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12173 results for: Keyword - John Hill
We found 10048 matches on Author, 1856 matches on Performance Comments, 1240 matches on Event Comments, 365 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10576
12 April 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hill. Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #17 19s. 6d.; tickets #120 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Harlequin-DuPre, Miss LaTour; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

10577
19 July 1729 @ Windmill Hill

Event Comment: FFog's, 19 July: We hear that Mr Miller having left performing as usual, at Windmill Hill, Mr Spencer intends to Entertain the Town with an antient Catalogue of Plays, which will begin on Monday next

Performances

10578
16 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17291120, but Sylvans-Mrs Hill, Mrs _Vincent; Gods of the Woods-_St.Luce; Demons-+Pelling; Countrymen and Lasses-Mrs +Copeland, Mrs _Cantrel.
Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Hill, Mrs _Vincent

10579
04 June 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 4 June: There is building, and almost finish'd here [in Richmond], a small, but very neat and regular Theatre, a little higher on the Hill than where the late Mr Penkethman's stood. We hear it will be open'd next Week by a Company...from...Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that their first Play will be the Recruiting Officer...and that they design to perform three or four Times a Week during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

10580
21 June 1731 @ Windmill Hill

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Wilson. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. At the New Theatre on Wind-mill Hill. Pit and Boxes laid together by Desire at 2s. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

10581
27 May 1732 @ Windmill Hill

Event Comment: At the Great Booth on Windmill-Hill. By a Select Company of Comedians. During the Holidays. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Damon And Phillida

Performance Comment: Archas-Phoenix; Aegon-Holt; Corydon-Child; Damon-Cross; Simon-Taylor; Mopsus-Bird; Phillida-Miss Yeats.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Yeats.

Dance: HHarlequin and Country Man-; Harlequin Turn'd Into a Dog-; Drunken Man-Taylor

Song: Rural Dialogue-a Little Boy, Girl

Related Works
Related Work: The Girl in Style Author(s): John Scawen

10582
05 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On proposals for the future of Drury Lane, see a letter from Hill to Victor in Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 188-91

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

10583
18 April 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Mrs Roberts; Phillida-Mrs Monlass; Cymon-Rosco; Mopsus-Bardin .
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Monlass

Music: I: Solo on the Violin by Eversmond

Dance: II: Scots Dance by Miss Wherrit. III: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: The Whim by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham

Song: IV. By Miss Hill

Performance Comment: By Miss Hill .

10584
26 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. And New Scenes and Clothes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English

Performance Comment: King Henry-Johnson; Dauphin-Giffard; King of France-W. Giffard; Bourbon-Richardson; Orleans-Woodward; Exeter-Rosco; York-Lyon; Scroop-Havard; Cambridge-Hamilton; Sir Thomas-Ray; Princess Catherine-Mrs Giffard; Harriet-Mrs Roberts; Charlotte-Miss Tollett. With a New Prologue, addressed to the City .
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: Pat1e and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling

10585
27 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance:

10586
28 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward

10587
29 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Dance: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde

10588
01 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock

10589
02 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17351128

10590
03 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock

10591
19 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Obadiah Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17380421 With a Prologue to the Farce, written by Aaron Hill, Esq-Miss Wright; in Boy's Cloaths. and an Epilogue to the Farce-Miss Wright, as Captain of the Lilliputians, at the Head of her Company.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

10592
13 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Tragedy. [By David Mallet. See Pope to Hill, 14 Feb., in Pope, Correspondence, IV, 165-66.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

10593
15 April 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 April: On Sunday about 7 o'Clock, died Mr Hill of [cg], of the Weunds he received by Villains unknown

Performances

10594
28 March 1740 @ Ashley's Punch House

Event Comment: At Ashley's Punch House, Ludgate Hill. At the Desire of several Gentlemen. 7 p.m. 1s. [Repeated on 31 March, 3 and 7 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

10595
22 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Modern Midnight Conversation

Performance Comment: Taken from Hogarth's Celebrated Print, in which will be introduced Drunken Man-Hippisley; with a comic tale- of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.
Cast
Role: with a comic tale Actor: of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

10596
25 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands: Hill Play'd Carlos. Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: I: Song-Beard; III: Ballad-Lowe; IV: Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: Le Boufon-the Mechels

10597
03 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Friday Night last as Mr Lowe, belonging to Drury Lane Playhouse was going down Snow Hill, he was stopt by two fellows, one of whom, without speaking a word, gave him a most violent blow on the Temple, with a great stick, which stunned him so that he fell back against a shop Window, and remained insensible for some time; as soon as he recover'd he felt in his pockets and found they had robb'd him only of 11 shillings in silver, being (as he supposes) disturb'd by some people passing by, for they had not taken his watch, nor a Guinea and a half which he had also in his pockets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

10598
01 November 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At Cibber's Academy in the Hay-Market...will be presented a Concert of Musick, Vocal and Instrumental. The Vocal Parts-Mr Brett, Mrs Hill, and others; the Instrumental by eminent Masters. The Doors to be open'd at Four, the Concert to begin at Five, and no Persons to be admitted after Seven o'clock. The Prices are Four Shillings, Half a Crown and Eighteen Pence. Places may be bespoke at the Academy. After the Concert will be exhibited Gratis, a Rehearsal, in Form, of the Play-(often acted with great Applause) call'd Romeo and Juliet. Written by Shakespear. The Characters personated by the Master of the Academy, his Assistants, Pupils, and Servants. With Proper Habits, Scenes and Decorations. [After Cibber announced his Academy, he received the following letter from the Justice of the Peace: I see by your advertisements, in regard to your Academical Performances, that they are of the same Nature as Mr L/c@y's were some Years ago, which brought him to a great deal of Trouble. Some strong Applications are making now to give you some; of which I think proper to give you Notice, in this private Manner, that you may avoid it.-Tho. de Veil. 31 Oct. Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology. p. 12.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

10599
01 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This month the Gentlemen's Magazine, p. 625, reviewed in some detail Aaron Hill's Poetical Essay, The Art of Acting, Part I

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Dance: As17461112

10600
27 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. Powel: Rec'd of Mr Wolfall [Woodfall?] for a ticket for the season to admit one into any part of the house, behind the scenes and to Benefit nights excepted--#15 15s. N.B.: These tickets us'd to be no more than ten guineas each before Mr Garrick's time, as for example Mr Ibbeston upon Ludgate hill, and Mr Tinker gave no more for theirs. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist