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2923 results for: Keyword - Durancy and Wife
We found 2291 matches on Performance Title, 401 matches on Performance Comments, 395 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2026
10 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: As17790618

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Hitchcock

2027
18 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End: new Dance, The Spanish Lovers-Master and Miss Byrn

2028
13 October 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Massey. Afterpiece: Never performed in London, written by the author of The Son-In-Law [John O'Keeffe; 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767. See also cg, 16 Mar. 1782, when it was acted as The Positive Man]. To begin at 7:00. Tickets delivered for the 4th instant will be taken. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be had of Rice at the Theatre, and of Massey, No.4, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The She Gallant

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Massey, Munden, Howard, Whitby, Middleton, Fildew, Lucas, Barrett, Mrs Winchelsea, Mrs Lefevre, A Gentlewoman (1st appearance [unidentified]). [Edition of 1767 (T. Lowndes and J. Williams) lists the parts: Sir Anthony Woodville, Sir Geofry Gingle, Delamour, Young Woodville, Thady MacBrogue Constable, Watchman, Florimel, Emily, Betty].unidentified]). [Edition of 1767 (T. Lowndes and J. Williams) lists the parts: Sir Anthony Woodville, Sir Geofry Gingle, Delamour, Young Woodville, Thady MacBrogue Constable, Watchman, Florimel, Emily, Betty].

2029
13 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Catherine And Petruchio

Dance: As17791022

2030
22 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: End IV: Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

2031
07 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

2032
22 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

Song: End II: As17790927; End II: Song in The Milesian, being a description of a Sea Fight [Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak]-Bannister

2033
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for a Gentlewoman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Written by Thomas King, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:30. The Public may be assured that the principal Performers in the above play and farce are Persons accustomed to the Stage, and that the utmost Attention will be paid to the credit of Performance. Tickets delivered by Mrs Lefevre and Blackburn will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

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

2034
21 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

2035
14 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Ode: With the Songs, Chorusses, &c. The Music by Dr Arne. "When I recited Mr Garrick's Ode in a private room, I felt what I said, and I believe gave it some effect. Very different was it upon the stage. My feelings were weakened and confounded by the band, my voice lost its scale, and was overpowered by the music in the orchestra" (Ireland, p. 47). Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house, Great Buckingham-street, York Buildings. [His 1st appearance as Sir John Brute was at Bath, 1 Jan. 1774.] Receipts: #234 13s. 6d. (charge:#105). Account-Book notes that Henderson sold 319 tickets for the boxes and 85 for the pit, together worth #92 10s., and that tickets sold at the doors were worth #142 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Performance Comment: Upon dedicating a Building, and erecting a Statue to Shakespeare, as originally performed at the Jubilee, at Stratford upon Avon (on 7 Sept. 1769), recited-Henderson; Principal Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Morton, Mrs Kennedy.

Dance: As17790922

2036
29 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: As17800318

2037
07 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

2038
27 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Song: As17791018Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems

2039
28 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Volunteers

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

2040
19 September 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece: With Alterations and 3 entire new Scenes [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]. To conclude with a Representation of the Storming of Fort Omoa in the Bay of Hondurasv [see 3 Jan. 1780. This scene was included in all subsequent performances]. The View and Machinery designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Receipts: #131 16s. 6d. (99.14.0; 31.12.0; 0.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Cast
Role: Wife Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Election Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End IV 2nd piece: Minuet de la Cour-the Miss Stageldoirs

2041
31 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801027

2042
01 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801027

2043
07 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Dance: End: The Caledonian Shepherds, as17801106

2044
25 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

2045
22 January 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece: Written by the celebrated Mrs Eliza Haywood. Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2 (?)]: Written by a Comedian [unidentified. not in Larpent MS; not published]. The above Pieces have been a long Time in Rehearsal, and as no Expense has been spared in procuring respectable Performers from capital Theatres, there is no doubt (as the Comedies have sterling Merit) of their giving Satisfaction to the Audience. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife To Be Lett

Afterpiece Title: The Sharper's Last Shift

Song: End I: Stand to your Guns-Digby

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All-Benson

2046
24 January 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

2047
26 January 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Belle's Stratagem, announced on playbill of 25 Jan.] Receipts: "278 4s. (277.3; 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

2048
03 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

2049
08 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Thelyphthora; or, More Wives than One

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Robson, Egan, Wilson, Mrs Webb, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Whitfield, Miss Ambrose, Mrs White Public Advertiser: Mrs Willems], Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Wilson. [Cast from MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. II), and London Chronicle, 9 Mar.: Old Export-Quick; Frank Fertile-Whitfield; Young Export-Robson; Irish Sam-Egan; Sir Peter Polygam-Wilson; Lady Polygam-Mrs Webb; Mrs Export-Mrs Pitt; Women of the Town-Mrs Lewis, Mrs Whitfield, Miss Ambrose, Mrs White, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart; Lydia Polygam-Mrs Wilson; Prologue-Lee Lewes.

2050
22 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason