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7518 results for: Keyword - Mr Thos. Smith
We found 4504 matches on Event Comments, 2929 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 37 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3826
03 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: III, V: Legg

Dance: IV: Comic Ballet, as17580502

3827
15 November 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IV: Spanish Dance, as17581014

3828
02 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17581102

3829
18 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916; IV: Spanish Dance, as17581014

3830
28 December 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caligantus

3831
13 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: IV: Miss Young

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

3832
30 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Pinto; II: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

3833
16 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry, who having been confined for some time past by a severe Illness, humbly hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies, who intend to favor him at his Benefit, will send for Tickets to his Lodgings at Mr Pope's, a Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden; the Star Tavern, in Coleman St.; or to Mr Varney at the Stage door where Places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #104 8s. 6d. (Winston MS8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

3834
04 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oncerto Spirituale

3835
12 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: II: (By Particualr Desire) a Song-Miss Brent; IV: Nymphs and Shepherds in the Oratorio Alfred-Miss Brent

Dance: V: The Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

3836
14 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Dance: NNew Grand Dance, as17590509

3837
28 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

3838
24 September 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Admission: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes to taken of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Play to begin exactly at o'clock. [This information, appearing at the foot of each bill, will not be repeatdd hereafter, except for significant differences.] Receipts: #111 5s. Deficit brought over from last season accounts, Journal T. Folio, 182, #164 0s. 6d. Paid Mr Lambert 3 month's salary to 15 Aug. last #25 (Covent Garden Cash Book). [Goldsmith's Bee (1759, p. 9) remarks on the better business used by Lovegold in the French theatre than used at cg: "Lovegold [in France] in the height of his passion stops to pick up a pin, quilting it in his coat, and snuffs out an extra candle." Implies that such subconscious revelations of the character of the miser might well be used by the English.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

3839
27 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3840
13 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Wat Actor: C. Smith
Role: Nimming Ned Actor: R. Smith
Role: Trueman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17591012 End II: a New Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hillard; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

3841
10 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Indsor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3842
31 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3843
17 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

3844
02 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Smith

3845
04 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Cast
Role: Valentine Actor: Smith
Role: Shorthose Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3846
18 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3847
24 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire; Last time of performing it this season. Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Stage 5s. Those who have places either in the Boxes or the Pit are requested to come thro the Box-Lobby, as at an Oratorio; and to send their servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had of Mr Beard, at his house next Old Slaughter's, St Martin's Lane; and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door where places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #129 1s. plus #246 from tickets (Boxes and Pit 984). Total income #375 1s. Charges #63. [Beard found his own wax candles]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Wat Actor: C. Smith
Role: Nimming Ned Actor: R. Smith
Role: Trueman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: CCountry Dance-Characters of the Opera; A Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End II: A New Dance call'd The Shepherdess-Miss Wilford

3848
29 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3849
14 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Galligantus

3850
15 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor