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8101 results for: Keyword - Mr Vascour and Wife
We found 4529 matches on Event Comments, 2818 matches on Performance Title, 1522 matches on Performance Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6576
12 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: I: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

6577
17 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Bellmour-Gibson; the first time of his performance on a public theatre: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Hale; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Rosco; Barnaby-Bencraft; Setter-James; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Silvia-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs Mullart; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Laetitia-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: (BBy Desire)The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Clark

Dance: III: A Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover; End of Afterpiece: Tambourine-Miss Villeneuve, not lately arrived from Paris

6578
25 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Miss Rogers, Mlle Ozanne, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey
Role: Females Actor: Miss Rogers, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Roland.

Dance: IV: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland

6579
26 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Sept.: We hear, that Mr Theobald has given the last Hand to his Tragedy, called, The Death of Hannibal, attempted in Imitation of Shakespear's Manner, and that it is designed to appear on the Stage this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Dance: As17390920

6580
12 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Retirement

Performance Comment: Parts-Milward, Mill, Wright, Berry, Ridout, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Butler, Mrs Mills; but edition of 1739 lists (As it was Intended to have been Acted): Artamon-Mills; Lanertes-Milward; Ceron-Berry; Pravamor-Wright; Arcano-Ridout; Semandra-Mrs Giffard; Leonora-Mrs Mills; Sabia-Mrs Butler; Prologue-Wright; Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Giffard

6581
27 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: 1st Sylvan Actor: Mlle Anne Roland

6582
28 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow-Castle, and now adapted to the Stage. The Musick compos'd by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

6583
03 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf

6584
04 January 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

Performance Comment: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel; A solo on the Violin-Festing; a Solo on the Violoncello-Caporale; and several Concertos-; but edition of 1740 lists: Rosalinda-Mrs Arne; Garcia-Beard.
Cast
Role: and several Concertos Actor:

6585
07 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tambourine-French Girl; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

6586
12 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Entertainment of Musick and Grotesque Dancing. Edition of 1740: Set to Musick by Mr John-Frederick Lampe. [For further letters concerning John Hill and Rich, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 and 12 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice: With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Salway; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-Miss Young; Followers of Eurydice-Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Laguerre; Daemons-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Squire Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Thompson; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-French Boy; Country Lads-Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre; Lasses-Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle Ozanne; Rural Swain and Nymph-Glover, Mlle Roland; Arcadian Shepherdess-French Girl; Swains-Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delegarde, Fromont, Dupre; Villagers-Waltz, Berry, Lad, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.
Cast
Role: Followers of Eurydice Actor: Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne
Role: Rural Swain and Nymph Actor: Glover, Mlle Roland

6587
18 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; In II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: La Matelote-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Le Gout de Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

6588
23 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Performance Comment: Parts-Quin, Milward, Mills, Wright, Winstone, Mrs Butler, Mrs Mills, Miss Bennet; but edition of 1740 lists: Andrew II-Mills; Conrade-Milward; Elmerick-Quin; Bathori-Wright; Belus-Winstone; Matilda-Mrs Butler; Ismena-Mrs Mills; Zenomira-Miss Bennet; Prologue-Quin; Epilogue-Milward.
Cast
Role: Andrew II Actor: Mills

6589
26 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author's Poor Relations. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Cast
Role: Andrew II Actor: Mills

6590
27 February 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Edition of 1740: Set to Musick by Mr Handel. Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Particular Care if taken to have the House secur'd against the Cold, constant Fires being order'd to be kept in the House till the Time of performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

Performance Comment: Edition of 1740 lists no singers' names. Deutsch, Handel, p. 496, gives singers-Signora Francesina, The Boy, Russell, Beard, Reinhold.

Music: With two new Concertos for several Instruments-; And a New Concerto on the Organ-

6591
28 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Cast
Role: Andrew II Actor: Mills

6592
29 February 1740 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit DeFesch. Compos'd by Mr DeFesch. With Additions and Alterations. 6 p.m. 5s. [Tickets at DeFesch's on Pav'd Stones in St. Martin's-Lane, next Door to the Golden Peruke.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

6593
03 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Cast
Role: Andrew II Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

6594
25 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Giffard; Bevil Jr-Quin; Sealand-Milward; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Wright; Myrtle-Mills; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Cimberton-Taswell; Lucinda-Mrs Mills; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Marshall; Isabella-Mrs Pritchard; Tom-Giffard.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Milward
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Marshall

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

6595
02 April 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Performance Comment: O Sing unto the Lord, My Song shall be Alway-(by Mr Handel).

Afterpiece Title: David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

6596
29 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, I. Delagarde, and Mrs Kilby, Colombine to Orpheus and Eurydice. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Miss Oates; IV: Minuet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

6597
30 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Lampe. [Tickets at Lampe's House, Brownlow Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Bumkin Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

6598
15 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Sept.: [cg] is new painted and decorated, and will be open'd on Friday next...the Report of Mr Cibber and Mrs Horton being engag'd to another Theatre, is entirely without Foundation: That Company would have begun acting sooner, but for the finishing of a large additional Building, which is now cover'd in, whereby they will, on some Occasions, be enabled to add near 70 Feet to the Length of the Stage, which was before the longest in England, but will now exceed in Depth, any Theatre in Europe

Performances

6599
29 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #78 11s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Salway
Role: James Actor: Anderson

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover

6600
17 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: #46 1s. 6d. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Followers of Eurydice Actor: French _Girl, Mlle Roland.
Role: Nymph Actor: Haughton, Mlle Roland.