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2770 results for: Keyword - Widow Johnson
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1201
31 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: Welford-Lewis; Mr Ordeal-Aickin; Captain Douglas-Farren; Nicholas-Munden; Cheaterly-Macready; Colonel Staff-Evatt; Sir Buzzard Savage-Quick; Clara (with a song in character)-Mrs Esten; Constance-Miss Chapman; Widow Volatile-Miss Stuart; Grace-Mrs Harlowe; Mrs Muslin-Mrs Platt; Lady Flippant Savage-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Widow Volatile Actor: Miss Stuart

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain or The New Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

1202
30 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Governor-Davies; Blandford-Macready; Capt. Driver-Cubitt; Stanmore-Evatt; Jack Stanmore-Bloomfield; Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe; Lucy-Mrs Davis; Widow Lackit-Mrs Webb; Imoinda-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-

Song: In afterpiece: As17920421; End: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue End IV: Jeu D'Esprit, as17920516; Little Pig lays without any Straw-Fawcett

1203
08 October 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard or The Flight of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Blue Beard-Darley; Harlequin-Bayzand; Clown-Follett; Brothers to Colombine-Farley, Letteney; Assassins-Rowson, Powers; Haggard-Gray; Waiter-Cross; Little Old Man-Master Webb; Sailor-Rees; Footboy-Simmons; Tippy Bob-Munden; Sister Ann-Miss Leserve; Miss Common-Mrs Rock; Mrs Hoplove-Mrs Cross; Widow Giggle-Mrs Gray; Colombine-Mrs Watts; Daemons of Revenge-Mt Ratchford, Mt Platt, Mt Rayner, Mt Jackson, Mt Wilde; Aerial Spirits-Mrs Arnold, Mrs Masters, Miss Francis, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Rowson, Mrs Bayzand, Miss Broadhurst.
Cast
Role: Widow Giggle Actor: Mrs Gray

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrn, Platt, Ratchford

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Darley, Gray, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Blanchard, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Cross, Miss Leserve, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Miss Broadhurst

1204
17 October 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Sir Brilliant Fashion-Bernard; William-Macready; Sideboard-Farley; John-Abbot; Sir Bashful Constant-Quick; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Pope; Lady Constant-Miss Chapman; Muslin-Mrs Mattocks; Mignionet-Miss Stuart; Furnish-Mrs Watts; Widow Belmour (with a song)-Mrs Esten (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Widow Belmour Actor: Mrs Esten

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17931015

1205
30 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Barrymore; Blandford-Aickin; Lieut. Governor-Caulfield; Stanmore-Benson; Stanmore Jun.-Bland; Daniel-Suett; Capt. Driver-Wewitzer; Hotman-Cooke; Slaves-Usher, Maddocks, Lyons, &c.; Planters-Burton, Jones, &c.; Aboan-Bensley// Charlotte Welldon-Mrs Goodall; Lucy Welldon-Miss Tidswell; Widow Lackit-Mrs Hopkins; Imoinda-Mrs Powell .
Cast
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

1206
12 December 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Bensley, Kemble, Aickin, Bannister Jun., Whitfield, C. Kemble, Benson, Caulfield, Bland, Packer, King, R. Palmer, Phillimore, Mrs Powell, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Booth, Miss Miller, Miss Tidswell. Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1793 [sic]) conflated With Genest, VII, 183: King-Bensley; Bertram-Kemble; Lafeu-Aickin; Clown-Bannister Jun.; Dumain-Whitfield; Lewis [i.e. 2nd Lord ]-C. Kemble; Biron [i.e. 1st Gentleman ]-Benson; Jaquez [i.e. 2nd Gentleman ]-Caulfield; Tourville [i.e. Astringer ]-Bland; Steward-Packer; Parolles-King; Soldier (Interpreter)-R. Palmer; Soldier-Phillimore; Countess-Mrs Powell; Helena-Mrs Jordan; Widow-Mrs Booth; Diana-Miss Miller; Mariana-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed

1207
16 November 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

Performance Comment: Act I. Scene I. A View in Laplandv; The Death and Renovation of the Elk-; Harlequin-Farley; Whalebone-Follett; Ulan Shmolinski Czernsdorff [, the Gynosophist-Thompson; Columbine-Mlle St.Amand; Aerial Spirit-Mrs Martyr; [Scene II. Cornhillv-Mr Deputy Gobble's Housev; The False Step-O'Flanagan's Blunders-The Desponding Maiden-The Sailor's Return-Gobble's Disaster-with a Triumphal Procession of English Amazonians. Captain O'Flanagan-Johnstone; Sailor-Townsend; Polly-Mrs Mountain (with the Duetto, Oh! welcome home, my dearest Jack, composed by Shield); English Amazonians-Mrs Platt, Miss Logan, Miss Walcup, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Crowe, Mrs Cranfield, Miss Kirton, Miss Cox, Miss Coombs, Mrs Norton, Mrs Rowson; [Scene III. Inside of Gobble's Housev. The Widow Bewitched-How to restore a Deputy Common Council-Man. Scene IV. Outside of Dancing, Shaving and Hair-dressing Academyv; Scene V. Inside of Dancing Academyv; In which The Long Minuet-(Taken from the Caricature Print [see17951109]); Principal Dancers-Cranfield, King, Bayzand, Jackson, Coombs, Price, Rayner, Noble, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Ives, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Miss Webb, Miss Smith, Mrs Bayzand; Dancing Master-Simmons; [Scene VI. Inside of Hair-dressing Academyv; Shaving made easy to the meanest Capacity. Master of the Academy-Wilde; Irish Song-Johnstone; [To conclude with a Dance of Block Heads-; [Act II. Scene I. Cornhillv; Lord Mayor's Coach returning to Guildhall. I sup with Gobble, My names's O'Flanagan-Johnstone?; [Scene II. A Streetv; A Balcony on each side of the Stage. The Lover's Leap-Harlequin's Flight across the Theatre. Scene III. Inside of Gobble's Housev; The Power of Harmony. Music hath Charms-O'Flanagan's performance on the Violin-Water parted from the Sea-The Lads of the Village-Come sing round my favorite Tree-and Stoney Batter, all the same to O'Flanagan. Scene IV. A Tavernv; A Meeting of the Council-Men. Most Learned Debates!!-The Magical Nosegay-with the Crying, Laughing, Sneezing, Yawning, Dancing and Whistling Glee, by Shield-Carriage for the Company-Running without Horses-and on one Wheel only. Common Council@men-Davenport, Rees, Williamson, Wilde, Thompson, Abbot; [Scene the Last. A View of Londonv; taken from the Surrey Shorev, with an exact Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show on the Water. To conclude with a Dance-; a Finale-[composed by Shield.composed by Shield.
Cast
Role: The Widow Bewitched Actor: How to restore a Deputy Common Council-Man. Scene IV. Outside of Dancing, Shaving and Hair-dressing Academyv

1208
09 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow and Three Orphan Children of the late Mr Benson. [Address by John Taylor, Poems, I, 62.] "Benson [who committed suicide on 19 May] was remarkable for a very retentive memory, which enabled him on the slightest notice to become a substitute for almost any performer who might be suddenly disabled from appearing" (European Magazine, June 1796, p. 397). The house was a very good one, but it has been said that Sheridan went to the Treasury and carried off the money, so that Benson's widow and children never got a sixpence" (Genest, VII, 245). Receipts: #678 10s. 6d. (319.8.0; 66.3.6; 2.19.0; tickets: 276.6.0; odd money: 13.14.0) (charge: #212 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: End I: Whither my Love, Ah! Whither art thou fled? (from The Haunted Tower)-Sga Storace; From Shades of Night-Braham; This fond Sorrow-Braham, Sga Storace (both from Mahmoud); End II: the celebrated Harp Song Ah che nel petto io sento, from Idalide,-Mme Mara; In IV: a Masquerade Scene, in which Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: a new Occasional Address-Mrs Jordan

1209
08 December 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Murray (1st appearance in that character); Sir Brilliant Fashion-Betterton; William-Clarke; Sideboard-Farley; John-Abbot; Sir Bashful Constant-Quick; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Coates; Lady Constant-Miss Chapman; Muslin-Mrs Mattocks; Mignionet-Miss Leserve; Furnish-Mrs Watts; Widow Belmour-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Widow Belmour Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

1210
30 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Eccentric Lover

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Lewis, Quick, Holman, Munden, Fawcett, Murray, Knight, Whitfield, Waddy, Simmons, Rees, Curties, Miss Betterton, Mrs Pope, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Mattocks. [Cast from Times, 1 May: Sir Francis Delroy-Lewis; Peter Crowfoot-Quick; Fenton-Holman; Admiral Delroy-Munden; Doctor Crisis-Fawcett; Gangrene-Murray; Gabriel-Knight; Sir Henry Netterville-Whitfield; Ostrich-Waddy; Tom Transit-Simmons; John Seagrave-Rees; Admiral's Servant-Curties; Eleanor de Ferrars-Miss Betterton; Constantia-Mrs Pope; Widow Blandy-Mrs Gilbert; Fidelia-Mrs Mattocks; [Times does not spell all the parts as they are listed in the text, in Cumberland's Posthumous Dramatic Works, 1813, Vol. II, which assigns no parts, but in which they are spelled as above. Times erroneously assigns Doctor Crisis to Farley, and lists Mrs Mattocks' part as Mrs Crowfoot; it does not assign Gabriel or the Servant.] Prologue-Holman; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Widow Blandy Actor: Mrs Gilbert

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with: Dance of Savoyards-Platt, Miss Cranfield, Mlle St.Amand

1211
13 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: Characters by Fawcett, Johnstone, Suett, Davies, Linton, Abbot, Chippendale, Miss Griffiths, Miss DeCamp. [Cast from text (Cadell and Davies, 1799): Blinval-Fawcett; Governor of Sorrento-Johnstone; Germain-Suett; Count Murville-Davies; Centinel-Linton [unassigned in text; see18000614]; Footman-Abbot; Corporal-Chippendale; Rosina-Miss Griffiths; Widow Belmont-Miss DeCamp; Chorus-Lyons, Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer, Brown, Caulfield Jun.
Cast
Role: Widow Belmont Actor: Miss DeCamp

1212
26 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Social Songsters

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: Blinval-Fawcett; Governor O'Rourke O'Donnel-Johnstone; Count Murville-Hill; Germain-Emery; Corporal-Lee; Sentinel-Linton; Widow Belmont-Mrs Chapman; Rosina-Mrs Atkins.
Cast
Role: Widow Belmont Actor: Mrs Chapman

1213
02 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Performance Comment: Welford-Holman; Sir Buzzard Savage-Munden; Captain Douglas-H. Johnston; Cheaterly-Claremont; Colonel Staff-Thompson; Nicholas-Fawcett; Ordeal-Murray; Clara-Miss Murray; Grace-Mrs Mills; Widow Volatile-Mrs Dibdin; Constance-Miss Mills; Lady Flippant Savage-Mrs Glover (Their 1st appearance in those characters).
Cast
Role: Widow Volatile Actor: Mrs Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: A Whitsun Festival

Afterpiece Title: Five Thousand a Year

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed

Song: End I: the Battle Song-Incledon as18000522

1214
November 1670 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Womens Conquest

Performance Comment: Edition of 1671: The First Prologue. Enter-Angel, Underhill, . Enter Noakes; The Second Prologue-personated like Ben Johnson rising from below.; The Third Prologue-; Tysamnes-Harris; Bassanes-Young; Foscaris-William? Smith; Andrages-Crosby; Toxaris-Standford; Alvanes-Cademan; Araxis-Norris; Draxanes-Adams; Eumenes-Westwood; Parisatis-Mrs Betterton; Mandana-Mrs Long; Statyra-Mrs Johnson; Clarina-Mrs Shadwell; Melvissa-Mrs Dixon; Doranthe-Mrs Lee; Cydanene-Mrs Lilborne; Renone-Mrs Wright; Epilogue-the Queen of Amazons.
Cast
Role: The Second Prologue Actor: personated like Ben Johnson rising from below.
Role: Statyra Actor: Mrs Johnson

1215
November 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For The Better Or The Infallible Cure

Performance Comment: Edition of 1702 lists: Mendez-Simpson; Young Mendez-Fairbank; Antonio-Bickerstaff; Manuel-Toms; Don Alphonso-Husbands; Lopez-Johnson; Woodvil-Wilks; Johnson-Mills; Donna Theresa-Mrs Powel; Isabella-Mrs Rogers; Henrietta-Mrs Wilkins; Daria-Mrs Kent; Elvira-Mrs Moor; Clora-Mrs Lucas; Nurse-Norris; Prologue written by Farquhar-Wilks; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Lopez Actor: Johnson
Role: Johnson Actor: Mills

1216
14 December 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Edition of 1702 lists: Elder Wouldbe-Wilks; Young Wouldbe-Cibber; Richmore-Husband; Trueman-Mills; Subtleman-Penkethman; Balderdash-Johnson; Alderman-Johnson; Clear Account-Fairbank; Teague-Bowen; Constance-Mrs Rogers; Aurelia-Mrs Hook; Mandrake-Bullock; Steward's Wife-Mrs Moor; Prologue written by Motteux-Wilks; Epilogue-Aurelia.
Cast
Role: Balderdash Actor: Johnson
Role: Alderman Actor: Johnson

1217
02 October 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis Or The Old Lover Outwitted

Performance Comment: Edition of 1704 lists no actors' names; Prologue by C. Johnson designed for Verbruggen, in the Astrologer's Habit. Prologue-Mrs Bradshaw; Epilogue written by C. Johnson-Booth.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Booth.

1218
18 January 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Estcourt; Johnson-Wilks; Smith-Mills; Prettyman-Powell; Volscius-Cibber; comical parts-Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Fairbank.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Wilks
Role: comical parts Actor: Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Fairbank.

1219
18 November 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Estcourt; Smith-Mills; Johnson-Wilks; Kings of Brentford-Bullock, Bowen; Physician-Cross; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Tom Thimble-Dogget; Thunder-Johnson.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Wilks
Role: Thunder Actor: Johnson.

1220
18 December 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Estcourt; Johnson-Wilks; Smith-Mills; Prettyman-Powell; Volscius-Cibber; Kings of Brentford-Bullock, Bowen; Gentleman Usher-Pinkethman; Physician-Cross; Thimble-Dogget; Fisherman-Johnson; Hey Ho!-Norris.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Wilks
Role: Fisherman Actor: Johnson

1221
26 October 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Estcourt; Johnson-Wilks; Smith-Mills; Prettyman-Powell; Volscius-Cibber; Kings of Brentford-Bullock, Bowen; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Physician-Cross; Thimble-Dogget; Fisherman-Johnson; Pallas-Bullock; Hey Ho-Norris.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Wilks
Role: Fisherman Actor: Johnson

1222
28 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber; Johnson-Booth; Smith-Mills; Luna-Johnson; Sol-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Booth
Role: Luna Actor: Johnson

Dance:

1223
10 October 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Subtle-Cibber; Face-Mills; Sir Epicure-Harper; Dapper-Th. Cibber; Drugger-Penkethman; Anaias-Johnson; Tribulation-Griffin; Kastril-Miller.*c1723 10 10 dl Written by Ben. Johnson.
Cast
Role: Anaias Actor: Johnson
Role: Kastril Actor: Miller.c1723 10 10 dl Written by Ben. Johnson.

1224
25 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: As17311026, but Johnson-W. Mills; Smith-Watson; Volscius-Cibber Jr; Drawcansir-Mullart; Thunder-Johnson; Lightning-Miss Robinson; Kings of Brentford-Shepard, Oates; King Phiz-Harper; King Ush-Griffin; Prince Prettyman-Corey; Tom Thimble-Charke; Amaryllis-Mrs Mullart; Cloris-Mrs Charke.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: W. Mills
Role: Thunder Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: SSultana-Miss Robinson; Bartholomew Fair-Tench, Miss Brett

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Montier (being the first Time of his Performance on this Stage).

Instrumental: With a Lapland Entertainment call'd Aesop's Concert of Animals. Violins-Three Cats; Hautboy-Dog; Harp-Monkey; Bassoon-Bear; French Horn-Stag; Singing in Welch-Goat; Music Master-Aesop

1225
06 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Deborah or A Wife For You All

Performance Comment: Parts-Johnson, Griffin, Miller, Shepard, Stoppelaer, Miss Raftor, Mrs Mullart, Miss Mann; but Genest, III, 371, lists: Justice Mittimus-Griffin; Lawyer Trouble-Johnson; Alexander Whittle-Miller; Deborah-Miss Raftor.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Johnson, Griffin, Miller, Shepard, Stoppelaer, Miss Raftor, Mrs Mullart, Miss Mann
Role: Lawyer Trouble Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson