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18066 results for: Keyword - Mr and Miss Wright
We found 14601 matches on Performance Comments, 5716 matches on Event Comments, 4922 matches on Performance Title, 20 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8051
10 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Leicester. For the Entertainment of the Grand, and the rest of the Brethren of the Antient and Honourable Society of Gregorians. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: Pierre-a Gentleman; Jaffeir-Bard of the Order of Gregorians, who performed Hamlet at GF. And a New Prologue, addressed to the Society .
Cast
Role: Jaffeir Actor: Bard of the Order of Gregorians, who performed Hamlet at GF. And a New Prologue, addressed to the Society

Entertainment:

8052
29 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Clear Actor: account-Wright
Role: account Actor: Wright
Role: Maid Actor: Miss Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

8053
12 December 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Advertiser, 13 Dec: Charles Mecklin was try'd for the Murder of Mr Hallam the Player, and found Guilty of Manslaughter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Cast
Role: French Company Actor: Davenport, Raftor, Cole, Mrs Cross, Miss Bennet
Role: Yeoman Actor: Wright
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dancey
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, with Overture as17351117, but see17351117
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett

Dance: I: Ballet by Mlle Anne Roland. II: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

8054
27 January 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Jan.: We hear the Designs of Merlin's Cave, that were presented last Week to her Majesty by Mr Giffard, have been so well approv'd of, by many Persons of Quality, that Mr Devoto, who made the Draughts, has had several Copies bespoke by the Nobility

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Performance Comment: As17351217. Prologue and Epilogue, as17351217 .
Cast
Role: Matilda Actor: Miss Tollett
Role: Emmeline Actor: Mrs Giffard. In it music by Purcell, sung by Kelly, Touchbury, Nichols, Kellner, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones, Miss Gerrard
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Thornowets, her first on any stage. Dances by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Le Sac, Vallois, Delagarde, Topham, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Dove. With a New Prologue and Epilogue, spoken by Giffard and Mrs Giffard

8055
09 February 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

8056
02 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. The Words of the Incantation will be printed, and deliver'd Gratis at the Theatre. Receipts: money #22 9s.; tickets #31 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane, but see17351110. And the Incantation, new set to Musick by Mr Galliard .
Cast
Role: Oedipus Actor: Delane, but see17351110. And the Incantation, new set to Musick by Mr Galliard

Dance: French Peasants, as17360223 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

8057
03 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

8058
16 March 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Cast
Role: Matilda Actor: Miss Tollett
Role: Emmeline Actor: Mrs Giffard. In it music by Purcell, sung by Kelly, Touchbury, Nichols, Kellner, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones, Miss Gerrard
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Thornowets, her first on any stage. Dances by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Le Sac, Vallois, Delagarde, Topham, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Dove. With a New Prologue and Epilogue, spoken by Giffard and Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

8059
24 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar in French

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage in English

8060
19 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

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.

8061
16 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. An Ode, written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floored over, and laid into the Boxes. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: The Prince and Princess of Wales seem'd to be highly entertain'd, insomuch that his Royal Highness commanded Mr Handel's Concerto on the Organ to be repeated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 429, speculates concerning a possible cast. With Concertos on the Organ-, and other Instruments.
Cast
Role: With Concertos on the Organ Actor: , and other Instruments.
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

8062
13 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see below.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

8063
24 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Peg Actor: Miss Horsington

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Mauxlinda Actor: Miss
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Isabella

Dance: As17380121

8064
06 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

8065
12 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Pelling. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere. [Tickets of Mrs Walter at her House in back of Mr Acton's, Fishmonger, in Bridge Street, and of Pelling at Mr Dailey's, Jeweller, in dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Wheedle Actor: Miss Tollet.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; II: Black Joke-Pelling, Mrs Walter; III: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: The Early Horn-Beard

8066
23 May 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24 May: May 23, 1738. All Persons that have subscrib'd or are willing to subscribe twenty Guineas for Italian Opera to be perform'd next Season at the King's Theatre...under my Direction, are desired to send ten Guineas to Mr Drummond the Banker....and Whereas I declared I would undertake the Operas provided I can agree with the Performers, and that 200 Subscriptions are procured, and as the greatest Part ob the Subscribers have already paid the 10 Guineas; it is desired that the remaining Subscribers will be pleased to send the Money to Mr Drummond, on or before the 5th of June next....J. J. Heidegger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquista Del Vello Doro

8067
19 April 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 19 April, for a letter on Handel. Deutsch, Handel, pp. 481-83, reprints it but states that it appeared in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Performance Comment: See17390116, but With a Concerto on the Organ-Mr Handel; And another Concerto on the Violin-the famous Sig Plantanida (who is just arrived from Abroad).
Cast
Role: With a Concerto on the Organ Actor: Mr Handel
Role: And another Concerto on the Violin Actor: the famous Sig Plantanida

8068
13 December 1739 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: PPrince and Princesses of Wales, Duke, and Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: Acis-Beard; Galatea-Signora Francescina; Polyphemus-Reinhold; Damon-The Boy (Deutsch, Handel, p. 492; Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p.177); With two new Concertos for several Instruments-never perform'd before; The last New Ode of Mr Dryden's-; And a Concerto on the Organ-.
Cast
Role: And a Concerto on the Organ Actor: .

8069
20 December 1739 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: See17391213, but two new Concertos for several Instruments-(never perform'd but once)-; Also The last New Ode of Mr Dryden's-; And a Concerto on the Organ-.
Cast
Role: And a Concerto on the Organ Actor: .

8070
21 February 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: nd% a Concerto on the Organ-

8071
12 March 1740 @ Crown and Cushion

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow of Mr Walter Aston, and her Three Children. At Mr Rainton's, The Crown and Cushion, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden. 7 p.m. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Serious And Comic Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston exhibits his Serious and Comic Oratory on the Face and Head-Tony Aston; with nine Songs all of his own making-Tony Aston; with his Drunken@Man-Tony Aston.
Cast
Role: Tony Aston exhibits his Serious and Comic Oratory Actor: Tony Aston

8072
22 December 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Wright
Role: Orlando Actor: Milward
Role: Phaebe Actor: Miss Bennet

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan; III: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

8073
26 February 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Solo on the Violin-Collett; a Concerto on the Harpsichord-Gladwin; several Pieces on the Trumpet-Snow; Likewise the Dead March in Saul-to be performed with the Sackbuts; To which will be added, set to Musick Dryden's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day by Mr Handel-; the principal Voice Part-Mrs Arne

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day by Mr Handel-; the principal Voice Part-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: Mr Handel Actor:

8074
11 March 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: With Concertos on the Organ-; and other Instruments-; Mr Dryden's last New Ode-.
Cast
Role: and other Instruments Actor:

8075
07 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit W. Giffard and Crispe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe or Aesop in the Shades

Performance Comment: Aesop-W. Giffard; Drunken Man-Giffard; Lucy-Miss Hippisley; with The Life of a Belle-.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley

Dance: III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Hornpipe-Yates