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We found 3967 matches on Performance Comments, 826 matches on Performance Title, 753 matches on Author, 624 matches on Event Comments, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17261205, but Mezzetin Man and Woman-Salle, Mrs Younger; Miller's Wife-Mrs Younger.
Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Receipts: #31 9s. Probable attendance: boxes, 37 paid and 10 orders; pit, 64 paid and 22 orders; slips, 16 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 121 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 78 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Sir John-Boheme; Young Valere-Walker; Lovewell-Milward; Marquis of Hazard-Morgan; Dorante-Hippisley; Cogdie-Chapman; Hector-Spiller; Angelica-Mrs Younger; Mrs Security-Mrs Egleton; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Clarke, who never appear'd on any stage before.
Cast
Role: Young Valere Actor: Walker
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Younger

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pastoral-Glover, Mrs Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sesostris; Or, Royalty In Disguise

Performance Comment: Edition of 1728 lists: Omar-Boheme; Sesostris-Ryan; Phanes-Milward; Dion-Chapman; Menes-Pitt; Ammon-Ogden; Nitocris-Mrs Berriman; Ariaspe-Mrs Younger; Paraba-Mrs Vincent; Cleanthe-Mrs Paling; Prologue-Boheme; Epilogue-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Ariaspe Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Cleanthe Actor: Mrs Paling
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Younger.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters; Or, Two Fools Well Met

Performance Comment: Sir William-Bullock; Young Wealthy-Ryan; Tom Wealthy-Walker; Shamtown-Hippisley; Littlegad-Chapman; Spruce-Spiller; Lady Sly-Mrs Berriman; Maria-Mrs Younger; Sophia-Mrs Bullock; Mrs Spruce-Mrs Egleton; Nanny-Miss Fenton.
Cast
Role: Young Wealthy Actor: Ryan
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Younger

Song: NNo Kissing At All by Purcell-Leveridge, Salway; Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Barbier

Dance: PPierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Performance Comment: See17280309 but Young Wealthy-Ryan; Maria-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: 7280309 but Young Wealthy Actor: Ryan
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Younger.

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: End I: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Grand Dance of French Sailors-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre, Pagod, Mrs Bullock, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; IV: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: A new Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; in which, at the Desire of several Persons of Quality, Kettle Drums-Poitier; End Farce: a new Grand Dance called Lads and Lasses-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Anderson, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: Mrs Barbier; IV: Two English Ballads-Mrs Barbier

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Years. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Revis'd by the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory; Or, The Double Deceit

Performance Comment: Sir John-Griffin; Young Indolent-Cibber Jr; Reynard-Watson; Sir Rowland-Corey; Young Heartfree-Roberts; Phillip-Berry; Cobblecause-Bridgwater; John-Fielding; Aminta-Mrs Butler; Charlotte-Mrs Heron; Maria-Miss Raftor; Fainwou'd-Mrs Shireburn; With the Original Prologue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Salle. Receipts: money #60 16s. 6d.; tickets #69 1s. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: See17310123, but Young Bevil-Quin; Tom-Ryan; Phillis-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Young Bevil Actor: Quin
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: I: Saraband, Tambourin-Miss Rogers, Scholar to Salle; II: The Loyal and Generous Free@Mason-Salle, DuPre, Pelling, Newhouse; all Brothers, in which Original Free Mason's Song-Salway; accompanied in the Chorus-the rest of his Brethren; III: Les Characteres de la Dance-Salle, Mlle Salle; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; V: Louvre and Bretagne-Salle, Mlle Salle

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): Edward Young
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis
Event Comment: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Sir John-Ogden; Sealand-Haughton; Young Bevil-Milward; Myrtle-Salway; Cimberton-Hippisley; Humphrey-Morgan; Tom-Chapman; Danidl-Young Woodward; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Martin; Isabella-Mrs Rice; Indiana-Mrs Templer; Lucinda-Mrs Chapman; Phillis-Mrs Morgan.
Cast
Role: Young Bevil Actor: Milward
Role: Danidl Actor: Young Woodward

Dance: As17310701

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Performance Comment: School Boy-Mrs Younger; Major Rakish-Hippisley; Young Rakish-Walker; Friendly-Milward; Lady Manlove-Mrs Martin.
Cast
Role: School Boy Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Young Rakish Actor: Walker

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Ryan; Aimwell-Walker; Sullen-Quin; Sir Charles-Milward; Bonniface-Bullock; Gibbet-Chapman; Foigard-H. Bullock; Scrub-Hippisley; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Hallam; Dorinda-Mrs Younger; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Egleton; Cherry-Mrs Laguerre.
Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Younger

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Performance Comment: School Boy-Mrs Younger; Major Rakish-Penkethman; Young Rakish-Walker; Friendly-Milward; Lady Manlove-Mrs Martin.
Cast
Role: School Boy Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Young Rakish Actor: Walker

Dance: PPeasant-Nivelon; Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Saraband-Glover, Miss LaTour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Quin; Iago-Ryan; Brabantio-Milward; Cassio-Walker; Roderigo-Chapman; Emilia-Mrs Stevens; Desdemona-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Quin
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Younger.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Poitier; Nymphs-Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; Daphne-Mrs Laguerre; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant-Hippisley; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Scaramouch-Newhouse; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Newhouse, Delagarde Jr, DuPre Jr; Women Peasants-Mrs Stevens, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Chapman; Venus-Mrs Sanderson, the first Time of her appearing on that Stage; Bacchus-Leveridge; Pan-Laguerre; Zephyrus-Poitier; Frenchman-Glover; Spaniard-Dupre; Polonese-Pelling; Frenchwoman-Mrs Younger; Spanish Woman-Miss LaTour; Polonese Woman-Mrs Ogden; Flora-Mrs Laguerre.
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; but edition of 1732 lists: Jupiter-Barret; Neptune-Snider; Mars-Waltz; Phoebus-Mountier; Honour-Waltz; Valour-Baker; Liberty-Snyder; Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; Publick Virtue-Miss Susanna Mason; Victory, Concord, Peace-Mrs Seedo; Discord-Comano; Faction-Mynet [a note adds that later it was Phoebus-$Barret; Neptune-$Mountier]..

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: Apollo-Poitier; Nymphs-Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; Daphne-Mrs Pelling; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant-Hippisley; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Scaramouch-Newhouse; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Newhouse, Delagarde Jr, DuPre Jr; Women Peasants-Mrs Stevens, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Forrester; With The Triumphs of Love: Venus-Mrs Sanderson; Silenus-Leveridge; Pan-Laguerre; Bacchus-Salway; Zephyrus-Poitier; Frenchman-Glover; Spaniard-Dupre; Polonese-Pelling; French Woman-Mrs Younger; Spanish Woman-Miss LaTour; Polonese Woman-Mrs Ogden; Flora-Mrs Pelling.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Younger
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: edition of 1733: Compos'd by Mr Theophilus Cibber, Comedian. The Songs made (to Old Ballad Tunes) by a Friend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 lists: Harlequin-LeBrun; Beau Mordecai-Stoppelaer; Old Debauchee-Berry; Justice@Mittimus-Mullart; Mons Poudre-Oates; Constable-Jones; Keeper-Burnet; Porter-Peploe; Pompey-Young Grace; Beadles-Gray, Wright; Kitty-Miss Raftor; Madam Decoy-Mrs Mullart; Jenny-Mrs Grace; Beau Brindle-Leigh; Les Capricieux-Essex, Miss Robinson; Hungarians-Houghton, Mrs Walter; Fingalians-Lally Sr, Miss Mears; Scaramouch-Lally Jr; Pierrot-Tench; Mezzetin-Stoppelaer; Ladies of Pleasure-Miss Mann, Miss Atherton, Miss Price; Marquis de Fresco-Arlequin en Chien; but Daily Post, 24 March (not later) adds: Shepherds-Lally Sr, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport; Shepherdesses-Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Grace, Miss Mann, Miss Price; Paris-Denoyer; Helen-Mrs Booth; Juno-Mrs Walter; Pallas-Miss Mears; Mercury-Stoppelaer; Power-Ellis Roberts; Venus-Miss Robinson; Thalia-Miss Raftor; Euphrosyne-Mrs Mullart; Aglaia-Miss Atherton; Fame-Young Cunningham.
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Benefit Christopher Smith Jr (the composer). The Habits and the Scenes proper to the Subject. Words by Mr Humphrey. Pit and Boxes 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Performance Comment: Mrs Barbier, Miss Cecilia Young, Mrs Wright, Kelly, Waltz; but edition of 1733 lists: Ulysses-Mrs Barbier; Penelope-Miss Cecilia Young; Telemachus-Kelly; Antinous-Walz; Antigone-Mrs Wright.
Cast
Role: Penelope Actor: Miss Cecilia Young
Event Comment: Mainpiece: With proper Scenes, Machines, Flyings, Sinkings, and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Trincalo-Bridgwater; Prospero-Roberts; Ferdinand-Marshal; Hypolito-Miss Holliday; Alonzo-Hewett; Antonio-Turbitt; Gonzalo-Mullart; Stephano-Hewson; Ventoso-Norris; Mustacho-Jones; Caliban-Paget; Sycorax-Topham; Ariel-Miss Norris; Miranda-Mrs Walter; Dorinda-Mrs Clive (with the Song of Dear, Pretty Youth, composed by Purcell); Neptune-Stoppelaer; Earthy Spirit-Waltz; Milcha-Mountier; Singing Devils-Snider, Nichols, Rainton, Young Cunningham; Winds-Lally, Topham, Lally Jr, Davenport; Watermen-Le Brun, Topham, J. Topham, Davenport, Lally Jr, Mullart, with a Grand Dance of Spirits, as perform'd before the Emperor of Constantinople at the Feast of Bairam: Chief Spirit-Le Brun; Amphitrite-Miss Young, who never appeared on any stage before .

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Revenge; Or, The Rover Reclaim'd

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, Walker, Chapman, Sal way, Mrs Hallam, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Buchanan; but edition of 1734 lists: Sir Harry Lovejoy-Ryan; Heartly-Walker; Sir Lively Brainless-Chapman; Tom-Salway; Lady Traffick-Mrs Hallam; Angelina-Mrs Buchanan; Laetitia Lovejoy-Mrs Bullock; Betty-Mrs Younger; Jenny-Miss Norsa. Prologue and Epilogue written by Aaron Hill .
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Younger

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1735 lists: Alcina-Signora Strada; Rogero-Carestini; Morgano-Mrs Young; Bradamante-Signora Maria Negri; Orontes-Beard; Melisso-Waltz; Oberto-Young Mr Savage .
Cast
Role: Morgano Actor: Mrs Young
Role: Oberto Actor: Young Mr Savage
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: the first time of her performance on that theatre, viz.the first time of her performance on that theatre, viz. In III: An Italian Song beinging Di Lor Mio-Miss Cecilia Young; III: Torna mi Vegbeggiar-Miss Cecelia Young both from the Opera of Alcina

Performance Comment: the first time of her performance on that theatre, viz. In III: An Italian Song beinging Di Lor Mio-Miss Cecilia Young; III: Torna mi Vegbeggiar-Miss Cecelia Young both from the Opera of Alcina.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Song: II: La Nuvoletta, an Italian Ballad.-Miss Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Performance Comment: -Miss Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Lady Stafford to Lord Wentworth, 4 Jan.: I hear their will be a vast riot to night at the Play, for young Cibber is to act and the Templars are resolved to hiss him off the stage. 6 Jan.: Young Cibber was vastly hiss'd a Thursday, but his old friend Impudence kept him from being either out of countenance or in the least disturb'd at the noise.-Wentworth Papers, p. 541

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Wright

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: V: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: A New Oratorio. [By Handel.] Pit and Boxes put together at half a guinea each. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [The King, Duke, and the princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 473, lists: Saul-Waltz; Jonathan-Beard; David-Russell; Merab-Mrs Arne Miss Cecilia Young; Michael-Signora Francesina; Doeg-Butler; Witch of Endor-Signora Lucchesina?, or Mrs Arne?-Young; Apparition of Samuel-Hussey; An Amalekite-Stoppelaer; High Priest-Kelly.
Cast
Role: Merab Actor: Mrs Arne Miss Cecilia Young
Role: Witch of Endor Actor: Signora Lucchesina?, or Mrs Arne?-Young
Role: or Mrs Arne? Actor: Young
Event Comment: Performance After the manner of an Oratorio Set by Mr Handel. Tickets will be deliver'd to subscribers on paying their subscription money, this day and every day following at Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, near Hanover Square, where attendance will be given from nine o'clock in the Morning till three in the afternoon. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the theatre at Half a Guinea each, First Gallery 5s.; Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Customary notice which will not be repeated.] Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six. Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes: There is a four-part song that is delightfully pretty...there was no disturbance at the playhouse. -Delany, Autobiography, II, 262. [Libretto by Congreve.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

Performance Comment: Semele-Signora Francesina [Elizabeth Duparc ( Delany, Autobiography, II, 254)]; Jupiter-Beard, tenor; Cadmus-Reinhold[, bass; Athamas-Daniel Sullivan[, alto; Juno-Miss Young[, mezzo soprano; Iris-Signora Avoglio[, soprano; Ino-Miss Young[, contralto; High Priest-Reinhold[, bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582]., bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582].
Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Miss Young
Role: Ino Actor: Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Clive; Eurydice-Miss Young; Nymphs follower of Eurydice-1, Mlle Domitilla; 2, Mrs Fabres; 3, Mrs LaFont; 4, Mrs LeBrun; 5, Mrs Villeneuve; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Reinhold; Demons-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantaloon-Rosco; Squire Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman dwarf-Young Ferg; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Mrs Fabres, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LaFont; A Rural Swain, Nymph-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; Villagers-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Fabres, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LaFont; Intermix'd with a new Pantomime in Grotesque Characters, call'd the Metamorphoses of Harlequin-.
Event Comment: Never acted there before. With all new Habits. Adapted to the stage, as alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Young Brother-Cashell; 1st Spirit-Hale; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Vocal Parts:-Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Bacchanal-Beard; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Followers of Comus-Leveridge, Reinhold, Messing, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Wright, Miss Young; Dancesproper to the masque-Cooke, Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Domitilla, Mrs Delagarde, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeFont.