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We found 4951 matches on Event Comments, 2716 matches on Performance Title, 1711 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5626
17 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 10 notes that O. Smith suggests Miss Spencer. Winston suggests Mrs Greville. The Town and Country Magazine (From Theatre No XIII): "Mrs Gladeau...has appeared as Rosetta in Love in a Village." Comments that she does not know much about music but "has a pleasing voice and an agreeable figure and will probably be a valuable acquisition to the stage. Received with applause."] Receipts: #217 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17691111

5627
19 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman who played Posthumus is identified by Kemble and Winston as Mr Warboys.] Gave Duke of Cumberland's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Town and Country Magazine (quoting Theatre No XIII) remarked on Warboys acting: "The success he met with will probably deter him from following the profession of the stage...not happy either in person or in physiognamy."] Receipts: #250 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Whim, as17691123

5628
02 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. The doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin at Half past six. [Stanley and Smith carried their Royal Prerogative over to Drury Lane this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: FFirst Violin-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

5629
02 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had and places to be taken for the Boxes at Mr Sarjeant's (only) at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Books of the Performance will be sold there. The doors to be opened at Five. To Begin at Half past Six. Received of Toms and Arnold Charges of the House. #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: FFirst Violin, a Solo-Giardini; Concerto on French Horns-Sg Rodolpho

5630
03 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Comedy was written by Mr Kelly as soon as the Curtain was drawn up they began to hiss--a party was made against it--because he was suspected of Writing for the Court party. Much hissing. Mr Garrick call'd for. No play &c. Cry'd out, at last the play was got thro' with much hissing and Groaning When the play was given out again One Party was for it no more and Kelly's party was for it again so that no play at all was given out (Hopkins Diary). [See Criticism in "British Theatre" article, London Magazine, March, also an extended account of the attack upon the piece. This occurs also in the Town and Country Magazine, which mentions that since the curtain was not drawn up for the farce the audience received a refund.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Performance Comment: Parts-King, Reddish, Palmer, Aickin, Wrighten, Watkins, Cautherly, Miss Younge, Miss Platt, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Barry. Prologue-King; Epilogue-Mrs Barry; Capt. Dormer-Palmer; Sir George Hastings-King; Sir John Dormer-Reddish; Willoughby-Aickin; Villars-Cautherly; Miss Montague-Mrs Barry; Miss Dormer-Miss Younge; Miss Willoughby-Mrs Baddeley; Mrs Willoughby-Mrs Jeffries; Footmen-Wrighten, Watkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Jenny-Mrs Smith (Genest, V, 232).
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Reddish, Palmer, Aickin, Wrighten, Watkins, Cautherly, Miss Younge, Miss Platt, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Barry. Prologue-King
Role: Villars Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

5631
07 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Performance to be sold at the Theatre. Charges: #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performance Comment: Parts were: Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite Woman-; Chorus-; Simon- (Brother to Judas); Messenger-; Eupolemus- (Jewish Ambassador to Rome).

Music: FFirst Violin, Solo-Giardini; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

5632
17 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Entertainment [i.e., of The Spanish Lady] to be had at the theatre. The Comedy of Man and Wife cannot be perform'd, on account of Mr Shuter's hoarsness. Receipts: #202 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Timanthes Actor: Smith
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: the principal Parts Actor: _Mattocks, _Lewes, _Fox, R. _Smith, The Young Lady who performed in Man and _Wife.
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Entertainment: As17700224

5633
24 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. To prevent confusion Servants are desired to be at the theatre by 4 o'clock. Charges #73 19s. Balance to Smith #62 3s. plus income from tickets #141 9s. (Box 413; Pit 162; Gallery 139). Paid Miss Potts for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. and Mrs Morris for walking 26 nights in Harlequin's Jubilee #3 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #136 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Smith; Hephestion-Dyer; Lysimachus-Hull; Cassander-Clarke; Polyperchon-Perry; Thessalus-R. Smith; Perdiccas-Davis; Clytus-Gibson; Roxana-Mrs Bellamy; Sysigambis-Mrs Vincent; Parisatis-Miss Ogilvie; Statira (for that night only)-Mrs Yates , first time; With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-.
Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: R. Smith
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

5634
16 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receiv'd of Messrs Toms and Arnold for the use of the Organ this season #21; and for coals burnt at the Oratorios #2 2s. (Account Book). [There were 11 oratorio's. The average cost per night for heating the theatre these spring months would seem to have been about 3s. 9d.] Receipts: #157 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Dance Actor: _ incidental to the Opera.
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: with a Dance Incidental to the Opera, Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: _C. Smith, Mrs Pitt, Barnshaw, Banks, Reyner, Holtom.
Role: and a Grand Scene of the Palace of Pluto Actor: Servandoni.
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

5635
21 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant and his Son (Book and Box-keeper). Charges #81 5s. plus extras #3 5s., total #84 10s. Deficit to Sarjant #20 18s., covered by income from tickets #166 14s. (Box 272; Pit 252; Gallery 109), half value of tickets paid up by Ansell, Symonds, Abbott, Furkins, Mrs Trott, Pilfold, Doe and Claridge. Paid half year's Paving tax for theatre #18 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

5636
21 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Squire-Philips, from Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, his first appearance upon this Stage (a Scholar of Dr Arne's); Thomas-DuBellamy; Dorcas-Saunders; Sally-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Philips, from Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, his first appearance upon this Stage

Dance: TThe Cowkeeper-Master West, Miss West

5637
31 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day Publish'd Price 6d. Three Old Women Weatherwise: an Interlude, as performed with great applause at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Printed for S. Bladon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5638
20 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Keasberry (from Theatre Royal, Bath) Justice Woodcock-Sparks; Sir William Meadows-Farrell; Eustace-Humphries Hodge-Hamilton; Young Meadows-DuBellamy; Lucinda-Miss Radley; Rosetta-Mrs Baker .

Afterpiece Title: hay The Vintner Tricked

Music: hay End of Opera: A Favourite Concerto on Harpsichord by Hook

5639
27 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Performance Comment: Scrub-Mrs Gardner; Archer-Death (from the Theatre in Norwich); Aimwell-Davis; Sullen-F. Gentleman; Boniface-a Gentleman; Gibbet-Gardner; Foigard-Vandermere; Sir Charles Freeman-Dancer; Cherry-Young Gentlewoman, her first appearance on any Stage; Dorinda-Mrs Cockane; Lady Bountiful-Mrs White; Gipsey-Miss Trowell; Mrs Sullen-Miss Ogilvie.

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner Tricked

Entertainment: IV: Tragical Imitations-Miss Rose (By Particular Desire); End of Play: Imitations of Mr and Mrs Cadwallader-Mas. Frank, Miss Rose; Between the Acts of the Farce: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Death

Performance Comment: Frank, Miss Rose; Between the Acts of the Farce: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Death.

5640
02 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Review of Miss Catley's performance in Town and Country Magazine this month, from Theatre No XXI.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Woodcock-Shuter; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Young Meadows-Mattocks; Sir W. Meadows-Gibson; Eustace-Dyer; Hodge-Dunstall; Margery-Mrs Baker; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda-Mrs Mattocks; Rosetta-Miss Catley, first appearance on the English Stage in 9 years.
Cast
Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Catley, first appearance on the English Stage in 9 years.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17700924

5641
02 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17701004, but Hawthorn-Morris; Young Meadows-Palmer (from Theatre Royal Dublin); a Danceincidental to the Opera-_.
Cast
Role: with a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

5642
08 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Several of the songs dew-set by Mr Fisher. [The Tete-a-Tete in the Town and Country Magazine for this month (pp. 569-70) tells of Miss Catley's affair with Col. Lascelles. Her father a hackney coachman, her mother a washerwoman. She met Lascelles in Dublin where she was playing in Mossop's theatre, and condescended to live with him.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End Opera: The Reel, as17701103

5643
12 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Between the Play and the Afterpiece an Interlude of Singing and Dancing not performed these thirty years. [For comment on this revival, see Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XXII) p. 593.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: True Blue; or The Press Gang

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; The Dance-Aldridge.
Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

5644
19 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: The Dance Actor: Aldridge.

5645
27 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Account of afterpiece in Town and Country Magazine, from Theatre No. XXIII.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir
Role: The Music Actor: Arnold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

5646
17 January 1771 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Great care will be taken to have additional fires to make warm the said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gioas Re Di Giuda

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Tenducci, Savoi, Morigi, Sga Grassi, Sga Guglielmi, Mrs Barthelemon.

Music: As17710110

Song: As17710110

5647
15 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston, at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Upper Gallery 2s. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: First Violin-Mr Barthelemon; Concerto on Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violincello-Duport

5648
15 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets and places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjeant (only) at the Stage Door. Books of the performance sold at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin exactly at Half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabeus

Performance Comment: Parts were: Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite Woman-; Chorus-; Simon (brother to Judas)-; Messenger-; Eupolemus (Jewish Ambassador to Rome)-.

Music: End Part I: A Solo-; End Part II: A Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen

5649
08 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Miss Rogers. Music and words by author and composer of Padlock [I. Bickerstaffe]. Book of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears

Performance Comment: Parts-Bannister, Davis, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Wrighten. Centurian [?]-Bannister; Father [?]-Davies; Maid [?]-Mrs Dorman; Matron [?]-Mrs Wrighten (MacMillan).

Song: I: The Sycamore Shade-Mrs Wrighten; IV: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers, his scholar

5650
10 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Order of the Grand Buck. Benefit for Wignell and Barnshaw. Places will be kept in the Boxes for the Brethren of the Most Noble Order, who are desired to meet the Grand Buck and his Council at the Shakespeare's Head, in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden; by Five o'clock, in order to proceed from thence to the Theatre in Procession

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End Opera: Comic Dance, as17701017