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18152 results for: Keyword - Sir John Shorter
We found 12390 matches on Author, 6689 matches on Performance Comments, 1860 matches on Event Comments, 683 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1526
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not certain, but the evidence points toward this day. On Thursday 19 Nov. 1696, Robert Jennens reported that the two pieces had been acted four or five days together. If that day saw the fifth performance, the premiere probably occurred on 14 Nov. 1696. The Single Songs and Dialogue in Mars and Venus, set by John Eccles (Acts I and II) and Godfrey Finger (Act III), was published separately in 1697. The pieces for whom a performer is indicated are as follows: Prologue. The first Song Sung by Mrs Hudson, set by Finger: Come all, with moving songs [it is reproduced opposite page 300 in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues]. Love alone can here alarm me, sung by Mrs Ayloffe. Scorn tho' Beauty frowns to tremble, sung by Mrs Hudson. To double the sports, sung by Mrs Ayloffe. To treble the pleasures with regular measures, sung by Mrs Ayloffe. To meet her, May, the Queen of Love comes here, set by John Eccles and sung by Mrs Hudson. See Vulcan, Jealousie, Jealousie appears, set by Finger and sung by Mrs Hudson. Yield, no, no, sung by Mrs Bracegirdle and Bowman. Gildon, English Dramatick Poets, p. 115: This Play met with extraordinary Success having the Advantage of the excellent Musick of The Loves of Mars and Venus perform'd with it. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 44-45: The Anatomist, or Sham Doctor, had prosperous Success, and remains a living Play to this Day; 'twas done by Mr Ravenscroft. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: I remember the success of that was owing to the Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Related Works
Related Work: The Loves of Mars and Venus Author(s): John Weaver

1527
24 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Booth; Petruchio-Bickerstaff; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Peter-Norris; Anthony-Cross; Constantia-Mrs Bradshaw; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

1528
13 October 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Booth; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Bickerstaffe; Anthony-Norris; Constantia-Mrs Bradshaw; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Mother-Mrs Powell; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

1529
27 September 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Antonio-Pinkethman; Duke-Thurmond; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Petruchio-Bowman; Anthony-Bowen; Peter-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Mother-Mrs Powell; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

1530
13 February 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: See17091205, but Don John-Wilks; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy or The Comical Rivals

1531
04 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Performance Comment: Pedro-Wilks; John-Cibber; Gusman-Mills; Lopez-Pinkethman; Galindo-Bullock; Leonora-Mrs Rogers; Isabella-Mrs Porter; Jacinta-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Cibber
Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Philip Kemble

1532
17 May 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by John Hughes. Music by John Galliard.] Never Performed before. Admission as 24 Nov. 1711, but Benches in the Pit rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

Related Works
Related Work: Calypso and Telemachus Author(s): John HughesJohn Galliard

1533
26 February 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Dedication signed by John James Heidegger.] By Subscription. Never Perform'd before. Colman's Opera Register: Monr John James Heidegger managed both this & ye former Opera for ye Singers & ye Subscription was for Six Nights paying 10 Guin for 3 Tickets each Night, they not to give out above 400 Tickets a Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Related Works
Related Work: Ernelinda Author(s): John James Heidegger

1534
08 January 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Clarissa-Mrs Knight; Gripe-Fra. Leigh; Moneytrap-Spillar; Dick-John Leigh; Brass-Pack; Araminta-Mrs Moor; Corinna-Mrs Schoolding; Flippanta-Mrs Spillar; Amlet-Mrs Hunt.
Cast
Role: Dick Actor: John Leigh
Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: As17150106

1535
11 January 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #32 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: Essex-John Leigh; Southampton-Smith; Burleigh-Keene; Queen-Mrs Knight; Rutland-Mrs Vincent; Nottingham-Mrs Kent.
Cast
Role: Essex Actor: John Leigh
Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Dance: As17150106

1536
05 February 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Performance Comment: Guomar-one who never appear'd on the Stage before; Montezuma-Keene; Odmar-Smith; Orbellan-Corey; Cortez-John Leigh; Vasquez-Husband; Almeria-Mrs Knight; Alibech-Mrs Rogers; Cydaria-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Cortez Actor: John Leigh
Related Works
Related Work: The Indian Emperour; or, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Indian Emperour; or, the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Slip

Dance: duPre, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding; particularly a Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Uiversion

1537
25 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Antonio-Penkethman; Duke-Booth; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antony-Norris; Peter-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d-Mrs Oldfield; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

1538
27 October 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Thurmond; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Boman; Peter-Norris; Antony-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

1539
17 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Hughes.] Never Acted before. The Orphan Reviv'd or Powell's Weekly Journal, 20 Feb.: On Wednesday last, the Ingenious Mr John Hughes, Author of the Tragedy call'd the Siege of Damascus, died without seeing it acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Damascus Author(s): John Hughes

1540
13 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Thurmond; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Boman; Peter-Norris; Antony-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Younger; 2d Constantia-Mrs Booth; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

1541
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turnd Fabulist Or Vulcans Wedding

1542
26 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: See17311109, but John-Wilks; Constantia-Mrs Horton (Burney).
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard

1543
18 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: A New Comedy never acted Before. [By John Stevens.] Formula as 15 April. Prices 2s., 1s. [Published in 1745 by John Stevens, with the announcement As it was acted Gratis, at the New Theatre at the Haymarket, By a Company of Gentlemen for Diversion. No record of such a production has been found.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Wife Or The Virgin Her Own Rival

Related Works
Related Work: The Modern Wife; or, The Virgin Her Own Rival Author(s): John Stevens

Dance: As17450415

1544
19 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By desire. [N.B. John Potter's letter of 18 Jan. is repeated in the General Advertiser for this day. Also further statements by Potter and Foote concerning the use of Mr Lewis's name (Potter's attorney).] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #103 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Winstone
Related Works
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

1545
07 November 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Don Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Peter-Philips; Antony-Vaughan; Surgeon-Clough; Francisco-W. Vaughan; Antonio-Yates; First Constania-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; Second Constantia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: SShepherd's Holiday, as17541008

1546
28 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; second Constantia-Miss Haughton; Don Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Antonio-Yates; first Constantia-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; To conclude with a New Country Dance-the Characters of the Play.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

1547
26 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; 2d Constantia-Miss Haughton; Don Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Antonio-Yates; 1st Constantia-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Cast
Role: Parts by Actor: Woodward, Yates, Palmer, Blakes, Usher, Johnson, Beard, Jefferson, Miss Macklin. Champignon-Blakes
Role: Maclaymore Actor: Johnston

1548
03 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Antonio-Yates; 1st Constantia-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; 2d Constantia-Miss Haughton; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

1549
15 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross, (pit door-keepers); Slater; and Trott, (lobby door-keeper). Mainpiece: Acted but once these 10 years. [See 15 Jan. 1753.] Tickets deliver'd by Besford, Clark, Darby, Toten, Dimmock, &c. will be taken. [Besford a mistake for Joseph Besworth (porter).] Receipts: #15 15s. plus #100 14s. 2d. as 1!2 value of the tickets deliver'd. @Names Bow Pit Gallery Balue 1!2 Value@Wilford 2 62 18 #11 12s. #5 16s.@Ross 5 162 83 #33 17s. #16 18s. 6d.@Trott 144 53 .. #43 19s. #18 12s. 9d.@Slater 2 57 110 #20 1s. #10 6d.@Derby 4 79 105 #23 7s. #11 13s. 6d.@Toten .. 32 43 #9 2s. #4 11s.@Clingo .. 55 47 #12 19s. #6 9s. 6d.@Clarke .. 40 44 #10 8s. #5 4s.@Besworth .. 24 20 #5 12s. #2 16s.@Dymuck .. 12 53 #7 2s. #3 11s.@Jos. Smith 8 29 25 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Cole 4 61 83 #18 9s. #9 4s. 6d.@S. Griffiths .. 11 12 #2 17s. #1 8s. 6d.@Total 169 677 643 #208 2s. #100 14s. 2d. [1!2 of #208 2s. would seem to be #104 1s.]@ Rec'd of John Crane for the ends of the wax candles sold last season #6 4s., and for those sold this season #23 19s. 4d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Related Works
Related Work: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Mattocks
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

1550
30 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SSir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: II: New Dance (Performed but once) The Rabbit Seller, as17691228