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10208 results for: Keyword - Mr Mills and Wife
We found 4651 matches on Event Comments, 3789 matches on Performance Comments, 3082 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2326
11 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

2327
14 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Lowe; Arcas-Anderson; Corydon-Arthur; Cymon-Collins; Mopsus-Dunstall; Phillida-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

2328
31 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2329
10 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, the Lady Augusta and the Lady Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2330
17 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2331
22 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Heartfree Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17481221

2332
26 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

2333
26 December 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell. Benefit for Mrs Yeates. By Desire of some Gentlemen and Ladies. Particular care is taken to have the House warm. To begin at half an hour after six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

2334
27 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A Dramatick Satire call'd Lethe is now in Rehearsal at Drury Lane and will be acted in a few days (by Desire). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: As17481226

Dance: As17481226; the Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison

2335
30 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2336
27 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2337
02 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Peace Proclaim'd (Cross). Yesterday most of the Foreign Ministers had a very grand entertainment at Pontack's, on Account of the Peace being proclaimed yesterday at Paris. This morning the Peace is to be proclaim'd, pursuant to his majesty's royal warrant, signed for that purpose, the ceremony of which is to be in the following manner (General Advertiser). [Follows an account of the five places and times of reading the proclamation throughout the city.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Heartfree Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Mathews, Mrs Addison; New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Music: By Desire-the Child

2338
18 February 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2339
20 February 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2340
14 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Anne Auretti. Five rows of the Pit will be laid into the boxes, &c. [as on 7 March]. Tickets to be had at Mlle Auretti's at the second House on the left hand, the corner of Panton St., Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Heartfree Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; II: Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: A Harlequin Dance-Matthews, Anne Auretti; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

2341
27 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Cast
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Mills

Music: I: A piece of Music-the Child

2342
01 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2343
11 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Heartfree Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; IV: L'Entree de Flore-Anne Auretti

2344
20 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17490309 but Lady Brute-Mrs Woffington; Belinda-Mrs Ward 1st time; Justice-Marten; Razor-Anderson; Mademoiselle-Miss Morrison.
Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

Dance: J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

2345
05 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrisford, Pritchard, Atkinson and Goodwin. Receipts: #100 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: Hornpipe-the little Swiss

2346
14 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2347
18 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

2348
07 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #18 8s. 1d.; Paid Middlebrook for a B[lack] & W[hite] Feather 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #88 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Heartfree Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Matthews, Mrs Addison

Song: Master Mattocks

2349
13 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2350
06 December 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Concluding with the Original Grand Dance Actor:
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Falkner.