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We found 3047 matches on Event Comments, 2525 matches on Performance Title, 1626 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Twenty Renters only at Drury Lane at 2s. a night (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Torrismond-Holland, 1st time; Dominic-Berry; Gomez-Foote; Bertran-Austin; Lorenzo-Palmer; Queen-Mrs Yates; Elvira-Miss Macklin; Raymond-Bransby; Alphonso-Walker; Pedro-Jefferson; Teresa-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Torrismond Actor: Holland, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Valerius Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: By Command [both pieces] by the Prince of Wales. Prince of W: & P: Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Valerius Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

Event Comment: ZZara is deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: The New Tragedy is deferr'd on account of Mrs Cibber's illness. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: As Mrs Cibber is not quite recover'd of her illness, the new Tragedy of Agis is deferred for a day or two longer. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Tomorrow the New Tragedy call'd Agis. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Role: Rhesus Actor: Holland
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Yates
Event Comment: For ye Author. Prince of Wales & 5 of ye Fam. Mrs Cibber taken ill in the Play, but made shift to finish-Mrs Yates did ye Part on Monday-(Well). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Role: Rhesus Actor: Holland
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Yates
Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Performance Comment: As17580221, but Euanthe-Mrs Yates; Sandane-Mrs Davies.
Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Role: Rhesus Actor: Holland
Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Role: Rhesus Actor: Holland
Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Arne. In the Manner of an Oratorio. The Music composed by Arne. Boxes Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. To begin exactly at half an hour after Six. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Varney at the Stage Door; and of Arne, next door to the Passage, in Charles St., Covent Garden. The Book is sold at R. Francklin's in Covent Garden, and at the Theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [Cross lists no receipts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Music: I: By Particular Desire, a Concerto on the Violin-Mr Hay

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales & 5. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick
Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick

Ballet: (BBy Desire,)The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. [See 27 Jan. 1744.] With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff. Pit and Boxes laid together, and the Stage formed into a commodious amphitheatre. Boxes, pit, and Stage 5s. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock; otherwise, Woodward cannot be responsible for any mistake. Places with tickets to be had of Woodward at his house in the Piazza, cg. This Day Publish'd, The Dramatic Execution of Agis. Price 6d. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Performance Comment: As17580304 but Euanthe-Mrs Cibber; Sandane-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sandane Actor: Mrs Yates.
Role: Lysander Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: 22 M2 March Died at his lodgings in High Holborn Leveridge in his 88th year sung d[uring] reigns of William, Anne, George I. Retired about 8 years ago, lived with daughters (Winston MS 8). [See Cross' note, 4 Feb. 1755.

Performances

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131, but Blakes_

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Tickets of Beard next door to Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane, and of Varney at stage door. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Song: Beard, Champnes

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright CrossJames Sanderson

Music: A Piece on the Harp-Mr Evans