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11103 results for: Keyword - Mr Thomas Sowdon
We found 5466 matches on Author, 4534 matches on Event Comments, 1789 matches on Performance Comments, 586 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8226
30 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8227
05 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Song: As17990529

8228
20 June 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

8229
01 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Music: End: a new Grand Concerto on the violin (his composition)-Spagnoletti (1st appearance in public since his arrival from Italy)

Ballet: End II: a new Comic Ballet, The Happy Stratagem; or, The Deluded Mother. Jack-Bartolomici (1st public appearance); Fanny , Younger Sister-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Margaret , Elder Sister-Mlle Parisot; Susanna , their Mother-Mrs Brooker

8230
17 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Country Club-Wathen

8231
17 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

8232
25 September 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

8233
21 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: In 2nd piece: As17991007

Song: In 2nd piece: As17991011

8234
01 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

8235
02 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

8236
20 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

8237
02 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: A Whitsun Festival

Afterpiece Title: Five Thousand a Year

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Related Works
Related Work: The Libertine Destroyed Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Song: End I: the Battle Song-Incledon as18000522

8238
02 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack

8239
03 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: A Song for Every Body

Afterpiece Title: Obi

8240
29 October 1659 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By John Tatham. The author mentions as his assistants: Andrew Dakers and William Lightfoot, painters; Thomas Whiting, joyner; and Richard Clear, carver

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Tryumph

Performance Comment: Celebrated the Nine and Twentieth day of October, in the Year 1659. In Honour of the much Honoured ThomasAllen, Lord Mayor of the said City. Presented and personated by an Europian, an Egyptian, and a Persian. And done at the Costs and Charges of the ever to be Honoured Company of Grocers.

8241
13 April 1660 @ Fishmonger's Hall

Event Comment: The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, p. 71: 13 April 1660: His Excellency [Monk] with the Councill of State dined att on of the Halls in London [Fishmongers], and now by this time haveing dined att 9 of the cheifest Halls in London; and att every Hall theire were after diner a kind of a stage play and many prety anticks, som the citizan and soldier, others the country Tom and citty Dick [see 28 March 1660], att many Halls were dancing and singing, many shapes and ghostes and the like

Performances

8242
23 April 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On this date General Monk and the Council of State issued an order forbidding stage plays. (See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 196, and The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, pp. 61, 67.)

Performances

8243
23 June 1660 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: This performance is known by the Prologue and Epilogue printed in Thomas Jordan's A Nursery of Novelities or Variety of Poetry. The Prologue is dated 24 June 1660, but as this date falls on Sunday, the performance has been entered as Saturday 23 June 1660, for in this same work (p. 19) Jordan mentions: A Speech by way of Epilogue to those that would rise out of the Pit at the Red Bull in the last Scene, and disturb the conclusion by going on the Stage, June 23d 1660. [The Prologue and Epilogue have been reprinted in the Shakespeare Society Papers, IV (1849), 140-42, and in Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, pp. 9-10. See also the list at the beginning of the season 1659-1660.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

8244
05 July 1660 @ The City, London

Event Comment: According to Robert Withington (English Pageantry, An Historical Outline, Cambridge, Mass., 1918, I, 242n), the expense of the entertainment came to #7888 2s. 6d. (See also Pepys, Diary, and other accounts.) The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, pp. 98-99: A lane [was] made in the Citty, made by the livery men of several companyes; and many pageants in the streets...Att Cheap sid his Majesty beheld a famous pagien, and staid there for som littl space, where were speeches made by the lady paganetts. Evelyn, Diary: I saw his Majestie go with as much pompe & splendor as any Earthly prince could do to the greate Citty feast...but the exceeding raine which fell all that day, much eclips'd its luster:...the streets adorn'd with Pageants &c: at immense cost

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Glory Represented By Time, Truth, And Fame

8245
16 August 1660 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: In Thomas Jordan's Royal Arbour of Loyal Poesie (p. 12) is a piece entitled: A Prologue to the King, August 16, 1660

Performances

8246
29 October 1660 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Edition of 1660: The Royal Oake, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir Richard Brown, Bar. Lord Mayor of the City of London, The 29th day of October...and performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Taylors. [Tatham refers to Dyamond, a Lightfoot, Paynter; Thomas Whitein, Joyner; and Richard Cleere, Carver.] Pepys, Diary: And I...at the Key in Cheapside; where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. Evelyn, Diary: My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side: one of the Pageants represented a greate Wood, with the royal Oake, & historie of his Majesties miraculous escape at Bosco-bell &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Oake

8247
November 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, p. 127: Playes much in reques and great resort to them

Performances

8248
28 May 1661 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: The Prologue, with the date of performance given as 28 May 1661, is in Thomas Jordan's A Royal Arbour of Loyal Poesie, 1664. See also Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, p. 326. This is possibly George Jolly's company. See also 23 March 1660@1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Man's Comfort

8249
28 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

Performance Comment: [Monsieur Thomas] .

8250
13 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

Performance Comment: [Monsieur Thomas] .