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7107 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act be<span class=
We found 4703 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Performance Comments, 1492 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5576
06 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Performance Comment: Sir Andrew Aguecheek-Neale; Sir Toby Blech-Berry; Orsino-Mills; Sebastian-Havard; Antonio-Sparks; Viola-Mrs Pritchard; Olivia-Mrs Clive; Valentine-Usher; Fabian-Winstone; Captain-Blakes; Malvolio-Macklin; Clown-Yates; Curio-Bransby; Priest-Raftor; 1st Officer-Simpson; 2nd Officer-Leigh; Maria-Mrs Macklin; in Act II, Singing-Lowe.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: V: Savoyard Dance, as17471215

5577
18 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not acted these 7 years. [See 1 Feb. 1740.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

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

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

5578
19 January 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Christopher Bullock]: Not acted these 20 years. [See 9 Feb. 1737.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

5579
03 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: A Tragi@Comi@Pastoral Farce not acted these 7 years. [See 9 May 1739.] Receipts: #80 (Cross); #90 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: II: Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Savoyards, as17471219

5580
16 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: (great snow [show?] for ye Agreat snow [show?] for ye Author) (Cross). Benefit for the Author (General Advertiser). There was a new comedy last Saturday, which suceeds, call'd The Foundling. I like the old Conscious Lovers better, and that not much. The story is the same, only the Bevil of the New piece is in more hurry, and consequently more natural. It is extremely well acted by Garrick and Barry, Mrs Cibber and Mrs Woffington [Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, Walpole Letters (ed Cunningham, II, 105).] Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges #63 (Powel); cash #119 5s. 6d.; tickets #32 (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

5581
14 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [see 2 Nov. 1743]. Afterpiece: Several scenes taken from The Muses Looking Glass, written by Mr Randolph. [See letter to Mr Ryan 5 March acquainting the town with Randolph's works.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The Muses Looking-Glass

Performance Comment: Colax-Ryan; The Extremes of Fortitude Liberality Meekness Justice, in the Characters of Aphobus, Deilus, Anelitheurus, Asotus, Orgylus, Argus, Nimis, Nihil-Ridout, Collins, Morgan, Cibber, Bridges, Cushing, Dunstall, Rosco; their Clerks (Plus and Parum)-James, Bencraft; Mediocrity in the character of Urania-Mrs Bland; To conclude with a new masque of Music representing the Intellectual Virtues, compos'd by Lampe: Fortitude-Beard; Modesty-Mrs Storer; Truth-Mrs Lampe; Dancing-Villeneuve, Desse, Delagarde, Oates, Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Gondou, Mrs LaFont, Master, Miss Granier.
Cast
Role: Mediocrity in the character of Urania Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: Singing In Italian and English-Miss Faulkner [Songs unspecified]

5582
21 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Afterpiece: A Masque of Music, reviv'd, in two Interludes, preform'd at the end of the 3rd and 5th Acts. Written by Colley Cibber. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, illuminated and enclos'd, as at an Oratorio. Tickets for Boxes and Stage to be had of Beard at his house in Red Lyon Square, and of Page at the Stage Door. Ladies desired to send servants to keep Places by three o'clock (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

5583
22 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts taken [by Macklin] from Le Legataire Universel of Mons Regnard. Tickets of Macklin at his house in Bow Street, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Stage will be form'd into front and side boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will; or, A New Case for the Lawyers

Dance: End: Savoyards, as17471215

5584
31 March 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: For one Night Only Concert. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., after which will be perform'd (Gratis) a new Farce of Three Acts. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets to be had of Mrs Hooper. [A new play by Mrs Hooper.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cyclopedia

5585
04 April 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: Will be presented a Comedy [no concert formula used.] To begin at 7 p.m. Boxes 3s. Pit and Gallery 2s. There will be no more Plays Acted there but this One, that being upon a particular Occasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: I: Hornpipe-John Granier; II: Country Wake-Mr Miles, Mrs Miles; III: Dutch Dance-Jo. Granier, Miss Granier; IV: Farmer's Dance-Jo. Granier, Miss Granier; End: The Temple of Jupiter with the loves of Adonis and Venus-

5586
13 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [see 4 Feb. 1746]. Tickets to be had at Lampe's, the Sign of the Holy Lamb, Drury Lane, near Long Acre; at Dunstall's in Hunt's Court, Castle St., Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: Words by Shakespeare, Music by Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: I: Duet-Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; IV: Myself I Shall adore by Handel-Mrs Lampe

5587
13 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 2s. A New Farce of Three acts. 12 p.m. Tickets deliver'd out for 31 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyclopedia

Afterpiece Title: The Poet Buskin will give Chocolate

5588
15 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Storer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 1 Jan. 1735.] Tickets at Mrs Storer's lodgings at the corner of New Broad Court, Bow Street, and at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: II: The Smiling Hour by Handel-Mrs Storer; III: From Rosie Bowers by Henry Purcel-Mrs Storer

5589
22 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. Last time of acting the Mainpiece this season. The Play of the Lover's Melancholy, and the Farce of the Club of Fortune Hunters, which were to have been acted this evening, for the Benefit of Mrs Macklin, are deferr'd till Thursday the 28th, on account of the Indisposition of Mr Barry; when tickets deliver'd out for the 22nd instant will be taken. Tomorrow, King Lear for the benefit of the suffers by the late fire. Receipts: #28 (Cross); #24 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: The Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5590
25 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Goodall. A concert etc. 6 p.m. Afterpiece: Not acted 20 years [See gf 25 Nov. 1745], written by the last celebrated Mr Griffin. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

5591
03 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B.: [This bill] was put up, but Mr Garrick was seiz'd with an ague, & there was no play, nor the Doors open'd (Cross). The Managers of Drury Lane Playhouse paid the sum of #208 1s. [Being the whole money taken at the play of King Lear, for the benefit of the Sufferers by the late Fire] into the hands of Mt Knight and Mt Jackson; and not as mentioned by Mistake in yesterday's paper; and the whole company gave their night's pay for the said benefit. The last new Reviv'd Play, call'd The Lover's Melancholy, will be acted by particular desire next Thursday, at Drury Lane, to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, being the last time of performing it this season (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5592
03 May 1748 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: This Day open'd for the Summer Season at the New Wells, Shepherd's Market [near Hyde Park corner]...the usual Diversions after which will be presented Gratis, etc. The Doors to be open'd each day at Two o'Clock. We hear, that the Opera La Semiramide Reconosciuta (in which Signora Cassarini is to act the part of a King) will be performed but twice (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Fortune Teller

Entertainment: Italian Fireworks-as perform'd in the Opera House in the Haymarket

5593
05 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Acted but once this 100 years. Receipts: #38 (Cross); #34 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Ann Auretti

5594
22 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Sowdon Play'd Ch; (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 15 Nov. 1743]. Receipts: #80 (Cross); #91 13s. (Powel)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: I: Overture to Rodelinda on Flute-the Child; III: Music-the Child

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

5595
16 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17481114, but in Act II, a Masquerade Dance-Matthews; to conclude with a Country Dance-the Characters.
Cast
Role: to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the Characters.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

5596
20 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: There has been sometime in rehearsal the Emperour of the Moon, alter'd into two acts, which will be perform'd on Monday next, with the Music, New Dances, Scenes, Machines and other Decorations. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #130 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

5597
20 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [But see 18 April 1748.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: CComic Dance-Master and Miss Granier

5598
21 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Play not acted these 7 years. [See 23 Apr. 1744] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #156 17s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: Several Entertainments-Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews, Mrs Addison

5599
23 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Desire. Being the last time of acting till the Holidays. On Monday next not acted these ten years, will be reviv'd a farce call'd The Emperor of the Moon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Several Entertainments-the Three young Graniers

5600
26 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: Miss Falkner, Miss Norris

Dance: A Scaramouche-Phillips; Grand Masquerade Dance- (with new scenes Habits and other decorations)