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14495 results for: Keyword - John Harrington Smith
We found 11040 matches on Author, 3532 matches on Performance Comments, 1471 matches on Event Comments, 556 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

376
06 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Smith; Duke-Aickin; Cacafogo-Moody; Don Juan-Packer; Sanchio-Phillimore; Alonzo-R. Palmer; Copper Captain-King; Margardtta-Mrs Ward; Old Woman-Mr Baddeley; Maid-Mr Waldron; Clara-Miss Barnes; Altea-Miss Tidswell; Estifania-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Leon Actor: Smith
Related Works
Related Work: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Le Matin, Midi, et le Soir

Performance Comment: Morning. A Camp. O say bonny Lass-Dignum, Miss Romanzini; [Noon. A Village. New Dance, The Shepherd's Wedding-Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir; [Night. A Hermit's Cell, Moon-light. The Tale of Edwin and Angelina-[from [The Hermit, by] Goldsmith, composed by Hook; Edwin-Kelly; Angelina-Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Related Works
Related Work: Too Civil by Half Author(s): John Dent

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Conjugal Frolick, as17880221

377
April 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is most uncertain. The play was apparently finished in July 1671-see C. E. Ward, The Life of John Dryden (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1961), p. 83-and the play may have been acted before April 1672. For the possibilities see Macdonald, Bibliography of Dryden, p. 110, and Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 404-5. The Prologue and Epilogue are in Covent Garden Drollery, 1672. The song, Whilst Alexas lay prest, the music by Nicholas Staggins, was printed in Westminster Drollery (entered in the Stationers' Register, 3 June 1672) and in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673. Another song, Why should a foolish Marriage Vow, set by Robert Smith, is also in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Related Works
Related Work: Marriage A La Mode Author(s): John Dryden

378
11 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard III

Performance Comment: Richard (by particular desire)-Shuter; King Henry-Ryan; Richmond-Anderson; Stanley-Redman; Norfolk-Gibson; Ratcliff-Bennet; Catesby-Davis; Buckingham-Sparks; Tressel-Dyer; Lord Mayor-Marten; Lieutenant-R. Smith; Oxford-Bencraft; Blunt-Perry; Prince Edward-Miss Mullart; Duke of York-Miss Vallois; Brandon-Wignell; Tyrrel-Dunstall; Forrest-Holtom; Lady Anne-Mrs Vincent; Duchness of York-Mrs Elmy; Queen-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Lieutenant Actor: R. Smith
Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Lowe
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: TThe Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

379
03 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Music of afterpiece by Smith. On account of the Machinery and Music no persons can be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Related Works
Related Work: The British Enchanters: or, No Magick like Love Author(s): John Eccles
Related Work: The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic Author(s): John Christopher Smith

380
30 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Doe, Claridge and John Smith each 15s. for performing 6 nights in the Ass and Hog [Mother Shipton] to the 18th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #32 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Related Works
Related Work: Barbarossa Author(s): John Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

381
15 June 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [by Appleby, Bourk, Dale Jun., Daglish, Douglas, Jno. Edwards, Fisher, Henderson, Humphries, Powell, Pilsbury, Scott, Smith, Wentworth (Account-Book)] will be admitted. Receipts: #317 7s. (23.14; 33.11; 2.10; tickets: 257.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

382
25 September 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain which I have in them. The play was a new play; and infinitely full: the King and all the Court almost there. It is The Storme, a play of Fletcher's; which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did please me mightily....And there comes my wife home from the Duke of York's playhouse. Two songs, printed somewhat later in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673, may have been prepared for this revival: Hark the storm grows, set by Robert Smith; and Cheer up my mates, set by Pelham Humphrey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Storm

Related Works
Related Work: The Storm Author(s): John Fletcher

383
November 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the play followed The Citizen Turned Gentleman (4 July 1672) and refers to it in the Prologue. Edward Ravenscroft replied in the Preface and Prologue to The Careless Lovers, which appeared in February or March 1672@3. A song, Long betwixt Love and fear Phillis tormented, set by Robert Smith, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673. Preface to The Assignation: It succeeded ill in the representation, against the opinion of many of the best Judges of our Age. Langbaine, English Dramatick Poets, p. 154: This Play was Damn'd on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Assignation; Or, Love In A Nunnery

Related Works
Related Work: The Assignation; or, Love in a Nunnery Author(s): John Dryden

384
May 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but as the play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 26 June 1673, it was probably acted in May 1673 or earlier. For a discussion of its possible dates, see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 403. A song, The day is come, I see it rise, set by Robert Smith, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673. Dedication to the edition of 1673:...though it succeeded on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amboyna

Related Works
Related Work: Amboyna Author(s): John Dryden

385
August 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfy

Performance Comment: [An edition of 1678 has a cast partially pertaining to this time (see also 31 Jan. 1672): Ferdinand-$Harris; Cardinal-$Young; Antonio-$Smith; Delio-$Midburn; Bosola-$Betterton; Castruchio-$Richards; Sylvio-$Cademan probably not acting now]; Pescara-$Norris; Malateste-$Price (not living in 1676); Roderigo-$Cogun (not living in 1676); Grisolan-$Percival; Dutchess of Malfey-$Mrs Betterton; Cariola-$Mrs Norris; Old Lady-$Mrs Osborn; Julia-$Mrs Shadwell.
Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Smith
Related Works
Related Work: The Duchess of Malfi Author(s): John Webster

386
14 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit I. Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Related Works
Related Work: Acis and Galatea Author(s): John Eccles

Music: Bacchanalian Music from The Mad Lover-; A new piece of instrumental music-; with a solo-Dean

Dance: Between the Acts: Comical dances-

387
25 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Song:

Dance:

388
15 May 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Coker, Cook, Newhouse, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Bush Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Doctor, or, The Intriguing Dame Author(s): John Rich

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith; Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Miss Smith; Marie-Cook, Miss Schoolding; The last Comic Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

389
26 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: denefit Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Lally's Scholar, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

390
08 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Smith, distress'd by Fire. By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: money #19 6s. 6d.; tickets #62 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery Author(s): John Dryden

391
09 August 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. For the Entertainment of his Excellency, Mahomet Ben Ali Abgali, Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco. Receipts: money #32 11s.; tickets #28 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: The Cheats Author(s): John Wilson

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Burny, Mrs Anderson; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

392
09 June 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. [The bill contains a summary of the plot, and adds: Plays are like Mirror, made for Men to see How bad they are; how good they ought to be. Cowly.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Related Works
Related Work: Aesop Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance:

393
19 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: SSailor's Dance-Burney; Two Pierrots-Burney, Mrs Tollet

Song: BBacchanalian Song-Excell

394
01 May 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Tickets Smith, Powell, Fulwell, Owen, Foxwell, Toole, Jackson, and Gray taken. 7 p.m. [Concert formula; prices as 30 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

395
27 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SSignor Campioni first danc'd here--well (Cross). Afterpiece: With Scenes, Music, Cloths and Decorations entirely new. Paid Rigg (a Smith) #2 10s.; Mr Oram (Scene Painter) on acct #30 by order Mr Lacy (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Related Works
Related Work: Acis and Galatea Author(s): John Eccles

396
20 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Gray, Dunbar, Smith and Broad. Receipts: #223 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: II: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504

397
16 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, Bride, Broad. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

398
07 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Champness. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Hippisley, Mrs Smith, and Mrs Rowe will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

399
01 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #212 7s. Paid Kemp for lamps #6 8s.; Meares, 5s. I slept in at the Play Houses but did not see him [his brother George] there. I met Miss Smith going into the Gallery at Covent Garden. I think it is a fortnight tomorrow that her sister has been buried (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, p. 147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair of St. Germain Author(s): John Ozell
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Fortune's Tasks; or, The Fickle Fair One Author(s): John Horne
Related Work: Penelope Author(s): John Mottley

400
10 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Author. By Command of the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales was at Drury Lane to see the new tragedy of Aquileia. I went there at 9, but it was all over and done & met Miss Smith coming from thence with Capt. Johnston. I think it very unnatural for her to be going to plays when her sister is but just laid in the Grave (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 142)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Aquileia Author(s): John Home