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We found 4292 matches on Event Comments, 1194 matches on Performance Comments, 631 matches on Performance Title, 276 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phyllis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: TThe Plowman, as17591121; a Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Performance Comment: Actors only in bills, but Macmillan lists: Ferdinand-Holland; Henrico-Fleetwood; Constantia-Mrs Pritchard; Sylvia-Miss Pritchard; Prologue-Garrick in character of a Drunken Poet.
Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17600108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

Event Comment: Never Acted before. A Tragedy [By John Home]. I went to my Office and then slept [?] in at Drury Lane w here I see Mr and Miss Hayes, Lady Lindores who I see into a coach, I slept in at Covent Garden Gallery before the play, but see nobody I knew so I would not stay, otherwise I would have went out as I had set my mind on the Beggar's Opera for once more, but waived it all & went to my Office (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: Concerto On Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violin-Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Song: WWhen Gentle Parthenissa-Lowe

Music: Several pieces on the Harp, particularly the favourite Irish Ballad Ellen@a@Roon, with variations, -Evans

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17591102; The Plowman, as17591121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: Cephalus and Procris: With The Mistakes Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: Every Woman in Her Humour

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17600313

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'isola Disabitata; Or, The Desert Island

Dance: New Grand Dances-Signora Provenzale, Signora Asselin, who will dance in men's clothes

Music: Concerto on the Violin-Sg Candoni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian