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6239 results for: Keyword - Mr Usher
We found 4237 matches on Event Comments, 1864 matches on Performance Comments, 529 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1751
24 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Entertainment: Vaudeville In II afterpiece: Military Manoeuvres-; [the Dead March-; [the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

1752
03 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Post Boy, 5 March: On Thursday Morning the King's Company of Comedians, belonging to the Play-House in Drury-Lane, were sworn at the Lord Chamberlain's Office in Whitehall, pursuant to an Order occasion'd by their Acting in Obedience to his Majesty's Licence, lately granted Exclusive of a Patent formerly obtained by Sir Richard Steele Kt. The Tenor of the Oath was, That as his Majesty's Servants, they should act Subservient to the Lord Chamberlain, Vice-Chamberlain, and Gentleman Usher in Waiting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

1753
25 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: George Dandin

Performance Comment: Blakes, Taswell, Barrington, Usher, Shuter, Mrs Clive, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Green.

Dance: PPolish Dance, as17471102

1754
01 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simpson, Raftor, Usher. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel). [This month, the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books listed as published Remarks on Three Plays of B. Johnson, viz: The Fox, Silent Woman, and Alchymist, by James Upton.] This week will be published The Hen Peck'd Captain,...as it was intended to be acted...on Saturday last. Taken from The Campaigners; or, the pleasant Adventures at Brussels with a Preface by R. Cross, prompter (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

1755
30 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Usher, Simson, and Geo. Burton. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Highland Lad-Master Mattocks

Dance: III: Black Joke, as17500420 IV: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

1756
02 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Usher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17510117

1757
28 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Usher. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 10 years. [See 13 April 1748, and 4 Feb. 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Quaker Of Deal Orthe Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

1758
14 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. No Building on Stage. [The printer of the Public Advertiser seems to have kept his form for the old notices of the cast for the mainpiece, for although changing Bayes to Shuter, with the appropriate remark about his first appearance in the character, he also lists Gentleman Usher as Shuter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier, Mrs Granier

1759
30 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tamd

Performance Comment: Palmer, Yates, Miss Pritchard, Burton, Usher, Mrs Bennet. [No assignment to characters available.]

Song: Beard

1760
07 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by George Colman] never performed. [In the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays, the chief effectiveness lay with the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music: Martial Music-The Roman Characters of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar; Soft Music-Antony and Cleopatra; Grand Music, Old English Characters-King John, Richard III, Henry VIII: Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for Prospero; Macbeth's Music; Fairy Music-Oberon and Titania; Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by Othello, Hamlet, the Ghost, Mad Ophelia and Lear with Cordelia; Dead March in Saul-Juliet's Bier with attendants; Allegro for the Comic Muse-Falstaff, Touchstone, Launcelot, Malvolio; Andante-Florizel and Perdita, Portia Antonio and Bassanio; Flourish-for Car drawn by the muses carrying Shakespeare's Bust; Final Song by Mrs Mattocks, "Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--." The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to Garrick's effort at Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife Or The Shakespeare Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-

1761
25 September 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

Performance Comment: King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh [unidentified]); Duke of Buckingham-Stacy; Duke of Norfolk-Comerford; Duke of Suffolk-Kenny; Earl of Surry-Garland; Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)-Lewis; Gardiner (Bishop of Winchester)-Massey; Lord Sands-Ware of Deptford; Lord Chamberlain-Johnson; Cardinal Campeius (the Pope's Legate)-Sparrow; Cromwell (Gentleman Usher)-W. Smith; Doctor Butts (Physician to the King)-Ward; Cardinal Wolsey-Stokes; Queen Katherine-Miss Reynolds; Anne Bullen-Mrs West; Patience (with a song in character)-Mrs Davies; Dame Prattle-Mrs Ross; Lady of the bed chamber [to Queen Katherine-Miss C. Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Hoyden or The Man of Quality

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Marklew

Song: Between Acts: Singing-Mrs Davies

1762
10 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17810619 but Principal Characters-Usher, _Blissett.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Usher, _Blissett.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17810716

1763
12 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Cast
Role: Capstan Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Edwin, Staunton, Egan, Usher, Wewitzer, Darley, Davis, Barrett, Painter, Kenny, Massey, Webb, Stevens, Swords, Ledger, Parsons; Miss Morris, Mrs Webb. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Palmer .

Dance: As17820611

1764
09 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Performance Comment: As17840802, but Usher in place of Gardner .

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Usher

Song: As17840730

1765
31 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Performance Comment: As17910730 but John de Vienne-Kemble in place of Aickin; Bland_; Usher_; Iliff_; Evatt_; Chapman_; Citizens-_Abbott, _Barrett; Powell_; Vocal Parts-_Willoughby, _Linton, _Dorion, _Aylmer, _Little, _Brown, _Lyons, Mrs _Taylor, Miss _Fontenelle, Miss _DeCamp, Mrs _Edwin, Mrs _Powell, Miss _Hale, Mrs _Gaudry.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

1766
16 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Capt. Plume-Barrymore; Capt. Brazen-Bannister Jun.; Ballance-Aickin; Worthy-Caulfield; Serieant Kite-Benson; Bullock-Suett (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Scale-Cooke; Scruple Usher; Welch Collier-Wewitzer; Constable-Maddocks; Steward-Jones; Servants-Waldron Jun., Lyons; Recruits-Parsons, Burton II Rose-Mrs Gibbs; Lucy-Miss De Camp (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Melinda-Mrs Cary (3rd appearance on any stage); Mob-Women-Mrs Booth, Mrs Gaudry; Sylvia-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1767
21 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

1768
09 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

1769
May 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amboyna

1770
19 November 1674 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock tempest Or The Enchanted Castle

1771
27 February 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

1772
28 May 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

1773
March 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Innocence Or The Chamber maid Turnd Quaker

1774
22 May 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

1775
March 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trick For Trick Or The Debauchd Hypocrite