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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.

5776
26 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 17 Oct. 1752. Review of this cast, if not of this particular performance, appeared in The Old Maid, 13 March. Favorable comment on Barry and Ryan. The reviewer disliked the Tate version, and the stage habit of making the Gentleman Usher a Fribble.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17551114

5777
27 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Tragedy by ye Author of Barbarossa (Dr Brown) Great Applause (Cross). [Larpent MS 124 suggests Dunelm had been intended for Walker to act.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan A New Tragedy

Performance Comment: Parts by Garrick, Murphy, Ross, Havard, Davies, Burton, Jefferson, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Cibber. Prologue to be spoken by-Holland in the character of the Genius of England; Athelstan-Garrick; Egbert-Ross; Siward-Davies; Thyra-Mrs Cibber; Edwina-Mrs Bennet; Gothmund-Murphy; Harold-Havard; Goodwin-Burton; Dunelm-Jefferson (Genest, IV, 453).
Cast
Role: Prologue to be spoken by Actor: Holland in the character of the Genius of England

5778
01 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author (Cross). N.B. The 4th night of Athelstan deferr'd till Thursday as the principal Character is too fatiguing to be acted ten nights together. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan

5779
01 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow acted but twice these 10 years, King Lear. With a new Ballet by Guerin and Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Foote, Sparks, Shuter, Dunstall, Costollo, Cushing, White, Mrs Bellamy

Dance: Granier Jun, Mlle Capdeville

5780
25 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 15 years. [See 3 Nov. 1743.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Woodward. Part of pit will be laid into the Boxes. Boxes and Stage 5s. No person can be admitted to any part of the House till the usual time of opening of doors, which will be exactly at Four o'clock. Ladies are desired to send their servants by Three o'clock. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

5781
25 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 15 April 1748.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126

Entertainment: I: Cries of London (with additions)-Shuter; End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

5782
05 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Arthur. To prevent any obstruction in the performance, no building on Stage. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Arthur. [Last acted there 23 Sept. 1741.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: LLes Statues Animees, as17560302

5783
29 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 10 Dec. 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: LLes Paisans Gallants, as17551203

5784
10 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benfit for Master Moor, Berrisford, Palmer, Broad (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Harrison

5785
27 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. No persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be returned after the curtain is up. The managers intended to have finish'd the season this evening, but as several persons of quality have desired to see Lethe again, the comedy of Much Ado About Nothing, with that Farce, will be acted tomorrow, being positively the last time of acting. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5786
09 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Miss Pritchard did Juliet for the First time of her Acting & Met with uncommon Applause, tho' so frightened the first Act, we Scarce cou'd hear her (Cross). Miss Pritchard's was a most remarkable first appearance--the Particularity of the public for her mother--Garrick's patronage and tuition, her own beautiful face, which was fascinating to a degree, had all great attraction. Mrs Pritchard, as Lady Capulet, leading in her daughter as Juliet, the distress of the young lady, the good wishes and tenderness of the town, all combined made an affecting scene--but that partiality dwindled away in the early part of the season (Genest, IV, 474, from Tate Wilkinson). Receipts: #226 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5787
12 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow a Comedy (not acted these 02 years) call'd The Gamester with Dancing by Mr Gardiner, being his first time of appearing on that stage, Mrs Vernon, &c. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

5788
19 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Claudio-Palmer; Don John-Bransby; Dogberry-Taswell; Antonio-Simson; Verges-Philips; Borachio-Blakes; Balthasar (with Song)-Beard; Hero-Mrs Davies; Beatrice-Mrs Pritchard; In Act II, a Masquerade Dance-; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

5789
27 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 8 Oct. 1754.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Leviez, Blakes, Clough, Miss Minors, Master Simson, The Little Swiss, Miss Haughton

5790
11 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Lucinda-Miss Minors; Indiana-Mrs Cibber; Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Palmer; Tom-Woodward; Phyllis-Mrs Clive; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Sir John Bevil-Burton; Sealand-Berry; Cimberton-Taswell; Humphry-Blakes; In Act II, Singing-Beard.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

5791
19 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Not acted these 2 years. [See 9 April 1755.] Receipts; #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Leviez, Blakes, Clough, Miss Minors, Master Simson, The Little Swiss, Miss Haughton

5792
25 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tormorrow Othello, Desdemona by a Young Gentlewoman, being her 3rd time of performing on any stage. N.B. The Comedy of Love for Love, which was to have been acted tomorrow for the Benefit of the Widow Ladbrooke, is, by her Deisre, deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

5793
11 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 12 years [hence first time for all appearing in these characters. See 9 Nov. 1745.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

5794
15 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations. Not acted for 20 years. [See 28 April 1747. Some slight alterations were made by Dr Hawksworth (Genest, IV, 478).] The songs of the Interlude will be printed and deliver'd gratis at the Doors. This Day Publish'd Lilliput, a Dramatic Entertainment as it is performed at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, facing Southampton St. in the Strand, 1s. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Corydon Actor: Taswell, 1st time for all the actors.

5795
08 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [The customary notice refusing admittance behind scenes lest the machinery be obstructed. See note, 14 Oct. 1756. Repeated for all subsequent performances but not recorded further here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Lady's Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer; with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

5796
22 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: None admitted behind the Scenes. No after money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [Repeated during the run of this piece.] A new Farce of 2 acts wrote by Dr Smolet-went off wth Great App: (Cross). [See Theatrical Review for the Year 1757 and the beginning of 1758, for contemporary comment.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Related Works
Related Work: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England Author(s): Tobias Smollett

5797
19 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. [See 9 Nov. 1748.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: As17561217

5798
21 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 29 April 1754.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: -MMrs Chambers

Dance: As17561023

5799
22 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Foote for ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece:Not acted these 12 years. [See 20 Nov. 1745.] Austin did Bertran r(first time) (Indiff) (Cross). Tickets to be had of Foote at the Whalebone Warehouse in James St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the stage door. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

5800
04 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Knights, publish'd 4 April, at 1s. A Comedy in Two Acts as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. By Mr Foote (Public Advertiser). Passion Week (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None