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5635 results for: Keyword - Prince Brunswick, his wife and Louisa
We found 2800 matches on Performance Title, 1487 matches on Performance Comments, 1345 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1951
20 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan and Evans [Box-Keepers]. Their profits from this night unspecified. Charges #70. Each was paid #10 in full for attendance on Boxes this season. Rec'd of Baron Schutz by Mr Lawrence for the King's Account #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Brilliant-Chapman; Wronglove-Gibson; Moral-Cashell; Brush-Anderson; Porter-Arthur; 1st Bravo-James; 2nd Bravo-Vaughan; Miss Notable-Miss Hippisley; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Horton; Lady Gentle-Mrs Vincent; Hartshorn-Mrs Bland; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Brush Actor: Anderson
Role: Hartshorn Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

1952
22 August 1747 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; In Which Will Be Interspers'd The Humourous Scenes Of A Wife Well Manag'd

Entertainment: Equilibres on the Slack Rope-Mahomet Acmed Vizaro Mussulmo, just arrived from Constantinople

Song: Batt Platt

Music: Grand Band of Music

1953
10 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince &c. (not in Bills) (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross); #145 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

1954
11 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: II: Les Caprices-; III: Grand Ballet-; V: Polish Dance, as17471102

1955
28 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: By Particular Desire aDutch Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti

1956
15 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: The Savoyards-Matthews, Mrs Addison; Dutch Dance, as17471128

1957
12 January 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Pan Actor: Vandersluys

1958
13 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: III: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Savoyards, as17471215

1959
14 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. King etc. (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #171 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews, Mrs Addison

1960
19 January 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song:

Dance:

1961
11 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: III: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

1962
15 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: II: Chi nacque alle pene, Lusingo piu Cara-; IV: As17480213 Miss Faulkner

1963
21 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive, Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Send servants by 3. Tickets and places of Mrs Clive in Great Queen St., Lincolns Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Cross: Ned Thompson dy'd. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash #78; tickets, #94 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: By Particular Desire, the Irish Song, Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive

1964
21 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Afterpiece: A Masque of Music, reviv'd, in two Interludes, preform'd at the end of the 3rd and 5th Acts. Written by Colley Cibber. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, illuminated and enclos'd, as at an Oratorio. Tickets for Boxes and Stage to be had of Beard at his house in Red Lyon Square, and of Page at the Stage Door. Ladies desired to send servants to keep Places by three o'clock (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17480112, but Falstaff-Bridgwater; Page-Anderson; Anne Page-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Page Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

1965
24 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton. [A "puff" for Leveridge's forthcoming benefit (31 March) in a letter to the General Advertiser, followed by 3 stanzas of verse]: Sir, The Remembrance of the pleasure I have often receiv'd, in a series of years, by hearing Mr Leveridge's Performances on the stage, occasion'd the following Lines: which however artless they are wrote, will I dare say give no offense to the good natur'd part of Mankind. I am your constant reader. T.H.: @I Whilst Garrick justly claims applause,@Old Leveridge humbly sues,@That you'll not quite neglect his cause@Nor now his suit refuse.@Whilst youthful vigor tun'd his voice@With song he rais'd the heart;@To cheer that voice, now chilled with Age@Becomes a noble part.@Then shew that faithful service past@Your thoughts does still employ;@And by your num'rous Presence grac'd@Revive old age with joy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Brilliant-Cibber; Wronglove-Gibson; Moral-Bridges; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Vincent; Brush-Anderson; Porter-Paddick; 1st Bravo-James; Surgeon-Stoppelaer; Lady Gentle-Mrs Hale; Miss Notable-Miss Morrison; Mrs Hartshorn-Mrs Bland; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Brush Actor: Anderson
Role: Mrs Hartshorn Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

Song: n Irish Song %Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

1966
25 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Mrs Mills. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. By Desire 3 rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Mr and Mrs Mills take but one benefit this year that they may not be troublesome to their friends. Receipts: #210 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #49 8s.; tickets, #153 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Janneton Auretti[, as17480320

1967
03 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Education of a Young Gentleman in Distress. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Gentleman for whom this Benefit is intended, after having gone thru a scholastic Education, being by a series of Misfortunes too tedious to enumerate, deprived of an academical one, takes this opportunity humbly to submit his case to the publick, and beg their indulgence so far as to enable him to go through his studies at the University

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Anderson.

1968
21 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin exactly at six o'clock. No persons to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn up. Places for the boxes to be taken of Mr Page at the Stage door (General Advertiser). [This notice appears on subsequent bills this season but will not be repeated further here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Brute-Quin; Heartfree-Ryan; Constant-Ridout; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Giffard; Belinda-Mrs Ridout, 1st appearance on that stage; Rake-Gibson; Justice-Bridges; Razor-Anderson; Mademoiselle-Miss Morrison; Lady Brute-Mrs Woffington 1st appearance that stage these 7 years.
Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1969
14 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Lowe; Arcas-Anderson; Corydon-Arthur; Cymon-Collins; Mopsus-Dunstall; Phillida-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

1970
18 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Music: By particular Desire, Concerto on Flute, as17480917

1971
31 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1972
17 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1973
22 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17481221

1974
26 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

1975
26 December 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell. Benefit for Mrs Yeates. By Desire of some Gentlemen and Ladies. Particular care is taken to have the House warm. To begin at half an hour after six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked