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9971 results for: Keyword - King</i> and $<span class=
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 25 matches on Author.

5526
15 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5527
17 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing the afterpiece before the Benefits. A duel with pistols between George? Garrick and Baddeley on account of G. Garrick remon[stratin]g with Baddeley on [receiving] his wife's salary. Baddeley fir'd then G. G. fir'd in the air, and a reconciliation took place (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney's News Clippings). [See full and humorous acct Town and Country Magazine, March, pp. 157-58 with woodcut of duel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5528
19 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Sosia Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Cast
Role: Speaking Actor: Garrick

5529
24 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris

5530
26 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Part of pit laid into boxes. ["On 25 March Mrs Baddeley set off for Dublin, induced by her husband's behaviour" (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney's News Clippings). But she was advertised as singing the part of Rhodope in the afterpiece the night of the twenty-sixth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Related Works
Related Work: Odenato and Zenobia Author(s): Teresa Bandettino

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17690926

5531
29 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17700324 but Urganda-Mrs Scott (playbill); Mrs Baddeley (Public Advertiser). Original Epilogue-_.
Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

5532
05 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Related Works
Related Work: Odenato and Zenobia Author(s): Teresa Bandettino

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5533
16 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Hopkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17690926

5534
18 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5535
19 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Bensley
Role: Buckingham Actor: Wignell

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17700402

5536
23 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons and J. Aickin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

5537
24 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5538
25 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

5539
28 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jeffries and Mrs Wrighten. Tickets deliver'd for Woman is a Riddle will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Sosia Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Song: I: A Cantata call'd Queen Mab or the Fairies' Jubilee-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: Minuet, Allemande-Daigueville, Miss Ross [as17700427

5540
30 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes and Mrs W. Barry (playbill). [N.B. Winston suggests Cymbeline this night, but all extant playbill evidence favors Cymon. "Sir Joshua Reynolds purchased portrait of Garrick as Abel Drugger by Zoffany for #100" (Winston MS 10, from Burney News Clippings).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: III: As17700428

5541
01 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the House. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Sometime after May, and during 1770 was published Paul Hiffernan's Dramatic Genius in Five Books, dedicated to Garrick (with a 2nd edn., 1772). Book I, delineates a plan for a permanent Temple to be erected to the memory of Shakespeare, in classical taste; Book II, details the invention of the drama, its rise to perfection, and gives a "candid disquisition of the rules laid down by the critics"; Book III, a treatise on the art of acting; Book IV, requisites for dramatic genius, in composition, and in acting; Book V, an essay on Architecture, Painting and the other arts as they relate to theatrical representation. Contains flattering comments on theatrical managers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Related Works
Related Work: Odenato and Zenobia Author(s): Teresa Bandettino

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

5542
04 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Burton ["Died Miss Weller, aged 19, pupil of Dr Arne, appeared at dl as Polly, and Carissa, in School for Fathers" (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney's Newspapers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Trim Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Dance: II: As17700428 I of the Farce: A Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Ward

Entertainment: V: Bucks Have At Ye All-Mas Cape

5543
09 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Orlando Actor: Reddish

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: I: As17700428 V: The English Gardeners, as17691206

Entertainment: BBucks Have at ye All-Palmer

5544
10 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Miss Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17690926; End: Minuet and Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers (his Scholar)

5545
12 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcet and Mrs J. Johnston. Being the last time of performing the Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: III: As17700428

5546
18 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for W. Palmer, Booth and Kear. Tickets deliver'd by Jacobs and Costin will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Copper Captain Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Song: End: A Hunting Song-Kear

Ballet: IV: The May Day Garland. As17700517

Cast
Role: Housemaid Actor: Mrs King.

5547
19 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnston (Housekeeper and Box-bookkeeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: As17691214, but Blandford-Hartry; Lady Restless-Mrs Hopkins; Clarissa-Mrs W. Barry; Brush-Castle; Tattle-Mrs Bradshaw; Tippet-Mrs Millidge.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Hartry
Role: Sir John Restless Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: I: As17700428 V: Comic Dance, as17690926

5548
22 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough and Wheeler, Mrs Cross and Mrs Millidge. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire Being positively the last time of performing it this season. Tickets deliver'd for The Way to Keep Him will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: Linco Actor: King
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet
Role: With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Diff Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

5549
22 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Fox, Hamilton and Bates. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 14s. 6d. Deficit to each actor #5 9s. 1 1!2d., covered by income from tickets: Quick #45 13s. (Box 40; Pit 169; Gallery 103); Fox #54 13s. (Box 60; Pit 219; Gallery 68); Hamilton #28 12s. (Box 40; Pit 72; Gallery 78); Bates #27 3s. (Box 28; Pit 69; Gallery 98). Paid Mr Osborne the Balance due for Benefit of New General Lying in Hospital the 22d Dec. last #10 17s. 6d. Half values from tickets receiv'd from Rose, Wilkinson, Mrs Griffiths, Flight, Roberts, Robson, Norbury, Fransdorf, Miller, and Walker (Account Book). Receipts: #43 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

5550
24 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund. Kitely-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Pit and Boxes laid together. Ad[mission] to Boxes only through Boxes (Winston MS 10). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Bobadil Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: V: The Butterfly-Daigville, Sga Vidini