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8051 results for: Keyword - Mr J. Eccles
We found 4546 matches on Event Comments, 1960 matches on Performance Comments, 622 matches on Performance Title, 154 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1501
29 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: III: The Pirates, as17750422

1502
13 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

1503
22 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

1504
20 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17851112

1505
12 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

1506
10 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage Or Our Eyes May Deceive Us

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

1507
27 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End II: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; End: a favorite Mock Italian Song-Fawcett

1508
19 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

1509
18 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

1510
01 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1511
26 September 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

Dance: I: The Schoolmaster-Como, Sga Crespi

1512
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

1513
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

1514
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

1515
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 Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Comical dances-deBarques, Mrs Elford

1516
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

1517
15 May 1713 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Eccles, Musician to his Grace. For the Entertainment of His Excellency, the Duke d'Aumont, Ambassador extraordinary from France. Tickets 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; With several new Foreign Pieces- chose out from the greatest Authors; Also a Sonata on the Violin-; a single Piece on the Bass Viol-

1518
13 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe and Jumpedo

1519
25 January 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Knave Or Not

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

1520
22 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

1521
14 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: The Faggot Binders, as17640224

1522
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

1523
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.]

1524
09 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

1525
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