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7562 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) <span class=
We found 5005 matches on Event Comments, 1701 matches on Performance Comments, 1664 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2151
07 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Williamson, Aickin, Gardner, Stevens, Edwin, Parsons; Mrs Webb, Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Poussin, Miss Farren. [Cast adjusted from Gazetteer, 1 Sept. 1779: Leveret-Palmer; Lord Newbery-Williamson; Touchwood-Aickin; Fraction-Gardner; Minim-Edwin; Lord Oldcastle-Parsons; Lady Oldcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss English-Mrs Inchbald; Mrs Revel-Mrs Cuyler; Mrs Frankly-Mrs Lloyd; Mrs Fustian-Mrs Lefevre; Lady Didapper-Mrs Poussin; Lady Newbery-Miss Farren. Stevens is unassigned.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Fraction Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: As17850601

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Miss Hooke

2152
09 June 1785 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Dance in Wooden Shoes [here entitled La Dance del Sabots], as17850303End of Opera Don Juan, as17850407

2153
14 June 1785 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I La Dance des Sabots, as17850609 End of Opera The Deserter, as17850111, but added: Mme Bithmer

2154
15 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail A Dramatic Proverb

Performance Comment: Characters by Palmer, Gardner; Mrs Wells, Mrs Cuyler. [Cast adjusted from playbill of 12 Aug. 1786: Current-Palmer; Padlock-Gardner; Finette-Mrs Wells; Almadine-Mrs Cuyler.] hathi. hathi.

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17850601

2155
18 June 1785 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I an entirely New Divertissement (1st time; composed by Simonet) by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Duquesney, Miss Harvey, Frederic, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850614

2156
28 June 1785 @ King's Theatre

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

2157
01 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Newbold (1st appearance in a singing character); Hawthorn-Payne; Hodge-Wellman; Sir William Meadows-Wright; Eustace-Kerridge; Justice Woodcock-Waldron; Luanda-Miss Bird; Margery-Mrs Benson; Deborah-Mrs Monk; Rosetta-Miss Cranford .

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Statute Scene with a Dance by the Characters; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Wright

2158
02 July 1785 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

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

2159
06 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Afterpiece Title: The Death and Revival of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Wellman. The other Characters by the Rest of the Company

Dance: End of 1st piece, by Wright

Song: End of Act I of 2nd piece The Twaddle by Newbold

Monologue: 1785 07 06 After the Dancing an Address to the Audience by Miss Bird

2160
15 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Comical Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton or Harlequin Gladiator

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Pidgeon by Miss Cranford; End of 1st piece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Wellman

Monologue: 1785 07 15 End of 2nd song Bucks have at ye all by Benson

2161
19 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17850617

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Tobacco Box by Mr and Miss Brett

2162
22 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17850627

2163
27 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe or Harlequin Friday

Song: Between the Acts of afterpiece, by Mrs Benson, &c

2164
02 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-Bannister; Captain Belville-Brett; Rustic-Gaudry; Irishman-Booth; William-Meadows (1st appearance in that character); Phoebe-Miss George; Dorcas-Mrs Love; Rosina-Mrs Bannister .

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Goodwin. With a Ranelagh Masquerade. Characters out of Character: Fighting Quakers-Barrett, Lyons

Song: End of 1st piece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms; End of Act I of 2nd piece Colin cur'd of roving, both by Miss George. duologue. End of 2nd piece A New Lecture on Heads by the two Miss Vernells (their 1st appearance on any stage)

2165
20 September 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Williames

2166
30 September 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character); Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Mat o' the Mint-Darley; Ben Budge-Ledger; Jemmy Twitcher-Painter; Crook-finger'd Jack-Bates; Wat Dreary-Swords; Harry Paddington-Newton; Jailor-Stevens; Drawer-Helme; Filch-Doyle; Lucy-Mrs Kennedy; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Jenny Diver-Mrs Morton; Mrs Vixen-Miss Stuart; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt; Sukey Tawdry-Miss Cranfield; Mrs Coaxer-Miss Brangin; Molly Brazen-Mrs Templeton; Betty Doxey-Miss Francis; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Polly-Mrs Bannister. hathi.
Cast
Role: Molly Brazen Actor: Mrs Templeton

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford

2167
10 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Old Groveby-Wilson; Dupely-Kennedy; Oldworth-Thompson; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Hurry-Edwin; Maria (with a song)-Mrs Bannister; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Abington. The Musical Characters-Brett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Morton .
Cast
Role: Lady Bab Lardoon Actor: Mrs Abington. The Musical Characters-Brett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Morton
Role: The Musical Characters Actor: Brett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Morton

Dance: End of mainpiece Leap Year; or, A New Way of Wooing (composed by Byrn) by Byrn, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin; In Act I of afterpiece Dance by Byrn, Miss Andre, Miss Besford

2168
24 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Market [on 28 Oct., and thereafter, entitled The Market-Day], by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton; In afterpiece, as17851018

2169
28 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Market-Day [originally entitled The Market], as17851024

2170
02 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Dance incident to the Play; End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady by Blurton, Rayner, Miss Besford

2171
09 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred

Dance: In afterpiece, as17851018

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Williames

2172
10 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Performance Comment: Characters by Johnstone, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Wewitzer, Palmer, Thompson, Gardner; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Bannister. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Don Fernando-Johnstone; Don Julio Pimiento-Quick; Pedro-Edwin; Don Salvador-Wilson; Fabio-Wewitzer; Don Fabricio-Palmer; Don Velasco-Thompson; Alguazil-Gardner; Footmen-Helme, Swords, Newton, Ledger, Bates; Laura-Mrs Kennedy; Jaquelina-Mrs Martyr; Donna Isabel-Mrs Morton; Donna Zelida-Mrs Bannister.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Recruiting Serjeant [performers not listed (see17851007)]; End of mainpiece new dance, The Piping Pedlar, by Byrn and Mrs Goodwin

2173
08 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

2174
19 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Chapman

2175
26 December 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for a Performer, thirty years a Servant of the Publick at Covent-garden and Haymarket Theatres [unidentified]. Mainpiece: Written by the ingenious Mrs Behn, with Alterations by a Gentleman well known in the Dramatick World and Republick of Letters. The Characters new dressed in the Habits of the Times. [Writers and speakers of Prologue and Epilogue unknown.] Afterpiece: Altered from Sir John Vanbrugh. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters are Frederick, the Amorous Prince, Son to the Duke; Curtius, his Friend; Salvator, Father to Aura; Lorenzo, a rich, extravagant Lord, favourite of Frederick; Antonio, a Nobleman of Florence, Alberto, his Friend, a Nobleman also; Piertro, Man to Curtius; A Valet to Antonio; A Page to Ismenia; Galliard, Servant to the Prince; Guilliam, Man to Cloris, a Country Fellow; Clarina, Wife to Antonio; Ismenia, Sister to Antonio, in love with Alberto; Laura, Sister to Lorenzo, in love with Curtius; Isabella, Woman to Clarina; Cloris, Sister to Curtius, disguised like a Country Maid, in love with Frederick. The Principal Parts by independent Ladies and Gentlemen. With a Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Battle Royal

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade, and a Minuet de la Cour by Master Corbyn and Miss Keen

Song: End of mainpiece most of the favourite airs from The Poor Soldier [singers not listed]. Vaudeville. End of afterpiece a short Pantomimical Scene, in which Harlequin will leap through a Hogshead on Fire