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6403 results for: Keyword - J. C. Smith Jr
We found 4206 matches on Performance Comments, 2115 matches on Event Comments, 849 matches on Performance Title, 44 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

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15 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Music: With all the Original Music and Dialogues to be sung-Leveridge, Pack, Cook

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Cook, Lully, Newhouse, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

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15 May 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Coker, Cook, Newhouse, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith; Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Miss Smith; Marie-Cook, Miss Schoolding; The last Comic Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

29
03 March 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah 0

Music: End I: concerto on the violoncello-C. Ashley

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24 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Song: Purcell's Mad Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Thurmond

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock; Thurmond's last new Mad Dance-Thurmond, others; Comic Dance-Thurmond, Miss Smith

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31 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: Mrs Bowman

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Lally, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith

32
03 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Dance: Dances for the afterpiece composed by DuPre-DuPre, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr, Newhouse, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr

33
13 May 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. Receipts: money #13; tickets #44 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Performance Comment: As17170328 but Lenox-Smith.
Cast
Role: Lenox Actor: Smith.

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Leveridge, Cook

Dance: As17161109; A new Comic Dance, Spanish Entry-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

34
12 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Smith and Miss Lindar. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow; A new Dance-Miss Lindar, a Boy that never perform'd on the Stage before; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

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26 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: denefit Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Lally's Scholar, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

36
18 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. No building on Stage. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Afterpiece: A Ballad Farce Reviv'd. Receipts: #82 5s. 6d. in cash, plus #187 1s. from tickets (Boxes 399; Pit 492; GGalllery 135). Total #269 6s. 6d. Charges #63. [Mr Smith found his own candles.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Smith; King-Sparks; Horatio-Ridout; Lucianus-Dunstall; Rosencraus-Bennet; Guildenstern-Wignell; Marcellus-Anderson; Bernardo-Weller; Laertes-Dyer; Ostrick-Cresswick; Francisco-Holtom; Player King-Redman; Player Queen-Mrs Ferguson; Polonius-Collins; Gravediggers-Shuter, Stoppelaer; Ghost-Ryan; Ophelia-Mrs Vincent; Queen-Mrs Elmy.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

37
05 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Performance Comment: Theodosius-Smith; Marcian-Sparks; Leontine-Ridout; Atticus-Marten; Aranthes-Davis; Lucius-Anderson; Varanes-Ross; Pulcheria-Mrs Vincent; Julia-Miss Allen; Delia-Mrs Ferguson; Athenais-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Theodosius Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier Jr, as17591017

38
20 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Cast
Role: Granger Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

39
24 April 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: PPierrot and Pierrate-de Vallois, J. Delagarde

40
03 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream written by Shakespear. The Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond. Music-Smith. [First edition Text by John Christopher Smith; see Garrick to James Murphey French, Dec. 1756; H. Walpole to R. Bentley 23 Feb. 1755.] Besides our own Singers, we had Sg Guadagni, Sga Passerini, Miss Potier [i.e., Mrs Vernon], and Savage's Boys. Very great Applause; Sabatini danced after it and fell down, not hurt (Cross). [See A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Hands of Garrick and Colman, G. W. Stone Jr, PMLA (June 1939).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: CComic Dance-Sabatini, Sga Sabatini, Sabatini jun, his first time

41
05 April 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

42
27 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock

43
26 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Performance Comment: Young Cash-Shuter; Riot-Smith; Volatil-Dyer; Horatio-Davis; Valentine-Perry; Sir Tristram Cash-Bennet; Spitfire-Blakey; Slur-Anderson; Cynthia-Mrs Elmy; Aurelia-Mrs Lee; Arabella-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Riot Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

44
11 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #28 2s. 6d. Rec'd of Rev'd Mr Smith in full for his share of Tickets ye 9th Inst. #2 12s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #117. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Dyer; 1st Spirit-Ross; 2nd Spirit-Mattocks; Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchanals-Beard, Baker; Bacchants-Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon; Chorusses-Legg, Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Dibdin, Courts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge; Euphrosyne-Mrs Vernon; Sabrina, the Pastoral Nymph, and the song of Sweet Echo-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Smith

Dance: The Dances incident to the masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosley, Hussey, Balthazar, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Mariane, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Welch, Miss Daw

45
30 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. The Charges include House charge: #63, plus Wax Candles #1 5s. plus Extra Guards #1 5s. 6d., plus a French Horn and 2 Side drums 7s. Receipts: #83 4s. 6d. plus #174 7s. from tickets (Box 382; Pit 447; Gallery 118) (Account Book). Charges: #65 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Smith, 1st time; King Henry-Gibson; Richmond-Clarke; Buckingham-Sparks; Tressel-Dyer; Prince Edward-A Young Gentleman, 1st appearance any stage; Duke of York-Miss Valois; Lady Anne-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Elmy; Queen-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America; or, The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick

46
01 May 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Music: V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Poitier will beat the Kettle Drums

Dance: I: Revellers by Essex, Miss Latour, &c. II: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

47
17 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Elrington, &c

48
18 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Darley; Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Miss Willis, Miss Adcock, &c

49
19 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Hunting Duet (composed by J. Danby) by Dignum and [C.] Danby; End of Act III Tally Ho! by Miss Barnes

50
25 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17860522

Song: End of Act in of mainpiece a Hunting Duett (composed by J. Danby) by Dignum and [C] Danby