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2121 results for: Keyword - Capt. Thompson
We found 2042 matches on Performance Comments, 143 matches on Event Comments, 81 matches on Performance Title, 72 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2051
23 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Ledger, Thompson, Klanert, Claremont, Simmons, Wilde, Miss Mills, Miss Sims, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Masters, Lee, Goostree, Street, Mrs Mills, Mrs Sydney, Abbot, Mrs Egan will be admitted. 3rd piece: Representation of the Battle, as 9 Nov. 1799. Receipts: #424 9s. 6d. (40.13.6; 5.3.0; tickets: 378.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Cast
Role: Peter Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Cast
Role: Peasants Actor: Linton, Street, Thompson

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

2052
27 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Performance Comment: Rover-Lewis; Harry-Holman; Sir George Thunder-Waddy; Ephraim Smooth (with A Bundle of Proverbs)-Munden; John Dory-Fawcett; Sim-Knight; Banks-Murray; Midge-Claremont; Gammon-Thompson; Lamp-Simmons; Landlord-Atkins; Trap-Whitmore; Twitch-Wilde; Waiter-Curties; Jane-Mrs Chapman; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Gammon Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Cast
Role: Don Felix Actor: Thompson

Dance: After Singing at end: A New Dance- (By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus) composed by Byrne, in which Mr Byrne, Mrs Byrne, will make their 1st appearance on this stage these 4 years, assisted by the three Miss Adams', Master Byrne (Their 1st appearance on this stage), Blurton, Platt, Wilde, L. Bologna, Lewiss, Klanert, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Bologna, Miss Cox, Miss Bologna, Miss Dibdin

Song: End II: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End IV: The Anchor Smiths-Townsend; End: Boxing the Compass-Fawcett; Old Towler-Incledon

2053
02 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: Welford-Holman; Sir Buzzard Savage-Munden; Captain Douglas-H. Johnston; Cheaterly-Claremont; Colonel Staff-Thompson; Nicholas-Fawcett; Ordeal-Murray; Clara-Miss Murray; Grace-Mrs Mills; Widow Volatile-Mrs Dibdin; Constance-Miss Mills; Lady Flippant Savage-Mrs Glover (Their 1st appearance in those characters).
Cast
Role: Captain Douglas Actor: H. Johnston
Role: Colonel Staff Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: A Whitsun Festival

Afterpiece Title: Five Thousand a Year

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Performance Comment: Don Juan (1st and only time)-H. Johnston; Governor-Bologna Sen.; Don Fernando-King; Fisherman-Hawtin; Spanish Gents.-Lee, Curties, Atkins; Alguazile-Thompson; Waiters-Abbot, Wilkins; Musicians, Sailors-Wilde, Blurton, Platt, Lewiss, L. Bologna, Klanert; Scaramouch-Delpini; Donna Anna (1st time)-Miss Mills; Fishermen's Wives-Mrs Atkins, Miss Wheatley; (with the duet, Thus for Man the Woman fair)-Mrs Atkins, Miss Wheatley; Dancers-Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Bologna, Miss Cox, Miss Bologna, Mrs Lloyd; Ladies-Ms Leserve, Ms Gilbert, Ms Burnett, Ms Iliff, Ms Norton, Ms Whitmore, Ms Blurton.
Cast
Role: Alguazile Actor: Thompson

Song: End I: the Battle Song-Incledon as18000522

2054
10 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17990918, but Lockit-Thompson; Nimming Ned-Denman; Jailor-Atkins.
Cast
Role: Lockit Actor: Thompson
Role: Captain Macheath Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: III: Hornpipe in Fetters-Blurton

2055
13 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Isaac Mendoza-Quick; Ferdinand-Clarke (by Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane); Don Jerome-Baynes (1st appearance on this stage); Antonio-Hill; Father Paul-Thompson; Lopez-Wilde; Don Carlos-A Lady (1st appearance [Mrs Baster]); The Duenna-Mrs Whitmore; Louisa-Mrs Martyr; Clara-Mrs Atkins (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End I: Hornpipe-Miss Rogers (2nd appearance on any stage see18000611); In course Evening: by Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus, a new Anacreontic Pantomimical Ballet, composed by Byrne, The Animated Statue Principal Characters-Byrne, Mrs Byrne, Platt, Mrs Watts, the three Miss Adams', Master Byrne

Song: End: Laughing Song-Dighton

Entertainment: After Singing: Imitations-Rees (positively his last appearance on any stage)

2056
27 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my Lady Batten, Mrs Rebecca Allen, Mrs Thompson, &c., two coaches of us, we went and saw Bartholomew Fayre, acted very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

2057
28 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Thompson, Aston, Widow Atkins. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #22 12s.; tickets #94 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: I: Peggy O-Tony Aston; III: The Medley Hodge@Podge-Aston; V: Hold John-Aston; I afterpiece: Mrs Wright

Dance: II: French Clown-Nivelon; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; End of Farce: Drunken Man-Aston

2058
17 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wilcocks, Thompson, and Papillon. Receipts: money #11 18s. 6d.; tickets #131 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; Drunken Man-Salway

Song: Cantata, with Kdttle Drums and Trumpets,-Papillon

2059
14 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Newhouse, Thompson. Receipts: money #17 7s. 6d.; tickets #123 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; II: La Folette s'est ravisee-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; III: Musette-LeSac, Miss LaTour; IV: Scottish Dance, as17330507

Ballet: V: The Cobler; or, The Merry Wife Constant (new). Cobler (Punch)-Newhouse; Petir Maitre (Harlequin)-LeSac; Doctor (Scaramouch)-Dupre Jr; Merry Wive-Miss Baston

Song: III: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

2060
19 May 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Thompson, Le Sac, Miss Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. III: Grecian Sailors by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre. IV: A new dance by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Song: II: As17350422

2061
10 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit James. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq. [Tickets for Thompson and Haddock taken.] Receipts: money #18 16s.; tickets #126 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: I: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. III: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. IV: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Sailors (from orestes), by Glover, &c

Song: II: By Roberts

2062
06 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Aston, A. Ryan, Thompson, Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; IV: Fingalian-Smith, Mrs Ogden; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover; End Afterpiece: Hippisley's Drunken Man-

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414 III: Caelia has a Thousand Charms-Beard

2063
27 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets for Stoppelaer, Thompson, Boman, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Discovery

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Gates; Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun

2064
27 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman [who states that he is in danger of losing vision in one eye. Tickets at Chapman's House, the Corner of Bow Street cg.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 March: Last Week died, after a most tedious and expensive Illness, at Chelsea, Mrs Laguerre, formerly a celebrated Dancer on the Stage. Daily Post, 29 March: During the Rehearsal [on 27 March], of a new Tragedy, written by Mr Thompson, call'd Edward and Eleonora, (which was to have been acted on this Day) he receiv'd, to his great Surprise, a Message from the Lord Chamberlain, absolutely forbidding the acting of the said Play. No Objection having been made to the Whole or any Part of it, we must conclude it was consider'd as immoral or seditious

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2065
11 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Gipsies-Bride, Green, Rayner, Gray; Gipsey Women-Miss Minors, Mrs Budgell, Mrs Jackson, Mrs Rayner; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Miss Mann; Colombine's Father-Leigh; Fidler-Gray; Mother-Mrs Phillips; Maid-Miss Story; John Trot-Hough; Concluding with a New Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Island of Cytherea: Adonis-Desse; Venus-Mrs Walter; Pilgrims (men)-Liviez, Dumont, Baudouin, (women) Mrs Thompson, Miss Story, Miss Rayner; Cupid-Constantini.

Song: Between the acts: Beard, Lowe

2066
06 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stede, Thompson, Clarke, Mrs LeBrun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17420505

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

2067
29 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer, Thompson, Miss Hillyard, Tickets deliver'd out by Gardiner, Miss Morrison, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: GGrand Ballet, as17421108; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

2068
21 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Thompson and Mrs Rowley. Mainpiece written by the late Mrs Centlivre. Tickets deliver'd out by Taylor and Wright will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

2069
20 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Arne. An Historical Musical Drama. The Musick composed by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and never perform'd in England, but at his Royal Highnesses Palace at Cliefdon. The Poem was written by Mr Thompson and Mr. Mallet. The Musick by Mr Arne. To conclude with a Celebrated Ode in Honour of Great Britain in imitation of those formerly sung at Banquets of Kings and Heroes. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. The above Day is fix'd on to avoid interfering with Mr Handel. Mrs Arne hopes humbly the Town will not be offened at this small advance of the Price, this performance being exhibited at an extraordinary expence, with regard to the number of Hands, Chorus singers, building the stage, and erecting an organ; besides all other incidentals as usual. Ladies desired to send servants by 4 o'clock. Tickets of Mrs Arne, next door to the Crown in Great Queen St, by Lincoln's Inn Fields, and places taken of Hobson at the stage Door, with whom Tickets are left

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great, King Of England

2070
06 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Rector, Thompson, Harrington [Prompter] and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Picq, LaLauze; particularly a Minuet-Rector, Delagarde

2071
30 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Delagarde, Thompson, Burton. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs LeBrun, Miss Allen, &c will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; being last time of his performing. Also dancing-Cooke, Sga Campioni=

2072
15 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit on basis of half value of tickets for eight beneficiaries]: James, Anderson, Thompson, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Ferguson, Mrs Gondou, Mrs LeFont, and Miss Morrison. Receipts at the door: #13 5s. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/James 1 152 115 #34 11s. #17 5s. 6d./Anderson 10 89 84 #24 5s. #12 2s. 6d./Thompson .. 61 46 #13 15s. #6 17s. 6d./Mrs Lebrun 1 32 36 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d./Mrs Gondou 6 57 60 #16 1s. #8 0s. 6d./Mrs Ferguson 9 34 58 #13 3s. #6 11s. 6d./Mrs Morrison 15 25 43 #11 16s. #5 18s./Mrs Le Font 8 60 49 #15 18s. #7 19s./Totals 50 510 491 #138 2s. #69 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

2073
21 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive, Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Send servants by 3. Tickets and places of Mrs Clive in Great Queen St., Lincolns Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Cross: Ned Thompson dy'd. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash #78; tickets, #94 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: By Particular Desire, the Irish Song, Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive

2074
09 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: We hear that the Tragedy of Coriolanus, wrote by the late Mr Thompson, has been rehearsed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, and will be perform'd there on Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

2075
18 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow will be publish'd at 1s. 6d., Coriolanus, a Tragedy; as it is now acting at Covent Garden, by the late James Thompson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus