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6929 results for: Keyword - Old Cibber
We found 3427 matches on Performance Comments, 2731 matches on Author, 989 matches on Performance Title, 757 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4201
22 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Duretete-Garrick; Y Mirabel-Giffard; Bisarre-Mrs Giffard; Oriana-Mrs Yates; Old Mirabel-Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

4202
27 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Gloster-Marshall; Edgar-Giffard; Kent-Paget; Bastard-W. Giffard; Usher-Yates; Albany-Peterson; Cornwall-Blakes; Goneril-Mrs Bambridge; Regan-Mrs Yates; Burgundy-Marr; Physician-Dunstall; Old Man-Julian; Arante-Miss Hippisley; Cordelia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Julian

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

4203
24 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Berry; Wolsey-Mills; Buckingham-Winstone; Gardiner-Johnson; Cranmer-Turbutt; Norfolk-Havard; Suffolk-Ridout; Lord Chamberlain-Woodburn; Campeius-Shepard; Abergavenny-Raftor; Cromwell-Cross; Lord Sands-Neale; Surveyor-Taswell; Lovel-Ray; Old Lady-Mrs Egerton; Anna Bullen-Mrs Ridout; Queen Katherine-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Egerton

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; II: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; III: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: IV: A Ballad-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

4204
03 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Delane; Copper Captain-Mills; Estifania-Mrs Clive; Margarita-Mrs Pritchard; Old Woman-Mrs Yates; Cacafogo-Turbutt; Duke-Havard; Don Juan-Winstone; Alonzo-Ray; Sancho-Blakes; Altea-Mrs Bennet; Clara-Mrs Horsington.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

4205
07 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Alphonso-Hippisley; Roderigo-Bridgwater; Mad Scholar-Hale; Curio-Cashell; Seberto-Gibson; Old Pilgrim-Harrington; Verdugo-Goodall; Mad Englishman-Rosco; Mad Welchman-James; Mad Priest-Bencraft; Mad Taylor-Woodward; Master of Madhouse-Marten; Lopez-Carr; Jaques-Anderson; Fool-Miss Ferguson; Alinda-Mrs Vincent; Juletta-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Harrington

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; La Villageoise, as17421006; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025

4206
17 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: Millamour-Garrick; Stedfast-Macklin; Heartfort-Delane; Old Mutable-Taswell; Young Mutable-Neale; Brazen-Yates; Clarinda-Mrs Pritchard; Charlotte-Mrs Woffington; Mrs Useful-Mrs Macklin; Lucina-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Plotwell-Mrs Cross; Squeeze Purse-Morgan; Dr Crisis-Turbutt; Prologue writ and-Macklin; Epilogue by a Friend-Mrs Woffington [from edition of 1743].from edition of 1743].
Cast
Role: Old Mutable Actor: Taswell

4207
25 February 1743 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: Hob-Legar; Testy-Boaman; Friendly-Bencraft; Old Hob-Mr Dunstall; Dick-Vaughan; Flora-Mrs Dunstall; Hob's Mother-Mrs Mullart; Betty-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Mr Dunstall
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

4208
17 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Toyshop

Performance Comment: Master-Chapman; Old Fumble-Hippisley; Beau-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Old Fumble Actor: Hippisley

Dance: As17430314

4209
18 November 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: M Le Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates; Old Gerald-Taswell; Young Gerald-Green; Martin-Morgan; Simon-Turbutt; Angelica-Mrs Ridout; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Egerton; Waiting Woman-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Taswell

4210
13 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17431025, but Lear-Garrick; Bastard-Mills; Albany-Turbutt; Old Man-_; Arante-_.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

4211
24 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Quin; Wolsey-Ryan; Buckingham-Hale; Cranmer-Bridgwater; Norfolk-Cashell; Suffolk-Stephens; Surrey-Gibson; Gardiner-Hippisley; Lord Chamberlain-Ridout; Cromwell-Goodall; Campeius-Chapman; Lord Sands-Woodward; Surveyor-Rosco; Abergavenny-Anderson; Dr Butts-Stoppelaer; Anne Bullen-Mrs Stevens; Old Lady-Mrs Mullart; Queen Catherine-Mrs Pritchard; With a Representation of the Coronation of Anne Bullen-; the Military Ceremony of the Champion-in Westminster Hall; all other decorations proper to the play. all other decorations proper to the play.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Mullart

4212
11 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17440114, but Fire-Mrs Delune; Old Woman-Mrs Fabres; A Follower of Ceres-_.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Fabres
Role: Mercury Actor: Reinhold
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith

Dance: Cooke

4213
10 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: As17431210, but Old Gerald-Collins.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Collins.

4214
09 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets at Mills's House, Nassau St., Soho. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre and so enclosed as to prevent the Ladies taking cold. Afterpiece not acted for 15 years [but see 17 March 1732]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Cibber Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Oliver-Mills; Springlove-Cross; Old Rents-Turbutt; Hearty-Dunstall; Randal-Morgan; Patrico-Woodburn; Martin-Ray; Justice Clack-Taswell; Vincent-Blakes; Hillyard-Moreland; Rachel-Mrs Chetwood; Meriel-Miss Budgell; Amice-Miss Bradshaw; Beggars-Collins, Gray, Miss Scotts.
Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Turbutt

Song: BBritons Strike Home-Moreland

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste; A Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter

4215
14 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17440211, but Demons-_Villeneuve; Air-_; Old Woman-Mrs Delagarde; Colombine-Mlle Bonneval; Fire-Mrs Delagarde.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Delagarde
Role: Mercury Actor: Reinhold
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith

4216
01 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: Friendly-Beard; Flora-Mrs Vincent; Sir ThomasTesty-Hippisley; Old Hob-Marten; Dick-Anderson; Roger-Bencraft; Hob's Mother-Mrs Martin; Betty-Miss Hippisley; Hob-Philips.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Marten
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: GGrand Ballet, as17440423

4217
16 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Flora-Miss Budgell; Betty-Miss Cole; Sir Thomas-Collins; Dick-Cross; Friendly-Blakes; Old Hob-Dunstall; Hob's Mother-Mrs Dunstall; Hob-Ray.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Dunstall
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

4218
18 September 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: M le Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates; Old Gerald-Collins; Young Gerald-Green; Simon-Turbutt; Martin-Leigh; Angelica-Mrs Ridout; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet; Wife-Mrs Bridges; Maid-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Collins

4219
11 October 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Giffard; Old Mirabel-Yates; Duretete-Philips; Petit-Blakes; Bisarre-Mrs Giffard; Oriana-Mrs Woffington; Dugard-Havard; Bravos-Winstone, Woodburn, Wright, Gray; Lamorce-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: A Grand Sailor's Dance-Muilment

4220
20 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Quin; Wolsey-Ryan; Buckingham-Hale; Cranmer-Bridgwater; Norfolk-Cashell; Suffolk-Arthur; Surrey-Gibson; Gardiner-Hippisley; Lord Chamberlain-Ridout; Cromwell-Goodall; Campeius-Chapman; Lord Sands-Woodward; Surveyor-Rosco; Abergavenny-Anderson; Dr Butts-Stoppelaer; Anne Bullen-Mrs Stevens; Old Lady-Mrs Mullart; Queen Katherine-Mrs Pritchard A Representation of the Coronation of Anne Bullenv, the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hallv; all other decorations to the play. all other decorations to the play.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Mullart

4221
13 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: As17440918, but Angelica-Mrs Bradshaw; Old Gerald-_; Young Gerald-_; Martin-_; Wife-_.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Collins

Song: Lowe

Dance: Muilment

4222
14 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Furnival; Ferdinand-Goodfellow; Alonzo-Freeman; Antonio-Tucker; Gonzalez-York; Hippolito-Mrs Hallam; Stephano-Kennedy; Mustacho-Maxfield; Trincalo-L. Hallam; Ventoso-Cushing; Ariel-Mrs Kennedy with the songs proper to the character; Miranda-Mrs Daniel; Dorinda-Mrs Cushing; Caliban-Paget; Sycorax-Dove; with all the Dances-proper to the Play; Time-Granier; Death-Chettle; Mephistopheles-Tucker; Charon-Daniel; Old Dame Stetebos-Granier; Pluto-Brett; Demons-Chettle, Daniel, Tucker, Toole, Fullwell, Jackson; Concluding with Grand Masque of Neptune and Amphytrite-; Neptune-Brett; Amphytrite-Miss Lincoln.
Cast
Role: Old Dame Stetebos Actor: Granier

4223
15 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17450305 but Ferdinand-Goodfellow; Antonio-Nailor; Miranda-Miss Haughton; Setebos-Chettle; Mephistopheles-_; Charon-_; Old Dame Stetebos-_; Time-_; Granier, Tucker, Daniel omitted Neptune-Cunningham; Demons-Jones, Young, Nailor, Toole, Fulwell, Jackson; Pluto-Cunningham; Amphitrite-Mrs Carlisle; Hornpipe-Chettle.
Cast
Role: Old Dame Stetebos Actor: Granier

4224
16 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Reinhold, Destrade, Rawlings and Miss Bellamy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: As17441229, but Anne Bullen-Miss Bellamy; Old Lady-Mrs James; Coronation Ceremony-; Vocal parts-_.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs James
Role: Vocal parts for Coronation scene procession Actor: Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Clive, Mrs Lampe.

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Lyon Actor: Reinhold

Dance: MMinuet-Destrade, Mrs Duval

4225
04 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: As17450416 As17441229, but Anne Bullen-Mrs Horton; Old Lady-Mrs James; Vocal parts-_Beard.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs James
Role: Vocal parts for Coronation scene procession Actor: Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Clive, Mrs Lampe.

Dance: Cooke, LaLauze, Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Sga Campioni