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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Edward and Charles Dilly"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Edward and Charles Dilly")') 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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5334 results for: Keyword - Edward and Charles Dilly
We found 3306 matches on Author, 1745 matches on Performance Comments, 505 matches on Event Comments, 163 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1901
26 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Cast
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1902
27 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Performance Comment: As17701126, but Aurora-Mrs Morland.
Cast
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Morland.
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1903
03 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Cast
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Morland.
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1904
05 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Performance Comment: As17701129 [but to avoid confusion full bill listed.] Parts-King, Reddish, Parsons, Brereton, Baddeley, Davies, J. Aickin, W. Palmer, Keen, Booth, J. Burton, Wheeler, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Morland, Mrs Love, Mrs Abington; Prologue-Moody; [Address to the Town by way of Epilogue-King.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Reddish, Parsons, Brereton, Baddeley, Davies, J. Aickin, W. Palmer, Keen, Booth, J. Burton, Wheeler, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Morland, Mrs Love, Mrs Abington
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Morland.
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1905
08 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

1906
10 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Reddish, Parsons, Brereton, Baddeley, Davies, J. Aickin, W. Palmer, Keen, Booth, J. Burton, Wheeler, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Morland, Mrs Love, Mrs Abington
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Morland.
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17701025

1907
11 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1908
14 December 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-a Young Gentleman; Don Diego-Smith; Mungo-Hall; Ursula-Miss Mills; Leonora-Mrs Forbes.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: a Young Gentleman
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Music: End: Concerto on Flute-Palmer

1909
18 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit towards the Increase of a Fund for the Support of such actors, and their Families, who through Age or Infirmity are oblig'd to retire from the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17701123

1910
01 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [During this year appeared Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Catherine Jemmat containing numerous tributes in verse to various actors--Woodward, Sowdon, Mrs Woffington, Barry--when they were in Ireland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Cast
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Morland.
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1911
08 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1912
14 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1913
29 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1914
04 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: A New Dance call'd Cunning Love-Daigville, Sga Vidini, Miss Ross

1915
12 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Cautherly
Role: Varland Actor: Parsons
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1916
16 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Cautherly
Role: Varland Actor: Parsons
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1917
19 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Cautherly
Role: Varland Actor: Parsons
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1918
25 February 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Cautherly
Role: Varland Actor: Parsons
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1919
28 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clementina

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Bensley, Wroughton, Gardner, Miss Pearce, Savigny. With a Prologue and Epilogue. Anselmo-Savigny

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17701015

1920
02 March 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clementina

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Bensley, Wroughton, Gardner, Miss Pearce, Savigny. With a Prologue and Epilogue. Anselmo-Savigny

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Tartars, as17701003

1921
07 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1922
09 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Brereton; Lord Randolph-Jefferson; Glenalvon-Palmer; Norval-Packer; Officer-Keen; Servant-Ackman; Anna-Mrs Reddish; Lady Randolph-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lord Randolph Actor: Jefferson
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1923
11 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin

1924
12 March 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece [by R. Glover, Esq]. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies send Servants by 4 o'clock, and come as early as possible to prevent Confusion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Performance Comment: Jason-Smith; Creon-Bensley; Aeson-Hull; Lycander-Perry; 1st Colchian-Clarke; Hecate-Gardner; Theano-Mattocks; Medea-Mrs Yates; The Song of Azure God-Mrs Baker; The Original Epilogue-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Lycander Actor: Perry
Related Works
Related Work: Medea Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Reel, as17701103

1925
14 March 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17701123