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24317 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Johnston
We found 23620 matches on Performance Comments, 7642 matches on Event Comments, 4623 matches on Performance Title, 29 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

21726
16 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Subtle-Mills; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Ananias-Morgan; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Green; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Miss Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Cross; Abel Drugger-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

Dance: III: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

21727
29 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17431210, but Monimia-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Mills.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: As17431123

21728
29 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17431203, but The Vocal Parts-Mrs _Vincent, Miss _Hillyard.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs _Vincent, Miss _Hillyard.
Role: Lady MacDuff Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Donalbaine Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21729
31 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Performance Comment: Pierre-Quin; Jaffier-Ryan; Priuli-Bridgwater; Renault-Chapman; Bedamar-Hale; Duke-Rosco; Spinoza-Anderson; Eliot-Cashell; Officer-Gibson; Belvidera-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Spinoza Actor: Anderson
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21730
03 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17431208, but Calphurnia-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Cinna Actor: Anderson
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: See17431029, but Loverule-Beard; Nell-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21731
05 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs King.

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; The Petit Maitre-Blakes; Pierot-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Mann; Concluding with a New Dance-Muilment.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Mann

21732
11 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King Henry-Stephens; Prince of Wales-Ryan; Prince John-Hale; Archbishop York-Chapman; Pistol-Woodward; Chief Justice-Rosco; Westmorland-Gibson; Mowbray-Cashell; Hastings-Carr; Gower-Anderson; Silence-Stoppelaer; Poins-Hayman; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Mullart; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Hillyard; Shallow-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Gibson
Role: Gower Actor: Anderson
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: 2 The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21733
12 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17431128, but Desdemona-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.

21734
19 January 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Grand Concert. 6 p.m. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Afterwards will be given Gratis...Daily Advertiser, 20 Jan.: Last Night the Musical Entertainment call'd The Queen of Spain, was receiv'd by a numerous Audience with great Approbation. The Artificial Scene hereafter will be omitted, it not being connected with the rest, not any way answering what was promised by the Projector who offered it. Music by J. F. Lampe; words by James Ayres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain; Or, Fairinelli At Madrid

Performance Comment: King-Waltz; Farinelli-Sullivan; Marquis-Messing; English Sailors-Ashpey; Spaniard-Don Diego DiAspino; Queen-Mrs Lampe; concluding with an Artificial Scene-.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lampe

Music: A new Sonata, in four parts, by Lampe-

Song: New Song The Shepherd's Invitation-Sullivan; A new Song To Sylvia-Miss Young

21735
03 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Caled-Quin; Abudah-Hale; Daran-Cashell; Phocyas-Ryan; Eumenes-Rosco; Herbis-Gibson; Artamon-Ridout; Sergius-Carr; Eudocia-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs _LeFont.

21736
07 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17431229, but Monimia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, The Miss Scotts, Mlle Auguste.
Role: Harlequin's Wife Actor: Mrs Mann
Role: Hecate Actor: Mrs Avolio
Role: Attendants on Hecate Actor: Morland, Bennet, Morgan

21737
13 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17431216, but Lucy-Mrs Kilby.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Kilby.
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17431227, but Apollo-Villeneuve; Aerial Spirits-Mrs _Delagarde.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Mrs _Delagarde.
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Kilby.

21738
21 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never before acted [by William Havard, who inserted a long advertisement in the Daily Post with quotations from Roman history and the comment: thus much I think is necessary to be known by everybody who designs to see the play.] Last night the Tragedy of Regulus was perform'd...to a numerous and polite Audience, and met with great Applause.-London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Performance Comment: Corvus-Delane; Decius-Havard; Metullus-Mills; Mutius-Bridges; Manlius-Berry; Quintus-Blakes; First Cartheginian Ambassador-Turbutt; 2nd Ambassador-Usher; Attilus Regulus-Taswell; Scaurus-Green; Emilius-Woodburn; Mantia-Mrs Giffard; Clelia-Miss Budgell; Regulus-Garrick; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue (by Garrick)-Miss Woffington. [From 1st edition, but listed in order of actors given in London Daily Post and General Advertiser.]From 1st edition, but listed in order of actors given in London Daily Post and General Advertiser.]
Cast
Role: Mantia Actor: Mrs Giffard

21739
15 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Muley Zeydan Actor: Anderson
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17440228, but Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

21740
31 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17431214, but Hamlet-Sheridan (1st appearance on English Stage); Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Anderson
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

21741
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Woodward
Role: Abergavenny Actor: Anderson
Role: Anne Bullen Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

21742
19 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lampe

Afterpiece Title: The Kiss Accepted and Returned

Cast
Role: Lysander Actor: Sullivan
Role: Phaebe Actor: Mrs Lampe.

21743
20 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Macklin; Lappet-Mrs Macklin; Mariana-Miss Talbot; Harriet-Miss Minors.
Cast
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Macklin; Dorcas-Mrs Macklin.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Macklin.

Song: TThe Rapture-; and a favorite song out of Solomon called Tell me Gentle Shepherd Where-Miss Talbot

21744
25 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet The Imposter

Performance Comment: Zaphna-Garrick; Mahomet-Delane; Alcanor-Giffard; Mirvan-Bridges; Pharon-Winstone; Hercides-; Ammon-; Palmira-Mrs Giffard; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue-Garrick [from edition of 1744, but listed in the same order as list of actors in General Advertiser, except General Advertiser adds Turbutt after Winstone].from edition of 1744, but listed in the same order as list of actors in General Advertiser, except General Advertiser adds Turbutt after Winstone].
Cast
Role: Palmira Actor: Mrs Giffard

21745
27 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2 Benefit James and Rosco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Performance Comment: As17440111, but Pistol-James; Hostess-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Westmorland Actor: Gibson
Role: Gower Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: 2 The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: 7440402 but Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive only Lucy listed.

Dance: 2 BBallet-Cooke; Scotch Dance, as17431124

21746
30 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit W. Giffard. Mainpiece: Never acted there. From a New Edition, with many additions and Alterations by the Author. Tickets deliver'd for Saturday the 08th will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira; Or, Spanish Insult Repented

Performance Comment: Gamor (by Particular Desire)-Johnson, who has not appeared on any stage these 5 years; Alvarez-Giffard; Carlos-W. Giffard; Famont-Havard; Spanish Captain-Turbutt; American Captain-Winstone; Emira-Miss Budgell; Cephania-Miss Cole; Alzira-Mrs Giffard; With a New Prologue-Johnson.
Cast
Role: Alzira Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

21747
15 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: As17440113, but Sir John Brute-Giffard; Razor-Green; Belinda-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Chetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

21748
25 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17431128, but Desdemona-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall.
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Cooke, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mlle Fabres, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve

21749
31 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17431217, but Lady Ann-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Lady Ann Actor: Mrs Woffington.
Role: King Edward V Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Harlequin's Wife Actor: Mrs Mann.
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, The Miss Scotts, Mlle Auguste.
Role: Hecate Actor: Mrs Avolio
Role: Attendants on Hecate Actor: Morland, Bennet, Morgan

21750
29 June 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Part of Hamlet-a young Gentleman[, his first attempt on any stage [Goodfellow]; Ghost-Macklin; King-Townly; Laertes-Marr; Horatio-Simpson; Polonius-Mallin; Marcellus-Holt; Rosencrans-Nelson; Guildenstern-Jarvis; Ostrick-Pennington; Bernardo-Reeves; Francisca-Smith; Gravediggers-Macklin, Vaughan; Queen-Mrs Macklin; Player Queen-Miss Taylor; Ophelia-a young lady.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Macklin