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24305 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Duncan
We found 23614 matches on Performance Comments, 7601 matches on Event Comments, 4622 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4426
02 May 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of Nicholson and Mrs Daniel. A Concert, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Gloster-Jones; Hastings-Barronton [sic]; Bellmore-Palmer? (Daily Advertiser) Pinner (General Advertiser); Catesby-Blakey; Shore-Shakleton; Alicia-Mrs Bambridge; Jane Shore-Mrs Daniels.
Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Daniels.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: LLouvre, Minuet-Miss Mondozie, Nicholson

4427
04 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: We hear that Mrs Cibber is so extremely ill at the Bath, that her life is despaired of (General Advertiser). Receipts: #107 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, The Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Quin; Iago-Ryan; Brabantio-Sparks; Cassio-Ridout; Lodovico-Anderson; Roderigo-Cushing; Montano-Bransby; Emilia-Mrs Bambridge; Desdemona-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Lodovico Actor: Anderson
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

4428
06 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Coleman for a white and gold brocaded robe #12 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #110 (Cross); #111 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17491216, but Indiana-Mrs Elmy; Sealand-Berry; Daniel-_.
Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: III: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

Ballet: End: Savoyard Travellers. As17500126

Cast
Role: Principal Savoyards Actor: Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison.

4429
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Palmer. Rec'd cash #50 14s., plus #82 15s. in tickets. Paid Duke of Bedford's Steward for leases #3 13s. 6d.; Mrs Swift 1s. 6d., omitted Wednesday; Mrs Roberts #1 omitted Wednesday [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School boy-Shuter; Young Rakish-Cross; Friendly-Simpson; Lettice-Miss Cole; Major Rakish-Bridges; Father Dominic-Blakes; Lady Manlove-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Lady Manlove Actor: Mrs James.

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

4430
01 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce not acted these 5 years. [See 13 Nov. 1746.] Tomorrow Othello. The Part of Othello by Barry, Desdemona by Mrs Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Quin; Portius-Ryan; Marcus-Lacey; Juba-Gibson; Sempronius-Sparks; Lucius-Anderson; Syphax-Ridout; Decius-Bridgwater; Lucia-Mrs Vincent; Marcia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Lucius Actor: Anderson
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

4431
14 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Comedy She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not is deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Woffington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Wou'dbe-Ryan; Young Wou'dbe-Sparks; Richmore-Ridout; Trueman-Gibson; Aurelia-Mrs Ridout; Constance-Mrs Vincent; Alderman-Arthur; Teague-Barrington.
Cast
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Constance Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Falkner
Role: Concluding with the Original Grand Dance Actor: .

4432
18 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Afterpiece: Shuter & Mrs Mariet hurt in ye Part (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17500921, but Mrs Sullen-Miss Bellamy; because Mrs Pritchard was ill. Aimwell-Palmer.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Miss Bellamy
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: others Actor: Mrs Pit, Mrs _Toogood.

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17501117

4433
16 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Play By Command of Prince & Princess of Wales. Play taken from the French of M de Voltaire. Never acted there before.' Pit and boxes to be laid together, where the Ladies and Gentlemen will be admitted as at the Oratorios. And for the better accommodation of the Ladies the Stage will be form'd into an amphitheatre (with particular care to keep it warm) where servants will be allowed to keep places, as also in the Pit. Ladies send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: Osman-Barry (1st time); Lusignan-Sparks; Nerestan-Dyer; Chatillon-Lacey; Orasmyn-Ridout; Selim-Mrs Elmy; Zara-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Selim Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: As17500926

4434
27 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit for] Taswell, Layfield, Marr, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison had Tickets (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17510201, but Foible-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Foible Actor: Mrs Green.
Role: Comic Dance Actor: Harvey, Mad Camargo replaces that of McNeil and Mad Camargo in Act IV.
Role: Mrs Marwood Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs James
Role: Mrs Fainall Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Millamant Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4435
26 October 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMr Barry is greatly improv'd since last year in the character of Hastings , as he is indeed in every part in which I have seen him this winter. Mrs Cibber performed as she always does, to the admiration of her audience, and in my opinion she shewed a particular and new exertion of her art and abilities on those two nights. Great as I had declared my expectations for Miss Macklin, she surpassed them; particularly on the second night. On the former, indeed, in the first and in part of the second act, her embarrassment was insuperable, and I cannot sufficiently admire and applaud the Candour of the Audience on that distressed Occasion! In my judgment, never were two parts better adapted to the persons and powers of the performers, than those of Alicia and Jane Shore to Mrs Cibber and Miss Macklin (Inspector No 207, in Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 30 Oct.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Catesby Actor: Anderson
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Lowe; Stocks-Dunstall; Jack Stocks-Dyer; Chloe-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

Dance: As17511021

4436
19 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Last time of performing Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, next door to the Chapel in Little Wild-Street, near Drury Lane; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17520123, but Hero-Mrs Ward; Antonio-_; Friar-_; Borachio-_; Verges-_; Conrade-_; Town Clerk-_; Sexton-_.
Cast
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Havard.
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

4437
12 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Friday the 22nd a Benefit for Mrs Allen, Daughter of the late Thomas Allen, Barrister at Law, and Niece to the late Col. James Allen, who has for many years lost the use of her limbs by Palsy,--The Suspicious Husband, with entertainment as will be express'd in the Bill of the Day. Tickets to be had at Searle's Coffee House, Lincoln's Inn; at the Rolls, Chancery Lane; at George's Temple Bar; at Grigsby's behind the Change; at the Southsea Coffee House, Bishopsgate St.; and at the stage door, where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: Osmyn-Barry; Lusignan-Sparks; Nerestan-Dyer; Chatillon-Usher; Orasmyn-Ridout; Selima-Mrs Elmy; Zara-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: As17521004, but Betty-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Dick Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17521028

4438
10 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. No part of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes; but for the better accommodation of the Ladies, the Stage will be enclos'd in form of an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. A letter from Paris informs us of a very singular entertainment exhibited at the Fair of St Germains, consisting of a Concert of Music executed by a band of Animal musicians. A number of Cats, clothed uniformly, were placed on stools, with music books before them, and a Monkey in the middle who beat time. On a signal given by the Monkey, the cast set up a mewing, and were accompanied by some violins; which form'd a very diverting dissonance. The whole Fair flock'd to it; and some of the gravest people of Paris could not forbear laughing heartily

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Antony-Barry; Dolabella-Smith; Cleopatra-Mrs Cibber; Alexas-Dyer; Ventidius-Sparks; Serapion-Bransby; Octavia-Mrs Elmy.
Cast
Role: Cleopatra Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Octavia Actor: Mrs Elmy.

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Performance Comment: Fairy Queen-Mrs Elmy; Oberon-Dyer; Statue-Mlle Camargo; Cinthia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Fairy Queen Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Cinthia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219; Les Charboniers, as17521028

4439
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: Merope Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: As17521201

4440
27 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Mrs Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17530324 but Calista-Mrs Cibber; Sciolto-Sparks; Lavinia-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Lucilla Actor: Mrs Barrington

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Vincent.

4441
28 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Howard, Mrs Chambers, Miss Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17530313 but Mrs Peachum-Miss Pitt.
Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Miss Pitt.
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Mrs Griffith.
Role: Betty Doxy Actor: Mrs Valois.
Role: Player Actor: Anderson
Role: Mrs Coaxer Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Miss Pitt
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Chambers

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Cast
Role: Harriot Actor: Mrs Chambers.

Song: Two Part Song Old Chiron-Lowe, Howard

Music: A piece on the Harp-Gwynn

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17521028

4442
03 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Anderson, Miles, Mrs Gondou. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. There will be no Building on the Stage. Tickets sold at the door will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17530409 but Townly-Ryan; Myrtilla-Mrs Dunstall; Lady Townly-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bland.
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Miles; III: Les Charboniers, as17521028

4443
27 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Concerning Mrs Elmy's acting of Desdemona, the Gentleman's Magazine (Oct., p. 493) quotes the Monitor: And no part has been better represented in our memory, and indeed we scarce knew what it was before she acted it."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello The Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Barry; Iago-Ryan; Brabantio-Sparks; Cassio-Ridout; Roderigo-Dyer; Lodovico-Anderson; Gratiano-Redman; Duke-Wignell; Montano-White; Desdemona-Mrs Elmy; Emilia-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Lodovico Actor: Anderson
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

4444
11 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: NNossiter play'd Rutland (Cross). [Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 15 Dec., notes: It is universally agreed by all who have seen the play [Essex] that Mrs Bland performs the queen with great Spirit and with more resemblance to a personage of rank, than is commonly seen on the stage."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Barry; Burleigh-Sparks; Southampton-Smith; Raleigh-Usher; Queen-Mrs Bland; Nottingham-Mrs Vincent; Rutland-Miss Nossiter.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Rutland Actor: Miss Nossiter.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17531120

4445
27 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Settree, Rawlings, Gardiner, Mrs Griffith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17531108, but Myrtilla-_; Mrs Motherly-_.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: III: New Dance-Gardner, Mme Camargo; V: Louvre and Minuet-Settree, Mme Huette

4446
07 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell and Morris will be taken. Tickets of Mrs Mills at her lodgings at Gardyner's a Printer, in Russel St., and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Performance Comment: As17540430 but to conclude with a Minuet-Morris, Mrs Addison.
Cast
Role: to conclude with a Minuet Actor: Morris, Mrs Addison.
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Benett

Song: I: The School of Anacreon-Beard; IV: A Ballad-Beard

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17540416 III: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; the Clown-Shawford; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

4447
15 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The horror of the piece seemed too much for the sensibilities of Mrs Bellamy, so the part of Eurydice given to Mrs Vincent. See Genest, IV, 420. See also Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, written by herself (4th ed., 1786), III, 30.]. This day publish'd at 2s. 6d. Coriolanus; or, The Roman Matron, taken partly from Shakespear and partly from Thomson, as it is now performing at Covent Garden. To which is added the Order of the Ovation. Printed for A. Miller in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus

Performance Comment: As17550110, but Eurydice-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Eurydice Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Manto Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Alcander Actor: Cushing
Role: Ghost of Laius Actor: Anderson
Role: Jocasta Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Gibson
Role: Octavian Actor: Anderson
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Baker.

Dance: CComic Entertainment, as17541203

4448
03 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream written by Shakespear. The Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond. Music-Smith. [First edition Text by John Christopher Smith; see Garrick to James Murphey French, Dec. 1756; H. Walpole to R. Bentley 23 Feb. 1755.] Besides our own Singers, we had Sg Guadagni, Sga Passerini, Miss Potier [i.e., Mrs Vernon], and Savage's Boys. Very great Applause; Sabatini danced after it and fell down, not hurt (Cross). [See A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Hands of Garrick and Colman, G. W. Stone Jr, PMLA (June 1939).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Performance Comment: Theseus-Beard; Egeus-Chamnys [MacMillan lists Wilder]; Lysander-Curioni but Guadagni listed by Cross, MacMillan, and first edition]; Demetrius-Atkins [MacMillan lists Vernon]; Hermia-Sga Passeroni; Helena-Mrs Vernon; Hippolita-Mrs Jefferson; Oberon-Mas. Reinhold; Titania-Miss Young; Puck-Mas. Moore; Fairy-Mas. Evans; Prologue [written and-Garrick [first edition.].first edition.].
Cast
Role: Lysander Actor: Curioni but Guadagni listed by Cross, MacMillan, and first edition
Role: Helena Actor: Mrs Vernon
Role: Hippolita Actor: Mrs Jefferson
Role: written and Actor: Garrick

Dance: CComic Dance-Sabatini, Sga Sabatini, Sabatini jun, his first time

4449
24 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Gentlewoman was perhaps Mrs Glen. See 19 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Smith; Burleigh-Sparks; Southampton-Dyer; Queen-Mrs Hamilton; Raleigh-Anderson; Nottingham-Mrs Vincent; Rutland-Gentlewoman , who never appeared on any stage; Occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Raleigh Actor: Anderson
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Rutland Actor: Gentlewoman , who never appeared on any stage

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4450
18 March 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber (Cross). Tickets delivered for the 11th will be taken (playbill). Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Garrick; Sigismunda-Mrs Cibber; Siffredi-Berry; Osmond-Havard; Rhodolpho-Blakes; Laura-Mrs Haughton; Officers-Burton, Simson.
Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Haughton

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Mrs Tattoo Actor: Miss Minors
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Clive.

Song: I: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson