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1626 results for: Keyword - MMr Lee
We found 824 matches on Performance Comments, 606 matches on Author, 329 matches on Event Comments, 33 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
09 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee & Mr Evans [sub-treasurer]. Tickets sold at doors will not be taken. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17640425 but Aboan-Lee; Imoinda-Mrs Palmer; Hotman-Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Aboan Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petrucio

Dance: II: Dance of Slaves, as17640425 The Cow@Keepers, as17640504

Song: I: The Song of Sweet Bird-Mrs Vincent; accompanied on violin-Pinto as17640427

Entertainment: II: King as Mr Prattle, will open a Packet of News (for that night only), as17640403

102
19 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers, Veal, and Broad. Mr Lee read Lord Trinket (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17640225, but Harriet-Mrs Palmer; Trinket-Lee; Toilet-Mrs Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Trinket Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe, as17640514

103
08 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Philips and Mrs Lee. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Williams and Miss Berkeley will be admitted. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, and Dress'd in the Habits of the Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17641113, but Queen-Mrs Lee, 1st time; Lord Mayor-Philips.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lee, 1st time
Role: Buckingham Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Serv't Actor: Lee

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

104
08 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin and Mrs Lee. House Charges #33 8s. Rec'd stopages #2 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd by Sg Giorgi and Miss Berkley will be admitted. Neville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see 2nd part of Henry IV. [Comments on performances of individual characters in general.] Falstaff very well by Love. This last uses his eyes with great propriety in this and many other characters....Pistol by Baddeley (King should have played it)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King-Powell; Prince of Wales-Aickin, 1st time; Prince John-J. Palmer; Moldy-Moody; Pistol-King; Gloster-J. Burton; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Lee; Achbp York-Havard; Clarence-Mas. Cape; Chief Justice-Bransby; Westmorland-Burton; Hastings-Ackman; Lord Bardolph-Fawcett; Feeble-Weston; Justice Shallow-Yates; Justice Silence-Rooker; Poins-Packer; Page-Miss Rogers; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Falstaff-Love [Public Advertiser assigns Pistol-$Baddeley.]
Cast
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Mrs Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Lee

Dance: End: A Minuet-Miss Giorgi, Miss Collett Scholars to Sg Giorgi; End I of the Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17670212, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

105
19 September 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Special License from the Lord Chamberlain, For One Night Only. Benefit for Lee. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 6:00 p.m. Both pieces By Particular Desire. Present, the King of Denmark. Receipts: #244 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Lee; Johnson-Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage; Smith-Casey; Prince Volscius-Keasberry, from the Theatre Royal in Bath; Prince Prettyman-Loveman; Gentleman Usher-Vandermere; Physician-Graham; Drawcansir-Hamilton; Tom Thimble-Brownsmith; Chloris-Mrs Graham; also a Grand Battle-Mr Bayes new rais'd Regiment of Horse.
Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

106
26 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: A reviv'd Farce of two acts. [See 9 Jan. 1764.] [Hereafter Lewes' name appears as Lee Lewes in the bills, apparently so he would not be confused with Lewis. Earlier (1769) his name appears in the Account Books as Le-Lewes seemingly to avoid confusion with another Lewis in the company at the time.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: No One's Enemy but His Own

Performance Comment: The Characters-Woodward, Shuter, Hull, Wroughton, Booth, Lee Lewes, Quick, Cushing, Mrs Lesingham, Miss Barsanti.
Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: Woodward, Shuter, Hull, Wroughton, Booth, Lee Lewes, Quick, Cushing, Mrs Lesingham, Miss Barsanti.

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928; III: The Merry Sailors-Aldridge [See17731007]; End: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

107
04 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Last Performance but two before the Holidays. Afterpiece: Never acted there. In the comic scenes will be introduced (as they were sung in Masqued and other Characters) the favorite songs, Ye Warwickshire Lads and Lasses, Sweet Willy O, The Mulberry Tree, and the Roundelay of Sisters of the Tuneful Strain. In the second act, a Statue of Shakespeare will be erected, and the ode on Dedicating a Temple to that great poet recited, with proper Airs and Chorusses-Particularly Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Tho' Crimes from Death and Torture Fly, the Characteristic Song on Falstaff, More Gentle than the Southern Gale, and Thou Soft-Flowing Avon. Part of Pit laid into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee at Stratford upon avon

Performance Comment: Drunken Man, Steward of the Jubilee-Lee; Principal vocal parts (comic and serious)-Reinhold, Mattocks, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Mrs Mattocks (playbill).
Cast
Role: Steward of the Jubilee Actor: Lee

Dance: End I Afterpiece: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

108
20 September 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Two Misers is unavoidably oblig'd to be deferr'd. Books of the Entertainment [The Two Misers?] to be had at the theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No persons admitted behind the scenes, nor any money returned after the curtain is up. Places for the Boxes to be taken, of Mr Sarjant (only) at the Stage Door. The Doors to be opened at Half after Five o'clock. To Begin exactly at Half after Six. Vivant Rex and Regina. (Customary footnote for succeeding Playbills. It will not be repeated here. The Westminster Magazine, September, p. 459, indicates a Prelude was also given this opening night, consisting of several of the actors comparing notes on their various successes, casts of parts, droll accidents, which they had experienced during their different summer excursions. Mattocks, Dunstall, Lee Lewes, Miss Barsanti, and Hull participated. The reviewer reported the content of their reminiscences, but disliked the jumbled nature of the Prelude. Another account in the Morning Post, 21 September.] Note: For performance at hay 20 September, see Season of 1774-1775, p. 1905

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Woodward; Strickland-Clarke; Frankly-Lewis; Bellamy-Wroughton; Jack Meggot-Lee Lewes; Tester-Quick; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Mrs Lessingham; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Jack Meggot Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

109
23 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Mainpiece: With the characters for the time in old English Dresses, By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17760222, but Lear-Lee; Edgar-Lewis; Burgandy-Booth; Arante-Mrs Masters; Cordelia-a Young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage.
Cast
Role: Lear Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

110
16 December 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In 2 acts, taken from Wycherley [by John Lee (Public Advertiser, 14 Dec.)]. Paid Pattinson, Tallow Chandler, #41 19s. Receipts: #167 18s. (166.9.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Lee; The Country Wife (1st time)-Mrs Wilson. see17761221 .
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): John Lee

111
27 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece 1st time; F 2, by Ursula Agnes Booth, based on the same, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The playbill lists Death in place of Lee Lewes, but he 'Was not to be found...Hull begged permission for Lee Lewes to read Death's part in his own undress, which [was] granted" (London Chronicle, 28 Apr.).]. Books of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 15, Drury-lane. Receipts: #262 2s. (157.2; tickets: 105.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Performance Comment: Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Thompson, Booth, Lee Lewes, L'Estrange, Fearon, Wewitzer, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lessingham. [Cast from text (J. Bell, 1778): Le Writ-Quick; Dupre-Whitfield; Verdone-Thompson; Beaupre-Booth; Mellefont-[read byLee Lewes [in text: Death]; Vertaign-L'Estrange; Champernel-Fearon; Sampson-Wewitzer [in text: Wilson]; Agnes-Mrs Poussin; Viletta-Mrs Willems; Lamira-Mrs Lessingham.

Dance: End monologue: The Poney Races, as17780421

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick

112
29 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lord Lumbcrcourt to Wilson, but "Lee Lewes was the substitute for Wilson, and far indeed better than the man he appeared for" (Public Advertiser, 31 Jan.).] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by John O'KeerFe]: The Music composed by Shield. The Scenery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and others. The 1st Part of this Pantomime is an Alteration of the Last New One [Friar Bacon (see 23 Dec. 1783)], and the 2nd Part entirely new and never before exhibited. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. "If Macklin once loses the Catch Word he is gone irretrievably." At the end of the 3rd act, at half price, some apprentices coming into the pit talked so loudly that "Macklin stopped; he lost himself. ... He came to the Side of the Stage, and stooping down to the Talkers, said, 'Gentlemen, I must beg you to be silent; my Hearing and Recollection are not so perfect as they were; I cannot proceed for your Talking'" (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.). Receipts: #286 14s. (282/15; 3/19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Pertinax Macsycophant-Macklin; Lord Lumbercourt-Lee Lewes [of DL]; Sydney-Aickin; Melville-Clarke; Counsellor Plausible-Wewitzer; Serjeant Eitherside-Booth; Egerton-Lewis; Constantia-Mrs Kemble; Betty Hint-Mrs Wilson; Lady Rodolpha Lumbercourt-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Lord Lumbercourt Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler; or, The Convent in an Uproar

113
11 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book, 21 Oct.: Paid Lee Lewes on cancelling his engagement #21. [Lee Lewes acted on the night of his benefit, 9 May 1785, but not again this season.] Receipts: #104 0s. 6d. (78/7/0; 25/12/0; 0/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Mr Ford-Smith; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Mr Page-Packer; Host of the Garter-Moody; Justice Shallow-Waldron; Fenton-Phillimore; Simple-Burton; Bardolph-Wright; Pistol-Alfred; Nym-Wilson; Slender-Dodd; Falstaff-[Lee] Lewes; Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Anne Page-Miss Field; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Ford-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

114
09 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for [Lee] Lewes. Receipts: #144 6s. (25/9/0; 14/15/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 103/14/0)(charge: #105 19s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17840930, but Brush-[Lee] Lewes .Lee] Lewes .

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: Meadows-[Lee] Lewes; Canteen-Suett; Young Wrongward-Phillimore; John-Burton; Joe-Wilson; Groom-Fawcett; Sternhold-Wrighten; Cook-Chaplin; William-Alfred; Old Wrongward-Baddeley; Sophia-Miss Palmer; Chambermaid-Miss Barnes; Betsy Blossom (with songs)-Mrs Wilson .

Dance: As17840918

115
10 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Incledon as Paris. but "An apology was made for Incledon, and his part was sustained by Mrs Lee" (Morning Herald, 11 Nov.).] Receipts: #211 9s. 6d. (202.10.6; 8.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fortune's Fool

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar

Performance Comment: As17961108, but Paris-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Paris Actor: Mrs Lee.

116
11 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Whitfield played the Author the first night, but so indifferently that the part was given to Lee Lewes on the 2d" [MS annotation on BM playbill (CG, Vol. III)]. Receipts: #231 8s. (227/5; 4/3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatic Puffers

Performance Comment: As17820209, but Lee Lewes in place of Whitfield .

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: After the Epilogue, as17811213

117
16 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the stage-door. The Doors will be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Oct.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Lee Lewes was from CG.] Receipts: #190 (153/7/0; 36/1/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-[Lee] Lewes (1st appearance upon that stage); Sir George Airy-Palmer; Charles-Barrymore; Sir Jealous Traffic-Baddeley; Whisper-Burton; Sir Francis Gripe-Parsons; Patch-Miss Pope; Isabinda-Miss Wheeler; Scentwell-Miss Tidswell; Miranda-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

118
21 November 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Handel is set out for Ireland, in order to have Oratorios, etc., at Dublin, this Winter.-Daily Advertiser, 21 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

119
22 October 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Handel proposes to perform by Subscription 24 times during the Winter Season and engages to exhibit two new Performances and several of his former Oratorios. 8 Guineas. At his House in Brooke St.

Performances

120
21 December 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Quin having a violent hoarseness renders us incapable of performing the Revenge as intended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

121
11 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick lies very ill of a Fever at his Lodgings in Covent Garden.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

122
17 September 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: MMr Yeates has taken particular Care there shall be no Disturbance, but everything shall be conducted with the utmost Decorum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

123
27 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Picq entered from Saturday last at 2 Guineas per week certain; Mr Matthews entered ditto at 30s. per week. Mr Granier for his Christmas performance #5 5s.; Mr Forrest, attorney, on account #100 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). We hear there is now in rehearsal a Farce of two acts call'd Miss in her Teens; and will be acted soon after the Holidays.-General Advertiser. Receipts: #77 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

124
12 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Indisposition having rendered him unable to perform on Monday next (the 16th instant) in the play of Jane Shore for Mrs Pritchard's Benefit, she begs leave to inform the Publick, that it is deferr'd till Monday the 23rd Instant; and Mr Garrick's till further Notice. Receipts: #100 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): John Lee

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

125
20 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Handell's Oratorio of Joseph. 3rd night, [i.e., of oratorios] (Account Books, Egerton 2268)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph And His Brethren