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13051 results for: Keyword - Mr C. Cibber
We found 5587 matches on Event Comments, 3817 matches on Performance Comments, 3645 matches on Author, 644 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1301
17 December 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission Benefit Miss Jenny Cibber. Tickets deliver'd out for the 12th will be taken. By particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [T. Cibber says: It was hinted to me, I might, unmolested, take a Benefit for myself, or Daughter, or both.-Serio-Comic Apology, p. 18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17441013, but Tybalt-Williams; Balthasar-Miss Charke; Page-Miss Thomson; with a prologue on Somebody-Nobody; Epilogue-Miss Cibber.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Cibber.
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Jenny Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Mock Doctor Actor: Cibber.

1302
04 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Mrs Cibber. [Receipts: #117 15s. 6d. plus #149 5s. from tickets, a clear profit to Mrs Cibber of #267 0s. 6d.], Paid Servandoni on acct. #21. [Notice of 23 March about amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for the 19th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Performance Comment: Distress'd Mother-Mrs Cibber; Pylades-Havard; Phoenix-Rosco; Cephisa-Mrs Hale; Cleone-Mrs Bland; Pyrrhus-Quin; Orestes-Ryan; Hermione-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Distress'd Mother Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

1303
28 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cibber. Tickets of Page at the Stage Door. [The entertainments and mixed afterpieces formed the most elaborate night's performance this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Farce

Performance Comment: Luckless (the Author)-Cibber; Witmore-Bridges; Bookweight-James; Player-Anderson; Jack Pudding-Dunstall; Mrs Moneywood-Mrs James; Harriet-Miss Haughton; Wherein will be introduc'd an Operatic Puppet Show, call'd The Pleasures of the Town: Punch-Dunstall; Joan-Collins; Charon-Stoppelaer; Poet-Paddick; Sailor-Barnard; Robgrave-Smith; Don Tragedio-Storer; Dr Orator-Cushing; Signior Opera-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Novel-Miss Copin; Goddess of Nonsense-Miss Young; With the Restoration of the King of Bantum, and the Foundlings Found Out: Murdertext-Morgan; Constable-Hacket; Bantomite Governor-Anderson; Bantomime Courier-Barnard; Foundlings-Cibber, Dunstall, Collins, Miss Haughton; Concluding with the Last New Grand Country Dance, call'd The Mouse Trap, or Foot's Vagaries: Miss in her Teens-La Petite Parisienne; Sg Piede-Villeneuve; Maitre de Ballet-Bencraft; Councillor-Morris; Lady Autumn-Oates; Rout, Drum Hunters-Delagarde, Anderson, Paddick, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: Luckless Actor: Cibber
Role: Foundlings Actor: Cibber, Dunstall, Collins, Miss Haughton

Song: I: Go lovely Rose-Beard; II: Tis Liberty-Mrs Storer; III: Sper il Fostore-Miss Faulkner; IV: Smiling Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

1304
07 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years.[See 2 April 1745]. Pit and Boxes laid together, where servants will be allowed to keep Places, and on the stage; which for the better Accommodation of the Ladies will be inclos'd and form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets of Mrs Cibber at New Street, Spring Garden, and of Hobson. Receipts: #275 (Cross); house charges, #60. This must be subtracted as before (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Garrick; Siffredi-Berry; Osmond-Havard; Rhodolpho-Usher; Laura-Mrs Elmy; Sigismunda-Mrs Cibber who by particular desire will speak the Original Epilogue in the character of the Tragic Muse.
Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Mrs Cibber who by particular desire will speak the Original Epilogue in the character of the Tragic Muse.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

1305
19 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 4 April 1749.] Miss Jane Cibber play'd Alicia-quite in old style, not lik'd at all, tho' not hiss'd-given out again and great hiss'd & so not done ($Cross). [The Author of the Midwife (No 1, final Page) reported]: Now I am speaking of Miss Cibber, I must do her the justice to observe that she play'd the part much better than cou'd be expected from one of her years and practice; and if a proper regard is paid to her modesty and Merit, I make no doubt she will become an exceeding good player. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Garrick; Gloster-Sowdon; Shore-Havard; Bellmour-Blakes; Catesby-Winstone; Ratcliff-Simson; Alicia attempted-Jane Cibber , being the 1st time of her appearing upon the stage these 6 years; Jane Shore-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Alicia attempted Actor: Jane Cibber , being the 1st time of her appearing upon the stage these 6 years

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Entertainment: EEpilogue upon Two Prologues-Mrs Clive

1306
07 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 April 1756.] The great Demand Mrs Cibber has had for places, has oblig'd her to lay the whole Pit into the Boxes; and the Stage form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Tickets deliver'd for Barbarossa 9 March will be taken. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Garrick; Osmond-Havard; Rhodolpho-Blakes; Officers-Jefferson, Walker; Laura-Miss Haughton; Sigismunda-Mrs Cibber; Siffredi-Berry.
Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants Dance, as17571004

1307
25 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Farce damn'd & Half-pence thrown. Mrs Cibber's Son dy'd two Days ago & she never came ot play for Holland, Mrs Yates, or me ye old Game at this Season. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17571101, but Hastings-Mossop, 1st time; Shore-Havard; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates; Alicia advertised as Mrs Cibber, but see note below by Cross. Alicia advertised as Mrs Cibber, but see note below by Cross.
Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: No Matter What

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

1308
15 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 30 March 1761.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. That there may be no interruption in the Performance, Mrs Cibber begs leave to assure those Ladies and Gentlemen who shall please to honour her with their company, that there will be no Building upon the Stage, nor any admittance behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-Obrien, 1st time; Horatio-Holland, 1st time; Sciolto-Garrick, 1st time; Altamont-Packer; Calista-Mrs Cibber; Lavinia-Mrs Davies; Rossano-Ackman; Lucilla-Mrs Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

1309
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto Or The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calistos Additional performers

1310
16 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17901204

1311
03 December 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Day In Turkey Or The Russian Slaves

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

1312
20 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: THE GAMESTER

Afterpiece Title: BRITAINS GLORY or A Trip to Portsmouth

1313
20 December 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

1314
20 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Main Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

1315
20 June 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Zorinski

1316
20 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almeyda Queen Of Granada

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

1317
01 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Married Un Married or The Widowd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

1318
08 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In I: The Song [Blest were the hours], Song incidental to the Epilogue-Mrs Jordan

1319
15 August 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Song: 2nd piece: General Chorus [of Assassins and Nuns (text)]-Linton, Brown, Lyons, Aylmer, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Mrs Andrews, Miss Menage, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brown, Mrs Benson, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Leserve

1320
19 September 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In III: a song-Dignum

1321
21 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Cambro Britons

1322
11 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: In: Chorusses-Linton, Aylmer, Brown, Dibble, Kenrick, Little, Caulfield Jun., Walker, Willoughby, Ms Edward, Ms Menage, Ms Hale, Ms Gawdry, Ms Butler, Ms Masters, Ms Norton, Ms Benson, Ms Leserve

1323
08 February 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

1324
22 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

1325
12 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Song: III: a song-Trueman