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4930 results for: Keyword - Widow of the late Dr Arne
We found 2524 matches on Event Comments, 1134 matches on Performance Comments, 913 matches on Performance Title, 819 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4851
14 June 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Bonnor. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1]: Translated [by Charles Bonnor] from a new Production of Dorvigny, entitled La Fete de Campagne; ou, L'Intendant Comedien malgre Lui, now acting in Paris with uncommon Applause [MS: Larpent 664; not published; in later season occasionally acted under the title of Transformation]. Tickets to be had of Bonnor, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Bonnor begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public that on account of his Absence at the time his Night was to have been appointed he was induced to decline a Benefit in the course of the Season, but the Manager having obligingly made him an Offer of the Theatre, free of all Expense, and the several Performers kindly engaging to assist him, he has fixed on this Day. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Manager an Actor in Spite of Himself

Performance Comment: Clerville-Bonnor; Waiter-Bonnor; Hair-dresser-Bonnor; Musician-Bonnor; Prompter-Bonnor; Machinist-Bonnor; Woman-dresser-Bonnor; Stuttering Poet-Bonnor; Publican-Bonnor; Manager of the Fete-Wilson (of DL) .
Cast
Role: Manager of the Fete Actor: Wilson

Song: End of mainpiece a favourite song by Mrs Martyr. monologues. End of Act IV of mainpiece The Adventures of a Buck by Bonnor; End of afterpiece a new address, Belles have at ye all! by Mrs Bates

Performance Comment: monologues. End of Act IV of mainpiece The Adventures of a Buck by Bonnor; End of afterpiece a new address, Belles have at ye all! by Mrs Bates .

4852
18 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time in London; T 3, by William Hayley, 1st acted at Chichester, late in May 1784. Text in his Plays . . . for a Private Theatre (T. Cadell, 1784). Prologue by George Colman, the elder (European Magazine, Aug. 1784, p. 165). Contrary to the usual custom on the 1st night of a new play, the parts on this occasion are assigned]. "Palmer had done with Lord Russel as he did with many other characters, that is, totally neglected to study the words of the part . . . Whenever he felt himself at a loss he dexterously introduced some passages from The Earl of Essex, which he contrived to fit into the cues received by Lord Russel." His brother, R. Palmer, who told this anecdote to Boaden, said that the audience suspected nothing amiss (Boaden, Kemble, I, 193)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Performance Comment: Russel-Palmer; Cavendish-Bannister Jun.; Charles the Second-Aickin; Duke of York-Williamson; Spencer-Davies; Lieutenant-Usher; Bedford-Bensley; Lady Margaret Russel-Miss Kemble; Lady Russel-Miss Woollery. New Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.
Cast
Role: Charles the Second Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

4853
11 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Confederacy and Arthur and Emmeline [the latter announced on playbill of 10 Jan.] are obliged to be deferred a few Days. Receipts: #146 11s. 6d. (108/16/0; 37/10/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: Afterpiece: With the Minuet de la Cour by Hamoir and Miss M. Stageldoir

4854
25 April 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [Author of Address unknown.] 1st piece: By the Author of Love in a Village, &c. [Isaac Bickerstaffe]; not acted these 16 years [1st acted at DL, 24 Nov. 1770], by Veterans of the Stage. 2nd piece: By the late Samuel Foote, Esq. 3rd piece: By Garrick; not acted these 12 years. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Performance Comment: Don Carlos-Wyatt; Lazarillo-Cross; Don Guzman-Darling; Don Ferdinand-Thome; Octavio-George; Messenger-Green; Alguzill-Purkiss; Drunken Coachman-Ryder; James-Morley; Lawyer-Hall; Don Pedro-Stephens; Muskato-Swords; Aurora-Miss Bird; Marcella-Miss Noel; Leonardo-Mrs Knox; Old Nun-Mrs Barnes; Beatrice-Miss Clarke .
Cast
Role: Old Nun Actor: Mrs Barnes

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Afterpiece Title: Lethe, -AEsop, Old Man, Mercury, Drunken Man, Charon, Bowman, Snip, Fine Gentleman, Frenchman, Lord Chalkstone to be performed, for that night only, by a Society of Gentleman; Mrs Riot-Mrs Dore

Related Works
Related Work: A Midsummer Night's Dream Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: 1785 04 25 Preceding the 1st piece an Address spoken by Brown

4855
18 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Turk, and No Turk and Harlequin Teague [the latter announced on playbill of 16 July] are both postponed on account of the Indisposition of Parsons and Wewitzer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17850706

4856
11 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Dignum; Sir Harry Sycamore-Parsons; Fairfield-Aickin; Mervin-Williames; Ralph-Suett; Giles-Bannister; Fanny-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Hopkins; Theodosia-Miss Stageldoir; Patty-Mrs Crouch (late Miss Phillips) .
Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Miss Stageldoir

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred

Dance: As17850927

4857
31 January 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 19 Feb. 1784]. Afterpiece: Written by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. [The playbill lists Edwin as Coupee, but "Brown, in consequence of the sudden illness of Edwin . . . [undertook] the part of Coupee" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Feb.). He was from the Norwich theatre.] Receipts: #291 10s. (286/14/6; 4/15/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4858
25 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henderson. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies and Gentlemen are most earnestly requested to come early, to prevent Inconvenience in getting to their Places, and to send their Servants to keep them by Four o'clock. [Prologue by Arthur Murphy {Works, 1786, VII, 369).] Morning Herald, 14 Feb.: Tickets to be had at the house of the late Mr Henderson [see 8 Nov. 1785], Buckingham-street, York Buildings. "The poetical address delivered by Mrs Siddons before the play was written by Murphy, and was so very dull that we will charitably suppose his feelings obstructed the operation of his fancy" (General Advertiser, 27 Feb.). Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (140/15/0; 0/14/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

4859
16 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 14 Nov.]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. In drinking health to the King at the supper table in the farce, Baddeley introduced very appositely an allusion to his Majesty's late fortunate escape [on 2 Aug., when Margaret Nicholson attempted to assassinate him], which was received with three plaudits" (London Chronicle, 19 Sept.). Receipts: #260 13s. (224.2; 36.6; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: III: Song-Williames [This was sung, as here assigned,in all subsequent performances, except on 19 Jan. 1787, q.v.]

4860
14 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Supernumeraries #9 13s. 6d.; Carpenters #15 12s. 1d. Afterpiece: Written by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. Receipts: #225 12s. (181.3; 43.18; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4861
01 November 1786 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Lord Chamberlain sent an order, between four and five in the evening, to the two theatres to cease representing any plays, till after the funeral of the late Princess Amelia [daughter of George II; she died on 31 Oct.] (Morning Chronicle, 2 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4862
24 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: Ferdinand [later called: Fernando]-Johnstone; Spado-Quick; Pedrillo-Edwin; Ramirez-Davies; Sanguino-Darley; Scipio-Booth; Philippo-King; Rapino-Cubitt; Don Juan-Fearon; Alphonso-Mrs Kennedy; Victoria-Miss Wilkinson; Isabella-Miss Platt; Catalina-Mrs Brown; Lorenza-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

4863
30 April 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Doctor Cantwell-Simpson; Colonel Lambert-Curtis; Maw@Worm-A Young Gentleman; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bakewell; Young Lady Lambert-Mrs Fox; Betty-Miss Leserve; Charlotte-Mrs Rivers (late of cg).
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Lady Pentweazel sitting for her Picture

Performance Comment: Lady Pentweazel-A Gentleman, lately a Surgeon's Mate in the Guards, who will perform the Principal Characters.
Cast
Role: Lady Pentweazel Actor: A Gentleman, lately a Surgeon's Mate in the Guards, who will perform the Principal Characters.
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la Mode Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: Young Mask-Curtis; Freeman-Simpson; Old Mask-The Gentleman who performs Lady Pentweazel; Lady Scrape-Miss Leserve; Laundress-Mrs Bakewell; Musical Lady-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).unidentified]).
Cast
Role: Old Mask Actor: The Gentleman who performs Lady Pentweazel
Related Works
Related Work: The Musical Lady Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: End III: Bow wow wow (from Patrick in Prussia [i.e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm

Performance Comment: e. Love in a Camp])-the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm; In 3rd piece: a duet, The Hermit[, taken from part of Goldsmith's Hermit,-the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm.
Cast
Role: Actor: the Gentleman who plays Maw-Worm
Role: the Gentleman who plays Maw Actor: Worm
Role: 's Hermit, Actor: the Young Lady, the Gentleman who performs Maw-Worm.
Role: the Gentleman who performs Maw Actor: Worm.

4864
03 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. Receipts: #98 4s. 6d. (79.10.0; 18.2.0; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: End: As17870920

4865
23 July 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: As17880618 but Letty-Mrs Barresford (late Mrs Bulkley).
Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Dance: As17880707

4866
18 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, ascribed variously to John O'Keeffe and to James Foord; adapted from La Gageure Imprevue, by Michel Jean Sedaine. Text prints a Prologue "Supposed to be written by G. Colman, Esq., and intended to be spoken by Bannister Jun.," but "it arrived, by accident, too late at the theatre to be studied and recited" (London Chronicle, 25 Aug.)]. "A new afterpiece was...attempted to be represented, [but] it was not heard out" (Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.). Public Advertiser, 8 Oct. 1788: This Day is published A Key to the Lock (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: A Key to the Lock

4867
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett.
Cast
Role: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee Actor: Death
Role: Dance Actor: the Miss Simonets

4868
26 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Delpini being entirely recovered from his late Accident will perform his original Character this Evening in the new Serious Pantomime. [Who had been his substitute, or when the accident had taken place, is not stated] Receipts: #232 16s. (226.4; 6.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

4869
05 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 3rd piece [1st time; INT I, probably by Robert Baddeley. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from [The Lame Lover, by] the late Samuel Foote, Esq. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 10, New Store-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #297 16s. (74.14; 8.12; 0.19; tickets: 213.11) (charge: #117 16s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act II) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: A Lesson for Lawyers

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Miss Barnes.

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890430

4870
04 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Seven Orphan Children of Peter? Harris, late Ballet-Master of this Theatre, who a short time since [on 23 Mar.] was unfortunately killed. Receipts: #311 1s. (73.12; 11.5; tickets: 226.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Rock.

Dance: As17890512

4871
12 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 4 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Receipts: #159 6s. 6d. (119.17.0; 38.6.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-Kemble; Richmond-Wroughton; Buckingham-Barrymore; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Tressel-Whitfield; Norfolk-Williames; Catesby-Packer; Ratcliff-Phillimore; Prince Edward-Miss Stageldoir; Duke of York-Miss Gawdry; King Henry-Bensley; Lady Anne-Mrs Powell (late Mrs Farmer); Dutchess of York-Mrs Hopkins; Queen-Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

4872
11 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 1st piece: Altered [by MacNamara Morgan] from The Winter's Tale. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas King. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: An Alteration, never yet performed, of Sir John Vanburgh's [sic] Mistake. Public Advertiser, 10 Feb.: Tickets to be had of King, at his house in Gerrard-street. Receipts: #321 2s. 6d. (249.14.0; 4.8:6; tickets: 67.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Performance Comment: Florizel-Holman; Polixines-Aickin; Antigonus-Hull; Camillo-Powel; Clown-Cubitt; Autolicus (the Ballad@singing Pedler)-King; Dorcas-Miss Rowson; Mopsa-Mrs Byrne; Perdita-Miss Brunton.
Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

Performance Comment: After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King.

4873
16 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

Performance Comment: Lee Lewes. In which will be exhibited Characters and Caricatures, many of them entirely new, and others selcted from Subjects of the most approved Wit and Humour. Two very astonishing figures will be introduced, of the late King of Prussia, and his General Ziethen; also the Propagation of a Lie, in Characters as large as life, with several whimsical Paintings in Transparency. The whole prepared for the East Indies, at a prodigious expense. The above two figures cost at Berlin 275 guineas.

4874
26 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A revived Grand Pantomimical Ballet. To conclude with a superb Prospect of the Infernal Regions. [This was included in all subsequent performances; and see 6 Nov.] Books of the Pantomime to be had at the Theatre. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The Scenes designed and painted by Greenwood. Receipts: #272 14s. (238.18; 32.4; 1.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17900911, but Lady Elinor-Miss Hagley; Cicely-Mrs Bland (late Miss Romanzini).

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Performance Comment: Don Antonio-Williames; Don Ferdinand-Dignum; Don Juan-Palmer; Don Guzman-Benson; Carlos-Haymes; Perez-Bland; Pedrillo-Banks; Lopez-Lyons; Gomez-Alfred; Vasquez-Fawcett; Host-Chapman; Masaniello-Fairbrother; Scaramouch (with a song)-Dubois; Alguaziles-Burton, Jones, Webb; Boatswain (with a song)-Sedgwick; Sailors-Phillimore, Danby, Maddocks; Donna Anna-Miss Collins; Isabella-Miss Heard; Inis-Miss Palmer; Katharina-Mrs Edwards; Viletta-Mrs Bland; Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley; Edition of 1790 (C. Lowndes) adds: Waiter-Fairbrother (i.e. doubled Masaniello); 4th Sailor-Reynoldson.
Cast
Role: Masaniello Actor: Fairbrother
Role: Waiter Actor: Fairbrother

Dance: In afterpiece: under the Direction of D'Egville, Hamoir, Bourk, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp, Edition of 1790 adds: Fairbrother, Whittow, Kirk, Whitmell, Walker, Bidotti, Nicolini, Mrs Davis, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Harris, Mrs K. Davis, Miss Bourk

4875
11 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, usually ascribed to Thomas Holcroft, but probably by James Marshall; adapted from Trau, Schau, Wem! (later entitled Der Gasthof), by Johann Christian Brandes. Authors of Prelude and Epilogue unknown]. Account-Book, 23 Nov.: Paid Marshall, author, in full, #99 8s. [not the actor, engaged at cg this season, whose Christian name was Thomas]. Diary, 23 Nov. 1790: This Day is published The German Hotel (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #179 14s. (166.4; 13.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

Performance Comment: Captain Patrick-Johnstone; Quiz-Quick; Darby (1st time)-Bernard; Marshall Ferbelin-Davies; Father Luke-Rock; Olmutz-Cubitt; Adjutant-Macready; Rupert-Lee; Mabel Flourish-Mrs Webb; Norah-Miss Francis; Flora-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Rock