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24294 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Melmoth
We found 23600 matches on Performance Comments, 7597 matches on Event Comments, 4621 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3176
29 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Randall, Tubman, Fletcher. Receipts: money #7 9s.; tickets #131 17s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 25 May: This is esteem'd Mr Dryden's best Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17230207, but Pedro-Egleton; Queen-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Boheme.
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Bullock.

3177
30 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17220913, but Elvira-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Booth.
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Judge

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

3178
06 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Wilks, Office Keeper. As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17230107, but Miranda-Miss Tenoe; Dorinda-Miss Lindar; Ariel-Y. Wetherilt; Hippolito-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Tenoe
Role: Hippolito Actor: Mrs Brett.
Role: Ferdinand Actor: W. Wilks

Song: Singing in Italian-Miss Lindar, being the 2d Time of her Singing upon any Stage; Dear Pretty Youth-

Music: Solo on Little Pipe-Baston

Dance: Dancing after the Turkish Manner, as it was perform'd by the Kister Aga and the Eunuchs of the Seraglio, for the Diversion of the Grand Signior at the last Bairam Feast-

3179
12 October 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Jaffeir-Booth; Belvidera-Mrs Porter; Pierre-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Porter

3180
12 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Granius-Wm. Mills; Sulpitius-Harper; Comic Parts-Penkethman, Miller, Cross, Ray; Lavinia-Mrs Porter; Nurse-Norris.
Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Porter

3181
08 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: As17231028, but Widow-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Fidelia Actor: Mrs Younger

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: As17231028

3182
31 July 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Carefully revis'd, and alter'd from Mr D'Urfey. And Machinery and other Decorations proper to the Play. Receipts: #39 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of The Rise And Fall Of Massaniello; Or, A Fisherman A Prince

Performance Comment: Massaniello-Walker; Cardinal-Leigh; Viceroy-Smith; Mataloni-Hulett; Bissignano-Ogden; Pedro-Huddy; Belleraza-Mrs Moffett; Comic Parts-Bullock, Morgan, Hall, H. Bullock, Norris; With a New Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Belleraza Actor: Mrs Moffett

Song: The Original Song:In Praise of Fishing-

Dance: A new dance:Fishermen and Their Wives-

3183
31 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Belvidera-Mrs Porter; Jaffier-Booth; Pierre-Mills.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Porter

Song: As17241008

3184
27 November 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17251004, but Mrs Squeamish-Miss Smythies.
Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Smythies.
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Younger, being the first Time of her Appearance on that Stage
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Parker
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Dainty Fidget Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Morgan.

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Dance: LLes Characters de la Dance in which are express'd all the different Movements in Dancing-Mlle Salle

3185
21 February 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff And Justice Shallow

Performance Comment: King Henry-Booth; Prince of Wales-Williams; Prince John of Lancaster-Wm. Mills; Gloucester-Oats; Westmoreland-Bridgwater; Hastings-Watson; Lord Chief Justice-Boman; Falstaff-Harper; Shallow-Cibber; Silence-Miller; Feeble-Griffin; Bardolfe-Shepard; Pistol-Th. Cibber; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Robinson Jr; Hostess-Mrs Wetherilt; Dol-Miss Lindar.
Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

3186
03 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. And the Flyings, Sinkings, and usual Decorations. N.B. Mr Boheme continuing indispos'd, the Tragedy of King Lear cannot be acted. Receipts: money #30 18s.; tickets #57 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 6 by money and 49 by tickets; pit, 59 by money and 246 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 97 by money and 81 by tickets; second gallery, 51 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17260926, but Banquo-Diggs; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Berriman.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Berriman.
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: With the usual Dances proper to the Play-; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

3187
09 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry Iv: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaffe And Justice Shallow

Performance Comment: King Henry-Booth; Prince of Wales-Williams; Prince John-Wm. Mills; Gloster-Oates; Westmoreland-Bridgwater; Hastings-Watson; Chief Justice-Boman; Justice Shallow-Cibber; Falstaff-Harper; Justice Silence-Miller; Fee6le-Griffin; Bardolfe-Shepard; Pistol-Norris; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Robinson Jr; Hostess-Mrs Wetherilt; Dol Mavis-Miss Lindar.
Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

3188
06 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17270919, but Lucy-Mrs Mills; With the Coronation Scene-.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Butler

3189
16 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #43 6s. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 paid and 13 orders; pit, 122 paid and 17 orders; slips, 11 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 122 paid and 12 orders; second gallery, 95 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Priuli-Boheme; Jaffier-Ryan; Pierre-Walker; Bedamar-Milward; Renault-Chapman; Antonio-Spiller; Belvidera-Mrs Berriman.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Berriman.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Anna Bullen

3190
31 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Shireburn.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: See17281206, but Andromeda-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth.

3191
07 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #21 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 9 orders; pit, 43 paid and 18 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 96 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 62 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Pierre-Quin; Jaffier-Ryan; Priuli-Milward; Renault-Chapman; Antonio-Hippisley; Belvidera-Mrs Buchanan.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Buchanan.

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

3192
30 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Hostess Quickly Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Mrs Shireburn

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Performance Comment: See17291002, but Hunter-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Hunter Actor: Mrs Roberts.

3193
15 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Queen; or, Harlequin Turn'd Enchanter

Performance Comment: Fairy Queen-Miss Raftor; Her Followers-Young Master Lally, Young Master Tench, Miss Robinson, Miss Brett; Shepherd-Rainton; Shepherd's Man-Wetherilt; Harlequin-Surel; Colombine-Mrs Walter.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter.

Afterpiece Title: Concluding with the Loves of Shepherds and Shepherdesses

Performance Comment: Shepherds-Lally, Essex, Haughton, Roger; Shepherdesses-Mrs Roger, Mlle Delorme, Miss Williams, Miss Mears.
Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Roger, Mlle Delorme, Miss Williams, Miss Mears.

3194
17 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Monimia-Mrs Porter; Castalio-Wilks; Polydore-Marshall; Chamont-Mills; Acasto-Paget; Serina-Miss Williams; Page-Miss Robinson.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Porter

3195
06 August 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Ballad-Opera. Taken from The Devil of a Wife. Written by Mr Jevon. [For Coffey, Mottley, and Cibber Jr as authors, see Hughes and Scouten, Ten English Farces, pp. 173-74.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil To Pay; Or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Stoppelaer; Jobson-Harper; Valentine-Roberts; Ranger-R. Wetherilt; Ananias-Charke; Butler-Berry; Cook-Fielding; Footman-Wright; Coachman-Grey; Doctor-Oates; Father-Wetherilt Jr; Lady Loverule-Mrs Mills; Nell-Miss Raftor; Lucy-Miss Oates; Lettice-Miss Williams; Gaffer Dungfork-Cibber Jr; but edition of 1731 adds: Nadir-Fisher Tench; Abishog-H. Tench; Prologue-Cibber Jr.
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Mills

Dance: new dance %Bartholomew Fair-Fisher Tench, Miss Brett

3196
12 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17320401 but Lady Lurewell-Mrs Grace; Sir John-Stoppelaer (Daily Post, 4 April).
Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Grace

3197
16 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; but edition of 1732 lists: Jupiter-Barret; Neptune-Snider; Mars-Waltz; Phoebus-Mountier; Honour-Waltz; Valour-Baker; Liberty-Snyder; Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; Publick Virtue-Miss Susanna Mason; Victory, Concord, Peace-Mrs Seedo; Discord-Comano; Faction-Mynet [a note adds that later it was Phoebus-$Barret; Neptune-$Mountier]..
Cast
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Seedo

3198
08 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17321003, but Sir Joseph-Miller; Laetitia-Mrs Heron.
Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Heron.
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Cast
Role: Goody Stubble Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: E. Roberts, Jones, Tench, Wright, Miss Mears, Miss Atherton.

Dance:

3199
20 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Monimia-Mrs Horton; Acasto-Roberts; Castalio-A. Hallam; Polydore-Bridgwater; Chamont-W. Mills; Serina-Miss Williams; Page-Miss Brett.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Cast
Role: First Farmer's Wife Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: First Yeoman's Wife Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Yeomen's Wives Actor: Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Mrs Mullart
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Miss Williams, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme, Miss Atherton
Role: Peasants Actor: Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lally Jr, Mrs Delorme
Role: French Man and Woman Actor: Tench, Miss Mears
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Cox, Miss Mann.

3200
02 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Ryan; Pierre-Quin; Duke-Hale; Bedamar-Walker; Priuli-Lacy; Renault-Chapman; Spinosa-Houghton; Elliot-Aston; Antonio-Hippisley; Belvidera-Mrs Buchanan .
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Buchanan