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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Booths"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Booths")') 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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6070 results for: Keyword - Booths
We found 6531 matches on Roles/Actors, 1930 matches on Performance Comments, 612 matches on Event Comments, 294 matches on Performance Title, and 147 matches on Author.

5501
07 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Whittington

5502
16 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Proclamation: Southwark

5503
22 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Intriguing Chambermaid; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Dance: I: A new Grand Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Codgerino; End: A new Irish Dance-

5504
10 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

5505
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave; Or, A Wife For Ye All

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

5506
27 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Old Witch of Endor; or, Harlequin Turn'd Beau

5507
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: [The Birth of Harlequin; or, The Old Woman's Whim

Dance: To conclude with A Dance in the Ancient British Taste-Choice Spirits from Comus's Court

Music: [NNew Concerto for the Tambour de Basque-

5508
05 September 1757 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Physician; Or, A Cure For All Ills

Afterpiece Title: The Restoration and Adventures of Harlequin

Song:

Dance:

5509
17 September 1757 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Lover; Or, A Tit-bit For A Nice Palate

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Vagaries

Dance:

5510
02 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: The Joyous Return of the Brave British Tars from the Conquest of Cape Breton

5511
19 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Shuter's Booth. [From a puff in the Public Advertiser today, it appears that performances were given at both booths on the 18th. "several heats were ran."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

5512
03 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At Yeates' Theatrical Booth, Greyhound Inn, during the time of Bartholomew Fair. The whole to be decorated with decency, and propriety, together with a grand Band of Music, consisting of French Horns, Violins, Trumpets, Hautboys, &c. N.B. There is a convenient Way to the theatre in Cow Lane for coaches, where Ladies and Gentlemen may have admittance without interruption. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. Upper 6d. [Several persons had provided booths in the Inns at Smithfield to perform Drolls and Interludes, as had been customary for many years, and were preparing to exhibit accordingly; but the City Marshall and other officers, by order of the Lord Mayor oblig'd them to take down their Shew Cloths and decamp (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholemew Fair).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trial Scenes Of The Cock Lane Ghost

Afterpiece Title: Tars of Old England

Entertainment: Exhortation of the Little Lilliputian Squire Hum, a child of five years old. TheGrand Hornpipical Balletin the taste and after the manner of Mrs Vernon and Miss Nancy Dawson,-a young lady

5513
24 September 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

5514
30 July 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

5515
10 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

5516
13 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Spirits by Miss Armstrong, &c.; In Act III a Dance of Fantastic Spirits [performers not listed. These were danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances]. In Act IV a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, &c

5517
09 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Spirits by Miss Hamoir, &c.; In Act III a Dance of Fantastic Spirits (performers not listed); In Act IV a Dance by Mr and Miss Hamoir. [All these were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

5518
22 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

5519
17 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Dance of Spirits by Miss Stageldoir, &c.; In Act III a Dance of Fantastic Spirits [performers not listed]; In Act IV a Dance by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton

5520
26 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: End of mainpiece The Market, as17851024

5521
26 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well

Dance: In afterpiece, by Hamoir, Williamson, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Sutton, &c. [The dance was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

5522
03 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

5523
26 February 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

5524
21 September 1668 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whittington [a Puppet Show]

5525
11 November 1672 @ Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dutch Cruelties At Amboyna; With The Humours Of The Valiant Welch-man