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11762 results for: Keyword - John Percival
We found 9825 matches on Author, 1700 matches on Performance Comments, 1134 matches on Event Comments, 323 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11401
15 September 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Sir John Perceval to Elizabeth Stockwell, 20 Sept.: We should have languished for want of diversion but for Othello, which drew all the stragglers in town together, and our number was greater than I imagined....Meanwhile I declare that they who cannot be moved at Othello's story so artfully worked up by Shakespeare, and justly played by Betterton, are capable of marrying again before their husbands are cold, of trampling on a lover when dying at their feet, and are fit converse with tigers only (Egmont MS, II, 240)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

11402
04 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of Isaac Bickerstaffe, Esq.; for the Benefit of his cousin John Bickerstaffe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote, Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Part II Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: Harlequin-Layfield, Miss Santlow; With other comical Dances originally in the play-

Entertainment: As17100202

11403
24 February 1710 @ Couch's Drawing Room

Event Comment: Benefit James Graves and John Garee. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Eminent Masters

11404
11 January 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit John Geree. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-several Eminent Masters

11405
06 February 1711 @ Clerkenwell

Event Comment: Mr Skeete reported that John Honeycott, the master of the charity school at Clerkenwell, had yesterday [6 Feb.], with the children of the above school, publickly acted the play called Timon of Athens, and by Tickets signed by himself had invited several people to it (Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in Secretan, pp. 129-30)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

11406
25 April 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Lady Hervey to John Hervey, 26 April: Yesterday I dined with Lady Dalkeith, and she and Lady Katt: supd with me after the Opera, which was as full as ever I saw it at a subscription, but that was by way of party, in order to get it empty on Saturday (Hervey, I, 301)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: Rinaldo and Armida Author(s): John Dennis

11407
20 December 1711 @ Coachmaker's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas and John Baston. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; several Pieces on the French and Arch Lutes- the famous Henricus Fonthornoycts

Dance: An Entry-Mr Thurmond Jr, who hath so often perform'd with the greatest Applause

11408
06 February 1712 @ Clerkenwell Charity School

Event Comment: Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 7 Feb.: Mr Skeate reported that John Honeycott the master of the Charity School at Clerkenwell had yesterday with the Children of the School publickly acted the play called Timon of Athens, and by Tickets signed by himself invited Several people to it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

11409
07 February 1712 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit John Geree. Postponed from 25 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

11410
05 April 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Piloti Schivaonetti. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. At 6 p.m. Lady Hervey to John Hervey, 5 April: Yet I venture to the Opera, because poor Pilota has great faction made against her (Hervey, I, 323)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Related Works
Related Work: Antiochus Author(s): John Mottley

Afterpiece Title: Thomyris (the famous Scene only)

11411
08 December 1712 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas and John Baston. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. [The discontinuance of The Spectator on 6 Dec. caused an interruption in the advertisement of plays until 10 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Where will be perform'd several select Songs with Symphonies out of the Operas-; that celebrated Sonata for the Violin and Lute, so often performed on the Stage-Signior Gasperini, Mr Pasiable

Dance: Spanish Entry, Dutch Skipper-a scholar of DuRuel

11412
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

11413
19 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Leigh. Receipts: #103 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: As17150314

Song: As17150310

11414
09 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John and Chr. Rich. At 6 p.m. Notice concerning scenes and machines essentially as 3 Dec. 1715. Receipts: money #35 10s. and tickets #45 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Vision

11415
27 February 1717 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: The first of Twelve Grand Concerts. In Daily Courant, 9 Jan., proposals had been issued for setting up by subscription a monthly concert for the first Wednesday of each month. There were never to be fewer than three of the best singers and nineteen performers in all. Each subscriber was to pay to Trustees John Shipton and Thomas Ives one guinea for a year. The concerts were to begin when there were 350 subscribers. On this date 100 subscriptions had been received

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

11416
06 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts. #71 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Related Works
Related Work: The Loves of Mars and Venus Author(s): John Weaver

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Boval, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Cook Sr, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Gautier, Mlle Corail, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding Jr; particularly Dupre's Harlequin-Dupre, Mlle Gautier; and a new French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

11417
06 March 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Weaver.] A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing after the Manner of the Ancient Pantomimes. With proper Scenes and Habits. Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

11418
26 March 1719 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: See a letter from John Dennis to Sir Richard Steele for comments upon dl, Dennis' Coriolanus, All for Love, Caesar Borgia, The Masquerade in Dennis, II, 162-65

Performances

11419
02 April 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Dance: As17190209

11420
06 July 1719 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Chetwood, A General History of the Stage, p. 198: Yet a blind Man might have borne with Norris in the Roman Patriot , for he spoke it with all the Solemnity of a suffering Hero; while Penkethman, and the rest of the motley Tribe, made it as ridiculous by Humour and Action: And yet some of the first Rank in the Kingdom seemed highly diverted whilst others invoked the...dead Roman and Briton to rise, and avenge their own Cause. Lady Bristol in. Letter Books of John Hervey, II, 74-75: I had no patience to see [Addison's] play burlesqued as it was last night for the entertainment of their Royal Highnesses...their Audience was much too good for them, for there was a great many people of quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato Burlesqued

11421
11 November 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Dennis.] Never Acted before. [See the Dedication of the 1720 edition for Dennis' grievances in the presentation of his play. The receipts this night, he states, were: near a hundred Pound.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Invader Of His Country; Or, The Fatal Resentment

Performance Comment: Edition of 1720 lists: Caius Martius Coriolanus-Booth; Ausidius-Mills; Menenius-Corey; Cominius-Thurmond; Sicinius-W. Wilks; Brutus-Walker; 1st Citizen-Bickerstaff; 2d Citizen-Penkethman; 3d Citizen-Johnson; 4th Citizen-Miller; 1st Citizen of Sempronius Party-Norris; 2d Citizen of Sempronius Party-Cross; 1st Servant-Penkethman; 2d Servant-Norris; 3d Servant-Miller; Volumnia-Mrs Porter; Virgilia-Mrs Thurmond; Prologue-Mills; Epilogue written by Cibber-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: 3d Citizen Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Invader of His Country: or, The Fatal Resentment Author(s): John Dennis
Related Work: Coriolanus; or, The Roman Matron Author(s): John Philip Kemble

11422
05 September 1720 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At John Leigh-Hall Great Theatrical Booth, which was formerly Mr Penkethman's. Mainpiece: A Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of The Famous Fryer Bacon; With The Comical Humours Of Justice Want-brains, Hopper The Miller, And His Son Ralph

Song: Mrs Boman

Dance: Italian Shadows-

11423
30 March 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich, Author of the Afterpiece. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #113 6s. 6d.; tickets #10 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): John Dennis

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Related Works
Related Work: The Magician; or, Harlequin a Director Author(s): John Rich

11424
12 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #34 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Related Works
Related Work: The Magician; or, Harlequin a Director Author(s): John Rich

11425
13 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By John Mottley.] A new Tragedy. Receipts: #11 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Related Works
Related Work: Antiochus Author(s): John Mottley