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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Tony Aston"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Tony Aston")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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409 results for: Keyword - Tony Aston
We found 265 matches on Performance Comments, 77 matches on Author, 67 matches on Performance Title, 36 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
23 April 1724 @ Three Tuns Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

77
04 May 1724 @ Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

78
30 November 1724 @ Pye Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

79
08 March 1731 @ Leg Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phiz Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

80
10 March 1731 @ Crown Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phiz Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

81
28 March 1740 @ Ashley's Punch House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

82
07 April 1740 @ Leg Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

83
17 May 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Aston. Being the last Time of his performing here. Receipts: money #17 1s.; tickets #37 6s. [In Daily Post, 7 May, Aston has an appeal to the twofold learned and judicious Body of the Law, in behalf of his Benefit Play."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17220315 but Bertran-Diggs; Raymond-Boheme; With a New Prologue, Epilogue wrote and to be spoken-Aston.
Cast
Role: Epilogue wrote and to be spoken Actor: Aston.
Role: Gomez Actor: Aston

Song: A new Comic Pastoral call'd Whitsuntide: or, The Clowns' Contention-; Two new Songs-the Boy; And a New Song-Mr Aston, representing a Hide Park Grenadier

84
16 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Aston and a Gentleman under Misfortune. Afterpiece: A new Pastoral. Written by Mr Aston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Aston; King-Paget; Polonius-Hippisley; Laertes-Ridout; Ostrick-Clarke; Horatio-Boaman; Rosencraus-Houghton; Guildenstern-W. Hallam; Prologue-James; Francisco-Bencraft; Queen-Mrs Forrester; Ophelia-Miss Male; Ghost-Stephens; Gravediggers-Bullock Sr, Mullart .
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Aston

Afterpiece Title: Cleora; or, The Amorous Old Shepherdess

Related Works
Related Work: Cleora; or, The Amorous Old Shepherdess Author(s): Anthony Aston

Dance: Hornpipe by Ferguson. Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: Cuckoo Solo by Master Oates. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

85
26 December 1743 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, Tony Aston, the oldest approv'd Actor in the three Kingdoms, being deni'd his bread in both Theatres, this Day exhibits his learned comic demonstrative Oratory on the Face, with English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs, in proper habits, Prologue and Epilogue, and all his own Pasquin Invention. 6 p.m. 1s. He is under Misfortunes, and desires the Company of the Ingenious and Humorous. [Repeated 29, 31 Dec.; and with some changes in wording on 2, 5, 9, 25 Jan., 6, 15 Feb. 1744.

Performances

86
23 February 1744 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, by Inner Temple Gate Tony Aston exhibits a dialogue between Abigail and Vellum, Dorinda and Scrub, Hob and Mary...Prologue, Epilogue, and Pasquin.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

87
03 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance-(see17780624; End: The Gardeners, as17780618

88
08 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17780623

89
28 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: End I: As17780624

90
14 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17780624

91
28 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17780615

92
07 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17790618

93
09 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albina, Countess Raimond

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

94
10 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17790618

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Hitchcock

95
19 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albina, Countess Raimond

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

96
01 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

97
16 August 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and no Duke Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: LaBee, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris; also new dances-Thurmond Jr, others

Song: A Variety of English and Italian Songs-

98
16 May 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and no Duke Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

99
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and no Duke Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

100
11 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and no Duke Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: