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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Captain OBryan"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Captain OBryan")') 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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1133 results for: Keyword - Captain O'Bryan
We found 975 matches on Performance Comments, 141 matches on Performance Title, 81 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
17 June 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

277
21 June 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guilt Its Own Punishment

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

278
02 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

279
22 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

280
25 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

281
09 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Muilment; III: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Muilment

Song: II: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: By particular Desire, a Song in the Character of a Sea Captain (as17400325-Beard

282
17 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; IV: Ballet-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; with music by Martini-; V: Pierrots-Lalauze, Livier

Song: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

283
18 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Song: I: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

Dance: II: Highlander and Mistress-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: A new Comic Pantomime Dance-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Hungarian Dance-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

284
19 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Muilment; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: Beard; IV: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

285
21 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: Wooden Shoe Dance-Master Ferg; V: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: By particular Desire,English Captain (as17400325-Beard

286
22 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: I: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; with Handel's Water Musick-

Dance: II: La Jalouzie-Desnoyer, Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

287
24 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Gillier; a Boy of Six and Scholar of Muilment, his first appearance on the stage. II: Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: A new Serious Dance-Muilment; IV: Minuet-Master Gillier, Miss Morrison; V: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; In Afterpiece: Muilment

Song: I: Beard; IV: English Captain (as1740032m-Beard

288
25 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner in the Suds

Dance: I: Minuet, Louvre-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: A new dance-Muilment; III: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: Black@ey'd Susan, disposed into a Cantata, with Recitatives and Airs adapted to the different Expressions in that celebrated Ballad, the Musick New by Mr Arne-Beard, Mrs Arne; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

289
28 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

Dance: II: La Pieraite-Lalauze, Liviez; IV: Muilment; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

290
20 September 1756 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Intriguing Captains; Or, The Lover's Contrivances

291
22 September 1756 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Captains

292
23 September 1756 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Captains

293
28 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Cast
Role: Captain Harcourt Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Female Captain

294
18 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Entertainment: Monologues End: A Dissertation on Hobby Horses , in which (the speaker) will mount upon their different Hobbies the following Personages: The Ladies , Patriots , Statesmen , Captains , Lawyers , Macaronies , Soldiers , Fidlers , Manager , and his own Hobby-Brown; End afterpiece: Dr Goldsmith's Epilogue in the Character of Harlequin , to conclude with a Leap eight feet high-Brown

295
05 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

296
10 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Captain Cook Actor: Cranfield

297
30 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Captain Cook Actor: Cranfield

298
15 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: a New Epilogue (in Honour of the Fund,)-Mrs Wells; with an Imitation-

299
19 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF MEAUX

Afterpiece Title: NETLEY ABBEY

300
27 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Meaux

Afterpiece Title: THE PACKET-BOAT

Cast
Role: Captain O'Phoenix Actor: Johnstone
Role: Captain O'Leary Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK