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5919 results for: Keyword - Mr. Johnston
We found 4290 matches on Event Comments, 1499 matches on Performance Comments, 532 matches on Performance Title, 20 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2601
20 May 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

2602
21 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Morton

Dance: As17820927

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hollo!, as17830516; End of Dance ThomasDay. Goody Cramp-Bannister; Goody Rheum-Brett; Goody Twitch-Edwin

2603
23 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Wewitzer

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Tally Ho!, as17830516

2604
05 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Cast
Role: Dolce Actor: Mrs Lefevre
Role: Cecilia Actor: Mrs Bannister. Kenny is unassigned.
Role: Mrs Grogram Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Nancy Lovel Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Mrs Cheshire Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Cowslip Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Fringe Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mr Painter

2605
07 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Madge Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Housemaid Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Deborah Woodcock Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Mrs Grogram Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Nancy Lovel Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Wewitzer
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs W. Palmer

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17830604

2606
10 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Cast
Role: Lady Juniper Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Blissett
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs W. Palmer

Dance: End of Act I of Mainpiece, as17830531

2607
18 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: In A Village

Cast
Role: Madge Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Housemaid Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Deborah Woodcock Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Mrs Grogram Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Nancy Lovel Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Passenger Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Mrs Cross Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: As17830611

2608
30 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Cast
Role: Agnes Actor: Mrs Wheatley
Role: Chariot Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Cast
Role: Mrs Dripping Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Various other Characters Actor: Stevens, Usher, Swords, Ledger, Painter, Davis, Barrett, Kenny, J. Bates, Mrs Love, Miss Francis, &c

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

2609
20 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Cast
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Fainlove Actor: Mrs Wells

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Mause Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Madge Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Williamson, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act iv of mainpiece song by Williames

2610
07 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

2611
18 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Jacintha Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Lucetta Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Mause Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Madge Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a New Dance by Second and Miss M. Stageldoir

2612
18 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Cast
Role: Moll Flagon Actor: Mr Suett
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson

2613
05 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Cast
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Mrs Neville Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

2614
13 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Queen Elinor Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Lady Faulconbridge Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Constance Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831204

2615
10 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Cast
Role: Mrs Stockwell Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: As17831213

2616
06 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Cast
Role: Principal Female Dancers Actor: Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

2617
11 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: 840306but Maid Actor: Mr Besford
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Painter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

2618
28 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mr Williames
Role: Dollalolla Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

2619
08 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Chalmers
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Cast
Role: Mrs Margaret Maxwell Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Morton

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Mrs Margaret Maxwell Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Susannah Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Fidget Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Bannister

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a Dramatic Romance, Adelaide de Brabant; or, The Triumph of Virtue. Principal Characters by Bithmere, Le Boeuf, Mme Bithmere. ["An infant son of Grimaldi (i.e. Joseph, aged 6) performs in an astonishing manner" (Gazetteer, 12 May).] End of Act IV an Allemande and Dance, called Malbrough (composed by Vestris Jun.) by Le Boeuf and Mme Bithmere

2620
21 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: AEmilia Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

2621
19 July 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Wewitzer

2622
09 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Cast
Role: Edwitha Actor: Mrs Bannister. Swords, Barrett are unassigned.

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Ballad Singer Actor: Mr Gaudry

Song: As17840730

2623
27 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Besford
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17841022; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dana. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Cast
Role: Principal Female Dancers Actor: Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

2624
04 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Cast
Role: Lucett Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Stageldoir

2625
07 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mr Delpini, and see17850214 IMITATIONS. End of 1st ballet, by Kean