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9099 results for: Keyword - Mr Walker and Wife
We found 4652 matches on Event Comments, 2929 matches on Performance Title, 2578 matches on Performance Comments, 24 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2076
06 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. Receipts: #61 18s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Carlos-Delane; Clodio-Cibber; Lewis-Hippisley; Duart-Bridgwater; Antonio-Mullart; Charino-Arthur; Manuel-Hale; Governor-Rosco; Sancho-James; Monsieur-Salway; Jacquez-Anderson; Angelina-Mrs Hale; Elvira-Mrs Stevens; Honoria-Miss Horsington; Louisa-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Jacquez Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: PPeasants, Miller and Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2077
08 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #48 7s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

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

Dance: JJe ne scai quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; The Peasants, The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

2078
15 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Performance Comment: As17401014, but Puck-Master Eagle; with Grand Ballet-Desse, Leviez, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: with Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson.

Dance: II: Peasant Dance-Nivelon, as17401013

2079
23 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #35 1s. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Horton; Bevil Jr-Delane; Sir John-Bridgwater; Phillis-Mrs Vincent; Myrtle-Hallam; Cimberton-Hippisley; Sealand-Rosco; Humphrey-Mullart; Daniel-James; Mrs Sealand-Mrs James; Isabella-Mrs Mullart; Lucinda-Mrs Bellamy; Tom-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: MMiller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

2080
24 October 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle; Comic Dance-Miss Naylor

2081
31 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #49 5s. 6d. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Alexander-Delane; Clytus-Stephens; Lysimachus-Ryan; Cassander-Hale; Hephestion-Hallam; Thessalus-Anderson; Phillip-Spencer; Polyperchon-Rosco; Perdiccas-Gibson; Statira-Mrs Horton; Roxana-Mrs Woodward; Sysigambis-Mrs James; Parisatis-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Delane
Role: Cassander Actor: Hale
Role: Thessalus Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and his Wife, The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

2082
01 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Quin; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Clive; Sparkish-Chapman; Sir Jasper-Macklin; Horner-Mills; Harcourt-Wright; Dorilant-Ridout; Quack-Shepard; Lady Fidget-Mrs Pritchard; Alithea-Mrs Butler; Mrs Dainty-Miss Bennet; Lucy-Mrs Macklin.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Quin
Role: Mrs Pinchwife Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: with Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson.

Dance: II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Ballet: V: Grand Ballet. As17401031

2083
01 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17401029

2084
07 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

2085
11 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: III: Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Shepherds and Sherpherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: In III: Lowe

2086
13 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Highness the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #81 11s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Barbarini Sick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; Miller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

2087
15 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #86 7s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

2088
15 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17401113

2089
02 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #59 7s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Standard Actor: Bridgwater

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Miller and Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

2090
04 December 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Quin
Role: Mrs Pinchwife Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers; With A Voyage to the Island of Cytherea

Dance: II: La Tambourin Matelot-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

2091
12 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: money #43 7s. 6.; tickets #34 12s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.). Account Book: Tickets for Mrs Dupre, Mrs Price, Mrs Gould taken. For box, pit, and gallery Mrs Dupre had 7, 95, and 85 tickets; Mrs Price, 9, 18, 33 tickets; Mrs Gould, 1, 0, 16 tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Le Bergeres Fidelle-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; The Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

2092
19 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the Benefit of a Gentleman, with a large Family, who has suffered very great Losses. Receipts; Benefit Turner. Money #19 14s.; seals #42 3s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Miller and his Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; The Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

2093
20 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

2094
26 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

2095
05 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the partiuclar Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #136 17s. 6d. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

2096
10 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; Minuet-Signora Barberini; Harlequin Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108

2097
16 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: by Shakespear. Receipts: #90 7s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.). [For a discussion of this performacne, see a letter by William Shenstone, 21 Jan., in Letters of William Shenstone, p. 16.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: 1st Follower of Eurydice Actor: Mlle Roland.

2098
24 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan; III: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf, Muilment; IV: Grand Serious Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Mlle Chateauneuf, Muilment

Song: Lowe

2099
27 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: For Lascelles, money #32 7s. 6d. ; seals #26 17s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Performance Comment: King-Stephens; Prince-Ryan; Hotspur-Delane; Falstaff-Bridgwater; Worcester-Rosco; Vernon-Hallam; Westmoreland-Arthur; Prince John-Clarke; Blunt-Salway; Poins-Gibson; Bardolph-Stoppelaer; Dowglas-Hale; Peto-Anderson; Gadshill-Bencraft; Carriers-Mullart, James; Francis-Hippisley; Kate-Mrs Ware; Hostess-Mrs Martin.
Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Arthur
Role: Peto Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: MMiller and His Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

2100
02 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: PPierot-Master Matthews; End Afterpiece: Hornpipe-Yates