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2799 results for: Keyword - Queen-mother
We found 1321 matches on Performance Comments, 1168 matches on Performance Title, 495 matches on Event Comments, 11 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

126
18 December 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 16-18 Dec. 1697: We hear that the Marquiss of Carmarthen who lately Entertain'd the Great Officer from the Czar of Muscovy, at the Opera call'd the Prophetess, has this day Bespoke the Entertainment of the Indian Queen at the Theatre Royal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

127
24 February 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Post Man, 24-26 Feb. 1697@8: London Feb. 26. On Thursday the Czar of Muscovy came privately with a small Retinue to Kensington, and I am told went afterwards to see the Play, the Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

128
25 April 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: To all the Nobility and Gentry: In Honour of the Queen s Coronation. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

129
04 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. With a new Prologue and Epilogue. Admission as 14 Dec. 1703. [A Folger Library broadside appears to be a program for this concert. It lists in Act I The Druid's Song from Bonduca, two songs by Mrs Tofts, a song from The Fairy Queen, and a dance; in Act II The Frost Music from King Arthur, two dances, and a song by Mrs Tofts; in Act III an Ode on the Glorious Beginning of Her Majesty's Reign, set by Daniel Purcell and performed by Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, and Mrs Campion; a song by Mrs Tofts, The Sacrifice from King Arthur, and a Grand Dance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Wherein several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; With several select Pieces of Musick- (compos'd by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell) taken out of the Operas of The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Dioclesian, and Bonduca; And an Ode upon the Happy Accession of Her Majesty to the Throne- set to Musick by Mr Daniel Purcell, never perform'd before

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl

130
29 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: a comical Tragedy [a burlesque of Lee's The Rival Queens by Cibber]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queen's; With The Humours of Alexander the Great

Song: Three select Entertainments in Italian-Mr Holcombe. Being the first time of his performance on that Stage

131
22 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. [No mention of the King and Queen in Treasurer's Book.] Paid Mr Grist on act by order #10. Receipts: #280 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

132
09 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Artaxerxes will be taken. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #278 7s. 6d. (166/9/6; tickets: 111/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: End of mainpiece The Gala, as17820402, but omitted: Dumay, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Early Horn; End of Act I of afterpiece The Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots; End of Act II Auld Robin Grey, all three sung by Mrs Kennedy

133
11 June 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Morning Chronicle, 4 June; Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Anne-street, East. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (170.5.6; 56.9.0; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #161 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

134
15 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Balthazar to Gray, but "Incledon...condescended to take the part of Balthazar, which Townsend [who acted it on 6 Oct.] was too ill to perform, and sung 'Sigh no more, ladies' with much sweetness and effect. In the entertainment Johnstone introduced the song of 'Queen Bess" (Morning Herald, 16 Mar.).] Receipts: #372 1s. 6d. (362.8.6; 9.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: As17971006

Song: In afterpiece: Queen Bess [not listed on playbill; see below]-Johnstone

135
21 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. This Comedy is reviv'd with great Alterations by Mr G. by particular desire of the Queen. The play went off vastly well Mr G. Play'd with great Spirit & much Applauded the Alterations are vastly lik'd it will now be a living Play (Hopkins Diary). Doors open half past five. Play to begin promptly at six. House (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #156 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Don Frederick-Jefferson; Antonio-Parsons; Petruchio-J. Aickin; 1st Constantia-Miss Younge; 2nd Constantia-Mrs Abington; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Kinswoman-Miss Platt; Nurse-Mrs Love; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; Peter-W. Palmer; Duke-Packer; Antony-Wheeler; Edition of 1774 adds Duke's Party-J. Bannister, Yates; Petruchio's Party-Fawcett, Griffith; Attorney-Burton.
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

136
01 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. Mainpiece: As altered from Beaumont and Fletcher by the Duke of Buckingham and D. Garrick, Esq. Not acted these 7 years. Morning Chronicle, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 22, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #242 1s. 6d. (84.10.6; 7.5.0; tickets: 150.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Harley (1st appearance in that character); Don Frederick-Marshall; Duke-Davies; Petruchio-Macready; Peter-Blanchard; Anthony-Cubitt; Surgeon-Powel; Antonio's Man-Rock; Antonio-Quick; First Constantia-Miss Chapman; Mother-Mrs Webb; Landlady-Mrs Pitt; Niece-Mrs Platt; Second Constantia-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17901204

Song: End I: The Group of Lovers-Munden; End II: a favourite Sea Song-Incledon

137
19 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 2nd piece: In one Act. A Tragi-Comic, Pastoral, Operatical, Farcical Drama, written by the Author of The Beggar's Opera [John Gay]. True Briton, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 30, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-Fields. Receipts: #352 0s. 6d. (140.15.6; 5.9.0; tickets: 205.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: What d'ye Call It

Performance Comment: JonasDock, alias Timothy Peascod-Munden; Sir Roger-Davenport; Sir Humphrey-Thompson; Justice Statue-Street; Steward-Powel; Peter Nettle-Farley; Constable-Abbot; Countryman-Follett; Unborn Ghost-Master Standen; Smut, the Farrier's Ghost-Simmons; Squire Thomas, alias ThomasFilbert-Knight; Mother's Ghost-Mrs Henley; Grandmother-Mrs Gilbert; Dorcas-Mrs Watts; Aunt-Mrs Platt; Ghost of Bees-Mrs Norton; Kitty Carrots (with the original song, 'Twas when the seas were roaring)-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Mother's Ghost Actor: Mrs Henley
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Gilbert

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

138
03 September 1669 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The news of the death of Henrietta-Maria, the Queen Mother, reached London ca. 3 Sept. 1669. There may well have been an order forbidding playing, although it is not extant; but an order, L. C. 5@12, p. 251 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322) directs the two companies to act again on Monday, 18 Oct. 1669. Probably the theatres were closed for approximately six weeks

Performances

139
27 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

140
28 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

141
29 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

142
31 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

143
02 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

144
03 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

145
04 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

146
05 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

147
07 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

148
08 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

149
09 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold

150
10 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold
Role: Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton Actor: Reinhold