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We found 4462 matches on Event Comments, 1252 matches on Performance Comments, 551 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Hotel

Dance: IV: a Dance of Furies-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Song: original Music by Mattew Locke , with full Chorusses and Additional Accompaniments by ThomasLinley Sen.-Bannister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown, Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs J. Smith, Mrs Wrighten; Account-Book adds: Reynoldson, Webbe, Michan, Gaudry, Danby, J. Danby, Short, Miss Boyd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Performance Comment: Characters by Clarke, Lewis, Wroughton, Ward, Whitefield, Mrs Hartley. Druids and Bards-Aickin, Hull, L'Estrange, Fearon, others; Principal Vocal Parts-Leoni, Reinhold, Mrs Farrell; [Cast from text (York: A. Ward, 1777 [i.e. 1776]): Caractacus-Clarke; Arviragus-Lewis; Elidurus-Wroughton; Vellinus-Ward; Aulus Didius-Whitefield; Evelina-Mrs Hartley; Modred-Aickin; Mador-Hull.
Cast
Role: Aulus Didius Actor: Whitefield

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17761218

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; In IV: Grand Dance, as17770425; The Court Minuet, as17770403; Allemande, as17770403

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Young; Strictland-Newton; Jack Meggot-Russell; Bellamy-Vowell; Tester-Baker; Buckle-Walters; Frankly-G. Graham; Mrs Strictland-Miss Holland; Jacintha-Mrs Bolingbroke; Lucetta-Miss Essex; Milliner-Miss Cranfield; Clarinda-Mrs Graham.
Cast
Role: Milliner Actor: Miss Cranfield

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: New Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Hutton

Event Comment: To begin at 6:30 precisely. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. The Proprietors have spared no expence in enlarging and beautifying the Theatre; and as they are determined to preserve the exactest punctuality in the time of beginning, and to make regularity and decorum their chief study, hope they shall render themselves deserving of that favourable encouragement they have before experienced. The House is illuminated with Wax. Subscription tickets may be had by applying to Bailey, at Mr Oldfield's. [Author of Prologue unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End: Hornpipe-a Lady [from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden unidentified]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Heartfree-Aickin; Col. Bully (with a song)-Mattocks; Razor-Brunsdon; Lord Rake-Robson; Justice-Thompson; Taylor-Jones; Constant-Wroughton; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Mattocks; Belinda-Mrs Lewis; Mademoiselle (1st time)-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Brute-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Dance: As17790922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Gazette Extraordinary; Or, The Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Elders

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Wilson, Whitfield, Thompson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Quick, Mrs Morton, Mrs Wilson; [Cast suggested by Genest (VI, 149): Sir Valentine Sedgmore-Wilson; Charles Manley-Whitfield; Humphrey Sedgmore-Wewitzer; Miss Louisa Balmer-Mrs Morton; Kitty-Mrs Wilson; unassigned-Thompson, Fearon, Quick; Prologue-Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Dance: IV: The Bedlamites-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17810203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer's Return From London

Afterpiece Title: All for Love

Performance Comment: Marc Anthony-Wroughton; Dolabella-Whitfield; Alexas-Booth; Serapion-L'Estrange; Officers-Robson, Thompson; Ventidius-Aickin; Octavia-Mrs Yates; Cleopatra-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Dolabella Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Phusimimesis; or, Resemblances of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End II 2nd piece: The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo, as17810226; 4th piece: The Early Horn-Cubitt; Scene I: When Phoebus the tops of the hills, as17810425

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Blurton and the two Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, Love's Labyrinth

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wroughton, Mattocks, Reinhold, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Whitfield, Davies, L'Estrangc, Robson, Fearon, Leoni; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Pitt, Miss Harper. [Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1781): Marquis de Quintano-Wroughton; Fernando-Mattocks; Ramirez-Reinhold; Spado-Quick; Pedrillo-Edwin; Francisco-Wilson; Ricardo-Whitfield; Sanguino-Davies; Calvette-L'Estrange; Rapino-Robson; Gambo-Fearon; Phillipo-Leoni; Pepina-Mrs Kennedy; Victoria-Mrs Mattocks; Marchioness de Quintano-Mrs Inchbald; Agnes-Mrs Pitt; Inesilla-Miss Harper.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Ricardo Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Henderson; King-Clarke; Ghost-Aickin; Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-Davies; Ostrick-Bonnor; Polonius-Wilson; Player King-Mahon; Marcellus-Fearon; Rosencraus-Booth; Guildenstern-Thompson; Grave-Diggers-Quick, Jones; Queen-Mrs Inchbald; Player Queen-Miss Stuart; Ophelia-Miss Satchell .
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Medley

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley