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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.

2776
28 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Baddeley
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Waldron

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

2777
20 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Sagely Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Mrs Forster
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Crouch.

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

2778
05 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Wilson.
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Forster
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Coke Actor: Mr King.

Dance: End III: As17870920; End IV:a Scotch Dance, The Lucky Return-Mills, the Miss Stageldoirs

2779
14 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Sagely Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I of mainpiece) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good; or, The Road to Odiham

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Baddeley, Moody, Suett, Barrymore, Whitfield, R. Palmer, Lamash, Waldron, Burton, Bates, Hollingsworth, Fawcett, Phillimore, Wilson, Jones, Benson, Alfred, Spencer, Lyons, Bannister Jun., Miss Collins, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson.

Dance: End: a Minuet-Master D'Egville, Miss Blanchet

2780
02 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Cast
Role: Lady Dunder Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Mrs Peery Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Packet and Coach Passengers Actor: Miss Francis, Mrs Gaudry
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner; or, Quality Binding

Cast
Role: Mrs Level Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Cast
Role: Maud Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mayoress Actor: Mrs Webb

2781
15 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Bannister, Chapman, Davies, Mrs Love, Miss Collett.
Role: Wife Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Cast
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Mrs Lefevre.
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Webb.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Bannister.

Dance: End 2nd piece: The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

2782
27 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Cast
Role: Mrs Croaker Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Garnet Actor: Mrs Edwin
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Miss Richland Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Cast
Role: Fadladinida Actor: Mrs Edwin
Role: Venus Actor: Mr Mathews
Role: Cupid Actor: Mr Painter.

Song: End III: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

2783
09 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Sagely Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Philidel Actor: Mrs Forster
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Crouch

Song: In II: song in character-Mrs Crouch [who sang it in all subsequent performances]

2784
29 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Bernard
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Patrick Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Dermot Actor: Johnstone
Role: Kathlane Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Mountain.

2785
05 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Baddeley
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Crouch.

2786
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

2787
08 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Widows

Cast
Role: Mrs Worldly Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: Lady Charlotte Richmore Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

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

2788
14 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alscrip Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Lady Emily Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Edwin
Role: Mrs Highman Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Edwin
Role: Mrs Highman Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

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

2789
04 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Cast
Role: Lady Dinah Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Bella Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Kean

Song: Between acts: Miss Barnes

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

2790
09 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Yarico Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Bannister.

2791
26 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Principal Bacchant Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Mrs Shaw
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Crouch

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch

2792
12 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Bernard
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: Mrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Davenett
Role: Lady Racket Actor: Mrs Abington.

Dance: As17891021

2793
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: Captain Macheath Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Lucy Actor: Mr Johnstone
Role: Polly Actor: Mr Bannister
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Betty Doxey Actor: Mrs Lloyd
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: Sukey Tawdry Actor: Mrs Masters
Role: Molly Brazen Actor: Mrs Lefevre.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: Captain Greville Actor: Johnstone
Role: Eliza Actor: Mrs Warrell.

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

2794
13 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling: A Dramatic Caricature

Cast
Role: Lady Anecdote Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Mrs Gout Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Brooks

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Brooks.
Role: Lady Dunder Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mrs Peery Actor: Mrs Powell.
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Kemble.
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Webb.

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

2795
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
Role: Wowski Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Rock

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Bannister.

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

2796
01 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Bannister

Dance: End: a new Dance, The Kiss; or, Give and Take-Byrn, Platt, Mrs Goodwin, Miss DeCamp

2797
07 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Cast
Role: Mrs Level Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Signora Figurante Actor: Mrs Iliff
Role: Lady Pedigree Actor: Mrs Edwin.

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wilson, Bannister Jun., Iliff, Bland, Chapman, Farley, Evatt, Abbott, Lyons, Mrs Brooks, Mrs Powell, Miss Palmer.
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Brooks
Role: Mrs Gout Actor: Mrs Powell

2798
26 September 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Elspy Actor: Mr Service
Role: Mause Actor: Mr Blair.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Amour

Cast
Role: Miss Noel Actor: Mrs Steventon
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Sincock

Dance: End IV: a Dance-Allison, Pupils of Allison

2799
21 October 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Fawcett
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Rock
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Esten.

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Cast
Role: Peasantry Actor: Darley, Marshall, Gray, Williamson, Mrs Mountain, Miss Broadhurst, Miss Stuart, Mrs Martyr

2800
12 December 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Taylor
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Murray.

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Bonner
Role: Elspa Actor: Mr Service
Role: Mause Actor: Mr Sinclair.

Dance: End 1st song: The Dance in Fetters-Allison

Song: End: The Cries of Edinburgh-Shaw; End I afterpiece: Hark hark to the Woodlands-Miss Thompson (1st appearance)