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6798 results for: Keyword - Mr J. Johnston
We found 4582 matches on Event Comments, 2251 matches on Performance Comments, 622 matches on Performance Title, 32 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2201
25 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: End: (By Particular Desire) Bannister's Imitations-Bannister

2202
19 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Man

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

2203
07 November 1775 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

Dance: As17751104

Ballet: Le Triomphe D'Euthime sur Le Genie de Liba. As17751104

2204
15 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Cast
Role: Mrs Touchstone Actor: Mrs Johnston

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751020

2205
30 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

2206
01 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

2207
28 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bundle Of Prologues

Afterpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: in various characters Actor: Hurst, Burton, Wright, Carpenter, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

2208
20 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

2209
15 March 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Afterpiece Title: A Mirror for the Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Song: End III: Hunting Song-Miss Harris

Monologue: Vaudeville.Between Acts 3rd piece: a few Pantomimical Scenes. Harlequin-Best; Columbine-Miss Dudley

2210
25 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: The Double Amour

Music: With an entire new Scotch Overture-, composed by JonasBlewitt; End: songs-Mrs Bayley; between the Acts of the Farce: songs-Mrs Bayley, composed by JonasBlewitt

2211
06 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters (positively for that night only) will be revers'd. Apollo-Mrs Martyr; Sileno-Davies; Damaetus-Rock; Pan-Cubitt; Jupiter-Williamson; Midas-Wilson; Daphne-Mr Munden; Mysis-Mr Johnstone; Nysa-Mr Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Mysis Actor: Mr Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr

2212
17 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Welch Heiress

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

2213
01 May 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by William Macready, based on The Artful Husband, by William Taverner. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Robert Houlton (see text)]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 1076; not published]: The Music part new and part compiled by Shield. Morning Herald, 4 June 1795: This Day is published The Bank Note (2s.). Morning Chronicle, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #434 19s. 6d. (168.1.0; 8.0.6; tickets: 258.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note; Or, Lessons For Ladies

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Holman, Johnstone, Fawcett, Middleton, Hull, Townsend, Macready, Powel, Miss Standen, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Lee, Miss Hopkins, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Norton, Miss Wallis. Cast from text (T. N. Longman, 1795): Mr Hale-Quick; Sir Charles Leslie-Holman; Killeavy-Johnstone; Ned Dash-Fawcett; Mr Bloomfield-Middleton; Father-Hull; Tim-Townsend; Lieutenant Selby-Macready; Careful-Powel; Young Bloomfield-Miss Standen; Mr Bloomfield's Servant-Abbot; Porter-Coombs; Gentleman-Platt; Cook-Ledger; Butler-Williamson; Mrs Bloomfield-Mrs Mattocks; Sally Flounce-Mrs Lee; Miss Emma Hale-Miss Hopkins; Lady Supple-Mrs Davenport; Maid-Mrs Norton; Miss Russel-Miss Wallis; Gentlewoman-Mrs Follett; Prologue-Macready; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Killeavy Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Prize; or, May-Day Wedding

Performance Comment: Characters by Incledon, Johnstone, Munden, Bowden, Mrs Martyr. Cast from Larpent MS: Sam Surf-Incledon; Teddy O'Shaughnessey-Johnstone; Joey-Munden; Platoon-Bowden; Sally-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Teddy O'Shaughnessey Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: a Garland Dance (composed by Byrn)-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: Incidental to 1st piece: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; End II: Old Towler-Incledon; In course 2nd piece: New Ballad-Mrs Martyr; Fat Dolly-Munden; Battle Song-Bowden; Let us love and let us drink-Munden; Bowden, Mrs Martyr; Teddy O'Shaughnessey's History-Johnstone; When 'tis Night and the Mid@Watch is come, Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Now landed from the Ocean-

2214
22 September 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

2215
07 December 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham; Or, Days Of Old

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

2216
30 September 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

2217
09 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

2218
24 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Entertainment: Vaudeville In II afterpiece: Military Manoeuvres-; [the Dead March-; [the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter-. [These were included in all subsequent performances.

2219
28 March 1660 @ Draper's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment

2220
05 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

2221
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

2222
02 February 1663 @ Middle Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

2223
25 August 1663 @ no theater listed

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2224
14 July 1664 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

2225
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

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