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17 results for: Keyword - Chesire
We found 10 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
23 February 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Johnson, of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo. [Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chesire Comicks; Or, The Amours Of Lord Flame

Cast
Role: Lord Flame Actor: Johnson
Role: other parts Actor: Mullart, Wells, Stopler, Jones, Hallam, Marshall, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Martin, Mrs Nokes, Mrs Hill, Miss Wood, Miss Palms.

2
08 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Miller
Role: Archer Actor: Wilks
Role: Sullen Actor: Thurmond
Role: Foigard Actor: Miller
Role: Gibbet Actor: Cibber
Role: Bonniface Actor: Shepard
Role: Scrub Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Weekley

Dance: Comic Dances-in three different Characters, the Chesire Boy , who perform'd lately in The Committee.

3
03 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Night Actor: Miss Lindar.
Role: Daphne's Followers Actor: Mrs _Hatton, Mrs Walter
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs _Hatton, Mrs +Walter
Role: Pan Actor: Topham
Role: Doctor Actor: Harper.
Role: Apollo Actor: Thurmond
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Boman
Role: Cupid Actor: Young Leigh
Role: Priest of Apollo Actor: Ferrers
Role: Countrymen Actor: Boval, Topham
Role: Countrywomen Actor: Miss Lindar, Mrs Brett
Role: Shepherds Actor: Essex, Lally
Role: Sylvan Actor: Thurmond
Role: Nymph Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Harlequin Mercury Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Pierrot Actor: Miller
Role: Punch Actor: Norris
Role: Marketwoman Actor: Harper
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Ray
Role: Seven Satyrs Actor: Comedians.

Dance: The Chesire Boy

4
06 January 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: The Chesire Boy, who perform'd last Season

5
25 February 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chesire Comicks

Cast
Role: Lord Flame Actor: Johnson
Role: other parts Actor: Mullart, Wells, Stopler, Jones, Hallam, Marshall, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Martin, Mrs Nokes, Mrs Hill, Miss Wood, Miss Palms.

6
27 February 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chesire Comicks

Cast
Role: With a New Epilogue Actor: .
Role: Lord Flame Actor: Johnson
Role: other parts Actor: Mullart, Wells, Stopler, Jones, Hallam, Marshall, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Martin, Mrs Nokes, Mrs Hill, Miss Wood, Miss Palms.

7
15 April 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chesire Comicks

8
08 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Cast
Role: Yeoman Actor: Aston Sr, commonly called Tony Aston, from lif, the first Time of his appearing on this Stage
Role: Reyard Actor: Jones
Role: Loveworth Actor: Barcock
Role: Maiden Actor: Hicks
Role: Squib Actor: Walker
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Jones
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Miller
Role: Mrs Goodfellow Actor: Mrs Mann
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Clarke
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Aston.

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Miss Jones Jr
Role: Grizzle Actor: Jones.

Dance: new Scots Dance to Ballad Tunes-Davenport, Miss Jones; Hornpipe, Chesire Round-Johnson

Song: Two new Songs-Aston

9
18 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Peachum Actor: Griffin
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Lockit Actor: Mullart
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Atherton
Role: Player Actor: Roberts
Role: Beggar Actor: Ridout
Role: Mat Actor: Jones
Role: Filch Actor: Leigh
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Sukey Actor: Miss Williams
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Coaxer Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Miss Mears.
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Mackheath Actor: Stoppelaer.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Cast
Role: First Farmer Actor: Berry
Role: First Farmer's Wife Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: First Yeoman Actor: Haughton
Role: First Yeoman's Wife Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Second Yeoman Actor: Lally
Role: Second Yeoman's Wife Actor: Miss Mears
Role: Colin Actor: Essex
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Yeomen Actor: Houghton, Lally, Berry
Role: Yeomen's Wives Actor: Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Mrs Mullart
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Miss Williams, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme, Miss Atherton
Role: Farmers Actor: Stoppelaer, E. Roberts
Role: Clowns Actor: Jones, Grey
Role: Peasants Actor: Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme
Role: Harlequin Actor: LeBrun.
Role: Enchanter Actor: Ridout
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lally Jr, Mrs Delorme
Role: French Man and Woman Actor: Tench, Miss Mears
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Cox, Miss Mann.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: First Farmer Actor: Berry
Role: First Farmer's Wife Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: First Yeoman Actor: Haughton
Role: First Yeoman's Wife Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Second Yeoman Actor: Lally
Role: Second Yeoman's Wife Actor: Miss Mears
Role: Colin Actor: Essex
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Yeomen Actor: Houghton, Lally, Berry
Role: Yeomen's Wives Actor: Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Mrs Mullart
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Miss Williams, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme, Miss Atherton
Role: Farmers Actor: Stoppelaer, E. Roberts
Role: Clowns Actor: Jones, Grey
Role: Peasants Actor: Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Miss Mann, Miss Mears, Mrs Delorme
Role: Harlequin Actor: LeBrun.
Role: Enchanter Actor: Ridout
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lally Jr, Mrs Delorme
Role: French Man and Woman Actor: Tench, Miss Mears
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Cox, Miss Mann.

Dance: HHornpipe-LeBrun; Fingalian (not performed these ten years)-Sant, formerly known by the name of the Chesire Boy

10
05 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Opera

Dance: Mr Sant[, Dancing-Master, from Chester, who has perform'd several Times at dl] with great Applause, by the Name of the Chesire Boy

11
04 September 1667 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Croome's, at the Sign of the Shoe and Slap, near the Hospital Gate in West Smithfield, is to be seen, The Wonder of Nature, A Girl, above Sixteen Years of Age, born in Chesire, and not above Eighteen Inches long, having shed the Teeth seven several Times, and not a perfect Bone is any part of her, only the Head; yet she hath all senses to Admiration, and Discourses, Reads very well, Sings, Whistles, and all very pleasant to hear. Sept. 4, 1667. God Save the King. (Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 189)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

12
25 December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to the Earl of Manchester, 25 Dec. 1699: Miss Evans the dancer at the New Playhouse is dead too; a feaver Slew her in eight and forty hours. She's much lamented by the Towne as well as the House, who can't well bare her loss; Matters running very low with 'em this Winter; if Congreve's Play [The Way of the World] don't help 'em they are undone. 'Tis a Comedy and will be play'd about Six weeks hence, nobody has seen it yet. Liveridge is in Ireland, he Owes so much money he dare not come over, so for want of him we han't had one Opera play'd this Winter; tho' Purcell has set one New One and Fingar another. We have got the Woman from the Chesire Cheese upon the Stage, who has the best Voyce for't by much that has been there at any time. We have the Emperors Crooaed Eunuch here, Francisco. They give him a hundred and twenty Guineas for five times. He has sung Once and was well likt. Dogget was here last Week, they gave him thirty pound to act Six times, which he did and fill'd the house every time (The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh [Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1928], IV, 4)

Performances

13
29 March 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author, Mr Johnson of Chesire. Never Acted before. [See Remains of John Byrom, Vol. I, Part II, pp. 349-50.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hurlothrumbo; Or, News From Terra Australis Incognita: With The Whimsical Flights Of My Lord Flame

Cast
Role: Flame Actor: the Author
Role: other parts Actor: Smith, Giffard, Raymond, Gillow, Hulet, Williams, Reynolds, Hill, Mrs Purden, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Ward, Mrs Mountfort
Role: Soarethereal Actor: Gillow
Role: Hurlothrumbo Actor: Hulett
Role: Dologodelmo Actor: Smith
Role: Darony Actor: Taswell
Role: Urlandenny Actor: Williams
Role: Theorbeo Actor: Machen
Role: Lomperhomock Actor: Pearce
Role: Darno Actor: Holt
Role: Primo Actor: Reynolds
Role: Puny Actor: Hicks
Role: Temo Actor: Ware
Role: Colonel Countermine Actor: Dove
Role: Genius Actor: Webster
Role: Spirit Actor: Russel
Role: Death Actor: Wathen
Role: Lord Flame Actor: Johnson
Role: Cademore Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Sermentory Actor: Mrs Thomas
Role: Seringo Actor: Mrs Montford
Role: Lusingo Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Cuzzonida Actor: Mrs Hill
Role: Amos Meredith Actor:
Role: Mr Byrom Actor: .

14
02 May 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Hulett; Tamerlane-Smith; Moneses-Gillow; Axalla-Williams; Dervise-Machen; Omar-Giffard; Prince of Tanais-Downes; Arpasia-Mrs Purden; Selima-Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland; To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from the Lord Viscount Flame to the Mufti of Terra@Australis@Incognita repeated-Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.
Cast
Role: Bajazet Actor: Hulett
Role: Tamerlane Actor: Smith
Role: Moneses Actor: Gillow
Role: Axalla Actor: Williams
Role: Dervise Actor: Machen
Role: Omar Actor: Giffard
Role: Prince of Tanais Actor: Downes
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland
Role: To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from Actor: Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.

Dance:

15
10 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry; Or, Men In Pursuit Of Money

Performance Comment: All@Alive@and@Merry-Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]; others-W. Giffard, Hewitt, Norris, Lyon, Rosco, Penkethman, Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Chambers, Miss Tollett, Miss Burgess, Mrs M. Giffard; And a new Prologue-Giffard; [With a New Hierogliphical Dancing Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: All@Alive@and@Merry Actor: Lord Flame
Role: others Actor: W. Giffard, Hewitt, Norris, Lyon, Rosco, Penkethman, Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Chambers, Miss Tollett, Miss Burgess, Mrs M. Giffard
Role: And a new Prologue Actor: Giffard
Role: With a New Hierogliphical Dancing Epilogue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

16
11 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. By the Hurlothrumbo Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: An Operatical Comedy of Three Acts. Written by Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]. Afterpiece: a Farce of Two Acts. [Presumably by Johnson also.] Box 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

17
15 May 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hurlothrumbo

Performance Comment: Lord Flame-the Author Samuel Johnson of Chesire.
Cast
Role: Lord Flame Actor: the Author Samuel Johnson of Chesire.