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4008 results for: Keyword - Macklin and Wife
We found 2317 matches on Performance Title, 1418 matches on Performance Comments, 569 matches on Event Comments, 206 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3976
09 December 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid salary list #623 6s. 6d.; Mrs Cooper #1. (Treasurer's Book). [Mrs Cooper received this payment weekly hereafter in the same account with Heath and his wife. Her total #20. No further itemization will be made of the ammount.] Receipts: #124 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Cast
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Dance: III: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

3977
06 March 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha; Alexander's Feast, And The Coronation Anthems

Performance Comment: As17760301 but Parts were: Jephtha-; Zebul (his brother)-; Storage (his wife)-; Iphis (his Daughter)-; Hamor (in love with Iphis)-; Chorus of Israelites-(Larpent MS); Principal Singers-Dine.

Music: End I: Organ Concerto-Stanley; II: Violin Concerto-Linley Jr

3978
18 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Artful Wife, by William? Taverner. [1st time; C 3, by George Colman elder. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 20 May. Public Advertiser, 19 May, notes that the Prologue was the same as that spoken on 15 May 1777. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Servants to keep Places are to be at the door in Suffolk-street by Five o'clock. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. On account of the Performers employed at other Theatres the second Night of Representation cannot be till Thursday, the 21st inst. [On this night, the 18th, Baddeley's name is in the playbills at both dl and hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Aickin, Baddeley, R. Palmer, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvester, Parsons, Miss Sherry, Mrs Love, Miss Walton, Mrs Greville. Cast from London Chronicle, 20 May: Sir Harry Freelove-Palmer; Ned Winworth-Aickin; Servants-Baddeley, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvester; Young Upstart-R. Palmer; Mr Stockwell-Parsons; Mrs Upstart-Miss Sherry; Landlady-Mrs Love; Mademoiselle-Miss Walton; Belinda-Mrs Greville; The occasional Prologue on Opening the Theatre, with Alterations,-Palmer.
Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Parsons; The Squire-Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Candy Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses-(see17780529); End: Provencalle Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

3979
29 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Man and Wife, announced on playbill of 27 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Cast
Role: Mrs Candy Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses-Master and Miss Byrn

3980
17 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nix, Enoe, Nash, Kenny, Newton, Dupre, Pemberton, and for A Bold Stroke For A Wife and Cymon will be taken. Receipts: #40 13s. (27.19.0; 12.9.0; 0.4.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Faulkland Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

3981
20 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

3982
13 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Thompson, Griffiths & Nix. Tickets delivered for A Bold Stroke for a Wife will be taken. Receipts: #287 15s. (84/14; 20/15; 01/6; tickets: 182/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: As17820318athi

3983
28 June 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Wilson; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Lefevre; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Miss Logan (Who, last Year, perform'd the part of Sally in Man and Wife [see17830618]) .see17830618]) .

3984
08 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Jealous Wife, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #135 10s. 6d. (96/19/0; 37/17/6; 0/14/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoi'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

3985
12 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Farmer, Dick; Farmer's Wife, Nan.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

Performance Comment: imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off .

3986
26 December 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for a Performer, thirty years a Servant of the Publick at Covent-garden and Haymarket Theatres [unidentified]. Mainpiece: Written by the ingenious Mrs Behn, with Alterations by a Gentleman well known in the Dramatick World and Republick of Letters. The Characters new dressed in the Habits of the Times. [Writers and speakers of Prologue and Epilogue unknown.] Afterpiece: Altered from Sir John Vanbrugh. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters are Frederick, the Amorous Prince, Son to the Duke; Curtius, his Friend; Salvator, Father to Aura; Lorenzo, a rich, extravagant Lord, favourite of Frederick; Antonio, a Nobleman of Florence, Alberto, his Friend, a Nobleman also; Piertro, Man to Curtius; A Valet to Antonio; A Page to Ismenia; Galliard, Servant to the Prince; Guilliam, Man to Cloris, a Country Fellow; Clarina, Wife to Antonio; Ismenia, Sister to Antonio, in love with Alberto; Laura, Sister to Lorenzo, in love with Curtius; Isabella, Woman to Clarina; Cloris, Sister to Curtius, disguised like a Country Maid, in love with Frederick. The Principal Parts by independent Ladies and Gentlemen. With a Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Battle Royal

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade, and a Minuet de la Cour by Master Corbyn and Miss Keen

Song: End of mainpiece most of the favourite airs from The Poor Soldier [singers not listed]. Vaudeville. End of afterpiece a short Pantomimical Scene, in which Harlequin will leap through a Hogshead on Fire

3987
16 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Opera, called The Peruvian [announced on playbill of 14 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Johnstone's Indisposition. [Afterpiece in place of The Country Wife, also announced on same playbill.] Receipts: #173 14s. (171/12; 2/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Luanda Actor: Miss Stuart

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: As17860213

3988
25 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End of 2nd Monologue Four-and-twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin. MONOLOGUES. Before mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into London; End of mainpiece A Cure {or a Scolding Wife, both by Edwin

Performance Comment: MONOLOGUES. Before mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into London; End of mainpiece A Cure {or a Scolding Wife, both by Edwin .

3989
11 September 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Jealous Wife, announced on playbill of 9 Sept.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Booth
Role: Genius of Ireland Actor: Brett

Dance: As17860904

3990
25 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 31 Dec. 1783. Pope had acted Beverley in Edinburgh in the summer of 1786 (Morning Post, 26 Sept.). The playbill assigns Stukeley to Aickin, but he "having had the misfortune to lose his wife, Stukeley was played by Inchbald" (Morning Chronicle, 26 Sept.), from the York theatre, 1st appearance on this stage (see 4 Oct.)]. Afterpiece: Never acted there. Paid Properties the 22nd Instant 6s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 2s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scenemen #10 18s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #4 7s. 6d. Receipts: #194 16s. (193.0.6; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

3991
02 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 29 Sept.] is obliged to be postponed on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. [afterpiece in place of The Country Wife, announced as above.] Receipts: #195 6s. (192.5.6; 3.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End: The Piping Pedlar-Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

3992
19 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for The Provok'd Wife will be admitted. Tickets delivered by Jackson, Pilfold, Roberts, Clarke, Painter, Atkins, Curteen, Grey, Orme, Bourrelier will be admitted (Account-Book). Receipts: #340 15s. 6d. (22.18.0; 2.7.6; tickets: 315.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End: The Waterman-; to conclude with a Double Hornpipe-Jackson, Mrs Ratchford

Song: a Roman Ovation-; Vocal Parts, as17861021, but Miss _Stevenson, Mrs Byrn

3993
06 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "When Priuli was relating to the Senators the impending and immediate destruction of their wives and families, the Senators, without discovering any emotion, were very pleasantly surveying the house, and laughing with their friends in the Upper Gallery. These gross enormities, that yet hang about our stage and are its disgrace, call aloud for the correcting hand of an intelligent Manager, to weed them out. Thanks to their own genius the Principals take care of themselves-the Subalterns are a disgrace. Is not King responsible for this part at one house, and Lewis at the other?" (World, 8 Oct.). Receipts: #302 2s. 6d. (274.4.0; 27.3.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour-Hamoir, Miss Stageldoir

3994
02 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of A Bold Stroke for a Wife, advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] Receipts: #160 3s. 6d. (138.12.6; 21.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17880924

3995
29 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

3996
26 December 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Patronage of several Persons of Distinction. Beneath the immediate Direction of a Venerable Veteran of the Stage. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Reduced into Two Acts, from The Provok'd Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii; Or, The Death Of Fair Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Sir John Brute

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Monody on the Death of Mr Henderson (3rd time at this theatre)-Baker

3997
12 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End: The Jockey Dance-Ratchford, Blurton, Jackson, Mrs Watts, Mrs Ratchford; finish: a Reel-

3998
08 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Inkle and Yarico, advertised on playbill of 7 June. In it the playbill retains Gray as Anthonio , but he "being ill, his part of Anthonio was read by Macready"(Thespian Magazine, July 1793, p. 52).] Tickets delivered for The School for Wives will be admitted. Receipts: #213 9s. 5d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to your Bow

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Macready

3999
26 October 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE [advertised on playbill of 25 Oct.] is unavoidably postponed till Tuesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Cast
Role: Sir Rowland Actor: Barrymore
Role: Josephine Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Sir Rowland Actor: Barrymore
Role: Josephine Actor: Mrs Bland.

4000
11 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE; afterpiece of THE PRIZE, both advertised on playbill of 9 Nov.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15, and on every future evening. [But all playbills for the remainder of the season read as 19 Sept., except on 17 Feb. and 3 Mar. 1794.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Sir Rowland Actor: Barrymore
Role: Josephine Actor: Mrs Bland.
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