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7760 results for: Keyword - Mr @@
We found 4812 matches on Roles/Actors, 4224 matches on Event Comments, 1138 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, and 18 matches on Author.

1576
30 September 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.

Afterpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Digges; Manly-Clarke; Squire Richard-Wewitzer; J. Moody-Dunstall; Count Basset-Lee Lewes; Sir F. Wronghead (1st time)-Wilson; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Pitt; Miss Jenny (with a song)-Mrs Wilson; Lady Townly-Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

Dance: As17780925

1577
07 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Performance Comment: As17781002.

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Performance Comment: Col. Feignwell (1st time)-Lee Lewes; Obadiah Prim-Wilson; Sir Philip Modelove-Booth; Periwinkle-Quick; Tradelove-Dunstall; Freeman-Whitfield; Sackbut-Fearon; Simon Pure-Wewitzer; Mrs Prim-Mrs Pitt; Mask'd Lady-Mrs Willems; Ann Lovely-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

Dance: As17780921

1578
12 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Reddish was from dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Performance Comment: As17781002.

Afterpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Reddish (1st appearance on this stage); King-Clarke; Ghost-Aickin; Horatio-Hull; Laertes-Whitfield; Ostrick-Lee Lewes; Polonius-Quick; Grave@Diggers-Dunstall, Jones; Queen-Mrs Jackson; Ophelia-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

1579
30 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Performance Comment: As17781002.

Afterpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17780930, but Manly-Hull; Miss Jenny (1st time)-Miss Wood.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

1580
31 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The natural grandeur and commanding air of [Mrs Yate's] deportment contradicts the whole idea of the part...We cannot help thinking that [the two characters] would be much better play'd throughout, if they were exchanged; the haughty Alicia would sit much more characteristically on Mrs Yates, and Mrs Crawford would give a degree of plaintive softness to Jane Shore which seems to have been intended by the author (Gazetteer, 3 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Performance Comment: As17780918.

Afterpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Lewis; Gloster-Clarke; Ratcliff-Robson; Belmour-Hull; Catesby-L'Estrange; Derby-Thompson; Dumont (1st time)-Wroughton; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates; Alicia-Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

1581
06 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #137 16s. 6d. (119.17.0; 17.11.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17780917, but Fenton-Lamash; Ann Page-Miss Collett.
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Smith
Role: Mr Page Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781029.

1582
01 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #113 10s. (94.12; 18.17; 0.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17781006, but Lubin-Davies.

1583
02 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts Pd to Allen Fielding of the Temple [the author's son]. Receipts: #141 4s. 6d. (119.0.0; 22.2.0; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) [charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17781008.

1584
04 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #131 5s. 6d. (107.5.0; 23.17.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781125.

1585
05 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #115 8s. (85.1; 30.5; 0.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17780917, but Principal Bacchant-Mrs Wrighten.

Song: As17780917

1586
07 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.]. [A letter from Fosbrook, the box-book keeper, to Garrick gives the number of spectators in the house on this night (Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 323), as follows: Boxes Pit 1st Gall. 2ed Gall.@1st Account 234 310 330 210@2nd Account 80 30 160 80@Total: 1,434.] Receipts: #166 14s. 6d. (140.8.0; 25.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781125.

1587
08 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #96 14s. (77.9.0; 18.13.6; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781130, but Mrs Boncour-Miss Sherry.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17781001, but Forge-Burton; Taffy-R. Palmer.

1588
09 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #134 17s. 6d. (116.16.0; 17.16.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781208.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781125.

1589
11 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Performance Comment: As17780918.

Afterpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-Wroughton; Sealand-Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Humphrey-Thompson; Daniel-Wewitzer; Tom-Lee Lewes; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Poussin; Indiana-Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

Dance: As17780925

Song: II: song-Leoni

1590
12 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.]. Receipts: #108 0s. 6d. (87.6.0; 19.16.6; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Performance Comment: As17781208.
Cast
Role: Mr Boncour Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17781006.

1591
23 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the relief and support of Performers and others retiring from the Stage. 3rd piece: With Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Performance Comment: As17781119.

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Performance Comment: As17780918.
Cast
Role: Mr Vermilion Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Spendthrift

Performance Comment: As17781221 Prologue as17781221 .

Dance: End: The Embarkment for Cytherea, as17781127

1592
28 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #186 14s. 6d. (167.2.0; 19.12.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Performance Comment: As17781030.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17781208.

Dance: End II: The Coopers, as17781211

1593
26 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #208 11s. (205.17; 2.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17780917, but Fenton-Lamash.
Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Smith
Role: Mr Page Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Performance Comment: As17790108.

1594
13 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 6 Nov. 1776]. Receipts: #217 11s. 6d. (186.11.0; 30.10.6; 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Performance Comment: Wilding-King; Barnacle-Parsons; Nephew-Dodd; Dwindle-Waldron; Acreless-Chaplin; Little Stock-Fawcett; Sellaway-Lamash; Boxkeeper-Wright; Drawer-Nash; Page-Master Pulley; Hazard-Palmer; Penelope-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Wilding-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Aickin; Richard-R. Palmer; Lord Lurewell-Lamash; Joe (with a song)-Holcroft; Miller-Moody; Madge-Mrs Bradshaw; Kate-Mrs Davenett; Peggy-Miss Collett.

Song: II: a song-Gaudry

1595
18 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #267 4s. (246.10.0; 19.13.6; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17781006.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: Monsieur Le Medicin-Baddeley; Crispin-Dodd; Old Gerald-Parsons; Martin-Burton; Young Gerald-Norris; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Bradshaw; Beatrice-Mrs Love; Angelica-Miss Collett.

Song: As17781029

1596
20 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #185 3s. (156.1; 26.2; 3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17781118.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17790313 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

1597
25 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #238 13s. 6d. (216.8.0; 19.13.6; 2.12.0; tickets: none listed ) (charge: #70 17s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Performance Comment: Jason-Smith; Creon-Bensley; Aeson-Palmer; 1st Colchian-Packer; Lycander-Farren; Children-Miss G. Abrams, Master Pulley; Hecate-Hurst; Theano-Mrs Hopkins; Medea-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17790323 .

Song: Azure God-Mrs Wrighten

1598
10 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 17 Apr. 1777]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Hannah Cowley, based partly on The Stolen Heiress, by Susannah Centlivre]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr. 1779: This Day at Noon is published Who's the Dupe? (price not listed). Receipts: #193 3s. 6d. (151.2.0; 39.12.6; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: The Gamester-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Lewson-Brereton; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Norris; Stukely-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Beverley-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311 .
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Parsons, Aickin, Palmer, Mrs Brereton, Mrs Wrighten. [Cast from text (J. Dodsley [et al], 1779): Gradus-King; Doiley-Parsons; Sandford-Aickin; Granger-Palmer; Elizabeth-Mrs Brereton; Charlotte-Mrs Wrighten.

1599
17 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #174 12s. (128.14; 43.1; 2.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: As17790410.

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Performance Comment: As17790311but Principal Vocal Parts-_Webster.
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17790410.
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Dance: End I afterpiece: Double Hornpipe-the Miss Stageldoirs

1600
20 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Gamester [announced on playbill of 19 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #84 1s. 6d. (52.15.0; 29.10.0; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: As17781008.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17790410.
Cast
Role: Mr Honeycomb Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17790417