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18281 results for: Keyword - Mr and Miss Betterton
We found 14442 matches on Performance Comments, 5744 matches on Event Comments, 4855 matches on Performance Title, 378 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15126
24 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17521025, but Friar Lawrence-Burton; Nurse-Mrs James; Juliet-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Haughton.

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auguste, Mlle Auretti

15127
31 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17521214, but Barnaby-Paddick; Betty-Miss Allen.
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Allen.
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17521028

15128
03 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Both pieces by command of the] Prince of Wales, &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: As17521213, but other characters-Mrs Simpson_, Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: other characters Actor: Mrs Simpson_, Miss Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: other characters Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet

15129
12 February 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: See17530102, but cast: Woud'be-Sparks; Elder Wou'dbe-Ryan; Trueman-Anderson; Richmore-Ridout; Alderman-Arthur; Balderdash-Marten; Subtleman-Bransby; Clearaccount-Collins; Fairbank-Redman; Constable-Dunstall; Teague (with a song in character)-Barrington; Aurelia-Mrs Ridout; Mrs Clearaccount-Miss Young; Midnight-Mrs Bambridge; Constance-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Trueman Actor: Anderson
Role: Mrs Clearaccount Actor: Miss Young

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Sabotiers Tyrolese, as17521028

15130
13 February 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17521027, but Polydore-Smith, first time; Florella-Miss Pitt.
Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Miss Pitt.
Role: Chaplain Actor: Anderson
Role: Page Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

15131
19 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day publish'd The Gamester, a Tragedy, as it was acted at Drury Lane. Printed for R. Franklin...and sold by R. Dodsley. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandall Actor: Palmer
Role: Ben Actor: Yates with a song and dance in character
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Haughton first time
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; other parts-Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet; Dances-Devisse, Ferrere, Mlle Auguste [btt see17530205].btt see17530205].
Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Little Swiss, Master Simson, Miss Minors, Mlle Mariet

15132
01 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thomas sung for ye first time in ye Chaplet-very well (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17520923, but Laura-Miss Thomas. first appearance on any stage.
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Thomas. first appearance on any stage.

Dance: Mlle Auretti

15133
13 March 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory Concert

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Role: Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt Actor: Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.

Dance: Dancing in the old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timbertoe

15134
19 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen St. Lincoln's Inn-Fields, and at Stage Door. Part of the Pit will be taken into the Boxes, and servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage. [A Complaint of the Tragic Poets, addressed to Dr Young appeared in the Public Advertiser, praising him on the Brothers: "And your last efforts prove your strength divine."] Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Dorilas-Garrick; Euricles-Blakes; Erox-Burton; Poliphontes-Havard; Narbas-Berry; Merope-Mrs Pritchard; Vocals-Beard, Wilder, Master Vernon; Ismene-Miss Minors; High Priest-Winstone.
Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Thomas. first appearance on any stage.

Dance: As17521201

15135
20 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Bridgwater; Horner-Ryan; Harcourt-Ridout; Dorilant-Usher; Quack-Marten; Alithea-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Miss Pitt; Sparkish-Dyer; Sir Jasper Fidget-Macklin; Lady Fidget-Mrs Macklin; Country Wife-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219

15136
27 March 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit for Mrs Midnight and her Daughter Dorothy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: As17530315 but add a new Transparent Scene, and a new Epilogue-Miss Midnightriding on a jack-ass, at the Request of several Persons of Taste.
Cast
Role: and a new Epilogue Actor: Miss Midnightriding on a jack-ass, at the Request of several Persons of Taste.
Role: Miss Midnightriding on a jack Actor: ass, at the Request of several Persons of Taste.
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Role: Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt Actor: Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.

15137
29 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17530124, but Friar Lawrence-Havard; Juliet-Miss Bellamy; Escalus-_; Paris-_; Benvolio-_; Tibalt-_.
Cast
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Thomas. first appearance on any stage.

Song: II: By Particular Desire, the Lass of the Mill-Beard; accompany'd on the Harp-Parry, and a piece by him on the same instrument

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti

15138
31 March 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: As17530327 but Epilogue-Miss Midnight riding on the back of an Ass.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Midnight riding on the back of an Ass.
Role: Miss Midnightriding on a jack Actor: ass, at the Request of several Persons of Taste.
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Midnight, her Daughter Dorothy, Sig Bombasto just arrived from Padua, Sig Bombazeeno also arrived from Italy, Signora Spoonatissima dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt-Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.
Role: Sig Ambrosiano alias Sig Salt Actor: Box, Sig Twangdilo the Casuist, Sig Piantafugocalo, Sig Gapatoono first Cousin to Farinelli, Mynheer Puffupandyke, Mlle Rompereau, Mme Hophye, the two Mlle Broileau, Miss Merit an English Lady of an ancient Family, almost extinct.

Dance: HHornpipe-Timbertoe; Grand Dance- in the old English taste

15139
02 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Part of Pit laid into Boxes to form Amphitheatre. Tickets to be had of Mossop, at his lodgings at Newton's Warehouse in Tavistock St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Mossop; Iago-Garrick; Desdemona-Miss Bellamy; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Brabantio-Berry; Lodovico-Blakes; Emilia-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Miss Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Minors

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; End: L'Entree de Flore, as17530324

15140
05 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Lodovico Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Lowe; Fretful-Collins; Matchwood-Bennet; Frederick-Cushing; Lucy-Miss Pitt; Harriot-Mrs Chambers.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Song: New Cantata call'dThe Court of Comus set by Worgan-Lowe

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

15141
09 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17530123, but Polydore-Havard; Page-Mas. Simson; Monimia-Miss Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Miss Bellamy.
Role: Serina Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Mrs Tattoo Actor: Miss Minors.

Dance: II: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17530324

15142
10 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Benjamin Hallet and Sig Gapatono

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327 but Prologue-Hallet; Epilogue-Miss Midnight on a Jack Ass.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Midnight on a Jack Ass.

Song: TThe Dust Cart-Toe; accompanied-, Bombasto; Grand Dance in the Old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timertoe

15143
25 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Liviez, the Ballet Master (Cross). Full Prices. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets at last house on right hand in Beaufort Buildings, Strand; and at The Stage Door. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Wildair-Woodward; Col. Standard-Havard; Smuggler-Taswell; Beau Clincher-Yates; Clincher Jun-Shuter; Vizard-Blakes; Parly-Miss Minors; Lady Darling-Mrs Cross; Angelina-Mrs Davies; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Standard Actor: Havard
Role: Parly Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Inchanted

Performance Comment: Parts-Atkins, Blakes, Shuter, Mlle Mariet, Clough, Miss Poplin, Walker, Simson, Master Simson; The Dances-Ferrere, Mlle August; With New Music-; Machines. Machines.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Atkins, Blakes, Shuter, Mlle Mariet, Clough, Miss Poplin, Walker, Simson, Master Simson

Dance: III: Country Amusements, as17530412

15144
25 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Sparks
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Humphrey Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue or The Farmer Deceivd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Miles; Farmer-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Morrison; Pierot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Morrison

Dance: LLes Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

15145
01 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Grandchamps, Stoppelaer, Madam Camargo. Tickets deliver'd out by Paddick, Holtom, Gardiner, and Miss Morrison will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Performance Comment: As17530115, but Salamander-Stoppelaer.
Cast
Role: Salamander Actor: Stoppelaer.
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Dance: I: (By Desire) Two Pierrots-Settree, Gardner; II: A Peasant-Gardner; III: A New Dance-Mad Camargo; V: Minuet, Louvre-Grandchamps, Mad Camargo

15146
04 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Burton; Horner-Palmer; Harcourt-Havard; Sparkish-Woodward; Sir Jasper Fidget-Yates; Lady Fidget-Mrs Mills; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Simson; Country Wife-Mrs Clive; Dorilant-Blakes; Mrs D. Fidget-Mrs Toogood; Alithea-Miss Minors; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; the Quack-Winstone.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: II: Beard

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Morris, the Little Swiss; End of Farce: Scots Dance- (see17530501)

15147
05 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Mozeen and Hayes. Mainpiece: Acted but twice these two years, and for last time this season. [Hayes was Pit-Office-Keeper]. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17521128, but Younger Brother-Mozeen; First Spirit-Scrase; Second Spirit-Mas. Cross; The Dances-Mrs _Preston, Miss _Rayner.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Mrs _Preston, Miss _Rayner.
Role: The Dances Actor: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Ferrere, Mad Auguste, Piettro, Mad. Janeton Auretti, Mrs Preston, Miss Rayner

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Flametto Actor: Miss Minors

15148
05 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ricard, R. Smith, Mrs Griffiths. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Miss Allen and the Widow Dupre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Buckle Actor: Anderson
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Barrington
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Bland from the Theatre in Dublin

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Pitt.

Dance: A Drunken Peasant-Miles; other dancing-Cooke, Mlle Camargo

15149
07 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Antony-Barry; Casesar-Bridgwater; Tredbonius-Anderson; Metellus-Bransby; Cinna-Redman; Lepidus-Bencraft; Brutus-Sparks; Cassius-Ryan; Ligarius-Holtom; Pinarus-Riccard; Antony's servant-Cushing; Lucius-Miss Mullart; Caska-Ridout; Octavius-Usher; Plebians-Arthur, Collins, Barrington, Dunstall, Stoppelaer; Calphurnia-Mrs Bambridge; Portia-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Tredbonius Actor: Anderson
Role: Lucius Actor: Miss Mullart
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

15150
14 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Tredbonius Actor: Anderson
Role: Lucius Actor: Miss Mullart
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: As17530507, but Fretful-Collins; Matchwood-Bennet; Frederick-Cushing; Lucy-Miss Pitt.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt.

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216; Minuet-Gardiner, Madam de Henny