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11509 results for: Keyword - Thomas King
We found 5449 matches on Author, 3185 matches on Performance Comments, 2689 matches on Performance Title, 1930 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10551
16 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas John Dibdin. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (London Chronicle, 18 Mar.)]. Morning Chronicle, 12 Apr. 1799: This Day is published Five Thousand a Year (price not listed). Ibid, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #542 0s. 6d. (383.9.0; 2.19.0; tickets: 155.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: Speaking Characters-Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Emery, Simmons, Gray, Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mills; [Cast adjusted from playbill of 2 Oct. 1797: Capt. Frederick-Johnstone; Thicket-Incledon; Clueline-Townsend; Sir Fidget Fearful-Emery; Gregory-Simmons; Flambeau-Gray; Whim-Rees; Peggy-Mrs Martyr; Sophia-Mrs Mills.] With Dialogue to introduce the following favorite Songs: The Lamplighter, I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter-Gray; [Peggy Perkins, Let Bards elate-Simmons; [Irish Drinking Song, Of the ancients its speaking-Johnstone; [Song, I went to Sea-Townsend; [Taffy and Griddy, Abergavenny is fine-Mrs Martyr; The moment Aurora-Incledon; Dear Mary adieu-Incledon; The Midnight Watch-Incledon; [To conclude with a Rural Masquerade-; [in which a new song, by Mazzinghi; Poor Orra come from distant shore-Miss Waters; [Sea Song, A sailor's life's a life of woe-Mrs Mills; [The Masquerade, Sure an't the World a Masquerade-Johnstone, Chorus.
Cast
Role: Speaking Characters Actor: Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Emery, Simmons, Gray, Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mills
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: In 2nd piece: Ballet-Blurton, Mrs Watts

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

10552
29 March 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Oratorio, in Two Parts, the only one composed in this Country nearly these 30 years. Afterpiece: An Ode, in One Part. The Band will wholly consist of Professors of the first eminence, and the Chorusses will be numerously supported by the best Performers in London, assisted by the young Gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapels, and of Westminster Abbey. The music entirely new, composed by Thomas? Busby, who will take the Piano Forte. Boxes 7s. Pit 4s. 1st Gallery 3s. 2nd Gallery 2s. Grove: [Busby] worked at a setting of Pope's 'Messiah' for some years, and it was produced in 1799 with considerable success as 'The Prophecy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophecy

Afterpiece Title: Ocean

10553
16 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd Piece [1st time in London; MF 2, by Thomas John Dibdin, 1st acted at Manchester, 15 Mar. 1793. Text (Huddersfield: J. Brook [1795] gives cast for Manchester]: The Music (with a new Waltz Overture, and an accompaniment for the Tamborine & Triangle) composed by Reeve. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's-inn. Receipts: #630 12s. 6d. (237.13.0; 2.10.0; tickets: 390.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Sunshine after Rain

Afterpiece Title: The Jolly Crew; or, Tars at Anchor

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Incledon, Johnstone, Munden, Fawcett, Townsend, Linton, Street; In which: Thursday in the Morn-Incledon; Kicking up a Row-Johnstone; Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; The Tight [or, Snug] Little Island (written by T. Dibdin)-Townsend; Boxing the Compass-Fawcett; Catches, Glees-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend.
Cast
Role: Kicking up a Row Actor: Johnstone

Song: In Course Evening: a new Comic Song (never sung in London), A Bundle of Proverbs; or, Odds and Ends, in the Character of Ephraim Smooth-Munden; A new Comic Song (never performed), A Touch at Old Times; or, No Days better than our Own-Munden; The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, the Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Councellor's Wig,-Fawcett

Entertainment: Monologue The Barber's Petition-Fawcett

10554
17 April 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for an Infant Orphan Family. Tickets to be had at No. 17, Tufton-street, Westminster; of Appleby, Hosier, Parliament-street; Mrs Cleaver, Cannon-row, Parliament-street; Newcomb, Confectioner, Bridge-street, Westminster; Taylor, Linen-draper, Whitehall; Thomas, Butcher, Charing-cross; Medhurst, Pastry Cook, Russel-court, Drury-lane; Rice, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Entertainment: End: Her much admired Imitations-Mrs Sumbel

10555
16 September 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Address by Thomas John Dibdin (T. J. Dibdin, Reminiscences, 1, 256).] Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 9 Dec.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Box office in Hart-street. No Money to be returned. [On playbill of 6 May 1800: Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-street, Covent-Garden.] Receipts: #290 3s. 6d. (279.12.0; 10.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: New Occasional Address-Pope

10556
01 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Biggs as Angela, but "On account of the sudden indisposition of Miss Biggs, Miss Heard will perform the part of Angela, and hopes for the usual indulgence of the audience" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Thomas John Dibdin, based on Der Wildfang, by August Ferdinand Friedrich von Kotzebue. Prologue by Miles Peter Andrews (London Chronicle, 4 Feb. 1800)]: The Overture and Musick composed by Kelly [with one selection from Paisiello]. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #264 17s. (139.8.6; 122.17.0; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

10557
12 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas John Dibdin. In 1801 expanded by the author to 5 acts, and entitled The School for Prejudice. Author of Prologue unknown.]. Receipts: #205 17s. 6d. (202.10.0; 3.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Claud Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Dance: As18000501

Song: As18000501

10558
10 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As18000628 but Eugene-_; Chicane-_; John-_; Thomas-_.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Afterpiece Title: Obi

10559
16 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performance Comment: As18000710 but Chorus of Negro Men-Thomas.
Cast
Role: Chorus of Negro Men Actor: Thomas.

10560
29 May 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Charles II entered London on this day, an event which occasioned several works of a quasi-dramatic nature. One was The Famous Tragedie of the Life and Death of Mrs Rump...As it was presented on a burning Stage at Westminster the 29th of May, 1660. It has a Prologue and Epilogue; the author is not known. A second is An Ode Upon the Happy Return of King Charles II to his Languishing Nations, May 29. 1660. This work, by James Shirley, with music by Dr Coleman, was printed in 1660, and reprinted in A Little Ark, ed. G. Thorn-Drury (1921), pp. 21-23. A third is A True Relation of the Reception of his Majestie and Conducting him through the City of London...on Tuesday the 29 of this instant May, being the Day of his Majesties Birth

Performances

10561
07 August 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On this date John Rogers petitioned the King concerning his right to keep the peace at the playhouses. In Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 84, three companies, those at the red bull, cockpit, and salisbury court, are named as currently performing

Performances

10562
06 November 1660 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

10563
08 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. This was the King's Company (Killigrew's), now removed from the red bull to Gibbons' Tennis Court in Vere Street. Probably Clun acted Falstaff. (See An Elegy Upon the Most Execrable Murther in A Little Ark, ed. G. Thorn-Drury, pp. 30-31.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

10564
09 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. According to John Dennis, in the Dedication to The Comical Gallant (1702), when this play was revived in the times of Charles II, Wintershall acted Slender

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

10565
10 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

10566
12 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: According to M. Summers (A Bibliography of Restoration Drama, p. 13) Love's Mystery was entered into but erased from Herbert's original manuscript under his date. (See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116.) The King's Company

Performances

10567
13 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Lies A Bleeding

10568
15 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. According to Wright, Historia Histrionica, 1699, Mohun played Bellamante shortly after the Restoration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty

10569
21 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

10570
22 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the new playhouse and saw part of the Traitor, a very good Tragedy; Mr Moon [Mohun] did act the Traitor very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

10571
23 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

10572
24 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

10573
26 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opportunity

10574
27 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I to a play, The Scornfull Lady. [Because this play was offered at Vere Street on 21 Nov. 1660 and because Pepys had been attending that playhouse, it seems likely that this was also a production of the King's Company.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

10575
29 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant