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11103 results for: Keyword - Mr Henry Norris
We found 4576 matches on Event Comments, 3392 matches on Author, 3044 matches on Performance Comments, 1704 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

501
02 February 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Viiith

Performance Comment: King Henry-Quin; Buckingham-Ryan; Wolsey-Boheme; Queen Katherine-Mrs Berriman; Anne Bullen-Mrs Bullock.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Quin

502
24 March 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [by Henry Fielding.] Afterpiece: Never perform'd before. By Scriblerus Secundus. [By Henry Fielding.] Afterpiece: Never perform'd before. By Scriblerus Secundus. [By Henry Fielding.] Books of the Tragedy, with Notes by Way of Key, &c. will be sold at the Theatre, as also Books of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Tragedies; Or, The Life And Death Of Tom Thumb The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home

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

503
15 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: See17311014, but Henry-Mills; Shallow-Cibber; Justice-Bowman; Pistol-T. Cibber (Burney).
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

504
18 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Vii; Or, The Popish Imposter

Performance Comment: King Henry-Delane; Huntly-Macklin; Oxford-Berry; Frion-L. Sparks; Perkin Warbeck-Goodfellow; Sir David Bruce-Blakes; Sevez-Bridges; Soldier-Barrington; King of Scotland-Stevens; Stanley-Winstone; Bishop of York-Havard; Sir Robert Clifford-Marshall; Dawbney-Woodburn; Lord Mayor-Taswell; Lady Katherine Gordon-Mrs Woffington; Jane-Miss Minors; Prologue-Macklin; Epilogue-Mrs Woffington. [From first edition, but listed in order of actors given in General Advertiser.]From first edition, but listed in order of actors given in General Advertiser.]
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Delane

505
09 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; c 5, by Hannah Cowley. Prologue by Henry Bate (European Magazine, Mar. 1782, p. 210, which also gives name of speaker)]. 2nd piece [1st time; prel I, by Henry Bate (later Sir Henry Bate Dudley). Epilogue by John O'Keeffe (O'Keeffe, 11, 301)]: With New Dresses, Scenery, &c. Public Advertiser, 19 Feb. 1782: This Day is published The Dramatic Puffers (6d.). Receipts: #222 9s. 6d. (219/4/6; 3/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Fathers; or, The Good Natur'd Man Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatic Puffers

Related Works
Related Work: The Dramatic Puffers Author(s): Henry Bate

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

506
25 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Performance Comment: King Henry-Bensley; Clifford-Williamson; Abbot-Kemble; Salisbury-Gardner; Verulam-Johnson; Leicester-Usher; Prince of Wales-Bannister Jun.; Queen-Mrs Whitfield; Ethelinda-Mrs Poussin; Rosamond-Miss Woollery (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

507
31 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I bought the play of Henry the Fourth, and so went to the new Theatre...and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

508
26 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary, 24 Dec.: By and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among other talke, tells us of the goodness of the new play of Henry VIII, which makes me think it long till my time is out

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

509
01 January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: But my wife and I rose from table, pretending business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have been at these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the so much cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth"; which, though I went with resolution to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many patches, that, besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing in the world good or well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

510
28 December 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To White Hall, and got my Lord Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, after all staying above an hour for the players, the King and all waiting, which was absurd, saw Henry the Fifth well done by the Duke's people, and in most excellent habits, all new vests, being put on but this night. But I sat so nigh and far off, that I missed most of the words, and sat with a wind coming into my back and neck, which did much trouble me. The play continued till twelve at night. A Prologue for this play is in A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard (London, 1668)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry V

511
02 November 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and Willett and I to the King's playhouse, and there saw Henry the Fourth; and contrary to expectation, was pleased in nothing more than in Cartwright's speaking of Falstaffe's speech about "What is Honour?" The house full of Parliamentmen, it being holyday with them: and it was observable how a gentleman of good habit, sitting just before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop down as dead, being choked; but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her finger down his throat, and brought him to life again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

512
07 January 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [After looking in at the Nursery and at lif] and Henry the Fourth at the King's house; but, not finding them, not liking either of the plays, I took my coach again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

513
18 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and saw a piece of Henry the Fourth; at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

514
14 November 1692 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: y- Q: a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr Henry 2. [See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

515
16 January 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Constatijn Huygens, 16 Jan. 1692@2 O. S. [translation]: In the afternoon I went with Preswitz to the comedy, by Covent Garden, where there was a play about Henry II, but I could not very well understand the comedians, neither what they said. Mrs Barry played the King's wife and Mrs Bracegirdle his mistress, who let the King be poisoned in her presence. Sayer came and sat with us. The best places were for the English crown (Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, Publication of the Dutch Historical Society, New Series, XXV [Utrecht, 1877], 168)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

516
17 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; co 2, by Henry Bate (later Sir Henry Bate Dudley). Music by William Shield]. Books for both Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 15 June 1779: This Day is published The Flitch of Bacon (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

517
08 September 1701 @ Richmond Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

518
22 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

519
01 August 1730 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam; Or, The Distress'd Lovers: With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

520
24 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Hunters-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford; II: The Faggot Binders-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End Opera: A Dance-Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker

521
15 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

522
December 1689 @ Priest's Boarding School in Chelsea

Event Comment: The date of this amateur performance is not known, but the date generally accepted is December 1689. See Alfred Loewenberg, The Annals of Opera, Second Edition, Columns 85-86; and R. E. Moore, Henry Purcell and the Restoration Theatre (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), pp. 38-69. The Epilogue is in New Poems (1690)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido And Aeneas

Related Works
Related Work: Dido and Aeneas Author(s): Henry Purcell

523
08 April 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: several Musical Entertainments composed by Henry Purcell. [Monday 10--Saturday 15: PASSION WEEK]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: Aeneas and Dido

Related Works
Related Work: Dido and Aeneas Author(s): Henry Purcell

Dance: New Scotch dances-

524
16 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Henry Fielding.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Several Masques

Related Works
Related Work: Love in Several Masques Author(s): Henry Fielding

525
26 January 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [By Henry Fielding.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau

Related Works
Related Work: The Temple Beau; or, The Intriguing Sisters Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Temple Beau Author(s): Henry Fielding