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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.

6476
26 February 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2639, 23-26 Feb. 1690@1: The new Consort of Musick, which began on Friday the 20th instant, next Bedford Gate in Charles-street, Covent Garden, will be performed at the aforesaid place, this present Thursday the 26th instant, and so continue every Thursday, beginning between 7 and 8 in the Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6477
23 April 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2654, 16-20 April 1691: The Consort of Vocal and Instrumental Musick in Charles-street, Covent Garden, by Their Majesties Authority, will be perform'd on Thursday next the 23d instant, and to continue every Thursday, by Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6478
29 October 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2709, 26-29 Oct. 1691: The Consort of Vocal and Instrumental Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin this present Thursday the 29th instant, at the usual Time in the Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6479
12 November 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2712, 5-9 Nov. 1691: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will be performed on Thursday next, being the 12th of this instant, and every Thursday as formerly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6480
10 March 1692 @ Charles Street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2747, 7-10 March 1691@2: This present Thursday, being the 10th Instant, will be performed a Consort of Musick, with some new Voices, at the Vendu in Charles-Street, Covent-Garden, beginning between 7 and 8 a Cl ock at Night, as usually, and so continue every Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6481
03 February 1693 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2841, 3O Jan.-2 Feb. 1692@3: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin tomorrow, being Friday, the 3d of February, at Eight of the Clock at Night, and to continue every Thursday Night after during this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6482
23 March 1693 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2854, 16-20 March 1692@3: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin again on Thursday next, being the 23th Instant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6483
14 June 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2982, 7-11 June 1694: On Thursday next will be a new Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent Garden; where a Gentlewoman that Sings that hath one of the best Voices in England, not before heard in publick, to be continued every Thursday for a Month

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6484
18 October 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3018, 11-15 Oct. 1694: The Consort of Musick will begin in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 18th instant, with two very fine Voices, and will continue all the Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6485
29 November 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3030, 22-26 Nov. 1694: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin again next Thursday, with the Addition of two new Voices, one being a young Gentlewoman of 12 years of Age, the Room being Put in good Condition, and there to continue this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6486
10 June 1695 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3085, 3-6 June 1695: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will be performed once more this next Monday, being the 10th of June instant, at the usual time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

6487
03 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company was apparently suspended because of its action in allowing John Powell, who had been involved in an altercation with Colonel Stanhope and Charles Davenant, to act before making satisfaction for the incident. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 368, and Cibber, Apology, II, 20n. The suspension lasted but a day; on 19 May 1698 Powell was forbidden to be received at either Drury Lane or Dorset Garden

Performances

6488
09 July 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, No 496, 7-9 July 1698: This day is acted Oroonoko, at the King's Playhouse, for the particular Entertainment of some Persons of the highest Quality, with the Italian Shades, as they were perform'd with great Applause, before their Excellencies the Russian and Morocco Ambassadors, in the Reign of King Charles II. And an Entertainment after the manner of the Carnaval at Rome. With several Grotesque Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

6489
March 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the second edition (1700) states: The first appearance of this Play was on a Wednesday in Lent; for then (it seems) the Town look for a bad Entertainment. [As the play was advertised in the Flying Post, 2 April 1700, the first performance probably occurred in early March.] A Prologue by Sir Charles Sedley which may have been intended for this play is in Sedley's Works, ed. V. de Sola Pinto (London, 1928), I, 46-47, 288-89. A song in this play, separately printed ca. 1700, indicates that the music was composed by Daniel Purcell and that the song was sung by Mrs Erwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reform'd Wife

Performance Comment: Edition of 1700: Sir Solomon Empty-Johnson; Freeman-Wilks; Careless-Toms; Clerimont-Mills; Doctor-Haines; Astrologer-Fairbank; Astra-Mrs Knight; Clarinda-Mrs Rogers; Sylvia-Mrs Temple; Lady Dainty-Mrs Verbruggen; Mrs Friendly-Mrs Powell; Fidelia-Mrs Moor; Cloe-Mrs Stephens; Pert-Mrs Baker; Prologue-; Epilogue-the Sickly Lady.
Cast
Role: Mrs Friendly Actor: Mrs Powell

6490
23 August 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. As it was several times presented at court by persons of Quality, for the Entertainment of his late Majesty King Charles the 2d. The Company will continue Acting three times a week, during the term of Bartholomew Fair. [No further performances at Drury Lane during the summer are known.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Music: With the original Mask set to new Musick-

6491
02 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was perform'd several times at court, by Persons of Great Quality, before his late Majesty King Charles II. With all the Scenes Which were originally Presented in it when acted at the Theatre, particularly the Fleet of Shipsv and the Hell Scenev, in which the Masquerade was perform'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Song:

Dance:

6492
08 June 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: The Principal Parts to be perform'd by those who play'd them when 'twas reviv'd in King Charles the Second's time.

6493
08 April 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17080217, but Sir Charles-_; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Powell; Cherry-Mrs Bicknell; A New Epilogue upon an Ass-Pinkeman written by Estcourt.
Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Powell

6494
10 July 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Which was Acted several Times At Court in the Reign of King Charles the 2d by People of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

6495
26 December 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 24 Nov., but stage boxes omitted. At 6 p.m. The Spectator, 26 Dec., has a letter from Thomas Clayton, Nicolino Haym, and Charles Dieupart, who state that they have joined together to offer entertainments of music in the future at Clayton's house in York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

6496
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

6497
16 February 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Charles Molloy.] Never Acted before. [The Preface states that at the premiere it was roundly attacked and that its enemies gave out that it had failed, but it made a recovery.] Receipts: #76 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplex'd Couple; Or, Mistake Upon Mistake

6498
14 March 1729 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Charles Weideman. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Music by Handel for Their Majesties' Coronation-; Other pieces-performers from the Opera

6499
08 October 1730 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Charles, the Merry Trumpeter of Oxford. At Mrs Lee's Great Booth on the Bowling-Green. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

6500
29 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Coffey. For an extended comment on this performance, see The Auditor, 6 Feb. 1733.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Boarding School Romps; or, The Sham Captain

Related Works
Related Work: The Boarding School; or, The Sham Captain Author(s): Charles Coffey