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3055 results for: Keyword - W. and A. Lee
We found 2066 matches on Performance Comments, 608 matches on Author, 489 matches on Event Comments, 62 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
07 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Quick; Puff-Dunstall; Capt. Loveit-Booth; Jasper-Thompson; Capt. Flash-Lee Lewes; Tag-Mrs Pitt; Miss Biddy-Miss Leeson.
Cast
Role: Flash Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Miss Leeson.

Dance: End Opera: a New Comic Dance call'd La Soiree A@la@mode-Dagueville, Sga Vidini, Mas. Holland, Harris, Miss Ross, a girl only 5 years old, scholar to Dagueville

Performance Comment: Holland, Harris, Miss Ross, a girl only 5 years old, scholar to Dagueville.

1327
08 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father with Alterations

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17751124, but Harlequin-Lee Lewes (playbill); Harlequin-Rayner (Public Advertiser).
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: The Dances Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Daguville, Sga Vidini

1328
16 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Guardian-Clarke; Sir Charles-Dunstall; Young Clackit-Lee Lewes; Lucy-Mrs Lessingham; Harriet-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Young Clackit Actor: Lee Lewes
Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Dance: End Opera: La Soiree A@la@mode, as17751207

1329
19 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment of a Fund, for the Relief of Performers and others retiring from the Theatre. Mr Barry still continues indisposed. Afterpiece: The LAST time of performing it. [The call for this afterpiece must have been remarkable, supposed to closed 6 Nov. it was continued "by desire" on the 24 Nov. on Dec. 1, 8, 15, and 19.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17751215, but Harlequin-Lee Lewes.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lee Lewes.
Role: The Dances Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Daguville, Sga Vidini

1330
23 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: Old Mask-Quick; Young Mask-Lee Lewes; Freeman-Thompson; Rosin-Wewitzer; Lady Scrape-Mrs Poussin; Laundress-Mrs Pitt; The Musical Lady-Miss Barsanti.
Cast
Role: Young Mask Actor: Lee Lewes

Dance: End Opera: La Soiree A@la@mode, as17751207

1331
26 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Pantomime Entertainment, never performed. With New Music, Scenes, Dresses, and Machinery. The Overture composed by Fisher. The scenes painted by Messrs Dahl and Richards. Nothing under FULL PRICE will be taken. The Words of the songs to be given at the Doors. [This information included in all subsequent bills for the pantomime this season, until 25 March when the half-price practice is announced. Full account of the content of the afterpiece is given in The Westminster Magazine for Dec. The reviewer was delighted with the adherence to the classical myth in the first and last scenes, and with the variety of action and excellence of the machinery and painting in the interventing comic portion.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters-Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini; The Vocal Parts-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Mrs Willems, Mrs Masters; The Dances-Zuchelli, Sga Vidini.
Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

1332
29 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet as Written By shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: As17751226, but The Principal Characters-Rayner, Lee _Lewes.
Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Rayner, Lee _Lewes.
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

1333
13 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17760106, but Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Elliot-Young.
Cast
Role: Young Wilding Actor: Lee Lewes

Dance: End Opera: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

1334
24 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Wroughton; Sir Bashful-Quick; Sir Brilliant-Lewis; William-Lee Lewes; Sideboard-Booth; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Bulkley; Lady Constant-Mrs Lessingham; Muslin-Mrs Green; Mignionet-Miss Valois; Furnish-Mrs Poussin; Widow Belmour (With a Song)-Miss Barsanti.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

1335
03 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Street Ballad, The Duenna or the Double Elopement, a new song to an old Tune: @In the days of Gay, they sing and say,@The town was full of folly:@For all day long, its sole sing-song@Was pretty, pretty Polly.@So now-a-days, as it was in Gay's,@The world's run mad again-a@From morn to night its whole delight@To cry up the Duenna.@One half the town still talks of Brown@The other of Leoni,@While those sly curs, the managers,@Keep pocketing the money... [Brown was the original Clara in the opera. See 16 Dec. 1775 (Hampden, Journal).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: As17760131, but The Principal Characters-_Zuchelli, Lee Lewes.
Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: _Zuchelli, Lee Lewes.
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

1336
05 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Jaques-Barry; Orlando-Lewis; Adam-Lee; Duke Senior-Hull; Amiens (with Songs)-Mattocks; Oliver-Wroughton; Duke Frederick-Fearon; Touchstone-Woodward; Caelia (with the Cukoo Song)-Mrs Mattocks; Phoebe-Miss Dayes; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Rosalind-Mrs Barry; in V, a Dance of Forresters-Daguville.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Lewis
Role: Adam Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: _Zuchelli, Lee Lewes.
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

Dance: I: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

1337
12 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Evander Actor: Barry

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: As17760203, but short bill: Principal Characters-Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker (first time), Wewitzer, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini; Vocals-Reinhold, DuBellamy; Dances-Sg and Sga Zuchelli.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker
Role: Dances Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli.
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: _Zuchelli, Lee Lewes.
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Lee Lewes, Mahon, Baker, Jones, Thompson, Wewitzer, Stephens, Dagueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini

1338
02 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: As17760109, but Young Clackit-Lee Lewes; Lucy-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Young Clackit Actor: Lee Lewes
Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Dance: End Opera: The Italian Gardeners, as17751011

1339
05 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas? Sheridan. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve and now carefully revised, and corrected, by expunging the exceptionable passages, not acted these twenty years. [See 25 May 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Sheridan; Sir Paul Plyant-Quick; Careless-Lewis; Mellefont-Wroughton; Brisk-Lee Lewes; Lord Touchwood-Clarke; Lord Froth-Booth; Lady Plyant-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Froth-Mrs Green; Cynthia-Mrs Jackson; Lady Touchwood-A Gentlewoman (first appearance on the stage).
Cast
Role: Brisk Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

Cast
Role: Lieutenant Pendant Actor: Lee Lewes

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters-the Zuchellis. [Query: Gardeners or the dance called simply The Gamesters? See17751011.

1340
25 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Weichsel, first time.

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: See17760304 but to avoid confusion the bill is: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; others-Mahon, Baker, Daigueville, Miss Valois, Sga Vidini; Vocals-Reinhold, DuBellamy; Dance-Zuchelli.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lee Lewes

1341
06 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild (prompter) and Mahon. Mainpiece: Acted there but once. [See 20 March 1773.] Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock. [The Recruiting Serjeant interlude a Musical Entertainment by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Lewis; Amphitryon-Wroughton; Mercury-Lee Lewes; Gripus-Quick , being their first Appearance in those characters; Sosia-Woodward; Phaedra-Mrs Mattocks; Alcmena-Mrs Hartley; in Act IV, an Interlude between Plutus and Wit, and a Masque of Singing and Dancing: Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Miss Dayes; Dances-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Cast
Role: Allemande Actor: Mas. Dagueville, a Girl only 5 years old
Role: to conclude with a new Cadrille Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini
Role: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Marke Actor: Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini

Monologue: Interlude. End: A Favourite Interlude (never perform'd there) call'd The Recruiting Serjeant. Serjeant-Mahon; Countryman-Wilson; Wife-Miss Dayes; Mother-Mrs Willems

1342
10 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With Humours Of Falstaff

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Wroughton first time; King-Clarke; Prince of Wales-Lewis; Westmorland-Thompson; Blunt-Booth; Vernon-Hull; Worcester-Fearon; Poins-Lee Lewes; Bardolph-Davis; Francis-Cushing; Carriers-Dunstall, Quick; Falstaff-Shuter; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Lady Percy-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Thompson
Role: Poins Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

Entertainment: End: Epilogue Riding on an Ass-Shuter; End I Farce: (By Particular Desire) the Cries of London-Shuter

1343
13 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Performance Comment: Ballad-Mattocks; Cantileno-Reinhold; Zorababel-Quick; Bauble-Lee Lewes; Thomas-Young; Jenny-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Country Madcap-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Bauble Actor: Lee Lewes

Dance: End: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Cast
Role: Allemande Actor: Mas. Dagueville, a Girl only 5 years old
Role: to conclude with a new Cadrille Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini
Role: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Marke Actor: Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini

1344
27 September 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Cast
Role: Rantwell Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performance Comment: Grub-Wilson; George Bevil-Whitefield; Chapeau-Lee Lewes; Consol-Jones; Robin-Wewitzer; H. Bevil-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Chapeau Actor: Lee Lewes

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford; To conclude with: Country Dance-the characters. [Both these were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

1345
30 September 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Cast
Role: Rantwell Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Chapeau Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Quick; Puff-Dunstall; Captain Loveit-Fearon; Jasper-Thompson; Capt. Flash-Lee Lewes; Tag-Mrs Pitt; Miss Biddy-Miss Leeson.
Cast
Role: Flash Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Miss Leeson.

1346
17 October 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); King-Clarke; Ghost-Aickin; Horatio-Hull; Laertes-Whitefield; Ostrick-Lee Lewes; Polonius-Quick; Player King-L'Estrange; Marcellus-Fearon; Bernardo-Booth; Francisco-Wewitzer; Rosencraus-Robson; Guildenstern-Thompson; Gravediggers-Dunstall, Jones; Ophelia-Mrs Mattocks; Player Queen-Mrs Poussin; Queen (1st time)-Mrs Jackson.
Cast
Role: Ostrick Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

1347
29 October 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Macklin (1st appearance this season); Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-Wroughton; Gratiano-Lee Lewes; Lorenzo (with songs)-Mattocks; Duke-Fearon; Launcelot-Quick; Tubal-Thompson; Jessica (with a song)-Miss Dayes; Nerissa-Mrs Lessingham; Portia-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Gratiano Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: The Pilgrim, as17761009; End IV: Mirth and Jollity, as17761015

1348
02 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Mirabel-Lewis; Fainall-Wroughton; Witwou'd-Lee Lewes; Sir Wilful Witwou'd-Dunstall; Waitwell-Wilson; Messenger-Cushing; Coachman-Fox; Petulant-Woodward; Mrs Marwood-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Whitefield; Foible-Mrs Green; Mincing-Mrs Poussin; Betty-Mrs White; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Pitt; Millamant-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Witwou'd Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Marlow Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Leander Actor: Mahon

Dance: As17761023

1349
07 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Manly-Clarke; Squire Richard-Quick; John Moody-Dunstall; Count Basset-Lee Lewes; Sir Francis Wronghead-Macklin; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Wronghead-Miss Macklin (1st appearance in that character); Miss Jenny-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Townly-Mrs Barry; Edition of 1776 (T. Lowndes) adds: Mrs Motherly-Mrs Poussin; Myrtilla-Mrs Whitefield; Mrs Trusty-Mrs Willems.
Cast
Role: Count Basset Actor: Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Marlow Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Leander Actor: Mahon

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17761106

1350
12 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Jaques-Clarke; Orlando-Lewis; Adam-Lee; Duke Senior-Hull; Amiens (with songs)-Mattocks; Oliver-L'Estrange; Duke Frederick-Fearon; Touchstone-Woodward; Caelia (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Mattocks; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Rosalind-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Lewis
Role: Adam Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Marlow Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Leander Actor: Mahon

Dance: End I: As17761015; In V: a Dance of Foresters-Harris

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