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678 results for: Keyword - Aaron Hill
We found 381 matches on Author, 187 matches on Performance Comments, 123 matches on Event Comments, 42 matches on Performance Title, and 16 matches on Roles/Actors.

376
26 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: Osman (1st time [in London])-Kemble; Nerestan-Barrymorc; Chatilion-Aickin; Orasmin-Packer; Melidor-Phillimore; Lusignan-Bensley; Selima-Mrs Ward; Zara (1st time)-Miss Kemble .
Cast
Role: Melidor Actor: Phillimore
Related Works
Related Work: Zara Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly or The Fairy of the Well

Performance Comment: Harlequin Clack-Bannister Jun.; Magician-Staunton; Doctor-Fawcett; Harlequin Lack-Wright; Clodpate-Grimaldi. The other Characters by Moody, Wrighten, Burton, Chapman, Waldron, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Jones, Spencer, Alfred, &c.; Mrs Wilson, Miss Cranford, Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Burnett, Mrs Heard, Miss Burnett, Miss Barnes, Miss Palmer, Miss Simson, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Wrighten. [For assignments of Moody, Mrs Wilson, Miss Cranford, Mrs Wrighten, see17851229 Larpent MS 715 also lists: Lover, Lawyer, Clerk, Scotchman, Sailor, Taylor; Colombine.] hathi. Mrs Wilson, Miss Cranford, Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Burnett, Mrs Heard, Miss Burnett, Miss Barnes, Miss Palmer, Miss Simson, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Wrighten. [For assignments of Moody, Mrs Wilson, Miss Cranford, Mrs Wrighten, see17851229 Larpent MS 715 also lists: Lover, Lawyer, Clerk, Scotchman, Sailor, Taylor; Colombine.] hathi.
Cast
Role: Clodpate Actor: Grimaldi. The other Characters by Moody, Wrighten, Burton, Chapman, Waldron, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Jones, Spencer, Alfred, &c.

Dance: In afterpiece, by Hamoir, Williamson, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Sutton, &c. [The dance was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

377
07 October 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Related Works
Related Work: Zara Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17910912

378
03 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mariners

Afterpiece Title: THE PRODIGAL

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

379
04 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

380
06 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

381
10 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR or The Dumb Lady Cured

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

382
12 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

383
18 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

384
17 January 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

385
25 January 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

386
04 February 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: THE MARINERS

387
19 February 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE

Afterpiece Title: THE PURSE

388
24 March 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: THE HAUNTED TOWER

Afterpiece Title: THE PURSE

389
14 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: FATAL EXTRAVAGANCE

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Extravagance Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: THE SPRIGS OF LAUREL

Song: End of 1st piece Old Towler by Incledon

390
19 December 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 7 Oct. 1791]. Middleton, after performing the first scene of Nerestan, retired abruptly into the wardrobe, pulled off his coat, and telling the dresser he should be back in ten minutes, left the theatre; he did not return, however, according to his appointment, and Davenport read the remainder of the character: a fit of insanity is supposed to have seized him" (Monthly Mirror, Jan. 1797, p. 55). [Middleton did not appear on the stage again until 27 Feb. 1797.] Afterpiece [1st time: P 2 (?), by James Wild and John Follett. MS of Songs only: Larpent MS 1148; synopsis of action in Pocket Magazine, Dec. 1796, p. 412]: With entire new Scenery, Machinery, Music, Dresses. The Overture and Music by Reeve. The Scenery painted by Phillips, Blackmore, Hollogan, Thorne, Byrn. The Machinery, Trick and Changes of Scenery invented and executed by Cresswell and Sloper. The Dresses by Dick, Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Among the changes are a trunk into a gingerbread nut-man's wheel-barrow--a poor man's hut into an old oak, with a group of Gypsies boiling their kettle under it--one of the clowns into a thick candle, and the candle afterwards into a green-house tub, with a large shrub in it" (Oracle, 20 Dec.). Receipts: #193 5s. 6d. (183.4.6; 10.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Related Works
Related Work: Zara Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon or The Chace to Gretna

391
10 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Revenge

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Norsa. Prologue and Epilogue written by Aaron Hill

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

392
11 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Revenge

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Norsa. Prologue and Epilogue written by Aaron Hill

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

393
12 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Revenge

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Norsa. Prologue and Epilogue written by Aaron Hill

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

394
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Hill's Large Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, Mainpiece an Italian Comic Farce translated into English by the celebrated Punch, Poet Laureate to the Grand Mogul

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Conjuror Or Pantaloon Disected

Afterpiece Title: The Grand Assembly of Lilliputians

Performance Comment: Hill.

Entertainment: IItalian Fireworks-Benjamin Clitherow who has permission from his Majesty's Officer of Ordinance and was the real Engineer to Cuper's and Marybone Gardens

395
10 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Highlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; A new Grand Warlike Dance with Moors-Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Hill; in which will be introduced a new Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour; with Poitier beating a Preamble on the Kettle Drums. Flag Dance-Nivelon; A new French Peasant-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre, Delagarde, St.Luce, Miss LaTour, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss Hill, Mrs Anderson; in Daily Courant

Performance Comment: Flag Dance-Nivelon; A new French Peasant-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre, Delagarde, St.Luce, Miss LaTour, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss Hill, Mrs Anderson; in Daily Courant. in Daily Courant.
Cast
Role: A new French Peasant Actor: Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre, Delagarde, St.Luce, Miss LaTour, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss Hill, Mrs Anderson

Song: Leveridge, Laguerre

396
30 April 1725 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hill. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, Mrs Gething; particularly an English Duetto-

397
22 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pearce, Sandham, Bowcher, Miss Hill. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Flora-Miss Hill (by Desire); Hob-Pearce, but see17340118.
Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Miss Hill

Dance: II: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. V: Pierrots by Vallois and J. Delagarde

Song: IV: By Miss Hill

398
21 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Farce dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8). [See review of the reception and circumstances of publication in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 37), which presents Hill in no good light. See also review of A Letter to the Honourable Author of the Rout (idem.) with its charges against Garrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

Related Works
Related Work: The Rout Author(s): John Hill

399
20 January 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: For the correspondence between Aaron Hill and the Duke of Montagu concerning Hill's proposed occupancy of hay see Buccleuch and Queensberry MSS, I, 369-71

Performances

400
23 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See letter of Aaron Hill to Mallet, 23 Feb., in Hill, Works, I, 97-100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice