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7695 results for: Keyword - Old Cibber
We found 3615 matches on Author, 3427 matches on Performance Comments, 989 matches on Performance Title, 757 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5551
11 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Related Works
Related Work: Two to One Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Heartly-Williamson; HAY Young Clackit-R. Palmer; Old Clackit-Parsons / Lucy-Mrs Lloyd; Harriet-Miss Woollery (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Old Clackit Actor: Parsons Lucy-Mrs Lloyd

Dance: End of mainpiece The Deserter. The Deserter-Mme Dageville; Skirmish-Miss Simonet; Louisa-Mr Delpini; and with Byrne and Miss L. Simonet

5552
27 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Henderson; Duke-Cubitt; Cacafogo-Booth; Juan-Davies; Sanchio-Thompson; Alonzo-Fearon; Copper Captain-Lewis; Margaretta-Mrs Inchbald; Clara-Miss Platt; Altea-Mrs Morton; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Maid-Mr Painter; Estifania-Mrs Abington .
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

5553
02 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Hale; Miss Grantham-Mrs Brereton .
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin

5554
18 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes-Smith; Polixenes-Bensley; Florizel-Bannister Jun.; Camillo-Aickin; Old Shepherd-Packer; Clown-Suett; Autolicus-Dodd; Hermione-Mrs Ward; Paulina-Mrs Hopkins; Perdita (with the sheep-shearing long)-Mrs Crouch .
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Cast from General Evening Post, 19 Nov.; Morning Post, 19 Nov.; Public Advertiser, 7 and 27 Dec. 1785; Morning Post, 22 Dec. 1786: Bumpkin-Parsons; Irishman at Stratford-Moody; Country Girl-Mrs Wrighten. In Pageant: Cupid-Master Canlets; Iachimo-Palmer; Malvolio and Posthumus-Bensley; Touchstone-King; Richard III-Kemble; Romeo-Bannister Jun.; Hamlet-R. Palmer; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Doctor Cains-Baddeley; Sir Andrew Aguecheek-Waldron; Lear-Wrighten; FalstafT-Chaplin; Henry V-Barrymore; Coriolanus-Phillimore; Edgar-Dodd; Macbeth-Williames; Antony-Staunton; Tragic Muse-Mrs Siddons [whose "car was fitted up exactly in the stile of the picture of the Tragic Music by Sir Joshua Reynolds"]; Comic Muse-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Macbeth-Miss Kemble; Beatrice-Miss Pope; Volumnia-Mrs Brereton; Cleopatra-Mrs Wilson; Rosalind-Mrs Jordan; Queen in Richard III-Mrs Hopkins; Cordelia-Miss Collins; Venus-Mrs Crouch. Vocal Parts by Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Chapman, Fawcett.] hathi. hathi.

5555
21 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Dodd, Barrymore, Fawcett, Suett; Miss Stageldoir, Miss Barnes, Mrs Jordan. [Cast from text (W. Lowndes and J. Barker, 1786): Young Cockney-Dodd; Captain Sightly-Barrymore; Old Cockney-Fawcett; Barnacle-Suctt; Penelope-Miss Stageldoir; Miss La Blond-Miss Barnes; Priscilla Tomboy-Mrs Jordan.] dancing and. dancing and.
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Fawcett

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss Stageldoir, and Singing by Miss Field; End of Act III The Market-Day, as17851024

5556
26 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: As17851107, but Old Groveby-Fearon .
Cast
Role: Old Groveby Actor: Fearon
Role: Oldworth Actor: Thompson

Dance: As17851107 throughout

5557
29 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Lewis; Lord Randolph-Wroughton; Glenvalon-Aickin; Old Norval-Brunton (1st appearance in that character); Anna-Mrs Morton; Lady Randolph-Mrs Wells .
Cast
Role: Old Norval Actor: Brunton

Afterpiece Title: Omai

5558
30 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowell-Aickin; Brainworm-Baddcley; Wellbred-Bannister Jun.; Y. Knowell-Barrymore; Just. Clement-Parsons; Mast. Stephen-Waldron; Downright-Wrighten; Master Mathew-Suett; Cob-Wright; Cash-R. Palmer; Formal-Fawcett; Captain Bobadil-Palmer; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Brereton .
Cast
Role: Old Knowell Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly

5559
23 March 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218, but Sga Angiolini in place of Sga Carolina; End of Opera a Grand Pantomime Ballet in 3 acts, Le Premier Navigateur; ou, La Force de I'Amour (originally composed by Gardel Sen., and acted at the Opera House in Paris with uncommon Applause, and now got up at this Theatre under the immediate Inspection of Vestris). Melide-Mlle Baccelli (1st appearance these 4 years); Semite, Mother to Me'lide-Mlle Mozon; Venus-Sga Angiolini; Daphnis-Vestris; Faun-Fabiani; Old Cottager-D'Egville; Lovers of Melody-Henry, Marseilles, Duquesney [Jun].; Morpheus and Priest of Hymen-Marseilles; Cupid-Miss De Camp. With a Pas de Quatre by Rozier Jun., Marseilles, Spozzi, Giorgi

Performance Comment: , and acted at the Opera House in Paris with uncommon Applause, and now got up at this Theatre under the immediate Inspection of Vestris). Melide-Mlle Baccelli (1st appearance these 4 years); Semite, Mother to Me'lide-Mlle Mozon; Venus-Sga Angiolini; Daphnis-Vestris; Faun-Fabiani; Old Cottager-D'Egville; Lovers of Melody-Henry, Marseilles, Duquesney [Jun].; Morpheus and Priest of Hymen-Marseilles; Cupid-Miss De Camp. With a Pas de Quatre by Rozier Jun., Marseilles, Spozzi, Giorgi .
Cast
Role: Old Cottager Actor: D'Egville

5560
26 April 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Bewitchd

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Baddeley, Bannister Jun., Barrymore, Palmer; Miss Pope, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Wilson, Miss Farren. [Cast from Genest, VI, 384: Stanza-King; Anchor-Baddeley; Cockade-Bannister Jun.; Freelove-Barrymore; Courtly-Palmer; Mimick-Miss Pope; Arabella-Mrs Crouch; Old Lady Languish-Mrs Hopkins; Matilda-Mrs Wilson; Young Lady Languish-Miss Farren.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Languish Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: End of Act I of mainpiece Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance [performers not listed]

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song in character by Mrs Crouch

Monologue: 1786 04 26 End of mainpiece John Gilpin's Ride by Baddeley

5561
13 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Performance Comment: Timon-Holman; Alcibiades-Farren; Lucullus-Quick; Lucius-Wewitzer; Sempronius-Davies; Ventidius-Palmer; Old Athenian-Fearon; Flavius-Hull; Cephis-Kennedy; Painter-Stevens; Poet-Booth; Jeweller-Gardner; Apemantus-Wroughton; Melissa-Mrs Inchbald; Phryne-Miss Stuart; Evandra-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Duill]) .Mrs Duill]) .
Cast
Role: Old Athenian Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Banquet and Masquerade Dance [performers not listed]; End of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

5562
07 June 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Young Norval-Hill; Lord Randolph-Smith; Glenalvon-Curtis; Officer-Westenholt; Servant-Meadows; Old Norval-Villars; Anna-Miss Williams; Lady Randolph-Mrs Johnston .
Cast
Role: Old Norval Actor: Villars

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: End of mainpiece song by Price

5563
29 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Performance Comment: Young Wilmot-Palmer; Randal-Bannister Jun.; Eustace-R. Palmer; Old Wilmot-Bensley; Agnes-Mrs Bates; Maria (with a song in character)-Miss Burnett; Charlotte-Mrs Bulkley .
Cast
Role: Old Wilmot Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Related Works
Related Work: The Son-in-Law Author(s): Samuel Arnold

5564
18 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: Young Sadboy-Palmer; Clod (1st time)-Barrett; Spatterdash-Bannister Jun.; Captain Ambush-Williamson; Shadrach-Wewitzer; Old Sadboy-Gardner; Chronicle-Parsons; Lady Rounceval-Mrs Webb; Araminta-Miss George; Mrs Millefleur-Mrs Love; Judith-Mrs Edwin; Pink-Mrs Brett; Dinah Primrose-Mrs Riley .
Cast
Role: Old Sadboy Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Tobacco Box by Mr and Miss Brett

5565
27 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disbanded Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Heartly-Williamson; Young Clackit-R. Palmer; Old Clackit-Parsons; Lucy (1st time)-Mrs Cuyler; Harriet-Miss Woollery .
Cast
Role: Old Clackit Actor: Parsons

5566
03 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Related Works
Related Work: Two to One Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Watty Cockney-Meadows; Captain Sightly-Wright; Old Cockney-Barrett; Barnacle-Booth; Penelope-Miss Burnett; Miss La Blond-Miss Brangin; Priscilla Tomboy-Miss George (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Barrett

Monologue: 1786 08 03 End of mainpiece The News-Papers spoken by Bannister Jun

5567
29 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Booth, Davies, Lyons, R. Palmer; Mrs Bulkley, Miss Farren. [Cast from text (C. Dilly, 1788): Villamour-Palmer; Old Meanwell-Booth; Young Meanwell-Davies; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Bulkley; Florinda-Miss Farren.] New Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren . New Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain or The New Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Glib (with the original Prologue and Epilogue)-Palmer; Sir Toby Fuz-Usher; Sir Macaroni Virtu-R. Palmer; Carpenter-Booth; Mervin-Williamson; Patent-Gardner; Prompter-Burton; Wilson-Bannister Jun.; Lady Fuz-Mrs Webb; Miss Fuz-Miss Woollery. In which the Burletta of Orpheus. Orpheus-Davies; Old Shepherd-Edwin; Rhodope-Miss George .
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Edwin

Dance: As17860706

5568
25 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Watty-Brown; Capt. Sightly-Cubitt; Old Cockney-Thompson; Barnacle-Booth; Penelope-Miss Stuart; Mrs La Blonde-Miss Brangin; Priscilla Tomboy-Mrs Brown.
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Thompson

5569
30 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Young Cockney-Dodd; Captain Sightly-Barrymore; Old Cockney-Fawcett; Richard-Wilson; Servant-Newbold; Barnacle-Suett; Penelope-Miss Stageldoir; Miss La Blonde-Miss Barnes; Priscilla Tomboy-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Fawcett
Role: Servant Actor: Newbold

5570
12 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Macklin; Antonio-Farren; Bassanio-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Gratiano-Macready; Lorenzo (with songs)-Johnstone; Launcelot-Quick; Salanio-Booth; Solarino-Davies; Duke-Fearon; Old Gobbo-Swords; Tubal-Thompson; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Morton; Nerissa-Mrs Inchbald; Portia-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Gobbo Actor: Swords

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: The Piping Pedlar, as17861002

5571
24 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes-Smith; Polixenes-Bensley; Florizel-Bannister Jun.; Camillo-Aickin; Old Shepherd-Packer; Clown-Suett; Autolicus-Dodd; Perdita (with the Sheep-shearing Song)-Mrs Crouch; Paulina-Mrs Hopkins; Hermione-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Kemble, Barrymore, Suett, Williames, Fawcett, Phillimore, Chaplin, Bannister, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Love, Miss Cranford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Jordan. Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1786): Richard-Kemble; Blondel-Barrymore; Guillot-Suett; Florestan-Williames; Old Mathew-Fawcett; The Seneschal-Phillimore; Pilgrim-Chaplin; Sir Owen-Bannister; Antonio-Miss Romanzini; William-Spencer; Laurette-Mrs Crouch; Dorcas-Mrs Love; Collette-Miss Cranford; Julie-Miss DeCamp; Matilda-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Old Mathew Actor: Fawcett

Dance: In III afterpiece: Dance-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

5572
28 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Aickin; Cacafogo-Moody; Juan-Packer; Sanchio-Phillimore; Alonzo-R. Palmer; Copper Captain-King; Margaretta-Mrs Ward; Old Woman-Mr Baddeley; Maid-Mr Waldron; Estifania-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Old Mathew Actor: Fawcett

5573
15 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowell-Aickin; Brainworm-Baddeley; Wellbred-Bannister Jun.; Y. Knowell-Barrymore; Just. Clement-Parsons; Mast. Stephen-Dodd; Downright-Wrighten; Master Matthew-Burton; Cob-Suett; Cash-R. Palmer; Formal-Fawcett; Captain Bobadil-Palmer; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Old Knowell Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Old Mathew Actor: Fawcett

5574
29 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Tidswell; Miss Grantham-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin

5575
12 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Cast
Role: Sir Oliver Oldstock Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: Hob-Ryder (1st appearance in that character); Sir ThomasTesty-Fearon; Dick-Brown; Old Hob-Booth; Friendly-Davies; Hob's Mother-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Miss Stuart; Flora-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Booth
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: End: The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd-Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin