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6823 results for: Keyword - College of New York
We found 3243 matches on Event Comments, 2695 matches on Performance Title, 1654 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3851
01 February 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music by Galuppi. New Cloaths, Decorations, and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Nozze Di Dorina

3852
22 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17620218 but here the New Occasional Scene of Action is detailed as Representing the escape of Harlequin thro' the Haunted House in Cock Lanev .
Cast
Role: To Conclude with a Grand Ballet Actor: Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.

3853
20 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Performance Comment: Florizel (with new songs in character)-Mattocks; Autolicus (with songs in character)-Shuter; King-Hull; Shepherd-Gibson; Perdita (with new songs in character)-Miss Brent; The Music composed by Dr Arne, with a Dances incident to the Pastoral-Granier, Mrs Granier.

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

3854
15 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17620222 [but no mention is made of the New Occasional Scene in the Bills].
Cast
Role: To Conclude with a Grand Ballet Actor: Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.

3855
24 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twins Or A Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: A New Prologue Actor: Smith
Role: A New Epilogue Actor: Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent

Dance: After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107

3856
20 September 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Harlow-Davis; Capt. Cape-Dunstall; Young Clerimont-White; Mrs Harlow-Miss Elliot; Miss Harlow-Mrs Younger; with a New Occasional Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: with a New Occasional Prologue Actor: Smith.

3857
25 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowel-Sparks; Young Knowel-Dyer; Welbred-Mattocks; Justice Clement-Marten; Bobadil-Woodward; Mas. Stephen-Shuter; Mas. Matthew-Hayes; Cash-Perry; Formal-Costollo; Brainworm-Dunstall; Downright-Walker, 1st appearance that stage; Cob-Buck; Cob's Wide-Mrs Pitt; Bridget-Miss Miller; Dame Kitely-Mrs Ward. The Characters new dress'd in the habits of the times.
Cast
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Ward. The Characters new dress'd in the habits of the times.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

3858
08 December 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted before, a New Dramatic Opera [Bickerstaffe] the Music by Handel, Boyce, Arne, Howard, Baildon, Festing, Geminiani, Galluppi, Giardini, Paradies, Agus, Abos; with a New Overture composed by Mr Abel. Full Prices. Books of the Opera sold at theatre. [See Theatrical Review; or, Annals of the Drama, 1763, pp. 22-36: Compares Bickerstaff's opera at length with Charles Johnson's Village Opera.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

3859
22 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. Taken from Shakespear, with a New Overture and New Music between the acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

3860
15 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17621025, but new occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: new occasional Prologue Actor: .
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Ward. The Characters new dress'd in the habits of the times.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Garland, or the +Milk-Maid's Holiday-Miss Poitier; [see17590421] [in which will be introduced a Hornpipe; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

3861
06 December 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleonice

Performance Comment: As17631126, but to which will be added several new airs-.
Cast
Role: to which will be added several new airs Actor: .

3862
10 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comedy Written by Mrs Sheridan. This play was well Acted, but the subject seem'd to displease. The three first Acts pass'd off tolerably; in 4 Act they begun to hiss, & continued it to the End of the play. When Mr Havard went forward & Address'd the Audience &c. as follows Ladies & Gentn as Some passages in the play had given offence, they should be omitted the Next Night. Much hissing, & many Cry'd out No more! no more &c. (Hopkins). Much Hiss'd (Cross Diary). A new Comedy (The Dupe) wrote by Mrs Sheridan.--This play was very well acted,--but the subject much displeased.--in 4th act much hissing, and so on to the end. When Mr Havard told the audience as some passages in the play had given offence, they should be omitted the next night, much hissing and many cried out, "No more, No more." (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Receipts: #167 18s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dupe

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

3863
20 January 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This night a new Occasional Interlude call'd Hymen was introduc'd between the Acts; but not put in the Bills (Hopkins). [For cast, see 21 Jan.] An occasional Interlude on the Marriage of Princess Augusta to Prince of Brunswick call'd Hymen (Cross Diary). This night a new occasional Interlude called Hymen, but not in the bills. Hymen was written by Mr Allen (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). [The Larpent MS 217 lists four characters and a Chorus: Hymen, Cupid, Venus, Mars, Chorus. The words of the Songs by Cupid, Hymen and Venus were published in the Public Advertiser, 23 Jan.] Receipts: #122 5s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

3864
20 January 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

Performance Comment: As17640116, but concluding with a New Masque-; Colin-Beard; Phillis-Miss Hallam; Thyrsus-Duquesney; Daphne-Sga Manesiere; Cupid-Mas. Rogers; The Graces-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois, Miss Pitt; Hymen-Gallini. [New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]
Cast
Role: concluding with a New Masque Actor:

3865
26 January 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Night a New Song was Introduc'd in the Pantomime upon the Prs Augusta's leaving England (well receiv'd) (Hopkins). New occasional Song in the Pant (Cross Diary). Receipts: #208 11s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Interlude Hymen

Cast
Role: New Garland Dance of Nymphs and Shepherds Actor: Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Baker.

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

3866
24 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17640414 but Iago-Havard; Roderigo-King; Desdemona-Mrs Yates; Montano-Fox; End of Play, a New Epilogue-Miss Hopkins, the Fairy Page.
Cast
Role: a New Epilogue Actor: Miss Hopkins, the Fairy Page.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers; IV: The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers, as17640523

3867
02 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Performance Comment: Worthy (the English Officer)-Mattocks; Sea Lieutenant-Dunstall; Major Hearty-Perry; Ensign-R. Smith; Soldiers, Sailors-Buck, Weller, Murden; Anna-Miss Valois, 1st time in a singing character; Duenna-Mrs White; Elvira (the Spanish Lady)-Mrs Mattocks; New Prologue-Shuter.
Cast
Role: New Prologue Actor: Shuter.

Dance: IV: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

3868
07 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: As17641030, but Lord Rake-R. Smith; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Belinda-[under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End of Play: Rural Love, as17641212

3869
08 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Performance Comment: As17650118, but Soto-Bennet; Rosara-[under her new name] Mrs Mattocks.under her new name] Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant, as17650429 IV: a Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'd La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

3870
23 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17641211, but Isabella-[under her new name] Mrs Mattocks; New Occasional Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: a New Dance Actor: Miss Wilford.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

3871
14 September 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Mat@o'th@Mint-Kear; Beggar-Burton; Player-Strange; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Vincent; In Act III, a Hornpipe-Miss Baker; To Conclude with a Country Dance-; New Occasional Prologue-King.
Cast
Role: New Occasional Prologue Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

3872
17 September 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holland; Mercutio-Palmer; Paris-Packer; Escalus-Bransby; Benvolio-Ackman; Capulet-Burton; Fryar Lawrence-Havard; Lady Capulet-Mrs Bennet; Nurse-Mrs Cross; Juliet-Mrs Palmer; With the Funeral Procession. The vocal parts-Vernon, Champnes, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young; In Act I a Masquerade Dance-Sga Giorgi; Minuet-Giorgi, Mrs Palmer; A New Occasional Prologue-King.
Cast
Role: A New Occasional Prologue Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

3873
03 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [R$Ross this month wrote to Colman (Harvard Theatre Collection A.L.S.) inquiring about an intended new theatre at Bath, and opened his heart as follows: "My present situation is most irksome to me and must be to any gentleman or man of merit in his profession to have such an ignorant and now ill-bred fellow as Beard? presume to conduct the business of a theatre Royal, of which he is totally ignorant, and oblig'd to apply to the great Gibson, who naturally wishes to lower every man to his own standard, while the other despises every degree of merit that is not compris'd in Sol fa and wishes the theatre only to substitute as an Opera house." Ross wanted to be nominated for the manager's postition in the new theatre at Bath. N.B. He had already acted 23 times this season in his best parts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

3874
26 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17651223, but a new additional scene-.
Cast
Role: a new additional scene Actor: .

3875
12 July 1766 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: This Week a Patent passed the Great Seal for the Establishment of a new Theatre, to Samuel Foote, Esq. only (Public Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 3). Mr Barry and Mrs Dancer from Dublin are said to be engaged for this summer at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket (Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 2, which corroborates the Foote patent)

Performances