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7552 results for: Keyword - Mr Frank Roberts
We found 4459 matches on Event Comments, 2258 matches on Performance Comments, 942 matches on Author, 619 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3451
03 April 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Perry. At 7 P.M.'Boxes 51. Pit is. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Two Sonatas on the Harp by Perry. Also by the best Performers

3452
26 July 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Election; Or, Court And Country

Performance Comment: Parts by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Egerton, Mrs Talbot, Turbutt, Miss Jones, Jones, Hallam, Woodward, Woodburne, and Este .

3453
17 February 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Parts by Penkethman, Rosco, Kelly, Miss Jones, Mrs Dove, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Roberts, but see17360210.

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: III: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

3454
02 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: English Roast Beef by Leveridge. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

Performance Comment: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts .

3455
11 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Music: Overture to Ariadne. Select Pieces between the Acts. V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Benj. Baker will play the Kettle-Drums, accompanied with Trumpets and French Horns

Dance: I: Le Depit Amoureux by Desse and Mlle Delorme. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: The Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Norman, Mrs Kilby

Song: I: Chancon a Boire, as17360504. II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412

Performance Comment: II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412.

3456
18 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

3457
28 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Pierot-Lalauze; Endymion-Salway; Chasseurs-Vincent; Roberts; Nymphs-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Mrs Vincent; Merlin-Leveridge; Cupid-Glover; Graces-Mrs Bullock, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun; Hour-Miss Cantrell; Zephyrs-Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, DuPre; Psyche-Mlle Roland; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Lun; Mercury-Laguerre; Doctor-Penkethman; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

3458
19 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

3459
14 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit J. Roberts, Mines, Masons, Cooper. Afterpiece by desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: As17420510; IV: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: AArrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

3460
12 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

3461
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

3462
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Palmer. Rec'd cash #50 14s., plus #82 15s. in tickets. Paid Duke of Bedford's Steward for leases #3 13s. 6d.; Mrs Swift 1s. 6d., omitted Wednesday; Mrs Roberts #1 omitted Wednesday [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

3463
02 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Holtham, Page (Housekeeper) and Miss Morrison. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Miss Allen, Miss Davis and Mrs Griffiths will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips with Clown, Bennet

3464
14 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. Tickets deliver'd by Roberts will be taken. Being the last time of the company's performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: Piece on the Welch Harp-Parry

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

3465
06 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

3466
18 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Dyer; 1st Spirit-Hull; 2nd Spirit (with song in character)-Mattocks; The Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchanals-Beard, Lowe, Baker; Bacchants-Miss Brent, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; Chorusses-Legg, Courtney; Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Courts, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge, Miss Allen; Euphrosyne-Mrs Lampe; Sabrina, the Pastoral Nymph, and Song of Sweet Echo-Miss Brent; The Dances incident to the Masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosly, Terriot, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Terriot, Miss Terriot.

3467
12 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cape, West, Tomlinson, Robinson, Roberts, and Mortimer. Tickets delivered by Marr and Page will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

3468
13 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shawford, Berrisford, Roberts, Miss Bride. Tickets delivered by Spilsbury will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

3469
06 December 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

3470
20 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for West, Cape, Mortimer, Roberts, Tomlinson. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [The Occasional Epilogue is Larpent MS 197, wherein Tomlinson as the habitual stage mute finally speaks, after having acted in dumb show Prelate, Senator, Page, Soldier, Clown, and Lord, thanks the audience and expresses his desire to please.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Fawcett

Entertainment: II: An Occasional Epilogue (1st time)-Tomlinson

3471
13 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not perform'd these two Years. [See 26 May 1760.] Income from Boxes #25 15s. Nightly expenses #37 2s. 1d. plus the following items: Chorus singers in the Fair (Dibdin, Warren, Court, Roberts and Whiteaker) at 5s. each-#1 5s.; Two side Drums 10s.; Fife 5s.; Two Fire-eaters 15s.; Merry Andrew 5s.; Fidder 2s. 6d.; Loveman 2s. 6d. Receipts: #131 (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Fair, A Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment

3472
04 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Widow Lampe, Miss Young. Afterpiece: For the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: III: The Taylors, as17620107

Music: II: A Piece upon the Welch Harp-Evans

3473
20 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Pit doorkeeper, Shawford, Berrisford, and Roberts. Tickets deliver'd by Wallis will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Wallis; V: New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

3474
18 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Occasional Oratorio

Music: CConcertos on Organ-Stanley; on Violin-Hay

3475
02 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Music: II: Piece on the Harp-Parry

Dance: III: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

Song: IV: Singing-Polly Young