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6175 results for: Keyword - Mr. Essex
We found 4263 matches on Event Comments, 1458 matches on Performance Comments, 948 matches on Performance Title, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2876
18 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Cast
Role: Moll Flagon Actor: Mr Suett
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson

2877
05 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Cast
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Mrs Neville Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

2878
13 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Essex Actor: Chaplin
Role: Queen Elinor Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Lady Faulconbridge Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Constance Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831204

2879
21 January 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Cast
Role: Mrs Willoughby Actor: Mrs Lefevre
Role: Miss Willoughby Actor: Mrs Beaufield
Role: Miss Dormer Actor: Mrs Robinson
Role: Miss Montague Actor: Mrs Johnson. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Talisman

Song: End of mainpiece a song by Brett

Monologue: 1784 01 21 End of Act III of mainpiece a Masonic Address by a Brother [unidentified]

2880
10 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Cast
Role: Mrs Stockwell Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: As17831213

2881
06 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Cast
Role: Principal Female Dancers Actor: Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

2882
11 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: 840306but Maid Actor: Mr Besford
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

2883
28 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mr Williames
Role: Dollalolla Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

2884
08 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Chalmers
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Cast
Role: Mrs Margaret Maxwell Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Mrs Margaret Maxwell Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Susannah Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Fidget Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Bannister

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a Dramatic Romance, Adelaide de Brabant; or, The Triumph of Virtue. Principal Characters by Bithmere, Le Boeuf, Mme Bithmere. ["An infant son of Grimaldi (i.e. Joseph, aged 6) performs in an astonishing manner" (Gazetteer, 12 May).] End of Act IV an Allemande and Dance, called Malbrough (composed by Vestris Jun.) by Le Boeuf and Mme Bithmere

2885
21 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: AEmilia Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

2886
19 July 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Wewitzer

2887
09 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Cast
Role: Edwitha Actor: Mrs Bannister. Swords, Barrett are unassigned.

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Gaudry

Song: As17840730

2888
27 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Besford
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17841022; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dana. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Cast
Role: Principal Female Dancers Actor: Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

2889
04 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Cast
Role: Lucett Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Stageldoir

2890
07 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini, and see17850214 IMITATIONS. End of 1st ballet, by Kean

2891
14 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peasant Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

Dance: In 1st ballet, by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; After the Singing, Hornpipe by Baptist and a Comic Dance by Delpini

Song: End of 1st ballet a Serio-Comic Italian Song by Delpini. imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

2892
01 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites; or, The Pamper'd Nabob

Cast
Role: Widow Winkle Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Flam Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Miss Naivette Winkle Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy.

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

2893
02 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Widow Volatile Actor: Mrs Bates
Role: Honour Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Constance Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Cast
Role: assigns Harlequin Actor: Kennedy, and lists Johnstone, Mrs Bannister

2894
25 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Cast
Role: Leonardo Actor: Mrs Knox
Role: Old Nun Actor: Mrs Barnes

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Cast
Role: Lady Pentweazel Actor: Mr Swords

Afterpiece Title: Lethe, -AEsop, Old Man, Mercury, Drunken Man, Charon, Bowman, Snip, Fine Gentleman, Frenchman, Lord Chalkstone to be performed, for that night only, by a Society of Gentleman; Mrs Riot-Mrs Dore

Monologue: 1785 04 25 Preceding the 1st piece an Address spoken by Brown

2895
26 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Ranger Actor: Mrs Greville
Role: Mrs Strickland Actor: Mrs Walcot
Role: Jacintha Actor: Mrs Bolton
Role: Lucetta Actor: Mrs Waldron
Role: Milliner Actor: Mrs Benson
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Hunter

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville. No other parts assigned

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Mrs Pinto

Monologue: 1785 04 26 End of Act II of mainpiece Collins's Ode on the Passions by Mrs Walcot. imitations. End of Act I of afterpiece, as 17 Sept. 1784, but An entire new dialogue in the Shades between Foote and Weston; added: Prospero (in the manner of Mossop); omitted: Prologue to Barbarossa

2896
26 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Wells

Dance: As17840918

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day by Dignum

2897
03 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Cast
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs Lloyd
Role: Miss Winterbottom Sen. Actor: Mrs Webb.

Dance: As17850601

2898
08 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Mrs Wellman
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Monk
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs Benson

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Cast
Role: Mrs Bundle Actor: Mrs Benson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Wellman. The other Characters by the Rest of the Company
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Monk
Role: Gillian Actor: Mrs Benson

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady; or Jack in Distress. Jack (with a Hornpipe)-Wright; Wapping Landlady-Mr Kerridge; Sailors and Ladies-The rest of the Company

Cast
Role: Wapping Landlady Actor: Mr Kerridge

2899
11 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Cast
Role: Old Clackit Actor: Parsons Lucy-Mrs Lloyd
Role: Parsons Lucy Actor: Mrs Lloyd

Dance: End of mainpiece The Deserter. The Deserter-Mme Dageville; Skirmish-Miss Simonet; Louisa-Mr Delpini; and with Byrne and Miss L. Simonet

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini

2900
19 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Nancy Buttercup Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Mrs Neighborly Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Mrs Mummery Actor: Mrs Webb.

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Goodwin
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Wewitzer

Song: In 1st piece capital Catches and Glees, selected from the most eminent Masters, with the celebrated Anacreontic Song by Bannister. imitations. End of 2nd piece, as17850726