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We found 23849 matches on Performance Comments, 8748 matches on Event Comments, 4828 matches on Performance Title, 3733 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. As Mr Edward Berry, one of the comedians of Drury Lane, was returning home from Temple Bar, he was stopt at the end of Arundel St. by three Fellows, one with a Horse-Pistol, another with a short pistol, and the other with a hanger, who robb'd him of his watch, some silver, and his Neck-cloth, and then walk'd off with their booty (General Advertiser, 20 Jan.). During the Performance on Saturday Night [11 Jan.] at Drury Lane, a dispute was carried on at great length between Mr V-n and a Gentleman unknown but on the Gentleman's being made sensible of his error, and making publick submission and Gentleman-like reparation, it was amicably terminated (General Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.
Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Clive
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Havard.
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Cast
Role: Brush Actor: Cross
Role: Boy Actor: Master Cross
Event Comment: Publish'd, A Treatise of the Passions so far as they regard the stage &c., by Mr Foote. 1s. [First pub. 1747, it contains an interesting comment on Garrick's Lear.] Romeo and Juliet which was bespoke, and was to have been acted last Monday at Drury Lane, will be acted there next Monday, Miss Bellamy being recovered from her late indisposition. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Clive
Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Went off very dull, & great hissing &c. when over (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Cast
Role: Orphisa Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Cibber Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Tickets to be had of the Author at his lodgings the Angel in King's Street, Covent Garden; A Millar, over-against Catharine Street, in the Strand; and at the Stage Door of the theatre, where places may be taken (playbill). We hear Mr Ross is to perform the part of Romeo in the Play Romeo and Juliet for his benefit, which is to be on Thursday, the 31st of March (General Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Cast
Role: Orphisa Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Cibber Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Event Comment: Very dull (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Cast
Role: Orphisa Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Cibber Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Dance: II: By Desire will be perform'd the Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. [Tickets see 22 Feb.] Receipts: #87 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Cast
Role: Orphisa Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Cibber Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Event Comment: By command. P. of Wales & Broth &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. Tickets at his lodgings, at Mr Watson's Linnen Draper, Corner Charles St., Covent Garden; and at Stage Door of Theatre. [Ray inserted a long plea for benefit support on the General Advertiser, saying that Mr William Barton, who keeps the Black Swan Tavern on Bartholomew Lane, will do his visiting and deliver his tickets for him since he, Ray, is so ill.] Receipts: #78 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: By Desire.A Hornpipe-The Little Swiss

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and Family in Distress. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Song: II: Mattocks

Event Comment: Benefit for one Jones and a Dang Master (Cross). No building on stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Anne Bullen Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Music: CConcerto on Violin cello-Mr Jones

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, W. Vaughan, Shawford, and Sturt. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: II: The Pierrots-Roger, Shawford Jun; III: A Scotch Dance, as17520427 IV: A Hornpipe-Shawford Jun; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Gray, Dawson, Smith. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Cross
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs James
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Miss Hoyden Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennett.

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

Song: IV: Master Vernon

Event Comment: [Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Cast
Role: Silent Woman Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Otter Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Haughty Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Centaure Actor: Mrs Bennett
Role: Mrs Mavis Actor: Mrs Price.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: [As17521026

Event Comment: [By Particular Desire. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Cast
Role: Silent Woman Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Otter Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Haughty Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Centaure Actor: Mrs Bennett
Role: Mrs Mavis Actor: Mrs Price.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Highman Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: [As17521026

Event Comment: More noise (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.
Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy taken ill. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs Simson.
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: IV: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

Event Comment: Characters dress'd in the habits of the time. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Simpson.

Dance: Several entertainments-Devisse, Mad Auguste, Ferrere, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

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