SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow Powell"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow Powell")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Parts by: Powell, King, Havard, Burton, Baddeley, Yates, Miss Pope, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Abington. Prologue and an Interlude as an Epilogue. Freeport-Yates; Spatter-King; Lord Falbridge-Powell; Sir Wm. Douglas-Havard; La France-Baddeley; Owen-Burton; Officer-Strange; Lady Alton-Mrs Abington; Amelia-Mrs Palmer; Molly-Miss Pope; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Hopkins; Prologue-King; Interlude as Epilogue-(Edition of 1767).
Cast
Role: Lord Falbridge Actor: Powell

Dance: After Epilogue: The Vintage, as17661011

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Performance Comment: Parts-Powell, Holland, Havard, Bensley, Packer, Strange, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Rogers, Mrs Yates. Prologue-; Epilogue-; Jason-Powell; Creon-Holland; Aeson-Havard; Lycander-Bensley; Medea-Mrs Yates; Theano-Mrs Hopkins (Genest, V, 123).

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Performance Comment: Parts-Holland, Powell, Havard, Bensley, Bransby, Strange, A Young Gentlewoman, Mrs Lee, Mrs Yates, Packer, Aickin, Fawcett; Prologue-King; Epilogue-Mrs Abington Aeneas-Powell; Cephales-Bensley; Gyas-Bransby; Sagertus-Fox; Norbal-Holland; Bilius-Havard; Adoam-Strange; Dido-Mrs Yates; Anna-Mrs Lee; Barce-Miss Simson (Winston MS 9, from Burney's News Cuttings).

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Performance Comment: Parts by Powell, Shuter, Woodward, Bensley, Clarke, Dunstall, Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Green, Mrs White, Mrs Bulkley. Croaker-Shuter; Honeywood-Powell; Lofty-Woodward; Leontine-Bensley; Sir William Honeywood-Clarke; Jarvis-Dunstall; Bailiff-R. Smith; Postboy-Quick; Miss Richland-Mrs Bulkley; Olivia-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Croaker-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Garnet-Mrs Green (Genest, V, 189);Also Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs White.Also Morris, Morgan, Cushing, Mrs White.
Cast
Role: Honeywood Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of pit will be laid into boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. [Powell paid no House charges, so received a clear benefit of #170 19s. plus #109 5s. from disposing of 439 combined Box and Pit tickets (Accoudt Book).] Receipts: #170 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Lear Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere (playbill); [But Public Advertiser lists The Irish Lilt by Aldridge and Miss Valois.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: Parts by Powell, Clarke, Smith, Hull, Bensley, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Yates. With a Prologue-; Epilogue-; Cyrus-Powell; Cambyses-Smith; Mithranes-Bensley; Astyages-Clarke; Harpagus-Hull; Mandane-Mrs Yates; Aspasia-Mrs Mattocks (1768 edn. The edn. lists Mirza-Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.). Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.
Cast
Role: Cyrus Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: Country Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sister

Performance Comment: Parts by: Powell, Smith, Clarke, Cushing, Mrs Ward, Mrs Gardner, Miss Pearce, Mrs Bulkley, Miss Morris. With a Prologue and Epilogue. Courtney-Powell; Lord Clairville-Smith; Earl Belmont-Clarke; Will-Cushing; Lady Autumn-Mrs Ward; Betty-Mrs Gardner; Simple-Miss Pearce; Miss Autumn-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Courtney-Miss Morris; With Prologue-Mattocks; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley (Edn. of 1769).
Cast
Role: Courtney Actor: Powell

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: The Reel, as17681212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: Bustleton-Powell; Manager-Williamson; Easy-Iliff; Gentleman in the Balcony (with Imitations)-Rees; Actresses-Miss Hale, Miss Heard, Mrs Powell, Mrs Edwin; Lady in the Boxes-Mrs Lefevre.

Afterpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Performance Comment: Characters-Kemble, Barrymore, Whitfield, Benson, Wroughton, Mrs Powell. [Cast from European Magazine, Nov. 1789, p. 378: Hernandez-Kemble; Alonzo [in text, Plays written for a Private Theatre (T. Cadell, 1784): Mendoza]-Barrymore; Lupercio-Whitfield; Lopez-Benson; Governor of Barcelona-Wroughton; Marcella-Mrs Powell. [For the change from Mendoza to Alonzo, see cg, 10 Nov.]For the change from Mendoza to Alonzo, see cg, 10 Nov.]

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Fashion

Performance Comment: Characters-Lewis, Ryder, Farren, Bernard, Macready, Harley, Mrs Achmet, Mrs Bernard, Miss Stuart, Mrs Powell, Mrs Pope. [Cast from European Magazine, Dec. 1789, p. 459: Sedley-Lewis; William-Ryder; Sir Charles Dormer-Farren; Lord Lapwing-Bernard; James-Macready; Montfort-Harley; Julia Montfort-Mrs Achmet; Miss Danby-Mrs Bernard; Maid Servant [Larpent MS: Minikin]-Miss Stuart; Lucretia-Mrs Powell [Larpent MS]; Lady Dormer-Mrs Pope; Prologue-Bernard; Epilogue-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Quildrive Actor: C. Powell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Sir Walter Ralegh

Performance Comment: Characters-Kemble, Aickin, Barrymore, Packer, Williames, Benson, Haymes, Webb, Bensley, Mrs Powell, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Ward. [Cast from European Magazine, Dec. 1789, p. 459: Raleigh [sic]-Kemble; Gundamor-Aickin; Young Raleigh-Barrymore; Salisbury-Packer; Wade-Williames; Carew-Benson; Sir Julius Caesar-Haymes; Lord Cobham-Webb; Howard-Bensley; Olympia-Mrs Powell; Florella-Miss Tidswell; Lady Raleigh-Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-King, Quick, Edwin, Farren, Davies, Macready, Egan, C. Powell, Miss Brunton, Mrs Pope. Cast from edition of 1792 (John Bell): Wilding-King; Barnacle-Quick; Nephew-Edwin; Hazard-Farren; Sellaway-Davies; Littlestock-Macready; Acreless-Egan; Dwindle-C. Powell; Page-Simmons; Box@keeper-Rock; Servant-Farley; Drawer-Ledger; Penelope-Miss Brunton; Mrs Wilding-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Cast
Role: 1st Recruit Actor: C. Powell

Dance: As17891231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Performance Comment: [Characters-Barrymore, R. Palmer, Wroughton, Kemble, Whitfield, Bannister Jun., Suett, Phillimore, Benson, Lyons, Webb, Maddocks, Alfred, Master Gregson, Master Grimaldi, Miss Gawdry, Fairbrother, Mrs Powell, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Kemble, Mrs Ward, Mrs Hedges, Mrs Heard, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes. Cast from text (T. and J. Egerton [1790]): Don Antonio-Barrymore; Don Pedro-R. Palmer; Belville-Wroughton; Willmore-Kemble; Frederick-Whitfield; Blunt-Bannister Jun.; Stephano-Suett; Sancho-Phillimore; Philippo-Benson; Sebastian-Lyons; Biskey-Webb; Officer-Maddocks; Soldier-Alfred; Antonio's Page-Master Gregson; Helena's Page-Master Grimaldi; Blunt's Boy-Miss Gawdry; Taylor-Fairbrother; Florinda-Mrs Powell; Helena-Mrs Jordan; Valeria-Mrs Kemble; Angelica-Mrs Ward; Moretta-Mrs Hedges; Callis-Mrs Heard [in text: Mrs Booth]; Lucetta-Miss Tidswell; Flower Girl-Miss Barnes.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End: a new Comic Dance, The Elopement; or, Marriage-a-la-Mode-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister, Quick, Edwin, Blanchard, Darley, Rock, C. Powell, Egan, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Billington. Cast from Airs (T. Cadell, 1790): The Czar-Bannister; Justice Applejack-Quick; Philip-Edwin; Count Couvanski-Blanchard; Commodore Swivel-Darley; Ballybough-Rock; Romadanowski-C. Powell; Slip-Egan; Lefort-Johnstone; Nib-Farley; Ellen-Mrs Martyr; Mrs Applejack-Mrs Mountain; Ottokesa-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Lee Lewes (1st appearance in London since his return from India); Sir John Buck-Powel; Subtle-Thompson; Classic-Hull; Marquis-C. Powell; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Powell; Lucinda-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Marquis Actor: C. Powell
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Old Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologues. End: a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody, Lingo the Butler's Opinion on Men and Manners-Edwin; End 2nd piece: a Dissertation upon Law (from the Lecture on Heads)-Lee Lewes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure; Or, Stop Her Who Can

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Holman, Bernard, Farley, Macready, Thompson, Mrs Achmet, Mrs Bernard, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Powell, Mrs Martyr. Cast from European Magazine, May 1790, p. 386: Don Lewis-Holman; Gil Blas-Bernard; Pedro-Farley; Don Felix-Macready; Don Gabriel-Thompson; Aurora-Mrs Achmet; Isabella-Mrs Bernard; Bernarda-Mrs Pitt; Beatrice-Mrs Powell; Laura-Mrs Martyr; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409

Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells

Performance Comment: i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: Bustleton-Powell; Manager-Aickin; Easy-Iliff; Gentleman in the Balcony-Kean; Irishman in the Pit-R. Palmer; Prompter-Evatt; Actresses-Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Powell, Miss Palmer, Miss Heard; Lady in the Balcony-Mrs Webb.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling: A Dramatic Caricature

Performance Comment: !! Characters by Bannister Jun., Davies, Cubitt, Iliff, Chapman, Barrett, Evatt, Abbott, Farley, Baddeley, Mrs Webb, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Powell, Mrs Brooks. Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 8 July 1791: Mr Robert Gout-Bannister Jun.; Ned Howard-Iliff; Landlord-Chapman; William-Barrett; Mr Gout-Baddeley; Lady Anecdote-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Gout-Mrs Powell; Harriet-Mrs Brooks; Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Mrs Gout Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Cast
Role: Mrs Peery Actor: Mrs Powell.
Role: Goodwill Actor: Powell

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: The Basket Maker

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Davies, Cubitt, Waterhouse, Burton, Chapman, Powell, Barrett, Usher, Ledger, Lyons, Farley, Evatt, Abbott, Ryder, Miss Fontenelle, Mrs Bannister. Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1790): Wattle-Bannister Jun.; Count Pepin-R. Palmer; King Simon-Davies; Otchegroo-Cubitt; William-Waterhouse; Sokoki-Burton; Chichikou-Chapman; Pomade-Powell; Indians-Barrett, Evatt, Abbott; Coachman-Usher; Frank-Ledger; James-Lyons; Thomas-Farley; Marquis de Champlain-Ryder; Bloom-Miss Fontenelle; Henrietta-Mrs Bannister.
Cast
Role: Pomade Actor: Powell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats; Or, The Strolling Gentlemen

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Holman, Blanchard, Wilson, Munden, Hull, Cubitt, Macready, Thompson, Powel, Rock, Evatt, Reeve, C. Powell, Cross, Farley, Ledger, Milburne, Master Simmons, Mrs Wells, Miss Chapman, Mrs Pope.[Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. II (T. Woodfall, 1798), and text (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1791): Rover-Lewis; Sir George Thunder-Quick; Harry-Holman; Sim-Blanchard; John Dory-Wilson; Ephraim Smooth-Munden; Banks-Hull; Gammon-Cubitt; Muz [in subsequent seasons: Midge]-Macready; Sailors-Thompson, Farley, Milburne; Landlord-Powel; Twitch-Rock; Trap-Evatt; Zachariah-Reeve [in text: Rees (see17911012)]; Lamp-C. Powell; Sheriff's Officers-Cross, Ledger; Waiter-Master Simmons; Jane-Mrs Wells; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope; Prologue-Harley; Epilogue-Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]
Cast
Role: Lamp Actor: C. Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17901204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: As17910112, but Sir ThomasTesty-Powel [a misprint for C. Powell?; Powel is here also retained as Old Hob].a misprint for C. Powell?; Powel is here also retained as Old Hob].
Cast
Role: Letitia Actor: Mrs Powell

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: a New Epilogue (in Honour of the Fund,)-Mrs Wells; with an Imitation-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Wilson, Bannister Jun., Iliff, Bland, Chapman, Farley, Evatt, Abbott, Lyons, Mrs Brooks, Mrs Powell, Miss Palmer. [Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 8 July: Mr Gout-Wilson; Mr Robert Gout-Bannister Jun.; Ned Howard-Iliff; William-Bland; Landlord-Chapman; Harriet-Mrs Brooks; Mrs Gout-Mrs Powell; Lucy-Miss Palmer; Farley, Evatt, Abbott, Lyons are unassigned.] Farley, Evatt, Abbott, Lyons are unassigned.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: Bustleton-Powell; Manager-Aickin; Easy-Iliff; Gentleman in the Balcony-Kean; Irishman in the Pit-R. Palmer; Prompter-Evatt; Actresses-Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Powell, Miss Palmer, Miss Heard; Lady in the Balcony-Mrs Webb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Performance Comment: As17910730 but John de Vienne-Kemble in place of Aickin; Bland_; Usher_; Iliff_; Evatt_; Chapman_; Citizens-_Abbott, _Barrett; Powell_; Vocal Parts-_Willoughby, _Linton, _Dorion, _Aylmer, _Little, _Brown, _Lyons, Mrs _Taylor, Miss _Fontenelle, Miss _DeCamp, Mrs _Edwin, Mrs _Powell, Miss _Hale, Mrs _Gaudry.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Performance Comment: !! Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Barrymore, R. Palmer, Wewitzer, Wrighten, Phillimore, Banks, Bland, Burton, Alfred. Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Fawcett, Chapman, Danby; Muses-Mrs Powell, Mrs Goodall, Miss Hagley, Miss DeCamp, Miss Collins, Miss Heard, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brigg; [Cast from Larpent MS 918, and London Chronicle, 23 Sept.: Palmer, Parsons, R. Palmer, Wrighten, Alfred [all in their own persons]; French Critic-Wewitzer; Italian Singer-Bland; Apollo-Dignum; Mercury-Sedgwick; Melpomene-Mrs Powell; Thalia-Mrs Goodall; Terpsichore-Miss DeCamp; Euterpe-Miss Collins; Phillimore, Banks, Burton. Phillimore, Banks, Burton.

Afterpiece Title: The School for Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: III 2nd piece: a song-Sedgwick