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673 results for: Keyword - Mas. Blanchard
We found 530 matches on Performance Comments, 134 matches on Performance Title, 58 matches on Roles/Actors, 42 matches on Event Comments, and 13 matches on Author.

76
28 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson and Wife and Mas. Simson. Tickets of Simson in Wild Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at Grigsbys Coffee House, behind the Royal Exchange, and at stage door. Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children-(Cross). Jasper-Mas. Cautherley; Fribble-Mas. Simson; Capt. Flash-Mas. Moore; Puff-Mas. Wallace; Miss Biddy-Miss Simson; Occasional Prologue-Mas. Simson; Concluding with a Country Dance-characters.
Cast
Role: Jasper Actor: Mas. Cautherley
Role: Fribble Actor: Mas. Simson
Role: Flash Actor: Mas. Moore
Role: Puff Actor: Mas. Wallace
Role: Occasional Prologue Actor: Mas. Simson

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: III: A Minuet-Mas. Simson, Miss Simson

77
18 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons, Real, Miss Cokayne, Mas. Besford, Francis. Both pieces By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd by Wild, Bassan, Pullin, Mrs Griffiths, Mrs Paddick, Mrs Walters, and Widow Trott will be taken. [House took half value of tickets in addition to ready money.] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value Half Value@Parsons 17 76 73 #22 19s. #11 9s. 6d.@Real 19 9 12 #7 6s. #3 13s.@Miss Cokayne 10 25 42 #10 9s. #5 4s. 6d.@Mas. Besford 1 32 49 #9 19s. #4 19s. 6d.@Francis - 41 18 #7 19s. #3 19s. 6d.@Wylde 5 18 29 #6 17s. #3 8s. 6d.@Bassan 14 53 56 #17 1s. #18 10s. 6d.@Pullin - 34 83 #13 8s. #6 14s.@Mrs Griffiths - 32 46 #9 8s. #4 14s.@Mrs Paddick 6 26 26 #8 #4@Mrs Walters 2 13 31 #5 11s. #2 15s. 6d.@Widow Trott 28 4 17 #9 6s. #4 13s.@Total 102 363 482 #128 3s. #64 1s. 6d.@ Receipts: #80 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: III: New Pantomime Ballet(third time)-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, as17670427 End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

78
13 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Afterpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: Catharine and Petruchio. As17680319 but Music Master-Lings.
Cast
Role: 17680319 but Music Master Actor: Lings.

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

79
22 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mahon. Tickets deliver'd for Lionel and Clarissa, an Opera and Master Harris will be taken. Charges: 1!2 House charge plus 1!2 Receipts: #62 18s. 3d. Deficit to Mahon #1 6s. 9d. covered by #37 15s. from tickets (Box 77; Pit 66; Gallery 86). Mas. Harris Disposed of #40 19s. worth of tickets (Box 97; Pit 68; Gallery 65) from which he receiv'd 1!2 value. Receipts: #61 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mas. Harris; End: The Lamplighters, as17681101

80
26 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to Mrs Green #11 4s. 6d. covered by #49 6s. from tickets (Box 118; Pit 80; Gallery 78) (Account Book). Rec'd from Mas. Harris for his 1!2 value of tickets 24th Inst. #20 9s. 6d. Receipts; #53 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: The Provenzales-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford [see17681123]; End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

81
21 August 1770 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Pedlar

Music: In the course of the concert Catches and Glees: 1st Violin and new solo concerto-Barthelemon; New Concerto on Organ-Carter (composed by Barthelemon); New French Horn and Trumpet Concerto (also Barthelemon's composition) by Mas. Rogers of Bath (Mr Leander's scholar) 12 years old; and by Mas. Green (Mr Jones's scholar) 10 years old. Several New Simphonies composed by Barthelemon. To conclude with the Canon of the favourite burletta The Magic Girdle

Performance Comment: Rogers of Bath (Mr Leander's scholar) 12 years old; and by Mas. Green (Mr Jones's scholar) 10 years old. Several New Simphonies composed by Barthelemon. To conclude with the Canon of the favourite burletta The Magic Girdle .

82
22 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington Fox. Tickets deliver'd by Thompson and Master Harris will be taken. Charges #67 4s. 6d. were borne by Barrington and Fox, who faced a deficit of #16 4s. 9d. apiece. It was cover'd by income from tickets. Thompson and Master Harris rec'd their tickets gratis (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Barrington 69 92 50 #36 1s.@Fox 93 194 61 #58 9s.@Thompson 0 24 94 #13 @Mas. Harris 114 61 52 #42 17s.@ Receipts: #34 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: IV: A Dance-Mas. Harris, Miss Mathews (her 2nd appearance that stage)

Monologue: Interlude. End: True Blue. As 2 May, but Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Mrs Mattocks

83
02 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: End Opera: A New Comic Dance call'd Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Mas. Jackson, Mas. Langrish, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Jackson, Mas. Langrish, Miss Besford.

84
21 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Performance Comment: As17740415 but Beggars-Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.
Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

85
16 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jones, Walker, Mrs Simson and Mrs Cross. Tickets deliver'd by Mas. Blanchard, Stevens, Miss Berkley will be taken. Paid Mr Loutherbourg on acct #41 13s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #187 19s. Charges: #65 2s. Profits to beneficiaries: #22 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mas. Blanchard, _Waldron, _Messink.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker; End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

86
05 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Morning Herald, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 11, Beaufort's-buildings, Strand. Receipts: #254 18s. 6d. (103.14.6; 3.3.0; tickets: 148. .0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Clodio-Lewis; Don Louis-Quick; Sancho-Blanchard; Anthonio-Thompson; Charion-Powel; Don Duart-Macready; Governor-Davies; Don Manuel-Evatt; Carlos-Holman; Louisa-Mrs Fawcett; Elvira-Miss Chapman; Angelina-Mrs Merry.
Cast
Role: Sancho Actor: Blanchard

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Performance Comment: Linco (with songs)-Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Linco Actor: Blanchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander (1st time)-Incledon; Don Diego-Davies; Scholars-Farley, Evatt; Mungo-Blanchard; Ursula-Mrs Webb; Leonora-Mrs Blanchard (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Mungo Actor: Blanchard
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Blanchard

Song: End IV: Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure, as17920412

87
07 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. 2nd piece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 6 May 1776]. Gazetteer, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 29, Bow-Street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #302 18s. (82.0.6; 14.2.6; tickets: 206.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Ryder; Young Marlow-Bernard; Hastings-Davies; Sir Charles Marlow-Powel; Diggory-Cubitt; Slang-Rock; Landlord-Thompson; Tony Lumpkin (for that night only)-Blanchard; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss Neville-Mrs Lewis; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Blanchard

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Performance Comment: Serjeant-Bannister; with Oh, what a charming Thing's a Battle!-Bannister; Countryman-Blanchard; Mother-Mrs Davenett; Wife-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Countryman Actor: Blanchard

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Dissertation on Macaronyism-Bernard

88
16 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]. "No piece in the remembrance of this writer was ever better acted. No piece was ever better cast...The palm of acting, however, must be given to Blanchard. One short scene of rustic generoisity, in which he gives his purse to Farmer Banks, displayed finer efforts than we ever saw before" (Oracle, 18 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #315 (225.6.6; 3.15.6; tickets: 85.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats; Or, The Strolling Gentlemen

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Holman, Blanchard, Wilson, Munden, Hull, Cubitt, Macready, Thompson, Powel, Rock, Evatt, Reeve, C. Powell, Cross, Farley, Ledger, Milburne, Master Simmons, Mrs Wells, Miss Chapman, Mrs Pope.[Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. II (T. Woodfall, 1798), and text (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1791): Rover-Lewis; Sir George Thunder-Quick; Harry-Holman; Sim-Blanchard; John Dory-Wilson; Ephraim Smooth-Munden; Banks-Hull; Gammon-Cubitt; Muz [in subsequent seasons: Midge]-Macready; Sailors-Thompson, Farley, Milburne; Landlord-Powel; Twitch-Rock; Trap-Evatt; Zachariah-Reeve [in text: Rees (see17911012)]; Lamp-C. Powell; Sheriff's Officers-Cross, Ledger; Waiter-Master Simmons; Jane-Mrs Wells; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope; Prologue-Harley; Epilogue-Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]
Cast
Role: Sim Actor: Blanchard
Role: Waiter Actor: Master Simmons

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17901204

89
31 August 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of Settree. Tickets delivered by Mas. Settree and Miss Twist will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Performance Comment: Address-Cibber; Rural Dance Blind Man's Buff-Master Settree, Miss Twist; Hooley and Fairley-Lauder; Two Comic Lectures-Cibber, Company; the Tailors-Mas. Settree, Miss Twist; Grand Concerto for French horns-; When all the Attic Fire was fledfrom Eliza-Miss Gaudry; Auction-Cibber; Italian air-Mimicotti, accompanied by Myn Heer Von@Poop Broomsticato; As17570728 New Cantata by Mr Shuman-Mr Sadler 1st appearance on any stage; Minuet-Mas. Settree, Miss Twist; Italian Peasants-Joly, Mlle Dulisse; Marine Boys Marching to Portsmouth-; Handel's Water Music-; with Preamble on Kettle Drums-Mother Midnight; Comic Epilogue-Miss Midnight (riding on an Ass).
Cast
Role: Rural Dance Blind Man's Buff Actor: Master Settree, Miss Twist
Role: the Tailors Actor: Mas. Settree, Miss Twist
Role: Minuet Actor: Mas. Settree, Miss Twist
Related Works
Related Work: Bacchus Festival; or, A New Medley Author(s): Thomas Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Dance: End: As17570819

90
05 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (107.7.6; 11.9.0; tickets: 143.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Performance Comment: As17870926, but Caleb-Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Caleb Actor: Blanchard.

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Performance Comment: Linco-Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Linco Actor: Blanchard.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Simmons
Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

91
27 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Receipts: #246 1s. 6d. (60.10.6; 11.6.0; tickets: 174.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Larry Kavanagh Actor: Blanchard
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: As17881008, but Vulcan-Blanchard (1st appearance in that character); Bacchus-Cubitt; Apollo-Lee; Mercury-Evatt.
Cast
Role: Vulcan Actor: Blanchard

92
12 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Weller, Lewis and Gardner. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Mrs Gould, Mas. Besford, and Trott's Widow, &c. will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17640402 but Juliet-Miss Macklin; Lady Capulet-Mrs Barrington; Fryar Lawrence-Gardner; Peter-Weller; Page-Mas. Besford; Occasional Prologue-_.
Cast
Role: Page Actor: Mas. Besford
Role: Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the Play
Related Works
Related Work: The History and Fall of Caius Marius Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Dutch Skippers, as17640509

93
11 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fox and Barrington. Tickets deliver'd by Mas. Harris will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: As17710501, but Mrs Mecklin-Mrs Gardner; End Act I: a Hornpipe-Mas. Harris.
Cast
Role: a Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Harris.

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17710509 with Double Hornpipe, as17710509

94
22 January 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Menteur

Afterpiece Title: L'Epreuve Recriproque

95
29 April 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

96
02 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

Dance: DDance a la Ronde-

97
04 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

Dance: As17490502

98
05 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

Dance: As17490502

99
09 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

100
11 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

Dance: DDance a la Ronde-

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