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18305 results for: Keyword - Mr and Miss Betterton
We found 14445 matches on Performance Comments, 5749 matches on Event Comments, 4855 matches on Performance Title, 378 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9626
26 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar in French

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage in English

9627
28 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar in French

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage in English

9628
21 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Cast
Role: Joyce Actor: Miss Cole.

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Double Jealousy, as17360907

Music: Select Pieces-

9629
02 October 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Woodward, Miss Oates, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Dove
Role: Original Musick Actor: Miss Thornowets
Role: Matilda Actor: Miss Tollett
Role: In which will be performed the Original Musick Actor: Corf, Hussy, Kelly, Touchbury, Nicholls, Kellnar, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Carter, Mrs Jones, Miss Gerrard
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Wilson
Role: Dancing Actor: Haughton, Mlle Roland

9630
30 October 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 1 Nov.: On Saturday Night they [the individuals who disturbed the performance on 28 Oct.] attended again in the Upper G allery, where having declar'd they came to disturb the Performance, they pursued their former Methods, with the same Success, to the End of the Play; when upon Mr Giffard's informing the Audience who they were, they were unanimously of Opinion to have them turn'd out...,The Manager mention'd before cannot be suspected to authorize such Behaviour....But what makes it most unlikely, is, that he sat in the Pit on Thursday, and was seen by every Body to applaud the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Cast
Role: Haymakers Actor: Delagarde, Hays, H. Fayting, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughs, Miss Gerrard
Role: Followers Actor: Touchbury, Nichols, Corf, Hussy, Miss Jones, Miss Wilson, Mrs Carter, Miss Thornowets
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.

9631
03 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett.

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Revellers-Essex, Mrs Walter

9632
11 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett.

Dance: II: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter; IV: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

9633
17 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Jones

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Cast
Role: Haymakers Actor: Delagarde, Hays, H. Fayting, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughs, Miss Gerrard
Role: Followers Actor: Touchbury, Nichols, Corf, Hussy, Miss Jones, Miss Wilson, Mrs Carter, Miss Thornowets
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.

Dance: As17361116

9634
23 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Jones

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Cast
Role: Haymakers Actor: Delagarde, Hays, H. Fayting, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughs, Miss Gerrard
Role: Followers Actor: Touchbury, Nichols, Corf, Hussy, Miss Jones, Miss Wilson, Mrs Carter, Miss Thornowets
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.

Dance: II: Harlequin-Delamayne

9635
24 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Cassander Actor: Mills
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Aristander Actor: Turbutt
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Harlequin's Good Genius Actor: Miss Cole

Dance: As17361122

9636
25 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Miss Hollyday.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Harlequin's Good Genius Actor: Miss Cole

Dance: Muilment

9637
26 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Cassander Actor: Mills
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Aristander Actor: Turbutt
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Harlequin's Good Genius Actor: Miss Cole

Dance: As17361122

9638
03 December 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

9639
06 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Poor Pierot Married

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Bridesmen and Maids Actor: Villeneuve, Dukes, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Pelling

9640
16 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9641
18 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9642
21 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9643
22 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Pistolet Actor: Miss Cole

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Muilment

9644
27 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Delane
Role: Cassander Actor: Walker
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Bincks.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9645
08 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 8 Jan.: I was this morning regaled with Mr Handel's new opera called Arminius, it was rehearsed at Covent Garden.--Delany, Autobiography, I, 587

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Aston
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cantrel
Role: Phillis Actor: Miss Bincks.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9646
08 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Xeno. Music by Broschi.] Lucy Wentworth, 8 Jan.: My mama has been so good to give me leave to goe to the Opera to night with Lady Anne. 'Tis to be a new one call'd Merophe, but the foolish Buffo's are to be left out which I am very glad of, but am sorry they are to have five hundred pound a piece for acting that silly stuf two nights if one may believe Mr Hamilton.The Opera is to be heard but once for he says 'tis the worst that ever was composed.-Wentworth Papers, p. 528. phay The Defeat of Apollo. Rehearsed. DDaily Advertiser, 11 Jan.: The Prologue to The Defeat of Apollo, which, in Compliment to some Gentlemen, was spoke last Saturday at the Rehearsal, encourages the Town to hope for what is new and entertaining. [For additional puffs, see Daily Advertiser, 11 and 12 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Edition of 1736 lists: Merope-Signora Antonia Merighi; Epitide-Carlo Broschi called Farinello; Polifonte-Francesco Tolve; Argia-Signora Eliz. duParc called Francescina; Trasimede-Signora Marg. Chimenti called Droghierina; Anassandro-Antonio Montagnana.
Cast
Role: Anassandro Actor: Antonio Montagnana.

9647
19 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Ballet Actor: Mlle _Roland.
Role: Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Harlequin's Good Genius Actor: Miss Cole

9648
20 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Rogers.
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

9649
22 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 24 Jan.: We hear that the new grand Pantomime Entertainment, design'd to be perform'd in a few Days at [lif], was practis'd there on Saturday last before a great many People of Quality and Distinction, who gave particular Marks of their Approbation to every Change, and were highly pleas'd with the Musick, compos'd b Mr Jones

Performances

9650
26 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17361122, but Cassander-Cibber; Polyperchon-Berry; Perdiccas-Turbutt; Aristander-Shepard.
Cast
Role: Cassander Actor: Cibber
Role: Aristander Actor: Shepard.
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett.