Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
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.

151
18 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Hogarth's March to Finchley; In Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fidlers all on a Row, both by Edwin

Monologue: 1786 04 18 End of mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into London by Edwin

152
26 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady, as17851102, but omitted: Rayner

153
31 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: As17851019

154
06 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: As17870131

155
14 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Stone Eater

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

156
22 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Stone Eater

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

157
03 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: End: The Irish Fair-Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir

Song: End IV: Ma chere Amie-Dignum

158
01 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: As17881107

159
13 December 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: End: a New Dance, as17881107, but Mrs _Ratchford

160
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

161
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

162
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

163
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

164
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

165
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

166
28 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

Dance: As17780615

167
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

168
09 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albina Countess Raimond

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

169
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

170
19 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albina Countess Raimond

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Tony Lumpkin Actor: Parsons

171
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

172
07 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Dance: After monologue: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

Entertainment: End: Monologue. Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London, as17770428

Performance Comment: Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London, as17770428.

173
25 October 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Aston Papers, Add. Mss. 36916, Vol. XVI, f. 8: In the Afternoon their Maties were pleased to be present in the Banquetting house wth the principall Lds and Ladyes of the Court at a divertisement of a dancing on the Ropes Tumbling and other Agilities of Body shown with great applause by a Company of English. [See also The Bulstrode Papers, 1879, I, 4; HMC, 12th Report, Part VII, Fleming MSS., p. 53.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

174
28 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

175
10 February 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Cast
Role: Vellum Actor: Aston

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: The South Sea Ballad-Aston