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4580 results for: Keyword - J. R. Tonson
We found 2555 matches on Performance Comments, 639 matches on Event Comments, 120 matches on Performance Title, 17 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

326
08 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End: a new Comic Dance, The Elopement; or, Marriage-a-la-Mode-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

327
17 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

328
01 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

329
07 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

330
25 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Dance: In 2nd piece: the Dances (under direction of D'Egville,)-Whitmell, Keys, George D'Egville, Lewis D'Egville, Master Whitmell, Master Chatterley, Master Menage, Master Webb, Mrs Haskey, Miss DeCamp, Miss E. Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage

331
12 December 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed

332
23 June 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inquisitor

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

333
21 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Cambro Britons

334
22 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

335
August 1684 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Dryden to Jacob Tonson, ca. August 1684: I desire to know whether the Dukes house are makeing cloaths & putting things in a readiness for the singing opera [The Tempest?], to be playd immediately after Michaelmasse: for the Actors in the two plays, which are to be acted of mine, this winter [All for Love and The Conquest of Granada], I had spoken with Mr Betterton by chance at the Coffee house the afternoon before I came away: & I believe that the persons were all agreed on, to be just the same you mentioned. Only Octavia was to be Mrs Buttler, in case Mrs Cooke were not on the Stage. And I know not whether Mrs Percivall who is a Comedian, will do so well for Benzayda (Letters of John Dryden, ed. Ward, pp. 23-24)

Performances

336
February 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. The Dedication to the play, written in Rome, is dated 20 Aug. 1695 N.S., and advertisement of the play in the London Gazette, No 3200, 9-13 July 1696, represent the limits on its production. In a letter, dated (probably) November 1695, Dryden refers to the forthcoming appearance of his son's play, and on 26 May 1696 he negotiates with Tonson for its publication (Letters of John Dryden, pp. 79, 82). Probably the play appeared early in 1696, and certainly not much later than April 1696. John Barnard, The Dates of Six Dryden Letters, Philological Quarterly, XLII (1963), 400-401, believes that Dryden's letter was written ca. 26 May 1695 and that the play was probably acted in late 1695

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Husband His Own Cuckold

337
December 1697 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Dryden to Jacob Tonson: I have broken off my Studies from The Conquest of China (Letters of John Dryden, p. 97)

Performances

338
12 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A Brief Relation, IV, 379, 12 May 1698: The justice of Middlesex did not only present the playhouses, but also Mr Congreve, for writing the Double Dealer; Durfey, for Don Quixot; and Tonson and Brisco, booksellers, for printing them: and that women frequenting the playhouses in masks tended much to debauchery and immorality

Performances

339
18 February 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances

340
28 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Tickets to be had of Messrs Tonson and Draper, Booksellers in the Strand, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

341
11 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author (Cross). Tickets at Tonson and Draper, Booksellers in the Strand, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

342
14 May 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham Or Days Of Old

Afterpiece Title: A Gallimaufry

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (founded on fact, and recited at Freemason's Hall)-Fawcett

Performance Comment: End: Monsieur Tonson (founded on fact, and recited at Freemason's Hall)-Fawcett.
Cast
Role: Monsieur Tonson Actor: Fawcett.

343
05 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17941029

Song: Incidental: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; In the course of the entertainments: Old Towler, The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Monsieur Tonson, as17950514

Performance Comment: End: Monsieur Tonson, as17950514.
Cast
Role: Monsieur Tonson Actor: Fawcett.

344
19 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: A Gallimaufry

Performance Comment: Being the intermediate part of the Night's Entertainment. End I of the Play John Appleby (1st time)-Fawcett; End II Black Ey'd Susan-; End III Poor Tom; or, Sailor's Epitaph-Incledon; Here a sheer hulk-Incledon; End IV Pull Away; or, Howe, St. Vincent, Duncan & Nelson-Fawcett; End Play Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and read at Freemason's Hall, in the Winter of 1795)-Fawcett.
Cast
Role: End Play Monsieur Tonson Actor: Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: The Princess of Georgia

345
03 March 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah 0

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

346
28 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the grand piano@forte-Master Neate

347
27 February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

348
04 November 1734 @ Great Room at the Ship Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Dance:

349
26 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

350
20 May 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Merry Lasses-