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17001 results for: Keyword - Mr John Croft, Esq
We found 11052 matches on Author, 5362 matches on Event Comments, 2798 matches on Performance Comments, 848 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

14576
29 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

Dance: A French Peasant and his Wife-duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

14577
01 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: The Enthustiastick Song composed and-Leveridge

Dance: Chacone-Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

14578
09 August 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Cook, Mrs Clark

Dance: Blousabella-Prince, Mrs Clark; Scotch Whim, Irish Trot-Mrs Evans

14579
16 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

Song: A gentleman, his first on the stage

Dance: Harlequin Man and Woman-Laforest, Devonshire Girl; Quaker's Dance, Country Farmer's Daughter-Devonshire Girl

14580
17 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Andronicus

Related Works
Related Work: Titus Andronicus; or, The Rape of Lavinia Author(s): Edward Ravenscroft

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14581
02 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule

14582
15 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Italian sonatas-Gasperini; particularly The Echo-Gasperini, duRuel

Song: Henry Purcell songs-Leveridge

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs Moss, Mrs Bicknell

14583
28 May 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

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14584
29 May 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

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14585
07 August 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cares Of Love

Song: Mrs Hodgson

Dance: The little Girl, Mrs Elford's scholar

14586
01 May 1706 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: The most famous Rope/Dancers of Europe, who perform such strange and surprizing things as were never before seen, and which are almost incredible to relate

14587
28 November 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Note that Mr Johnson was last Night engag'd to Act only in this Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Platonick Lady

14588
16 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

14589
01 August 1707 @ Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; with several diverting Dialogues and Comical Dancing-delaHay, Newhouse; Sword Dancing-the Original Mistress in that Art

14590
12 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

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: Prunella

14591
01 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson

14592
20 April 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Cast
Role: Raison Actor: Johnson

14593
26 April 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

14594
07 April 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

14595
06 June 1709 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fine Ladies Airs

14596
20 June 1709 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

14597
31 January 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Santlow; particularly a French Peasant-; Scaramouch-Layfield

14598
21 March 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain Or The Usurer Turned Soldier

14599
15 June 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

14600
21 June 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Villeroy-Thurmond; Baldwin-Shepard; Bryan-Husband; Carlos-Cory; Frederick-Thurmond Jr; Fernando-Jubilee Dicky [Norris]; Fabion-Bullock Jr; Jaqueline-Leigh; Sampson-Spiller; Bellford-Elrington; Isabella-Mrs Kent; Julia-Mrs Spiller; Victoria-Mrs Shepard; Nurse-Mrs Pollet; With the Mimick Epilogue [Written and spoke by Mr Cibber (at queen's) Burlesquing the Italian Operas-a little Boy.
Cast
Role: Burlesquing the Italian Operas Actor: a little Boy.