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464 results for: Keyword - West
We found 242 matches on Roles/Actors, 185 matches on Performance Title, 101 matches on Event Comments, 85 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

426
05 September 1760 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Timur Koran

Afterpiece Title: The Heroic Taylors

427
06 September 1760 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Timur Koran

Afterpiece Title: The Heroic Taylors

428
20 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for West, Cape, Mortimer, Roberts, Tomlinson. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [The Occasional Epilogue is Larpent MS 197, wherein Tomlinson as the habitual stage mute finally speaks, after having acted in dumb show Prelate, Senator, Page, Soldier, Clown, and Lord, thanks the audience and expresses his desire to please.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Fawcett

Entertainment: II: An Occasional Epilogue (1st time)-Tomlinson

429
31 August 1761 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: To begin each Day (for the short time of the Fair) at One o'clock, and end at Eleven. At Yates's Great Theatrical Concert Hall, in the Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. Performed by a company of Comedians from both Theatres. Prices for this droll: Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. There is a commodious way to the Boxes and Pit at the upper end of Cow Lane (Public Advertiser). [This may be an advance notice. It appears again on Th., F., S., and Mon. (Sept. 3, 4, 5, 7).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Bride; Or, The Unexpected Event

Afterpiece Title: The British Tar's Triumph over M Soup-Maigre

Entertainment: of singing and dancing.of singing and dancing

430
01 September 1761 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cure Of The Spleen; Or, Shuter's Warehouse

Performance Comment: ["For the certain cure of the Spleen; Essence of Comicality prepared by Dr Shuter. There is no question but laughing will cure the most inveterate dulness: the ancients affirmed it, and the Cures Dr Shuter has lately performed in Ireland experience this truth. For the benefit of his own countrymen he once more has opened his Warehouse in the George Inn Yard, West Smithfield, where his friends may find a safe, easy and pleasant operation. For, as splenetic persons are apt to have bad distempers, and be miserably low-spirited at times, he, at once removes all obstructions, restores the muscles of the face to their usual tone of risbility, and gradually clears the countenance. The afflicted may depend on these effects. It is to be had as above, with printed directions, at the following prices, viz.: 2s. 6d.; 2s.; 18d.; 1s.; and 6d." This may be an advance notice. It is repeated on W., Th., F., S., and M., 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Sept. in the Public Advertiser. The format parodies the advertisement, appearing frequently before, For the certain Cure of the Scurvy, Essence of Water Dock, Prepared by the Directions of Dr Hill. There is no question but this plant will cure the most inveterate Scurvy. The ancients will affirm it...It not only cures the skin of eruptions, but mends the whole constitution...The Afflicted may depend on these effects."] . 2s.; 18d.; 1s.; and 6d." This may be an advance notice. It is repeated on W., Th., F., S., and M., 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Sept. in the Public Advertiser. The format parodies the advertisement, appearing frequently before, For the certain Cure of the Scurvy, Essence of Water Dock, Prepared by the Directions of Dr Hill. There is no question but this plant will cure the most inveterate Scurvy. The ancients will affirm it...It not only cures the skin of eruptions, but mends the whole constitution...The Afflicted may depend on these effects."] .

431
18 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for several: Master Cape, C. Roberts, West, Tomlinson, Mortimer. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [Tomlinson's Epilogue in Larpent MS 213.] The mute speaks again, and mimics tragedians and comedians [See 20 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Cape (Scholar to Walker); IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love, as17620513

Entertainment: New Sketch of his own picture drawn from the life by way of Epilogue-Mr Tomlinson, his second time of attempting to speak on the Stage

432
03 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Magician of the Mountain

Performance Comment: A New Pantomimic Entertainment of Italian Grotesque Characters. Magician-Settree; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Pierrot-Guerini, his first appearance on the English Stage; Harlequin-Lochery; Colombine-Miss Baker; Mathews, Mortimer, West, Walker, Watkins, Leppie; The Dances-Del'Agata, Aldrige, Vincent, Sga Fiorentini, Sga Giorgi. With New Music, Scenes, Decorations, and Dresses.

433
13 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tomlinson, Mortimer, West, Robinson. Tickets delivered for This Night will be taken. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: IV: Double Hornpipe, as17630504

434
17 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watkins, Mortimer, Tomlinson, and West. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: II: By Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Watkins; IV: The Provancalle, as17631014

Entertainment: End: A New Panegyri@Satiri@Serio@Comic Epilogue upon Epilogues-Tomlinson

435
17 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Several. Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

436
14 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and West. Tickets deliver'd for Rule a Wife (which is oblidg'd on account of Palmer's Indisposition) will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

437
27 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

438
01 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter and Eddis (playbill). [Account Book lists only Condell and Potter.] Charges #81 10s. Deficit to Condell and Potter #49 10s. 6d. covered by #97 10s. to Condell from tickets (Box 248; Pit 194; Gallery 64) and #73 14s. to Potter from Tickets (Box 159; Pit 157; Gallery 104). Paid Richard Richardson for the Purchase of the Fee Farm of three Houses on the West Side of Bow St. subject to 40s. a year payable to the Duke of Bedford...#1800. Receipts: #31 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

439
16 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Aickin, Sparks, Vandermeer, Hamilton, Saunders, Jacobs, Lings, Castle, F. Gentleman, Dancer, Farrel, M'George, Wheeler, Griffiths, Pearce, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Jewell; With an Occasional Prologue-Foote.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Weston, Aickin, Sparks, Vandermeer, Hamilton, Saunders, Jacobs, Lings, Castle, F. Gentleman, Dancer, Farrel, M'George, Wheeler, Griffiths, Pearce, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Jewell

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: The Pedlar-Mas. and Miss West, apprentices to Grimaldi

Performance Comment: and Miss West, apprentices to Grimaldi.

440
22 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: End of Play: The Pedlar by Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West .

441
05 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Cast
Role: Jack Actor: Weston

Afterpiece Title: hay The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Jerry Sneak Actor: Weston

Dance: hay II: The Nosegay, as17700611 End of Play: Double Hornpipe by Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West .

442
24 July 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Dido

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe-Mas. and Miss West

Performance Comment: and Miss West.

443
12 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Masque (in three parts) [by George Colman] never perform'd, in which will be introduc'd the Principal Solemnities at the Installation of the Knights of the Garter. With New Music, composed by Dr Arne, Habits, Decorations and Scenes. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #220 10s. 6d. (Account Book). The greater part is borrowed with some variation from Ben Jonson [Masque of Oberon]. The same liberty has been taken with a few passages of Shakespeare, and a Chorus of the late Gilbert West, Esq. The final chorus is from Dryden...an effort to entertain the public by the combined powers of the most eminent proficients in the arts of Music, Painting and Poetry (Adv. to Printed Edn., Colman's Dramatic Works, IV, London, 1777)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince, with Installation of Knights of the Garter

444
20 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Comedy was written by Mr Cumberland was very well receiv'd & great Applause but it will not be so Successful as the West Indian was (Hopkins Diary). New Scenes and Dresses for the Mainpiece. [See Theatrical Review, 20 Jan. See also account in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre No. XXXIII). Larpent MS 329 again includes scene description by the author: "Hall in Lord Abberville's Housev with a staircase seen through an arch in the Flat."] Receipts: #248 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Performance Comment: Parts by: Barry, King, Reddish, Baddeley, Bransby, Waldron, J. Burton, Dodd, Moody, Griffith, Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Egerton, Mrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Barry. With Prologue and Epilogue. Aubrey-Barry; Mortimer-King; Tyrrel-Reddish; Lord Abberville-Dodd; Colin McLeod-Moody; Dr Druid-Baddeley; Bridgemore-Bransby; Napthali-Waldron; La Jeunesse-J. Burton; Jarvis-Griffith; Mrs Bridgemore-Mrs Hopkins; Lucinda-Mrs Egerton; Mrs Macintosh-Mrs Love; Maid-Miss Platt; Augusta Aubrey-Mrs Barry; Prologue-Weston; Epilogue-Mrs Barry (Winston MS 10).
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Weston

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Papilion Actor: Weston

445
14 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. The West Indian is oblig'd to be deferred. Paid Mr Vernon on note, #43 13s.; Housekeeper's bill #2 12s. 3d.; Properties 17s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). [The housekeeper's bill was rendered weekly and the properties bill about every two weeks. The first averaged #8 7s. per week and totaled #310 for the season. The second averaged #2 4s. for a total of #81 14s. for the season. Neither will be itemized further.] Receipts: #248 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

446
23 October 1772 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: On Tuesday last died at Ealing in Middlesex at a very advanced age and much regretted by all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance, Henry Giffard, the Celebrated Manager of Goodman's Fields Theatre. This Gentleman was of a Genteel Family in the West of England (Public Advertiser). [Though him Garrick had come to the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

447
19 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Comedy is written by Mr Cumberland but I think inferior to his other Productions was tolerably well receiv'd but a most excellent Epilogue was Written by Mr G. & Spoken by Mrs Abington which gave a great Lift to the Play Uncommon Applause to the Epilogue (Hopkins Diary). [Macmillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] Paid Mr Lauchery per order #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). [From the Westminster Magazine, Dec. 1774: We cannot think Mr Cumberland has courted the Comic Muse in this play so successfully as in the West Indian, and the rest of his comedies. His language is unexceptionably good; he is often as witty as Congreve, as easy as Vanbrugh, and as satirical as Wycherly. But language alone will not do. The plot is ill conducted.] Receipts: #243 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Man

Performance Comment: Parts by King, Reddish, Moody, Packer, Waldron, Everard, Mrs Hopkins, Weston, Aickin, Baddeley, Wright, Miss Pope, and Mrs Abington. Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Mrs Abington; Nightshade-King; Charles Manlove-Reddish; Jack Nightshade-Weston; Gregory-Moody; Manlove-Aickin; Stapleton-Packer; Dibble-Baddeley; Frampton-Waldron; Frederick-Wright; Servant-Everard; Lucy-Miss Pope; Mrs Stapleton-Mrs Hopkins; Laetitia-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Jack Nightshade Actor: Weston

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

448
31 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Follet, Smith & T. Smith, late of the Bear, Westminster-bridge. Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, Little Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of T. Smith at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother Free Masons, Bucks, &c., Gentlemen of the Welsh Society, Hereford Society and West-moreland Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

449
20 December 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. By Desire of the Most Noble Order of Bucks. Benefit for Griffith. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Tickets delivered for November 22 and for The West Indian will be admitted. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Wrangling Lovers; or, Like Master Like Man

Entertainment: Imitations. After the Epilogue: a Variety of new Imitations-Decastro; Monologue. End IV: Address to the Town, in which several Dramatic Characters will be introduced-Master Russell

450
14 March 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Subscription for the Relief of the Sufferers in the West India Islands [see king's, 8 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Original Lecture Upon Heads