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7359 results for: Keyword - Mr R. Johnston
We found 4466 matches on Event Comments, 3065 matches on Performance Comments, 553 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3151
08 March 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Entertainment: End: Singing and Dancing-

3152
17 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Selima And Azor

3153
02 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

3154
05 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End III: The Minuet de la Cour-Duprez, Miss Armstrong

3155
13 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

3156
27 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

3157
18 March 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Exciseman Trick'd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel, and Hornpipe by Master Holland, pupil to Holloway

Song: Hooly and Fairly, in character, by M'Donald; End of Act II The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo by Miss Hemet

3158
25 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

3159
14 February 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Maid's the Mistress

3160
03 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece, as17830422; End of mainpiece, as17821231

3161
09 February 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel (performers not listed); In Act IV a Hornpipe by Middleton

Monologue: 1784 02 09 The Edinburgh Buck by a Genleman [unidentified]

3162
01 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: . Macheath Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece, as17831014; End of mainpiece The Poney Races, as17840428

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Leoni; End of Act II When Phoebus the tops of the bills does adorn by Leoni and Brett

3163
24 January 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Double Amour

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece the Sbeep shearing Song [Come, come, my good shepherds] by Mrs Raeburn; End of mainpiece, by Permission of the Caledonian Society, their Constitution Song, set to music by an eminent Master, by a Gentleman [unidentified]. imitations. Following 2nd song, a variety of Imitations by a Gentleman who performed for Bannister's Benefit [on 26 Aug. 1784], and others, with universal applause, being his 4th appearance [Kean]

3164
25 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

3165
11 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: As17860223

3166
29 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Dermot Actor: Johnstone

3167
07 February 1789 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Dance: As17890131 Les Fetes Provencales here called A Divertissement

Song: II: song-Marchesi

3168
08 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Widows

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Edwin, Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Cubitt, Davies, Miss Reynolds, Miss Fontenelle.

3169
14 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End IV: A Comic Description of the Curiosities in the Tower of London-Edwin

3170
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

3171
04 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: Between acts: Miss Barnes

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

3172
12 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17891021

3173
13 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17891024, but Captain Macheath-Mrs Wells (1st time at this theatre); Lucy-Mr Johnstone (1st appearance in that character); Polly-Mr Bannister (1st time these six years); Ben Budge-_.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mr Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: Captain Greville Actor: Johnstone

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

3174
13 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling: A Dramatic Caricature

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

3175
28 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle (with songs)-Johnstone; Sir Christopher Curry-Quick; Campley-Davies; Medium-Powel; Mate (with The Wand'ring Sailor)-Bannister; Planters-Rock, Thompson, Evatt; Sailor-Ledger; Waiter-Farley; Trudge (for that night only)-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Parys]); Wowski-Mrs Martyr; Narcissa-Mrs Mountain; Patty-Mrs Rock; Yarico-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Inkle Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End II: Negro Dance-

Song: End: some of the most favourite Catches and Glees-Bannister, Incledon, Blanchard, Davies, Williamson, Johnstone [for specific songs probably sung, see17910517]

Entertainment: Monologue. After singing: A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey (after the manner of the late Mr Edwin)-the Young Gentleman who performs Trudge