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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G Colman Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G Colman Esq")') 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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3053 results for: Keyword - G. Colman Esq.
We found 2187 matches on Author, 724 matches on Event Comments, 236 matches on Performance Comments, 45 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2526
26 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted but Once these Twenty Years. [As lif acted on Tuesdays and Fridays, possibly these plays were given earlier on 22 June.] By a Company of Comedians, acting under Letters-Patent. Mainpiece: Written by Thomas Shadwell, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2527
06 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #62

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2528
08 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Egerton 2320. Receipts: #62. A dam'd stink this Night by a Vaults being Emptied in Vinegar yard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

2529
04 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17371025

2530
07 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Scott; Minuet-Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-Miss Scott's Sister; III: The Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; two of the Lilliputians. IV: Serious Dance-Misses Scott

2531
08 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

2532
11 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Scot's Dance, as17371110

2533
02 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

2534
03 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland

2535
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq</a>. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

2536
18 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: As17380316

2537
29 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Music: III: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter; IV: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

2538
08 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mines, Gallant, Verhuyck, Naylor. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: SSerious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel

2539
15 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Arne. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: I: Sweet Echoby Arne in Comus-Mrs Arne; III: Dove Spiega (an Italian Song by Arne)-Mrs Arne

2540
25 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman (of a Baronet's Family) now under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Minuet, The Bretagne-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; V: La Pierraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson

2541
12 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan: Intermix'd with Songs

2542
03 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

2543
05 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

2544
12 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: A new Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland, others

2545
14 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: As17381012

2546
16 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>. Afterpiece: Altered from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

2547
23 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: Dance of Moors-Muilment

2548
07 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

2549
18 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

2550
19 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire, Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Music: III: As17390117

Dance: V: Grand Dance of Moors, as17390117