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We found 23635 matches on Performance Comments, 7612 matches on Event Comments, 4628 matches on Performance Title, 88 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mrs Siddons was "below herself. . .There was no Storm of Applause; there was not any of that Stillness of Attention which always precedes the Storm" (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.). Receipts: #280 5s. (266/7/0; 9/11/6; 0/16/6; tickets not come in: 3/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Floretta Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Event Comment: "Mrs Siddons, in most of the Parts she plays, is the best Actress we ever saw. Miss Kemble, in all the Parts she plays, is the very worst Actress we ever saw" {Public Advertiser, 5 May). [Afterpiece in place of The Adventures of a Night, announced on playbill of 2 May.] The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #263 5s. 6d. (253/11/0; 8/9/6; 1/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Mrs Siddons continuing so ill that it is impossible for her to perform on Saturday; her Benefit announced for that Evening is unavoidably postponed till further Notice [see 24 Apr.]. Receipts: #163 11s. (162/1; 1/5; ticket not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Cast
Role: Froth Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Lady Allworth Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: "[Mrs Siddons's] Impatience, her impassioned Gestures, during the Narrative of Old Norval--the Towering of her Transports after it--the Transports of Tenderness maternal... were given with an enthusiastic Grace of Truth" (Public Advertiser, 7 May). Receipts: #242 17s. (225/5; 16/13; 0/9; tickets not come in: 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lord Randolph Actor: Farren
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17840311athi

Event Comment: "[Mrs Jordan] plays Miss Hoyden with great effect . . . but the character in her hands is only the Romp in other situations . . . We never saw anything more naturally assumed, or more agreeably wicked, if we may so phrase it, than the whole of [Miss Farren's] deportment in her scenes with Loveless" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Jan.). Receipts: #215 3s. (212/9; 2/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Miss Hoyden Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Nannette Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Event Comment: Mrs Jordan being very ill, instead of The Impostors[advertised on playbill of 27 Jan.] will be performed The West Indian. Receipts: #125 3s. (62.16.0; 59.18.6; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Crouch.
Event Comment: "Mrs Jordan made an Apology this Night, and all is well again" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill) [see 26 Nov.]. Receipts: #421 3s. 6d. (310.2.6; 108.12.0; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Muses Actor: Mrs _Goodall.
Role: Italian Singer Actor: Bland
Role: Melpomene Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Thalia Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17910927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Cast
Role: Marchioness Merida Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Amanthis Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Cast
Role: Mrs Caddy Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Cast
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Miss Pickle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Booth

Song: End II: When on board our trim vessel (composed by Carter)-Bannister; End: The Waggoner (composed by Dibdin)-Wathen; End I 2nd piece: When Bibo went down-Bannister; End 2nd piece: The Cobler (composed by Reeve)-Wathen; End I 3rd piece: The Ship@wreck'd Sailors (composed by an Amateur for the Thespian Panorama [see hay, 4 Mar.])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister

Performance Comment: ])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17970715 but Rosina-Mrs Atkins (from the Theatre-Royal Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); with The Nightingale-Mrs Atkins; accompanied on the hautboy-Foster; Rustic-_; Irishmen-_.

Song: 1st piece: General Chorus, as17970815, but _Dibble, _Kenrick, _Caulfield Jun., Mrs _Gaudry, Mrs _Brown

Performance Comment: , Mrs _Gaudry, Mrs _Brown.
Event Comment: Mrs Pepys attended a play, but the theatre and the play are not named by Pepys

Performances

Event Comment: Mrs Pepys attended a play, but the theatre and the title of the play are not known

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, Mlle de Noisy, others; A new Chacone-Mrs Bruce; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell

Song: As17051011.Mrs Hodgson, Cook

Performance Comment: Mrs Hodgson, Cook.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe Queen Of Cyprus

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part.

Dance: As17060325

Event Comment: Mrs Moore's tickets for 3 March taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song:

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part, but See17081214.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Performance Comment: O Sing unto the Lord, My Song shall be Alway-(by Mr Handel).

Afterpiece Title: Davids Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Performance Comment: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.
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.

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327.

Song: MMason's song, Several Scots Songs-Lauder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk, Shift, Squintum-Foote; Baron-Costollo; Loader-Tindal; Sir George-Davis; Transfer-Parsons; Sir Richard-Gardner; Dick-Johnson; Lucy-Miss Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Tagg Actor: Mrs Granger

Dance: I: The Dutchman, as17650719 End: The English Sailor at Marseilles-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street; New Hornpipe-Mas. Clinton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir Wm Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Minor-Aickin; Dick-Morgan; Shift, Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston.

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foild

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Aickin; The Minor-Forde (from Dublin, his first appearance on this stage); Dick-Morgan; Shift (with Imitations), Dr Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston; Lucy-Miss Ogilvie.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Foote; Heeltap-Davis; Matthew Mugg-Bannister; Jerry Sneak-Weston; Lint-Castle; Bruin-Kearny; Roger-Jacobs; Snuffle-Pierce; Mob-Vandermere, Summers, Sharpless, Wheeler, Farrell; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Gardner; Sir Jacob Jallop-Sowdon.

Dance: As17690515

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17361124, but Mrs Sullen-Mrs Giffard; Sir Charles-Hamilton; Scrub-Norris; Cherry-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Hamilton
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Roberts.
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs M. Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: II: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: I: Dialogue composed by Henry Purcel-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Afterpiece: a Farce. [Author not known.] Preface to edition of 1737: The Misrepresentation of this little Piece upon the Stage, and the proper Indifference with which it was received by the Audience, made it necessary, for my Reputation sake, to publish it with all convenient Expedition. My Friends, who had read the Thing, did not know it again, it was in so disastrous a Plight; and they that had not read it (from a Prepossession in my Favour) imputed its Aukwardness to the Mismanagement, or Incapacity of the Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Hamilton

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Triumph or The Manager Managd

Dance: End Afterpiece: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: II: Dialogue by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [This bill from London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 16 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Performance Comment: As17361005, but Hazard-Woodward; Cynthia-Mrs Marshall; Teraminta-Mrs M. Giffard.
Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Marshall
Role: Teraminta Actor: Mrs M. Giffard.
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Performance Comment: See17370321 but Lucy-Mrs Roberts; Merry Quaker-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: 7370321 but Lucy Actor: Mrs Roberts

Song: II: A Purcell Dialogue-Masters Hamilton; III: The Early Horn Salutes the Morn-Miss Jones

Dance: V: Clown-Vallois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lovers Or Sport Upon Sport With The Comical Humours Of Squire Graygoose His Man Doodle My Lady Graygoose Captain Atall

Performance Comment: Squire Graygoose-Bencraft; Doodle-Penkethman; Lady Graygoose (Colombine)-Mrs Dove; Captain Atall (Harlequin)-DelaHayes; Mixum-Dove; Bridemen-DelaGrange, LeBrune, Bellguard; Bride Maids-Mlle DelaGrange, Mlle LeBrune, Mrs Penkethman.

Song: the two Mhe two Master Hamilton

Dance: A comic Peasant Dance-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrune, Bencraft, Mrs Penkethman

Music: an extraordinaryBan extraordinaryBand of Musick is provided, consisting of Violins, Hautboys, Bassoons, Kettle-Drums, Trumpets, French-Horns