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645 results for: Keyword - Ralph Brown
We found 475 matches on Performance Comments, 99 matches on Event Comments, 91 matches on Author, 45 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
28 January 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [Mrs Brown was from the Norwich theatre.] Receipts: #200 11s. (198/17; 1/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Lewis; Foresight-Quick; Scandal-Farren; Sir Sampson Legend-Fearon; Jeremy-Davies; Tattle-Wewitzer; Trapland-Booth; Ben (with a song)-Edwin; Mrs Frail-Mrs Bates; Angelica-Mrs T. Kennedy; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Morton; Miss Prue-Mrs Brown (1st appearance on this stage) .
Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Brown

Afterpiece Title: Omai

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20 June 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of A Beggar on Horseback, announced on playbill of 19 June. Mrs Brown was from cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale or The Descent of the Balloon

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Parsons; Dr Pedant-Wewitzer; Selim-Johnson; Omar-Swords; Guard-Gardner; The Mogul-Williamson; Irene-Mrs Inchbald; Sheba-Mrs Cuyler; Zapphira-Miss Brangin; Fanny-Mrs Brown (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Brown

Dance: End: The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller, as17870613

28
09 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT I; author unknown. MS: Larpent 1022; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 10 May]: Books of the Songs may be had at the Theatre. [In 4th piece Brown is identified in Thespian Magazine, June 1794, p. 226.] Morning Chronicle, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #272 19s. (81/14; 5/12; tickets: 185/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Afterpiece Title: THE FOLLIES OF A DAY

Afterpiece Title: LOVE AND HONOR or Britannia in Full Glory at Spithead

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

Performance Comment: Jack Connor-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .

Dance: In 1st piece The Lucky Escape, as17930916, but omitted: Mrs Watts; In 3rd piece, by Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi, &c

Song: In the course of the Evening Water parted from the Sea by Incledon, after the manner of a celebrated Italian Opera Singer; End of Act I of 4th piece Sally in our Alley by Incledon

29
08 June 1798 @ Wheatley's Riding School, Greenwich (location unknown)

Event Comment: Benefit for Twaits, Ives, Hallam, Brown & Mrs Brooks. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Back Seats 6d. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. The above Performers, with the utmost Deference and Respect, inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Greenwich, they have selected those Entertainments which they flatter themselves will meet their Approbation; being compelled to answer their Engagements in another Town, they jointly solicit their Patronage on this occasion, the honour of which will ever be remembered with the most lively effusions of gratitude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas Or The Noble Shepherd

Performance Comment: Douglas (the Noble Shepherd)-Brown; Glenalvon-Twaits; Lord Randolph-Ives; Officer-Humphreys; Old Norval-Hallam; Anna-Mrs Humphreys; Lady Randolph-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Douglas Actor: Brown

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood or A Trial for a London Engagement

Performance Comment: Fustian-Twaits; Servant-Hallam; Sylvester Daggerwood-Brown.
Cast
Role: Sylvester Daggerwood Actor: Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: Between acts: Twaits, Master Seabrook

30
27 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 25 Jan. 1772.] [Brown identified by Kemble note on playbill. Macklin no longer appears on the playlist. This day is published at 1s. 6d. The Duellist, a Comedy, as it was represented at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. To which is prefixed a concise Narrative of the very Extraordinary Circumstances attending its Reception. T. Evans Bookseller.] Receipts: #188 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-a Gentleman, first appearance any stage [Brown]; Iago-Bensley; Cassio-Clarke; Brabantio-Gardner; Roderigo-Lewes[, first time; Lodovico-Owenson; Montano-Davis; Duke-Thompson; Gratiano-Redman; Emilia-Mrs Green; Desdemona-Miss Miller.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

31
16 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Brown is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1790 season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Freeport-Aickin; Sir William Douglas-Bensley; Lord Falbridge-Williamson; Owen-Usher; Officer-Chapman; La France-Baddeley; Spatter-Bannister Jun.; Lady Alton-Mrs Whitfield; Molly-Mrs Wells; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Webb; Amelia-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Brown]).Mrs Brown]).

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900615

32
28 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. [Mrs Brown is sister to Miss Biggs of Drury Lane, and...has played frequently in her father's company in the country [i.e. Barnstaple, &c.]" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1798, p. 179). Morning Herald, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17980616 but Yarico-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any [recte this] stage [Mrs Brown]); Sailors-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End: Patents all the Rage-Munden; A Mock Italian Song-Fawcett; The Group of Lovers ; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden; a new song, The British Volunteers-Johnstone; with Chorus-Trueman, D'Arcy, Linton, Waldron Jun., Abbot, Lyons

33
10 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the Richmond theatre" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Roffey as Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was] Miss Tidswell" (Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6; Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-Dowton; Captain Absolute-Powell; Faulkland-Kemble; Acres-Bannister Jun.; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-Hollingsworth; Coachman-Maddocks; Servants-Fisher, Webb, Evans; Mrs Malaprop-Miss Pope; Lydia Languish-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Brown]); Julia-Miss Biggs; Lucy-Miss Heard; Maid-Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

34
03 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

35
04 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

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11 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

37
13 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

38
18 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

39
21 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

40
22 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

41
23 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

42
28 May 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

Music: SSelarce a Trumpet Solo-Burk Thumoth

43
02 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

Music: SSee@larce A Trumpet Farce-Burk Thumoth; accompanied-the rest of the Musick upon the Stage

Song: new Song, called Myra's Choice , to the Tune of the White Joke,-Mr Russell who sung Hunter at the Hay-Market

44
17 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton

45
27 July 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

46
11 November 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady Or Harlequins Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

47
04 December 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

48
02 February 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph

49
03 February 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph

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04 February 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph