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7384 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in <span class=
We found 4442 matches on Event Comments, 3385 matches on Performance Comments, 508 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6951
02 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Robert Merry. Larpent MS 933; not published]: With entire new Music, Scenery, and Dresses. The Overture and the whole of the Music composed new by Mazzinghi. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #284 1s. (281.14; 2.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Blanchard, Wilson, Munden, Fawcett, Powel, Thompson, Cross, Rees, Rowson, Incledon, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Webb, Mrs Billington. Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1792): Talisman-Quick; Peter Panick-Blanchard; Sammy Sapling-Wilson; Grub-Munden; Dareall-Fawcett; Innkeeper-Powel; Countrymen-Thompson, Cross, Rees; Somerville-Incledon; Peggy-Mrs Martyr; Nelly-Mrs Mountain; Miss Talisman-Mrs Webb; Theresa-Mrs Billington; Rowson. Rowson.
Cast
Role: Somerville Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

6952
09 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Performance Comment: As17911201, but Jane (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Music: As17920125

6953
18 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5 by Thomas Holcroft. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (London Chronicle, 21 Feb.)]. Morning Herald, 29 Feb. 1792: This day is published The Road to Ruin (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #233 5s. (231.1; 2.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

6954
20 February 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Song: End: a favourite song-Tanner

Entertainment: Monologue. End III: a Comic Sketch of the Times-Ryder

Performance Comment: End III: a Comic Sketch of the Times-Ryder.
Cast
Role: a Comic Sketch of the Times Actor: Ryder.

6955
02 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel Lallegro Ed Il Pensieroso 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture (Occasional Oratorio)-; Loathsome urns-Bartleman (Time and Truth); Great Jehovah's awful word-Mrs Second (Israel in Egypt); Lord of eternity-Chorus; Behold the nations-Bartleman; O Baal-Chorus (Deborah); Total eclipse-Harrison; O first created beam-Chorus (Samson); From mighty Kings-Mrs Billington (Judas Maccabaeus); He gave them hailstones-Chorus (Israel in Egypt).
Cast
Role: Loathsome urns Actor: Bartleman

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Fifth Grand Concerto-; Tyrants would-Mrs Billington, Chorus (Athalia); Pleasure my former ways-Harrison (Time and Truth); No more to Ammon's God-Chorus; Ye sacred priests, Farewell ye limpid springs-Mrs Billington (Jephtha); He layeth the beams-Bartleman (Ezio); The Lord shall reign-Chorus; For the horse of Pharaoh-Harrison; Sing ye to the Lord-Mrs Billington; The horse and his rider-Chorus (Israel in Egypt).

6956
06 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With additional Music by Reeve. Afterpiece: 1st Time at this Theatre [1st acted at the hay, 2 July 1788]. Receipts: #174 14s. 6d. (158.0.6; 16.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus And Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

6957
09 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Second Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Ye sons of Israel-Chorus (Joshua); O sing praises-Harrison (1st time); accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Admetur); See the conquering hero comes-Chorus with March (Judas Maccabaeus); Honour and arms-Champness (Samson); 'Tis done, Heart the seat-Mrs Billington; Galatea dry thy tears-Chorus (Acis and Galatea); Ye men of Gaza-Mrs Second (Samson); But bright Cecilia, As from the power of sacred lays-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the trumpet-Sarjant; The dead shall live-Chorus (Dryden's Ode).

6958
17 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb]: Taken from [his] The Strangers at Home. [Not in Larpent MS; not published.] Receipts: #379 18s. (314.12; 61.15; 3.8; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Algerine Slave

6959
19 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece [1st time; P 3, author unknown. "Founded on the Tale of Inkle & Yarico" (Kemble Mem.), by Sir Richard Steele, in The Spectator, No. II, 13 March 1710-11. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music by Gluck and Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler]. Morning Herald, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London-road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #452 16s. (169.17; 47.13; 2.11; tickets: 232.15) (charge: #169 5s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The American Heroine or Ingratitude Punished

Dance: In afterpiece: the Dances (composed by Hamoir,)-Hamoir, Bidotti, Keys, Nicolini, Walker, Whitmill, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp

6960
26 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 12 Mar. 1771]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Andrew Franklin]. Morning Chronicle, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #272 14s. (151.14; 5.3; tickets: 115.17) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: The Mermaid

6961
10 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 1st piece: Written by Mrs Inchbald. 2nd piece: For that night only. 3rd piece: Written by Foote; 1st time at that Theatre. Morning Herald, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 98, High Holborn. Receipts: #325 4s. 6d. (152.3.0; 5.10.6; tickets: 167.11.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Performance Comment: Twineall-Lewis; Sir Luke Tremor-Quick; Elvirus-Holman; Haswell-Harley; Sultan-Farren; Lord Flint-Davies; Meanright-Macready; Zadan-Powel; 1st Keeper-Cubitt; Prisoner-Thompson; Lady Tremor-Mrs Mattocks; Aurelia-Mrs Mountain; Female Prisoner-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Haswell Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkins Ramble to Town

Afterpiece Title: The Cozeners

Dance: End 1st piece: A Divertisement-Byrne, Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford, Mlle St.Amand

6962
16 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Simon, based partly on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris deFlorian; incidental music by Johann Gottlieb Nicolai. Larpent MS 940; not published]: To conclude with a Rural Breakfast [a representation of that given by the Countess of Buckinghamshire for the Prince of Wales at her villa near London (Genest, VII, 53)], and a Dance by the Characters. Morning Herald, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #548 9s. 6d. (216.8.6; 30.2.0; 5.9.0; tickets: 296.10.0) (charge: #153 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

6963
17 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by Jeremiah Meyer and William Hayley, "from the German." Larpent MS 941; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 18 Apr.]: With new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Music selected from Ditteus [i.e. Dittersdorf], Rauzzini and Salieri; the Overture and new Music by Reeve. Book of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mme Carnevale had 1st appeared at king's in 1783.] Receipts: #252 3s. 6d. (242.19.6; 9.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Zelma or The Will o th Wisp

6964
18 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [1st piece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Eliza Parsons, based on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Moliere]. Morning Herald, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #269 11s. 6d. (174.14.0; 4.16.6; tickets: 90.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival or The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of a Morning or An Hour in Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

6965
05 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Last time of Mrs Siddons's Performance this Season. Receipts: #363 13s. 6d. (316.11.6; 44.1.0; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

6966
30 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Governor-Davies; Blandford-Macready; Capt. Driver-Cubitt; Stanmore-Evatt; Jack Stanmore-Bloomfield; Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe; Lucy-Mrs Davis; Widow Lackit-Mrs Webb; Imoinda-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-

Song: In afterpiece: As17920421; End: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue End IV: Jeu D'Esprit, as17920516; Little Pig lays without any Straw-Fawcett

6967
15 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by George Colman, ynger. Larpent MS 951; synopsis of plot in Diary, 16 June. This piece is stated to have been published in 1792]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. In 1st piece "Parsons was highly entertaining in affecting to speak in an under tone scarcely audible, that the feebleness of his voice might correspond with the smallness of the House, compared with the enormous [new] Theatre over the way; and his broken, unintelligible mode of announcing the Performance to the Audience as a specimen, was truly whimsical" (Morning Herald, 16 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market Or Two Sides Of The Gutter

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

6968
16 June 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks, J. Shade, Gibson, Rice. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #87 2s. 1d. (53.2.0; 28.15;28.15.1; 5.6.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #148 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

6969
20 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: Blister (1st time)-Edwin; Quaver-Davies; Goodwill-Johnson; Thomas-Evatt; Coupee-Bannister Jun.; Lucy-Mrs Edwin? Jun. (1st appearance on this stage).

6970
23 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Characters will be dressed in the Habits of the Times. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Eustache de St. Pierre of Bensley was his Chef d'oeuvre: it suited the sourness of his aspect, his nasal intonation, and the general bluntness of his manner" (Monthly Mirror, 1796, p. 185)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

6971
30 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Elizabeth Inchbald, based on Le Mechant, by Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset. Larpent MS 952; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, July 1792, p. 61]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Young Men and Old Women

6972
03 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Johnstone; Sir Christopher Curry-Wilson; Medium-Baddeley; Campley-Davies; Trudge-Bannister Jun.; Mate-Johnson; Planters-Usher, Evatt, Burton; Sailors-Ledger, Abbott; Yarico-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance this season); Narcissa-Mrs Bannister; Wowski-Mrs Bland; Patty (1st time)-Miss Fontenelle.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

6973
04 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Performance Comment: Major Cyprus-Palmer; Anthony Euston-Bensley; Colonel Downright-Aickin; Charles Euston-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [Uncle]); Sir George Euston-Williamson; Sir Harry Harmless-R. Palmer; Mr Euston-Parsons; Lady Euston-Mrs Brooks; Lady Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Bloom (1st time)-Miss Fontenelle; Mrs Euston-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Young Men and Old Women

6974
07 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; INT 1, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton]. Morning Herald, 21 July 1792: This Day is published All in Good Humour (1s)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

6975
14 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: Rory-Wilson; Captain Gorget-Bannister; Tipperary-R. Palmer; Crack-Abbott; Landlord-Ledger; Anvil-Barrett; Sexton-Burton; Laird Kilcubrie's Servant-Farley; Hoof-Lyons; Maria-Mrs Bannister; Signora Figurante (1st time)-Mrs Bland; Miss Plumb-Miss Fontenelle; Lady Pedigree-Mrs Edwin.