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6415 results for: Keyword - Mr Phillip Massinger
We found 4339 matches on Event Comments, 1468 matches on Performance Comments, 645 matches on Performance Title, 460 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1676
04 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Mason's Dance by Delamayne. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c .

Song: I: The Enter'd Prentice's Song: Come let us Prepare. III: On, on, my dear Brethren. V: Sing then my Muse

1677
18 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Dutchman and his Frow by Phillips and Miss Brett. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: III: Dutchman and his Frow by Phillips and Miss Brett. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

1678
02 June 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-1n-law

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

1679
14 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17370210, but dances-Phillips, +Villeneuve, Mrs +Pelling, Mrs +Anderson, Miss +Mann, Miss +Brett.
Cast
Role: dances Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

1680
06 May 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips, Pidgeon, Levy, Doorkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student

1681
28 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Rylands MS.: Phillips came over from Ireland. Receipts: #110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLes Masons et Les Sabotiers, as17411027; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411021

1682
10 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Stitchbury, Phillips, Morris, and Levi and other doorkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper-Master Morris; III: A Running Footman-Master Morris; V: The French Peasant-Master Morris

Song: IV: Sing all ye Muses by Purcell-Stitchbury, a gentleman for his first appearance on any stage

1683
06 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, Dignam, Legar, Ford, Levy, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1684
18 August 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, former Harlequin to the Old House, now a Prisoner. [Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Performance not named, but bill says This Day.

Performances

1685
19 January 1748 @ Southwark

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the new Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Phillips (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song:

Dance:

1686
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Cross and Bridges' Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate. A new Dramatick Droll...being founded on a Story in Real Life, as related in the Memoirs of the celebrated Mrs Constantia Phillips. In which will be introduc'd a New Scene of Bedlam...Interspers'd witn a Merry Interlude call'd The Jovial Tars...with the Comical Humours of Nurse Prate and Will Bowling the Jovial Tar; as also of Jack Hanspite, Nick Hatchway, and Simon Bucket, Sailors; with Mary the Chambermaid, Susan of the Dairy, Kate of the Kitchen, and Nan the Spinster. To begin each day at noon. An extraordinary band of music is provided. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Lunatick; Or, The Generous Sailor

Afterpiece Title: Modern Madness; or, A Touch of the Times

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee Ball, a Grand Scene

Monologue: 1749 8 24 bf I+Interlude The Jovial Jack Tars, or All Well Match'd. Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough

Dance: TThe Medley of Jokes-; the French Peasants-Master Matthews, Mrs Annesley

1687
08 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips' Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Industrious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

1688
09 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips' Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Industrious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

1689
12 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips' Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Industrious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

1690
15 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillip's Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. Benefit for Lort. A Concert, etc. To begin at seven o'clock. Prices: Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. [Customary data appearing in the rest of the bills, but not repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The True And Antient History Of George Barnwell

Entertainment: EEquilibres on the Slack Rope-Lort

1691
11 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hoper. The Second Night. Mrs Hoper's Prologue to the Town, By a Friend: @Tonight a Female author heads the stage@Warm'd by the grand productions of the age;@To shine among the modern Bards aspires,@As the Moon glisters midst the lesser fires:@Pants to be rank'd with Sapho, Phillips, Behn@And prove that women write as well as Men.@Bold in the drama's cause, attacks the fashion@Where Novelty appears the reigning passion,@With drooping spirits draws the Tragic Queen@Like your fine ladies troubled with the spleen:@Nor trusts her meaning to the strolling Elf@But represents the character herself.@ [Suggests her friends reproved her for turning player, but she thought it more honorable than going into debt.] @The Stage is innocent and brings no shame@Unless the players are themselves to blame@'Twas meant as Virtue's School;--Tis no disgrace@To act a virtuous part, in any Place.@ [Closes with appeal to audience to be charitable to "this firstling of her quill, to support her generously with applause. See Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

1692
25 January 1750 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for Mrs Phillips, who plays the Distrest Mother. With the Original Epilogue. Box seats 2s. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

1693
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, To begin at Twelve noon during the time of the Fair. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Upper seats 6d. [For security Phillips has erected no Gallery. Presumably the Patent Theatres were demanding more rigid enforcement of the Licensing Act as indicated in the notice from the Daily Advertiser 18 Sept.: Whereas the Fair called Lady Fair...in the Borough of Southwark...any person or persons..who person..(who ) shall act and exhibit any Droll or Shew (after 20 Sept.) shall be prosecuted and punished according to Law.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave; Or, A Wife For Ye All

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1694
24 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillip's Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1695
16 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: As17551031, but Others-Phillips, _Johnson.
Cast
Role: Others Actor: Phillips, _Johnson.

Dance: As17560213

1696
26 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #55 16s. 6d. Paid Phillips for dancing in the Sorcerer #2 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

1697
08 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lee and Phillips. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

1698
22 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter and Mrs Hopkins. Afterpiece: A Ballad Pastoral in two acts (by Allan Ramsay) with original Scotch music. Never Performed there. Tickets deliver'd by Phillips will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Entertainment: RRalph Ramble, or O Rare London-King, at End of Play By Particular Desire, followed by

Dance: %New Tambourine, as17660123

1699
04 August 1768 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillips. Dr Arne having granted it only on this Occasion, the comic Interlude of Two Acts which met with the highest Approbation and Applause on Master Brown's Night. Preceded by Entertainments of songs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Capochio And Dorinna

Entertainment: As17680728 but a Burlesque Ode-_

1700
20 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd from Thomas and Arnold for use of the Organ this season #21, and for coals burnt at the Oratorios #2 2s. Rec'd #54 14s. 8d. in payment of deficiencies for last season's benefit performances from Dumay, Curtat, Merryfield and Wignell. Paid Garton (treasurer) 11 Oratorio nights for renters #110. Paid Phillips in full for his performance this season #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #117 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

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