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We found 2032 matches on Performance Comments, 517 matches on Event Comments, 103 matches on Performance Title, 13 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Love; Ford-Havard; Sir Hugh Evans-Yates; Slender-Dodd; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Shallow-Parsons; Host-Bransby; Fenton-Strange; Simple-Vaughan; Ann Page-Mrs Hippisley; Wm Page-Miss Rogers; Pistol-Ackman; Bardolph-Clough; Nym-Watkins; Rugby-Marr; Page-Hurst; Mrs Page-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Shallow Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Dodd, first time; Col. Standard-Bensley, first time; Smuggler-Parsons; Vizard-Hurst; Beau Clincher-Yates; Clincher Jun-King; Dicky-Vaughan; Tom Errand-Clough; Lady Darling-Mrs Cross; Parly-Mrs Bennet; Angelica-Miss Plym; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Dodd, first appearance that stage.
Cast
Role: Smuggler Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Roderigo-Dodd; Othello-Powell; Cassio-Palmer; Ludovico-Hurst; Brabantio-Burton; Duke-Bransby; Iago-Holland; Montano-Aickin; Gratiano-Parsons; Emilia-Mrs Lee; Messenger-Strange; Desdemona-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Gratiano Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hobby Horse

Performance Comment: Characters-King, Palmer, Dodd, Love, Moody, Aickin, Parsons, Miss Pope, Miss Plym, Ackman, Burton, Mas. Burton, Clough, Johnson, Watkins, West, Strange, Mrs Hippisley; Prologue-Bensley. [Larpent MS 253 lists parts: Lord Helicon; Sarj. Fallow; Capt. Scarlet; Capt. Dangle; Martingal; Rhymer; Metaphor; Folio; 1st Buck; 2nd Buck; Oats; Joe; John; Pamphlet; Waiter; Miss Flirt; Miss Martingal; Tripit. Farce by Capt. Edward Thompson.]Larpent MS 253 lists parts: Lord Helicon; Sarj. Fallow; Capt. Scarlet; Capt. Dangle; Martingal; Rhymer; Metaphor; Folio; 1st Buck; 2nd Buck; Oats; Joe; John; Pamphlet; Waiter; Miss Flirt; Miss Martingal; Tripit. Farce by Capt. Edward Thompson.]

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: Patie-Vernon; Sir William Worthy-Packer; Roger-Moody; Symon-Parsons; Bauldy-Love; Glaud-Bransby; Jenny-Mrs Hopkins; Mause-Mrs Love; Madge-Johnston; Elspa-Mrs Bradshaw; Peggy (With Thro the Wood Laddie)-Miss Wright.
Cast
Role: Symon Actor: Parsons

Entertainment: RRalph Ramble, or O Rare London-King, at End of Play By Particular Desire, followed by

Dance: %New Tambourine, as17660123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17660407 but Jane Shore-Mrs Hopkins, first time; Catesby-Parsons; Belmour-Strange.
Cast
Role: Catesby Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: By Desire, a Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley; End I of the Farce: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Col Fainwell-Palmer; Freeman-Packer; Modelove-Baddeley; Prim-Moody; Tradelove-Burton; Sacbut-Bransby; Perrowinkle-Parsons; Simon Pure-Vaughan; Mrs Prim-Mrs Bradshaw; Betty-Mrs Smith; Mrs Lovely-Miss Plym; Act I, a Hornpipe-Miss Tetley.
Cast
Role: Perrowinkle Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17660207

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Mat@o@Mint-Kear; Beggar-Burton; Player-Strange; Lucy-Mrs Abington; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Miss Wright; In Act III, Hornpipe-Mrs King; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Filch Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Hermit-Kear; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Clown-Ackman; Others-Parsons, Castle, Strange, Johnston, Keen, Watkins, West, Mas. Burton, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Bradshaw; Colombine-Mrs King; Dances-Sg Giorgi, Tassoni, Sga Giorgi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: Manly-Holland; Freeman-Palmer; Novel-Dodd; Lord Plausible-Parsons; Major Oldfox-Love; Vernish-Packer; Jerry Blackacre-Yates; Quillett-Baddeley; Oakum-Moody; Fidelia-Miss Plym,1st time; Olivia-Miss Pope; Eliza-Mrs Lee; Widow Blackacre-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lord Plausible Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Performance Comment: Characters-Moody, Baddeley, Parsons, Castle, Strange, Watkins; Fairies-Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, Mas. Cape, Miss Wright; To conclude with a Fairy Dance-Miss Rogers, Miss Ford.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Face-Palmer; Subtle-Burton; Lovewit-Packer; Anaias-Parsons; Kastril-Yates; Surly-Baddeley; Dapper-Dodd; Tribulation-Hartry, 1st appearance on this stage; Sir Epicure-Love; Abel Drugger-Garrick; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Anaias Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Coupee-Dodd; Goodall-Parsons; Quaver-Fawcett; Blister-Love; Thomas-Strange; Miss Lucy-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Goodall Actor: Parsons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Smith-Burton; Johnson-Palmer; Others-Yates, Packer, Weston, Hurst, Parsons, Moody, Castle, Bransby, Fox, Marr, Ackman, Kear, Keen, Johnston, Strange, Rooker, Watkins, Miss Pearce, Mrs Hippisley, Miss Mills, Miss Rogers; With an Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Music: I: A Concerto on the Harpsichord, as17661203

Dance: II: The Jealous Peasant, as17661111; End: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Filch Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Holland; Horatio-Packer; Ghost-Bransby; Rosencrans-Strange; King-Love; Guildenstern-Fawcett; Polonius-Baddeley; Bernardo-Marr; Marcellus-Ackman; Laertes-Aickin; Osrick-Dodd; Gravediggers-Parsons, Castle; Lucianus-Weston; Player King-Burton; Ophelia-Mrs Baddeley; Player Queen-Mrs Johnson; Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Gravediggers Actor: Parsons, Castle

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Moody; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Mat@o@Mint-Kear; Lucy-Mrs Abington; Beggar-Burton; Player-Strange; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Johnston; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: Filch Actor: Parsons

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Mrs King; A Country Dance-

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Vernon; Merlin( with song )-Bannister, 1st appearance; Dorus-Parsons; Dorilas-Fawcett; Damon-Fox; Demon of Revenge-Champness; Linco-King; Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Abington; 1st Shepherdess-Miss Reynolds; 2nd Shepherdess-Mrs Dorman; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Sylvia-Mrs Arne; Dance-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Duquesney, Miss Rogers, Miss Collett, Sga Giorgi, Mrs King; Concluded with a grand procession of the knights of the different orders of chivalry and the shepherds of Arcadia-.
Cast
Role: Dorus Actor: Parsons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Coupee-Dodd; Goodwill-Parsons; Blister-Love; Quaver-Fawcett; Thomas-Strange; Lucy-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Goodwill Actor: Parsons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Claudio-Palmer; Dogberry-Parsons; Don Pedro-Packer; Leonato-Havard; Balthazar (with song)-Vernon; John-Aickin; Antonio-Hurst; Borachio-Ackman; Town Clerk-Baddeley; Sexton-Weston; Beatrice-Miss Pope; Hero-Mrs Baddeley, 1st time; In Act II, a Masquerade Dance proper to the play, -Grimaldi; To Conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Dogberry Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Cast
Role: Goodwill Actor: Parsons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Lycidas

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Raworth, DuBellamy, Baker, Legg, Dibdin, Rennaldson, Ward, Webbe, Riley, Cotes, Parsons, Johnston, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Mrs Pinto.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Lord Chalkstone-Garrick; Charon-Moody; Old Man-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley; Bowman-Ackman; Drunken Man-Love; Fine Gentleman-Dodd; Mercury-Vernon; Aesop-Bransby; Fine Lady-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Parsons

Dance: II: The Gardners Holiday, as17671120; End: Hearts of Oak, as17671022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Palmer; Brazen-King; Justice Balance-Havard; Worthy-Packer; Serjent Kite-Bransby; Bullock-Moody; Welsh Collier-Baddeley; Recruits-Parsons, Messink; Lucy-Mrs Love; Rose-Miss Reynolds; Melinda-Mrs Reddish; Sylvia-Mrs Dancer.
Cast
Role: Recruits Actor: Parsons, Messink

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: II: The Gardners Holiday, as17671120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: Plain Dealer-Holland; Freeman-Palmer; Novel-King; Lord Plausible-Parsons; Major Oldfox-Love; Vernish-Packer; Jeremy Blackacre-Weston, 1st time; Quillett-Baddeley; Oakam-Moody; Fidelia-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Olivia-Mrs Pope; Eliza-Miss Reynolds; Widow Blackacre-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lord Plausible Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion