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2195 results for: Keyword - R. Johnston
We found 2088 matches on Performance Comments, 354 matches on Event Comments, 25 matches on Performance Title, 7 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
17 September 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs H. Johnston's 1st appearance as Ophelia was at the hay, 3 Sept. 1798.] Afterpiece: 5th Time i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Boxes 6s. Second Price 3s. Pit 3s. 6d. Second Price 2s. Gallery 2s. Second Price 1s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon(only) at the Office in Hart-Street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 19 Nov.]. No Money to be returned. Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (240.17.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Holman; Ghost-Murray; Polonius-Munden; King-Waddy; Horatio-Betterton; Laertes-Whitfield; Ostrick-Farley; Rosencraus-Clarke; Marcellus-Davenport; Guildenstern-Claremont; Player King-Thompson; Lucianus-Wilde; Grave@Diggers-Powel, Rees; Ophelia-Mrs H. Johnston (1st appearence at this theatre, and 2nd in that character); Player Queen-Mrs Platt; Queen-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs H. Johnston

Afterpiece Title: Botheration; or, A Ten Years Blunder

Performance Comment: Jack Hopeful-Knight; Doctor Wisepate-Powel; Varnish-Davenport; Robert-Simmons; Theddy O'Blarney-Johnstone; Lady Apes-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Varnish-Mrs Platt; Rose-Mrs Gibbs.
Cast
Role: Theddy O'Blarney Actor: Johnstone

Song: In V: a Dirge, set to music by Shield. Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Miss Wheatley, Linton, Street, Gray, Lee, Platt, Dyke, Curties; Incidental to afterpiece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London (Including his Remarks on St. James's, The Monument, St. Paul's, Wigs and Crops, Debating Clubs, Boarding Schools, Squares, Inns, Gardens, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors, and Volunteers)-Johnstone

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Miss Wheatley, Linton, Street, Gray, Lee, Platt, Dyke, Curties; Incidental to afterpiece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London (Including his Remarks on St. James's, The Monument, St. Paul's, Wigs and Crops, Debating Clubs, Boarding Schools, Squares, Inns, Gardens, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors, and Volunteers)-Johnstone.
Cast
Role: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London Actor: Johnstone.

52
11 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Andrew Franklin]: The Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations entirely new. The Overture and Musick composed by Florio. The Scenes, designed by Greenwood, and painted by him, Banks, and assistants. The Machinery, Dresses and Decorations designed by Johnston, and executed by him, Gay, and Underwood. The Female Dresses designed and made under the direction of Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "With thy exception of Pizarro, this is one of the most magnificent spectacles the stage has for some time produced. The dresses...are attended with particular accuracy to the costume of the country...and the scenery is locally correct" (Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1800, p. 173). "As a singer [Mme Mara's] powers are indisputable; but as a performer she exhibits herself in a light which alternately provokes our ridicule and pity. Her delivery is an absolute libel on the profession. To the defects of a foreign pronunciation she joins a natural impediment of speech, which partakes too strongly of a lisp to warrant her bearing part in the prose dialogue of a play. What could possibly induce her to appear before the public under such disadvantages, unless she did it in compliment to the composer, we are at a loss to conjecture; nor less are we puzzled to account for the supineness of an audience which can patiently tolerate such puny efforts" (Dramatic Censor, I, 347-48). Morning Chronicle, 14 June 1800: This day is published The Egyptian Festival (2s.). Receipts: #320 18s. 6d. (277.6.6; 42.8.0; 1.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Performance Comment: Egyptians. Raymond, Holland, C. Kemble, Suett, Dignum, Caulfield, Cory, Surmont, Roffey, Mme Mara (1st appearance at this Theatre), Mrs Bland. English. Powell, Kelly, Bannister Jun., Sedgwick, Sparks, Webb, Ryder, Grimaldi, Miss Stephens, Miss DeCamp. Cast from text (J. Ridgway, 1800): Egyptians Mustapha Muley Bey-Raymond; Ali Hassan-Holland; Myrteza-C. Kemble; Uscola-Suett; Yezid (Chief of the Arabs)-Dignum; Jaffa-Caulfield; Priest-Cory; Kedah-Surmont; Zemira-Mme Mara; Nigra-Mrs Bland; English Governor-Powell; Boomly-Kelly in text: Trueman (see18000313; Longbow-Bannister Jun.; Mainstay-Sedgwick; Cook-Sparks; Officer-Webb; Violetta-Miss Stephens; Jackina-Miss DeCamp; unassigned-Roffey, Ryder, Grimaldi; Chorusses-Maddocks, Wentworth, Evans, Fisher, Danby, Danby Jun., Cook, Bardoleau, Willoughby, Elliot, Aylmer, Clarke, Mead, Dibble, Gallot, Caulfield Jun., Tett, Sawyer, Ms Arne, Ms Menage, Ms B. Menage, Ms Wentworth, Ms Roffey, Ms Drake, Ms Saunders, Ms Jacobs, Ms Benson, Ms Butler, Ms Chippendale, Ms Coates, Ms Gawdry; Slaves-Whitmell, Wells, Garman, Johnston, Goodman, Gauron, Bayzand, Ms Brooker, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Vining, Ms Riches, Ms Luciet, Ms Drake.
Cast
Role: Slaves Actor: Whitmell, Wells, Garman, Johnston, Goodman, Gauron, Bayzand, Ms Brooker, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Vining, Ms Riches, Ms Luciet, Ms Drake.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

53
11 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw and Mrs Johnston. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17710408 but Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Sylvia-Mrs Fitzgerald (nee Radley); Shepherdesses-Mrs _Jeffries, Mrs Johnston.
Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs _Jeffries, Mrs Johnston.

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Entertainment: End: Burlesque Cantata, as17710504

54
06 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ugly Club

Afterpiece Title: The Castle-Spectre

Afterpiece Title: A Nosegay of Weeds; or, Old Servants in New Places

55
05 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

56
08 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

57
03 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

58
13 July 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

59
03 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: A Pasticcio

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

60
20 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Way of the World

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

61
01 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

62
07 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

63
14 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Buck's Lodge

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

64
12 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

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

65
31 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Inkle Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Sceptick Actor: Johnstone

66
29 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Saint Andrew's Festival; or, The Game at Goff

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

67
02 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

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

68
08 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In I: The Song [Blest were the hours], Song incidental to the Epilogue-Mrs Jordan

69
28 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

70
08 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

71
15 May 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: Song-Mrs Chambers

Dance: V: Dutch Dance, as17531018

72
09 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier and Mrs Granier

73
05 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

74
02 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Drunken Peasants-Miles; Comic Ballet-Guerin, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

75
11 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421