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9548 results for: Keyword - the Palmers
We found 17141 matches on Roles/Actors, 3601 matches on Performance Comments, 310 matches on Event Comments, 49 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

3026
09 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Spanish Barber; afterpiece of The Mayor of Garratt, both advertised on playbill of 8 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

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

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Shift, Smirk-Bannister Jun.; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Loader-R. Palmer; Mr Wealthy-Gardner; Dick-Burton; The Minor-Iliff; Lucy-Miss Heard; Mrs Cole-Mr Bannister.
Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Iliff

3027
30 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast
Role: The Romp Actor: Miss George.
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Chambers, Reeve, Mathews, Chapman, Miss George, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Plomer, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bannister

3028
01 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Married Man

Cast
Role: The Romp Actor: Miss George.
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Chambers, Reeve, Mathews, Chapman, Miss George, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Plomer, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

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

Dance: As17890728

3029
05 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece [1st time; M. PREL 1; at its 2nd performance, 10 Aug., acted under its 2nd title, and published as such]: Written by Thomas? Bellamy. [The Address by--Codrington, of Exeter (European Magazine, Sept. 1789, p. 218).] World, 1 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-Buildings. Diary, 1 Sept. 1789: This Day is published The Benevolent Planters (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Friends Or The Benevolent Planters

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Performance Comment: Muns-Edwin; Lord Edmund-Williamson; Dowdle-Moss; Count Fripon-Powell; Father Frank-Mathews; Phelim-Ledger; Tough-Burton; Frill-Johnson; Trap-Gardner; Landlord-Painter; Jack Connor-R. Palmer; Rachel-Mrs Brooks; Mary-Mrs Edwards; Adelaide-Mrs Whitfield.
Cast
Role: Father Frank Actor: Mathews

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: In: a new dance, Liberty or We Slaves Rejoice-

Entertainment: Monologues End 2nd piece: As17890617 Preceding: An Address to the Humane Society on the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the character of a Negro , by-Kemble; End 3rd piece: Belles have at Ye All-Mrs Kemble

Cast
Role: God save the King Actor: Chapman, Chambers, Mathews.

3030
27 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Managed

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Edwin, Kemble, Burton, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Whitfield. [Cast suggested by Genest, VI, 570: Don Pisalto-Edwin; Father Bernardo-Kemble; Teague-Burton; Inis-Mrs Edwards; Lady Pisalto-Mrs Whitfield.]
Cast
Role: Father Bernardo Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke or Trappolins Vagaries

Song: End 2nd piece: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-; In 3rd piece: Quoz-Edwin

3031
07 September 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Bannister Jun,; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Maria-Mrs Goodall (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

3032
09 September 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Comet

Cast
Role: The Romp Actor: Miss George.
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Chambers, Reeve, Mathews, Chapman, Miss George, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Plomer, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bannister
Role: Father Frank Actor: Mathews

3033
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

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

3034
17 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Divorce, advertised on playbill of 15 Sept.] Paid Renters' Interest #34 [this paid daily]; Supernumeraries #3 4s. 6d.; Tailor #8 16s. 6d.; Scenemen #5 4s.; Daglish copying music #6 16s. 9d. Receipts: #113 1s. (69.16.0; 41.13.6; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Kemble; Manly-Bensley; Count Basset-Dodd; John Moody-Moody; Squire Richard-Suett; Sir Francis Wronghead-Hollingsworth; Lady Grace-Mrs Ward; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Booth; Miss Jenny-Miss Collins; Myrtilla-Miss Barnes; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Heard; Trusty-Miss Tidswell; Lady Townly-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Heard

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

3035
19 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kemble Mem.: Haymes, from Margate.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. With Alterations and Restorations, particularly the admired Shades and Transparencies representing the Amusements of Harlequin, and the Destruction of the Pantomimical Fleet. Harlequin's Invasion will be performed only Four Times this Season, when it must necessarily give place to Preparations for other Entertainments. Receipts: #183 3s. 6d. (119.4.0; 62.2.0; 1.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

3036
26 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Wroughton; Bacchanals-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick; Spirit-Lamash; Brothers-Benson, Banks; The Lady-Mrs Ward; Pastoral Nymph (1st time)-Miss Hagley; Sabrina-Miss Romanzini; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Edwards; Bacchants-Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Mrs Shaw; Euphrosyne-Mrs Crouch; Sweet Echo-Mrs Crouch; accompanied-Forster.
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Benson, Banks
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch

3037
29 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

3038
01 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 13 Oct. 1748. With alterations by John Philip Kemble]. Receipts: #167 18s. 6d. (122.19.0; 42.11.6; 2.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

3039
10 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

3040
17 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Songs [in The Tempest] to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #244 5s. (220.14; 22.11; 1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Song: As17891013, but Vocal Parts-Miss Hagley

3041
20 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Bannister Jun.'s 1st appearance as Young Philpot was at the hay, 7 Sept. 1789.] Receipts: #191 5s. 6d. (162.7.0; 27.3.0; 1.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: As17891017

3042
31 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Keating is identified in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (95.4.0; 23.6.0; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

3043
05 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 25 Apr. 1780]. Receipts: #110 18s. (77.4; 32.3; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Rest of the Vocal Parts Actor: Kelly

3044
07 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 3, by William Hayley, based on The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton. And see cg, 10 Nov.]: With new Dresses and Decorations. Afterpiece: 1st time in 3 acts [see cg, 14 Dec. 1784]. Receipts: #120 10s. 6d. (84.15.0; 29.17.6; 5.18.0)

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

3045
24 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin [1790]. Sga Storace had 1st appeared in concerts from 1774 to 1778, and at king's on 24 Apr. 1787 and thereafter]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Music composed by Storace, the rest compiled from Linley? Sen., Purcell, Sarti, Paisiello, Martin y Soler?, Pleyel, &c. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "In her own particular line on the stage [Sga Storace] was unrivalled, being an excellent actress, as well as a masterly singer. She settled entirely in England, and after quitting the opera (to which she was frequently recalled in times of distress, as was too often the case), she engaged at Drury Lane, where the English opera was raised to an excellence not known before, by her singing, with that of Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Kelly, and Bannister, and under the direction of her brother Stephen Storace, who composed, or rather compiled, several very pretty operas, of which the Haunted Tower, and the Siege of Belgrade still remain favorites, and are frequently performed" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 65). Account-Book, 4 Jan. 1790: Paid Cobb on Acct. of the Purchase of the Copyright of the Haunted Tower #157 10s.; 27 Feb. 1790: Paid Cobb in full for Copyright #52 10s. Receipts: #219 9s. 6d. (200.13.0; 17.14.6; 1.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: [Characters-Kelly, Baddeley, Moody, Suett, Dignum, Sedgwick, Whitfield, Williames, Bannister Jun.; Sga Storace (1st appearance on the English stage i.e. in a speaking part]), Miss Romanzini, Mrs Booth, Mrs Crouch. [Cast from Songs (J. Jarvis, 1789): Lord William-Kelly; Baron of Oakland-Baddeley; Hugo-Moody; Lewis-Suett; Robert-Dignum; Charles-Sedgwick; De Courcy-Whitfield; Martin-Williames; Edward-Bannister Jun.; Hubert-Webb; Servant-Lyons; Adela-Sga Storace; Cicely-Miss Romanzini; Maud-Mrs Booth; Lady Elinor-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The King-Whitfield; Richard-R. Palmer; Joe (with a song)-Williames; Lord Lurewell-Benson; The Miller-Moody; Kate-Mrs Wilson; Peggy-Miss Collins; Margery-Mrs Hopkins [Public Advertiser: Mrs Booth].Public Advertiser: Mrs Booth].
Cast
Role: The King Actor: Whitfield
Role: The Miller Actor: Moody

3046
01 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

3047
10 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years [never previously acted at this theatre. Baker had acted at Dublin and at Margate (Thespian Dictionary)]. Receipts: #214 2s. 6d. (188.12.0; 24.8.6; 0.19.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17891204

3048
19 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 9 May 1785]. Receipts: #236 5s. 6d. (200.5.0; 35.1.6; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17891204

3049
10 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Bland was from the Liverpool theatre.] Receipts: #218 16s. (175.0.0; 41.1.0; 2.12.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Dance: End: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

3050
27 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Honeycombe-Suett; Ledger-Williames; Scribble-R. Palmer; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Hopkins; Polly (with a new song, and the original Epilogue)-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Nurse-Mrs Booth.
Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17900210

Song: As17890922