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3048 results for: Keyword - J. A. Miller, Esq.
We found 1991 matches on Performance Comments, 821 matches on Event Comments, 504 matches on Performance Title, 75 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
16 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: Miller-Moody1st time; King-Burton; Dick-Blakes; Joe (with song in character)-Atkins; Peggy-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Moody1st time

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor on board the Royal Sovereign

27
19 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire, Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard

Music: III: As17390117

Dance: V: Grand Dance of Moors, as17390117

28
08 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Muilment; V: Tambourine-Mlle Roland

29
18 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

Dance: As17380316

30
21 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: Joe (with song)-Fawcett; King-J. Aickin; Richard-Palmer; Lord Lurewell-Ackman; Miller-Moody; Kate-Mrs Simson; Peggy-Miss Platt; Margery-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Moody

31
05 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Moody

32
02 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Talbot. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet Laureat. [Tickets to be had at Talbot's Coffee House in the Old Playhouse Passage, Drury Lane.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

33
12 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine-French Girl; Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

34
24 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine, as17400115; Miller and His Wife, as17400115

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

35
06 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet Laureat. Receipts: #61 18s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: PPeasants, Miller and Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

36
13 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Highness the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #81 11s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Barbarini Sick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; Miller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

37
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for a Gentlewoman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Written by Thomas King, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:30. The Public may be assured that the principal Performers in the above play and farce are Persons accustomed to the Stage, and that the utmost Attention will be paid to the credit of Performance. Tickets delivered by Mrs Lefevre and Blackburn will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

38
06 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. 2nd piece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 25 Apr. 1788]. 3rd piece [1st time; M 1, altered by John Gretton from his Ode performed at the Pantheon, 4 May. Larpent MS 1087; text printed in Morning Chronicle, 2 May 1795, with parts as above]: The Words by John Gretton, Esq. The Music by Spofforth; the Dances by Byrn. Books containing the Words of the Masque will be delivered gratis at the different Doors. Morning Herald, 5 June: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #204 5s. (72.17; 7.15; tickets: 123.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Afterpiece Title: A Masque, In Honor of the Nuptials of His Royal Highness [the Prince of Wales with Caroline Princess of Brunswick on 8 April 1795]

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: In 3rd piece: a Grand Dance-Byrn, Holland, Mlle St.Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Richmond Primrose Girl (Music by Spofforth-Poetry by William Pearce, Esq.) sung in character-Mrs Clendining

39
11 August 1730 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rum Duke And The Queer Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Miller's Holiday; or, Love in a Furz-Bush

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Knott; Miller-Reynolds; Miller's Man-Dove; Miller's Wife-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Reynolds
Role: Miller's Man Actor: Dove
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: St.Luce, others

40
22 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17370214, but King-Cibber; Miller-Miller.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller.

Music: Select Pieces-; II: Solo on the Violin-Riggs

Dance: III: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

41
19 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Milward; Antony-Wright; Julius Caesar-Mills; Caska-Cibber; Octavius Caesar-Hill; Citizens-Johnson, Miller, Harper, Griffin; Portia-Mrs Furnival; Calphurnia-Mrs Butler.
Cast
Role: Citizens Actor: Johnson, Miller, Harper, Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Cibber; Miller-Miller; Lurewell-Hill; Richard-Havard; Peggy-Miss Brett; Margery-Mrs Bennet; Joe-Beard; Kate-Miss Tollet; Attendants-Winstone, Cross, Raftor; Forresters-Turbutt, Leigh; Green. Green.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

Dance: A new Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter, Livier, Mrs Thompson, Pelling, Rector, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

Music: Select Pieces-

42
13 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miller (The Miller of Mansfield). At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

Dance: I: Lilliputian Punch-Master Ferg; II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance, as17380412 V: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

43
01 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17380413 but King-Hill; Miller-Miller.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller.

Dance: I: La Pieraite-Livier, Mrs Thompson; II: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Turkish-Muilment; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

44
02 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Benefit the Author of the King and the Miller of Mansfield [Dodsley]. N.B. The Boxes not being equal to the Demand for Places, for the better Accommodation of the Ladies, Side Boxes will be made on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

45
16 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The King and the Miller of Mansfield. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Miller

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer's@Prentice

46
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

Performance Comment: A playbill: At Parker's and Doggett's Booth near Hosier-Lane End, in Smithfield, during the Time of Bartholomew-Fair, will be presented a New Droll, called, Fryar Bacon; or, The Country Justice: With the Humours of Tolfree the Miller, and his Son Ralph, Acted by Mr Doggett. With Variety of Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances. Vivat Rex. (See William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954), opposite page 237.) The London Spy, August 1699, describes a visit to Bartholomew Fair, including an account of Doggett's droll and another, Dwarf Comedy, Sir-nam'd a Droll' called The Devil of a Wife. In the Post Man, 15-17 Aug. 1699, is an advance notice of rope dancing and a booth run by Barnes and Appleby between the Crown Tavern and the Hospital Gate, next to Miller's Droll Booth.

47
16 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Cibber; Miller-Shepard; Lurwell-Raftor; Richard-Havard; Peggy-Mrs Pritchard; Margery-Mrs Bennet; Joe-Beard; Attendants-Winstone, Cross, Green; Foresters-Turbutt, Leigh, Marshall.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard

Dance: II: Grand Aethiopian Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

48
25 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17390426 but King-Winstone; Miller-Shepard; Lurewell-Raftor; Richard-Havard; Peggy-Mrs Hamilton; Margery-Mrs Bennet; Joe-Beard; Kate-Miss Chetwood.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment; End Afterpiece: A new Scotch Dance-Miss Wright

Song: II: The Protestation-Beard

49
08 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Winstone; Miller-Shepard; Lurewell-Raftor; Richard-Havard; Joe-Berry; Peggy-Mrs Chetwood; Margery-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; IV: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment

50
02 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Winstone; Miller-Berry; Lurewell-Green; Richard-Havard; Joe-Raftor.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Berry

Dance: I: Muilment; II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg