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10344 results for: Keyword - Mr C. Roberts
We found 5494 matches on Event Comments, 2913 matches on Performance Comments, 961 matches on Author, 728 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
05 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lorenzo

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

102
02 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

103
27 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck or French Ingratitude

Song: End: Captivity (Supposed to be sung by an Unfortunate Queen [Marie Antoinette] during her confinement)-; End 2nd piece: Black Eyed Susan-; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon

104
13 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Townsend, Williamson, Robson (music porter), Smart, Walker, Strahan, Anselmo, Sturgeon, Furkins, Bazely, Simmons, Roberts, Barnes, Steer will be admitted. Receipts: #409 10s. (34.11.0; 7.0.6; tickets: 367.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

105
29 August 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Love and Money or The Fair Caledonian

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Monsieur Tonson-Fawcett

106
22 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britains Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

107
24 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Hunters-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford; II: The Faggot Binders-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End Opera: A Dance-Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker

108
15 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

109
11 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette or Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

110
20 February 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Connoisseur Or Every Man In His Folly

111
27 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Hunters, as17640224; The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

112
01 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

113
05 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers-Lauchery, Miss Baker; II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640319

114
09 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Roberts, shoemaker, 2 Bills #21 2s. 10d.; Mr Thomson Smith, #23 14s. 6d.; Mr Reddish on Acct to Mr Scarr, per order #15; Rec'd of Mr C. Roberts 3 quarter's Rent to Midsummer last #7 10s. Receipts: #184 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

115
13 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Characters in Mainpiece "New Dress'd" (playbill). Rec'd Mr C. Roberts half year's rent to Mich. Last, #5; Paid Mr C. Roberts (shoemaker) #11 6s. 10d.; Mr G. Garrick on Acct #100; Master Thomson 13 nights (12th incl.) #3 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #211 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

116
13 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Paid Mr Roberts, shoemaker #12 18s. 4d.; Rec'd from Mr C. Roberts half year's rent to Mich. last #5 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116 9s. Charges: #67 6s. Profits to Brereton: #49 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: II: By Desire, Hornpipe-Tassoni's 7-year-old scholar, her second appearance on any stage

Song: End: Several Catches and Glees-, some composed by Dibdin

117
16 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Experiment

Dance: End: Hunting Dance, as17770218; End I afterpiece: The Villagers, as17770122

118
02 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit J. Roberts. By Desire. For the Entertainment of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Non-Common Pleas, Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Second and Third Pieces: Both written by the Author of Pasquin. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six, and all will be over by Half an Hour after Nine. Tickets (containing the Prologue to the Register, by way of Ode to the New Year, with the Musick engrav'd on a Copper Plate) may be had of Mr Henry Roberts, Engraver, at the Star over-against the Vine Tavern in Holborn, and at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Daily Advertiser, 2 May: Sir, As at every one of our Theatres this Day there is a Benefit for Persons under Misfortunes, 'tis humbly hop'd that the more humane Pursuers o Pleasure will suspend their Curiosity for Vaux Hall for one Day, (out of a hundred) in Favour of so many Unfortunate, who have but the Chance of one single Night to relieve them from Afflictions which perhaps they have long labour'd under. And, as I have somewhere read, So humane Worth to God like Heights they'll raise, For the Preserver shares the Maker's Praise. I believe it is fully known, without troubling you with farther Particulars, that among the Number above mention'd, is included, Sir, Your very humble Servant, John Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

Performance Comment: See17370413 Epilogue-Miss Roberts.
Cast
Role: See17370413 Epilogue Actor: Miss Roberts.

119
09 January 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Dance:

120
19 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Song: Roberts

Dance: As17390115

121
20 March 1734 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concertos by Corelli and Geminiani. Favourite Songs of Mr Handel's. Solo upon the German Flute and Violin. A Concerto, the Solo Part upon the Harpsichord

122
12 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: THE LONDON HERMIT

Afterpiece Title: THE LIAR

123
27 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts. Tickets deliver'd out for 20 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Roberts

124
18 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Roberts

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17531120

125
January 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Turbulent Or The Melanchollicks