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978 results for: Keyword - Dr Bentley
We found 386 matches on Event Comments, 373 matches on Performance Comments, 233 matches on Performance Title, 42 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

326
13 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

327
11 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

328
27 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17780615

329
November 1659 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: On 23 Nov. 1659 John Page, the Treasurer of the Middle Temple, entered in his records: Music, four nights at 30s., and acting The Clown four nights at 10s. (See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 167. See also Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, V, 1314.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countryman Or Clown

330
May 1660 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: This play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 29 June 1660, but not printed. A Prologue and Epilogue (Epilogue spoken by Cupid) to a play of this title were printed in Jordan's A Rosary of Rarities, p. 17, but these may refer to an earlier performance. (See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, IV, 684-85.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Hath Found Out His Eyes; Or, Distractions

331
09 March 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: William Cartwright's The Lady Errant was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert to the Duke's Company on this date. See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 128-32

Performances

332
03 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream written by Shakespear. The Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond. Music-Smith. [First edition Text by John Christopher Smith; see Garrick to James Murphey French, Dec. 1756; H. Walpole to R. Bentley 23 Feb. 1755.] Besides our own Singers, we had Sg Guadagni, Sga Passerini, Miss Potier [i.e., Mrs Vernon], and Savage's Boys. Very great Applause; Sabatini danced after it and fell down, not hurt (Cross). [See A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Hands of Garrick and Colman, G. W. Stone Jr, PMLA (June 1939).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Dance: CComic Dance-Sabatini, Sga Sabatini, Sabatini jun, his first time

333
07 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Performance Comment: Admiral Dreadnought-King (1st appearance in that character); Bale-Parsons; Carbine-Suett; Summers-Barrymore; Boreas-Chapman; Col. Mountfort-Palmer; Rachael-Mrs Wrighten; Miss Bale-Miss Wheeler; Miss Kitty Dreadnought-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Bentley [in subsequent bills called Mrs Wilmot]-Mrs Hedges; Miss Melcomb-Miss Simson; Angelica-Miss Phillips .

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

334
10 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Jackson, Cartwright, Holland, Osborne, Frederic, Mitchell, Edwards, Porter, Henley, Connell (with a new Irish sons in character); A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Mrs Bolton, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Ponsonby, Mrs Henley, A Lady (2nd appearance [unidentified]). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Gregory Granby, Sir ThomasLoveby, George Granby, Frank Bentley, Solomons, Levi, Waddle, Scandal, Dennis, Robert, Waiter; Eliza Wentworth, Mrs Dornbush, Miss Harcourt, Charlotte Harcourt, Lady Loveby, Susan, Miss Nancy, Miss Kitty, Maid.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

335
02 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In IV a Masquerade Scene. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Bentley, Bynam, Dale, Edmonds, Faux, Fisher, Gregson, Gaurion, Kent, Munday, Ross, Robson, Robinson, Smith, Sherwood, Stevens, Townsend, Webb, Whitmell, Wyber, Wells, Wyatt, Waterer, Mrs Byrne will be admitted.] Receipts: #31 14s. (8.11.0; 13.16.6; 0.7.0; odd money: 8.19.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

336
30 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, Love's the Physician

Dance: IV: Dance-Muilment

337
01 September 1761 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cure Of The Spleen; Or, Shuter's Warehouse

338
20 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 1

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 2

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 3

Music: As17890311

339
22 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have his Own

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Rock, Linton, Blurton, Abbot, Street, Miss Poole, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Miss Hopkins, Mrs Henley, Miss Stuart, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bayzand, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Martyr

340
07 May 1702 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Entertainment: Divine Musick in Praise of Religion and Vertue-; both Vocal and instrumental, with new Anthems compos'd by Mr Blow; an Oration by Mr Collier; Pieces by Mr Tate, her Majesty's Poet Laureat. The edition of 1702 lists: The Introductory Poem Upon the Reformation of Poetry-Mr Tate Poet-Laureat to her Majesty; The First Anthem-, Compos'd by Dr Blow, and Sung in Westminster-Abbey, at Her Majesty's Coronation; The Oration-J. Collier/M.A.; The Second Anthem, Compos'd by Dr Blow: Te Deum Laudamus-; A Poem in Praise of Virtue- , Written by Mr Tate

341
30 March 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce; With The Pleasures Of The Town

342
01 May 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

343
12 February 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor The Disease

344
20 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Devisse, Ferrere, Mlle Auretti

345
22 March 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

346
27 February 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-

347
26 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

348
27 April 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cure Of Saul

Music: The Orchestra to be led by-Sg Giardini; Between acts: a Concerto on the Violin, Concerto on the violincello by Cervetto-Sg Giardini

349
14 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Brave Irishman

Entertainment: II: The Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man-King

Dance: End: As17700428

350
06 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concerto Spirituale; Judas Maccabaeus

Music: First Violin, as17760223; After I: Concerto on German Flute, as17760223; End II: Concerto on Violin-Lamotte