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4263 results for: Keyword - J
We found 2783 matches on Roles/Actors, 876 matches on Performance Comments, 447 matches on Event Comments, 94 matches on Performance Title, and 12 matches on Author.

4026
05 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 4 Nov.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Leoni's Illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17781017, but Lucy-Mrs Morton; Mrs Slammekin-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Performance Comment: As17781104, but Prologue-Lee Lewes [and thereafter].and thereafter].

Dance: As17781017

4027
27 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #127 1s. (96.12.0; 30.2.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17781102, but Prospero-Bensley; Ferdinand-Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781125.

Dance: Grand Dance, as17781102

4028
12 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Tragedy [Buthred, announced on playbill of 11 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Wroughton's Hoarseness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17781105, but Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Lee Lewes; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Subtle-Thompson; Marquis-Wewitzer; Classic-Hull; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with a song)-Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford; Afterpiece: a Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks

4029
29 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas Linley? Sen.. Receipts: #191 10s. (190.1; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Webster; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny Diver-Miss Collett; Polly-Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Performance Comment: As17790127.

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour, as17780919; Allemande, as17780919; III: a Hornpipe-Blurton

4030
06 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, Upper Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17790129.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17781215.

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17790129

Song: Sweet Echo-Mrs Kennedy, Leoni [i.e. formerly Mrs Farrell]

Performance Comment: e. formerly Mrs Farrell].

4031
28 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the Carpet Warehouse, Covent Garden Piazza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17781017, but Macheath (for that night only)-Aldridge (1st appearance in a dramatic character); Lockit-Booth; Lucy-Mrs Morton; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: As17781029, but Nancy-Mrs Whitfield.

Dance: to conclude with: Country Dance-the characters; End I: new Comic Dance-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: Hornpipe, as17781212; End I afterpiece: a new Pantomimical Dance, The Sports of the Green-Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; in which his celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge

4032
08 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron and Miss Abrams. Morning Chronicle, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges-street. Receipts: #138 5s. (50.10; 22.17; 0.9; tickets: 64.9) (charge: #71 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17781102, but Prospero-Bensley; Ariel-Miss Abrams [1st appearance in that character]; Chorus of Spirits-_Legg, _Carpenter, _Fawcett, Miss _Abrams.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17790501, but Pastoral Nymph-Miss Abrams.

Dance: In IV: Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: As17790413

4033
13 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Mainpiece: On account of the additional Airs, contracted into 3 Acts. The Music by Purcell, Smith, Arne & Fisher. [Wright is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. And see 8 May.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Condell, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden; of Evans, at Bromfield's, trunk-maker, No. 118, Long-acre; of Curteen, No. 11, Temple-lane, Whitefriars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Performance Comment: As17790412.

Afterpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-A Gentleman (2nd appearance on any stage [Wright]); Ferdinand-Mattocks; Trincalo-Quick; Caliban-Mahon; Gonzalo-Fearon; Alonzo-L'Estrange; Sebastian-Robson; Antonio-Booth; Stephano-Wilson; Miranda-Miss Brown; Juno-Mrs Morton; Ceres-Miss Valois; Ariel-Mrs Kennedy.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17790409.

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois

4034
27 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; Mat o' th' Mint-Baker; Beggar-Blissett; Player-Davis; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Hitchcock; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Webb; Polly-Miss Harper.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17790814.

Dance: End II: The Country Wake, as17790609 In III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn

4035
05 October 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley? Sen. [Miss Wright's 1st appearance, as an actress, was at this theatre on 7 May 1779.] Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions; To conclude with a Grand View of Greenwich Hospital, designed by DeLoutherbourg. Paid Land Tax 3rd & 4th Qtrs. to Lady Day #41 16s. Receipts: #187 3s. 6d. (151.3.0; 35.15.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Macheath-Webster; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins (1st appearance in that character); Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Miss Wright (2nd appearance on any stage).

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Clod-Holcroft; Silvio-Burton; Meagre-R. Palmer; Fat Cook-Nash; Watchman-Chaplin; Farmer-Philimore; Queen Mab-Miss Abrams; Colombine-Miss Collett.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

4036
02 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mahomet [announced on playbill of 1 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #222 13s. (180.18.0; 40.8.6; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17791005.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17791101.

4037
03 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #189 4s. (136.2; 48.16; 4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Bensley; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Wright; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Vernon; Miranda-Mrs Cuyler; Ariel-Miss Field; Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Chaplin, Holcroft, Fawcett, Kenny, Philimore, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Kirby, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, Miss Coats.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17791101.

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits-Miss Armstrong; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; IV: a Dance-Henry, Sga Crespi

4038
12 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Miser [announced on playbill of 11 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Yates's sudden illness. Receipts: #115 8s. 6d. (89.0.0; 22.18.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17791103, but Caliban-Bannister; Ferdinand-Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17791111.

Dance: As17791103

4039
13 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Gamester, announced on playbill of 12 Nov.] Receipts: #122 18s. 6d. (80.4.0; 30.10.0; 2.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17791005.

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17791106, but Lady Sash-Miss Collett.

4040
18 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Welsh Charity School, over against the Foundling Hospital. Receipts: #239 2s. (85.15; 17.11; 0.0; tickets: 135.16) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17791005, but Polly-Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: As17791021.

4041
30 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Love for Love, announced on playbill of 29 Dec.] Receipts: #96 19s. (63.6.0; 32.18.6; 0.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17791103, but Caliban-Bannister; added: Antonio-Hurst; Sebastian-Lamash.

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Performance Comment: As17791209.

Dance: I: As17791103; End I afterpiece: The Sportsman Deceiv'd, as17791228

4042
08 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #273 17s. 6d. (272.1.0; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch (1st time)-Doyle; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Lucy-Miss Catley; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs White; Polly-Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17800203.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

4043
12 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #252 9s. (251.7.6; 1.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17800208, but Mrs Peachum (1st time)-Mrs Webb; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17800203.

4044
13 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties."The croud was so great at Drury-lane playhouse, to see the young prince William in his naval uniform, that it was found necessary to throw a kind of bridge from the stage to the pit to liberate several people, who otherwise must have perished in the throng" (Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1780, P. 151). Receipts: #271 14s. (259.13; 9.6; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17791230, but Chorus of Spirits-Mrs _Gaudry.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17791118.

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Grand New Dance, as17800228, but Sga _Crespi

4045
24 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Hypocrite [announced on playbill of 22 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Abington's Illness. Receipts: #151 2s. (108.3.0; 42.0.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17800313 .

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17800413.

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Dance, as17791103, but Delpini, Miss +Armstrong

4046
04 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Arne was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #137 19s. (136.13; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17800212, but Polly-Mrs Arne (1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Performance Comment: As17800425.

4047
05 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Summer Amusement [announced on playbill of 3 June] is obliged to be deferred on account of Edwin's Indisposition. [As 3rd piece Public Advertiser announces Polly Honeycombe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: As17800530, but Two Ladies in an Upper Box-_; Mrs_ Love. Mrs_ Love.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Bannister; Lockit-Massey; Mat o' th' Mint-Wood; Beggar-Blissett; Player-Davis; Peachum-Aickin; Lucy-Mrs Hitchcock; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Webb; Polly-Miss Harper.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performance Comment: Captain Flash-Palmer; Captain Loveit-Gardner; Fribble-Lamash; Tag-Mrs Poussin; Miss Biddy-Mrs Hitchcock.

Dance: End I 2nd piece: As17800530; III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrne. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

4048
08 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: [The playbill for 7 June announces The Beggar's Opera, but on this night the theatre was dark- perhaps because of the riots referred to above.]

4049
12 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Watts is identified in Westminster Magazine, June 1780, p. 326.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: As17800605.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17800605 but Macheath-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Watts]); Beggar-Barrett; Peachum-Wilson; added: Filch-Blissett.

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Performance Comment: As17800602.

Dance: As17800603

4050
17 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: As17800605.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17800612 but Filch-Wewitzer.

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Edwin; The Squire-Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.

Dance: As17800603

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