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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.

21626
24 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bishop, Dighton, Pattendon, Miss Naylor, Marr. Pattenden's tickets at his house in Throgmorton St., near the Royal Exchange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Yates.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs E. Giffard
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Welshman's Triumph; or, the Death of the Wild Goat-the Son and Daughter of David and Winifred apShenkin

21627
26 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Mainpiece: For the Entertainment of the Brethren of the Antient and honourable Order of Gregorians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17411209, but Othello-Stephens; Roderigo-Woodward; Brabantio-Gibson; Emilia-Mrs Woodward; Lodovico-_; Gratiano-_; With a New Prologue-Hale.
Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Hale

Dance: III: The Peasants, as17420210; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

21628
26 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Shepherd, the Treasurer. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Bambridge will be taken. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen an Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Modish Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs E. Giffard
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Leek, as17420224; IV: Scots Dance, as17420406

21629
29 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bencraft and Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Performance Comment: As17420205, but Altea-Mrs Woodward; Leon-Phillips, 1st time of his appearing this stage since his arrival from Dublin.
Cast
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: 4th Nymph Actor: Mrs LeBrun
Role: 5th Nymph Actor: Mrs Villeneuve.
Role: 3rd Nymph Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Waltz, Thompson, Mrs Wright, Miss Davies
Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward. and Concluding with a Grand Ballet .
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Mrs Mannerly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Davies, Miss Short.

Dance: LLouvre, Minuet-Dupre, a scholar of his

21630
03 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit James, Mrs James, Goodall. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Hale.
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Combursh Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17420430 V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: II: Under the Greenwood Tree-Roberts; End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: IV: Cries of London-Salway

21631
10 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17420426 but Lucy-Mrs Macklin; Rose-Miss Brunette; Scale-Woodburn; Scruple-Raftor; Recruits-Neale, Ray; Welch Collier-_.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington, 1st appearance at that stage
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

21632
11 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper's Widow. Six rows of the pit railed into the boxes. Rylands MS.: Duke &c. [present]. Garrick Play'd. Daily Advertiser, 7 May, stated that Mrs Harper's benefit on Saturday last because of the warm weather brought scarcely the charges of the theatre. Therefore Garrick made a voluntary offer to perform for her.] Receipts: #240

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Bennet

21633
12 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17420501, but Goneril-Mrs Bambridge.
Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bambridge.
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: Crispin-Phillips; from The Theatre Royal in Dublin, being the second time of his appearing on the Stage in this Kingdom; Beatrice-Mrs E. Giffard.
Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs E. Giffard.

21634
14 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Performance Comment: As17420119, but Wishwell-Mrs Hale; Old Atall-Harrington; Strut-Stoppelaer; Situp-Miss Davies.
Cast
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Combursh Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Dance: II: As17420510; IV: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: AArrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

21635
17 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

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

Performance Comment: As17420401 but Belvidera-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

21636
31 May 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Bostock and Evans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Performance Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Ulysses-Machen; Telemachus-Bostock; Eurymachus-Bridgman; Antinous-Pinner; Mentor-Manly; Eumeus-White; Queen-Mrs Morrison; Semanthe-Miss Jones.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Morrison

Song: Paul

Entertainment: TThe Drunken Man-Day

21637
16 June 1742 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority...will be presented a new Ballad-Opera [author unknown], 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mrs Boyd, a Pamphlet Shop, in Leicester St. by Swallow St, opposite the Crooked Billet; at Mrs Gearing's@Toyshop near the Theatre; and at the Doors of the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle@Drums, concluding with Handel's Water@Musick-Job Baker

21638
26 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Performance Comment: Master Punchbowl-Page; Lovegirlo-Mrs Charke.
Cast
Role: Lovegirlo Actor: Mrs Charke.

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

21639
21 September 1742 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Dorcas-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Phillips.

21640
27 September 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17420922, but Emilia-Mrs Woodward.
Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Woodward.
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Cibber, 1st appearance this stage.

21641
25 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17420911, but Charlotte-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Phillips
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe.

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; Turkish Seraglio-Brunoro, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Constanza

Song: III: Song-Beard

21642
26 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King Henry-Stephens; Wales-Ryan; Prince John-Hale; York-Chapman; Chief Justice-Rosco; Westmorland-Gibson; Mowbry-Cashell; Hastings-Harrington; Silence-Salway; Pistol-Woodward; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs James; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Hillyard; Shallow-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Gibson
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs James

Dance: 2 As17421025

21643
08 November 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Performance Comment: Barnwell-Bur; Thorogood-Bridgman; Truman-Robinson; Blunt-Serjeant; Maria-Miss Clarendon; Lucy-Miss Clarke; Millwood-Mrs Page.
Cast
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Page.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: Miss Clarke

21644
07 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Alphonso-Hippisley; Roderigo-Bridgwater; Mad Scholar-Hale; Curio-Cashell; Seberto-Gibson; Old Pilgrim-Harrington; Verdugo-Goodall; Mad Englishman-Rosco; Mad Welchman-James; Mad Priest-Bencraft; Mad Taylor-Woodward; Master of Madhouse-Marten; Lopez-Carr; Jaques-Anderson; Fool-Miss Ferguson; Alinda-Mrs Vincent; Juletta-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Jaques Actor: Anderson
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; La Villageoise, as17421006; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025

21645
08 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17421016, but Carlos-Delane; Don Manuel-Turbutt; Elvira-Mrs Pritchard; Page-Miss Wright.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Honoria Actor: Mrs Ridout

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201

21646
08 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17421103, but Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; La Villageoise, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

21647
21 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17420914, but Audrey-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Orlando Actor: Mills
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Woffington

Dance: I: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421126; IV: La Recrue des Houssars-Checo, Chiaretti

21648
01 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17421009, but Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; The Vocal parts-Miss _Davis; All the Dances proper to the play-.
Cast
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Donalbain Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Mrs Jackson, Miss _Dodson.
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: 2nd Sylvan Actor: Mrs Delagarde
Role: 4th Sylvan Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: 5th Sylvan Actor: Mrs LeFont
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Delagarde
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Air Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

21649
05 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Caled-Quin; Abudah-Hale; Daran-Cashell; Phocyas-Ryan; Eumenes-Rosco; Herbis-Gibson; Artamon-Ridout; Sergius-Carr; Eudocia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

21650
05 January 1743 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Don Sebastian-Manly; Muley Moloch-Johnson; Dorax-Machen; Almeda-Mrs Baily; Benducar-Pinner.
Cast
Role: Almeda Actor: Mrs Baily

Song: Between the Acts:

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle Drums, a country Dance on one Drum, with a Band of Musick-Job. Baker