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11928 results for: Keyword - Mr George Powell
We found 5311 matches on Author, 4994 matches on Event Comments, 2577 matches on Performance Comments, 711 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1076
19 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Bensley; Alonzo-Usher; Anthonio-Bland; Gonzalo-Maddocks; Ferdinand-Barrymore; Stephano-Suett; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannister; Ariel-Mrs Bland; Hippolito-Mrs Goodall//Miranda-Mrs Powell; Dorinda (1st time)-Mrs Gibbs .
Cast
Role: Hippolito Actor: Mrs GoodallMiranda-Mrs Powell
Role: Mrs GoodallMiranda Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: WHOs THE DUPE

Related Works
Related Work: The Dupes of Fancy; or, Every Man his Hobby Author(s): George Saville Carey

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Dignum, Sedgwick, Caulfield, Cooke, Lyons, Dorion Sen. and Jun., Dibble, Willoughby, Walker, Brown, Saunders, Welsh, Burden//Mrs Bland, Miss De Camp, Mrs Stuart, Miss Menage, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale. In Act V the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick//Amphitrite-Mrs Stuart

1077
22 February 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Palmer; Alonzo-Packer; Antonio-Denman; Ferdinand-C. Kemble; Gonzalez-Maddocks; Stephano-Bannister Jun.; Trincalo-Suett; Caliban-Bannister; Ariel-Master Welsh; Hyppolito-Mrs Powell; Miranda-Mrs Crouch; Dorinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Hyppolito Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Caulfield, Cooke, Master Welsh, Miss Leak, Miss D'Evelyn

Monologue: V: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick; Amphitrite-Miss D'Evelyn

1078
14 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: Characters by Barrymore, Wroughton, Kemble, Palmer, Bannister Jun, Aickin, Dowton, Trueman, Davis, Wentworth, Gibbon, Packer, Wathen, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot. [Cast from text (J. Bell, 1798): Osmond-Barrymore; Reginald-Wroughton; Percy-Kemble; Father Philip-Palmer; Motley-Bannister Jun.; Kenric-Aickin; Hassan-Dowton; Saib-Trueman; Muley-Davis; Alaric-Wentworth; Harold-Gibbon; Allan-Packer; Edric-Wathen; Angela-Mrs Jordan; Alice-Mrs Walcot; Evelina ['s Ghost]-Mrs Powell (see17980521); Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17971228), but Epilogue again on 21 May 1798.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17971228), but Epilogue again on 21 May 1798.]
Cast
Role: 's Ghost] Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

1079
01 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-Palmer; Young Fashion-Barrymore; Loveless-Powell; Col. Townly-Holland; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Dowton; Probe-Wewitzer; Lory-Russell; Berinthia-Miss Mellon; Amanda-Miss Heard; Mrs Coupler-Miss Tidswell; Nurse-Mrs Walcot; Miss Hoyden-Jordan.
Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Music: End: a new Grand Concerto on the violin (his composition)-Spagnoletti (1st appearance in public since his arrival from Italy)

Ballet: End II: a new Comic Ballet, The Happy Stratagem; or, The Deluded Mother. Jack-Bartolomici (1st public appearance); Fanny , Younger Sister-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Margaret , Elder Sister-Mlle Parisot; Susanna , their Mother-Mrs Brooker

1080
13 December 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Lear, advertised on playbill of 12 Dec.] Afterpiece: In three Acts, taken from Addison. Powell: Drummer rehearsed at 10; Cherokee (business) at 11; Cherokee (dialogue & music) at 12. Receipts: #247 0s. 6d. (165.4.6; 76.13.6; 5.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Drummer

Performance Comment: Sir George Trueman-Wroughton; Tinsel-R. Palmer; Fantome-Whitfield; Vellum-Dodd; Butler-Hollingsworth; Coachman-Moody; Gardener-Suett; Lady Trueman-Mrs Goodall; Abigail-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir George Trueman Actor: Wroughton

1081
19 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Money The Mistress

Performance Comment: Parts-Diggs, Quin, Ryan, Walker, Boheme, Hippisley, Hall, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Moffett; but edition of 1726 lists: Governor of Tangier-Diggs; Warcourt-Quin; Mourville-Ryan; Marsan-Walker; Don Manuel-Boheme; Wingrave-Milward; Davila-Hippisley; Mouluza-Hall; Mariana-Mrs Younger; Harriet-Mrs Bullock; Diana-Mrs Moffet; Teresa-Mrs Martin; Prologue by Welstead-Quin; Epilogue by George Jeffreys-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: George Jeffreys Actor: Mrs Younger.

1082
17 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17491229, but Sir Jealous Traffic-Berry; Sir George Airy-Mills.
Cast
Role: Sir George Airy Actor: Mills.

Afterpiece Title: Don Saverio

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17500126

1083
02 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Garrick, Sir George-Palmer; Sir Francis-Yates; Sir Jealous-Berry; Charles-Havard; Whisper-Vaughan; Scentwell-Mrs Bradshaw; Isabinda-Mrs Davies; Patch-Mrs Clive, 1st time; Miranda-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Garrick, Sir George-Palmer
Role: Sir George Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17581102

1084
03 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Performance Comment: Parts-King, Reddish, Palmer, Aickin, Wrighten, Watkins, Cautherly, Miss Younge, Miss Platt, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Barry. Prologue-King; Epilogue-Mrs Barry; Capt. Dormer-Palmer; Sir George Hastings-King; Sir John Dormer-Reddish; Willoughby-Aickin; Villars-Cautherly; Miss Montague-Mrs Barry; Miss Dormer-Miss Younge; Miss Willoughby-Mrs Baddeley; Mrs Willoughby-Mrs Jeffries; Footmen-Wrighten, Watkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Jenny-Mrs Smith (Genest, V, 232).
Cast
Role: Sir George Hastings Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

1085
17 September 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Performance Comment: Tinsel-Dodd; Sir George-J. Aickin; Vellum-Parsons; Fantom-Packer; Butler-Baddeley; Gardener-Weston; Coachman-Moody; Lady Trueman-Mrs Hopkins; Abingail-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir George Actor: J. Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton

1086
13 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: The Musick composed by Storace. Powell: Englishman in Paris rehearsed at 10; Children in the Wood at 11 (Master Welsh absent; rehearsal dismissed); Love a-la-Mode at 12 (Suett and Miss Heard, one scene). Receipts: #416 3s. (343/7/6; 61/19/0; 10/7/6; tickets not come in: 0/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE or 2

1087
16 September 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 6s, Second Price 3s. Pit 3s. 6d. Second Price 2s. Gallery 2s. Second Price 1s. Upper Gallery 1s. Second Price 6d. No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Office in Russell-Street. Printed by C. Lowndes, next the Stage Door [and see 7 Oct.]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 28 Oct.]. Powell, 15 Sept.: Jew rehearsed at 11; 16 Sept.: My Grandmother rehearsed at 10. Receipts: #387 16s. 6d. (307.1.0; 79.2.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

1088
27 September 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Gibbs was from the hay.] Afterpiece: 21st time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. The Music composed, and selected from Cherubini, Kreutzer and Andreozzi, by Storace. An Accurate Edition of Lodoiska to be had at the Theatre. Powell, 26 Sept.: Provoked Husband rehearsed at 10; Lodoiska at 12 (for Palmer); 27 Sept.: Lodoiska rehearsed at 10 (for Bannister). Receipts: #433 19s. 6d. (296.14.0; 134.13.0; 2.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband Or The Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

1089
20 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton, an old Actress, & ye Sub: Treasurer (Cross). Positively the last time of Mr Garrick's performing the character of Fribble this season. Tickets deliver'd out for the Fatal Marriage will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Horton at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street, Covent Garden; and of the Sub-treasurer at Mrs Quaker's in Broad St., Soho, and at the Stage Door (playbill). On Monday next The Recruiting Officer with several entertainments for the Benefit of Mr George Burton, Mr Harvey and Mrs Addison. Receipts: #175 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favorite

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Master Vernon

1090
18 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Hamlet having been greatly Altered by D. G. was perform'd for the first time Mr Garrick playd divinely & Merited the great Applause he receivd It is Alterd much for the better in regard to the part of Hamlet & I think the alterations very fine & proper (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble considerably briefer. See "Garrick's Long Lost Alteration of Hamlet," PMLA, Sept. 1934.] Paid Mr George Garrick on account #100; Mr Bulkley for Mr Weston, #2 8s. (Treasurer's Book). [Reviewer for Town and Country Magazine comments unfavorably on the Hamlet alteration: "How far the critics will approve these mutations we will not at present determine; but the admirers of Shakespeare must certainly be displeas'd, whenever they see his immortal works mutilated."] Receipts: #284 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1091
28 June 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comedy of three Acts [by Foote]. By Authority. Open'd by Mr Foote. Most of the performers entirely new. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Doors to be opened at five. Curtain drawn up at seven. [Notice repeated in subsequent bills. Genest, IV, 599, lists Smith as Sir George.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Induction by Foote-Foote; Smart-Smith; Canker-Misdale; Pearse-Pearse; Play: Sir William-Baddeley; R. Wealthy-Hyde; Sir George-Shaw; Shift-Foote; Loader-Davis; Dick-Weston; Transfer-Blakey; Mrs Cole-Foote; Lucy-Miss Burden (Edition of 1760).
Cast
Role: Sir George Actor: Shaw

Dance:

1092
09 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Performance Comment: For a previous cast, see16670815. A Prologue by Sir George Etherege is in A Collection of Poems (1701), p. 293-.

1093
August 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not certain, but Luttrell acquired his copy of the separately-printed Prologue and Epilogue on 18 Aug. 1684. (Bindley Collection, William Andrews Clark@Jr@Library), and the play was probably first performed on that day or in the preceding week. The Prologue and Epilogue are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 221-23. In the broadside the speaker of the Prologue is identified as Jevon. A sofg, Ah poor Oliver never boast, the verse by a Lady, and the music by R. King, is in A Collection of Twenty-Four Songs, 1685. Another, Damon if you wilt believe me, the verse by a Person of Quality and the music by Alexander Damascene, is in The Banquet of Musick, The Fifth Book, 1691. Two songs, Tell me no more I am deceived, the verse by Sir George Etherege and the music by J. B. Draghi, and Who can resist my Celia's charms, the music by J. B. Drahgi, and the verse by A Person of Quality, are in the printed play. This cast contains the last new role certainly assigned to John Wiltshire, who, according to (Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 84-85), entered the army and was killed in action

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

1094
04 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Fame or Queen Elizabeths Trumpets or Never pleads Hopes of being a Lord Chancellor or The Lover turnd Philosopher or The Misers Resolve upon the Lowering of Interest

Performance Comment: The Characters are, Sir Hardheart Pelf, an Usurer, and Justice of the Peace-; Counsellor Pleadwell, a Man of Honour-; in love with Charlotte, the Miser's Daughter-; Counsellor Neverplead, of Brick-Court in the Temple, an Original-; Fustian turn'd Auctioneer, preparatory to a Presbyterian Parson-; Mr Jamaica, an honest Merchant, sent as a Vagrant to the House of Correction-; Mr Quidnunc, a very deep-headed Man-; a Pack of fashionable Ladies and Beaux-; Famine, the Usurer's Servant-; George, Counsellor Neverplead's chief Clerk-.

1095
21 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Written by George Duke of Buckingham. With Songs, Dances, New Scenes, Machines, Habits and other proper decorations. The Music New-compos'd by Mr Arne. No After Money will be taken. To prevent any interruption in the movement of the machines, 'tis hoped no Persons will take it ill that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. Receipts: #90

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Dance: I: Ballet, as17411015; II: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: The Swiss, as17410926

1096
22 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Beckham, the Prompter. Tickets at Beckham's Toy Shop, in Cornhill; George's Coffeehouse, Temple Bar, Tom's Coffeehouse, Russel St., Covent Garden; Dodsley's Bookseller, at Tulley's Head; and at Gloucester Tavern, Pall Mall. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Steel, Mrs E. Hippisley, the two Masters Granier, and Mr Ravenscroft, will be taken...Servants will be allow'd to keep Places upon the Stage, which (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclos'd, and form'd into an Amphitheatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: Concert Air from Alexander's Feast: War he sung is Toil and Trouble-Mrs Bishop; III: Can Love be controul'd by Advice-Miss Medina

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Jo. Woodbridge; who never perform'd on that Stage before ending with Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; And to conclude: the Concert, the Coronation Anthem Long Live the King (never perform'd there before) by Mr Handel-an Additional Band

Dance: I: David apShenkin; II: Welsh Buffoon, as17420406 IV: Two Millers and Courtezan, as17420315 End I Afterpiece: New Scots Dance-Master and Miss Granier

1097
09 February 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. At the request of several of the Scotch Nobility. Benefit for Raeburn. Mainpiece: In its original state, as it was written by Allan Ramsay in 1724 [recte 1725]. The Characters to be entirely new dressed. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. No persons to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money returned after the curtain is drawn up. Ladies are requested to send their servants by Five to keep places. Tickets to be had of Raeburn, No. 4, Gloucester-court, St. James's; of Walker, the Globe, Pall-mall; of Mackintosh, the George, East Harding-street, Shoe-lane; of Watson, the Fleece, Little Windmill-street (being the original Scotch house); of Mrs Shaw, the St. Andrew, near the Armitage-bridge, Wapping

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel (performers not listed); In Act IV a Hornpipe by Middleton

Monologue: 1784 02 09 The Edinburgh Buck by a Genleman [unidentified]

1098
09 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Powell. Admission as 7 Aug. At 5:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: Lory-Penkethman; Foppington-Husband; Young Fashion-Mrs Kent; Lovelace-Elrington; Worthy-Thurmond; Sir Tunbelly-Leigh; Surgeon-Norris; Coupler-Spillar; Amanda-Mrs Baker; Berinthia-Mrs Sapsford; Hoyden-Mrs Shepard; Nurse-Mrs Powell; With a new Prologue-Powell; a new Epilogue-Powell, Spiller, Expressing the dreadful Hardships Laywers and Players suffer in a long Vacation.
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: Powell
Role: a new Epilogue Actor: Powell, Spiller, Expressing the dreadful Hardships Laywers and Players suffer in a long Vacation.

Song:

Dance: Too many to be inserted in the bills

1099
25 April 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Permssion of the Manager of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The Overture and Music by Dr Arnold. Powell: Children in the Wood rehearsed at 10 (Bannister, Dignum, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bland absent); No Song No Supper at 11 (for Starace, Kelly, Leak, Dignum, Sedgwick); Distressed Mother at 12. Receipts: #385 7s. (310/1/6; 64/10/6; 10/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Performance Comment: Characters by Barrymore, Dignum, Bannister Jun., Suett, Benson, Caulfield, Maddocks, Lyons, Cooke// Mrs Powell, Mrs Bland, Mrs Booth, Master Menage, Miss Menage. [Cast adjusted from text (No pub., 1794): Sir Rowland-Barrymore; Lord Alford-Dignum; Walter-Bannister Jun.; Apathy-Suett; Gabriel-Benson; Oliver-Caulfield; Servant-Maddocks; Ruffians-Lyons, Cooke//Lady Helen-Mrs Powell; Josephine-Mrs Bland; Winifred-Mrs Booth; Boy-Master Menage; Girl-Miss Menage.) hathi.
Cast
Role: Ruffians Actor: Lyons, CookeLady Helen-Mrs Powell
Role: CookeLady Helen Actor: Mrs Powell

Song: In Act V of mainpiece a song by Mrs Bland

1100
12 December 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations [by John Philip Kemble. In his version, as published in 1793, Lewis is assigned to Barrymore, Helena to Mrs Siddons, the Countess to Mrs Ward, Diana to Mrs Powell. Genest lists the present cast; it appears to be reliable. He omits Phillimore, who is assigned in the text, and Miss Tidswell]. A new Edition of All's Well that Ends Well to be had in the Theatre. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fightv. Powell: Drummer rehearsed at 10; Critic at 11:30; Cherokee at 1. Receipts: #282 1s. (178.19; 99.16; 3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Bensley, Kemble, Aickin, Bannister Jun., Whitfield, C. Kemble, Benson, Caulfield, Bland, Packer, King, R. Palmer, Phillimore, Mrs Powell, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Booth, Miss Miller, Miss Tidswell. Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1793 [sic]) conflated With Genest, VII, 183: King-Bensley; Bertram-Kemble; Lafeu-Aickin; Clown-Bannister Jun.; Dumain-Whitfield; Lewis [i.e. 2nd Lord ]-C. Kemble; Biron [i.e. 1st Gentleman ]-Benson; Jaquez [i.e. 2nd Gentleman ]-Caulfield; Tourville [i.e. Astringer ]-Bland; Steward-Packer; Parolles-King; Soldier (Interpreter)-R. Palmer; Soldier-Phillimore; Countess-Mrs Powell; Helena-Mrs Jordan; Widow-Mrs Booth; Diana-Miss Miller; Mariana-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed