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6381 results for: Keyword - Master Charles Poitier
We found 2584 matches on Performance Comments, 2413 matches on Author, 1413 matches on Performance Title, 738 matches on Event Comments, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

3601
08 June 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cured

Dance: As17780601

Song: II: Master Nelson

3602
18 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End I: The Gardeners-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As17780529

3603
26 September 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-King; Orlando-Brereton; Duke Senior-Hurst; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; Oliver-Packer; Amiens (with songs)-Davies; Corin-Waldron; Jaques de Bois-Lamash; Silvius-R. Palmer; William-Burton; Le Beau-Philimore; Charles-Wrighten; Adam-Moody; Jaques-Palmer; Caelia-Mrs Sharp; Phoebe-Miss Kirby; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End I: comic dance, The Cow@keeper-Master Mills, Miss Grimaldi

Song: Afterpiece: As17780917; V: song-Miss Abrams

3604
27 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Charles Evergreen Actor: Whitfield

Dance: End I: The Embarkment for Cytherea, as17781125, but Master _Dagueville, Langrish; End: +The Villagers-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Valois

3605
16 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Music@Master Actor: Brunsdon

Dance: End II: new Dance, The Burgomaster-Aldridge, Master Jackson

3606
25 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

3607
04 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Charles Evergreen Actor: Whitfield

Dance: 3rd piece: As17790405; End IV: Hornpipe-Master Davies (scholar to Hurst; 1st appearance in public)

Song: In III: song in character-Mrs Morton

3608
18 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Pulley

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: In: Master Morey, 3 Miss Stageldoirs

3609
31 May 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Digges, Aickin, Bensley, Lamash, R. Palmer, Parsons, Usher, Massey, Webb, Davis, Egan, Master Edwin, Palmer, Miss Sherry, Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Massey; [Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1778) and from playbill of 10 July 1780: Caratach-Digges; Penius-Aickin; Suetonius-Bensley; Junius-Lamash; Demetrius-R. Palmer; Judas-Parsons; Nennius-Usher; Macer-Massey; Regulus-Webb; Decius-Davis; Curius-Egan; Hengo-Master Edwin; Petillius-Palmer; Bonduca-Miss Sherry; 2nd Daughter-Mrs Cuyler; Eldest Daughter-Mrs Massey; [The original Prologue[, written by the late David Garrick,-Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Hengo Actor: Master Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: End: The Provencale-Master and Miss Byrn

3610
02 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As17790531

3611
09 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance, as17790602 End: a new dance, The Country Wake-Master and Miss Byrn

3612
05 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: WithTwo New Dances-Master and Miss Byrn. [These were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

3613
10 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Dimond

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: As17790618

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Hitchcock

3614
18 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End: new Dance, The Spanish Lovers-Master and Miss Byrn

3615
27 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End II: The Country Wake, as17790609 In III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn

3616
23 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dockyard-Dagueville, Master Dagueville, Holland, Miss Valois

3617
27 November 1779 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nelle Indie

Dance: End I: Indian Ballet (composed by Zuchelli), adapted to the Opera-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, young Miss Simonet; End II: new Pastoral Ballet (composed by Zuchelli and Slingsby)-Slingsby, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tantini (1st appearance in England); End Opera: Grand Serious Ballet connected with the Opera (composed by Favre Guiardele, ballet master), in which the celebrated Chaconne of Jomelli's-Slingsby, Sga Tantini, Favre Guiardele (1st appearance in England)

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Related Work: Henry VII; or, The Popish Impostor Author(s): Charles Macklin

3618
20 December 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Wrangling Lovers; or, Like Master Like Man

Entertainment: Imitations. After the Epilogue: a Variety of new Imitations-Decastro; Monologue. End IV: Address to the Town, in which several Dramatic Characters will be introduced-Master Russell

Performance Comment: After the Epilogue: a Variety of new Imitations-Decastro; Monologue. End IV: Address to the Town, in which several Dramatic Characters will be introduced-Master Russell.
Cast
Role: in which several Dramatic Characters will be intro Actor: Master Russell.

3619
05 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: End I: Hornpipe-Master Butler (scholar of Miller); In afterpiece: Henry

Song: End II: Tally ho!, as17800411

3620
30 May 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: new dance, The Italian Peasants-Master Byrne, Miss Byrne

3621
05 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End I 2nd piece: As17800530; III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrne. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

3622
15 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End I: Dance-Master and Miss Byrne

Music: Mainpiece: The Overture-; new Musick composed by Dr Arnold-

Song: with an additionalair-Wilson; [Public Advertiser, 26 June: In the golden barge we ride-[This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

3623
04 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: The Provencale-Master and Miss Byrne; End I afterpiece: Dance, as17800615

3624
02 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performance Comment: Harlequin Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister Jun.; Ditto Mum!-Lamash; Agreeable Companion [in a Post-Chaise-Webb; Landlord-Usher; Dame Turton-Edwin; Goody Burton-Webb; Gammer Gurton-Bannister; Pantaloon-Massey; Clown-Hussey (1st appearance on any stage these 20 years); Head Boy [of the Marine Society-Master Edwin; Officer in the Camp-Wood [i.e. doubled Goody Burton]; Attendant-Stevens; Irishman-Egan; Emperor of the Quacks-Bannister Jun. [i.e. doubled Harlequin]; Columbine-Miss Wewitzer; Maid-Miss Wood; Chambermaid-Mrs W. Palmer; Goddess of Health, Genius of Nonsense-Mrs Cargill.
Cast
Role: of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin

Dance: In afterpiece: Master and Miss Byrne.[This dance was included in all subsequent performances.

3625
26 April 1781 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

Dance: End I: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17810329in which a Minuet, Gavotte-Simonet, ballet-Master, Simonet's Daughter, only 6 years old; and also The Devonshire Minuetas17810327Mme Simonet, Vestris Sen

Ballet: End Opera: Medee et Jason. As17810329