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2516 results for: Keyword - J. Wilson
We found 1942 matches on Performance Comments, 614 matches on Event Comments, 246 matches on Roles/Actors, 122 matches on Performance Title, and 61 matches on Author.

326
20 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Ward, but "An apology was made for Mrs Wilson's reading the part of Angelica, vice Mrs Ward, who was suddenly taken ill" (Diary, 22 Mar.). Afterpiece in place of The Pannel, advertised on playbill of 18 Mar.] Receipts: #234 3s. 6d. (188.12.0; 44.1.6. 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Performance Comment: As17900308but Angelica-read by Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: 900308but Angelica Actor: read by Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

327
29 September 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Music the 13th, 15th, 17th Inst. #23 9s. 6d.; Properties Ditto #2 5s.; Kettle Drum Ditto 15s.; Wardrobe #11 1s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 16s. 6d.; Chorus Singers #3; Cox for Scenemen #28 2s. 7d.; Hodgins [painter] #4 4s.; Extra Music #2 5s.; Richards, painter #20. [Wilson's last appearance at this theatre was on 20 Jan. 1786.] Receipts: #222 2s. 6d. (208.16.6; 13.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Pertinax Macsycophant-Wilson (1st appearance on this stage these 6 years); Lord Lumbercourt-Thompson; Sydney-Aickin; Melville-Hull; Counsellor Plausible-Cubitt; Serjeant Eitherside-Macready; Tomlins-Evatt; Sam-Farley; John-Rock; Egerton-Lewis; Constantia-Mrs Mountain; Lady Macsycophant-Mrs Platt; Betty Hint-Mrs Rock; Nanny-Mrs Davenett; Lady Rodolpha Lumbercourt-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Pertinax Macsycophant Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

328
06 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 3rd piece [1st time: F 2, by Edmund John Eyre. Text (Shrewsbury: P. Sandford, 1791) correctly assigns Prolix to Wilson. Prologue by John Wolcot (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #318 4s. (153.3; 2.5; tickets: 162.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters (positively for that night only) will be revers'd. Apollo-Mrs Martyr; Sileno-Davies; Damaetus-Rock; Pan-Cubitt; Jupiter-Williamson; Midas-Wilson; Daphne-Mr Munden; Mysis-Mr Johnstone; Nysa-Mr Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Midas Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched

Performance Comment: Prolix-Bernard [recte Wilson]; Sir David Drowsy-Munden; Bob Sparwell-Bernard; Lexicon-Marshall; Ormond-Macready; John-Rock; Standfast-Blanchard; Lady Drowsy-Mrs Webb; Jenny-Miss Stuart; Emma-Miss Chapman; New Prologue-Bernard (see text).

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr

329
09 January 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Dance: Moreau, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Sandham, Lux, Mrs Bullock, Miss Schoolding, Miss Willis, delaGarde's Two Sons, Dupre

330
05 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

331
07 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus; Or, The Roman Matron

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

332
16 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Sunshine after Rain

Afterpiece Title: The Jolly Crew; or, Tars at Anchor

Song: In Course Evening: a new Comic Song (never sung in London), A Bundle of Proverbs; or, Odds and Ends, in the Character of Ephraim Smooth-Munden; A new Comic Song (never performed), A Touch at Old Times; or, No Days better than our Own-Munden; The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, the Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Councellor's Wig,-Fawcett

Entertainment: Monologue The Barber's Petition-Fawcett

333
02 May 1799 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End I: Hylas et Temire, as17990418; End Opera: Tarare et Irza-D'Egville, Didelot, Laborie, St.Pierre, Fialon, Mrs Rose Didelot, Mrs Hilligsberg, Mrs Laborie, Mrs D'Egville, Miss J. Hilligsberg

Related Works
Related Work: The Union; or, St. Andrew's Day Author(s): Richard Wilson

334
30 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

335
24 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Legacy

336
26 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Legacy

337
05 February 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

338
07 February 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

339
12 February 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

340
21 February 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

341
07 March 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

342
21 March 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

343
21 April 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

Afterpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance: MMinuet-Gallini, Signora DeAmicis by Desire

344
11 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Billingsgate

345
26 February 1784 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203; End of Opera an entirely new ballet in the Rural Stile, composed by D'Auberval, founded on the much admired Burletta of the celebrated Favart, Le Coca du Pillage; ou, La Lotterie Ingenieuse, in which a Pastoral Minuet, never exhibited but at the Opera in Paris, by Vestris fJun.J and Mme Theodore, the other parts by Blake, Slingsby, Mme Rossi, Miss De Camp, Mme Simonet. The Music selected from Sacchini, Piccinni, and other eminent Performers

346
10 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Danby, Fisher, Maddocks, Trueman, Welsh, Master DeCamp, Master Gregson, Annereau, Atkins, Aylmer, Boyce, Bardoleau, Brown, Cook, Denman, Dixon, Dibble, Caulfield Jun., [J.] Fisher, Gallot, Tett, Walker, Willoughby, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Arne, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Chatterley, Miss Granger, Miss Jackson, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Menage, Miss Mellon, Mrs Butler, Miss Stuart

347
15 April 1743 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turnbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Song:

Dance: *c1703 04 15 js *c1703 04 15 js t Mrs Careless. Those Ladies and Gentleman who have taken Places, are desir'd to send their Servants early; and (for fear of a Mistake) to take Notice, that the Playhouse adjoins the Tennis-Court. Tickets for The Beggar's Opera taken

348
31 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Sterne; Friar Lawrence-Young; Tibalt-Simpson; Capulet-Sidney; Paris-Wilson; Peter-Russel; Mercutio-Marriot; Nurse-Mrs Marriot; Lady Capulet-Mrs Fowler; Juliet-Mrs Sterne.
Cast
Role: Paris Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Dr Last's Examination before the College of Physicians

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Simpson; Leander-Sidney; Scholars-Marriot, Russel; Mungo-Wilson; Ursula-Mrs Fowler; Leonora-Mrs Sterne.
Cast
Role: Mungo Actor: Wilson

Song: V: a Grand Funeral Procession-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Wilson, Mrs Fowler, Miss Fowler, Mrs Marriot; Between the Acts: Singing-Wilson

349
26 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Song: As17761125, but Gaudry, Mrs J _Smith, Mrs +Smith

350
19 July 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Dance: End Opera: Hyppomene et Atalante, as18000304but Mlle J. _Hilligsberg, Mlle Guiardele, _D'Egville. [No other ballet listed.

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