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3808 results for: Keyword - S. W.
We found 4128 matches on Roles/Actors, 1277 matches on Performance Comments, 260 matches on Event Comments, 32 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

901
02 February 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 7 years. [See 20 Feb. 1767.] Mr Barry being ill Mr Palmer play'd the Bastard--with applause $Mrs Barry not so well in Constance as was expected (Hopkins Diary). Paid properties #2 8d. Receipts: #162 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

902
15 February 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Cast
Role: Miss Walsingham Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Wright, Jones, Courtney, Wrighten, Burton, Jacobs, Watkins, Fawcett, Kear, Norris, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt

903
11 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

904
14 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

905
25 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Cast
Role: Miss Walsingham Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: End: (By Particular Desire) Bannister's Imitations-Bannister

906
25 September 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii; With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

Performance Comment: King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh [unidentified]); Duke of Buckingham-Stacy; Duke of Norfolk-Comerford; Duke of Suffolk-Kenny; Earl of Surry-Garland; Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)-Lewis; Gardiner (Bishop of Winchester)-Massey; Lord Sands-Ware of Deptford; Lord Chamberlain-Johnson; Cardinal Campeius (the Pope's Legate)-Sparrow; Cromwell (Gentleman Usher)-W. Smith; Doctor Butts (Physician to the King)-Ward; Cardinal Wolsey-Stokes; Queen Katherine-Miss Reynolds; Anne Bullen-Mrs West; Patience (with a song in character)-Mrs Davies; Dame Prattle-Mrs Ross; Lady of the bed chamber [to Queen Katherine-Miss C. Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Hoyden; or, The Man of Quality

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Marklew

Song: Between Acts: Singing-Mrs Davies

907
21 September 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Mrs Dimity Actor: Miss Weller

Dance: End: The Shepherd's Wedding-Harris, Miss Matthews

908
04 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion; or, A Trip to Brighthelmstone

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Mahon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Egan, Lee Lewes, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems, Mrs Green. Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1778): Sir John Evergreen-Quick; Charles Evergreen-Whitfield; Beaufort-Mahon; Drill-Wewitzer; Tattoo-Brunsdon; Roger-Egan; Cameleon-Lee Lewes; Brussels-Mrs Pitt; Emily-Mrs Morton; Maid-Mrs Willems; Lady Catherine Rouge-Mrs Green; New Prologue-Whitfield.

Song: In: To thee O gentle sleep!-Mrs Farrell

909
19 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

910
16 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

911
04 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

912
13 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Catherine And Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Lewis; Hortensio-Robson; Taylor-Jones; Baptista-Thompson; Music@Master-Brunsdon; Pedro-Wewitzer; Biondello-Cushing; Grumio-Quick; Bianca-Mrs Poussin; Curtis-Mrs White; Catherine-Mrs Green.

Dance: As17791022

913
26 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

Dance: As17791123

914
29 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Song: As17791018

915
30 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by Charles Dibdin. After being altered and enlarged this was billed as Harlequin Every-where (see 27 Dec.)]: With entire new Music; new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed by Dibdin; the Scenes designed and executed by Richards, Carver, Hodgins, Cipriani. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. The Orphan [announced on playbill of 29 Nov.] is deferred on account of Mrs Hartley's Indisposition. Account-Book, 13 Nov.: Paid Hodgins, painter, 14 weeks salary #36 15s. Public Advertiser, 1 Dec. 1779: This Afternoon is bublishpublished The Mirror (1s.). Receipts: #180 18s. (168.1; 12.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Every-where

Performance Comment: Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1779) Jupiter-Robson; Pluto-Baker; Minos-L'Estrange; Belphegor-Reinhold; Astorath-Doyle; Cryer of Minos' Court-Thompson; Poor Spirit-Brundson; 3 Antipodeans-; Mercury-J. Wilson; Harlequin-W. Bates; Punch-Edwin; Lieutenant-Booth; Sailor-Fearon; Ceres-Mrs Kennedy; Little Girl-Miss Morris; Prude-Mrs Poussin; Sicilians-Mrs Willems, Miss Green; Colombine-Miss Brown [in text: Miss Cranfield (see17800110)].in text: Miss Cranfield (see17800110)].

916
08 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

917
11 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

918
17 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End I: The Dockyard, as17791204; V: a Dance of Foresters-Dagueville

919
19 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17791013

920
24 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17791013

921
18 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady Cured

Performance Comment: Atall-Lewis; Careless-Wroughton; Clerimont-Whitfield; Finder-Wewitzer; Captain Strutt-Brunsdon; Sir Harry Atall-Thompson; Mr Wilful-Fearon; Bolus-Booth; Rhubarb-Jones; Supple-W. Bates; Sir Solomon Sadlife-Quick; Lady Dainty-Mrs Mattocks; Clarinda-Miss Ambrose; Sylvia-Mrs Lewis; Wishwell-Mrs Wilson; Situp-Mrs Poussin; Lady Sadlife-Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The School For Scandal Scandaliz'd

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

922
25 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Mattocks, Reinhold, Quick, Wilson, Edwin, Whitfield, Egan, Mrs Wilson, Mrs White, Mrs Morton. Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1780) and London Chronicle, 3 May 1780: Beauclerc-Mattocks; Major Bromfield-Reinhold; Ben Hassan-Quick; Serjeant Trumbull-Wilson; Woolwich-Edwin; Muley-Whitfield; Serjeant O'Bradley-Egan; Lieutenant-Wordsworth; Officers-Booth, Fearon, Robson; Sailor-W. Bates; Soldiers-L'Estrange, Thompson, Wewitzer; Mob-Jones, Ledger, Brunsdon, Bates, Stevens; Jenny-Mrs Wilson; Moll Trumpet-Mrs White; Zayde-Mrs Morton.

923
01 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Elders

Song: In: To thee O gentle sleep-Leoni

924
12 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth, Egan & Fearon. Morning Chronicle, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Booth, No. 35, Brownlow-street, Long-Acre [others not listed]. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, author unknown. Larpent MS 521; not published]. [For Henderson as Shylock see dl, 14 Oct. 1777.] Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #177 3s. (61.1; tickets: 116.2) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Orators; Or, Ladies' Debating Society

Performance Comment: Principal Female Speakers-Mrs Pitt, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Willems, Miss Stewart, Miss Green, Mrs Webb; The other Characters-Booth, Brunsdon, Egan.

Afterpiece Title: The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Song: End III 2nd piece: a Scotch ballad (the music by Dr Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

Ballet: End IV 2nd piece: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508

925
20 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Jerome-Wilson; Lopez-W. Bates; Father Paul-Booth; Carlos-Mrs Kennedy; Antonio-Reinhold; The Duenna (1st time)-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks; Clara-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Frolick-Aldridge (1st appearance here these 2 years), Miss Besford, Miss Valois