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12148 results for: Keyword - John Thomson Esq.
We found 9938 matches on Author, 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 1436 matches on Event Comments, 335 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11901
12 October 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi . . .Senauki . . . John Tooanohowi, and the rest of the Indians, being positively the last Time but one of their appearing in Publick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Hippisley's Drunken Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Hippisley's Drunken Man Author(s): John Hippisley

11902
14 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi . . . Senauki . . . John Tooanahowi. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Harper; Wolsey-Mills; Buckingham-W. Mills; Surrey-Cibber; Cranmer-Milward; Gardiner-Johnson; Sands-Miller; Norfolk-Hewitt; Suffolk-Boman; Lord Chamberlain-Corey; Campeius-Shepard; Abergavenny-Salway; Capucius-Turbutt; Cromwell-Cross; Butts-Griffin; Surveyor-Oates; Queen Katherine-Mrs Thurmond; Anna Bullen-Miss Holliday .
Cast
Role: Gardiner Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: As17341010

11903
17 October 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi . . . Senauki . . . John Tooanahowi. Afterpiece: With additional Scenes of Action

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin in the City

11904
14 February 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit John Richter. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11905
06 March 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [By James Miller.] Daily Advertiser, 6 March: We hear that Sir John Barnard has offerM a Proposal limiting the Number of Playhouses, and for putting them under the Regulation of Parliament

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste; Or, The Guardian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

11906
19 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Liege, Boxkeeper. Afterpiece: Written by Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fausse Coquette

Afterpiece Title: Le Mariage Force

Dance:

11907
20 March 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11908
01 May 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit John Hervey, Architect Painter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: By Mlle Salle. Scots Dance, as17350311 Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: As17350422

11909
23 May 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson, Sub-Treasurer. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets for Gillibrand, Beaw, Lee, Atwood taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Clown by Nivelon

Song: I: Mock Italian-English Ballad by Roberts

11910
03 June 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Arne and Allen, Numberers, and Wright. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets for Hewitt and Foxall taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts composed by Handel, Geminiani, and others. First Musick: A Concerto for two Hautboys composed by Dr Pepusch. Second Musick: The third Concerto of the first Opera of Geminiani. Third Musick: Handel's Overture composed for the Opera of Ariadne

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Song: rv: Mock Italian-English Ballad by Roberts

11911
08 August 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Cibber. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

11912
25 September 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Quin; Fondlewife-Griffin; Sir Joseph-Miller; Belmour-W. Mills; Vainlove-Salway; Sharper-Milward; Setter-Oates; Bluff-Johnson; Lac tit ia-Mrs Thurmond; Belinda-Mrs Holliday; Araminta-Mrs Cantrell; Sylvia-Mrs Pritchard; Lucy-Mrs Cross .
Cast
Role: Bluff Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. The new Comic Dance called Fye! nay prithee John; or, Handel's Jig by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson

Performance Comment: The new Comic Dance called Fye! nay prithee John; or, Handel's Jig by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson .

11913
11 December 1735 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit John Aewood. 7 P.M. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11914
16 April 1736 @ Devil Tavern

Event Comment: By John Lockman. Set to Music by Mr Boyce. By the Apollo Society in the Devil Tavern, Temple Bar. [See Deutsch, Handel, p. 404.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David's Lamentation Over Saul And Jonathan

11915
17 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin Captive

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Shepherd's Mount by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, &c

11916
10 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before, By the Author of...Hurlothrumbo [Samuel Johnson]. The Musick and Epilogue compos'd by Lord Flame [Johnson]. John Byrom, 1 Feb.: They [two Londoners] said the first night Johnson was for fighting with somebody in the pit.-Byrom, Private Journals and Literary Remains, XI, 88

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-.
Related Works
Related Work: All Alive and Merry; or, Men in Pursuit of Money Author(s): Samuel Johnson
Related Work: Alive and Merry Author(s): John Grubb

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

11917
11 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For Occasional Prompter XXI (on Cibber and King John), see Daily Journal, 11 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

11918
03 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Founded on Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. By the Author of the Man of Taste. [For an Epilogue designed to be spoken to King John, as amended by Colley Cibber, see Grub St. Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Dance: Muilment

11919
05 March 1737 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m. Tickets Five Shillings each: Money to be taken at the Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11920
02 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit J. Roberts. By Desire. For the Entertainment of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Non-Common Pleas, Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Second and Third Pieces: Both written by the Author of Pasquin. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six, and all will be over by Half an Hour after Nine. Tickets (containing the Prologue to the Register, by way of Ode to the New Year, with the Musick engrav'd on a Copper Plate) may be had of Mr Henry Roberts, Engraver, at the Star over-against the Vine Tavern in Holborn, and at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Daily Advertiser, 2 May: Sir, As at every one of our Theatres this Day there is a Benefit for Persons under Misfortunes, 'tis humbly hop'd that the more humane Pursuers o Pleasure will suspend their Curiosity for Vaux Hall for one Day, (out of a hundred) in Favour of so many Unfortunate, who have but the Chance of one single Night to relieve them from Afflictions which perhaps they have long labour'd under. And, as I have somewhere read, So humane Worth to God like Heights they'll raise, For the Preserver shares the Maker's Praise. I believe it is fully known, without troubling you with farther Particulars, that among the Number above mention'd, is included, Sir, Your very humble Servant, John Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

11921
04 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. Tickets for Mr and Mrs Marshall taken. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: Second Music-; The first Concerto-of Corelli; I: Song for the Bassoon-; II: Concerto for German Flutes-composed by Festin; III: Concerto of Geminiani's for the Hautbois-; IV: The March in Zara-; The Overture to the Entertainment: Handel's Water Musick-; with the Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benj. Baker

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; III: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; IV: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Anderson; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

11922
04 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. Alter'd from Milton's Masque perform'd (upwards of a Hundred Years since) at Ludlow-Castle, and now adapted to the Stage. [By John Dalton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

11923
10 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la mode

11924
23 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

11925
30 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pedro-Milward; Alphonso-Johnson; Roderigo-Quin; Curio-Cross; Seberto-Ridout; Pilgrim-Woodburn; Jacques-Turbutt; Lopez-Shepard; Mad Englishman-Winstone; Mad Scholar-Havard; Mad Priest-Raftor; Mad Taylor-Woodward; Mad Welchman-Macklin; Master of sadhouse-Furnival; Keeper-Marshall; Alinda-Mrs Mills; Juletta-Mrs Pritchard; In which will be introduced the Original Mad Dialogue set to Musick by Mr H. Purcell-Beard, Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Alphonso Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): John FletcherJohn Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Grand Dance-Mlle Roland