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3598 results for: Keyword - Philip B. Gray Jr
We found 1596 matches on Performance Comments, 1079 matches on Author, 761 matches on Performance Title, 359 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3426
26 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Trowion, Rock, Blurton, Ledger, Evatt, Jackson, Ratchford, Cross, Letteney, Williamson. Mrs Davenett, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Gray, Mrs Masters, Mrs Goodwin will be admitted. Receipts: #435 9s. (45.8; 3.2; tickets: 383.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17910507

3427
22 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Johnstone; Russet-Darley; Simkin-Cubitt; Skirmish-Blanchard (1st appearance in that character); Jenny-Mrs Martyr; Margaret-Mrs Davenett; Louisa (with Auld Robin Gray) (1st time)-Mrs Billington.

Song: In: an additional Obligato Bravura Song (composed by Sacchini,)-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the violin-Weichsel; the favorite Rondo, Se Ti Perdo (composed by Guglielmi)-Mrs Billington (as introduced in The Woodman)

Music: End II: a concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Mrs Billington

3428
29 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for She Stoops to Conquer will be admitted: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Brandon, Curteen, Furkins, Anselmo, Robson [door-keeper], Paskin, Gawdry, Sturgeon, Roberts, Linton, Standen, Rye, Doe, Berecloth, Gray, Ledger will be admitted. Receipts: #426 13s. 6d. (59.19.6; 5.2.0; tickets: 361.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

3429
05 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Performance Comment: As17921103, but Gray.

3430
18 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Song: In Act II of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings by Gray, Linton, Miss Barnett, Mrs Mountain; In afterpiece a new Hunting Song, composed by Shield, by Incledon [this song not listed on playbill, but see World, 19 Nov.]

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings by Gray, Linton, Miss Barnett, Mrs Mountain; In afterpiece a new Hunting Song, composed by Shield, by Incledon [this song not listed on playbill, but see World, 19 Nov.] .

Monologue: 1793 11 18 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address by Middleton

3431
26 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: THE NEW DIVERTISEMENT

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Palate, Fieldtree, Ensign Hardy//Patty, Jenny.] Written to introduce the following favorite Songs: Mary's Dream, The moon had climbed the highest hill (composed by Ralph [recte Relfe]), by Miss Poole; The Vestry Dinner, Churchwarden I have been (written by Cross, composed by Reeve), by Rees; The High Mettled Racer, See the course throng'd with gazers (composed by Dibdin), by Incledon (1st time); The Gipsey Ballad, A wand'ring Gipsey, Sir, am I (words and melody by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot], accompaniments by Shield), by Mrs Clendining; Kitty Grogan, Tho' I'm no Dancing Master (written by Collins, composed by Reeve), by Johnstone; The Storm, Cease, rude Boreas (written by George Alexander Stevens), by Incledon; [Auld] Robin Gray, Young Jamie lov'd me well, by Mrs Clendining; From morn till night I take my glass, by Incledon and Johnstone; Vo sol cando (composed by Vinci), by Miss Poole; The Triumph of Wine, What tho' from Venus Cupid sprung (composed by Dibdin), by Johnstone; Father, Mother and Suke (composed by Dibdin), by Fawcett. To conclude with the following Selection of Catches and Glees from Harrison and Knyvett's Vocal Concert: as17940523, but God preserve his Majesty in place of Water parted from the sea .

Afterpiece Title: THE SHIPWRECK or French Ingratitude

Music: End of Act II of 1st piece a Solo on the Union Pipes by Courtney; In the course of the Evening a Duetto on the Union Pipes and Harp by Courtney and Weippert

3432
20 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Main Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers-Master Elliot, Kelly, Nield, Burdon (from Salisbury), Gray, Linton, Bartleman, Miss Parke, Miss Poole; Leader of the Band-G. Ashley.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

3433
11 March 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Thespian Panorama

Performance Comment: As17950304 but The Recitals will be chosen from the Works of Milton, Sterne, Thomson, Goldsmith, Lloyd, Gray, and mostly spoken by Palmer. Part I, Part II, Part III. As17950304 .

3434
11 March 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers-Master Elliot, Kelly, Nield, Burdon (from Salisbury), Gray, Bartleman, Miss Parke, Mrs Hindmarsh. For partial list of individual selections, and singers thereof, see17950327 .

3435
05 June 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Stokes, Massingham, Massingham Jun., Gray, Cole, Hough, Tice, Calkin, Ross, Thompson, Fosbrook, Faux, Gillis, Waters, Perry, Chumbley, Powell, Appleby, Chatterley, Roffey, Henderson, Phillips, Master Gregson, Mrs Scott] will be admitted. Receipts: #623 14s. 6d. (64.11.6; 26.2.0; 9.19.6; tickets: 523.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

3436
15 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bennett, Calkin, Chumbley, Caton, Cawston, Dale Jun.; Fosbrook (door-keeper), Gray, Faux, Humphries, Hough, Massingham Sen., Massingham Jun., Pilsbury, Perry, Powell, Ross, Thompson, Tice, Waterer will be admitted.] The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #106 16s. (59.1.0; 28.6.6; 11.18.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 7.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

3437
16 June 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Wood, Wilson, Dangerfield, Irish, Nix, Edwards, Wooldridge, Panchaud, Cole, Gray, Hough [box-keepers]. The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #85 0s. 6d. (42.0.6; 40.6.6; 2.13.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #204 14s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Philip Actor: Hollingsworth

Dance: II afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17960920

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17970605

3438
17 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan or A Peep into the Seraglio

Afterpiece Title: The Giant and Dwarf or Columbine Captive

Entertainment: Vaudeville. A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun

Performance Comment: A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun.

3439
16 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Humane Society. A new grand Commemorative Oratorio [1st time; in two parts], as originally performed by Busby, in aid of the Fund for the Naval Pillar, including the new Music [by Busby: Song and Chorus, From where the sun; Song, To thy brave sons; Recitative and Song, Peace to the soul, Around the ever-honoured urn], introduced in the Grand National Concert, performed the 28th of May, at the Opera House. Leader of the Band-Cramer. Organ-Russell. The performance to be conducted by Busby, who will preside at the Piano Forte. Tickets, at playhouse prices, to be had at all the principal music shops...and of Busby, No. 9, China Terrace, Vauxhall Road. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. "The words [of Part I] are taken entirely from Gray's well-known Pindaric Ode, The Progress of Poesy," with six introductory lines written by John Gretton andthe concluding stanzas by Thomas Dutton; the text of Part II by Gretton (Dramatic Censor, II, 285-86)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

3440
03 November 1663 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floras Vagaries

3441
25 May 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

3442
28 April 1704 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Newly composed by Keller, with vocal Music-Signora Maria Gallia; instrumental Music-Paisible, Gasperini, laTour, Banister, others Masters

3443
02 January 1705 @ Hill's Dancing Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-several Eminent Masters; with several Italian Sonatas perform'd on the Violin-Mr Henry Eccles

3444
18 April 1707 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; viz. A full Piece of Music of the famous Signior Pepusch-Mr Banister, Mr Dean, Mr Lamour; A set of Airs for the Arch/Lute and Violin-the Two Mr Deans, composed on purpose by Mr Dean Jun; A Sonata for the Arch/Lute and Flute Alleman-Mr Dean Jun, Mr Latour; Singing to the Arch/Lute-Mr Hughes; A Solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli-Mr Dean Sen; A Cantata to the Arch/Lute-Mr Newbury; Singing to the Arch/Lute-a Gentleman come on purpose from Worchester

3445
11 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy Or The Usurer Outwitted

Song: The Whimsical Country-

Dance: The Whimsical Country Wedding-

3446
12 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches

Music: All the Vocal and Instrumental Music- by Mr Barret

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell; Two Dutch Skippers-l'Abbe, Wade

3447
27 June 1713 @ Hampstead Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3448
14 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue or The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Mrs Santlow, Prince, Wade, Sandham

3449
23 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Song: The New Boy; Trumpet Song-Rawlins; A Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack

Dance: As17150404 Also A Countryman and a Harlequin-

3450
23 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald, The Boy

Dance: As17151217