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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Abington Jr"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Abington Jr")') 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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1884 results for: Keyword - Abington Jr
We found 1251 matches on Performance Comments, 557 matches on Performance Title, 226 matches on Event Comments, 8 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

601
20 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

602
02 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Libertine

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

603
28 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Spanish Dance,%The Serenade-; The Waggoners (Comic Dance)-Poitier Jr, Mrs Vernon

604
24 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier Jr

605
26 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

606
30 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America; or, The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick

607
01 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: III: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; End: By Desire Heart of Oak (the Song)-Legg; with a Hornpipe in character-Poitier Jr

608
08 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Office

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: I: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Mlle Capdeville, 1st time; a Minuet-a young Gentleman, a Young Lady (a Child of 5 years) scholar of Desse Jr; III: The Provincial Sailors-Maranesi, Miss Twist; IV: The Painter in Love with his Picture-Balthazar, Hussey, Mad Marianne; End: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

609
26 June 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants-Master Rogier, Miss Valois; End: A new comic Dance, The Carpenter and the Fruit Dealer-Gherardi Jr, Master Clinton, Miss Street

610
03 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Music: II: A Concerto on the Harpsichord-Mr Burney Jr from Worcester

611
01 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Music: II: A Concerto on the Harpsichord-Mr Burney Jr

612
30 March 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Song: Savoi, Signora Grassi

Music: First Violin, Solo-Linley Jr, from Bath; Solo on Viola di Gamba-Abel; Solo on German Flute-Wendling; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Concerto on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

613
26 February 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Solo on the Violin-Agus Jr (scholar of Nardini) lately arriv'd from Italy; Concerto on Clarinet-Mahoon

614
05 March 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son; Messiah

Music: Solo on Violin-Agus Jr; Concerto on Clarinet-Mahoon

615
23 March 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omnipotence

Song: As17740225

Music: After Part II: New Concerto for two Violins composed by Barthelemon-Agus Jr, Barthelemon

616
25 March 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omnipotence

Song: As17740225

Music: After the Song: New Concerto (Barthelemon) for two Trumpets-Serjeant Jr, Mas. Green (Scholars of Jones); After Part II: Concerto for Two Violins, as17740323

617
06 March 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha; Alexander's Feast, And The Coronation Anthems

Music: End I: Organ Concerto-Stanley; II: Violin Concerto-Linley Jr

618
27 March 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah; Samson; Alexander's Feast, And The Coronation Anthems

Music: End Part I: Concerto on Violin-Linley Jr

619
02 April 1776 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: First Violin, Concerto-Linley Jr

620
February 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Husband His Own Cuckold

621
06 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

622
07 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

623
08 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

624
11 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

625
15 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day