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489 results for: Keyword - Wid. Morris
We found 394 matches on Performance Comments, 69 matches on Event Comments, 42 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

426
12 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17960429, but Hamlet (for this night only)-Mrs Powell; Osric-R. Palmer; Ghost of Hamlet's father (for that night only)-Palmer; Gertrude-Miss Morris (of cg); Ophelia's Air by Linley-_.
Cast
Role: Gertrude Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

427
19 September 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman; Capulet-Powel; Benvolio-Macready; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Prince-Toms; Tibalt-Haymes; Paris-Claremont; Balthazar-Abbot; Montague-Davenport; Peter-Farley; Friar John-Thompson; Apothecary-Simmons; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Miss Morris; Durse-Mrs Davenport; Juliet-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Song: End IV: the Funeral Procession of Juliet to the Monument of the Capulets, in which a favorite-; Elegy- (composed by the late Dr Arne); a Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Haymes, Linton, Blurton, Street, Abbot, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Follett, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Norton, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Miss Walcup, Mrs Henley, Miss Burnett, Miss Logan, Mrs Martyr

428
21 September 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: Sheva-Elliston (of the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Jabel-Knight; Frderic Bertram-Middleton; Sir Stephen Bertram-Hull; Saunders-Powel; Waiter-Curties; Charles Ratcliffe-Holman; Mrs Ratcliffe-Miss Morris; Dorcas-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Goodison-Mrs Platt; Eliza Ratcliffe-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Mrs Ratcliffe Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

429
10 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Toms; Gentleman Usher-Farley; Burgundy-Philipps; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

430
24 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Performance Comment: Philaster-Elliston (1st appearance in that character); King-Murray; Pharamond-Middleton; Dion-Hull; Thesaline-Claremont; Clermont-Thompson; Countryman-Knight; Leader of the Mob-Davenport; Woodman-Wilde; Arethusa-Miss Wallis; Megra-Miss Morris; Galatea-Mrs Platt; Lady-Miss Logan; Bellario-Miss Allingham (4th appearance on any stage).
Cast
Role: Megra Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

431
26 December 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holman; Thoroughgood-Murray; Trueman-Toms; Uncle-Powel; Blunt-Farley; Servant-Curties; Jailor-Abbot; Maria-Miss Mansel; Lucy-Mrs Davenport; Milwood-Miss Morris.
Cast
Role: Milwood Actor: Miss Morris.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

432
07 January 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: Antipholis of Syracuse-Pope; Antipholis of Ephesus-Holman; Duke-Haymes; Angelo-Powel; Aegeon-Hull; Dromio of Syracuse-Munden; Dromio of Ephesus-Quick; Luciana-Mrs Mountain; Abbess-Miss Chapman; Lesbia-Miss Morris; Adriana-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Lesbia Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Song: In III: a song in character-Mrs Clendining

433
25 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17961031, but Hamlet (by Particular Desire, and positively for that Night only)-Mrs Powell; Polonius-Dowton; Gertrude-Miss Morris (of cg, by permission); Bernardo-_; Francisco-_.
Cast
Role: Gertrude Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

434
31 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Pope; Juba-Holman; Sempronius-Murray; Portius-Middleton (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Syphax-Hull; Marcus-Macready; Lucius-Powel; Decius-Thompson; Lucia (1st time)-Miss Mansel; Marcia (1st time)-Miss Morris.
Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Miss Morris.

Afterpiece Title: Cambro' Britons; or, Fishguard in an Uproar

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Song: In 2nd piece: Together let us range the fields-Incledon, Mrs Mountain; Gallant Soldiers born to Arms, Old England will be England still-Incledon; To arms! Britons strike Home!-Incledon, Bowden

435
02 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17961105, but Queen-Miss Morris (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

436
16 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dove, Morris, World, Edward Giffard. Tickets for The Provoked Husband taken. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: SScot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pierrot and Pierraite-deVallois, J. Delagarde; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Masquerade Dance-

Song: Excell

437
13 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Eversman, First Violin. Tickets for Morris also taken. For the Entertainment of the Foreign Minister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: III: The Cuckoo Concerto by Eversman

Dance: II: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. IV: Hornpipe by a Dwarf three Foot high, lately arrived from Germany. V: Hornpipe by a Gentleman who never performed on the Stage before

438
11 September 1735 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Robert Morris saw this play, but does not state where. It was later given, on 29 Sept., at HAY. See Beverly McAnear, "An American in London, 1735-1736," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXIV (1940), 376

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Bottle

439
18 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by Stitchbury, Morris, Levi, and others, for the Old Batchelor on Monday last, that could not be admitted, will be taken in at this Concert; as also Tickets deliver'd by Sutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: two Mwo Masters Granier, Miss Granier

440
25 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Morris for 1 year's subscription to the Lock Hospital, #5 5s. Receipts: #186 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

441
29 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson, Phebe, Dennison, and Morris (Cross); for Jefferson, Dennison, Mrs Toogood, Miss Hippisley (Public Advertiser). [Cross's Phebe seems to refer to Miss Hippisley who played the part in As You Like It.] Receipts: #104 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly-Beard; IV: Miss Thomas

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: Louvre, Minuet-Dennison, Mrs Addison

442
28 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pittard and Miss Midnight. Tickets delivered out by Mr Morris will be taken. The Curtain will rise at 6:15 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

443
30 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Cast
Role: Widow of Florence Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performance Comment: As17571007, but Principal characters-Morris, _Clough.
Cast
Role: Principal characters Actor: Morris, _Clough.

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

444
09 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Marr, Berrisford, Gray, Brownsmith, Miss Hippisley. Tickets deliver'd for Richard III and The Mourning Bride, and by Spilsbury, Royal, Hawksly, Costin, and Mrs Smith will be taken. Receipts: #170. 11 people had tickets (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mossis

445
11 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #158 7s. 6d. Paid Morris (woolen draper) as per bill, #52 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

446
04 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 11s. Paid Jno Rich for Mr Morris, #246 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

447
01 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Performance Comment: As17680129, but R. Smith, _Morris; +Holtom, _Morgan; +Prologue-; Epilogue-; Mrs _White. Mrs _White.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

448
23 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Oratorio performed but once. [Usual note about servants and sale of books of performance.] Receiv'd deficiencies for last season from Morris #13 9s. 3d.; Mrs Pitt #12 6s. 6d.; Curtat #6 6s. 2 1!2d.; Bates #6 6s. 2 1!2d.; Fox #6 5s. 5d. (Account Book). Charges: #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Resurrection

Music: As17700302

449
21 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: [As17710129 but to avoid confusion full cast listed]. Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, King, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Wild, Banks, Bates, Walters, Baker, DuBellamy, Miss Twist; Dances-Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

450
29 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid one year's Assurance on #3000 in the Royal Exchange Assurance Office to 15 Dec. 1772...#6; Paid Morris (herald painter) #19 16s. 6d.; Paid Walker for Partizans &c. #9 6s. 6d.; Paid Snivley & Davis (worsted lace men) #4 4s. 6d. (Account Book). [The Heraldry and Partizans &c. probably for the Institution of the Garter.] Receipts: #147 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince