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7385 results for: Keyword - M. P. King
We found 2868 matches on Performance Comments, 2862 matches on Event Comments, 2650 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4751
02 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Perseverance or The Third Time the Best

Entertainment: Monologue. End: As17890514

4752
08 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Poluscenicon

Dance: In 3rd piece: Byrne, Ratchford, Cranfield, Jackson, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Mrs Goodwin

Song: End 1st piece: Four and Twenty Fidlers-Edwin; In III 2nd piece: Epithalamium-; Vocal Parts-Cubitt, Darley, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

4753
22 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Swop

4754
11 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: The Family Party

Dance: As17890708

4755
01 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: As17890728

4756
05 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Friends Or The Benevolent Planters

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: In: a new dance, Liberty or We Slaves Rejoice-

Entertainment: Monologues End 2nd piece: As17890617 Preceding: An Address to the Humane Society on the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the character of a Negro , by-Kemble; End 3rd piece: Belles have at Ye All-Mrs Kemble

Cast
Role: God save the King Actor: Chapman, Chambers, Mathews.

4757
10 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club i

Afterpiece Title: The Comet or How to Come at Her

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Afterpiece Title: The Benevolent Planters

Dance: As17890805

Entertainment: Monologue As17890617

Cast
Role: God save the King Actor: Chapman, Chambers, Mathews.

4758
24 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

4759
07 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

4760
10 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

4761
13 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

4762
05 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

4763
14 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Sir Walter Ralegh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

4764
21 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

4765
26 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks or The Power of Witchcraft

Dance: In II: As17891209; Afterpiece conclude: Grand Ballet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp [which was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

Song: As17891209

4766
13 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

4767
22 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17900323

Song: End I afterpiece: The Knife Grinder's Song, composed and to be sung in character-Reeve

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: A New Occasional Prologue-Bernard

4768
29 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Mainpiece [1st time; C 4, author unknown, not in Larpent MS; not published. Epilogue by Robert Merry (World, 30 Apr.). On 11 May acted as The Female Pursuit]: Taken from Moor's Gil Blas. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Mrs Wells trusts the Public will have the Candour to excuse her not appearing in the Play, as the principal Woman's Character has many changes in it, and the Fatigue of going through various and numerous Imitations would render her incapable of undertaking it. Gazetteer, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 12, Weymouth-street, Portland-place. Receipts: #301 14s. (166.2; 10.1; tickets: 125.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure Or Stop Her Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409

Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells

4769
18 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: End II: The Memorable 13th of September; or, The Defeat of the Spaniards before Gibraltar-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Monody to the Memory of [that distinguished Philanthropist, John Howard Esquire [on whom the character of Haswell was founded]-Mrs Pope[, in the character of a Female Captive

4770
13 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling A Dramatic Caricature

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

4771
11 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End II: The Irish Lilt, as17901020

4772
27 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour or Harlequin Animated

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance of Fairies and Pantomimic Characters-Hamoir, the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

4773
01 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

4774
03 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

4775
06 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake or The Pugilist Matched

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr