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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.

23926
31 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Whitmore.
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Gibbs.
Role: Mrs Changeable Actor: Miss Chapman.
Role: Quashee's Wife Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Attendants Actor: Miss Menage, Mrs Lloyd
Role: Chorus of Negresses Actor: Ms Hale, Ms Masters, Ms Gaudry, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton, Ms Coates, Mrs Castelle

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performance Comment: As18000728 but Rosa-Mrs Mountain; Quashee's Wife-Miss Gaudry.
Cast
Role: Rosa Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Sam's Wife Actor: Mrs Castelle
Role: Chorus of Negresses Actor: Mrs _Castelle.
Role: Mrs Changeable Actor: Miss Chapman.
Role: Attendants Actor: Miss Menage, Mrs Lloyd

23927
02 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As18000616 but Wowski-Mrs Mountain; Yarico-Miss Chapman; Sailors-_Linton.
Cast
Role: Wowski Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Inkle Actor: Johnstone
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Gibbs

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Mrs Ratcliffe Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Whitmore
Role: Mrs Goodison Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Eliza Actor: Mrs Gibbs.
Role: Governor Actor: Johnstone
Role: Mrs Belmont Actor: Miss DeCamp.

Song: As18000725

23928
27 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Cast
Role: Sir Sturdy O'Tremor Actor: Johnstone
Role: Captain of the Banditti Actor: Sawyer
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Chorusses Actor: Willoughby, Aylmer, Dibble, Little, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Fisher, Sawyer, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Hale, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Butler, Miss Leserve, Mrs Norton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Coates, Mrs Lloyd.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Old Wilding-Davenport; Papillion-Farley; Waiter-Ledger; Servants-Abbot, Chippendale; Sir James Elliot-Trueman; Miss Godfrey-Miss Gaudry; Kitty-Mrs Hale; Miss Grantham-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Hale

23929
10 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. "We were careful to repair to the Theatre at an early hour. But, to see the whole street lined with carriages and blockaded on both sides with pedestrians vainly pressing for admittance, was more than we had anticipated. Hundreds, who had purchased tickets, were under the necessity of returning home, without passing the threshold of the Theatre...Fawcett exerted the whole scope of his abilities, in grateful return for the patronage with which he was so profusely honoured...Whenever Fawcett moves in his proper sphere, as a comic actor, he is never known to fail" (Dramatic Censor, III, 129). Morning Chronicle, 6 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 3, Tanfield-court, Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Review

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Fawcett; The Mogul-Barrymore; Fanny-Mrs Gibbs.
Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Whitmore.
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

Song: End 1st piece: Half and Half (never before sung)-Fawcett; End of 2nd piece: Paddy's Description of Pizarro, as18000829

23930
11 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Review

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: See18000814, but Young [i.e. Capt.] Meadows-Palmer; Betsy Blossom-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Whitmore.
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

23931
29 May 1660 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Charles II entered London on this day, an event which occasioned several works of a quasi-dramatic nature. One was The Famous Tragedie of the Life and Death of Mrs Rump...As it was presented on a burning Stage at Westminster the 29th of May, 1660. It has a Prologue and Epilogue; the author is not known. A second is An Ode Upon the Happy Return of King Charles II to his Languishing Nations, May 29. 1660. This work, by James Shirley, with music by Dr Coleman, was printed in 1660, and reprinted in A Little Ark, ed. G. Thorn-Drury (1921), pp. 21-23. A third is A True Relation of the Reception of his Majestie and Conducting him through the City of London...on Tuesday the 29 of this instant May, being the Day of his Majesties Birth

Performances

23932
23 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Brenoralt, I never saw before. It seemed a good play, but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]

23933
23 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as Downes states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run Pepys, Diary: I took her [Mrs Pepys] to the opera, and shewed her The Witts, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

23934
08 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And late after dinner took Mrs Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the Beggar's Bush, without much pleasure, but only for a frolique

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Bush

23935
04 December 1661 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Pepys] and I by coach to the Opera and Theatre, but coming too late to both, and myself being a little out of tune we returned

Performances

23936
20 May 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I by coach to the Opera, and there saw the 2nd part of The Siege of Rhodes, but it is not so well done as when Roxalana [Mrs Davenport] was there, who, it is said, is now owned by my Lord of Oxford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

23937
21 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to The French Dancing Master, and there with much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see her look dejectedly and slighted by People already. The play pleased us [Pepys and Mrs Pepys] very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

23938
26 December 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with my wife to the Duke's Theatre, and saw the second part of Rhodes, done with the new Roxalana; which do it rather better in all respects for person, voice, and judgment, than the first Roxalana [Mrs Davenport]. Home with great content with my wife, not so well pleased with the company at the house to-day, which was full of citizens, there hardly being a gentleman or woman in the house; a couple of pretty ladies by us that made sport in it, being jostled and crowded by prentices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

23939
01 January 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke's House, where we saw The Villane again; and the more I see it, the more I am offended at my first undervaluing the play, it being very good and pleasant, and yet a true and allowable tragedy. The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and to set to my business for all the year again to-morrow. Here we saw the old Roxalana [Mrs Davenport] in the chief box, in a velvet gown, as the fashion is, and very handsome, at which I was glad

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

23940
04 September 1663 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: And so carried her [Mrs Pepys] to the fayre [bf], and showed her the monkeys dancing on the ropes, which was strange, but such dirty sport that I was not pleased with it. There was also a horse with hoofs like rams hornes, a goose with four feet, and a cock with three. Thence to another place, and saw some German Clocke works, the Salutation of the Virgin Maryv, and several Scriptural stories; but above all there was at last represented the sea, with Neptune, Venus, mermaids, and Ayrid on a dolphin, the sea rocking, so well done, that had it been in a gaudy manner and place, and at a little distance, it had been admirable

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

23941
January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. William Hamon (or Hammond) saw a performance near the end of the period between Michaelmas 1663 and Lady Day 1664. The entry in his journal (which I owe to the courtesy of Dr. Giles Dawson) reads: Item spent in carrying Mrs & sistar to King Lear 00 09 06 (Folger MS. v. a. 422)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

23942
01 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: And took my wife out immediately to the King's Theatre, it being a new month, and once a month I may go, and there saw The Indian Queen acted; which indeed is a most pleasant show, and beyond my expectation; the play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense. But above my expectation most, the eldest Marshall did do her part most excellently well as I ever heard woman in my life; but her voice not so sweet so Ianthe's [Mrs Betterton's]; but, however, we came home mightily contented

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

23943
01 June 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Pepys] and I to the King's house, and saw The Silent Woman; but methought not so well done or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be, or else I am now-a-days out of humour. Before the play was done, it fell such a storm of hayle, that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise; and all the house in a disorder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

23944
02 September 1664 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I got her [Mrs Pepys] to rise and abroad with me by coach to Bartholomew Fayre, and our boy with us, and there shewed them and myself the dancing on the ropes, and several other the best shows

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

23945
02 February 1665 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a fine Mask at court perform'd by 6 Gent: & 6 Ladys surprizing his Majestie, it being Candlemas day. Pepys, Diary, 3 Feb.: Then Mrs Pickering...did, at my Lady's command, tell me the manner of a masquerade before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

23946
14 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Knipp] tells me how Smith, of the Duke's house, hath killed a man upon a quarrel in play; which makes every body sorry, he being a good actor, and, they say, a good man, however this happens. The ladies of the Court do much bemoan him, she says

Performances

23947
17 December 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is listed in the L. C. records, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. See Pepys, Diary, for Mrs Pepys attendance at an unnamed play in the afternoon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

23948
27 February 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Knepp] tells me Harris is well again, having been very ill

Performances

23949
01 March 1667 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: And had she [Mrs Pepys] not been ill...and that it were not Friday (on which in Lent there are no plays) I had carried her to a play

Performances

23950
08 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We three [Mrs Pepys, Mercer, and Pepys] to the King's house, and saw the latter end of the Surprisall, wherein was no great matter,I thought, by what I saw there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprisal