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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr John Christopher Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr John Christopher Smith")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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18385 results for: Keyword - Mr John Christopher Smith
We found 11229 matches on Author, 5403 matches on Event Comments, 4472 matches on Performance Comments, 1075 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

726
August 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfy

Performance Comment: [An edition of 1678 has a cast partially pertaining to this time (see also 31 Jan. 1672): Ferdinand-$Harris; Cardinal-$Young; Antonio-$Smith; Delio-$Midburn; Bosola-$Betterton; Castruchio-$Richards; Sylvio-$Cademan probably not acting now]; Pescara-$Norris; Malateste-$Price (not living in 1676); Roderigo-$Cogun (not living in 1676); Grisolan-$Percival; Dutchess of Malfey-$Mrs Betterton; Cariola-$Mrs Norris; Old Lady-$Mrs Osborn; Julia-$Mrs Shadwell.
Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Smith
Related Works
Related Work: The Duchess of Malfi Author(s): John Webster

727
14 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit I. Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Related Works
Related Work: Acis and Galatea Author(s): John Eccles

Music: Bacchanalian Music from The Mad Lover-; A new piece of instrumental music-; with a solo-Dean

Dance: Between the Acts: Comical dances-

728
25 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Song:

Dance:

729
15 May 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Coker, Cook, Newhouse, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

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

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Doctor, or, The Intriguing Dame Author(s): John Rich

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith; Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Miss Smith; Marie-Cook, Miss Schoolding; The last Comic Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

730
26 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: denefit Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Lally's Scholar, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

731
09 August 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. For the Entertainment of his Excellency, Mahomet Ben Ali Abgali, Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco. Receipts: money #32 11s.; tickets #28 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats Author(s): John Wilson
Related Work: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers Author(s): John Rich

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Burny, Mrs Anderson; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

732
19 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: SSailor's Dance-Burney; Two Pierrots-Burney, Mrs Tollet

Song: BBacchanalian Song-Excell

733
01 May 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Tickets Smith, Powell, Fulwell, Owen, Foxwell, Toole, Jackson, and Gray taken. 7 p.m. [Concert formula; prices as 30 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Hob or The Country Wake

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

734
20 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Gray, Dunbar, Smith and Broad. Receipts: #223 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: II: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504

735
16 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, Bride, Broad. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

736
07 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Champness. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Hippisley, Mrs Smith, and Mrs Rowe will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

737
01 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #212 7s. Paid Kemp for lamps #6 8s.; Meares, 5s. I slept in at the Play Houses but did not see him [his brother George] there. I met Miss Smith going into the Gallery at Covent Garden. I think it is a fortnight tomorrow that her sister has been buried (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, p. 147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: The Fair of St. Germain Author(s): John Ozell
Related Work: Fortune's Tasks; or, The Fickle Fair One Author(s): John Horne
Related Work: Penelope Author(s): John Mottley

738
10 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Author. By Command of the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales was at Drury Lane to see the new tragedy of Aquileia. I went there at 9, but it was all over and done & met Miss Smith coming from thence with Capt. Johnston. I think it very unnatural for her to be going to plays when her sister is but just laid in the Grave (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 142)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Aquileia Author(s): John Home

739
14 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Several-Dunbar, Smith, Broad, Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

740
18 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford and Cridland, Watson, Smith &c. Tickets deliver'd by Berrisford and Humphreys will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Provancalle, as17631014

741
25 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M$Mrs King was formerly Miss Baker (Genest, V, 115).] Paid Watson and Smith (Box Office Keepers) #20 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [This was operating cash, returned 4 June 1767.] Receipts: #135 14s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

742
27 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Mrs Smith's Benefit notice (see 22 April) changed to Love in a Village and the Deserter, with a note that tickets deliver'd for Cymbeline would be taken. Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid of the Oaks Author(s): John Burgoyne

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: John Actor: Bannister
Role: John's Wife Actor: Mrs Love

743
14 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Smith for Canvas #32 7s. 6d. Receipts: #148 8s. (116/9/0; 31/16/6:0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Luns Ghost

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223; In Act III a Hornpipe by Blurton; In afterpiece, by the Miss Stageldoirs, &c

744
04 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit [6 rows (Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.)] will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Orestes to Smith, but he "was indisposed . . . Throughout the whole [of his part] Kemble's skill was apparent. In the last scene he displayed as fine a picture of horror as was ever given from the stage" (Morning Chronicle, 6 Mar.).] Morning Herald, 24 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #293 11s. (122/17/0; 10/1/6; 1/2/6; tickets: 159/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Related Works
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): John Philip Kemble
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): John Dryden

745
24 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Nix, Mrs Hedges & Miss Barnes. [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "Smith having an inflammation in his eyes, and Aickin being suddenly laid up with the gout, the play was obliged to be changed [to] The Beggar's Opera" (Morning Herald, 25 May).] Morning Chronicle, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Nix, No. 21, Crown-court, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Hedges, No. 168, opposite New Bondstreet, Piccadilly; of Miss Barnes, at Cateman's, No. 52, Drury Lane. Receipts: #300 0s. 6d. (60/10/0; 19/13/6; 2/0/0; tickets: 217/17/0) (charge: #108 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17860502

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet, O sweet!; End of Act II Niddity Nod; End of Act IV a favourite Hunting Song, all three by Miss Barnes [the 3rd song omitted?, i.e. mainpiece has only 3 acts]

746
10 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Boimaison, Wm. Banks, Cooke, Daglish, Henderson, Maddocks, Purser, Roffey, Scott, Smith, Whitmell, Wells, Miss Chatterley will be admitted.] Receipts: #101 7s. 6d. (56.8.6; 31.6.0; 8.9.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 5.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry

Related Works
Related Work: Alive and Merry Author(s): John Grubb
Related Work: All Alive and Merry; or, Men in Pursuit of Money Author(s): Samuel Johnson

747
04 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has wrote for the Stage (Mr Froud). Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at 5s.Receipts: money #16 4s.; tickets #87 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Cast
Role: John Actor: Quin
Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

748
30 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SSir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: II: New Dance (Performed but once) The Rabbit Seller, as17691228

749
28 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Sir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

750
22 June 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Mr Penkethman's Theatre in Richmond. By a Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. In proper Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces- , accompany'd with the Harpsicord, Flutes, and Hautboys

Song: The Dame of Honour-Mrs Willis

Dance: The Drunken Man-Harper