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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cordal Powel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cordal Powel")') 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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847 results for: Keyword - Cordal Powel
We found 547 matches on Performance Comments, 364 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

526
20 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber Play'd (Cross). The Letter sign'd E. L. written in the Name of several Persons of Distinction, is receiv'd; and the Play of King Lear will be acted there, as soon as Mr Garrick is able to perform so long a Character (note "From the Theatre Royal Drury Lane" inserted in the General Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #156 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment (Cross)

527
21 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Ben Johnson. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #146 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

528
22 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #124 11s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

529
23 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince &c. (Cross). Lost on Wednesday Night the 21st Instant at Drury Lane Playhouse. A Steel and Gold Sword, with a Silver Gripe, the maker's name Fleaureau. Whoever has taken it up, and will bring it to Mr Fleaureau, Swordcutler in the Haymarket, shall have a Guinea and a half reward, and no Questions asked. N. B.: No greater reward will be offered (General Advertiser). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #176 5s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: DDance-Cooke

530
24 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts [by Garrick] never perform'd there before. The characters new Dress'd. [For comment on this piece, see Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects, printed by Dodsley, 1761, I, pp. 194 ff.: "The Pretty Gentlemen; or Softness of Manners Vindicated from the False ridicule under the Character of William Fribble, First printed in the year 1747."] Receipts: #140 (Cross); #149 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

531
26 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #112 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

532
28 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & P. (Cross). By His Majesty's Command. ["Mr Garrick's Conduct as Manager &c." publish'd at 6d. (query: 2nd edition?).] Receipts: #193 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

533
29 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Shuter taken (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross); #85 6s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: Lowe, Sullivan

Dance: Cooke

534
30 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross); #182 12s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

535
31 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Monday next, As You Like It, with Dancing by the Two Mademoiselle Auretti's, 1st time of their appearing on that stage. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #118 6s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

536
02 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #110 (Cross); #99 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: I: Les Caprices de la Dance-Sga Auretti; III: Grand Ballet-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; V: Polish Dance-Cooke, Sga Auretti, Leviez, Mathews, Shawford, Royer, Pelling, Mrs Addison, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole, Miss Thompson

537
03 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross); #95 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: II: Les Caprices de la Dance-Anne Auretti; III: Grand Ballet-; IV: Polish Dance, as17471102

538
04 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Principal characters in the Mainpiece New Dress'd. [Barry, apparently for the first time. See 5 Nov.] Receipts: #140 (Cross); #151 11s. (Powel); #151 14s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

539
05 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #124 18s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

540
06 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #182 6d. (Powel). [N. B. Doubling in parts by Blakes and Bransby.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

541
07 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #129 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: II: Les Caprices-; III: Grand Ballet-; V: Polish Dance, as17471102

542
09 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #119 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: PPolish Dance, as17471102

543
10 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince &c. (not in Bills) (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross); #145 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

544
11 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #105 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: II: Les Caprices-; III: Grand Ballet-; V: Polish Dance, as17471102

545
12 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #129 5s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

546
13 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #90 (Cross); #92 3s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

547
14 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Lee Play'd Bastard (Cross). Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #174 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

548
16 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Song and Chorus] Written over our late Victory over the French Fleet (General Advertiser). (bad) upon beat F: fleet (Cross). [The battle was fought on 25 Oct. off Cape Finisterre. Accounts, both French and English, appeared in the General Advertiser by 16 Nov.] Receipts: 120 (Cross); #114 16s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: New Sailor's Song-; Chorus call'd Tit for Tat-

Dance: New Ballet, call'd %The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Leviez, Pelling, Shawford, Royer, Mrs Addison, Miss Thompson, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole

549
17 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of some Persons of Quality. [The song, apparently by Cibber, upon the victory off Cape Finisterre displeased Cross the night before, but met with sufficient popular appeal to have a run.] Receipts: #82 (Cross); #88 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Dance: II: The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Song: fter the dance, an Entertainment of singing and dancing call'd The Sailors Rendezvous at Portsmouth-. [See17471116]

550
18 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #185 (Cross); #169 5s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Song: SSailors Rendezvous at Portsmouth, as17471117