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22237 results for: Keyword - Mrs Crofts
We found 23324 matches on Performance Comments, 4240 matches on Event Comments, 4200 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

3276
22 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3277
03 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3278
18 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3279
04 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17840311athi

3280
10 January 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3281
28 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast
Role: Lady Rusport Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mrs Fulmer Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Charlotte Rusport Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Crouch.

3282
10 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

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: 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

3283
19 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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 Spoil'd 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.
Cast
Role: Actor: Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister.

3284
16 August 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

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-_.
Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Atkins
Role: with The Nightingale Actor: Mrs Atkins
Role: alias Lady Duberly Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Cicely Homespun Actor: Mrs Gibbs

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

Performance Comment: , Mrs _Gaudry, Mrs _Brown.

3285
30 September 1664 @ no theater listed

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

Performances

3286
31 October 1667 @ no theater listed

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

Performances

3287
10 February 1669 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll: The censure of our plays comes to ee at the second hand. There has not been any new lately revived and reformed, as Catiline, well set out with clothes and scenes; Horace, with a farce and dances between every act composed by Lacy and played by him and Nell, which takes; one of my Lord of Newcastle's, for which printed apologies are scattered in the assembly by Briden's order, either for himself who had some hand in it, or for the author most; I think both had right to them (The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. Bray, IV, 14)

Performances

3288
02 January 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

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.

3289
14 June 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part.

Dance: As17060325

3290
06 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song:

Dance:

3291
22 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

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

3292
26 April 1734 @ Handel's Home

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 27 April: Yesterday morning [26] at the rehearsal of a most delightful opera at Mr Handel's called Sosarme. Delany, Autobiography, I, 463

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarme

3293
30 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 30 April: I go to-night... to Sosarmes, an opera of Mr Handel's, a charming one, and yet I dare say it will be almost empty!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

3294
02 April 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Afterpiece Title: David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

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

3295
10 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's 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

3296
14 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

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

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

3297
09 August 1765 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

3298
29 May 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; The Minor-Davis; Shift (with Imitations), Squintum-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Transfer-Weston; Loader-Palmer; Sir Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Dick-Quick; Tally-Pynn; Lucy-a young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage; Occasional Prologue in Prose-Laconic-J. Palmer; Scaffold the Builder-Bannister; Snarl-Weston; Manager-Foote-London Magazine.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

3299
18 July 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

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 Foil'd

Dance: As17680530

3300
29 May 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

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.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: As17690515