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17468 results for: Keyword - Mr John Christopher Smith
We found 10008 matches on Author, 5400 matches on Event Comments, 4472 matches on Performance Comments, 1075 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

701
24 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern. Afterpiece: Never performed there before. [By John Arthur.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Discovery; or, The Tanner of York

Related Works
Related Work: The Lucky Discovery; or, The Tanner of York Author(s): John Arthur

Dance: CComic Dance-Tench, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

702
24 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Macklin
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Cibber Sr
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story

703
29 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Macklin
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Cibber Sr
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: By particular desire, a Chacone-Desse; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428

Song: IV: Song-Lowe

704
19 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Garrick, 1st time
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: Muilment

705
25 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Goodall. A concert etc. 6 p.m. Afterpiece: Not acted 20 years [See gf 25 Nov. 1745], written by the last celebrated Mr Griffin. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

706
14 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Pages covering this date missing from Treasurer's Book.] Tomorrow at 12 o'clock will be publish'd Don Saverio: A Musical Drama, as it is performed at Drury Lane. The Music composed by Mr Arne. Printed for John Watts, and sold by him at the Printing Office in Wild Court, near Lincoln's Inn Fields (General Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Palmer
Role: Smith Actor: Bridges
Related Works
Related Work: The Contrast: A Tragi-Comical Rehearsal of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; or, No Match at All, and the Tragedy of Epaminodas Author(s): John Hoadley

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

Dance: Master Maltere, Miss Foulcades

707
18 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

708
08 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Prologue, Epilogue and Pastoral Dialogue. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Addison. A New Pastoral Dialogue for the benefit of ye Author of ye Dialogue, Cook ye Poet (Cross). [The Prologue was on comic poetry (spoken by Ryan); the Epilogue was on the Comic Characters of Women (spoken by Mrs Bland). See published version (London, 1753 "to which is prefixed an Ode to John Rich, Esq:"--British Museum 11795 K 31).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Entertainment: NNew Prologue, Epilogue, likewise a New Pastoral Dialogue (never perform'd before)-Lowe, Mrs Lampe; The music by Mr Arne-

Dance: LLes Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

709
16 November 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: A New Dance Sga Sabatini, as17541115

710
16 January 1755 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Event Comment: At Mr Ogle's Great Room, Dean St., Soho. A Pastoral Opera [by John Hoadley] set by Dr Green. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s. Books of the Opera at places of Performance at 6d. Benefit for Robinson, organist of Westminster Abbey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phoebe

Related Works
Related Work: Phoebe Author(s): John Hoadley

711
01 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

Dance: I: The Italian Fishermen-Sg and Sga Sabatini; III: New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; V: A Peasant Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the younger

712
30 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

713
21 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. A Tragedy [By John Home]. I went to my Office and then slept [?] in at Drury Lane w here I see Mr and Miss Hayes, Lady Lindores who I see into a coach, I slept in at Covent Garden Gallery before the play, but see nobody I knew so I would not stay, otherwise I would have went out as I had set my mind on the Beggar's Opera for once more, but waived it all & went to my Office (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Aquileia Author(s): John Home

714
20 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Part of the Pit railed into Boxes and Stage will be formed into Amphitheatre, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Afterpiece: Farce of Two Acts never before acted. [MacMillan lists the characters from the Larpent MS and points out that no indication of assignment appeared: Sir John Bayfield , Sir Charles Freelove , Sir James Trueman , Mr Lovenight , Captain Squander , Lady Bayfield , Miss Croston , Lady Di Clatter , Miss Gibberish , Mrs Lovenight , Miss Prue , Mrs Goodfellow , and servants . Two deputy licensers seem to have been operating at this time, for Garrick sends his plays to Edward Capel, and Rich his to Chetwyn.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Every Woman in Her Humour

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17600313

715
14 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Never Perform'd. Founded on Beaumont and Fletcher. Music by Thomas Linley. A Comic Opera the Music entirely new. [By Thomas Hull altered from The Royal Merchant; or the Beggar's Bush (Biographia Dramatica). See 19 Dec. 1767 for further note on Music.] Paid Mr Horne for 4 Tambourines #1 10s. (Account Book). Went into the Pit to see the opera founded on Beaumont and Fletcher, performed for the first time....The music may be good, but the piece is trifling and childish, barren of incident and character except that of Clause played by Bensley and the frightened peasant. The performers are in the Flemish dresses of the times, and do the piece much justice. At the beginning of the 2nd act some fellows in the 2s. Gallery began a disturbance, but were turn'd out and carried before Sir John Fielding, where they confessed that they were hired to disturb this performance by a publican, but refused to say whom....Stood in the well (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #225 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17671021; II: A Grand Ballet The Garland-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley. [See17651003.

716
23 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

717
17 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

718
06 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: John Actor: Bannister
Role: John's Wife Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Smith

Dance: II: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17741213

719
28 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe; MS: Larpent 577; not published. The following season this was altered, and acted successfully as The Castle of Andalusia]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. A new Overture, and the whole of the Music under the Direction of Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.: The admirable first scene, the subterraneous Receptacle of the Banditti, is the production of the ingenious Mr Richards. Receipts: #182 10s. (180/12/6; 1/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, Love's Labyrinth

Related Works
Related Work: The Banditti; or, Love's Labyrinth Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Castle of Andalusia Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Banditti Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

720
26 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Cast
Role: Sir John Bull Actor: Booth
Role: Henry Actor: Johnstone
Related Works
Related Work: Fontainbleau; or, Our Way in France Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: As17880301

Entertainment: Monologues. End I: A Dissertation on Macaronyism-Bernard; End: Shuter's Observations in a Post@haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

721
22 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Bernard. 2nd piece [1st time in London; M. INT 2, by John Bernard, 1st acted at Bath, 18 Apr. 1786. Music by William Boyton. Larpent MS 732; not published]: By Permission of the Bath Managers [William Keasberry and William Wyatt Dimond]. Receipts: #189 15s. (76.9; 1.16; tickets: 111.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The British Sailor; or, The Fourth of June

Related Works
Related Work: The British Sailor; or, The Fourth of June Author(s): John Bernard

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Innocence; or, The Chamber-Maid Turn'd Quaker Author(s): John Leanerd
Related Work: The Young Quaker Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Ned Shuter's Observations in a Post Haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

722
13 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #120 9s. 6d. (82.18.6; 29.0.0; 8.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

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

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Related Works
Related Work: The Prisoner at Large Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Prisoner Author(s): John Rose

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Danby [Public Advertiser: Caulfield], Cooke, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Shaw

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards

723
19 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions (by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Musick by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

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

Afterpiece Title: WHO's THE DUPE

Cast
Role: Tully Actor: Johnstone
Role: John Actor: Lyons
Role: John Grum Actor: Waldron Jun.

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Dignum, Sedgwick, Caulfield, Cooke, Lyons, Dorion Sen. and Jun., Dibble, Willoughby, Walker, Brown, Saunders, Welsh, Burden//Mrs Bland, Miss De Camp, Mrs Stuart, Miss Menage, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale. In Act V the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick//Amphitrite-Mrs Stuart

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

724
06 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Russell & Dowton. 1st piece [1st time; B 1, by Edward Henry Iliff. The title-page has "by Edmund Spenser, Ynger." On his copy, now in Huntington Library, J. P. Kemble has written, "Iliffe [sic] is the real Name of the Authour"; he has made a similar notation on the playbill]: Founded on the 17th Number of The Spectator. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1. Larpent MS 1219; not published. The characters are all taken from previous plays by John O'Keeffe, as follows: Sadboy (The Young Quaker); Signor Arionelli and Bowkitt (The Son-in-Law); Motley (The Dead Alive); Tully (The London Hermit); Lingo and Cowslip (The Agreeable Surprise); Ephraim Smooth (Wild Oats); Nipperkin (Sprigs of Laurel); Jemmy Jumps and Betty Blackberry (The Farmer); Mrs Casey (Fontainbleau)]: Written by Mr O'Keeffe. Times, 4 June: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 2, Queen's-row, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street; of Dowton, No. 5, Strand-lane, Surry-street, Strand. Receipts: #413 11s. 6d. (76.17.6; 37.7.0; 1.0.0 tickets: 298.7.0) (charge: #215 10s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ugly Club

Afterpiece Title: The Castle-Spectre

Afterpiece Title: A Nosegay of Weeds; or, Old Servants in New Places

Related Works
Related Work: A Nosegay of Weeds; or, Old Servants in New Places Author(s): John O'Keeffe

725
25 September 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain which I have in them. The play was a new play; and infinitely full: the King and all the Court almost there. It is The Storme, a play of Fletcher's; which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did please me mightily....And there comes my wife home from the Duke of York's playhouse. Two songs, printed somewhat later in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673, may have been prepared for this revival: Hark the storm grows, set by Robert Smith; and Cheer up my mates, set by Pelham Humphrey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Storm

Related Works
Related Work: The Storm Author(s): John Fletcher