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6065 results for: Keyword - Mr Hill
We found 4311 matches on Event Comments, 1313 matches on Performance Comments, 570 matches on Performance Title, 265 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
26 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. And New Scenes and Clothes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: Pat1e and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling

1327
27 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance:

1328
28 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward

1329
29 November 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Dance: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde

1330
01 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock

1331
02 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17351128

1332
03 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Vth; or, The Conquest of France by the English Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock

1333
19 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17380421 With a Prologue to the Farce, written by Aaron Hill, Esq-Miss Wright; in Boy's Cloaths. and an Epilogue to the Farce-Miss Wright, as Captain of the Lilliputians, at the Head of her Company.

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

1334
13 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Tragedy. [By David Mallet. See Pope to Hill, 14 Feb., in Pope, Correspondence, IV, 165-66.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

1335
28 March 1740 @ Ashley's Punch House

Event Comment: At Ashley's Punch House, Ludgate Hill. At the Desire of several Gentlemen. 7 p.m. 1s. [Repeated on 31 March, 3 and 7 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

1336
13 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Rylands MS.: Young Gentleman-Hill. Being the last time of the Fausan's performing in England. [The Fausans had created twelve new Dances for the English during this tour.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Song: I: a Ballad-Lowe; III: Song-Mrs Arne; IV: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224

Ballet: V: a Grand Comic Ballet The Peasant. Peasants-The Fausans; Shepherds-LaCroix, Desse, Constantini; Shepherdesses-Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Miss Story

1337
22 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Modern Midnight Conversation

Performance Comment: Taken from Hogarth's Celebrated Print, in which will be introduced Drunken Man-Hippisley; with a comic tale- of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.
Cast
Role: with a comic tale Actor: of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

1338
25 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands: Hill Play'd Carlos. Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: I: Song-Beard; III: Ballad-Lowe; IV: Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: Le Boufon-the Mechels

1339
01 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This month the Gentlemen's Magazine, p. 625, reviewed in some detail Aaron Hill's Poetical Essay, The Art of Acting, Part I

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Dance: As17461112

1340
15 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Aaron Hill. Receiv'd with great applause (Cross). Receipts: #123 18s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

1341
27 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [N.B. There is no playbill for this date.] This Week will be publish'd A Letter from Henry Woodward, Comedian, the meanest of all characters [see Inspector N. 524] to Dr John Hill, Inspector General of Great Britain, the greatest of all Characters [see all the Inspectors]. "I do remember an Apothecary...whom late I noted In Tatter'd Weeds;.. .Culling of simples..." Shakespeare. Printed and publish'd by M. Cooper in Pater Noster Row. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: TThe Hungarian Peasants, as17521125, but A Dutch Dance-_; Comic Dance, as17521125

1342
14 December 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Seventh Day. [Letter from Smart to Dr Hill in Public Advertiser. See Roland Botting, "Smart in London," Research Studies State College of Washington, No. 7 (1939).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomime

1343
23 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of performing till the Holidays. This Day publish'd at 6d. Dr Bobadil's Monody: Occasioned by an unhappy Accident he met with at Ranelagh last summer, with a preface and notes Variorum by Quinbus Flestrin [Ch. Smart?]. What lane but knows@Our purgings, Pumpings, Blanketings and Blows?" Pope. Sold by W. Owen, at Temple Bar, and the pamphlet shops. [Another document in the Woodward-Hill feud.] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

1344
01 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month was publish'd another pamphlet in the Woodward-Hill controversy, A Lick at Them All, or the Moderator, (16 pages) "being a candid consideration of the present controversy between the Inspector and his opposers" (Gentleman's Magazine).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1345
16 March 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Mainpiece: Written by the late Aaron Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Insolvent

Related Works
Related Work: The Insolvent; or, Filial Piety Author(s): Aaron Hill

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17580306 The Faggot Binders-

Song: The whole to conclude with a Ballad called The Protestant Cause and the King of Prussia to the tune of The Roast Beef of Old England,-a Chorus of Britons

1346
01 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month published Observations on the Use of Theatres, their present regulations and possible improvements. Price 1s. Printed for Cooper. See review in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 232). Proposal is that the "conduct of theatrical entertainments be for the future taken under the care of the goverment, and a person of judgment and integrity appointed by the name of comptroller, or conductor of the stage, who alone shall determine what old plays shall be acted, and what new ones received; and who shall take charge of the money received, and defray the necessary expenses, accounting for the remainder to the public. The author seemingly Dr John Hill, lately (see 21 Dec. 1758) upset by the failure of his farce, The Rout. (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #108 (Cross); #122 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

1347
28 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Afterpiece: Written by Aaron Hill not acted these 20 years. [See 17 April 1750.] Tickets deliver'd for the Distrest Mother will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Balance to Mrs Bellamy #86 11s. Plus #116 11s. from Tickets (Box 330; Pit 227). Paid the Italian Giant for 10 Nights performance in the Masquerade #38 17s Receipts: #152 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Related Works
Related Work: The Walking Statue, or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar Author(s): Aaron Hill

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

1348
27 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins Diary).Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Tender Husband will be taken. Send Servants by Four to prevent Confusion. [Sir Joshua Reynolds had procured forty places in the front boxes this night. Boswell and Dr Johnson were among his guests. Johnson could see and hear little, but sat out the performance, commenting on Garrick's excellence as a writer of Prologues. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II, 324ff.] Receipts: #287 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs Abington: #223, 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

1349
16 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Holloway & Harris. Tickets delivered for Know Your Own Mind will be taken. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay, Sand-hill, Lamb's Conduit Fields, behind the Foundling Hospital; of Holloway, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square; of Harris, No. 12, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #251 15s. (56.11; tickets: 195.4) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Cast
Role: Guage Actor: Battishill

Dance: End II: New Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour, Gavot-Harris, Miss Valois; End IV: Le Minuet a Quatre-Dumay, Holloway, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross; with a variety of new Quadrilles-

Ballet: End: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

1350
08 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. [For Wright see 13 May. Mrs Sutton was from dl.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay, Sand-hill, behind the Foundling Hospital; of Harris, No. 42, Wells-street, Cavendish-square; of Holloway, Newington Butts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End II: Minuet-Dumay, Miss Dagueville; and the Minuet de la Cour-Holloway, Miss Besford; End I afterpiece: New Dance-Harris, Mrs Sutton (1st appearance on that stage); with a New Allemande-

Ballet: End: The Humours of Newmarket. As17790503, but Jockeys-Holloway; Ladies-Miss +Besford