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2374 results for: Keyword - English, Scotch, and Irish Ballads
We found 1509 matches on Performance Title, 553 matches on Event Comments, 480 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

851
25 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Swindlers

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

852
27 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: II: (By Particular Desire) Hippsley's Drunken Man-Weston; IV: An Ode on Masonry-Vernon, Dodd, Bannister; End: (1st and only time this season) Imitations with several new characters-Bannister

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

853
04 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Reddish; Clytus-Aickin; Lysimachus-Hurst; Cassander-Palmer; Hephestion-Packer; Polyperchon-Bransby; Thessalus-J. Aickin; Perdiccas-Ackman; Eumenes-Keen; Sysigambis-Mrs Johnston; Roxana-Miss Younge; Statira-Mrs Greville; first time; Parisatis-Mrs Hopkins; With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Reddish
Role: Cassander Actor: Palmer
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

854
12 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hartry and Fawcett. Paid 1 extra Trumpet in Rehearsal & 5 in Alexander #2 5s. Receipts: #199 5s. 6d. Charges: #65 5s. Profits to the beneficiaries: #134 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: End Act V: Judge Tycho's Sentence-Weston. [See17740505.

Dance: End I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

855
20 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: Mercury-Brereton, first time; Phoebus-Wrighten; Jupiter-Reddish; Amphitryon-J. Aickin; Gripus-Parsons; Polydas-Wright; Tranio-Fawcett; Sosia-King; Phaedra-Miss Pope; Bromia-Mrs Bradshaw; Night-Miss Platt; Alcmena-Miss Younge; In which will be introduced an Interlude of singing and Dancing-; Plutus-Bannister; Wit-Mrs Scott; The Dance-Como, Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

856
24 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and Lings. Paid Mr Page on Note #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 19s. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #178 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: ByMaster Whitlow, Miss Lings; End I Afterpiece: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

857
17 September 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton

858
13 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I of Farce: The Irish Fair, as17740917

859
24 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: The Irish Fair, as17740917

860
02 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. 1st night (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #254 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: a Young Gentleman, first appearance on this stage
Role: Cassander Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

861
03 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17740917

862
11 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Related Works
Related Work: The Election Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

863
25 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

864
29 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17740917

865
02 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Comedy (by Hugh Kelly] of 2 Acts never perform'd. [Written, as the author states in his Advertisement to the Edition of 1774, at the instigation of and on the inspiration of Mrs Abington. The Larpent MS 379 lists a partial cast and the lengths for each part: 10 Hector Strangeways-and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter">Shuter; 7 Brownlow-$Bensley; 5 Ormsby-$Clarke; 6 Bussora-...; 5 +Orson-...; 6 +Pillage-$Dunstall; 1!2 Servant-...; 5 +Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2 Zelinda 1!2 Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter and Quick."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Miss Catley.

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of An Hour

Performance Comment: Parts by: Shuter, Bensley, Clarke, Lee Lewes, Quick, Dunstall, Miss Pearce, Mrs Green, Mrs Bulkley. With a New Prologue and Epilogue. Sir Hector Strangeways-Shuter; Brownlow-Bensley; Col. Ormsby-Clarke; Bussora-Lee Lewes; Orson-Quick; Pillage-Dunstall; James-Bates; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Lady Di Strangeways-Mrs Green; Zelida-Mrs Bulkley; With a New Prologue by Kelly-Lee; Epilogue by Kelly-Mrs Bulkley (Edition of 1774).

Dance: I: The Vintage Festival, as17741007; End Opera: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois. [See17731005]

866
03 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: The Irish Fair, as17740917

867
10 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Cast
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lamash, Burton, Wright, Messink, Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

868
29 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

869
17 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Choleric Man Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

870
24 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

871
03 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17740917

872
21 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Norris

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

873
16 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Cast
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: _Messink.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

874
21 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202; End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17740917

875
28 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Vernon, first time; Frankly-Palmer first time; Tester-Burton; Strictland-Jefferson; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-Dodd; Ranger's Servant-Wheeler; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Greville; Lucetta-Mrs Love; Milliner-Mrs Davies; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Jacintha-Miss Younge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; Dancing-Atkins, Mrs Sutton; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Jefferson
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Greville
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: The Irish Fair, as17740917