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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.

2676
19 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Lady Rusport Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Heard
Role: Charlotte Rusport Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Fawcett
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Booth

2677
01 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Edw. Actor: Mrs Byrne
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Cast
Role: Female Milliners Actor: Mrs Gray, Mrs Masters, Miss M'George, Miss Rowson
Role: Female Porter Actor: Mr Letteney
Role: Shepherdess Actor: Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain
Role: Principal Witches Actor: Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr
Role: Fishwomen Actor: Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Watts.

Dance: As17900129

2678
16 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mr Rock
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Bernard
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Johnstone; Mungo-Blanchard; Diego-Bannister; Ursula-Mrs Webb; Leonora-Miss R. Ryder (1st appearance on any stage).
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Johnstone
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

2679
21 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 2nd piece: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Gamesters [recte: Gamester]. 3rd piece [1st time; M.INT 1]: The Accompaniments by Shield. Gazetteer 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 10, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #296 11s. (153.2.6; 3.4.6; tickets:140.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Cast
Role: Glovestring Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: Mrs Knott Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Mrs Jeroboam Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Miss Jeroboam Actor: Mr Blanchard
Role: Miss Somers Actor: Mrs Wells.

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Performance Comment: In which: How stands the Glass around-Johnstone; Sigh no more Ladies, How shall we Mortals spend our Hours, Poor ThomasDay, Welcome the Covert, Here's a Health to all good Lasses=-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Duffey, Darley, Cubitt, Reeve, Edwin; As I saw fair Chlora-Johnstone, Bannister.
Cast
Role: How stands the Glass around Actor: Johnstone
Role: Here's a Health to all good Lasses Actor: Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Duffey, Darley, Cubitt, Reeve, Edwin
Role: As I saw fair Chlora Actor: Johnstone, Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Patrick in Prussia i

Cast
Role: Captain Patrick Actor: Johnstone
Role: Mabel Flourish Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Martyr.

2680
22 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Maud Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Lady Elinor Actor: Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Dance: As17891204

2681
18 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Lady Restless Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tattle Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Frolicks of Fancy

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Page Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Marcelina Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Entertainment: Monologue. Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby

2682
18 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Cast
Role: Mrs Level Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover

Cast
Role: Lady Dunder Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mrs Peery Actor: Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: As17900614

2683
19 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Cast
Role: Mrs Grogram Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Nancy Lovell Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Mr Bannister.
Role: Miss Tabitha Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Mrs Sturdy Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Miss Sukey Actor: Mrs Taylor.

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900615

2684
04 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Cast
Role: Mrs Level Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Cast
Role: Wowski Actor: Mrs Iliff.
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Taylor
Role: Marinette Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Rosalie Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: Thimble's Flight from the Shopboard

Cast
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Taylor.

2685
11 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Cast
Role: Marchioness Actor: Mrs Brooks
Role: Amanthis Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Modern Breakfast; or, All Asleep at Noon

Cast
Role: Miss Oglewell Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Mrs Hammond Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Prologue Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Goodall.
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Dance: End 2nd piece: A Double Hornpipe-Platt, Mrs Goodwin

2686
16 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Cast
Role: Lady Euston Actor: Mrs Brooks
Role: Lady Harriet Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Bloom Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Mrs Euston Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Goodall.
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Liberty, as17900813

2687
11 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Cast
Role: Mrs Level Actor: Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Goodall.
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Bannister
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brooks

2688
16 September 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Williames.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Cast
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Miss Pickle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Edwards.

Song: In II: song-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

2689
13 October 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Cast
Role: Cecilia Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Entertainment: Monologues. End: The Lecture upon Heads-Palmer; After which: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

2690
19 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Maud Actor: Mrs Booth.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Fawcett
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Hopkins

2691
03 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Mrs Tokay Actor: Mrs Warrell
Role: Mrs Vermillion Actor: Mrs Martyr.

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Cast
Role: Marianne Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Letitia Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

2692
11 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Ghita Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Mrs Jordan.

2693
10 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: National Prejudice

Cast
Role: Florizet Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Miss Clerimont Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Emma Tudor Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Madame Detour Actor: Mrs Davenett
Role: Harriet Clerimont Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Patrick Actor: Johnstone
Role: Kathlane Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Mountain.

Entertainment: Imitations End II: (for that Night only some) Comic Imitations-Mrs Wells; End: instead of an Epilogue, some Tragic Imitations-Mrs Wells

2694
11 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Bernard
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Cast
Role: Edwin Actor: Johnstone
Role: Clorinda Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Warrell.

Dance: As17910507

2695
12 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Williames.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House, or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

2696
04 June 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Williames.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

2697
13 June 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Cast
Role: Lady Euston Actor: Mrs Brooks
Role: Lady Harriet Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Bloom Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Mrs Euston Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

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

2698
12 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Iliff.
Role: Lady Rounceval Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Dinah Primrose Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mrs Millfleur Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Pink Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

2699
03 October 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Cast
Role: Muses Actor: Mrs Powell, Mrs Goodall, Miss Hagley, Miss DeCamp, Miss Collins, Miss Heard, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brigg
Role: Melpomene Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Thalia Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Edwards.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Justice's Lady Actor: Mrs Heard
Role: Confidant Actor: Mrs Booth

Song: V 2nd piece: song-Miss Hagley

2700
24 October 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Diversion in the Morning

Cast
Role: Lady Pentweazel Actor: Mr Berry

Dance: I afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Alderman, Lady Pentweazel

Song: End: The Tobacco Box-Johnson, Miss Chatterley

Entertainment: Monologues After Singing: British Loyalty[; or, A Squeeze to St. Paul's-Wilkinson; End II afterpiece: Bucks have at Ye All-a Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

Music: Between Acts: several pieces of Martial Music-his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester's Band(, in full uniform, by Permission)