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1893 results for: Keyword - English and Spanish Fleets
We found 1112 matches on Performance Title, 518 matches on Event Comments, 335 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1101
03 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Cast
Role: Edward Sandford Actor: Wood
Role: Caroline Sandford Actor: Miss Harper

1102
03 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 1st night of The Agreeable Surprise, but Miss Harper was ill, and the farce was changed. Its substitute has not as yet come to light. Public Advertiser, 4 Sept.: Miss Harper being somewhat recovered from the indisposition which prevented her performing yesterday evening...will attempt to go through her part in The Agreeable Surprise this evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

1103
04 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Separate Maintenance, announced on playbill of 3 Sept.] Afterpiece [1st time: MF 2]: Written by the Author of The Son-in-Law [John O'Keeffe]. The Overture and New Musick composed by Dr Arnold. The new Scenes painted by Rooker. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Larpent MS 568; text 1st published (authorized), Cumberland's British Theatre, XXXI.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

1104
15 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

1105
02 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

1106
06 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Medea and Jason [also announced on playbill of 5 July] cannot be performed on account of the Indisposition of Mme Dagueville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17820613

1107
22 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Old Woman and Dr Caterpillar Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson
Role: Genius of Ireland Actor: Brett

Dance: As17820817

1108
31 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Old Woman and Dr Caterpillar Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson
Role: Genius of Ireland Actor: Brett

Dance: As17820826

1109
06 March 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End of Act II New Divertistment, as17821130, but added: Mme Simonet; End of Act III Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128

Song: Opera: With a new set of Airs, and an additional Scene, with a song from the celebrated Sarti, by Pacchierotti

Monologue: 1783 03 06 End of Opera an Address in English to the Audience, with a song from Handel, by Pacchierotti

1110
28 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End of Act I II Riposo del Campo, as17830603 with a Pas Seul, as17830531; End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830614 End of Act III The famous new ballet The Four Nations, performed but twice at the Pantheon [on 17 and 24 June, when it was announced as composed by Lepicq, "representing four different Nations: Mme Simonet the French, Slingsby and Mlle Theodore the English, Zuchelli and Sga Crespi the African, Lepicq and Mme Rossi the Cosaque-Polonois, with several Pas de Deux, each of them suited to the National Characters"]

1111
27 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Cast
Role: , Vocal and Rhetorical Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Landlord Actor: Usher
Role: Goddess of Health and Genius of Nonsense Actor: Miss Hooke

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

1112
13 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830917

Song: In Act I of afterpiece a favourite song by Sga Sestini; In Act II she will introduce the celebrated tune of Marlborough, with English words adapted to it

1113
22 March 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Cuyler. [Kean is identified on HAY playbill of 26 Aug. 1784.] 1st and 2nd pieces: Both written by George Colman, Esq. 3rd piece: Written by the late David Garrick. Not acted these 12 years. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cuyler, No. 7, St. Alban's-street; at the bar of George's Coffee-house; and of Rice, at the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken. Tickets delivered for the 15th will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Monologue: 1784 03 22 End of 2nd piece Shuter's Post-haste Observations on his Journey to Paris by Dutton

1114
02 June 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election Of The Managers

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

1115
09 July 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

1116
01 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2. MS: Larpent 693; not published; synopsis of plot in Town and Country Magazine, supra]: Taken from a Piece written by Smollett, never published or performed. [This attribution is open to question.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lord Randolph Actor: Wroughton
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites; or, The Pamper'd Nabob

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wewitzer, Bonnor, T. Kennedy, Helme, Stevens, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Mrs Morton, Mrs T. Kennedy. [Cast from Town and Country Magazine, Apr. 1785, p. 183: Mr Israel-Wewitzer; Enoch Israel-Bonnor; Juggle-T. Kennedy; Heartly-Helme; Blanchee-Stevens; Sir Simon Lollop-Edwin; Widow Winkle-Mrs Webb; Flam-Mrs Morton; Miss Naivette Winkle-Mrs T. Kennedy.] hathi. hathi.

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

1117
17 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Dance: End of mainpiece, by Giorgi's Scholars

1118
08 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: As17850706

1119
18 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Turk, and No Turk and Harlequin Teague [the latter announced on playbill of 16 July] are both postponed on account of the Indisposition of Parsons and Wewitzer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17850706

1120
14 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where

1121
21 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Widow's Vow

Dance: End of mainpiece The Polonoise by Master Degville and Miss De Camp

1122
15 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Cast
Role: Randal Actor: Bannister Jun.

1123
28 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece, as17860706

Monologue: 1786 07 28 Before mainpiece an Introductory Address, on the 1st appearance of the Young Lady, spoken by Bannister Jun

1124
20 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: Lionel-Kelly (1st appearance on the English stage); Colonel Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Williames; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Miss Collett; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Forster; Clarissa-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Chaplin

Song: [Kelly introduced a song by Giuseppe Sarti with English words by Richard Tickell, and a duet composed by himself and Stephen Storace with words by French Laurence (Kelly, I, 296). Neither one of these is listed on the playbill]

1125
14 June 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise