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22268 results for: Keyword - Mrs Merit
We found 23322 matches on Performance Comments, 4307 matches on Event Comments, 4200 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

20526
29 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Man and Wife oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Green. Paid Simpson for supper for the orchestra #8 1s.; Paid Mr Vincent for Music for the Orchestra #1 8s. 4d. (Account Book). Receipts: #161 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: Aspasia Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

20527
05 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17711223, but Rosencraus-Davies; Player Queen-Mrs Reddish; Laertes-J. Aickin.
Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Reddish
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Gertrude Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Millidge
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

20528
17 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Palmira Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton with Alterations and Two Additional Scenes

Performance Comment: As17720207, but to avoid confusion full cast listed. Harlequin-Rayner; Chasseur Royale-DuBellamy; Mercury-Baker; Doctor-Banks; Singer (with new song, 2nd time)-Dunstall; Pierrot-Morris; Colombine-Mrs Dyer.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer.
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Baker

20529
18 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Babett for Papier Machee Ornaments 19s. 4s.; Paid Colman & Mrs Powell for Branson's additional salary for the last 3 seasons being advanc'd by them #93 7s. 6d. Paid ditto for 4 years' rent for apartments in their House, due lady Day next #80 (Account Book). Receipts: #124 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Cast
Role: Lady Wou'dbe Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer.
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Baker

20530
20 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17720108, but Wellbred-Mattocks; Cash-Perry; Dame Kitely-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: add Tib Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer.
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Baker

20531
21 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castilio-Reddish; Polydore-Cautherly; Acasto-Packer; Chaplain-Love; Ernesto-Wrighten; Servant-Wheeler; Page-Miss Collett; Serina-Miss Platt; Monimia-Miss Young, 1st time; Florella-Mrs Love; Chamont-[theYoung Gentleman [who performed Alcibiades in Timon].theYoung Gentleman [who performed Alcibiades in Timon].
Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

20532
25 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Oriana Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: [As17720224 but to avoid confusion full cast listed.] Ballad Singer-Dunstall (with a new song); other-Rayner, Cushing, Morris, Thompson, Wild, Banks, Bates, Walters, Holtom, Hamilton, King, Baker, Mrs Dyer; Dancing-Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.
Cast
Role: other Actor: Rayner, Cushing, Morris, Thompson, Wild, Banks, Bates, Walters, Holtom, Hamilton, King, Baker, Mrs Dyer

20533
27 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Euphrasia Actor: Mrs Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Dodd; Gayless-Davies; Guttle-Ackman; Cook-Hartry; Kitty Pry-Mrs Love; Melissa-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Love

20534
27 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lady Freelove Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Mrs Oakly Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17720225, but other-Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.
Cast
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.

20535
19 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17720220, but Wellbred-Lewes; Dame Kitely-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: add Tib Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.

20536
24 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Phocyas-Smith, 1st time; Eumenes-Hull; Herbis-Gardner; Artamon-Davis; Caled-Bensley; Abudah-Clarke; Daran-Perry; Eudocia-Mrs Yates, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Yates, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Citizen-Woodward; Old Philpot-Shuter; Sir Jasper-Dunstall; Young Wilding-Davis; Beaufort-Baker; Quildrive-Thompson; Maria-Mrs Mattocks; With Epilogue-Woodward, Shuter.
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312

20537
28 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17711219, but Nysa-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Nysa Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mysis Actor: Mrs Green.

Entertainment: After: The Cries of London-Shuter; The Whim-Sga Manesiere, Aldridge as17720312

20538
09 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17711217, but Phoebe-Mrs Davies; Duke Frederick-Bransby; Jaques-Aickin.
Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: I: The Amusements of Strasburgh, as17711118

20539
11 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17720101, but Arviragus-Perry; Imogen-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Yates.
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Performance Comment: Worthy-Mattocks; Major Hearty-Lewes; Lieut.-Fox; Ensign-R. Smith; Anna-By the Young Lady [who perform'd the Fairy Prince and Man and Wife [see17711223]; The Spanish Lady-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: The Spanish Lady Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: III: The Lilt, as17720326

20540
20 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: As17720103, but Millwood-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Milwood Actor: Mrs DuBellamy.
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Kniveton
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.

20541
21 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Reddish
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Face-Palmer; Subtle-J. Aickin; Sir Epicure-Wright; Knowlife-Griffith; Headlong-Keen; Doll Tricksey-Mrs Egerton; Miss Rantipole-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Doll Tricksey Actor: Mrs Egerton

Entertainment: Interlude. All up at Stockwell; or, The Ghost no Conjuror, a New Interlude-Characters-Weston, Bannister

Dance: After Interlude: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

20542
28 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17720302 but Witches-Saunders, Mrs _Pitt.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Saunders, Mrs _Pitt.
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Pitt

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

20543
02 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Rec'd stopages #11 15s. 6d.; From Sinking Fund, 1st, #157 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [N.B. this last bookkeeping transfer seems to have enabled treasurer to pay off Mr Calthorpe. See 1 May 1772.] Paid Salary list #497 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French #1 10s.; Master Brown 3 nights #1 2s. 6d. Receipts: #140 9s. 6d. Charges: #58 16s. 6d. Profits to Bannister: #81 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Miss Pope.

Entertainment: IV: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee, as17720427 (for that Night only) a Variety of Imitations-Bannister

Dance: End: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

20544
09 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17720411 but Imogen-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.

Dance: III: Comic Dance (with Allemande), as17711031

20545
13 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner and R. Smith. Mrs Gardner's Indisposition preventing her from performing this evening, she hopes she shall be excused by her friends. [She was to have played Catherine in Afterpiece according to advance notice of 4 May.] Charges #64 10s. Deficit to each benefiticiary #15 6s. 6d., cover'd by income from tickets: Gardner, #61 1s. (Box 118; Pit 101; Gallery 164); Smith, #64 19s. (Box 35; Pit 264; Gallery 166). Paid half year's Land Tax for the Theatre due Lady day last, #61 5s.; paid ditto for window lights, #6 10s. 6d.; Paid ditto for House in Bow Passage #2 3s. 9d. and for its window lights 15s. Receipts: #33 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17711031; IV: A Tambourine, as17720501

20546
20 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17711104, but Tamerlane-Inchbald; Axalla-a Young Gentleman, 1st time; Arpasia-Miss Younge; Selima-Mrs Egerton, being 1st appearance in these characters for all.
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Egerton, being 1st appearance in these characters for all.
Role: Gentle Sleep Actor: Mrs Scott.

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of the Turf

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Morland
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Davies.

Song: V: A Young Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

20547
27 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies Last Stake

Cast
Role: Lady Wronglove Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Mrs Conquest Actor: Miss Young
Role: Lady Gentle Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Hartshorn Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: As17720515, but Leonora-Mrs Hunt.
Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Hunt.
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Dorman

Dance: IV: The Sailors Revels, as17711008; V: Hornpipe-Walker

20548
27 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: As17711102, but Madam Florival-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Madam Florival Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

20549
01 June 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17720428 but Witches-_Saunders, Mrs Pitt; Malcolm-Wroughton (playbill); Vocal Parts-_Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: _Saunders, Mrs Pitt
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: Shade of Helen Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Relish Actor: Mrs Dyer
Role: other Actor: Miss Twist, Mrs _Dyer.

20550
01 June 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Parsons; Gayless-Fearon; Justice Guttle-Bransby; Dick-Farrel; Trippet-Vowel; Melissa-Miss Ambrose; Kitty-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Egerton.

Dance: As17720518

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