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5444 results for: Keyword - English and Irish Stage
We found 2551 matches on Event Comments, 1762 matches on Performance Comments, 1632 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4001
15 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Benefit Delane. Places to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Tickets to be had at Delane's lodgings in Queen's Court, in King's St., Covent Garden. Tickets deliver'd out for Lady Jane Gray, will be taken this night. Servants will be admitted to keep places upon the stage. Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; III: a Ballad-Lowe; IV: Song-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

4002
15 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard, at the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. All the Characters will be new Dress'd. The Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep places. Tickets at 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224; Two Millers and Courtezan-two Masters and Miss Granier

4003
18 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. The Stage will be tubn'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., but be had at Tom's Coffee-House, Cornhill; and at Mrs Garrick's in Mansfield St., Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224

4004
22 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage. All will be over at Nine at Night. Tickets of Hippisley in the Playhouse Passage, in Bow St. Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Modern Midnight Conversation

Performance Comment: Taken from Hogarth's Celebrated Print, in which will be introduced Drunken Man-Hippisley; with a comic tale- of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.
Cast
Role: with a comic tale Actor: of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

4005
22 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Yates. The Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. Mr Yates humbly hopes those Ladies, who are not yet provided with Tickets, will to prevent Mistakes, be pleas'd to send their Servants for them to the Theatre, where Attendance will be given; and also to send their Servants to keep their Places by Four o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

4006
25 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Milward and her 4 children. N.B. Mrs Milward greatly acknowledges the Favour of the Town to her on her former Benefit; and as a considerable number of persons, who had taken tickets for that night, could not find room, she has made application to Mr Rich who has generously given her at his theatre, a Day which he had reserved to himself; where tickets given out for her former benefit will be taken. The consideration of 4 fatherless children is the only apology she can plead for intreating this further indulgence from the public. Note If any persons are dispos'd to send for tickets on this occasion, they maY be had at Mrs Milward's, No. 15 in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane. Tickets to be had and places to be taken at the stage door in Bow st

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226

4007
29 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. Afterpiece: With Courtiers, Maids of Honour, Daggers, Poisons, Ghosts, Pages, Guards, Rebels, Trumpets, Kettle-drums, Thunder, Lightening, &c., and other Decorations proper to tragedy. Stage to be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets of Bradshaw, and at Macklin's, No. 12, in Wild Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Bumper Squire Jones (By Desire)-Beard

Dance: III: (At particular desire of several persons of quality) Le Boufon, Italian Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel after the manner of the Fausans

4008
30 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets of Bradshaw, &c., and at Mrs Butler's in King St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song: I: Song-Beard; III: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; IV: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: New Serious Dance, as17420322 V: Le Boufon, as17420325

4009
01 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Tickets and places to be had at Beard's lodgings in Red Lyon St., near Lamb's Conduit, and of Bradshaw at the Kings Arms, &c. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be carefully inclosed to prevent the ladies from taking cold. Receipts: #207

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17420209, but with some additional Songs of Milton's by Handel-.
Cast
Role: Handel Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe

4010
05 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets and places of Bradshaw, &c, and at Mills' House in Nassau St., near Soho Square. Servants may keep places on stage, which will (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed to form an amphitheatre. Rylands MS.: Cibber elop'd. Receipts: #188

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Delane; Tom-Cibber Jun.; Myrtle-Mills; Sealand-Berry; Indiana-Mrs Mills; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Winstone; Cimberton-Taswell; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Lucinda-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: II: Singing in Italian-Beard; III: Song-Lowe; V: (By Particular Desire) the favourite song of Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive (as she performed it in Dublin)

4011
20 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Auguste. Tickets of Page at stage door and of Mlle Auguste at Mrs Butler's over against the Golden Fan in Hanover St., Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Musette, as17420405 II: Louvre-Picq; III: New Comic Dance Pantaloon and Enamorata=-Picq, Mlle Auguste; IV: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; V: La Marie, Minuet-Picq, Mlle Auguste

4012
21 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit Lowe. Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Lowe, next the Seven Stars in Bedford St., Covent Garden; at the Globe and Sceptre in Old Jewry; at Ben Johnson's Head in Little Britain; and at Mr Benskin's, Stationer, next the Ship-Tavern, Gracechurch St. Receipts: #180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17411106, but Trapland-Ray; Valentine-Lowe; (with a Prologue on the Occasion, humbly address'd to the Town) Tattle-Cross.
Cast
Role: Trapland Actor: Ray
Role: Scandal Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; III: Sweet Bird from Milton-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: Le Boufon, as17420325

4013
21 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Dubuisson and Mlle Bonneval. Mainpiece: By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets of Dubuisson at his House in St. Martin's St., near Leicester Fields, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

4014
22 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. What I said before, I now recite, All shall be over about Nine at Night. Tickets and Places at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: I: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; III: Chacone, as17411230; V: The Peasants, as17420210

Song: II: A Duetto Jovial-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Ballad of Advice to a Friend-Leveridge; V: Epilogue in Music address'd to the Town-Leveridge, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Music: I: Handel's Celebrated Water Music-; with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge; IV: A Grand Concerto-; accompanied by French Horns-

Entertainment: III: A Dialogue explaining The Truth on both sides,-Roberts, Miss Hillyard [probably sung]

4015
30 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. [Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon, by H. Carey, a sequel to Dragon of Wantley.] Tickets at stage door and at Mrs Lampe's and Miss Young's Lodgings, at the Golden Ball, in Brownlow St. Tickets deliver'd out for She Wou'd and She wou'd not will be taken for this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Dragoness

Dance: New Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Sailor's Dance, as17420427 Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

4016
04 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John VanBrugh. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the brethren of the Honourable and Antient Society of Free and Accepted Masons, for the Benefit of a Brother, who has had great misfortunes. None to be admitted Without printed Tickets (Daily Advertiser). The Brethren are desired to meet the Right Honourable the Grand Master, at Mr Filkes, at the Bedford Arms in the Piazza in Covent Garden, at Four o'clock in the afternoon, in order to accompany him to the play. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre. Servants allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

4017
12 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: Crispin-Phillips; from The Theatre Royal in Dublin, being the second time of his appearing on the Stage in this Kingdom; Beatrice-Mrs E. Giffard.

4018
11 September 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear [customary note for all performances of this play this season. It will not be recorded further. Places to be taken at the Stage Door of the Theatre, indicates the building of a new tickets office for occupancy this season by Hobson, who replaces Bradshaw as Box Book-Keeper]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Macklin; Dorcas-Mrs Phillips; Sir Jasper-Arthur; Dr Hellebore-Green; Davy-Taswell; James-Woodburn; Harry-Winstone; Charlotte-Miss Brunette; Leander-Lowe.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe.

4019
14 September 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places to be taken for the Boxes at the stage door of the theatre. [This customary notice will not be included further.] Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Macklin; Jaques-Cross; Orlando-Mills; Oliver-Havard; Amiens-Lowe; Adam-Berry; Corin-Taswell; Duke Sen.-Blakes; Charles-Arthur; Celia-Mrs Clive; Audrey-Mrs Horsington; Rosalind-Mrs Woffington; Duke Frederick-Winstone; William-Ray; Silvius-Green; Jaques du Bois-Turbutt; Phoebe-Miss Bennet; Lebeau-Woodburn.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4020
04 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd; The Old Man Taught Wisdom

Performance Comment: Lucy-Miss Hippisley (who never appeared on that stage before).

Dance: CComic Dance, as17421001; Tambourine-Mlle Auguste

4021
24 November 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, this Day,will be presented a Comedy. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureat. At Common Prices, viz. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [prices regularly repeated in the bills]. For the better Decorum of the Stage, no Money will be taken behind the Scenes; and 'tis humbly hop'd no Person will desire Admittance there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Cibber; Easy-Giffard; Morelove-W. Giffard; Lady Betty-Mrs Giffard; Lady Easy-Mrs Butler; Lady Graveairs-Mrs E. Giffard; Edging-Miss Brunette; With a New Prologue-Mr Cibber; And a reviv'd Epilogue-nobody.
Cast
Role: And a reviv'd Epilogue Actor: nobody.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland

4022
01 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality. This month was published A Clear Stage and no Favour, or Tragedy and Comedy at War, occasioned by the Emulation of the Two Theatric Heroes David and Goliath, A 12 p. poem setting forth the appeals of Garrick and Quin. [Prophesies that in two years' time Quin will continue to be esteemed more than Garrick, the new favorite.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421130; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie-Checo, Signora Chiaretti

4023
13 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDyer's MS: Garrick's first benefit, not crowded, opened lobby to dispose of tickets (Winston MS.). Tickets may be had at Garrick's lodgings in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Song: As17430103

4024
14 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-a Gentleman (Hayman), first appearance upon any stage; Polly-Mrs Hooper, first time in that part; Lucy-Miss Bradshaw; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Dunstall; Peachum-Julian; Lockit-Hemskirk; Player-Mozeen; Beggar-Peterson; Mat-Dunstall; Jenny Diver-Mrs Chetwood; Filch-Clough; Ben-Dighton; Ned-Naylor; Paddington-Buckly; Jack-Dove; Dreary-Blakey; Robin-Freeman; Twitch-Pattendon; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Bambridge; Mrs Vixen-Miss Hippisley; Betty Doxy-Miss Royer; Mrs Slamekin-Miss Scott; Molly-Miss Haughton; Dolly-Mrs Vallois; Sukey-Miss J. Scott.

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Peasants Actor: Carney, Mlle Roland, Lapierre, Pelling, Granier, Miss Story, the Misses Scotts

4025
22 February 1743 @ James Street

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A burlesque tragedy. Benefit Mrs Daniel. [Customary concert formula.] Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. Note, The performance will be carried on by Persons used to the Stage, and not by People unacquainted with it, as has been too often practiced in Benefits at the same theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos