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15921 results for: Keyword - Mr John Weaver
We found 9843 matches on Author, 5150 matches on Event Comments, 2746 matches on Performance Comments, 894 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10476
08 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father (with Alterations)

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

10477
10 February 1789 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890110, but _Didelot; End Opera: Les Fetes Provencales, as17890207, but _Didelot, Mlle _Normand

10478
15 December 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Turner (1st appearance on any recte theLondon stage; Macduff-Pope; Duncan-Hull; Banquo-Murray; Malcolm-Clarke; Lenox-Whitfield; Donalbaine-Simmons; Doctor-Waddy; Seward-Davenport; Seyton-Thompson; Fleance-Master Rees; Officer-Klanert; Murderers-Claremont, Abbot; Witches-Munden, Emery, Rees; Hecate-Townsend; Waiting Gentlewoman-Mrs Platt; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Johnson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Albert and Adelaide

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Incledon, Fawcett, H. Johnston, Betterton, Townsend, Simmons, Miss Webb
Role: Albert Actor: H. Johnson
Role: Adelaide Actor: Mrs Johnson

Dance: As17981211

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill, Linton, Blurton, Street, Gray, Little, Lee, Sawyer, Tett, Dyke, Mrs Chapman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Mrs Martyr

Related Works
Related Work: The Little French Lawyer Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Night Walker; or, The Little Thief Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Ben and Little Bob Author(s): John Bernard
Related Work: The Little Thief Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Little Hunchback; or, A Frolick in Bagdad Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Lad of the Hills; or, The Wicklow Gold Mine Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: The Lad of the Hills Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: Buthred Author(s): Charles Johnstone
Related Work: The Disbanded Officer; or, The Baroness of Bruchsal Author(s): James Johnstone

10479
26 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: As17990529

10480
29 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17990628

Cast
Role: Villagers Actor: Roffey, Garman, Wells, Gauron, Goodman, Johnston, Bisan, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Daniels, Ms Vining, Ms Luciet, Ms Riches, Ms Drake.

Song: As17990628

10481
December 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: John Lacy's The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Raggou was probably acted by this time. Not published until 1672, it was, however, referred to in the Epilogue to The Vestal Virgin (which was entered in the Stationers' Register, 7 March 1664@5): @If nothing pleases but Variety,@I'll turn Ragou into a Tragedy.@When Lacy, like a whining Lover dies.

Performances

10482
09 February 1665 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Evelyn, writing to Viscount Cornbury this day, protested the frequency of theatrical performances during the Lenten "Indiction" after hearing that there was to be "no Lent indicted this year." He wondered if Fridays and Saturdays could not be spared from the licentiousness of plays. (See Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray III, 150-52.

Performances

10483
26 October 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Aubrey to Anthony a Wood, 26 Oct. 1671: I am writing a comedy for Thomas Shadwell, which I have almost finished since I came here, et quorum pars magna sui.... And I shall fit him with another, The Countrey Rebell, both humours untoucht, but of this, mum! for 'tis very satyricall against some of my mischievous enemies which I in my tumbling up and down have collected (Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark [Oxford, 1898], I, 52n). See also the season of 1670-71

Performances

10484
July 1674 @ Oxford University

Event Comment: John Dryden wrote a Prologue to the University of Oxford and an Epilogue to the University of Oxford in 1674. The Prologue was apparently spoken by Hart, the Epilogue by Mrs Marshall. See also Sybil Rosenfeld, Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713, Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 368

Performances

10485
22 April 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 25 April 1675: The King on Saturday night sent for the keys from the Earl of Clarendon--'tis said the reason is, that last Thursday a play was acted at court, and after orders given that no more should be let in, his lordship came to the door, which the guard refused to open, tho' he told them who he was, on which he broke it open and struck a yeoman of the guard. Some say a chamberlain was never before turned out for beating a yeoman of the guard (HMC, 7th Report, Appendix, [1879], p. 464)

Performances

10486
31 August 1680 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: John Perin paid #1 10s. for a booth at the Fair in 1680. See Rosenfeld, Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

10487
06 March 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [John Banks's The Island Queens (1684) altered.] And by reason of the extraordinary Charge in the Decoration of it, the Prices will be rais'd, Boxes 5s., Pit 3s., First Gallery 2s., Upper Gallery 1s. At 5:30 p.m

Performances

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

Related Works
Related Work: The Albion Queens Author(s): John Banks
Related Work: The Island Queens; or, The Death of Mary, Queen of Scotland Author(s): John Banks

10488
18 February 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances

10489
10 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [John Baker, Diary, p. 106: "Went apres midi con Uxor in chariot to 'Messiah', could not get seat in Upper Gallery, sat in lower."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

10490
05 February 1703 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-a little Girl

Dance: Comick and Serious Dancing-Weaver, Essex, others; a Young Gentlewoman who never perform'd before in Publick; With a Scene between Scaramouch and Harlequin- , entirely New; Vaulting on the Horse-

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

10491
28 May 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Music: Several New Sonatas-the Famous Gasperini; particularly one for a Violin and Flute compos'd by Gasperini-; but the Flute part-Mr Paisible

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Campion

Related Works
Related Work: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin Author(s): John Rich

Dance: Tollet's Ground-Weaver, Mrs Lucas; a dance-Laferry, Mrs Bicknell

10492
07 January 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Dance: Shaw, Wade, Weaver, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Miss Lindar

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: The Loves of Mars and Venus Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Harlequin Turn'd Judge Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Orpheus and Euridyce Author(s): John Weaver

10493
13 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Wade, Shaw, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe; Scene between Scaramouch and Harlequin-Weaver's sons

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John

10494
21 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Rainton, Mrs Willis, Mrs Bowman; Purcell's Mad Dialogue-

Dance: Shaw, Prince, Wade, Topham, Mrs Younger, Miss Lindar, Weaver's Sons

Related Works
Related Work: The Prince of Agra Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Birth Day; or, The Prince of Arragon Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: Caernarvon Castle; or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales Author(s): John Rose
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: Aureng Zebe; or, The Great Mogul Author(s): John Dryden

10495
05 November 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

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

Song: In the play a new ballad, The Weaver's Complaint Against The Calico Madams-

Dance:

10496
14 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Lads and Lasses-Weaver, Shaw, Mrs Booth, others

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John

10497
25 April 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Actor: Johnson

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Lallie, Weaver, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar, Miss Smith

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: The Loves of Mars and Venus Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Harlequin Turn'd Judge Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Orpheus and Euridyce Author(s): John Weaver

10498
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: The Loves of Mars and Venus Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Harlequin Turn'd Judge Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Orpheus and Euridyce Author(s): John Weaver

10499
17 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Obadiah Actor: Johnson.

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Lallie, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe, Miss Smith; Harlequin-Mrs Booth; The original Irish Trot-Weaver

Related Works
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John

Song: A Boy a Scolar of Mrs Margarita del'Epine

10500
20 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Performance Comment: As17191124, but Poet-Penkethman; Senators-Johnson, Miller, Norris, Shepard, Cross; Epilogue-Mr Penkethmen (riding on an Ass).
Cast
Role: Senators Actor: Johnson, Miller, Norris, Shepard, Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Lads and Lasses-Shaw, Mrs Booth, others; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger; The Sailor and his Lass-Weaver, Mrs Bullock; Harlequin-Miss Lindar

Music: Imitation of the Tattoo- (never perform'd here)