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We found 6691 matches on Roles/Actors, 1726 matches on Performance Comments, 226 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: As17900705.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17900705 but Vinegar-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17900615.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: beaumarchais Never previously Acted Together

Performance Comment: The Spanish Barber. As17900630.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day Being the Sequel to The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17900617.

Dance: As17900630

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: As17900707.

Dance: In course of Evening: A Double Hornpipe-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Suicide, advertised on playbill of 13 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performance Comment: As17900623.

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Performance Comment: As17900626.

Dance: End: As17900625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17900629.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17900619.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17900616.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17900615.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: As17900625.

Afterpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900716 but Miss Palmer; Evatt_; Chorus of Indians-_Chapman.

Dance: As17900716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Dance: As17900716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: As17900623.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: Scout (the Village Lawyer)-Bannister Jun.; Sheepface-Ryder (1st appearance in that character); Justice Mittimus-Usher; Charles-Farley; Snarl-Baddeley; Kate-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Scout-Mrs Webb.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17900705.

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Generous Sportsman- [See17900625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Performance Comment: As17900626.

Dance: In III: A Grand Indian War Dance, as17900716 End: A Double Hornpipe, as17900713

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Performance Comment: As17900720.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17900622.

Dance: As17900723

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17900618.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17900621.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: As17900707.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. [Miss Webb's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 30 July 1788.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17900626 but Captain Macheath-Bannister; Polly-Miss Webb (2nd appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17900722.

Dance: As17900626

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17900619.

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Performance Comment: As17900626.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17900616.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17900615 but Mrs Cadwallader-_; here called Becky-Mrs Wells.

Dance: As17900723

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Comet; 3rd piece of The Agreeable Surprise, both advertised on playbill of 4 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farm House

Performance Comment: As17900728.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17900617.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17900619.

Dance: As17900722

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: As17900807.

Dance: As17900716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17900619 but Tobine-Palmer; Nancy Lovell-Miss Fontenelle (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: Colonel Tamper-Palmer; Major Belford-Evatt; Servant-Lyons; Prattle-Baddeley; Florival-Miss Heard; Bell-Mrs Taylor; Emily-Mrs Goodall.

Dance: End I: A Double Hornpipe, as17900713 End: The Generous Sportsman, as17900625

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. 2nd piece [1st time; SAT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 877; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. [Monologue by George Colman, ynger (European Magazine, Aug. 1790, p. 151.] Gazetteer, 7 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17900630 but Count Almaviva-Palmer (1st appearance in that character these 2 years); Doctor Bartholo-Parsons (1st appearance on this stage these 2 years).

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling A Dramatic Caricature

Performance Comment: !! Characters by Bannister Jun., Davies, Cubitt, Iliff, Chapman, Barrett, Evatt, Abbott, Farley, Baddeley, Mrs Webb, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Powell, Mrs Brooks. Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 8 July 1791: Mr Robert Gout-Bannister Jun.; Ned Howard-Iliff; Landlord-Chapman; William-Barrett; Mr Gout-Baddeley; Lady Anecdote-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Gout-Mrs Powell; Harriet-Mrs Brooks; Prologue-Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: As17900807.

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Performance Comment: As17900719.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performance Comment: As17900807, but Miss Biddy with a song-Mrs Kemble.

Dance: As17900716

Event Comment: Inkle and Yarico [advertised on playbill of 16 Aug.] is unavoidably postponed till Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17900629.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17900722.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17900619.

Dance: As17900722

Entertainment: Monologue. After the Dancing: Liberty, as17900813

Performance Comment: After the Dancing: Liberty, as17900813.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells [who imitated Mrs Siddons, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Kennedy (World, 19 Aug.). 1st piece in place of Seeing is Believing; 2nd of Ways and Means, both advertised on playbill of 17 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17900629.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: As17900807.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: As17900618 but Quaver-Waterhouse.

Entertainment: End I 2nd piece: Tragic Imitations-Mrs Wells; End II: Comic and Vocal Imitations-Mrs Wells; End play: Favourite Speech the "ring" speech in IV.ii from Isabella-Mrs Wells

Performance Comment: ii from Isabella-Mrs Wells.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17900813.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17900722 but Mrs Scout-Mrs Powell.

Dance: End: A Double Hornpipe, as17900713