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7986 results for: Keyword - Children of the late Mr Farquhar
We found 5218 matches on Event Comments, 1411 matches on Performance Comments, 1076 matches on Author, 998 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3451
22 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for A Citizen's Widow and three small children. Tickets to be had at Sam's Coffee House in Exchange Alley; the Bank Coffee House, Threadneedle St.; Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's and the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

3452
01 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLittle Pietro & Miss Noverre, from France now perform, with a figure of Children & meet with great Applause-were encor'd the first Night-(Cross). Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Beatrice-Mrs Pritchard; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Don John-Bransby; Claudio-Palmer; Dogberry-Taswell; Antonio-Simson; Verges-Philips; Borachio-Blakes; Balthazar (with a proper song)-Beard; Hero-Mrs Davies; Margaret-Mrs Havard; Ursula-Miss Minors; Act II, a Masquerade Dance-; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: End III: The Lilliputian Sailors, as17551030

3453
15 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: The children [but the bill lists neither actors or parts].

3454
17 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Palmer, their first appearance in those characters

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By The children.

3455
19 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: The children.

3456
05 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Palmer, their first appearance in those characters

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children. See17560115.

Dance: % New Comic Dance-

3457
10 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: As17560115 By Children (Cross).

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Harrison

3458
25 September 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [K+King Henry VIII] Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Queen Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [A customary notice for all Henry VIII bills this season. It will not be repeated below.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Wolsey-Mossop; Brandon-Jefferson; Old Lady-Mrs Bradshaw; Cranmer-Havard; Sandys-Philips; Lovell-Ackman; Guildford-Marr; Capucius-Scrase; Gardiner-Taswell; Surveyor-Simson; King Henry-Berry; Buckingham-Ross; Norfolk-Palmer; Surrey-Davies; Lord Chamberlain-Bransby; Suffolk-Blakes; Cromwell-Mozeen; Doctor Butts-Vaughan; Campeius-Burton; Ann Bullen-Mrs Jefferson; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Patience (with song)-Miss [I] Young; With a Representation of the Coronation-; Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall-.
Cast
Role: With a Representation of the Coronation Actor:
Role: Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Performance Comment: By the children. Cross Master Simson, Miss Pope, Miss Simson, Miss Poplin. [See17551218.]

3459
09 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow in Distress, with Four Children (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Mrs Calvert. Receipts: #57 7s. Income from tickets #112 13s. (boxes 113; pit 318; gallery 361). Charges #84 (Account Book). [The Account Book shows a profit again of #31 9s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

3460
01 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Distressed Widow with 4 small children. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: TheFrenchified Lady

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants, as17571004

3461
10 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and 3 Children. Afterpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of performing it this season. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: A Minuet, Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson

3462
12 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney [Housekeeper]. Tickets to be had of Verney at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: By Desire (Public Advertiser), done by Children (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Performance Comment: Oberon-Master Simson; Queen-Miss Mathews; Cynthia-Miss Simson; To conclude with the Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson; Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Mathews
Role: To conclude with the Louvre Actor: Master Simson, Miss Simson

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Walker

3463
13 December 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Night. Tancred and Sigismunda, for the Benefit of Widow Jona and her Children, is obliged to be deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: With Scene of the Drawing in Guild Hall Actor: .

Dance: As17581111

3464
21 December 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and Her Children

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581111

3465
18 April 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By children not above thirteen years of age. By Authority. Benefit for Miss Valois and Miss Burn. 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. The House will be lighted with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Song:

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Valois, Miss Burn

3466
23 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17590417 but Hamlet-Mossop; Guildenstern-Scrase; Laertes-Austin; Ophelia-Miss Macklin; a new Dramatic Epiloguea Dialogue-Master Simson, Miss Simson; the Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children, As17590405.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Miss Mathews

Dance: II: Louvre, Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

3467
24 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children, As17590405.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Miss Mathews

Song: III: Miss Young

3468
12 April 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: SSga Asselin being recovered will dance this evening, and both the children are to dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminio

3469
22 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes laid together. No admittance to Pit but through the boxes and with tickets. Towards raising a fund for the relief of those who from their infirmities shall be oblig'd to retire from the stage. This fund having been begun by a voluntary contribution among the performers improved by a proportionable weekly deduction on their salaries and intended as a reciprocal provision for them, their widows and children in sickness and infirmity, it is humbly hoped an appeal to the generosity of the public will not be taken amiss &c. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humor

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Old Knowell-Havard; Young Knowell-Lee; Wellbred-Palmer; Cob-Moody; Brainworm-Dunstall; Master Stephen-Dodd; Bobadil-Yates; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Hopkins; Downright-Bransby; Justice Clement-Burton; Cash-Packer; Master Mathew-Vaughan; Bridgit-Miss Plym; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; An Occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Master Mathew Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

3470
05 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Prologue to the Perplexities and Epilogue publish'd in the Public Advertiser.] Saw the Comedy of the Perplexities. Beard spoke the Prologue....Mrs Mattocks spoke the Epilogue. We had a Dance and the new Masque of the Fairy Favour, which is perform'd by children only. The boy who does Puck played on the violin and danced a hornpipe, with great spirit. The scene which represents Kensington Gardens, the canal, &c. by moonlight is very pretty, the moon and stars are very natural (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #192 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Cast
Role: Milkah Actor: . The following 11 young persons were paid for performing 8 nights in it on 10 March 1767: Miss Potts, #4 4s.

Dance: End of Play: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113

3471
27 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fishar, Ballet Master and Sga Manesiere. Entertainments by Children for that night only. Charges #64 5s. [Profit to each #21 11s. 9d. plus income from tickets: Fishar #38 14s. (Box 57; Pit 107; Gallery 84); Sga Manesiere, #29 13s. (Box 60; Pit 55; Gallery 64).] Paid Barratt (wax chandler) #201 5s.; Paid Buxtons and Co., (oyl men) #135 16s. (Account Book). Receipts: #107 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: A New Tambourine Dance-Master Blurton (apprentice to Fishar, eleven years old, 1st appearance any stage); End I: Rural Love, as17661120; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar, sixteen years old, 1st appearance any stage); III: A New Pantomime Ballet-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Ballet: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Wapping Landlady. Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez

Performance Comment: Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez.
Cast
Role: the other Sailors Actor: Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King
Role: other women Actor: Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez.

3472
08 June 1767 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: At 6 went to Marybone Gardens, a place of the kind of Ranelagh-but not so elegant nor frequented by such good company--indeed much indifferent company resort to both. A transparent picture of a Patagonian man, woman and child was exhibited for the first time; went and returned on foot. Marybone fields are much pleasanter than the gardens. Got home about 11

Performances

3473
07 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by George Colman] never performed. [In the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays, the chief effectiveness lay with the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music: Martial Music-The Roman Characters of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar; Soft Music-Antony and Cleopatra; Grand Music, Old English Characters-King John, Richard III, Henry VIII: Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for Prospero; Macbeth's Music; Fairy Music-Oberon and Titania; Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by Othello, Hamlet, the Ghost, Mad Ophelia and Lear with Cordelia; Dead March in Saul-Juliet's Bier with attendants; Allegro for the Comic Muse-Falstaff, Touchstone, Launcelot, Malvolio; Andante-Florizel and Perdita, Portia Antonio and Bassanio; Flourish-for Car drawn by the muses carrying Shakespeare's Bust; Final Song by Mrs Mattocks, "Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--." The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to Garrick's effort at Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife; Or, The Shakespeare Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-

3474
18 December 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority and particular Desire for the Benefit of Middlemist and the Widow and child of the deceased Lauder, a Scots Musical Pastoral. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin exactly at 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pattie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

3475
24 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A tragedy [by John Hoole] never performed. Paid Williams for performing the Bells 3 nights #1 2s. 6d.; Paid Gard and Singleton each 7s. 6d. for performing 3 nights in the Lyon (Account Book). [Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, March.] Receipts: #227 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith; Demaphoon-Bensley; Mathusius-Clarke; Cherinthus-Wroughton; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Davis; Cephisa-Mrs Bulkley; Ismena-Mrs Yates; playbill matched with 1770 Edn. The 1770 Edn. includes Olinthus-;,a child but specifies no actor. Playbill includes R. Smith; but assigns no part. In Act III, a Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox; Prologue-Bensley; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Timanthes Actor: Smith
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson