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774 results for: Keyword - Merlin
We found 769 matches on Roles/Actors, 113 matches on Performance Comments, 78 matches on Performance Title, 11 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

51
03 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

52
09 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

53
16 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

54
19 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

55
23 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

56
25 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

57
28 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: As17521219

58
14 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

59
26 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

60
28 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

61
10 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

62
14 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

63
19 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

64
23 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

65
18 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

66
08 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Howard

Dance: The Savoyards-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville; The Provincial Sailors-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

67
22 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Bannister made his first appearance on this stage in Merlin with a new Song introduced.--He was received with applause, --is a tall figure, good voice and sings well (Hopkins MS Notes). [The grand procession of the orders of chivalry hereafter a regular feature of Cymon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Vernon; Merlin( with song )-Bannister, 1st appearance; Dorus-Parsons; Dorilas-Fawcett; Damon-Fox; Demon of Revenge-Champness; Linco-King; Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Abington; 1st Shepherdess-Miss Reynolds; 2nd Shepherdess-Mrs Dorman; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Sylvia-Mrs Arne; Dance-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Duquesney, Miss Rogers, Miss Collett, Sga Giorgi, Mrs King; Concluded with a grand procession of the knights of the different orders of chivalry and the shepherds of Arcadia-.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister, 1st appearance

68
31 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Merlin-Bannister; Cymon (1st time)-Kelly; Dorus-Parsons; Linco (1st time)-Bannister Jun.; Damon-Dignum; Dorilas-Cooke; Cupid-Master Gregson; Daemon of Revenge-Sedgwick; Urganda (1st time)-Mrs Crouch; Sylvia (1st time)-Miss Hagley; Fatima (1st time)-Mrs Jordan; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Daphne-Mrs Bland; Dorcas (1st time)-Mr Suett; Spirits-Master D'Egville, Miss D'Egville, Miss Gawdry, Miss Edwin; In Tournament: Knights-Duranci (1st appearance), Fairbrother, Bourk, Giani; Queen of the Amazons-Miss Blanchet.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

69
23 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Performance Comment: Merlin-Bannister; Cymon-Kelly; Dorus-Wewitzer; Linco-Bannister Jun.; Damon-Bland; Dorilas-Cooke; Daemon of Revenge-Sedgwick; Cupid-Master Welsh; Urganda-Mrs Crouch; Sylvia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Redhead]); Fatima-Mrs Goodall; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Daphne-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mr Suett; [In Tournament: Knights-Dubois, Fairbrother.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

70
08 September 1731 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Merlin; or, The British Enchanters

Performance Comment: Harlequin (Merlin)-Collier; Demons-Cross, Hicks, Wright; Gardener-Jenkins; Pumpkin (his Man)-Pigeon; Colombine-Miss Price.

71
13 June 1767 @ Sadler's Wells

Event Comment: With several curious and uncommon performances by the Venetian and his children. Neville MS Diary: At 6 got into the Pit at Sadler's Wells just as the entertainment began with concerts. The singing by Mrs Lampe, Master Herryman, &c. Dancing by Sg Grimaldi, Tassoni, Miss Reynolds from Drury Lane. Tumbling, but not equal to that by Plaida's company. Postures in which the Venetian and his children (a boy and a girl particularly) excel greatly. One stands on his hands, turns his feet backwards to his haunches, and walks in this position or forms an arch with his breast, while the other stands on his head upon it, the father carries one on his hand around his body, one stands on his head on his father's hand. These I mention as a specimen of many more, equally curious, tho' seeing these postures is disagreeable to a humane mind. The Father balances too the slack rope. The whole concluded with the pantomimic entertainment called Merlin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merlin; Or, The Enchanter Of Stonehenge

72
May 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1691: King Arthur-Betterton; Oswald, King of Kent-Williams; Conon-Hodgson; Merlin-Kynaston; Osmond-Sandford; Aurelius-Alexander [Verbruggen]; Albanact-Bowen; Guillamar-Harris; Emmeline-Mrs Bracegirdle; Matilda-Mrs Richardson; Philidel-Mrs Butler; Grimbald-Bowman; Prologue to the Opera-Mr Betterton; The Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Kynaston

73
24 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lucky Prodigal; Or, Wit At A Pinch

Performance Comment: Edition of 1715 lists: Gerard-Griffin; Charles-Smith; False Marquess-Bullock Jr; Andrew-Knapp; Merlin-Spiller; Jaquinette-H. Bullock; Madam Bertrand-Mrs Kent; Lucinda-Mrs Vincent; Cydne-Mrs Rubridge; Priscilla-Mrs Spiller; Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Spiller

Afterpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; or, A Match in Newgate

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; particularly an Italian Night Scene between a +Scaramouch, a Harlequin, and a Punchanello-

74
02 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Performance Comment: King Arthur-Hulett; Tom Thumb-Miss S. Rogers, the Lilliputian Lucy; Grizzle-Lacy; Merlin-Hallam; Ghost of Gaffer Thumb-Salway; Noodle-Houghton; Doole-Aston; Foodle-Hale; Dollalolla-Mrs Martin; Huncamunca-Mrs Egleton; Glumdalca-Hall.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Hallam

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden

75
03 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Performance Comment: King Arthur-Mullart; Grizzle-Cibber Jr; Tom Thumb-Miss Brett; Dollalolla-Mrs Mullart; Huncamunca-Harper; Queen of Giants-Bridgwater; Gaffer Thumb's Ghost-Wm. Mills; Noodle-Ridout; Doodle-Oates; Foodle-Leigh; Bailiff-Roberts; Follower-Jones; Parson-H. Tench; Merlin-Berry.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Berry.

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson