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22248 results for: Keyword - Mrs Finch
We found 23319 matches on Performance Comments, 4243 matches on Event Comments, 4199 matches on Performance Title, 48 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

20901
13 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17791230, but Chorus of Spirits-Mrs _Gaudry.
Cast
Role: Chorus of Spirits Actor: Mrs _Gaudry.
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Floretta Actor: Mrs Wrighten.

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Grand New Dance, as17800228, but Sga _Crespi

20902
29 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: Hearty-Reinhold; Vincent-Mattocks; Hilliard-Wordsworth; Springlove-Whitfield; Oliver-Robson; Randal-Thompson; Oldrents-Booth; Justice Clack-Quick; Meriel-Miss Brown; Amie-Mrs Morton; Rachel-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Amie Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: 2nd Bacchant Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: 3rd Bacchant Actor: Mrs Morton

Dance: In II: the original Crutch Dance-[This was danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: With additional songs, Ellen@a@Roon-Miss Catley, Miss Brown; Afterpiece: With Push about the Jorum, with an additional verse,-Miss Catley

20903
10 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Clytus (for that night only)-Aickin; Statira-Mrs Hartley; Roxana-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Hartley

Afterpiece Title: A Fete The Fete Anticipated

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

20904
18 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus (1st time)-Henry; Cloten-Dodd; Cymbeline-Hurst; Pissanio-Packer; Bellarius-Aickin; Guiderius (1st time)-R. Palmer; Arviragus-Davies; Lucius-Wrighten; French Gentleman-Chaplin; Philario-Wright; Iachimo-Smith; Queen-Miss Sherry; Imogen-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: II: Masquerade scene with Dancing-Henry, Menage, Miss Armstrong; End III: Minuet-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: II: song-Miss Abrams; End afterpiece: song, Ellen a Roon, with the original Irish words-the Young Lady who performs Leonora

20905
24 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Hypocrite [announced on playbill of 22 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Abington's Illness. Receipts: #151 2s. (108.3.0; 42.0.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Chorus of Spirits Actor: Mrs _Gaudry.
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Dance, as17791103, but Delpini, Miss +Armstrong

20906
24 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Phaedra Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Bromia Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Alcmena Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir James Elliot-Whitfield; Papillion-Wewitzer; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Grantham-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Song: Interlude between Plutus and Wit, as17800412

Dance: Interlude, as17800412; End: Cupid Recruiting, as17800417

20907
01 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane (1st time)-Henderson; Moneses-Wroughton; Axalla-Whitfield; Bajazet (1st time)-Aickin; Selima-Mrs Jackson; Arpasia-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Jackson

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17800410, but in Scene III Venus-Mrs Morton; added are: Scenes V, VI, VII. The May-Day Garland; or, Harlequin's Trip to Lisson-Green. Harlequin (with the jump through the tub)-W. Bates; Scene VIII originally Scene VI; Scene IX originally Scene VII. Scene VIII originally Scene VI; Scene IX originally Scene VII.
Cast
Role: in Scene III Venus Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: The Elders

Cast
Role: Juletta Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wilson, Whitfield, Thompson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Quick, Mrs Morton, Mrs Wilson
Role: Miss Louisa Balmer Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Wilson

Song: In: To thee O gentle sleep-Leoni

20908
04 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Wrighten; Thomas-Burton; Kecksey-Dodd; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue song)-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Robinson

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-the Miss Stageldoirs

20909
11 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17800126, but Deborah (with a song in character)-Miss Catley; Margery-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Rosetta (1st time)-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mrs Arne.
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Morton.

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Gibraltar

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Moll Trumpet Actor: Mrs White
Role: Zayde Actor: Mrs Morton.

20910
16 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: As17791029, but Luciana (1st time)-Mrs Whitfield.
Cast
Role: Luciana Actor: Mrs Whitfield.
Role: Adriana Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: Abbess Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Barthelemon.
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton.
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Morton.
Role: Feridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Gypsies Actor: Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Sharpe
Role: Justice's Wife Actor: Mrs Willems

Dance: End III: a new Tambourine Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Harris, Miss Matthews; End IV: Minuet-Dumay, Miss Dagueville; a dew Minuet and Allemandecomposed by Dagueville-Holloway, Miss Lings; to conclude with: Quadrilles-; In afterpiece: Dancing, as17800510

Ballet: End: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508

20911
31 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [This was Mrs Robinson's last appearance on the stage.] Receipts: #93 4s. (53.11; 37.11; 2.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Cast
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Mrs Arabella Loveless Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Eliza Camply Actor: Mrs Robinson

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791122

20912
24 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Singing Spirit-Du-Bellamy; Brothers-Lamash, Wood; 1st Spirit-R. Palmer; Principal Bacchanal-Bannister; Lady (with the song of Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Sharp)-Miss Harper; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Twist; Bacchants-Mrs Hitchcock; Eurphosyne, Principal Bacchant-A Young Lady (who never appeared on any stage [Miss Hemet]).Miss Hemet]).
Cast
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Hitchcock

Music: With a Fandango Overture-. [This was performed in all subsequent performances.

20913
21 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Miss Mortimer Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Warner Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: As17800628 but Eliza-Mrs Cargill in place of Miss Harper.
Cast
Role: Eliza Actor: Mrs Cargill in place of Miss Harper.
Role: Characters Actor: Wilson, Edwin, Wood, Baddeley, Lamash, Barrett, Stevens, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Harper. Cast adjusted from Public Advertiser, 17 Aug. 1779, and playbill of 29 June 1786: Cranky-Wilson
Role: Dolce Actor: Mrs Lefevre

20914
04 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Lewis; Ratcliffe-Robson; Gloster-Clarke; Catesby-L'Estrange; Belmour-Hull; Derby-Thompson; Dumont-Wroughton; Alicia-Miss Younge; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Webb

20915
21 October 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Lady Teazle Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17801010, but The Lady-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton.
Role: Principal Bacchant Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Cargill.

20916
10 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Roderigo-Lee Lewes; Cassio-Whitfield; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Booth; Montano-Robson; Duke-L'Estrange; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Emilia (1st time)-Mrs Webb; Desdemona-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Webb

20917
11 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Miss Prudom (from the King's Theatre; 1st appearance on this stage); Artaxerxes-Mrs Baddeley; Rimenes-Du-Bellamy; Artabanes-Vernon; Semira-Miss Wright; Mandane-A Young lady (who never appeared on any stage [Miss Phillips]).Miss Phillips]).
Cast
Role: Artaxerxes Actor: Mrs Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End II: a Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss Simonet, Sga Zuchelli

20918
28 November 1780 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Trebbi, Manzoletto, Gherardi, Micheli, Mrs Barthelemon, Sga Prudom, Sga Sestini. [Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Trebbi, Manzoletto, Gherardi, Micheli, Mrs Barthelemon, Sga Prudom, Sga Sestini.

Dance: End I: New Ballet, as17801125, but Henry; End II: +The Fortunate Escape, as17801125; End Opera: The Country Gallant, as17801125

20919
15 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: Osman-Smith; Nerestan-Brereton; Chatilion-Aickin; Orasmin-Chaplin; Melidor-Norris; Lusignan-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Selima-Miss Sherry; Zara-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

20920
16 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Artaxerxes [announced on playbill of 15 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Baddeley's illness. Receipts: #79 19s. (57.13.0; 21.11.6; 0.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Deborah Woodcock Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mrs Cargill.

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Baddeley.

Dance: End II: The Butterfly, as17800921

20921
16 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Mrs Racket Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Miss Ogle Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: Vincent-Mattocks; Hearty-Reinhold; Hilliard-Davies; Oldrents-Booth; Springlove-Whitfield; Oliver-Robson; Justice Clack-Quick; Meriel (1st time)-Mrs Martyr; Amie-Miss Stewart; Rachel-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Meriel Actor: Mrs Martyr

Dance: End I afterpiece: the original Crutch Dance-. [This was danced in both subsequent performances.

20922
21 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Sharp
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17801114, but Mrs Dangle-Miss Sherry.
Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Miss Sherry.

20923
22 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Performance Comment: As17801021, but Jacintha (1st time)-Mrs Morton.
Cast
Role: Jacintha Actor: Mrs Morton.
Role: Camillo Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Cast
Role: Letitia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Mrs Highflight Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: As17801018

20924
23 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: As17801018, but Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt (of cg).
Cast
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Cargill

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: The other Characters Actor: Burton, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin, Holcroft, Fawcett, Phillimore, Norris, Griffiths, Nash, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Simson, Miss Collett.

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour, as17800919

20925
28 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17801118, but The Duenna-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Dance: As17801018