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9451 results for: Keyword - Mr Charles Powel
We found 4755 matches on Event Comments, 2697 matches on Performance Comments, 2431 matches on Author, 608 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4951
17 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

4952
10 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

4953
06 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Cast
Role: 2nd Bramin Actor: Powel

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr

4954
09 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Villagers Actor: Mrs +Bland, Mrs +Powell, Miss +Hale, Mrs +Edwin.
Role: Mrs Peery Actor: Mrs Powell.

4955
17 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Welch Heiress

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

4956
22 September 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir David Daw-R. Palmer; Governor Tempest-King; Mr Penruddock-Kemble; Mr Woodville-Whitfield; Mr Sydenham-Palmer; Capt. Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazle-Suett; Servant to Woodville-Maddocks; Officer-Benson; Jenkins-Russell; Coachman-Jones; Cook-Hollingsworth; Servant to Tempest-Webb; Footmen-Trueman, Cooke, Evans, Welsh; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Farren; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Woodville Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

4957
29 September 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir David Daw-R. Palmer; Governor Tempest-King; Mr Penruddock-Kemble; Mr Woodville-Whitfield; Mr Sydenham-Palmer; Capt. Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazle-Suett; Servant to Woodville-Maddocks; Officer-Phillimore; Jenkins-Caulfield; Coachman-Hollingsworth; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Farren; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Woodville Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

4958
30 September 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir David Daw-Russell; Governor Tempest-King; Mr Penruddock-Kemble; Mr Woodville-Caulfield; Mr Sydenham-Palmer; Captain Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazle-Suett; Servant to Woodville-Maddocks; Officer-Wentworth; Jenkins-Wathen; Coachman-Hollingsworth; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Mellon; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Woodville Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Cast
Role: Lady Helen Actor: Mrs Powell

4959
25 January 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Knave Or Not

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

4960
09 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir David Daw-R. Palmer; Governor Tempest-King; Mr Penruddock-Kemble; Mr Woodville-Caulfield; Mr Sydenham-Barrymore; Captain Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazle-Suett; Servant to Woodville-Maddocks; Officer-Wentworth; Jenkins-Russell; Coachman -Hollingsworth; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Mellon; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Mrs Woodville Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

4961
24 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir David Daw-Palmer; Governor Tempest-King; Mr Penruddock-Kemble; Mr Woodville-Clarke; Mr Sydenham-Barrymore; Captain Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazle-Suett; Servant to Woodville-Maddocks; Officer-Wentworth; Jenkins-Trueman; Coachman-Sparks; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Mellon; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid-Mrs Coates.
Cast
Role: Mrs Woodville Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Entertainment: Vaudeville In II afterpiece: Military Manoeuvres-; [the Dead March-; [the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

4962
08 September 1726 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Powel and Yates' Tiled Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Princess Elizabeth; Or, The Rise Of Judge Punch

4963
19 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mines and Powel, Boxkeepers. Tickets for Verhuyck and Nalor also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; IV: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

4964
17 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #131 19s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

4965
19 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: WWinston MS: Mrs Green married during June 1747. She play'd as Miss Hippisley at Covent Garden 29 May 1747. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #121 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

4966
22 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrologue omitted. Garrick ill [Genest, IV, 232). We hear the Celebrated Old Comedy call'd Abumazar [sic] from which Johnson is suppos'd to have taken his Alchymist, is now reviving at Drury Lane Theatre, and will be acted some day next week (General Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #146 3s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

4967
24 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: To the Author of the General Advertiser: Sir: Several Parodies on the favourite Soliloquy in Hamlet having appear'd lately, and all of the serious and grave Kind; the following Attempt in Burlesque, if you think it will be agreeable to the Publick, is at their and your Service: Yours, Rigdum Funnidos. @To drink, or not to Drink? that is the Question--@Whether 'tis easier for a Man, to suffer@The Pangs and Horrors of Outrageous Thirst;@Or boldly venture on a Sea of Liquor.... Receipts: #140 (Cross); #111 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Charles Coffey

4968
26 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #114 1s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

4969
29 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #110 (Cross); #101 10s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4970
01 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This dance had been introduced in Act IV of The Refusal on 29 Sept.] Receipts: #100 (Cross); #102 6s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: New Dance-Cooke

4971
06 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts; #140 (Cross); #121 19s. 6d. (Powel); #121 17s. 6d. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

4972
08 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick being disabled by illness from speaking the Prologue when it was demanded, hopes this publication will be consider'd as a proof of his desire to compensate the disappointment (Daily Advertiser). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #113 0s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

4973
10 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Performance Comment: As17471003*c1747 10 10 dl Hiss'd (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 29s. (Powel).

4974
13 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross); #92 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

4975
21 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Ben Johnson. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #146 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment