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We found 13902 matches on Performance Comments, 4610 matches on Performance Title, 1740 matches on Event Comments, 18 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Powell (1st appearance in that character); Alonzo-Packer; Antonio-Sparks; Ferdinand-C. Kemble; Gonzalo-Maddocks; Stephano-Bannister Jun.; Trincalo-Suett; Caliban (with songs)-Sedgwick; Hippolito (1st time)-Miss DeCamp; Ariel-Mrs Bland; Miranda-Mrs Crouch; Dorinda (for that night only)-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Hippolito Actor: Miss DeCamp

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17980925, but added: Gymp-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Gymp Actor: Miss Tidswell.
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Miss Tittup Actor: Miss Mellon.

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Dignum, Danby, Brown, Mrs Bland, Miss Menage, Master Heather, Miss Jackson; End II: Jerry Sneak in his Glory-Roberts; End IV: The Town Crier-Suett; End: As burns the charger (from Robin Hood)-Sedgwick; End I afterpiece: At the peaceful Midnight Hour (from The Castle of Andalusia)-Sedgwick

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Miss Wentworth

Performance Comment: Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Miss Wentworth.
Cast
Role: Amphitrite Actor: Miss Wentworth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Entertainment: AA Song in Honour of Modern Masonry (in the Character of Robin Hood)-Mrs Jones; The Punch's Song-Hemskirk, Miss Jones; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

Music: The whole to conclude with the celebrated Water@Musick by Handel-; accompanied with Kettle@Drums-; Trumpets-; French@Horns-; the Preamble-Nelson

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Second Course [1st time; M. INT I, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 567; not published]: With Songs and a New Overture. Entrement [1st time: INT I, by Charles Stuart. Larpent MS 566; not published]. Desert: Never acted here; by Permission of Harris [proprietor of cg. The playbill assigns Princess Huncamunca to Mrs Kennedy, but "Huncamunca was very well performed by a Lady who resembled Mrs Kennedy in her voice" (Public Advertiser, 23 Aug.; and see 24 Aug.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: the Feast Of Thalia Or A Dramatic Olio

Performance Comment: [Bill of Fare, in which every Dish belonging to the Drama will be served up: Prelude, Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Interlude, and Burlesque. By way of Relish: The Manager in Distress. [Principal Characters by Palmer, Aickin, R. Palmer, Egan, Bannister Jun., Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Jewell, Miss Hale, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (T. Cadell [1780]): Bustleton-Palmer; Manager-Aickin; Easy-R. Palmer; Irishman in the Pit-Egan; Gentleman in the Balcony-Bannister Jun.; Actresses-Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Jewell, Miss Hale; Lady in Balcony-Mrs Webb.

Afterpiece Title: First Course a substantial Dish from Henry IV

Afterpiece Title: Second Courae a Comic Dish never servd up before Kensington Gardens or The Walking Jockey

Performance Comment: Characters by Edwin, Blissett, Staunton, Wood, Barrett, Painter, Pierce, Miss Harper; Cast from Larpent MS: Thimble-Edwin; Sir Harry Optic-Blissett; Dick-Barrett; Toupee-Wewitzer (see17810831); Letitia-Miss Harper; unassigned-Staunton, Wood, Painter, Pierce.
Cast
Role: Letitia Actor: Miss Harper

Afterpiece Title: Third Course an Operatic Dish The Son in Law

Afterpiece Title: Also by way of Entremet Ripe Fruit or The Marriage Act

Performance Comment: Character by Bannister Jun.; Mrs Wilson, Miss Hitchcock. Cast from Larpent MS: William-Bannister Jun.; Sally-Mrs Wilson; Nancy-Miss Hitchcock.
Cast
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Hitchcock.

Afterpiece Title: Desert Tom Thumb

Song: In Second Course: Auld Robin Gray-Miss Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

Performance Comment: Sir John Freeman-Brinsley; Fainwell-Fitzgerald (from the Theatre-Royal, Dublin); Young Freeman-Venables; Tally-Atkinson; Sam-Powell; Sir Phillip Moneylovc-Kenny; Watchit-Walker; Mrs Watchit-Mrs Johnson; Olivia-Mrs Child; Louisa-Miss Hurst; Judith-Mr Pressley; Lucy-Mrs Painter; Widow Heedless-Mrs Lefevre .
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Miss Hurst

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Performance Comment: Sir Jeffrey Constant-A Young Gentleman [unidentified]; Captain Constant-Robson; Trusty-Jones; Clinch-Smith; Roger-Pressley; Belinda-Miss Ball; Dorothy-Mrs Lefevre .
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Ball

Song: End of mainpiece Auld Robin Gray by Miss Lyon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Benson; Sparkish-Simpson; Belville-Hill; Countryman-Watts; Servants-Meadows, Johnston; Harcourt-Yatesmore (who perform'd Glenalvon [in Douglas]; 2nd appearance); Lucy-Mrs Clarke (1st appearance); Alithea-Miss Phillips; Miss Peggy (the Country Girl)-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Phillips
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: In the course of the mainpiece a plaintive Pastoral Song, unaccompanied by the orchestra, by the Young Lady; End of Monologue a duett from Robin Hood by Price and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1786 06 28 End of mainpiece Parents and Children; or, The Chimney-Sweeper and Bricklayer by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Gibbons (see 5 and 19 July)])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17940721 but omitted: Moors, Muleteers, and Goatherds; from Peasants: Mrs Norton, Miss M. and C. Wrighten, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Butler, Mrs Hale, Mrs Masters, Miss Menage .

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piety In Pattens

Afterpiece Title: THE SPANISH BARBER

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Dance: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Highland Reel by the Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Performance Comment: As17940714 but Chambermaid-Miss Tidswell .
Cast
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Rosina Actor: Miss Leak

Dance: 3rd piece: To conclude as17940805

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: THE AGREEABLE S URPRISE

Cast
Role: Stump Actor: LedgerLaura-Miss Leak
Role: LedgerLaura Actor: Miss Leak
Role: Fringe Actor: Miss De Camp

Dance: 2nd piece: To conclude as17940805

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Robin Hood Earl Of Huntington And His Mate Little John

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Concluding with theModern Free@Masons Song-in the Character of Robin Hooda Brother

Dance: HHornpipe, Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment

Song: V: The Modern Free@Masons's Song, in the Character of Robin Hood,-a Brother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv Or The Lives Of Robin Hood And Little John With The Comical Humours Of The Pindar Of Wakefield

Entertainment: EEquilibres on a small wire-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath (for this night only)-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Booth; Lockit (for this night only)-Mrs Webb; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Filch (for this night only)-Mrs Wilson; Lucy-Miss Catley; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Davenett; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Polly-Miss Harper. hathi.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Catley
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Harper. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Catley

Dance: End of mainpiece The Gala, as17820402, but omitted: Dumay, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Early Horn; End of Act I of afterpiece The Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots; End of Act II Auld Robin Grey, all three sung by Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Polyperchon-Booth; Cassander-Fearon; Hephestion-Robson; Clytus-Aickin; Roxana (for this night only)-Miss Younge; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Parisatis-Mrs Morton; Statira-Mrs Yates .
Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Peggy Wiseacres Actor: Miss Morris

Dance: As17820409

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Auld Robin Grey, as17820409

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Miss Satchell

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Dance: End of Catches and Glees, as17811101

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Auld Robin Grey, as17820409; End of mainpiece several much admired Catches and Glees by the most Eminent Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Cast
Role: Marianne Actor: Miss Satchell
Role: Waiting Woman Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Lady Davenant Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman Tug Bannister Bundle Wilson Robin Edwin Mrs Bundle Mrs Webb Wilhelmina Mrs Bannister

Dance: As17821231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Silla

Dance: End of Act II Divertisement, with a Passe-a-caille by Lepicq, a Pas Seul by Henry, a Pas Seul by Mme Simonet; End of Opera Hew Divertisement, in which a Pas Seul by Henry, and to conclude with a Caledonian Reel, being part of the ballet of Auld Robin Gray, which for want of time could not be completed, by Lepicq, Slingsby, Mme Rossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, with a set of new Caledonian Reels, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, and a Pas de Quatre by Nivelon, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter [performers not listed, but see17850111]

Song: Opera: With some of the most approved Airs of Handel by Babbini, Crescentini, Sga Ferrarese

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Principessa

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, as17850414, but omitted: Scotch Reels; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850111

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, as17850421; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850111

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17850618 but omitted: Lepicq, Mme Rossi; End of Opera Robin Gray, as17850414, with a Pas de Deux, as17850115, and the Caledonian Reels, as17850421, but Nivelon in place of Lepicq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, as17850628 End of Opera The Deserter, as17850111