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4580 results for: Keyword - J. and 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.

1051
11 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17780919; End IV: new dance, The Coopers-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi

1052
21 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Palmer; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Col. Townly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-Baddeley; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Berinthia-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Amanda-Mrs Robinson; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Coupler-Mrs Booth; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Abington; Edition of 1781 (G. Wilkie) adds: La Varole-Burton; Shoemaker-Carpenter; Hosier-Norris; Jeweller-Lamash.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

1053
26 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylonv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Clytus-Clarke; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Hephestion-Robson; Cassander-Fearon; Polyperchon-Booth; Aristander-L'Estrange; Perdiccas-Thompson; Thessalus-R.? Smith; Eumenes-Egan; Roxana-Mrs Jackson; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Parisatis-Mrs Morton; Statira-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Wroughton
Role: Cassander Actor: Fearon
Role: Aristander Actor: L'Estrange
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

1054
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see G. W. Williams in Studies in Philology, XLVII, 1950, 619-28). Synopsis of action (W. Randall, 1779) lists no parts]: The Overture and Music entirely new. With new Scenes, Machines, Dresses and Decorations. All the Scenery, Machinery, &c. designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. [For a discussion of this pantomime see Theatre Survey, II, 54-66.] Public Advertiser, 24 Feb. 1779: This Day is published an Account of The Wonders of Derbyshire and the Songs (6d.). Receipts: #225 19s. (223.18.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire or Harlequin in the Peak

1055
13 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor:

1056
01 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

1057
09 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781029, but Prologue-_[and thereafter].and thereafter].
Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1058
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.
Cast
Role: and spoken by Actor: King.

1059
13 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: a song-Gaudry

1060
22 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

1061
11 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfallv, as it was originally performed. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Wright, No. 24, Bennet-street, Westminster; of Butler, next door to the Theatre. Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (37.11.0; 13.8.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 216.6.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: End II: Hornpipe-Wright

Song: As17790503

1062
17 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Sga Crespi. Morning Chronicle, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Sga Crespi, No. 26, Poland-street, Oxford-street. Receipts: #194 3s. 6d. (32.8.0; 14.5.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 147.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: Grand Dance, Chaconne (composed by Zuchelli)-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi; and a Minuet-Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End I afterpiece: As17780919

1063
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Shade & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Lewis, Hodges, Gardner, and for Monday, the 31st of May, will be taken. MS annotation on Kemble playbill: "I believe this was the last time of Mr Henderson's acting at Drury Lane, except when he played Jaques in As You Like It for Mrs Robinson's Benefit, April 7, 1780. See October 18, 1779, Covent Garden Bills." Receipts: #301 6s. 6d. (19.14.0; 2.14.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 278.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

1064
04 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors A Tragedy for Warm Weather

Dance: As17790531

1065
05 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Related Works
Related Work: Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: WithTwo New Dances-Master and Miss Byrn. [These were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

1066
15 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17790531

1067
20 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Related Works
Related Work: Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

1068
13 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

1069
17 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: End IV: Ted Blarney-Master Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Edwin

1070
18 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: End: new Dance, The Spanish Lovers-Master and Miss Byrn

1071
24 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Buckingham-Palmer; Cranmer-Gardner; Surry-Aickin; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Massey; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Chancellor-Blissett; Sir T. Lovell-Stevens; Norfolk-Davis; Suffolk-Lamash; Capucius-Kenny; Campeius-Painter; King Henry-Usher; Anne Bullen-Mrs Cuyler; Patience (with a song)-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey.
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Massey

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

1072
08 September 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17790818

1073
18 September 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1074
21 September 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Crabtree-Parsons; Rowley-Aickin; Moses-Baddeley; Snake-Packer; Careless-Farren; Trip-R. Palmer; Charles-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Mrs Brereton; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Song: III: song-Vernon. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 22 Oct., and 29 Feb. 1780.

Performance Comment: [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 22 Oct., and 29 Feb. 1780.]

1075
25 September 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion