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We found 475 matches on Performance Comments, 247 matches on Author, 137 matches on Event Comments, 48 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by King, Bensley, Brereton, Aickin, Baddeley, Lamash, Wrighten, Burton, Palmer, Miss Pope, Mrs Brereton, Miss Collett, Mrs Colles, Miss Kirby, Mrs Abington. Cast from text (Fielding and Walker et al]), 1780, and Morning Chronicle, 3 Dec.: Sir William Woodley-King; Counsellor Belford-Bensley; Mr Woodley-Brereton; Mr Bromley-Aickin; Forward-Baddeley; Sir Harry Granger-Lamash; Waters-Wrighten; James-Burton; Colonel Mountfort-Palmer; Mrs Bromley-Miss Pope; Louisa-Mrs Brereton; Spitfire-Miss Collett; Mrs Williams-Mrs Colles; Mrs Henpeck-Miss Kirby; Lady Mary Woodley-Mrs Abington; Prologue-King; [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] Epilogue-Miss Farren. [This was spoken again on 4 Dec., but omitted thereafter.]This was spoken again on 4 Dec., but omitted thereafter.]
Cast
Role: Colonel Mountfort Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Performance Comment: Sir Scrapeall-Barrett; Colonel Parapet-Vowell; Sir Charles Prudent-Harrington; Fuzee-Blackburn; Crambo-Brown; Timothy-Munden; Captain Starboard-Smith; Lady Charlotte-Miss O'Brien (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in London); Lady Brainless-Mrs Baker; Emmeline-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance upon any stage [unidentified]); Ruelle-Miss Dudley; Mrs Busy-Mrs Lefevre; Occasional Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: Colonel Parapet Actor: Vowell

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady Cured

Afterpiece Title: The School For Scandal Scandaliz'd

Performance Comment: Larpent MS 470 lists the parts: Sir Sparely Spindle-; Colonel Manly-; Toby-; Miss Diana Delicate-; Miss Spritely-; Sophia-.
Cast
Role: Colonel Manly Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Branville-King; Sir Harry Flutter-Dodd; Colonel Medway-Brereton; Lord Medway-Bensley; Mrs Knightly-Miss Farren; Lady Medway-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Richly-Mrs Sharp; Louisa Medway-Mrs Brereton; Lady Flutter-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Colonel Medway Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17801025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith; Colonel Briton-Brereton; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Alguazile-Wrighten; Vasquez-R. Palmer; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabella-Mrs Sharp; Inis-Miss Kirby; Violante-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Doctor Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Seyward-Brereton; Colonel Lambert-Palmer; Maw@worm-Holcroft; Darnley-Bensley; Lady Lambert (1st time)-Mrs Farren; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Love; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Colonel Lambert Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Phillips. Tickets delivered for Artaxerxes will be taken. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Phillips, No. 56, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #201 12s. (57.14.0; 19.16.6; 0.9.6; tickets: 123.12.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: Lionel-Mattocks (of cg); Colonel Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Fawcett; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Miss Collett; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Clarissa-Miss Phillips (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Colonel Oldboy Actor: Parsons
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17801117

Song: End: The Soldier tir'd of Wars Alarms-Miss Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One; Or, The Cartel At Philadelphia

Performance Comment: Tar Barrel-Quick; General Seedy-Lee Lewes; Major Scarecrow-Stevens; Serjeant Shirtless-Edwin; Colonel Politesse-Wewitzer; Lieut. Wilmot-Davies; Turpentine-Bates; Plantation-J. Wilson; Remonstrance-Jones; Attendant-Painter; Captain Broadsides-Wilson; Fanny O'Dogherty-Mrs Wilson; Miss Bellmont-Miss Satchell.
Cast
Role: Colonel Politesse Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Who'd have Thought It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: Lionel-Vernon; Colonel Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Williams; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Miss Collett; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Clarissa-Miss Phillips .
Cast
Role: Colonel Oldboy Actor: Parsons
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Doctor Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Seyward-Brereton; Colonel Lambert-Palmer; Maw-worm-Holcroft; Darnley-Bensley; Lady Lambert-Miss Sherry; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Love; Charlotte-Mrs Abington .
Cast
Role: Colonel Lambert Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Frenchman in the Dairy, by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, the Miss Stageldoirs

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performance Comment: Sir John Trotley (with the original Prologue)-King; Colonel Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Miss Simson; Miss Tittup-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Tivy Actor: Brereton

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith; Colonel Briton-Brereton; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Alguazile-Wrighten; Vasquez-R. Palmer; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabella-Mrs Sharp; Inis-Mrs Wells; Violante-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Mrs Greville (of DL); Colonel Standard-Brinsley; Young Clincher-Swords (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin); Vizard-Cotton; Alderman Smuggler-Barrett; Tom Errand-Forrest; Beau Clincher-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Wife-Mr Pressley; Angelica-Miss Read; Parley-Miss Plain; Lady Darling-Mrs Fowler; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Child .
Cast
Role: Colonel Standard Actor: Brinsley

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: Young Belmont-Palmer; Sir Roger Belmont-Parsons; Sir Charles Raymond-Aickin; Colonel Raymond-Brereton (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Villiard-Wrighten; Faddle (with a song)-Dodd; Fidelia-Mrs Brereton; Rosetta-Miss Farren (Their 1st appearance in those characters) .
Cast
Role: Colonel Raymond Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Suett, Parsons, Du-Bellamy, Wright, Burton, Griffiths, Chaplin, Phillimore, Helme, Bannister; Mrs Wrighten, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Miss Simson, Miss Phillips. [Cast from text (J. Almon, 1785), and Public Advertiser, 20 May: Colonel Montford-Palmer; Carbine-Suett; Bale-Parsons; Summers-Du-Bellamy; Splinter-Wright; Swiss-Burton; Coachman-Griffiths; Boreas-Chaplin; Servants-Phillimore, Helme; Admiral Dreadnought-Bannister; Rachel-Mrs Wrighten; Charlotte-Miss Wheeler; Kitty Dreadnought-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Wilmot-Miss Sherry; Miss Melcomb-Miss Simson; Angelica-Miss Phillips.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Gardner, Wilson, Webb, Usher, Staunton, Egan, Swords, Bensley; Miss Sherry, Miss Morris, Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Bulkley. [Cast from European Magazine, July 1782, p. 67: Colonel Errwood-Palmer; Edmonds-Bannister Jun.; Young Johnson-R. Palmer; Johnson-Gardner; Cecil-Wilson; Landlord-Webb; Simpson-Usher; Danford-Staunton; Chairman-Egan; Savage-Bensley; Mrs Cecil-Miss Sherry; Nancy Johnson-Miss Morris; Emma Cecil-Mrs Inchbald; Mrs Johnson-Mrs Poussin; Harriet Sidney-Mrs Bulkley. Swords is unassigned.] New Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi. New Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.
Cast
Role: : Colonel Errwood Actor: Palmer

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

Dance: As17820613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: Young Belmont-Palmer; Sir Roger Belmont-Parsons; Sir Charles Raymond-Aickin; Colonel Raymond-Brereton; Villiard-Wrighten; Faddle (with a song)-Dodd; Fidelia-Mrs Brereton; Rosetta-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Raymond Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Suett, R. Palmer, Phillimore, Williames, Waldron, Williamson, Lamash, Chaplin; Miss Collett. Cast not known .

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Dance by the Miss Stageldoirs, &c

Monologue: 1782 09 20 As 17 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performance Comment: Sir John Trotley (with the original Prologue)-King; Colonel Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Miss Simson; Miss Tittup-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Tivy Actor: Brereton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Palmer; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Colonel Townly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-R. Palmer; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Bulkley; Amanda-Mrs Brereton; Nurse-Mrs Love; Berinthia-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Townly Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17821005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Performance Comment: Cecil-King; Sir Harry Newburg-Palmer; Lord Winworth-Brereton; Sidney-Bannister Jun.; Colonel Rivers-Bensley; Lady Betty Lambton-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Marchmont-Mrs Brereton; Miss Rivers-Miss Wheeler; Sally-Miss Simson; Mrs Harley-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Rivers Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Branville-Henderson; Lord Medway-Aickin; Colonel Medway-Wroughton; Servants-Helme, Ledger; Sir Harry Flutter-Lewis; Mrs Richley [in subsequent bills called Mrs Knightly]-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Medway-Mrs Hopkins (of DL); Miss Richley-Miss Satchell; Louisa-Miss Morris; Lady Flutter-Mrs Abington (1st appearance at this Theatre). End of Act I an Occasional Address spoken by Mrs Abington .
Cast
Role: Colonel Medway Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Dance, Diversion a-la-Mode, by Harris, Burn [i.e. Byrne], Miss Matthews, in which The Devonshire Minuet by Harris and Miss Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith; Colonel Briton-Brereton; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Alguazile-Wrighten; Vasquez-Phillimore; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabella-Mrs Ward; Inis-Mrs Wells; Violante-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Colonel Briton Actor: Brereton
Role: Vasquez Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Performance Comment: Teague (with songs')-Moody; Colonel Blunt-Aickin; Mr Day-Baddeley; Obadiah-Parsons; Abel-Burton; Lieut. Story-Phillimore; Committee-Men-Waldron, &c.; Col. Careless-Brereton; Mrs Day-Mrs Hopkins; Arabella-Mrs Brereton; Ruth-Miss Pope .
Cast
Role: Colonel Blunt Actor: Aickin
Role: Story Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Marcourt-Palmer; Kitchen-Massey; Colonel Frankley-Riley; Snarl-Egan; Buck-Davis; Landlord-Usher; Luke-R. Palmer; Fleece-Stevens; Ostler-Swords; Mr Cross-Parsons; Charlotte-Mrs Bulkley; Sally-A Very Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Logan]); Landlady-Mrs Love; Passenger-Mrs Poussin; Lettice-Miss Morris; Mrs Cross-Mrs Webb .
Cast
Role: Colonel Frankley Actor: Riley

Dance: As17830611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Parsons, Wilson, Bannister Jun., Blissett, Egan, Edwin; Miss Morris, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (J. Stockdale, 1783): General Heartfree-Parsons; Sir Harry Henpeckt-Wilson; Colonel Foible-Bannister Jun.; Doctor Puzzle-Blissett; Frill-Egan; Mr Cook-Edwin; Clump-Gaudrey; Mr Jacobs-Barrett; Farmer Flame-Painter; Postillion-Miss Painter; Maria Goodall-Miss Morris; Lady Henpeckt-Mrs Webb; Trippit-Mrs Love.] New Prologue spoken by Wilson . New Prologue spoken by Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Monologue: 1783 08 13 End of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue by Wilson, riding on an Ass