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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.

4826
01 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Public Advertiser, 3 Mar.: "A new Prologue was spoken by King on Saturday Evening, and received with uncommon Applause." [Mrs Sherborn is identified in Lysons, Collectanea.] Receipts: #215 16s. 6d. (187.12.0; 25.17.0; 2.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Vernon; Russet-Bannister; Simkin-Fawcett; Skirmish-Parsons; Flint-Wright; Soldiers-Legg, Kear, Carpenter, Chaplin, Follett, Holcroft; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Sherborn]).Mrs Sherborn]).

Dance: End III: The Double Festival, as17770213

4827
01 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Public Advertiser, 3 Mar.: "When [Reinhold] appeared on the Stage [in the afterpiece], after some little Time the excessive Glare of the Lamps affected him so much [because of an incomplete recovery from illness] that he dropped down in the Middle of his Part in a fainting Fit, of which he soon afterwards perfectly recovered in the Green Room. The Audience, with their wonted Indulgence and Humanity, universally insisted that the Curtain should be dropped." Receipts: #259 5s. (257.17; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17770218

4828
19 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin [and her last appearance on the stage]. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Macklin, No. 59, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #191 16s. (151.6; tickets: 40.10) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Macklin; End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770215; End IV: The Frolick, as17761120

4829
28 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Prelude [1st time; M. PREL 1, by David Garrick, and others. In a synopsis of the plot the London Chronicle assigns Bannister; it lists the names of the other performers and, separately, their parts. The assignments given above are my own conjecture. Not in Larpent MS; the composer of the vaudeville written by Garrick is unknown]. The Words of the Songs will be given at the Theatre. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to come early, to prevent Confusion. And to send their Servants by Five o'clock to keep the Places. Receipts: #217 8s. 6d. (100.9.0; 25.14.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 91.5.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bundle Of Prologues

Afterpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Good and Evil Spirits Actor: _Burton.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

4830
03 May 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Morning Chronicle, 8 May: The audience had been much better satisfied with less noise behind the scenes, while Miss Davies was singing. During her first song there was such a noise that Savoi was obliged to go off the stage, by orders from some gentlemen in the pit, to request silence three several times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Telemaco

Dance: As17770419

Cast
Role: a Grand Serious Ballet Actor: Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet
Role: L'Aimable Vieillesse Actor: Mons Vallouy, Mme Vallouy, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet
Role: a new Ballet Demi Actor: caracteres Les Amusemens Champetres-Mons and Mme Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli.
Role: caracteres Les Amusemens Champetres Actor: Mons and Mme Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli.

4831
08 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Prologue by David Garrick. Epilogue by George Colman elder (London Chronicle, 9 May). Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1780]: With New Scenes and Dresses. "No modern theatrical piece ever met with a fuller success, nor deserved it more... The performers deserve every sort of commendation for their spirited exertion in supporting the respective characters, especially Smith, King and the incomparable Mrs Abington" (Gazetteer, 9 May). "To my great astonishment there were more parts performed admirably in The School for Scandal than I almost ever saw in any play. Mrs Abington was equal to the first of her profession, Yates (the husband), Parsons, Miss Pope, and Palmer, all shone. It seemed a marvellous resurrection of the stage. Indeed, the play had as much merit as the actors. I have seen no comedy that comes near it since The Provoked Husband" (Walpole [13 July 1777], X, 82). Receipts: #224 10s. (215.12.0; 8.14.6; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Yates, Dodd, Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley, Aickin, Packer, Farren, Lamash, Gaudry, R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin, Smith, Miss Pope,Miss P. Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Mrs Abington. [Cast from Public Advertiser, 9 May: Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Crabtree-Parsons; Moses-Baddeley; Rowley-Aickin; Snake-Packer; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Sir Harry Bumper-Gaudry; Gentlemen-R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin; Charles Surface-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington; Prologue-King; Epilogue-Mrs Abington. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

4832
09 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "A Gentleman who is as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a length" (David Garrick to R. B. Sheridan, 12 May 1777, in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl, 1963, III, 1163). Receipts: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

4833
26 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 2 June: Received for Stage Forfeits this Season #12 14s. 8d.; 5 June: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #80. Receipts: #209 5s. 6d. (208.15.0; 0.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks in place of Robson.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

4834
11 June 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "[Henderson] appears to have cultivated the gifts of nature, with great industry; he promises better to attain the character of a player of consummate judgment than a great player, properly so called. Edwin, in spite of his thin voice and disgusting articulation, is at least equal to half his London contemporaries; and exhibited proofs that neither his conception, nor style of playing, is limited to a particular cast of parts, or mode of acting" (London Magazine, June 1777, p. 288). [ Miss Barsanti was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Henderson (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance in London); Antonio-Younger; Bassanio-Davies; Salanio-Egan; Solarino-T. Davis; Lorenzo (with songs)-Du-Bellamy; Old Gobbo-Blissett; Tubal-Massey; Launcelot-Edwin; Duke-Fearon; Gratiano-Palmer; Nerissa-Mrs Hunter; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Hitchcock; Portia-Miss Barsanti (1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End III: The Merry Lasses-; End IV: The Venetian Regatta- [performers not listed for either dance, but "Monsieur Giorgi's infantile pupils, as dancers, were a complete burlesque upon a corps de ballet. The audience laughed, and tolerated the poor little things, when they were pushed on between the acts to caper and lose their shoes" (Peake, II, 15-16)]

Performance Comment: The audience laughed, and tolerated the poor little things, when they were pushed on between the acts to caper and lose their shoes" (Peake, II, 15-16)].

4835
24 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Henderson's 1st recorded appearance as Falstaff was at Bath, 6 Mar. 1777. "In the frolicksome, gay, and humourous situations of Falstaff Henderson is superior to every man...His soliloquy in describing his ragamuffin regiment, and his enjoying the misuse of the king's press-money are so truly excellent that they are not inferior to any comic representation of the stage" (Davies, I, 252-53).] Afterpiece: Never performed here. The Musick composed by Dr Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Hotspur-Aickin; King-Younger; Westmorland-Egan; Sir W. Blunt-T. Davis; Sir Richard Vernon-Davies; Worcester-Fearon; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Massey; Peto-Kenny; Gadshill-Besford; Francis-Edwin; Carriers-Jackson, Blissett; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs Love; Lady Percy-Mrs Colles.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Egan

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: Leander-Bannister; Pantaloon-Edwin; Colombine-Mrs Hitchcock; Isabel-Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Bannister

4836
30 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [This was Foote's last appearance on the stage. He died on 21 Oct. 1777.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: The Venetian Regatta, as17770611

4837
07 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Performance Comment: Richard III. Richard-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); King Henry-Younger; Catesby-T. Davis; Ratcliff-Egan; Lieutenant-R. Palmer; Lord Mayor-Massey; Buckingham-Aickin; Tressel-Davies; Stanley-Fearon; Norfolk-Griffiths; Tyrrell-Kenny; Oxford-Stevens; Prince Edward-Miss Francis; Duke of York-Master Edwin; Richmond-Palmer; Lady Anne-Mrs Hunter; Duchess of York-Mrs Poussin; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Massey (1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4838
10 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Digges (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Heartfree-Aickin; Constant-Davies; Lord Rake-Egan; Justice-Massey; Constable-Griffiths; Watchmen-Jackson, Besford; Razor-R. Palmer; Taylor-Blissett; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Lisley; Belinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Mademoiselle-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Brute-Mrs Hunter.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End: Dance-

4839
22 September 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Author of Prologue unknown. In afterpiece the playbill assigns Leander to Mahon, but "after the play Hull made a genteel apology for the non-attendance of Mahon...who, by some unaccountable accident, was not arrived in town, at the same time begging their acceptance of a young Gentleman' (Morning Post, 23 Sept.). For Bowles as Leander see 10 Oct.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Sarjant (only) at the Stage-Door. No Persons admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Oct.]. Receipts: #187 13s. (186.4; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Reinhold; Leander-Bowles?; Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Green; Leonora-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Bowles?

4840
08 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-Wroughton; Sealand-Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Tom-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [Death]); Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Poussin; Indiana-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Clarke
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: End III: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

Song: II: song [I have lost my Anna]-Leoni

4841
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Hull, altered from The School for Guardians by Arthur Murphy. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser 19 Nov.]: With New Dresses, &c. The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by Dr Arne, Sacchini and Fisher. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in Love Finds the Way (6d.). [Miss Courtenay is identified in the Airs.] Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Mattocks, Quick, Wilson, Wewitzer, Fearon, Mrs Farrell, Miss Brown, Mrs Wilson, A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage Miss Courtenay]). [Cast from Airs (J. Bell, 1777) and Public Advertiser, 19 Nov.: Young Brumpton-Mattocks; Oldcastle-Quick; Lovibond-Wilson; Peter-Wewitzer; Sir Theodore Brumpton-Fearon; Bellford-Mrs Farrell; Mary@Ann-Miss Brown; Bridget-Mrs Wilson; Harriet-Miss Courtenay.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

4842
23 December 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Performers and Others retiring from the Stage. Receipts: #88 3s. (87.3; tickets: 1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Comus

4843
02 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: To conclude with a grand View of Greenwich Hospital designed by DeLoutherbourg. [This was included in all subsequent performances; notice of the two New Scenes (see 1 Jan.) is omitted. Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Capt. Bobadil at Bath, 21 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #230 1s. 6d. (204.9.0; 25.0.6; 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

4844
03 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Wright]); Don Carlos-Lewis; Don Alvarez-L'Estrange; Don Manuel-Robson; Don Alonzo-Wroughton; Isabella-Miss Ambrose; Leonora-Mrs Hartley; New Occasional Prologue-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

4845
08 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Mahon; Artaxerxes-Mrs Farrell; Semira-Miss Dayes; Mandane-A Young Lady (1st appearance on this stage [Miss Twist].)Miss Twist].)
Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

4846
17 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With a Grand Procession of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalryv. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] With new Dresses, and the Scenery entirely new painted. [Miss Simson is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #226 6s. 6d. (204.10.0; 21.12.0; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Vernon; Merlin-Bannister; Dorus-Parsons; Daemon of Revenge-Legg; Dorilas-Chaplin; Damon-Lamash; Linco-Dodd; Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Wrighten; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Shepherdesses-Miss Collett, Mrs Davies; Sylvia-A Young Lady (1st appearance upon any stage [Miss Simson]).Miss Simson]).
Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: [the following new Dances composed] by Gallet:I: [a Dance of Cupids-; IV: [a Dance of Daemons-; to conclude: Grand Ballet-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Music: Mainpiece: With a New Overture, and additional Airs, Chorusses-; the whole of the Music composed by Michael Arne

4847
20 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Wilkinson (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Mr Johnson-Hull; Mr Smith-Clarke; other Characters-Quick, Dunstall, Whitfield, Robson, Wewitzer, Baker, L'Estrange, Death, Jones, Fearon, Thompson, Cushing, Fox, Smith, Stevens, Mrs Poussin, Miss Green, Miss Morris, Miss Dayes. With a Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Raised Troops [for which, and for a list of the other parts, see dl, 13 Dec. 1777].for which, and for a list of the other parts, see dl, 13 Dec. 1777].

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

4848
10 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Benedick at Bath, 5 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #243 8s. 6d. (220.10.0; 22.16.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Bannister

Dance: II: a Masquerade, Dance, proper to the play-; To conclude with: [a Country Dance-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

4849
17 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [This has hitherto been stated to be Ross's last appearance on the stage, but he acted subsequently in Edinburgh and Dublin, and at the Royalty, 21 Nov. 1787.] Receipts: #121 14s. (118.17.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

4850
06 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season. Mrs Farrell's cantata is identified in London Chronicle, 9 Mar.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode

Song: Between: As there are very few songs in Acis and Galatea that can be adapted for Mrs Farrell's voice, she will sing a cantata The rosy morn with crimson dye=-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Part I: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-probably Linley Jun