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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.

4501
30 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performance Comment: As17711226, but Old Miser-Jacobs.
Cast
Role: Old Miser Actor: Jacobs.

Dance: III: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

4502
03 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Papilion-Weston; Miss Grantham-Mrs Egerton; Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Bannister; Sir James Eliot-J. Aickin; Miss Godfrey-Miss Platt; Kitty-Mrs Millidge (playbill).
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Bannister

4503
11 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Parts by: Garrick, Vernon, Dodd, Weston, Bannister, Baddeley, Keen, J. Aickin, Moody, Love, Parsons, Ackman, Miss Rogers, Miss Pope. Chalkstone-Garrick; Aesop-J. Aickin; Fribble-Dodd; Charon-Bannister; Old Man-Parsons; Snap-Weston; Mercury-Vernon; Frenchman-Baddeley; Bowman-Ackman; Carbine-Keen; Mrs Carbine-Miss Rogers; Fine Lady-Miss Pope (Winston MS 10).
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Parsons

Dance: III: The Amusements of Strasburgh-as17711118, but now By the scholars of Sg Daigville

4504
24 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Entertainment: I: (for the last time) A Comic Paraphrase or Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Monologue: End: By Particular Desire, Linco's Travels. with his particular remarks on London (a favourite Interlude not performed these 2 years) Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw

Performance Comment: with his particular remarks on London (a favourite Interlude not performed these 2 years) Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

4505
24 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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: Old Philpot Actor: Shuter

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312

4506
29 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-King; Sir Jasper-Wright; Beaufort-Wheeler; Dapper-Jacobs; Quildrive-Griffith; Maria-Mrs Egerton; Old Philpot-Baddeley; Corinna-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Baddeley

Entertainment: V:(By Desire,) Cupid's Remonstrance, as17720427

4507
04 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale, As Written By shakespeare

Performance Comment: Leontes-Smith; Polixenes-Bensley; Antigonus-Clarke; Florizel-Wroughten; Old Shepherd-Kniveton; Rogero-Gardner; Clown-Quick; Autolicus-DuBellamy; Camillo-Hull; Chorus in Act III in the character of Time-Hull; Paulina-Mrs Hull; Perdita-Mrs Bulkley; Hermione-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Kniveton

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: I: New Dance-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley, as17720409

4508
22 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17720409 but Maria-Mrs Mattocks; Old Philpot-Quick, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Quick, 1st time.

Dance: IV: A Dance-Mas. Harris, Miss Mathews (her 2nd appearance that stage)

Monologue: Interlude. End: True Blue. As 2 May, but Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Mrs Mattocks

4509
15 July 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: M. le Medicine-Baddeley; Crispin-Robson; Young Gerald-Vowell; Martin-Dancer; Old Gerald-Parsons; Wife-Mrs Parsons; Angelica-Miss Platt; Waiting Woman-Mrs White; Beatrice-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17720518

4510
20 August 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Performance Comment: Parts-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Thompson; with the additional part The Old Woman-Bannister.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Thompson
Role: with the additional part The Old Woman Actor: Bannister.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid's the Mistress Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Song: Several favourite songs-Mrs Forbes; Musical Imitations-Bannister; Vocal parts-Culver, Mrs Cartwright

4511
25 August 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Piguenit. [Arnold's Ode had been sung there earlier in the season, on Tuesday 18 Aug. The play was submerged in a concert and followed by Fireworks.] Tickets 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Performance Comment: As17720820, but Old Woman-_.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Thompson
Role: with the additional part The Old Woman Actor: Bannister.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid's the Mistress Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Song: Several songs-Mrs Forbes; Musical Imitations-Bannister; An Odecomposed by Arnold will be sung in the manner of an Oratorio-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson, with a number of the best Chorus Singers

4512
19 September 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Bannister; Papillion-Parsons; Sir James Elliot-J. Aickin; Miss Godfrey-Miss Platt; Kitty-Mrs Millidge; Miss Grantham-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Bannister

Dance: III: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

4513
29 September 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Mercury-Davies; Abram-W. Palmer; Gasconade-Baddeley; Snip-Parsons; Old Woman-Dodd; Corp. Bounce-Bransby; Simon-Moody; Justice-Hartry; Constable-Griffith; Forge-Ackman; Welshman-Waldron; Irishman-Messink; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope; Mrs Snip-Mrs Bradshaw; Sukey Chitterlin-Mrs Davies; To Conclude with a Grand Chorus-Champness, Mrs Wrighten, Bannister, Dibdin, Davies, Kear, Fawcett, Wheeler, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Dodd

4514
03 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Witches; or, A Trip to Naples

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Old Miser-Jacob; Colombine-Miss Watkins; Clown-Ackman; Miser's Servant-Messink; First Witch-Vernon; Second Witch-Johnston; Bridemaids-Mrs Scott, Mrs Wrighten; The Dances-Daigville, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Vidini, Sga Giorgi.
Cast
Role: Old Miser Actor: Jacob

4515
12 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Citizen-Woodward; Old Philpot-Shuter; Sir Jasper-Dunstall; Young Wilding-Davis; Maria-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Shuter

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-Aldridge. [See17711026.

4516
23 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Gardner; Don Juan-Hull; Cacafogo-Morris; Sanchio-Davis; Alonzo-Perry; Copper Captain-Woodward; Clara-Mrs Helme; Maid-Mrs White; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Altea-Mrs Gardner; Margaritta-Mrs Vincent; Estifania-Miss Barsanti, first time, who performed in the PRELUDE.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): Samuel Arnold

4517
29 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Wellbred-Jefferson; Old Knowell-Hurst; Young Knowell-Aickin; Capt. Bobadill-King; Master Stephen-Weston; Brainworm-Baddeley; Downright-Bransby; Justic Clement-Hurst; Cash-Packer; Matthew-W. Palmer; Cob-Moody; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Dame Kitely-Miss Younge; Bridget-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Old Knowell Actor: Hurst

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

4518
06 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Clarke; Wolsey-Bensley; Surry-Dyer; Norfolk-Perry; Suffolk-Owenson; Capucius-DuBellamy; Butts-Stoppelaer; Surveyor-Thompson; Brandon-Fox; Old Lady-Mrs Pitt; Ld Chamberlain-Lewes; Buckingham-Wroughton; Cranmer-Gardner; Cromwell-Hull; Sands-Kniveton; Guilford-R. Smith; Lovell-Davis; Campeius-Morris; Gardiner-Shuter; Anne Bullen-Miss Ogilvie; Patience (with a Song)-Mrs Baker; Queen Catherine-Mrs Hartley; In Act I, The Banquet-; with Dancing-Fishar, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist Act IV, The Procession in the Abbeyv at the Coronation of Anne Bullenv.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

4519
12 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Smith; Old Mirabel-Shuter; Duretete-Woodward; Dugard-Gardner; Petit-Cushing; Oriana-Mrs Lessingham; Lamorce-Miss Ogilvie; Bizarre-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Monologue: 1772 11 12 Before: (By particular desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

4520
30 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Garrick; Duke-J. Aickin; Cacafogo-Love; Copper Captain-King; Margaritta-Mrs Egerton; Altea-Mrs Love; Old Woman-Baddeley; Maid-Waldron; Estafania-Mrs Abington; Juan-Packer; Sanchio-Hurst; Alonzo-Ackman; Clara-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

4521
26 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Dr Cantwell-Moody; Sir John Lambert-Packer; Darnly-Reddish; Seyward-Cautherly; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Maw@Worm-Weston; Lady Lambert-Miss Ambrose; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Lambert Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Related Works
Related Work: The Hypocrite Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

4522
29 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: Mask-Dodd; Old Mask-Baddeley; Musical Lady-Miss Pope; Freeman-Fawcett; Lady Scrape-Mrs Johnston; Laundress-Mrs Bradshaw; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Old Mask Actor: Baddeley

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17720922

4523
17 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17730202, but Lear-Garrick; Gentleman Usher-Burton; The Bell Edition 1773 adds Doctor-Wright; Old Man-Hartry; Cornwall's Servant-Keen; Arante-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Hartry

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Old Mask Actor: Baddeley

4524
27 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: M Le Medicin-Baddeley; Crispin-Dodd; Old Gerald-Parsons; Young Gerald-Wheeler; Martin-W. Palmer; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Bradshaw; Angelica-Miss Platt; Beatrice-Mrs Love.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Parsons

4525
10 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Hecate Actor: Reinhold
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mattocks, Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Owenson, Fox, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: Young Mask-Dyer; Old Mask-Quick; Freeman-R. Smith; Rozin-Thompson; Lady Scrape-Miss Pearce; Laundress-Mrs Pitt; The Musical Lady-Miss Barsanti, first time.
Cast
Role: Old Mask Actor: Quick

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Monologue: 1773 5 10Before the Play (Seventeenth Time): New Occasional Prelude. As 19 Jan., but Author-Quick