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6622 results for: Keyword - Henry Lee
We found 4055 matches on Author, 1451 matches on Performance Comments, 1244 matches on Performance Title, 610 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4026
23 September 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Sedgwick; Simpkin-Suett; Skirmish-Bannister Jun.; Flint-Webb; Serjeant-Trueman; Soldiers-Maddocks, Wentworth, Evans; Louisa-Mrs Crouch; Jenny-Mrs Bland; Margaret-Mrs Maddocks.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Kelly

4027
25 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Sedgwick; Simkin-Russell; Skirmish-Bannister Jun.; Flint-Webb; Serjeant-Trueman; Louisa-Mrs Crouch; Jenny-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Kelly

Song: V: a song, as17990214

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-

4028
24 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Clarke; Simkin-Suett; Skirmish-Bannister Jun.; Flint-Webb; Serjeant-Trueman; Louisa-Mrs Crouch; Jenny-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Kelly

Entertainment: Vaudeville In II afterpiece: Military Manoeuvres-; [the Dead March-; [the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

4029
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

4030
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performances

4031
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

4032
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

4033
05 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry the Eighth [announced on playbill of 3 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #209 6s. (205/18; 3/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

4034
01 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera a new Ballet (composed by D'Egville) L'Amour Jardinier by Vestris, Fabiani, Sga Carolina Pitrot, Mlle Mozon, the two Mlles Simonet, Duquesney Jun., Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli

Performance Comment: , Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli .

4035
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jepthas Rash Vow Or The Virgin Sacrificd

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

4036
22 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4037
09 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

4038
23 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

4039
23 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: II: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers; III: The Gypsies-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street (Gerhardi's Scholars); V: A Minuet-the two Miss Rogers's (Mr Noverre's Scholars); End: A Dance call'd The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers-Miss Street, Mas. Gherardy, first appearance on English Stage

4040
16 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

4041
19 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

4042
21 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4043
09 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee.
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

4044
21 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee.
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; End: The Medley, as17641120

4045
04 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Lee Lewes
Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Quality Author(s): John Lee

Dance: I: A Minuet-Holloway, Miss Cranfield; II: A Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Masters (Daughter of the late Mr Lalauze)

4046
29 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Cast
Role: Vane Actor: Lee Lewes
Related Works
Related Work: The Chapter of Accidents Author(s): Sophia Lee

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Song: As17820423

4047
17 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Cast
Role: Vane Actor: Lee Lewes
Related Works
Related Work: The Chapter of Accidents Author(s): Sophia Lee

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End of mainpiece a new pantomimical Dance, Anticipation; or, Harlequin's Visit to Greenwich on Whit-Monday, in which will be introduced two favorite Scenes from Harlequin Skeleton. The Pantomime Parts by W. Bates, Baker, Jones, Stevens; Miss Matthews; the Dance by Aldridge, Langrish, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17820423; End of Dance Rule Britannia by Darley

4048
22 September 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Cubitt, Darley, Bonville, Lee, Rock, Janson, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Rowson, Miss Paye, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Kennedy

4049
15 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: End: God save the King-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Rock, Bonville, Janson, Lee

4050
21 September 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: As17890914, but Vocal Parts-Lee, W. _Thompson, Miss +MacGeorge, Mrs +Lefevre