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10829 results for: Keyword - Mr Henry Giffard
We found 4574 matches on Event Comments, 3506 matches on Author, 2600 matches on Performance Comments, 1684 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8101
03 September 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Henry the Fourth, advertised on playbill of 1 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

8102
29 April 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Powell: Kemble being indisposed from a violent Bruise in his Arm (during the several times of his playing the Part of Macbeth) so as to render him incapable of attending the Theatre this evening, an Apology was made by Wroughton, and the Prologue was omitted. [The playbill retains Miss Menage in afterpiece, but she] being at the Italian Opera this Evening, Master Chatterley play'd her part in the Children in the Wood. Henry VIII rehearsed at 10 (for Banks and Dignum; Packer ill); The Jew at 12 (for Miss Farren and Miss Tidswell). Receipts: #322 5s. 6d. (248/0/0; 67/15/0; 6/14/6; tickets not come in: 0/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

8103
16 October 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Powell, 15 Oct.: Chaplet rehearsed at 10 [but this play was not acted this season]; Emilia Galotti at 11; 16 Oct.: Henry VIII rehearsed at 10; Lodoiska at 12 (Floreski's and Ithorak's scenes); Wedding Day read at 12. Receipts: #453 1s. 6d. (335.1.0; 94.0.0; 4.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

8104
29 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Nobody

Performance Comment: Characters-Barrymore, Bensley, Bannister Jun., Maddocks, Trueman, Evans, Mrs Goodall, Miss Pope, Miss Collins, Miss Heard, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Booth, Mrs Jordan; [Larpent MS 1046 lists the parts: Sir Henry Rightly, Sharply, Lord Courtland, Thomas, Servants, Nelly Primrose, Lady Languid, Lady Rouleau, Lady Farrow, Lady Squander, Miss Cassino, Mrs Goodly.] Prologue-Barrymore; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan.

8105
16 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Duke Murcia-King; Marquis Almanza-Wroughton; Count Valentia-Bannister Jun.; Seville-Maddocks; Granada-Trueman; Peasant-Aickin; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Goodall; Amanthis-Mrs Jordan; An Occasional Address by Henry Bunbury, Esq.-Mrs Jordan. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In course 2nd piece: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

8106
09 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Butler, Bennett, Caton, Dale Jun., Fitchett, Henry Fosbrook, Faux, Pilsbury, Powell, Stevens, Sherwood, Tice, Wyatt, Webb will be admitted. Receipts: #55 19s. 6d. (24.13.0; 29.1.6; 2.5.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II afterpiece: As17971114

8107
27 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last night Pizarro underwent "further curtailments. It was concluded by a little after ten o'clock" (Morning Chronicle, 28 May). 'It is unquestionably the most excellent play I ever saw for variety of attractions. The scenery and decorations are splendid and magnificent without being tawdry or puerile, and these ornaments are made to heighten, not supersede, real dramatic merit" (Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, 1869, I, 58-59). Receipts: #402 2s. (354.10; 45.17; 1.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: As17990524

8108
16 October 1660 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

8109
20 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

8110
22 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

8111
08 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Moore Of Venice

8112
04 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

8113
08 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Related Works
Related Work: The Wary Widow; or, Sir Noisy Parrat Author(s): Henry Higden

8114
19 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

8115
26 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

8116
28 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

8117
20 April 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

8118
27 April 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

8119
31 August 1661 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

8120
27 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

8121
29 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Or Love At First Sight

Related Works
Related Work: The Princess of Parma Author(s): Henry Smith

8122
02 December 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

8123
01 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

8124
03 January 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greek Words Universal Motion

8125
01 March 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet