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6216 results for: Keyword - Mr Sarjant and Son
We found 4379 matches on Event Comments, 1253 matches on Performance Comments, 921 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1176
21 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

1177
12 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shawford, Roger, Granier and the Widow Reinhold. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17521116, but Player-Simson.
Cast
Role: Player Actor: Simson.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: A Scot's Dance, as17530501; III: A Hornpipe-Granier; End Opera: The Rigadoon, Minuet-Mr and Miss Shawford

1178
02 May 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman and Dickenson. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Robin Actor: Mas. Simson

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Mas. Simson
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Miss Simson

Song: III: The Song of Robin Hood in character-Mr Green first appearance on any stage

1179
30 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing the afterpiece this Season. Benefit for Miss Minors & Mrs Cowper (Cross). [See note, 27 March 1756.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Lethe, with Mr Garrick's new Scene

Cast
Role: New Mimic Italian Song Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Mathews

1180
06 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman & Dickenson, First Gallery Office Keeper. Receipts; #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Dorilas Actor: Holland, who perform'd the part of Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Miss Pope, Miss Poplin, Miss Simson, Master Simson.

Song: IV: A Sailor's Song by Mr Arne Jun-Champness

Ballet: V: The Drunken Peasant. Peasant-Granier; Clown-Ackman

1181
11 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benebit for Marten, Stoppelaer, and Desse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Brumpton Actor: Anderson
Role: Trusty Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Dance: III: Hornpipe-LeCointe; V: A new Pantomime Dance between Harlequin and Pierrot Harlequin-Mr Jolly, Pierrot Dumay

1182
07 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson and Champnes. Mainpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered for Love Makes a Man will be taken. Yesterday Five Guineas were paid into the Hands of Justice Fielding by Miss Macklin, for the use of the Marine Society, towards clothing men and boys for the sea, to go on board His Majesty's ships (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Aminadab Actor: Master Simson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Jefferson
Role: Gayless Actor: Jefferson

Song: I: Sing all ye Muses, compos'd by the late Mr H. Purcel,-Beard, Champnes

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker; IV: The last new Comic Dances-

1183
25 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Hamilton. In Which will be reviv'd the Original Masquerade Scene and Dance. Mrs Hamilton will give a new Epilogue in Character.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Dutch Peasant, as17570512; III: Dutch Sailor-Master Settree, scholar to Mr Settree; IV: Country Lass, as17570512; V: A Minuet-Master Settree, Miss Twiste

1184
13 March 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for McLean and Grant. Doors open'd at Five to begin at Six. The last time of its being perform'd this season. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Performance Comment: Several favorite Scots songs-Lauder.
Cast
Role: Several favorite Scots songs Actor: Lauder.

Dance: Joly, Miss Dulisse

Music: A grand concerto of violins, hautboys, clarinets, bassoons, French horns; the clarinets-Mr Habgood, Pearson; and cornu de caccio ottava, an instrument never before perform'd on in a concert in England; and a Grand March composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia

1185
18 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: By Particular Desire, an Ode call'd The Fair Monitor-Miss Macklin; , in which accompanied on the Harpsichord-Miss Macklin The Words by a Young Lady, the Music compos'd by Mr Arne Jr

Dance: A Minuet-Noverre, Miss Macklin

1186
29 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Tickets of Beard next door to Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane, and of Varney at stage door. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Song: Beard, Champnes

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

Music: A Piece on the Harp-Mr Evans

1187
19 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Saunders and Mrs Lee. Receipts: #34 14s. 6d. in cash. Deficit (Charges #64 5s.) to each beneficiary, #14 15s. 3d., cover'd by income from tickets: Saunders #18 11s. (Boxes 7; Pit 68; Gallery 66); Mrs Lee, #49 19s. (Boxes 97; Pit 124; Gallery 71). Total income, #103 4s. 6d. Paid Kemp #9 12s; Shane (upholsterer) #41 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: As17591221, but Rutland-Mrs Lee, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Lee, 1st time.
Role: Raleigh Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: Dick Actor: Anderson

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, Mr Parry will play on the Harp

Entertainment: Several New Equilibres on the Wire-Saunders Particularly he will balance two straws, one across the other with an egg in the center; he will Ring 6 Bells on the Wire, and play on Divers Instruments of Music, particularly, (by Desire) the Guitar, while balancing the Straw

1188
01 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull and Costollo. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #39 19s. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #11 10s. 6d., covered by income from tickets: Costollo #93 6s. (Boxes 102; Pit 288; Gallery 246); Hull #47 (Boxes 73; Pit 162; Gallery 47). Total income #180 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Ferguson.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Cast
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Miss Dawson.
Role: a Hornpipe Actor: Miss Dawson.

Dance: II: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; IV: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Music: III: A Lesson on the Harp-Mr Rice

1189
18 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: During the short time of the Fair, at a large Commodious Booth at the bottom of the Bowling Green. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. The Company chose to wave [sic] the usual pompous and bombastic stuff generally crowded into Advertisements on these occasions. They early beg leave to say, that they humbly presume, their having been at an uncommon expence, care, and trouble in getting up this comedy, will entitle them to some degree of preference and encouragement above those paltry performances usually exhibited at Fairs. [But see the puff on 19Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Minor

Song: Several New Comic Songs-

Dance: The Dances-the same performers who were with Mr Shuter at Bartholomew Fair

1190
24 October 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Old Knowell-Havard; Young Knowell-Holland; Wellbred-Palmer; Bobadil-Yates; Mas. Stephen-Obrien; Brainworm-Blakes; Downright-Bransby; Justice Clement-Burton; Bridgit-Miss Haughton; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Davies.
Cast
Role: Young Knowell Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: and a New Hornpipe Actor: Miss Dawson.

Dance: I: A Pantomime Dance, call'd The Colliers-Mr Sealy, 1st appearance that stage, Miss Dawson

1191
07 February 1761 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tito Manlio

Dance: New dances-Gerhardi (Ballet Master);Mlle Asselin, Giorgi Benety, Sga Anna Benety, Miss Capitani, Mr Tariot

1192
09 March 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sg and Signora Paganini. A new Comic Opera. Purely Comic without any serious part in it. To begin at Six, Vivat Rex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Tre Gobbi Rivali

Dance: Gerhardi, Mlle Asselin, Giorgio Binety, Anna Binety, Miss Polly Capitani, Mr Tariot

1193
26 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #171 15s. 6d. plus #112 17s. from tickets (Box 272; Pit 299). Paid Hughes and Batten for 4 1!2 yds muslin for sleeves for women dancers 18s. 9d. (Account Book). [Shuter's Interlude is Larpent MS 188, a verse monologue with songs, giving the geneology of Bucks from Nimrod's heirs-hunters who now seek ladies in Boxes rather than foxes. A patriotic song on successes at Minden, Quebec, Cape Breton, &c. ending]: @We wish as we ought that Great Britain may thrive@That freedom and friendship may faction survive@On sea and on shore, as we have may we shine@And this year sixty-one equal fam'd forty-nine.@ Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Performance Comment: Young Cash-Shuter; Riot-Smith; Volatil-Dyer; Horatio-Davis; Valentine-Perry; Sir Tristram Cash-Bennet; Spitfire-Blakey; Slur-Anderson; Cynthia-Mrs Elmy; Aurelia-Mrs Lee; Arabella-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Slur Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, the husband's cure Author(s): Charles Johnson
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson
Related Work: The Wife's Relief Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

Related Works
Related Work: A Word for Nature Author(s): Richard Cumberland

1194
23 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Mainpiece: Not acted this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Ross; Lysimachus-Smith; Hephestion-Dyer; Polyperchon-Tindal; Thessalus-Anderson; Perdiccas-Davis; Aristander-Perry; Cassander-Clarke; Clytus-Gibson; Sysigambis-Mrs Vincent; Parasatis-Mrs Burden; Eumenes-Bennet; Laomedon-Wignel; Statira-Mrs Ward; Roxana-Mrs Hamilton; In which will be introduc'd The Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon, with an Epilogue in the character of Roxana-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Ross
Role: Thessalus Actor: Anderson
Role: Aristander Actor: Perry
Role: Cassander Actor: Clarke
Role: Clytus Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Performance Comment: As17620320 but (by particular desire the favorite) Song of Nymphs and Shepherds from the Oratorio Alfred-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Song of Nymphs and Shepherds from the Orato Actor: Miss Brent.
Role: Shepherd Actor: Gibson

Music: IV: A Solo on the Violin-Mr Piffit (his second performance in England)

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

1195
16 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Gibson.
Role: Randal Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: The Counterfeit Heiress; or, The Boarding School

Performance Comment: Sir Amorous Rakehell-Bennet; Amorous-Cushing; Young Meriton-Hull; Old Meriton-Anderson; Le Prate-Holtom; Jilt All-Mrs Burden; Myrtilla-Mrs Vincent; Miss Sprightly-A young Gentlewoman who never appear'd before; In which will be introduc'd a Minuet-A young Gentlewoman who never appear'd before, Sg Sodi.
Cast
Role: Old Meriton Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Robert Benson

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After Comedy: Mr Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

1196
28 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17620302 but Sullen-Gibson.
Cast
Role: Sullen Actor: Gibson.
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd [Harlequin Statue]

Dance: II: La Petite Bergere-Miss Lalauze (Eight years of age) being her fourth appearance on the stage [see17590425; 23 April 1760; 22 April 1761]; IV: A Serious Dance-Miss Lalauze; V: [A Ball Dance, call'd The Louvre, Minuet-a Young Gentleman (Eight years of age, a scholar to Mr Lalauze, his first appearance on any stage), Miss Lalauze

Entertainment: After: By Particular Desire, for this night only Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

1197
12 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment, who is oblig'd to change his play on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Tickets for As You Like It will be taken. No Building on the stage, and the House will illuminated with Wax Lights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17620401 but Clincher Jr-Clough; Tom Errand-Ackman; Parley-Mrs Bennet; Lady Lurewell-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Ackman
Role: Standard Actor: Holland, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance, call'd Les Characters de la Dance-Miss Froment , a Child six years old, Scholar of Mr Froment, being the First time of her appearing upon the stage; II: The Cow Keepers, as17611215; III: A Comic Dance, Le Petit Savoyard-Miss Froment; End: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Miss Froment

1198
18 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for several: Master Cape, C. Roberts, West, Tomlinson, Mortimer. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [Tomlinson's Epilogue in Larpent MS 213.] The mute speaks again, and mimics tragedians and comedians [See 20 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Cape (Scholar to Walker); IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love, as17620513

Entertainment: New Sketch of his own picture drawn from the life by way of Epilogue-Mr Tomlinson, his second time of attempting to speak on the Stage

1199
03 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17631005; II: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17631101

Music: II: Mr Handel's Water@Music, with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

1200
13 December 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Dance: I: A Dance called The Turkish Coffee House-; II: A Tyrolese Wedding-; III: A New Dance-for Mr Duberval