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14381 results for: Keyword - Clarke</i>, <i>William</i>, <i>Drunken Negro-$Simmons</i>, <i>Servants</i>, <i>Negro <span class=
We found 10791 matches on Author, 3832 matches on Performance Comments, 1015 matches on Event Comments, 459 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12976
23 December 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send Servants by 3 o'clock. Last time of Company's performing till Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: II: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

12977
02 January 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send Servants by 3 o'clock.N.B. The two new Comedies are oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Sudden indisposition of Miss Elliot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

12978
05 January 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of Their Majesties. Send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Turnpike Gate Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: II: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

12979
22 February 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: An English Burletta [By Kane O'Hara] Never acted there. To Prevent mistakes, those Ladies who have taken places, are desired to send their Servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Burletta to be sold at the Theatre, at 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Midas

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

12980
20 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: False Concord

Performance Comment: Principal characters-Woodward, Shuter, Dunstall, R. Smith, Mas. Morgan, Cushing, Mrs Pitt, Miss Hallam, Miss Elliot; With a Prologue [to the Farce-Woodward. [Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]

Dance: II: A New Grand Ballet-Gallini, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere; End: A Grand Dance, call'd Hymen's Triumph-Gallini, Duquesney, Master Rogers, Miss Valois, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere

12981
31 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

12982
02 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. each. To prevent mistakes Ladies are desired to send servants at 3 o'clock. Books of the opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Cudgell'd Husband-Duquesney, Miss Wilford

12983
10 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Peretti. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Opera for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Dutch Skippers, as17640509; II: The Knife Grinders, as17631012

12984
25 September 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Witches; or, Harlequin Cheerokee

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Principal Witches-Vernon, Champnes, Johnston, Grimaldi, Miss Young, Mrs Dorman; Misers-Castle, Parsons; Miser's Servants-Clough, Ackman; Lilliputian Harlequin-Miss Rogers; Lilliputian Colombine-Miss Ford; Colombine-Miss Baker; To conclude with the landing of the Cherokees in America-; Cherokees-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Tassoni, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker.
Cast
Role: Miser's Servants Actor: Clough, Ackman

12985
23 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To prevent mistakes, those Ladies who have taken places, are desired to send their servants by Three o'clock. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

12986
04 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Tyrolese Peasants, as17641212; II: Rural Love, as17641212

12987
11 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004; II: Rural Love, as17641212

12988
31 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: New Scenes and Habits. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. The Music compiled from Favourite Airs of the most celebrated Composers. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. [See note 16 Oct. 1764. Edition of 1765 states music by Samuel Arnold.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid of the Mill; or, The Country Revels Author(s): William Rowley
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): William Rowley

12989
14 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Smith. Ladies desired to send servants at half after 3.No persons can be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: After the Masque: a Hornpipe-Miss Twist

12990
25 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Send servants to keep places at 3 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for King John will be taken. Garrick returned [from trip to France and Italy] to his house in Southampton St. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

12991
22 February 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

12992
02 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Afterpiece: For the only time this season. Ladies send servants by 3 O'clock, and to prevent disappointments such Ladies as have taken places in the Pit part (part of pit will be railed into the boxes) are requested to come early themselves

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Lady's Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

12993
13 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Guardians

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008; End: The Gallant Peasants-Fishar, Sga Manesiere. See The Gallant Shepherds by Fishar and Sga Manesiere 6 Dec. 1765

12994
21 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. A Comic Opera, Never Perform'd [by Isaac Bickerstaffe]. The Scenes, Dresses and Dances entirely new (playbill). [The playbill does not assign parts. Assignment from Genest and Winston who both identify the Young Gentlewoman as Miss Brickler. The Music compiled from Favourite airs of the most celebrated composers." See note for 27 May relative to dances in this opera.] Receipts: #245 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The City

12995
30 March 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Powell. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Send servants by 3 o'clock. House charges #74 10s. [Profit to Powell #207 5s.] Paid Johnston, under prompter #7; Five extra trumpets #1 5s.; 2 Flutes 10s.; Chorus singers #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #281 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Half past 4 walked to Drury Lane House. With every great difficulty got into the 2s. Gallery before; saw the Death of Alexander with his Triumphal Entrance into Babylonv and the Dance of the Vintage, for the benefit of Powell who played Alexander. Some reported that Garrick says he makes mistakes in the character exceedingly in the banquet scene, in which no one ever surpassed him. I cannot judge of the truth of this observation (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

12996
31 March 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: Pantomime Dance, The Vintage, as17661011

Entertainment: V: a New Interlude, The Modern Traveller-Mr Yates

12997
28 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Doors to open at half past Four. Play to begin at half past Six. Send servants to hold places by Four o'clock. [Mrs Vincent's deficit of 1st instant received #20 3s. 6d.] Paid scavenger's rate for St Martin's due Lady Day #5 1s. Paid printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Went to Drury Lane, but could not get in. Stayed from half past 4, sometime at one Pit door, sometime at the other, till past 6, and got in at the right hand side just as the play began, and was dreadfully squeezed, but rewarded by seeing Garrick play Hamlet. The expression in his features, his eyes particularly, surpasses anything I ever saw. He is a little man, but handsome and full of that fire which marks the stronger, and of the softness natural to the tender passions. It is impossible to see his greatest excellencies from ye Gallery. Baddeley and Dodd are pretty well in Polonius and Ostrick. Mrs Baddeley and Yates do Ophelia and ye Grave Digger very well. Mrs Pritchard is great, as usual in ye Queen. Gravedigger's man-Castle. Horatio-$Mr Packer. Several parts of ye play, as it is in $Shakespeare, are omitted rather improperly...The Prince Brunswick, his wife and Louisa were present (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

12998
04 December 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. N.B. Those ladies and gentlemen who haven taken tickets for the Widow'd Wife, are desired to send their servants sometime today, in order to ascertain same, otherwise they cannot be secured

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: I: The Lilliputian Camp, as17671202

12999
15 March 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Dancer. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send servants to hold places at 3 o'clock. Afterpiece: Never performed there. [This seems to MacMillan to be the adaptation of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale by McNamara Morgan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

13000
21 June 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Being desir'd by many Persons of Quality, for ONE NIGHT ONLY, and By Permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch-Club, at the Thatch'd House in St Jame's St., will be perform'd the Favourite Catches and Glees which were exhibited Last Summer at Ranelagh-House, With TWO DESIR'D ALTERATIONS. After the 2nd Act, a Concerto on the Violin, by Barthelemon. A Considerable number of the Best Vocal and Instrumental Performers are engag'd on this occasion. Books for the Performance to be had at the theatre. Great care will be taken to keep the Theatre Cool. Ladies and Gentlemen send servants before the opening of the doors, which will be at Half-past 4. No persons can possibly be admitted behind the scenes. To Begin at exactly Seven o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken (ONLY) of Mr Johnston at the stage Door (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catches And Glees