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6676 results for: Keyword - Mr J. Eccles
We found 4539 matches on Event Comments, 1960 matches on Performance Comments, 622 matches on Performance Title, 154 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
14 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Monologue: End: Linco's Travels. Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw

1327
29 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

1328
17 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

1329
30 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

1330
28 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

1331
18 February 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: In: The original Music by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional Accompaniments-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Danby, Maddocks, Caulfield, Cooke, Alfred, Shaw, Lyons, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Gawdry, Miss Kirton

1332
29 June 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

1333
17 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Country Club-Wathen

1334
02 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack

1335
03 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: A Song for Every Body

Afterpiece Title: Obi

1336
11 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

1337
22 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

1338
14 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: The Faggot Binders, as17640224

1339
13 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Monologue: 1783 08 13 End of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue by Wilson, riding on an Ass

1340
14 January 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In Act II a song in character by Mrs Crouch. [This was For tenderness formed, adapted by Linley Sen. from Saper bramate in; Barbiere di Siviglia by Paisiello. It was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

1341
09 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace; Or, A Voyage Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

1342
25 May 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Graces-the Miss Simonets

1343
30 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace; Or, A Voyage Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

1344
20 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

1345
04 March 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

1346
January 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not precisely known, but it seems likely to have been in mid-January. See the discussion under 10 Jan. 1693@4 and Evelyn's remarks on 11 Jan. 1693@4. Part of the music for the play was composed by John Eccles: Young I am and yet unskill'd, sung by a girl, in Gentleman's Journal, January@February 1693@4, and Thesaurus Musicus, 1694: What state of life can be so blest, -Mrs Hudson, in Thesaurus Musicus, 1694. One song was set by Henry Purcell, How happy's the husband, the words by Congreve and sung by Mrs Ayliff, in Thesaurus Musicus, 1694: see also Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XX (1916), xiii-xiv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Triumphant; Or, Nature Will Prevail

1347
April 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not certain, but the fact that the play was advertised in the London Gazette, 6-11 May 1696, suggests that it was first acted not later than April 1696. A song, Come, Hodge, come, Robin, set by John Eccles and sung by Wiltshire and Mrs Hudson, was printed in Deliciae Musicae, The Second Book of the Second Volume, 1696. Dedication, Edition of 1696: Which I wrote three Years ago....nor the Displeasure of the Judicious, who I hope will not condemn this Play from the appearance it had upon the Stage, where it suffer'd in the Acting....Tho. Dogget. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), pp. 16-17: Ramble: Oh that's Dogget's: The Players have all got the itching Leprosie of Scribling as Ben. Johnson calls it; twill in time descend to the Scene-keepers and Candle-snuffers: Come, what came on't? Sullen: Not then directly Damn'd, because he had a part in't himself, but it's now dead and buried

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country-wake

1348
April 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 4-6 June 1696, suggests that it was acted not later than May 1696, possibly that it was given in late April. In III is a song, Unguarded lies the wishing maid, set by John Eccles and sung by Leveridge. In IV is a song, The secrets of peace, set by Finger and sung by Mrs Hudson. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: This is Mrs Manley's; it made a shift to live a half a dozen Days, and then expir'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Mischief

1349
11 March 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bracegirdle. The music of The Judgment of Paris set by Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Comical dances-deBarques, Mrs Elford

1350
15 April 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hodgson and Mrs Bignall. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: Music set by Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Song: The Dame of Honour-Mrs Willis

Dance: Dance of Eight-; French Peasant-Firbank, Mrs Bignall