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6929 results for: Keyword - Old Cibber
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76
24 September 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Milward; Sir Joseph-Bullock; Bluff-Hall; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Sylvia-Mrs Laguerre; Lucy-Mrs Egleton; Setter-Chapman; Araminta-Mrs Berriman; Belinda-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Hall
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance:

77
17 November 1729 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-W. Giffard; Bellmour-Giffard; Vainlove-Mynns; Sharper-W. Williams; Setter-Collet; Bluff-Pearce; Belinda-Mrs Giffard; Laetitia-Mrs Seal; Araminta-Mrs Clark; Sylvia-Mrs Mountfort; Lucy-Mrs Thomas; Fondlewife-Penkethman; Sir Joseph-W. Bullock both from lif, their first appearances here.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: As17291114

78
01 December 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-W. Giffard; Belmour-Giffard; Bluff-Huddy; Vainlove-Rosco; Sharper-W. Williams; Setter-Collet; Sir Joseph-Bullock; Fondlewife-Penkethman; Belinda-Mrs Giffard; Laetitia-Mrs Haughton; Araminta-Miss Smith; Silvia-Mrs Mountfort; Lucy-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: W. Giffard

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

79
05 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Bellmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Milward; Sir Joseph-Ray; Bluff-Hall; Setter-Chapman; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Araminta-Mrs Cantrel; Silvia-Mrs Laguerre; Lucy-Mrs Egleton; Belinda-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Related Works
Related Work: The School-Boy: or The Comical Rivals Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; II: Chacone-Dupre, Mrs Pelling; III: Clown-Nivelon; IV: Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; V: Grand Dance, as17310503

80
20 November 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-W. Giffard; Belmour-Giffard; Vainlove-Rosco; Sharper-Havard; Setter-Collett; Bluff-Morgan; Sir Joseph-Bullock; Fondlewife-Norris; Belinda-Mrs Roberts; Laetitia-Mrs Giffard; Araminta-Mrs Haughton; Silvia-Mrs Purden; Lucy-Mrs Morgan; Betty-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: W. Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: As17311104

81
06 October 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-W. Giffard; Belmour-Giffard; Vainlove-Rosco; Sharper-Havard; Setter-Collet; Bluff-Morgan; Sir Joseph-Bullock; Fondlewife-Norris; Belinda-Mrs Roberts; Laetitia-Mrs Giffard; Araminta-Mrs Christian; Sylvia-Mrs Hamilton; Lucy-Mrs Morgan.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: As17321005

82
09 October 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Bellmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Salway; Bluff-Hall; Setter-Chapman; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Araminta-Mrs Cantrel; Sylvia-Mrs Laguerre; Lucy-Mrs Stevens; Belinda-Mrs Younger; Sir Joseph-Neale .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Dance: As17330925

83
03 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Sir Joseph-Miller; Fondlewife-Griffin; Bluff-Johnson; Belmour-W. Mills; Vainlove-Salway; Sharper-Milward; Setter-Oates; Laetitia-Mrs Thurmond; Belinda-Miss Holliday; Araminta-Mrs Cantrel; Sylvia-Mrs Pritchard; Lucy-Mrs Charke .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: La Follette s'cest ravisee. Revellers. Pierots. Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

84
01 May 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Sharper-Marshall; Bluff-Mullart; Sir Joseph-Neale; Setter-Chapman; Araminta-Mrs Templer; Belinda-Mrs Horton; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Sylvia-Miss Norsa; Lucy-Mrs Stevens .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: By Mlle Salle. Scots Dance, as17350311 Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: As17350422

85
07 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Marshall; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Mullart; Setter-Chapman; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Bullock; Araminta-Mrs Templer; Sylvia-Miss Norsa; Lucy-Mrs Stevens .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith

86
10 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Belmour-Walker; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Marshall; Setter-Chapman; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Mullart; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Araminta-Mrs Templer; Sylvia-Miss Bincks; Lucy-Mrs Stevens.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Hornpipe-Ferguson

87
15 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin,; Sir Joseph-Miller; Bluff-Johnson; Belmour-Mills; Fondlewife-Griffin; Vainlove-Havard; Sharper-Wright; Setter-Mechlin; Belinda-Miss Holliday; Araminta-Mrs Pritchard; Sylvia-Mrs Brett; Lucy-Mrs Marshall; Laetitia-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin,

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

88
18 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Belmour-Walker; Sir Joseph-Yates; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Hale; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Bluff-Mullart; Setter-Chapman; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Araminta-Mrs Elmy; Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: P Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

89
28 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Mullart; Sharper-Hale; Setter-Chapman; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Miss Oates.
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith

90
25 September 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Bellmour-Mills; Bluff-Johnson; Fondlewife-Macklin; Sir Joseph-Woodward; Vainlove-Havard; Sharper-Wright; Setter-Chapman; Belinda-Mrs Mills; Araminta-Mrs Pritchard; Laetitia-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: In III: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

91
21 October 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Pagett; Bellmour-Giffard; Vainlove-Crofts; Sharper-Blakes; Bluff-Dunstall; Fondlewife-Julian; Setter-Lowder; Sir Joseph-Yates; Belinda-Mrs Middleton; Laetitia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Pagett

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

92
18 February 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Furnival; Fondlewife-Morgan.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Furnival

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: Between the Acts: (By particular Desire) Behold the sweet Flowers-; Come Rosalind O Come and See-; Blow ye Bleak Winds around-; Musick by Arne-Miss Medina

93
17 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Bellmour-Ryan; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Sharper-Ridout; Vainlove-Usher; Araminta-Mrs Barrington; Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Sir Joseph-Cushing; Setter-Bencraft; Bluff-Dunstall; Barnaby-Paddick; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Miss Allen; Fondlewife-Arthur; Laetitia-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

94
16 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Old Maid-Mrs Walker; Harlow-Davis; Young Clerimont-White; Capt. Cape-Lewis; Heartwell-Gardner; Mrs Harlow-Miss Elliot.
Cast
Role: Old Maid Actor: Mrs Walker

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

95
20 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Old Maid-Mrs Walker; Young Clerimont-Perry; Captain Cape-Lewis; Harlow-Davis; Heartwell-Gardner; Mrs Harlow-Miss Wilford, first time.
Cast
Role: Old Maid Actor: Mrs Walker

Dance: II: The Village Romps, as17651019

96
02 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear. Benefit Powell, Howard, and others; by particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. [The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught, originally issued as The Old Debauchees by Henry Fielding, 1 June 1732, dl. Concluding the program with the National Anthem now omitted from the advertisements.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Performance Comment: Old Laroon-Morgan; Isabel-Mrs Phillips; Father Martin-Paget; Young Laroon-Kennedy; Old Jourdain-Cushing; Beatrice-Mrs Cushing.
Cast
Role: Old Laroon Actor: Morgan
Role: Old Jourdain Actor: Cushing

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

97
22 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [Only sagnificant changes from this regular notice will be recorded hereafter.] Paid Mrs Margaret Lamb 6 months interest on #315 due 8 Sept. #7 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #155 15s. (Account Book). Estimate of a Constant@N.B. The Ground Rent and Taxes is calculated to be Paid in 150 Days.@Per Annum Per Day@To 50 Old Shares at 2s. --- #5@To 50 New Ditto at 2s. --- #5@T 50 New Ditto at 2s. --- #5@To Ground Rent for the Theatre #100@To Ditto for Buildings in Harte St. #30@To Ditto for Mr Thurmond's House in Bow Street Passage #25@ #155 #1 0s. 8d.@ #11 0s. 8d.@Taxes (Viz)@To Land and Window Taxes for Theatre #98 2s.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage #5 15s 6d.@To Poor's Rate for the Theatre #20@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage #1 10s.@To Watch rate for the Theatre #8 6s. 8d@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 10s. 6d.@To Rector's rate for the Theatre #6 13s. 4d.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 8s. 4d.@To Scavenger's Rate for the Theatre #6 17s. 4d.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 6s. 4d.@To Water for the Theatre #4@ #152 10s.@ #1 4d.@To Renters, Ground Rent & Taxes #12 1s.@To Gawrds [sic] per Day 14s.@To Barbers Do 5s. 4d.@To Scenemen Do #2 10s.@To Music as Per List #4 9s 2d.@For 150 Days To Candles #3 3s.@Do To Coales 10s 10s.@Passages, Stage Etc. To Lamps #1 12s.@To Bills #1 7s.@To Advertisements 5s.@To Billsetters 4s. 6d.@#16 6s. Sallery [sic] #14 6s. Estimate To Wardrobe bill about #1 11s.@#2 Sallery #5 Estimate To Property Bill Do 7s.@To Chorus Singers Do 10s.@To Mr J. Rich #5 5s.@To Mr C. Rich #1@ #36 1s.@Nightly Charge@Musick List@Messrs Wood 5s.@Gillier 5s.@Miller 5s.@Chapman@ 3s. 4d.@Goodman 3s. 4d.@Woodson 5s.@Ward 6s. 8d.@Rolland 5s.@Rawlings 3s. 4d.@Vincent 6s. 8d.@Wrexell 5s.@Beale 5s.@Jones 4s. 2d.@Biche 3s. 4d.@Heron 4s. 2d.@Stockdon 3s. 4d.@Scovell 3s. 4d.@Lampe 3s. 4d.@Smart 3s. 4d.@Assistant Writer 10d.@Harpsicord 5s.@#4 9s. 2d.@Men Dressers Charg'd in the Wardrobe Bills@Messrs Mearns 2s. 6d.@Cason 2s.@Esbury 1s.@Fenwick 1s.@Winterton 1s.@Besford 1s.@Francis 1s.@Cawder 1s.@Hays 1s.@Hollingsworth 1s.@Cabell 1s.@Nicholls 1s.@Norris 1s.@Cole 1s.@16s. 6d.@Billstickers as per List@Messrs Abbott 2s.@Mislebrook 2s.@Dymuck 2s@Tidd 2s.@Gale 2s.@Cole 1s. 6d.@11s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Old Rents-Sparks; Hearty-Beard; Springlove-Clarke; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Justice Clack-Shuter; Hilliard-Baker; Vincent-Mattocks; Meriel-Mrs Vincent; Rachel-Miss Brent, with dances incident to the Opera.
Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

98
06 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [The BM Playbill lists Mercury-Bannister.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $Barry do Hastings and Mrs Dancer Jane Shore. Before ye play began, ended reading ye parts of Hastings, Jane Shore and Dumont. When ye Gods called for ye Prologue, York beckoned to be quiet. What authority these fellows assume! T. Barry did Dumont, but he will never be equal to his father. The Entertainment was Lethe. Old Man and Lord Chalkstone by Shuter. Garrick, who sat near me, laughed at his understanding ye character of Lord Chalkstone so little, as to say--"She married for money, and I for a title." Drunken man pretty well by Weston (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Old Man, Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Aesop-Newton; Charon-Brownsmith; Drunken Man-Weston; Mercury-Jefferies; Fine Gentleman-Palmer; Frenchman-Quick; Bowman-Smith; the fine Lady-Mrs Gardner.

99
09 February 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: ye Q a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr Orphan, See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. Cibber, Apology, I, 183: There is in this Character [Chaplain] (of one Scene only) a decent Pleasantry, and Sense enough to shew an Audience whether the Actor has any himself. Here was the first Applause I ever receiv'd, which you may be sure, made my Heart leap with a higher Joy than may be necessary to describe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Cibber probably played the role of the Chaplain.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Fools Author(s): Colley Cibber
Related Work: The Fair Orphan Author(s): Colley Cibber

100
07 October 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Performance Comment: Lady Dainty-Mrs Oldfield; Sir Solomon-Johnson; Clerimont-Booth; Atall-Cibber; Careless-Wilks; Old Wilful-Miller; Old Atall-Shepard; Lady Sadlife-Mrs Horton; Clarinda-Mrs Thurmond; Silvia-Mrs Cibber; Wishwell-Mrs Tenoe.
Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Atall Actor: Cibber
Role: Old Wilful Actor: Miller
Role: Old Atall Actor: Shepard
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Cibber
Related Works
Related Work: The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady's Cure Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: Thurmond, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Walter, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; particularly Myrtillo-