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2134 results for: Keyword - the French
We found 1256 matches on Roles/Actors, 561 matches on Performance Title, 446 matches on Event Comments, 329 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

626
15 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

627
16 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

628
18 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Cast
Role: Athelwold Actor: Lewis
Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

629
07 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be taken. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had at the late Dr Arne's, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

630
12 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, by Frederick Pilon. Author of Epilogue unknown. This Prelude had reference to the illuminations held on 11 Feb. 1779 in honor of the acquittal, on a charge of misconduct in the naval operations off Brest, of Admiral Augustus Keppel. In 1780 it was acted at this theatre, with alterations, as A Gazette Extraordinary]. Tickets delivered for The Distress'd Mother will be received. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes at his house in Bow-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 4 May 1779: This Day is published Illumination (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination; Or, The Glaziers Conspiracy

Afterpiece Title: Elfrida

Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

631
17 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for The Comedy of Errors will be admitted. Books of the Catches and Glees to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Song: End II: several of the newest and most approved Catches and Glees (selected from the invaluable Collection of the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Catch-Club)-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, R.? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers

Performance Comment: ? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers.

632
19 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Cast
Role: Lord of the Manor Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Romeo and Juliet

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Dance: I: As17781026, but Minuet-Dagueville, Miss Armstrong

Song: Solemn Dirge, as17781026, but Fox, Mrs _Willems

633
04 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Lady Catherine Rouge Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: 3rd piece: As17790405; End IV: Hornpipe-Master Davies (scholar to Hurst; 1st appearance in public)

Song: In III: song in character-Mrs Morton

634
10 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Monologue: In IV: Masque of Singing and Dancing. Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Miss Valois

635
24 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Green.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

636
08 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture and the rest of the music composed by Hook. Receipts: #182 18s. (181.15; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Dagueville; End II: The Pilgrim-Harris, Miss Matthews

637
11 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

638
16 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir Harry Sycamore (1st time)-Edwin; Giles-Reinhold; Mervin-Robson; Fairfield-Hull; Ralph (1st time)-W. Bates; Fanny-Miss Brown; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Mrs Morton; Patty-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Storer]).Miss Storer]).
Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

639
18 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Henderson had 1st acted Macbeth in London at dl, 31 Mar. 1778.] "We have often remonstrated against the incongruous stile of dressing plays at each theatre...Last night the modern custom of making the principal actor fine was followed without any regard to propriety, or any care about the other personages of the drama" (Morning Chronicle, 19 Oct.). Receipts: #249 10s. 6d. (248.6.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth (1st time [at this theatre]; and 1st appearance at this theatre)-Henderson; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Banquo-Wroughton; Malcolm-Whitfield; Lenox-L'Estrange; Seyton-Thompson; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Quick, Mrs Pitt, Brunsdon; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Song: Vocal parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Miss Brown, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems

640
04 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Receipts: #92 17s. 6d. (90.14.0; 2.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

641
05 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

Dance: End II: as17791022; I: Rural Dance, as17791008

642
06 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

643
10 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland]: taken from [the same, by] Massinger and [Mariamne, by] Fenton. [not in Larpent MS; not published.] With new Dresses. Henderson "might surely break himself of the aukward custom of clapping his hands together almost perpetually, and running on and off the stage with so ungraceful a levity" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov.). [Miss Younge was from dl.] Receipts: #127 10s. 6d. (124.14.0; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Milan

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Henderson, Hull, Whitfield, Peile, L'Estrange, Fearon, Robson, Booth, Thompson, Aickin, Miss Platt, Miss Younge (1st appearance at this theatre). Cast from Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov.: Sforza-Henderson; Cardinal-Hull; Alphonso-Whitfield; Emperor-Peile; Pescara-L'Estrange; Spanish Captains-Fearon, Robson, Booth; Lodovico-Thompson; Francisco-Aickin; Attendant-Miss Platt; Marcelia-Miss Younge; New Prologue-Lee Lewes, Hull (Public Advertiser, 11 Nov.); New Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley (ibid.).

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

644
16 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

645
20 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

646
24 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17791013

647
26 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

648
28 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #285 5s. (283.11.6; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

649
29 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

650
02 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover