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16861 results for: Keyword - Mr John Baston
We found 11052 matches on Author, 5142 matches on Event Comments, 2775 matches on Performance Comments, 884 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
11 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Related Works
Related Work: Zobeide Author(s): John A. Fisher

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

577
02 June 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard the Third Author(s): John Caryll
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17720204, but Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston.
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Johnston.
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Monologue: V: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

578
17 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

579
07 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: A Tragedy altered from Dryden [Aureng-Zebe] by Mr W. Addington, never performed before. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 16 May 1770.] Charges #71 2s. Profit to Mrs Lessingham #38 7s. 6d., plus #92 12s. from tickets (Box 186; Pit 146; Gallery 242). Paid Cooper (printer) #36 2s.; Paid Mrs Witaker for a woman's white & silver flower'd suit #10 10s.; Paid John Doe for sticking black bills #6 6s. Receipts: #109 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prince Of Agra

Related Works
Related Work: Aureng Zebe; or, The Great Mogul Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

580
05 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-Wroughton; Sealand-Clarke; Cimberton-Quick; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Tom-Woodward; Humphrey-Thompson; Daniel-Wewitzer; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Booth; Indiana-Mrs Jackson; first time. In II, a Song-DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Related Works
Related Work: Prometheus Author(s): John A. Fisher

581
07 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Related Works
Related Work: Prometheus Author(s): John A. Fisher

582
27 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Related Works
Related Work: Douglas Author(s): John Home

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

Related Works
Related Work: The Sirens Author(s): John A. Fisher

583
28 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe; MS: Larpent 577; not published. The following season this was altered, and acted successfully as The Castle of Andalusia]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. A new Overture, and the whole of the Music under the Direction of Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.: The admirable first scene, the subterraneous Receptacle of the Banditti, is the production of the ingenious Mr Richards. Receipts: #182 10s. (180/12/6; 1/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti Or Loves Labyrinth

Related Works
Related Work: The Banditti; or, Love's Labyrinth Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Castle of Andalusia Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Banditti Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

584
26 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Cast
Role: Sir John Bull Actor: Booth
Role: Henry Actor: Johnstone
Related Works
Related Work: Fontainbleau; or, Our Way in France Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: As17880301

Entertainment: Monologues. End I: A Dissertation on Macaronyism-Bernard; End: Shuter's Observations in a Post@haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

585
22 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Bernard. 2nd piece [1st time in London; M. INT 2, by John Bernard, 1st acted at Bath, 18 Apr. 1786. Music by William Boyton. Larpent MS 732; not published]: By Permission of the Bath Managers [William Keasberry and William Wyatt Dimond]. Receipts: #189 15s. (76.9; 1.16; tickets: 111.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The British Sailor or The Fourth of June

Related Works
Related Work: The British Sailor; or, The Fourth of June Author(s): John Bernard

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Innocence; or, The Chamber-Maid Turn'd Quaker Author(s): John Leanerd
Related Work: The Young Quaker Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Ned Shuter's Observations in a Post Haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

586
13 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #120 9s. 6d. (82.18.6; 29.0.0; 8.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Related Works
Related Work: The Prisoner Author(s): John Rose
Related Work: The Prisoner at Large Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Danby [Public Advertiser: Caulfield], Cooke, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Shaw

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards

587
19 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions (by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Musick by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: WHOs THE DUPE

Cast
Role: Tully Actor: Johnstone
Role: John Actor: Lyons
Role: John Grum Actor: Waldron Jun.

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Dignum, Sedgwick, Caulfield, Cooke, Lyons, Dorion Sen. and Jun., Dibble, Willoughby, Walker, Brown, Saunders, Welsh, Burden//Mrs Bland, Miss De Camp, Mrs Stuart, Miss Menage, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale. In Act V the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick//Amphitrite-Mrs Stuart

588
23 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: LOVERS QUARRELS

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: THE IRISHMAN IN LONDON

Cast
Role: Murtoch Delany Actor: Johnstone

Dance: In Act I of 1st piece a Highland Reel by Byrn, Mlle St. Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: End of Act II of 2nd piece (for that night only) a Selection of the most Favorite Catches and Glees from Harrison and Knyvett's Vocal Concert. What shall he have that killed the Deer by Incledon, Townsend, Richardson, Linton and Chorus Q. S. Smith). Ye spotted snakes by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton, Incledon (Stevens). The New Mariners by Incledon, Townsend, Linton and Chorus (Calicott). Where the bee sucks by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton (harmonized by Jackson). Water parted from the Sea by Incledon (Dr Arne). In 3rd piece a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland, by Johnstone, in character

Performance Comment: What shall he have that killed the Deer by Incledon, Townsend, Richardson, Linton and Chorus Q. S. Smith). Ye spotted snakes by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton, Incledon (Stevens). The New Mariners by Incledon, Townsend, Linton and Chorus (Calicott). Where the bee sucks by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton (harmonized by Jackson). Water parted from the Sea by Incledon (Dr Arne). In 3rd piece a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland, by Johnstone, in character .

589
06 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Russell & Dowton. 1st piece [1st time; B 1, by Edward Henry Iliff. The title-page has "by Edmund Spenser, Ynger." On his copy, now in Huntington Library, J. P. Kemble has written, "Iliffe [sic] is the real Name of the Authour"; he has made a similar notation on the playbill]: Founded on the 17th Number of The Spectator. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1. Larpent MS 1219; not published. The characters are all taken from previous plays by John O'Keeffe, as follows: Sadboy (The Young Quaker); Signor Arionelli and Bowkitt (The Son-in-Law); Motley (The Dead Alive); Tully (The London Hermit); Lingo and Cowslip (The Agreeable Surprise); Ephraim Smooth (Wild Oats); Nipperkin (Sprigs of Laurel); Jemmy Jumps and Betty Blackberry (The Farmer); Mrs Casey (Fontainbleau)]: Written by Mr O'Keeffe. Times, 4 June: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 2, Queen's-row, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street; of Dowton, No. 5, Strand-lane, Surry-street, Strand. Receipts: #413 11s. 6d. (76.17.6; 37.7.0; 1.0.0 tickets: 298.7.0) (charge: #215 10s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ugly Club

Afterpiece Title: The Castle Spectre

Afterpiece Title: A Nosegay of Weeds or Old Servants in New Places

Related Works
Related Work: A Nosegay of Weeds; or, Old Servants in New Places Author(s): John O'Keeffe

590
16 October 1660 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): John Fletcher

591
20 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Bush Author(s): John Fletcher

592
04 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

593
28 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Related Works
Related Work: Rollo, Duke of Normandy Author(s): John Fletcher

594
20 April 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Related Works
Related Work: The Humorous Lieutenant Author(s): John Fletcher

595
27 April 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

596
02 December 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

Related Works
Related Work: The Mad Lover Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Blazing Comet: The Mad Lovers; or, The Beauties of the Poets Author(s): Samuel Johnson

597
01 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Curate Author(s): John Fletcher

598
01 April 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): John Fletcher

599
17 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

600
23 February 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wild Gallant

Related Works
Related Work: The Wild Gallant Author(s): John Dryden