, 4 Oct., and European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Pierrot-Edwin; Pantaloon-Booth; Mezzetin-Whitfield; Distress-Wewitzer; Members of the Conversazione-Fearon, Mahon; Taylor-Stevens; Invoice-Thompson; Gardener-Bates; Lord Furious-W. Bates; Mr Wrath-L'Estrange; Martinette-Mrs Wilson; Virtue-Mrs Webb; Manto-Miss Morris; Pleasure-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Pindar-Miss Piatt; Lady Avontree-Mrs Poussin; Miss Yewtree-Mrs Davenett; Colombine-Mrs Mattocks. Miss Stuart is unassigned. Larpent MS 586 has unassigned parts as above, and adds: Parte-per-pale, Portico, Four Somebodies, Chorus, Servants; Jenny, Maid.] New Prologue [spoken by Lee Lewes (European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308)] . Jenny, Maid.] New Prologue [spoken by Lee Lewes (European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308)] .
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Mattocks. Miss Stuart is unassigned. Larpent MS 586 has unassigned parts as above, and adds: Parte-per-pale, Portico, Four Somebodies, Chorus, Servants

1658
14 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peasant Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: In 1st ballet, by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; After the Singing, Hornpipe by Baptist and a Comic Dance by Delpini

Song: End of 1st ballet a Serio-Comic Italian Song by Delpini. imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

1659
15 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Afterpiece [written by Mrs Clive]: A new farce partly singing, part speakg. Went off well (Cross). Music by Dr Boyce. Five rows of Pit &c. [Stage arranged as on 10 March. The framework for financial analysis of receipts appears in Treasurer's Book, but the figures are missing. The parts for The Rehearsal, according to the Larpent MS 86, were: Mrs Hazard, Nelly, Tom, Witling, Mr Cross; Miranda-$Miss Norris; Corydon-$Beard; Marcella, Miss Giggle, Sir Albany Odelove, Miss Sidell, Miss Daudle.] Receipts: #240 (Cross); charges, #60 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: Winstone
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal or Bayes in Petticoats

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Mrs Clive, Woodward, Beard, Simpson, Cross, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Miss Norris.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Clive, Woodward, Beard, Simpson, Cross, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Miss Norris.

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

1660
01 May 1704 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performance Comment: By a compleat Company of near 20 of the best Rope/Dancers, Vaulters, Tumblers in Europe, who are all excellent in their several Performances, and do such wonderful and surprizing things as the whole World cannot parallel; where , who gave that extraordinary satisfaction before Charles III, King of Spain on Board the Royal Katherine, performs several new Entertainments-Finley; and where the Lady Mary, likewise shews such Additions to her former admirable perfections, as render her the wonder of the whole World. and where the Lady Mary, likewise shews such Additions to her former admirable perfections, as render her the wonder of the whole World.
Cast
Role: performs several new Entertainments Actor: Finley

1661
06 July 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Performance Comment: Characters-Mr Cibber; & Co., with a Prologue-; Epilogue-; an Ode-; a Dirge-; a Funeralv and Processionv; With Proper Habits, Scenes, Machines, and All Heroic Decorations. Larpent MS 148 lists parts: Madrigal-; Buckramo-; Straspada-; Lyric-; Acrostic-; Fustiano-; Epigram-; Goosino-; Bodkinda-; Presboradalio-; Yardwandelli-; Buttonelli-; Thimbletorio-; Truletta-; Sculliona-; Scourella-; Ghosts of Cabbagino and Truletta-; Poets-; Taylors-; Drums-; Trumpets-.

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico or The Mock Nabob

1662
26 January 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

1663
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

Performance Comment: Cato-Norris; Juba-Penkethman; other characters including women's parts-low comedians (Chetwood); Marcia-Young Wilks; Lucia-Shepherd; Porcius-Fieldhouse (Lady Bristol).
Cast
Role: other characters including women's parts Actor: low comedians

1664
27 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. All the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

1665
04 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In her memoirs Mrs Charke states that this play was acted four times consecutively during the run of Romeo and Juliet.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Love in Low Life

Music: German Flute-Burk Thumoth

1666
28 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Melancholy

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Barry, Sparks, Berry, Winstone, Macklin, Blakes, Delane, Havard, Neale, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Green, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Barry, Sparks, Berry, Winstone, Macklin, Blakes, Delane, Havard, Neale, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Green, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters or The Widow Bewitchd

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Macklin, Winstone, Taswell, I. Sparks, Usher, Blakes, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Mrs Macklin.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Macklin, Winstone, Taswell, I. Sparks, Usher, Blakes, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Mrs Macklin.

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

1667
27 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Charges #60. Deficiency to Lowe #11 16s. covered by #104 9s. from tickets. [Afterpiece appears under the Shakespearian title in the Account Book. Actually it was James Worsdale's Cure for a Scold taken from Shakespeare's play.] Mainpiece: By particular desire. Tickets to be had of Lowe at his lodgings the corner of Southampton St., Covent Garden, and of Page at the Stage door of the Theatre. Receipts: #48 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold or The Taming of a Shrew

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Dunstall, Cushing, Wilder, Baker, Stoppelaer, Miss Falkner, Mrs Dunstall, Miss Young. [See17500426.See17500426.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Dunstall, Cushing, Wilder, Baker, Stoppelaer, Miss Falkner, Mrs Dunstall, Miss Young.

1668
18 May 1750 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: At Hickford's Room, Brewer St. Benefit for Mme Cuzzoni. Burney, II, 848-49: [Giardini's] first performance in public was at a benefit concert for Cuzzoni, May the 18th...where, as this was her third arrival in this country, and she was grown old, poor, and almost deprived of voice, by age and infirmities, there was but little company; yet, when Giardini played a solo of Martini of Milan's composition, the applause was so long and loud, that I never remember to have heard such hearty and unequivocal marks of approbation at any other musical performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Performance Comment: Violin solo-Felice de Giardini first appearance in London (Deutsch, Handel, p. 691); Vocal parts-Sga Cuzzoni.
Cast
Role: Vocal parts Actor: Sga Cuzzoni.

1669
28 December 1751 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire of the...Masons...Benefit of a Brother under Misfortunes. The new Scenes, which were painted for the Gentlemen who presented this Tragedy last Winter at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane will be made use of. A Concert. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. The Doors to be shut at six, no person to be admitted after, on Account of the Play being Gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: The parts-a Company of Gentleman for their Diversion; With an Occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: The parts Actor: a Company of Gentleman for their Diversion

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

1670
04 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Austin and Wood. Wood, Sub Treasurer (Winston MS 8). No Building on Stage. Receipts: #140 (Cross). [The Prologue was The Night's Adventure of a Buck, Larpent MS 147. The mid-portion shows the Buck at the playhouse]: @First to the Playhouse,--not to hear the play--@I went to pass an hour or so away,@For what to me are Shakespears, Otways, Rowes,@Their, Jaffiers, Bajazets, andRomeos?@Such mouthing rascals give no joy to me@I get behind the scenes, and there d'ye see,@I strut, and ogle, pull the girls about@Stand in the way, and put the actors out.@These, these are joys, which only Bucks can know,@And all the pleasures playhouses bestow...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Woodward, Palmer, Austin, Bransby, Yates, Philips, Burton, Mrs Clive, Mrs Jefferson, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Woodward, Palmer, Austin, Bransby, Yates, Philips, Burton, Mrs Clive, Mrs Jefferson, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Entertainment: TheNew Magic Scene in the characters of Harlequin, as17580428

1671
18 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Duquesney. House Charges #68 8s. Paid chorus singers #2 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [Neville went to first gallery to see this play, but could not hear well. He noted the entr'acte dances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17660930, but Mercutio-Dodd; Vocal parts-Miss Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Vocal parts Actor: Miss Baddeley.
Role: Benvolio Actor: Packer
Role: Apothecary Actor: Castle

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Gulwell Actor: Packer

Dance: I: Masquerade Dance-; with a Minuet-Duquesney, Mrs King; II: A New Dance call'd The Gallant Shepherd-Duquesney, Miss Madden (his scholar, being her first appearance on this stage); End: A New Comic Dance, The Catalonian Peasants-Duquesney, Tassoni, Mrs King

1672
12 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Between the Play and the Afterpiece an Interlude of Singing and Dancing not performed these thirty years. [For comment on this revival, see Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XXII) p. 593.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: True Blue or The Press Gang

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; The Dance-Aldridge.
Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

1673
30 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last Play this Season. Afterpiece: For the 57th time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: As17710314 but Cherinthus-Perry; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Morris (as17701015); the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Barnshaw, Legg, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe.
Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Barnshaw, Legg, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: _Hussey, Wild

1674
28 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Last night the Audience of Covent Garden Theatre were detained above Half an Hour waiting for Wilson, who never appeared to play his character in Duplicity. At last an apology was made for his absence, and his Brother was permitted to read his part" (Morning Chronicle, 29 Dec.).] Receipts: #220 4s. (215/0; 5/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

1675
07 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces King Henry the Fifth, but it was not acted "on account of the indisposition of Kemble" (Public Advertiser, 8 Dec.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #167 5s. 6d. (106.4.0; 58.0.6; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: This was the only performance of this play this season.

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performance Comment: Marguerite. Principal Characters-Kelly, Barrymore, Suett, Waldron, Sedgwick, Bannister Jun., Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Mrs Fox, Mrs Crouch. [For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]
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