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2048 results for: Keyword - J. Addison, Esq
We found 943 matches on Performance Comments, 767 matches on Event Comments, 424 matches on Author, 141 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
18 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in 3 acts, altered from Garrick's original 5 acts by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.] The Music composed by Dibdin. With New Dresses. The Scenes, Machines, &c. invented by DeLoutherbourg. The Christmas Tale reduced to three Acts (by R. B. Sheridan esq.) was performed for the first time as a Farce--was received with very great Applause--it is too long, and must be shortened (Hopkins Diary). Public Advertiser, 22 Oct. 1776: This Day at Four o'Clock will be published A Christmas Tale (1s.) [For Baker see 28 Sept.] Receipts: #241 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

127
26 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett 1st piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq. Never performed at that Theatre. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with universal Applause. With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Written by the Author of The Way to Get Married [Thomas Morton]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Oracle, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-Court-Road, opposite Howland-street. Receipts: #507 9s. 6d. (185.7.6; 10.0.0; tickets: 312.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: A Nicknackatory

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Festivity, as17951125

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts-Linton, Williamson, Blurton, Street, Abbot, Holland, Rees, Lee, Little, Miss Logan, Miss Ives, Miss Leserve, Miss Walcup, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Watts

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and recited at Free-Mason's Hall, last Winter, with universal Applause)-Fawcett

128
06 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lacey & Miss Thomas (Cross). Tickets deliver'd by Clough, G. Burton, and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17540316 but Frenchman-Lacey; Drunken Man-Clough; Concluding with a Minuet(by Particular Desire,)-Lacey, Mrs Addison.

129
14 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. [For Occasional Prompter XVI, see Daily Journal, 14 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: With a New Burlesque Tragi Actor: Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green

Song: II: Son Priginiero-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Would You Gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

130
15 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: With a New Burlesque Tragi Actor: Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green

Song: II: La Nuvoletta, an Italian Ballad.-Miss Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

131
18 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: La Nuvoletta-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Cecilia Young

132
29 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Tale. Written by the Author of the Toy Shop [R. Dodsley]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: Muilment; V: Ballet-Denoyer

133
26 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of the late Mr Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; Drunken Peasant-Philips; Russian Sailor-Denoyer

134
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

135
23 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked; or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

136
02 June 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: II: The Haymakers-Giorgi's Scholars; End Opera: Hornpipe-Master Burn

Entertainment: End Opera: Bannister's Imitations-Bannister

137
30 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett.

138
16 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece: 1st Time at this Theatre. 2nd piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq. [as owner of the copyright]. Morning Chronicle, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #681 2s. (392.3.6; 57.18.0; 7.17.6; tickets: 223.3.0) (charge: #211 14s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Duke Murcia-King; Marquis Almanza-Wroughton; Count Valentia-Bannister Jun.; Seville-Maddocks; Granada-Trueman; Peasant-Aickin; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Goodall; Amanthis-Mrs Jordan; An Occasional Address by Henry Bunbury, Esq.-Mrs Jordan. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In course 2nd piece: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

139
26 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

140
20 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Author

141
19 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Entertainment: End: Bucks have at Ye All-Palmer

142
09 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

143
25 November 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Hotel

Dance: IV: a Dance of Furies-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Song: original Music by Mattew Locke , with full Chorusses and Additional Accompaniments by ThomasLinley Sen.-Bannister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown, Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs J. Smith, Mrs Wrighten; Account-Book adds: Reynoldson, Webbe, Michan, Gaudry, Danby, J. Danby, Short, Miss Boyd

144
20 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Ballet: Preceding: The Deserter. Alexis-J. D'Egville; Jean Louis-G. D'Egville; Bertrand-Aumer; Mountauciel-Fialon; Gaoler-Fairbrother; Court@Chemin-Boimaison; The King-Phillimore; Louisa-Mrs Fialon; Margaretta-Miss Heard; Janetta-Miss Menage; Duchess-Miss Collins; Officers, Attendants-

145
15 June 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: Family Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

146
11 February 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cadmus Et Hermione

147
18 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Afterpiece Title: The Butcher Turned Gentleman

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Salle, Mlle Salle; with Irish Jigg-Mrs Schoolding

148
07 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

149
12 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. Mr Love Hiss'd in the Scotchman. Dumont by Mr Powell (Hopkins). Characters Dress'd in Habits of Times. Mr Love was hissed very much in the Scotchman, and the Farce hissed at the end (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). No building on stage. On Saturday Othello with a New Burletta call'd Music A-La-Mode, or Bayes in Chromatics For the Benefit of Vernon. [The principal characters were to have been played by King, Vernon, Packer, Fox, Mrs Mrs Dorman, and Miss Young (Public Advertiser, 13 April). But it was deferred at the last minute and seems never to have been performed. Larpent MS 237 lists the parts: Dr Crochet, Player-Packer; Squire, Justice; Damon; Daphne, Chorus of Shepherds and Nymphs. $J. P. Kemble thought it a burlesque at the expense of Dr Arne (professor of nonharmonic music). The Player wants in it to banish all but four plays (Tamerlane, London Cuckolds, George Barnwell, and Twelfth Night) and fill stage performance with music.] Receipts: #208 14s. 6d. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Profit to Love: #144 10s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922; End I Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Baker

150
30 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: I: The Irish Lilt-Giorgi, Mrs King; End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels-King