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6097 results for: Keyword - Mr Hughes
We found 4263 matches on Event Comments, 1191 matches on Performance Comments, 538 matches on Performance Title, 445 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
16 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wilmer, Warriner, Hughes, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #13 19s.; tickets #143 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

1327
26 December 1732 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #63 12s. [For Rich's operation of both cg and lif simultaneously, see Hughes and Scouten, John Rich and the Holiday Seasons of 1732-33, pp. 46 -52.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1328
17 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Willmer, Hughes, Vaughan (boxkeepers). Receipts: money #16 10s.; tickets #195 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Jones; III: Peasant-Nivelon; IV: Dutch Skipper-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, LeSac, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: Kelly

1329
25 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

Performance Comment: As17350306 but Nymphs by Mrs Woodward, Miss M. Hughes, Mrs Vallois, Miss Norman; Courtezan-Lyon .

1330
25 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLady Hertford to Lord Beauchamp, 26 Feb.: The Oratorio...being filled with all the people of quality in town.-Hughes, Hertford, p. 244

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

1331
22 March 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Afterpiece: A farce never perform'd before. [Possibly Thomas Sheridan's The Brave Irishman, but see Ten English Farces, Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 221 ff.] Last time of the company's performing till the holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

1332
09 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #124 17s. Paid Kemp for Lamps #9 12s.; Meares 13s.; Hughes & Batten (linnen drapers) #33 14s.; Nuttall as per bill #26 8s.; Luppino as per bill #30 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

1333
03 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Hughes (linnendraper) #25 7s.; Wright (glazier) #11; Teasdale (haberdasher) #15 19s. Receipts: #152 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

1334
03 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Bellamy & Settree (mercers) #38 12s.; Paid Toms for Trumpeter's coats & Banners #34 13s.; Paid Hughes (Linnendraper) #6 (Account Book). Receipts: #205 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

1335
29 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Hughes (linen draper) #3 1s. (Account Book). Receipts: #158 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

1336
03 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Hughes (linnen draper) #21 19s.; Carpue (silk dyer) #10 12s.; Bromwich & Co. (paper merchants) #7 4s. 2d. (Account Book). Receipts: #171 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

1337
23 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Partridge (hosier) #28 2s., and Hughes (linnendraper) #12 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #161 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

1338
14 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Hutchinson (attorney) #24 12s.; Hughes (linnendraper) #14 15s.; Bibb (sword cutler) #11 9s.; Patrick for Oyl #40 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #174 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End of Play: The Bird Catchers, as17721207

1339
20 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Prelude [1st time;PREL I, probably by Richard Cumberland. Larpent MS 472; not published]. Mainpiece [1st time; M 3, by Richard Cumberland, based on Calypso and Telemachus, by John Hughes]: The Overture and all the Music entirely new, and composed by Butler. With new Scenery painted by Richards and Carver, and new Dresses. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar. 1779: This Day is published Calypso (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Related Works
Related Work: Calypso and Telemachus Author(s): John Hughes

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: In: Incidental Dances-Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

1340
29 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight and Procession. Paid Hughes calling Performers #1 6s. Receipts: #171 17s. 6d. (110/17/0; 60/10/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed

1341
05 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brunton. 1st piece [1st time; T 3, by Mariana Starke, based on La Veuve du Malabar, by Antoine Marin LeMierre. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Richard John Hughes Starke (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. And a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the Funeral Pile of her deceased Hqsband. 2nd piece: Not acted these 18 years [acted 4 May 1776. Miss E. Brunton was from the Norwich theatre]. Morning Chronicle, 1 Feb. 1791: This Day is published The Widow of Malabar (1s. 6d.). Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brunton, No. 35, Gerrard-street, Soho. [The mainpiece is sometimes stated to have been 1st acted at Mrs Crespigny's private@theatre@in@Camberwell, 1790, but "'The Widow of Malabar' was not first produced at Mrs Crespigny's Theatre. The Tragedy performed there is called 'The British Orphan' (also by Mariana Starke)" (Gazetteer, 24 Jan. 1791).] Receipts: #338 13s. (208.7; 2.8; tickets: 127.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Song: In: Bannister, Johnstone, Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Miss Stuart, Miss Rowson, Mrs Martyr; The Music by Stevens-

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding 2nd piece: Occasional Address-Miss Brunton

1342
12 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: Acted but Once [on 5 May 1790]. With new Scenes and Dresses. A Procession, representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the Funeral Pile of her deceased Husband. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] The Music by Stevens. [Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Richard John Hughes Starke.] Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (230.6.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Miss Blanchet (of dl)

1343
28 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have his Own

Song: In course: The High Mettled Racer (composed by Dibdin)-Incledon; Patents all the Rage-Munden; The Beggar, as17980525; Duetto-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend

Music: In course of Evening: solo on the Union Pipes-Murphy; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert

Entertainment: Vaudeville.In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith

Performance Comment: In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith.

1344
11 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Taste

1345
June 1697 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In The Moon

1346
March 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

1347
03 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Byrn. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

1348
20 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of 2nd piece Hornpipe by Byrn

1349
07 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

1350
27 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Merry Peasants, as17751018