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17240 results for: Keyword - Mr John Hill
We found 11377 matches on Author, 5219 matches on Event Comments, 2900 matches on Performance Comments, 886 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

16026
20 May 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

16027
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Pit 1s, 6d., Gallery 1s., Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at 12 o'clock noon. Mainpiece: An excellent Droll. [Possibly made from Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like The Old One Or The Lucky Discovery

Related Works
Related Work: The Lucky Discovery; or, The Tanner of York Author(s): John Arthur

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue with Escape into Quart Bottle

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Colombine-Mrs Brown.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Phillips

Song: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

Dance: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

16028
17 September 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: Mattocks

16029
18 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For One Night Only. For the Benefit of Mr Phillips. At the New Playhouse, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. Sylvius went to see Hamlet but was distracted by a beautiful woman nearby (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 20 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Phillips

Song: Platt, Master Phillips

16030
23 September 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Lowe; Arcas-Anderson; Corydon-Arthur; Cimon-Collins; Mopsus-Dunstall; Phillida-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Young.

16031
26 September 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

16032
01 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

16033
05 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

16034
07 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

16035
18 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Related Works
Related Work: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be Author(s): John Crowne

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettero, Sga Piettero second time upon English Stage; IV: By Desire a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

16036
22 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 5 years. [See 11 Dec. 1744. For further comment on Dexter, see Genest, IV, p. 341.] One Mr Dexter did Oroonoko , a Gent of Ireland--who never appear'd upon a Stage before--he had ye Greatest applause ever heard & indeed deservedly a Sweet Voice, great feeling--his name was not in ye Bills--only by a Gent (Cross). We hear that a Comedy call'd Eastward Hoe; or, The Prentices, written by Ben Johnson, Chapman, and Marston, is now reviving at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, and will be acted the 29th. [A four page double column account of the text of Oroonoko appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1752, pp. 163-67.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

16037
23 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: L'Entree de Flore, as17511017; Peasant Dance, as17511017

16038
11 November 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Infernal Spirit-Legg first appearance on any stage; 5 Furies-Cooke, Villeneuve, Desse, Christian, Gardner; Helen-Mrs Lampe; Shades of Leander, Hero-Baker, Miss Young; Charon-Howard; Miller-LaLauze; Doctor's man-Arthur; Tumblers-Bencraft, Cushing; Miller's Wife-Miss Hillyard; Demons in the following characters- Harlequin, Pierrot, Mezzetin-Villeneuve, Gardner, Desse; Scaramouche-Christian; Harlequin Woman, Pierrot Woman, Mezzetin Woman-Madam Camargo, Dennison, Mrs Gondou; Scaramouche Woman-Miss Batchelor.
Cast
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Miss Hillyard
Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

16039
18 November 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: GGrand Dutch Dance, as17511021

16040
29 November 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Some Hissing, tho' play'd Well-Garrick Kiteley &c. (Cross). Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson, never acted there. Characters Dress'd in the Old English@Manner. Receipts: #200 (Cross). We hear that His Majesty intended to go to the theatre Royal in Drury Lane this evening, to see the Comedy of Every Man in his Humour, wrote by Ben Johnson in 1598, acted the same year by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, and dedicated to the great Mr Camden; and was reviv'd since the Revolution with Great Applause, having a new Epilogue spoken by Ben Johnson's Ghost , written by the late Earl of Dorset (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore, as17511015; Peasant Dance, as17511015

16041
20 December 1751 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Powell

16042
26 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Song: I: Mattocks

16043
07 January 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 3

16044
13 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

16045
21 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Related Works
Related Work: Marforio, being a Comi-Tragical Farce, called The Critick of Taste; or, A Tale of a Tub, with Characters of Singlewit, Drawcansir, Modern, Drapper, Buskin, Propter, the Great Mogul, Dunceada, Prince Prettyman, Common Sense, the Embryo of Common Sense, Lorg Haranguewell, Falarini, Signior Tweedledum, Signior Tweedledee, Prologues, Senators, Patriots, Courtiers, Fidlers, Eunucks, Gentleman Usher, Ghosts, and Chorus of Ghosts Author(s): Edward Phillips

Dance: End IV: a Comic Dance-Sg Piettro, Sga Piettro

16046
24 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Related Works
Related Work: Marforio, being a Comi-Tragical Farce, called The Critick of Taste; or, A Tale of a Tub, with Characters of Singlewit, Drawcansir, Modern, Drapper, Buskin, Propter, the Great Mogul, Dunceada, Prince Prettyman, Common Sense, the Embryo of Common Sense, Lorg Haranguewell, Falarini, Signior Tweedledum, Signior Tweedledee, Prologues, Senators, Patriots, Courtiers, Fidlers, Eunucks, Gentleman Usher, Ghosts, and Chorus of Ghosts Author(s): Edward Phillips

Song: III: Haughty Strephon by Dr Arne-Master Vernon

16047
25 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Miss Norris

16048
01 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

16049
07 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Sir John Gates Actor: Simson

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: As17520204

16050
11 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.