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1842 results for: Keyword - G. Jones
We found 1076 matches on Performance Comments, 357 matches on Event Comments, 251 matches on Performance Title, 176 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
21 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Paid Jones, coal merchant, a bill #104 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #85 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Ross; Capulet-Gibson; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Apothecary-Holtom; Peter-Weller; Mercutio-Woodward; Benvolio-Baker; Tibalt-Bennet; Balthazar-R. Smith; Paris-Perry; Escalus-Anderson; Montague-Redman; Lady Capulet-Mrs Barrington; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Macklin; Minuet-Fishar, Miss Macklin; Masquerade Dance- proper to the play; An Additional Scene will be introduced, representing the Funeral Procession of Juliet, accompanied with a Solemn Dirge ,the Vocal Parts-Beard, Mattocks, Squibb, Miss Poitier, Mrs Halford, Mrs Baker, Legg, Baker, Dibdin, Ryley, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Mattocks, Squibb, Miss Poitier, Mrs Halford, Mrs Baker, Legg, Baker, Dibdin, Ryley, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008

102
16 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jones, Walker, Mrs Simson and Mrs Cross. Tickets deliver'd by Mas. Blanchard, Stevens, Miss Berkley will be taken. Paid Mr Loutherbourg on acct #41 13s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #187 19s. Charges: #65 2s. Profits to beneficiaries: #22 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17740419 but Careless-Jefferson; Abel-Jones; Second Committeeman-Castle; Arabella-Miss Jarratt.
Cast
Role: Abel Actor: Jones
Role: Bookseller Actor: Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker; End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

103
09 October 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Robert Hitchcock, 1st acted at Hull, 14 Nov. 1775]. Afterpiece: Written by George Alexander Stevens. [This was not Charles Macklin's play, The True-Born Irishman, 1st published in Jones' British Theatre, 1795, but Stevens's The French Flogged; or, The British Sailors in America.] Tickets delivered for the 23rd of September and for the Evening will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquette Or The Mistakes Of The Heart

Afterpiece Title: The True Born Irishman or The English Sailors and Soldiers in America

Performance Comment: Characters-Jackson, Dowson, Davis, Evans, Alfred, Russell, Williams, Jones, Miss Essex, Miss Walton, [Text (J. Williams, 1767) lists the parts: Indian King, English Captain, Macfinan, Ben, Ned, White Lady, Black Woman.]Text (J. Williams, 1767) lists the parts: Indian King, English Captain, Macfinan, Ben, Ned, White Lady, Black Woman.]
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Jackson, Dowson, Davis, Evans, Alfred, Russell, Williams, Jones, Miss Essex, Miss Walton,

Dance: End IV: a Hornpipe-Miller

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical,-Decastro ; several new ones, and those which Foote introduced him in before their Majesties

104
31 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Alfred, Appleby, Benson, Banks, Cooke, Jones, Maddocks, Stokes, Whitmell, Gregson, Pilsbury, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Redhead, Miss Menage] will be admitted. Receipts: #466 18s. (82.15.6; 16.18.0; 4.11.6; tickets: 362.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17921204, but Capt. Meadows (1st time)-Benson; Canteen-Maddocks; Sternhold-Jones; William-Banks; Bob-Webb; Betsey Blossom 's song-_.
Cast
Role: Sternhold Actor: Jones

Dance: End: Le Pas Russe-Master and Miss Menage; End I afterpiece: Dance-Whitmell

105
18 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpicce: Not acted these 5 years [acted 19 May 1792). Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 24 Apr. 1792). "When next [Miss Jones, who had acted previously at Birmingham, and who is identified in Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1793, p. 359) plays the part she should endeavour to hold her person erect. The crouching attitudes that she adopted in the breeches scenes, took from the captivating impression that her figure might otherwise have produced" (Public Advertiser, 19 Nov.). [Author of Occasional Address unknown.] Receipts: #291 11s. 6d. (287/11/6; 4/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Holman; Cymbeline-Powel; Cloten-Bernard; Bellario-Farren; Arviragus (with a song)-Townsend; Guiderius-Macready; Pisanio-Harley; Caius Lucius-Davies; Lords-Campbell, Evatt; Frenchman-Claremont; Phillario-Rock; Iachimo-Pope//Helen-Mrs Watts; Imogen-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Jones]) .Miss Jones]) .

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Song: In Act II of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings by Gray, Linton, Miss Barnett, Mrs Mountain; In afterpiece a new Hunting Song, composed by Shield, by Incledon [this song not listed on playbill, but see World, 19 Nov.]

Monologue: 1793 11 18 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address by Middleton

106
02 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Powell: [In mainpiece] Jones the Doctor, Packer [retained in playbill] ill. The Jew rehearsed at 10 (for Bannister Jun.; Mrs Hopkins ill); Siege of Belgrade at 12 . Receipts: #461 15s. 6d. (390/0/0; 69/18/6; 1/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17940428, but Physician-Jones. Prologue, Epilogue as17940421.
Cast
Role: Physician Actor: Jones. Prologue, Epilogue as17940421
Role: Armed Head Actor: Jones

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Song: As17940428

107
19 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Baddeley as Moses , and Mrs Heard as the Maid , but "Mr Baddeley being suddenly taken ill at the Theatre this Evening Banks play'd the part of Moses, and Evans doubled Surface's Servant with his own, Mrs Heard Ill, Mrs Jones the Maid" (Powell). Baddeley was stricken with apoplexy while still in his dressing room before the play began; he died the following day.] Powell: New Ballet [Alexander the Great] rehearsed at 10; Chorus of 1st Act of Cherokee at 12. Receipts: #174 13s. (136.4.6; 36.5.0; 2.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17941112, but Moses-Banks; Maid-Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: As17941112

108
23 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Macbeth, Wroughton as Banquo, and Palmer as Macduff, but "The Publick are respectfully informed that Mr Kemble being confined by Indisposition...Macbeth will be performed by Palmer, Macduff by Wroughton, Banquo by Packer" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). No mention is made of the Physician, but Jones was Packer's usual substitute in this part. See 11 Apr. 1796.] Receipts: #218 11s. 6d. (153.14.6; 61.11.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17950929, but Macbeth-Palmer; Banquo-Packer; Macduff-Wroughton; Lenox-Trueman; Rosse-Barrymore; Physician-Jones?; Serjeant-Caulfield; added: Messenger-Banks; Officer-_.
Cast
Role: Physician Actor: Jones?

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Song: As17950929

109
11 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Jones

Dance: Jones

110
13 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Jones

Dance: Jones

111
15 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Jones

Dance: Jones

112
18 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Jones

Dance: Jones

113
13 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Jones, the Mayor's Daughter, who has so furiously espoused the Court-Interest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360505. A New Epilogue by Miss Jones .

114
15 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.

Music: III: Concerto on Trumpet-Mas. Green (Scholar to Mr Jones)

Performance Comment: Green (Scholar to Mr Jones).

115
20 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Performance Comment: As17330316 but Squire-Hallum; Son-Jevon; Park Keeper-Pullen; Drawer-Jones.
Cast
Role: Drawer Actor: Jones.

Dance: End Mainpiece: Dutch Skipper-T. Jones, R. Jones; Concluding with a Hornpipe-Jones

Performance Comment: Jones, R. Jones; Concluding with a Hornpipe-Jones.
Cast
Role: Concluding with a Hornpipe Actor: Jones.

116
03 September 1675 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

117
30 October 1676 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Triumphs

118
19 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

119
07 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

120
30 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: In: The Blue Bell of Scotland, as18000512; accompanied on the Lute, as18000512; In course Evening: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In 3rd piece: a new ballad, The Fisherman and the River Queen (Written and Composed by M. G. Lewis, Esq, M. P., Author of Crazy Jane.)-Mrs Bland

121
14 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: HHornpipe-R. Jones , from gf

Performance Comment: Jones , from gf.

122
14 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Son or The Maidens Second Slip

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; III: Scaramouch-Sandham; V: Hornpipe-R. Jones

Performance Comment: Jones.

Song: II: Singing in Italian-

123
17 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: I: The Drunken Peasant. Drunken Peasant-Atkins; Clown-Wright

124
19 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: End II: (By Particular Desire, and for the last time this season) Imitations-Bannister

125
20 February 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or Harlequin Mercury

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Richard Jones