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9969 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

1651
14 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: As17791220

1652
12 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King in place of Palmer

Dance: As17791220

1653
23 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Carleton Sen., Woollams & Bayne. Tickets delivered by Devoto, Page, Finney and Barthrope will be taken. [Afterpiece in place of Who's the Dupe?, announced on playbill of 22 May.] Receipts: #24 13s. 6d. (19.1.0; 5.2.6; 0.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1654
29 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Belle's Stratagem, announced on playbill of 28 Jan.] Receipts: #201 14s. (199/8; 2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke Prince of Wales-Lewis
Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Matthews
Role: Her Mother Actor: Mrs Pitt

1655
04 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Another Irishman Actor: Mahon

Dance: As17821130

1656
29 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Prosser, Helme, Lloyd, Real, Rowson, R. Ledger, Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Lampe, and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #276 12s. 6d. (83/7/0; 2/7/6; tickets: 190/18/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece Rural Merriment by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Prosser

1657
17 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

1658
29 December 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Richmond, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Kemble's.] Receipts: #226 1s. (221/12; 4/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cg King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Henderson
Role: King Henry Actor: Clarke
Role: Buckingham Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Chalmers. Other parts from Larpent MS and from Morning Chronicle, 24 Dec.: Head, Councillors in Lilliput, Cryer, Lord Mayor, Alderman, Clerk, Lawyer, Judge, Sailor, Country Squire, Watchman, Clown, Father

1659
09 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Staunton as King John, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes L'Estrange.] Receipts: #223 13s. (211/18; 11/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Performance Comment: As17841020, 1783 but King John-L'Estrange [of CG] .of CG] .
Cast
Role: 83 but King John Actor: L'Estrange

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor

1660
25 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Charms of a Camp, as17840521

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Mrs Martyr; End of Act iv Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Davies, Brett

1661
29 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Frederick Pilon. Prologue probably by the author]. Public Advertiser, 11 Nov. 1784: This Day is published Aerostation (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Aerostation; or, The Templar's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Characters by Quick, Wewitzer, Bonnor, Davies, Wilson; Miss Ranoe, Mrs Morton, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (G. Kearsley, 1784): Quarto-Quick; Dawson-Wewitzer; Mineall-Bonnor; George Gordon-Davies; Scrip-Wilson; Mineall's Servant-Newton; Sophia Harland-Miss Ranoe; Kitty-Mrs Morton; Widow Grampus-Mrs Webb; Milliner-Mrs Poussin.] Prologue spoken by Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 6 performances only (see17841117).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 6 performances only (see17841117).] hathi.

1662
22 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Prologue by Edward Topham (London Chronicle, 26 Aug. 1786)]. Account-Book, 5 June 1786: Paid Mrs Inchbald in full for Appearance is against Them #50. Public Advertiser, 11 Nov. 1785: This Day is published Appearance is against Them (1s.). Receipts: #207 2s. (204/10/6; 2/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Palmer, Thompson, Kennedy, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Mrs Bates, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Wilson. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Mr Walmsley-Quick; Lord Lighthead-Palmer; Thompson-Thompson [sic]; Clownly-Kennedy; Humphry-Edwin; Servant to Lord Lighthead-Swords; Servant to Lady Mary-Ledger; Lady Mary Magpie-Mrs Webb; Lady Loveall-Mrs Bates; Miss Angle-Mrs Morton; Miss Audley-Miss Stuart; Fish-Mrs Wilson; Betty-Mrs Davenett.] Prologue spoken by Wroughton. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17851115).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Wroughton. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17851115).] hathi.
Cast
Role: Lord Lighthead Actor: Palmer
Role: Servant to Lord Lighthead Actor: Swords

1663
31 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Cast
Role: English Father Actor: Fearon
Role: English Father's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt

1664
12 January 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Bernard.
Role: Aladin's Mother Actor: Mrs Davenett

1665
24 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin [1790]. Sga Storace had 1st appeared in concerts from 1774 to 1778, and at king's on 24 Apr. 1787 and thereafter]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Music composed by Storace, the rest compiled from Linley? Sen., Purcell, Sarti, Paisiello, Martin y Soler?, Pleyel, &c. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "In her own particular line on the stage [Sga Storace] was unrivalled, being an excellent actress, as well as a masterly singer. She settled entirely in England, and after quitting the opera (to which she was frequently recalled in times of distress, as was too often the case), she engaged at Drury Lane, where the English opera was raised to an excellence not known before, by her singing, with that of Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Kelly, and Bannister, and under the direction of her brother Stephen Storace, who composed, or rather compiled, several very pretty operas, of which the Haunted Tower, and the Siege of Belgrade still remain favorites, and are frequently performed" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 65). Account-Book, 4 Jan. 1790: Paid Cobb on Acct. of the Purchase of the Copyright of the Haunted Tower #157 10s.; 27 Feb. 1790: Paid Cobb in full for Copyright #52 10s. Receipts: #219 9s. 6d. (200.13.0; 17.14.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: [Characters-Kelly, Baddeley, Moody, Suett, Dignum, Sedgwick, Whitfield, Williames, Bannister Jun.; Sga Storace (1st appearance on the English stage i.e. in a speaking part]), Miss Romanzini, Mrs Booth, Mrs Crouch. [Cast from Songs (J. Jarvis, 1789): Lord William-Kelly; Baron of Oakland-Baddeley; Hugo-Moody; Lewis-Suett; Robert-Dignum; Charles-Sedgwick; De Courcy-Whitfield; Martin-Williames; Edward-Bannister Jun.; Hubert-Webb; Servant-Lyons; Adela-Sga Storace; Cicely-Miss Romanzini; Maud-Mrs Booth; Lady Elinor-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The King-Whitfield; Richard-R. Palmer; Joe (with a song)-Williames; Lord Lurewell-Benson; The Miller-Moody; Kate-Mrs Wilson; Peggy-Miss Collins; Margery-Mrs Hopkins [Public Advertiser: Mrs Booth].Public Advertiser: Mrs Booth].
Cast
Role: The King Actor: Whitfield
Role: The Miller Actor: Moody

1666
22 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17900129

1667
28 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

1668
05 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

1669
06 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Belgrade; afterpiece of High Life Below Stairs, both advertised on playbill of 4 Oct.] Receipts: #260 1s. (191.8; 66.4; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1670
11 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of No Song No Supper [Prince Hoare]; the Music composed principally by Storace. Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (94.1.6; 49.17.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

1671
22 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Fugitive

Cast
Role: Admiral Cleveland Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

1672
23 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

1673
24 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

1674
25 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #200 7s. 6d. (140.6.6; 55.11.0; 4.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #153 1s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Fugitive

Cast
Role: Admiral Cleveland Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

1675
30 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: III: song-Sedgwick