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2269 results for: Keyword - Royal Family
We found 1354 matches on Event Comments, 711 matches on Performance Title, 327 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2076
15 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Mrs Cargill; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Williams; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny Diver-Miss Collett; Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Polly-Miss Wheeler (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage). hathi. 1st appearance on this stage). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17811004; In Act III a Hornpipe by Walker

2077
19 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [not acted since 28 Apr. 1773]. With new Scenes [by French and Carver (text)] and Dresses. [In the Vocal Parts the playbill lists Sga Prudom, but "at the end of the second act, Smith came forward and apologized for the absence of Signora Prudom, and begged that Mrs Wrighten might be permitted to take her part . . . Mrs Wrighten was received with applause" (London Chronicle, 20 Oct.). Sga Romanzini was from the Royal Circus.] Receipts: #123 8s. 6d. (92/15/0; 29/11/0; 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In mainpiece by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss M. Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Williams, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, &c.; Miss Phillips, Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

2078
24 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Never performed here. Written by [John] O'Keeffe; As it was performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning with 4 Sept.], with the greatest Applause. The Overture and new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #205 7s. 6d.(203/6/6; 2/1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

2079
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Mrs Greville (of DL); Colonel Standard-Brinsley; Young Clincher-Swords (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin); Vizard-Cotton; Alderman Smuggler-Barrett; Tom Errand-Forrest; Beau Clincher-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Wife-Mr Pressley; Angelica-Miss Read; Parley-Miss Plain; Lady Darling-Mrs Fowler; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Child .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

2080
01 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Afterpiece: As performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning 6 Aug. 1779]; by the Author of the Son-in-Law, the Agreeable Surprise, &c. [John O'Keeffe]. [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #195 9s. 6d. (161/11/6; tickets: 33/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

2081
09 May 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit for Gardel. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Gardel, No. 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. 1st ballet: With entirely new Music, and a new Overture by Carter (Morning Herald, 25 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Dance: End of Act I an entire new Ballet (composed by Gardel Sen.), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411

2082
27 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17820605 but Macheath-Miss Kirby (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage). hathi. 1st appearance on this stage). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

2083
10 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Smith; Count Baldwin-Packer; Carlos-Farren; Belford-R. Palmer; Child-Master Siddons; Sampson-Wrighten; Villeroy-Palmer; Nurse-Mrs Love; Isabella-Mrs Siddons (from the Theatre Royal, Bath) .

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: Afterpiece: With a Postilion Dance incident to the Piece. [This was danced in all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium, with singing by Miss Collett and Miss Wright. [This was sung, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 6 Nov. 1782, 15 Mar., 6 May, 5 June 1783.]

2084
19 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: Overture from Thomasand Sally, by Dr Arne. scene I A Forest. Sportsmen, Horses and Dogs, returning from the Chace. Give round the word, dismount, dismount, the Music by Dibdin, sung by Doyle, scene II. The Cave of Echo. They say there is an Echo here, I'll try, I'll try, I'll try by Davies, Mahon, Darley, Doyle, scene III. A Camp. The Duetto of the Tobacco Box, Though the Fate of Battle. Tom-Brett; Kate-Miss Morris. SCENE IV. A Wood. Tally ho!, as17830516. scene v. A Sea Piece. The Description of a Battle, Stand to your Guns, my Hearts of Oak by Bannister, scene vi. A Pantomimical Interlude, The Skeleton (Taken from The Royal Chace). Harlequin-W. Bates; Pierrot-Stevens; Pantaloon-Thompson, scene VII. When Phoebus, &c., as17830517. scene VIII. A Banquet. Come, my Friends and jovial Boys (jingers not listed). To conclude with a Grand Ballet. Also Coalition. Principal Characters by Quick, Davies, W. Bates, Wewitzer; Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Webb, Mrs Bannister. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Chian Cucumber, Pert, Rigdoon, Capt. Sentry; Letitia, Fanny, Mrs Pandar, Priscilla. Morning Herald, 21 May, assigns: Sir Caian Anchovy-Quick; French Marquis-Wewitzer.] hathi. hathi.

2085
06 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Williamson (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage); King-Gardner; Horatio-Aickin; Rosencraus-Stevens; Guildenstern-Egan; Polonius-Edwin; Laertes-R. Palmer; Ostrick-Riley (1st appearance in London); Marcellus-Booth; Grave Diggers-Parsons, Massey; Ghost-Bensley; Ophelia-Mrs Bannister; Player Queen-Mrs Poussin; Queen-Mrs Wheatley. Prologue as17830531 .

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

2086
17 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Brett; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Luanda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-Mrs Johnstone (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage) . 1st appearance on this stage) .

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Belle of the Village by Harris and Miss Matthews

2087
24 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-[S.] Kemble (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage); Roderigo-Bonnor; Cassio-Whitfield; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Davies; Montano-Mahon; Duke-Booth; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Henderson; Emilia-Mrs Whitfield; Desdemona (1st time)-Miss Satchell .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

2088
30 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-[J. P.] Kemble (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance upon that stage); King-Packer; Horatio-Farren; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-Barrymore; Ostrick-R. Palmer; Rosencraus-Phillimore; Guildenstern-Williames; Player King-Chaplin; Marcellus-Wrighten; Lucianus-Waldron; Gravediggers-Suett, Burton; Ghost-Bensley; Ophelia-Miss Field; Player Queen-Mrs Hedges; Queen-Mrs Hopkins .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

2089
02 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Lionel-Johnstone (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in this Kingdom); Col. Oldboy-Wilson; Sir John Flowerdale-Hull; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Davies; Jessamy-Sga Sestini (1st appearance in that character); Diana-Miss Wheeler (of DL); Jenny-Mrs Chalmers; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Webb; Clarissa-Mrs Bannister .

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

2090
10 May 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [entertainments Of Music And Dancing] A Grand Symphony By The Celebrated Band Of The Opera House

Performance Comment: The Peasant Metamorphosed, as17840430 Hornpipe, as17840430 A Grand Instrumental Concert. The Country Squabble, as17840430 New Pastoral Pas de Deux by Duquesney Jun. and Mlle Constance (from the Theatre Royal, Paris). The Rival Clowns, as17840430, but added: Mrs Dagville; in which Orpheo, as17840430.

2091
17 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Calvert (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin); King Henry-Gardner; Buckingham-Usher; Tressel-Riley; Lord Stanley-Jackson; RatclifF-Frost; Norfolk-Neale; Prince Edward-Miss Painter; Duke of York-Master Symmonds [i.e. Simmons]; Richmond-Stratford; Queen-Mrs Lefevre; Duchess of York-Mrs Fowler; Lady Anne-Mrs Cuyler .

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by a Gentleman [unidentified]; End of afterpiece a Mad Song in character by Lyons. imitations. End of mainpiece George Saville Carey has voluntarily offered to go through the following Imitations: The Examination of a Stage Candidate (in the manner of the immortal Garrick), Juno in her Cups, Etiquette, No Flower that blows, Widow Lovett, The Roundelay (in the manner of a late much-lamented Syren [probably Mrs Cargill, who, on her return from India, was drowned on 26 Feb. 1784], The Serenade in The Jubilee (after the manner of Vernon, Bannister and Kear.) To conclude with his celebrated Dialogue, in the manner of Foote and Weston. After the Imitations the Prologue to Barbarossa by Kippling, in the character of a Country Boy, in which he will introduce a Yorkshire Jig in Wooden Shoes

2092
22 September 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorn (1st time)-Brett; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Miss Wheeler (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 1st appearance on this stage) .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Pastoral Sports by Harris, Miss Matthews, &c

2093
25 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Holman is identified on playbill of 5 Nov. Address by John Barwis (European Magazine, Oct. 1784, p. 336, which also lists name of speaker).] Mainpiece: With new Dresses, Scenery and Decorations. In Act I a Masquerade Scene. [This notice is included in all subsequent playbills.] "This easy and natural performance of Holman . . . will prove a fatal blow to the cause of the Attitudinarians and Face-makers; to those who think dramatic excellence consists in . . . finding out meanings that were never meant ... in stretching out their fingers like monkies dying in convulsions ... in uttering their words like minute-guns at royal funerals" (Public Advertiser, 1 Nov.). "Why does Romeo wear black in the last Act? Is it on account of his banishment? He has not heard of Juliet's death" (Gazetteer, 28 Oct.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession, with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Baker, Cubitt, Gaudry, Pemberton, Whitaker, Darley, Doyle; Mrs Bannister, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

2094
13 December 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Peachum-Popplewell; Lockit-Connell; Filch-Decastro; Mat o' the Mint-Ingall; Capt. Macheath (for that night only)-Dighton; Mrs Peachum and Diana Trapes-Mrs Jones; Lucy-Mrs Henley; Jenny Diver-Mrs Barnard; Polly-Mrs Woodman (late of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Fairbrother. vaudeville. End of mainpiece a Scene in a Sporting Club, in which a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical [performers not listed]

2095
12 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: In which Meadows (from the Theatre Royal [Crow Street], Dublin) will make his 1st appearance in this Kingdom [he probably acted Lubin (see CG, 24 May 1786)]; Solomon-Decastro; the Quaker-Dighton (1st appearance in that character); Floretta-Mrs Benson; Gillian-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

2096
26 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Mrs Greville (1st appearance in that character); Frankly-Walton; Bellamy-Cross; Jack Meggot-Benson; Tester-Follett; Buckle-Bell; Simon-Brown; Mr Strickland-L'Estrange; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Walcot (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh); Jacintha-Mrs Bolton; Lucetta-Mrs Waldron; Milliner-Mrs Benson; Clarinda-Mrs Hunter .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Mrs Pinto

Monologue: 1785 04 26 End of Act II of mainpiece Collins's Ode on the Passions by Mrs Walcot. imitations. End of Act I of afterpiece, as 17 Sept. 1784, but An entire new dialogue in the Shades between Foote and Weston; added: Prospero (in the manner of Mossop); omitted: Prologue to Barbarossa

2097
13 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17851208, but Young Meadows-Brett; Hawthorn (1st time)-Johnstone; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-Mrs Billington (from the Theatre Royal [Smock Alley], Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage) .Smock Alley], Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage) .

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851112

2098
09 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mathews was from the Royal Circus. Prologue by George Colman the elder (Colman, Prose, ui, 269).] Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice, at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Hunt the Slipper is unavoidably postponed. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, by Giorgi's Scholars

2099
14 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Master Degville and Miss De Camp were from the Royal Circus.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: Mainpiece: With The Nosegay by Master Degville and Miss De Camp (their 1st appearance on this stage)

2100
28 June 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Wycherley, altered by Garrick, and perform'd very often last season, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, with great applause. Afterpiece: Never acted here. Peeping Tom is obliged to be deferred till Monday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: In the course of the mainpiece a plaintive Pastoral Song, unaccompanied by the orchestra, by the Young Lady; End of Monologue a duett from Robin Hood by Price and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1786 06 28 End of mainpiece Parents and Children; or, The Chimney-Sweeper and Bricklayer by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Gibbons (see 5 and 19 July)])