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210 results for: Keyword - Chairmen
We found 177 matches on Roles/Actors, 38 matches on Performance Comments, 28 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

1
01 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance:

2
29 April 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick; on Phaeton in the Suds: With Harlequin a Pick Pocket

Performance Comment: Machine-Roberts; Fustian-Lacy; Sneerwell-Machen; Clymene (Oyster Wench)-Mrs Charke; Jupiter-Freeman; Neptune-Wallis; Phoebus-Topham [Toping in edition, of 1736]; Old Phaeton-Smith; Young Phaeton-Boothby; Aurora-Mrs Egerton; Aurora's Maid-Miss Jones; Terra-Miss Burgess; Genius of Gin-Miss Ferguson Jr; Harlequin-Rosamond, from DL; Justice-Jones; His Clerk (Pierrot)-Castiglione; Managers-Freeman, Turner; Stars-Master Sherwin, Miss Ferguson Jr; Colombine-Madame la Charmante, piping-hot from Paris [Mlle Beaumaunt in edition]; Countrymen-Smith, Collerd, Mons D'Herbage, Mons De la Soup Maigre [Lowder in edition]; Rakes-Boothby, Wallis, Phenix, Pullen; Chairmen-Smith, Collard; Pistol-Lowder; Tragedy King-Pullen; Schoolmistress-Mrs Egerton; Tragedy Queen-Miss Jones; edition adds: Watchmen-Smith, Lowder, Collerd, Chapman .
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Smith, Collard

3
05 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

4
27 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5
13 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cooke, Janneton Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Song: By particular desire The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive

6
26 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song:

7
18 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. As17491110

8
22 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521116, but Mrs Preston, Miss _Raynor

9
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

10
28 December 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Macaroni Adventurer; Or, Woman's A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: Entertainments ofDancing-

Entertainment: Monologue.End III: Imitations [Vocal and Rhetorical, never attempted, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) accompany himself with the Symphonies (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentified])

11
16 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

Dance: As17820613

12
10 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom of Coventry

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (1st appearance in public); In Act II an incidental song, accompanied by the pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound the Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance)

Monologue: 1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June

13
28 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End I afterpiece: Highland Reel-Mills, the Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: II: song (in character)-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

14
10 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17870115

15
20 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

16
09 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Song: In II: song in character-Mrs Crouch [who sang it in all subsequent performances]

17
27 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour; or, Harlequin Animated

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Banks; Pantaloon-Burton; Squire Sapscull-Hollingsworth; Clown-Fairbrother; Scaramouch-Harris; Punch-Hamoir; Mezetin-Bidotti; Pero-Kirk; Watchmen-Chapman, Maddocks, Jones, Webb; Chairmen-Phillimore, Haymes; Surgeon Caustic-Fawcett; Bandage-Lyons; Waiter-Benson; Statuary-Bland; Gardener-Bourk; Fisherman-Alfred; Mandarine-Young Grimaldi; Colombine-Miss Blanchet; Queen Mab-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Phillimore, Haymes

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance of Fairies and Pantomimic Characters-Hamoir, the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

18
05 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: GUY FAWKES

Performance Comment: ; or, The Fifth of November. Characters by Bannister Jun., Barrymore, Suett, Wewitzer, Benson, Maddocks, Parsons//Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Gibbs. [Cast from MS annotation on Playbills, Vol. 113, in BM: Guzzle-Bannister Jun.; Captain Tryfort-Barrymore; Major Knapsack-Suett; Pickpin-Wewitzer; Device-Benson; Chairmen-Maddocks, Parsons//Mrs Knapsack-Mrs Hopkins; Fanny Fitall-Mrs Gibbs.] Vocal Parts by Dignum, Bannister, Sedgwick, &c . Vocal Parts by Dignum, Bannister, Sedgwick, &c .
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Maddocks, ParsonsMrs Knapsack-Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: THE PADLOCK

Song: 2nd piece: To conclude with God save the King, and a new Grand Emblematick Transparency

19
27 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour; or, Harlequin Animated

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Banks; Pantaloon-Burton; Squire Sapscull-Hollingsworth; Clown-Fairbrother; Scaramouch-Harris; Punch-Hamoir; Mezetin-Bidotti; Pero-Kirk; Watchmen-Chapman, Maddocks, Jones, Webb; Chairmen-Phillimore, Haymes; Surgeon Caustic-Fawcett; Bandage-Lyons; Waiter-Benson; Statuary-Bland; Gardener-Bourk; Fisherman-Alfred; Mandarine-Young Grimaldi; Colombine-Miss Blanchet; Queen Mab-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Phillimore, Haymes

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance of Fairies and Pantomimic Characters-Hamoir, the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

20
15 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Drury-lane And Covent-garden

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Lewis; Strickland-Farren; Bellamy-Davies; Jack Meggot-Bernard; Tester (1st time [i.e. 1st appearance])-Burton; Buckle-Farley; Ranger's Servant-Cross; Chairmen-Rock, Ledger; Frankly-Holman; Mrs Strickland-Miss Chapman; Jacintha-Miss Cornelys (1st appearance on this stage); Lucetta-Mrs Mattocks; Milliner-Mrs Lloyd; Landlady-Mrs Platt; Clarinda-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Rock, Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

21
02 October 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Lewis; Strickland-Macready; Jack Meggot-Bernard; Bellamy-Claremont; Tester-Townsend; Buckle-Farley; Simon-Abbot; Ranger's Servant-Cross; Chairmen-Rees, Ledger; Frankly-Holman; Mrs Strickland-Miss Chapman; Jacintha-Mrs Townsend; Lucetta-Mrs Mattocks; Milliner-Mrs Follett; Clarinda-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Rees, Ledger

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with: Hornpipe incidental to the Piece,-Byrn, Holland, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

22
26 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

23
01 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961029, but Villagers-Mrs _Thompson

24
07 February 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Mr Strickland-Whitfield; Frankly-Wroughton; Bellamy-Barrymore; Ranger-Palmer; Jack Meggot-R. Palmer; Buckle-Trueman; Tester-Hollingsworth; Servant to Ranger-Cooke; Simon-Banks; Chairmen-Wentworth, Maddocks; Servant to Strickland-Webb; Servant to Clarinda-Evans; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Powell; Clarinda-Miss Farren; Jacintha-Miss DeCamp; Lucetta-Miss Mellon; Landlady-Mrs Booth; Millener-Mrs Roffey; Maid-Mrs Crossman.
Cast
Role: Chairmen Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

25
23 February 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper