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5234 results for: Keyword - R
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.

4726
23 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore and Sedgwick. Times, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, Judd Place West, Sommer's Town; of Sedgwick, No. 18, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #518 17s. (88.2.0; 67.11.0; 1.19.6; tickets: 361.4.6) (charge: #213 12s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409, but Wentworth_; Gibbon_; Packer_; Wathen_.

Afterpiece Title: The Anacreontic Society Revived i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-Sedgwick; who will introduce the celebrated [Anacreontic] Song The Silver'd Waters Roam-Sedgwick [, from The Pirates (composed by Storace); Our Tars so Fam'd in Story- (1st time; composed by Stevens); O bring me Wine- (composed by Shield); Sweet Lillies of the Valley- (composed by Hook); a new Loyal Song (written by Captain Morris and composed by Sir William Parsons)-Dignum; [To conclude with a Glee and Chorus-.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Major Benbow-Suett; Justice Benbow-Packer; Captain Greville-Kelly; Captain Wilson-Sedgwick; Tipple (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Eliza-Miss Leak.

4727
25 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #299 4s. 6d. (240.6.0; 55.13.6; 3.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Performance Comment: As17980512.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Performance Comment: As17980514.

4728
31 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Receipts: #484 17s. (85.9; 65.6; 3.0; tickets: 331.2) (charge: #218 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409.

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Performance Comment: Marcos-Kelly; Bernardo-Dignum; Pasqual-Sedgwick; Roberto-Suett; Lewis-Wewitzer; Narcisso-Master Chatterley; Clara-Miss DeCamp; Theresa-Miss Leak; Nina-Mrs Bland; Juliana-Mrs Walcot.

Dance: End: Dance, Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot; the favourite Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

4729
01 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Miss Mellon, Miss Heard, Miss Arne will be admitted. Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (52.6.0; 48.17.6; 2.4.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: As17970923, but 1st Stockbroker-Webb; Lady-Mrs Cuyler; Servant-_; Waiters-_.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As17971113.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17980409, but Susan-Mrs Jordan.

4730
05 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time: INT 1. Larpent MS 1218; not published]: A Sequel [to Sylvester Daggerwood], written by John? O'Keeffe. Times, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. Receipts: #318 17s. (86.6.0; 44.4.6; 2.0.6; tickets: 186.6.0, of which Bannister to pay for half over #100) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17971223, but Ariel-Mrs Bland; Hyppolito-Mrs Powell; Dorinda (1st time)-Mrs Jordan; Alonzo-_; Antonio-_.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As17971223.

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June or The Daggerwoods at Dunstable

Performance Comment: Characters-Bannister Jun., Wewitzer, Wathen, Master Chatterley, Master Walter, Master Tokely, Master Wells, Master Appleby, Mrs Sparks, Miss Tidswell, Miss Walcot, Miss Beton, Miss Chatterley, Miss Smalley. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Waiter, Passengers, Old Daggerwood, Trumpeter, Coachman, Sylvester Daggerwood, Children (specified in Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 368, as Master Apollo, Alexander, Alonzo, Miss Wilhelmina), Mrs Daggerwood, Mrs Dabwall.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Waiter, Passengers, Old Daggerwood, Trumpeter, Coachman, Sylvester Daggerwood, Children (specified in Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 368, as Master Apollo, Alexander, Alonzo, Miss Wilhelmina), Mrs Daggerwood, Mrs Dabwall.]

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Performance Comment: As17980509, but Ibrahim-Dowton.

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17980224, but Ms _Leak

4731
07 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wathen. [Longley is identified in Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 369. For his 1st appearance see 25 Nov. 1797.] Times, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Wathen, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #294 7s. (55.13.6; 44.13.6; 0.9.0; tickets: 193.11.0, of which Wathen to pay for one half brought in over #100)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: Octavian-Barrymore; Virolet-C. Kemble; Kilmallock-Caulfield; Roque-Aickin; Muleteers-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum; Lope Tocho-Hollingsworth; Goatherds-Packer, Evans, Maddocks, Palmer Jun.; Bulcazin Muley-A Gentleman (2nd appearance [Longley]); Ganem-Trueman; Pacha-Wewitzer; Ali Beg-Sparks; Sadi-Wathen; Zorayda-Miss Miller; Floranthe-Miss DeCamp; Agnes-Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As17971223.

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June

Performance Comment: As17980605 but added: Mrs Maddocks.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Performance Comment: As17980605 but Selim-Dignum.

4732
08 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Times, 5 June: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red Lion-square. Receipts: #635 16s. 6d. (46.14.0; 55.0.0; 1.14.0; tickets: 532.8.6) (charge: #220 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Duke Murcia-King; Marquis Almanza-Wroughton; Count Valentia-Russell; Peasant-Aickin; Marchioness Merida (1st time)-Miss Biggs; Amanthis-Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17980524.

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Performance Comment: As17980108.

Song: End II 1st piece: I never lov'd any dear Mary but you-Dignum (composed by Hook); End 1st piece: The Fight off Camperdown-Dignum; End I 2nd piece: The Town and Country-Dignum (composed [i.e. words] by Capt. Morris); End 2nd piece: an Answer to the above, Country and Town-Dignum

Performance Comment: e. words] by Capt. Morris); End 2nd piece: an Answer to the above, Country and Town-Dignum.

4733
11 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Maxwell, Miss Briggs, Miss Clarke, Mrs Horton alias Hedges will be admitted. Receipts: #129 4s. 6d. (92.12.0; 35.1.0; 1.11.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409.

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Performance Comment: As17971211.

4734
13 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Dale Sen., Palmer Jun., Stokes, Chippendale, Wentworth, Gibbon, Miss Tidswell. Mrs Phillimore will be admitted. 4th piece: To conclude as 11 May. Receipts: #441 13s. (21.1; 35.8; 0.12; tickets: 384.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17970926, but Alithea-Miss Mellon; Lucy-Miss Tidswell; Servants-_Evans.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As17971113.

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June

Performance Comment: As17980607.

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Performance Comment: As17980511, but Viletta-Miss Wentworth; added: Gentlemen-Gibbon, Wentworth.

4735
14 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Wood, Wilson, Edwards, Wooldridge, Panchaud, Dangerfield, Irish, Cole, Hough, W. Nix, S. Nix [box-keepers]. Receipts: #526 10s. 6d. (18.1.0; 22.2.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 486.3.0) (charge: #217 14s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17971019, but Lewis-Trueman.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17971213.

4736
16 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Calkin, Edmonds, Gorman, Gooding, Humphries, Henderson, Jacobs, Marks, Massingham Jun., Perry, Ross, Scott, Waterer will be admitted. Receipts: #40 7s. (18.11.0; 19.11.6; 2.4.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Performance Comment: As17980308but Sir Miles Mowbray-King; Robin-Maddocks; Servants-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17970921, but Lenitive-Wathen; Juba-Miss Jackson.

4737
18 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this season. [This was John Palmer's last appearance in London. He died on the stage of the Liverpool theatre, while acting in The Stranger, on 2 Aug. 1798.] Receipts: #164 19s. (113.2.6; 50.9.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17971124, but 2nd Brother-Gibbon; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Arne.

Dance: In I afterpiece: Dancing-Mlle Parisot, Sga Bossi DelCaro

4738
18 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Lingo-Fawcett; Sir Felix Friendly-Suett; Compton-Bannister; Eugene-Davies; Chicane-Usher; Thomas-Waldron Jun.; John-Abbot; Cudden-Chippendale; Stump-Ledger; Laura-Mrs Edward (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Davenport; Fringe-Miss DeCamp; Cowslip-Mrs Gibbs.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17980615 but Earl of Mercia-Palmer Jun.; Count Louis-Lyons; Emma (1st time)-Mrs Edward.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Fawcett; Dr Pedant-Wathen; Omar-Trueman; Selim-Ledger; Guard-Abbot; Officer-Lyons; The Mogul-C. Kemble; Sheba-Mrs Harlowe; Irene-Mrs Edward; Zapphira-Miss Palmer; Fanny-Mrs Gibbs.

4739
19 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17980613 but Plainwell-Caulfield; Mr Level-Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17980613 but Polly-Miss Griffiths ' name listed in playbill (2nd appearance on any stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17980612 but added: Old Wrongward-Waldron; Young Wrongward-Palmer Jun.; Canteen-Trueman; Sternhold-Usher; John-Abbot; Groom-Waldron Jun.; William-Lyons; Bob-Ledger; Sophia-Miss Heard; Chambermaid-Mrs Edward.

4740
22 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Performance Comment: As17980614 but Caroline Dormer-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17980618.

4741
25 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inquisitor

Performance Comment: As17980623 Prologue, Epilogue as17980623 .

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17980621.

4742
26 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inquisitor

Performance Comment: As17980623 Prologue, Epilogue as17980623 .

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17980618 but Eugene-_; Chicane-_; Thomas-_; John-_; Cudden-_; Stump-_.

4743
02 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17980619.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17980619.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17980619.

4744
03 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: see17980627.

Afterpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17980620 but Muleteers-_; Goatherds-_; Moors-_.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Performance Comment: As17980612.

4745
04 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Performance Comment: As17980622 but Henry Moreland-Trueman.

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: As17980628.

4746
06 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Henry Lee. Larpent MS 1221; not published in this form, but altered by the author in 3 acts, as Caleb Quotem and His Wife!; or, Paint, Poetry, and Putty (J. Roach, 1809)]: The Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Suett was, as he always is on a first night, most shamefully imperfect" (Monthly Mirror, July 1798, p. 52). [For Lee's accusing Colman, in his The Review, of plagiarism, see Genest, VII, 387-90. And see 1 Sept. 1800.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17980612 but La Varenne-Palmer Jun.; Egbert-Abbot.

Afterpiece Title: Throw Physick to the Dogs

Performance Comment: Characters by Suett, Trueman, Caulfield, Wathen, Fawcett, Mrs Edward, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Hale, Mrs Norton, Miss Leserve, Mrs Gibbs. Cast from Songs (Cadell and Davies, 1798): Sir Nathan Nervous-Suett; Capt. Hardiman-Trueman; Brookly-Caulfield; Johnny-Wathen; Quotem-Fawcett; Augusta-Mrs Edward; Mrs Tidy-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Quotem-Mrs Hale; Betty-Mrs Norton; Dolly-Miss Leserve; Hannah-Mrs Gibbs.

4747
07 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Throw Physick To The Dogs

Performance Comment: As17980706.

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Performance Comment: As17980615 but Apathy-_; Barebones-_; Bite-_; Poz-_; Natty Maggs-_; Carter-_.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17980621 but Sir Mathew Medley-_; Woodley-_; Waiter-_; Servant-_.

4748
09 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Performance Comment: As17980630 but Stiletto-_; Corvino-_; Priest-_; Guards-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17980618 but Thomas-_; John-_; Cudden-_; Stump-_.

4749
11 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: As17980705.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17980620.

Song: In III: a new duet Adieu , composed by Kelly-Kelly, Miss Griffiths

4750
12 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Performance Comment: As17980704.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17980618.