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5223 results for: Keyword - Henry the 8th
We found 3375 matches on Author, 1223 matches on Performance Title, 660 matches on Performance Comments, 431 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4476
03 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Noble (upholsterer) #52 5s.; Patrick (tinman) #44 11s.; Halford (leather gilder) #16 10s. Receipts: #219 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Davis, Cushing
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

4477
07 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Simpson for Dinner for the Orchestra #10 10s. Receipts: #173 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Davis, Cushing
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

4478
08 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of The Man of Business oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Bulkley. Receipts: #143 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Davis, Cushing
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

4479
15 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 29 Dec. 1769.] With the Restoration of a Captial Scene from the Original. Charges #68 19s. Profit to Shuter #130 3s., plus #68 from tickets (Box 185; Pit 145). Receipts: #199 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Smith; King-Clarke; Prince of Wales-Lewis, first time; Prince John-Harris; Douglas-Owenson; Westmorland-Thompson; Blunt-R. Smith; Vernon-Hull; Worcester-Gardner; Bardolph-Davis; Poins-Lewes; Francis-Cushing; Carriers-Dunstall, Quick; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Lady Percy-Mrs Hartley; Falstaff-Shuter (playbill). [The Public Advertiser assigns King-$Young.]
Cast
Role: The Public Advertiser assigns King Actor: Young.
Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17731221, but To conclude with The Cries of London-Shuter.
Cast
Role: To conclude with The Cries of London Actor: Shuter.

4480
17 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Davis, Cushing
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

4481
04 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _Davis, Cushing
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

4482
08 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 6 years. [See 29 Dec. 1769.] Charges #66 3s. 6d. Profit to Reinhold #66 7s. 6d., plus #111 9s. from tickets (Box 287; Pit 194; Gallery 106). Paid Mr Kingswood for feathers &c. #5 10s.; Paid Holmden (Breechesmaker) #1 13s. 6d.; Paid Fisher for the Music of the Sylphs #42; Paid Besford for making properties #20 15s. Receipts: #132 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Cast
Role: The Public Advertiser assigns King Actor: Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: As17740107, but The Soldier Tir'd-_; Leonora-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Soldier Tir'd Actor: Miss Catley.

Song: II: The Song of Mad Tom will be sung in Character-Reinhold

4483
20 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Night. For the Author. Charges #64 5s. Profit to Hull #51 9s., plus #68 15s. from tickets (Box 151; Pit 134; Gallery 109). Paid Holme & Cooper (timber merchants) #69 8s.; Paid Evans (sawyer) #3 1s. Receipts: #115 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416

Cast
Role: The Whim Actor: Aldridge, Miss Twist, see17730426
Role: A New Dance call'd The Pilgrim Actor: Mas. Harris, Miss Matthews
Role: A New Comic Dance call'd The Frolick Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon, Miss Besford

4484
30 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Cast
Role: The Public Advertiser assigns King Actor: Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Soldier Tir'd Actor: Miss Catley.

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March, but Principal Parts-_Reinhold, Owenson; Dance-Blurton

4485
05 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (only) at the Stage Door. Receipts: #106 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

4486
07 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Stede and T. Ansell. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd by Pilfold, Sherratt, Wilkinson, Mrs Hitchcock, Widow Emery, Widow Trott, Claridge and Doe will be taken as well as those delivered for Rule a Wife. Receipts: #39 15s. 6d. (Account Book). [No charges. House received the ready money receipts plus half-value of the tickets delivered]: @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value Half Value@Miss Stede 21 41 53 #16 14s. #8 7s.@Ansell 10 61 47 #16 7s. #8 3s. 6d.@Pilfold 43 284 74 #60 15s. #30 7s. 6d.@Sharratt .. 14 10 #3 2s. #1 11s.@Wilkinson 34 55 12 #17 19s. #8 19s. 6d.@Mrs Hitchcock 24 50 23 #14 6s. #7 3s.@Mrs Emery 15 84 100 #26 7s. #13 3s. 6d.@Mrs Trott 18 4 5 #5 12s. #2 16s.@Claridge 12 66 52 #18 2s. #9 1s.@Doe .. 36 54 #10 16s. #5 8s.@Total 177 685 430 #190 #95@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Cast
Role: The Public Advertiser assigns King Actor: Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: To Conclude with The Soldier Tir'd Actor: Miss Catley.

Dance: III: A Minuet (1st time)-Blurton, Miss Stede; End: A Hornpipe, in the character of a sailor-Miss Stede. [See17730522.

4487
23 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd for the deficient accounts from Actor's benefits (19 Actors) #211 9s. Receipts: #123 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Baker
Role: Others Actor: Rayner, Banks, Wild, Hamilton, Thompson, Hollingsworth, Holtom, Mrs Helme, Mrs White
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Blurton, Miss Besford.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

4488
06 July 1774 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: The composition of the drama with the characters of the King, Prince of Wales, Hotspur, and Falstaff will be particularly illustrated. [This is Kenrick's School of Shakespeare; repeated 9, 16, 20 (Falstaff's Wedding and Merchant of Venice), 29 (Cozeners and Falstaff's Wedding).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv, Part I

Song: To keep my gentle Jessy-DuBellamy; Where the Bee sucks-Miss Wewitzer

4489
17 January 1775 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Detailed reference to the Word Book for the alterations continues in the bill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: I: Grand Ballet, Chaconne-Mlle Baccelli; II: New Pastoral Ballet-Lany, Mlle Baccelli; End Opera: Le Bal Masquer-Lany, M and Mme Vallouis, Mlle Baccelli; with Pas de Deux, Allemande-Henry, Mlle Sophie

4490
17 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I, With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

4491
10 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I, With Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

Entertainment: End: Epilogue Riding on an Ass-Shuter; End I Farce: (By Particular Desire) the Cries of London-Shuter

4492
26 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Hurst, Burton, Lamash, R. Palmer, Wright, Fawcett, Kear, Master Pulley, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Edition of 1776

Dance: In II: a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing-Giorgi, Henry, Mrs Sutton; In: The Savage Hunters, as17761024

Song: In II: Masquerade Scene Singing-Mrs Scott

4493
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

4494
28 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "DuBellamy, who played Douglas, and was to have assailed Falstaff, during the combat between Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales [in V.iv], went up to undress, having forgot that his part was not finished" (Morning Chronicle, 29 July)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses, as17770611

4495
31 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hitchcock. These two parts are here transposed
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: As17770728

4496
02 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17770728

4497
13 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17770728

4498
21 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: As17770728

4499
13 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Performance Comment: As17770724 but Hotspur-Smith (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in London). 1st appearance in London).

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Related Works
Related Work: The Portrait Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17770728

4500
28 October 1777 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: [The performance is referred to in Gazetteer, 8 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth