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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.

176
01 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: As17760530; End II: La Fete du Village, as17760224

177
08 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: I: Minuet a la Cour-the two Vallouys; II: Pigmalion-Fierville, Helm, Mlle Sophie, Mlle Baccelli; End Opera: La Fete du Village, as17760224

178
15 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: As17760611Diane et Endymion, Les Deux Soeurs

Ballet: Astolphe. As17760611

179
22 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: As17760611Diane et Endymion, Les Deux Soeurs

Ballet: Astolphe. As17760611

180
29 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: As17760413 End II: Diane et Endymion, as17760312

Ballet: Astolphe. As17760413

181
01 March 1777 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Opera: Les Amusemens Champetres, as17761102

182
08 March 1777 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: End Act I: Les Amans Heureux, as17770104; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Opera: L'Epouse Persane, as17770121

183
03 September 1675 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

184
30 October 1676 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs

185
19 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

186
07 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

187
14 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: After these Two Nights [10 and 14 Jan.] Mr Swiny Brakes & runs away & leaves ye Singers unpaid ye Scenes & Habits also unpaid for. The Singers were in Some confusion but at last concluded to go on with ye operas on their own accounts, & divide ye Gain amongst them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

188
17 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: They perform'd ye Opera Theseus at ye usuall Opera prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

189
28 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: Ye House was better filled at this than at ye former Two Operas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

190
24 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: March 24 they gave out in ye printed Bills they would revive ye Opera Rinaldo, but by some accident it was put off, & no Opera perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

191
15 April 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: Theseus, was design'd to be perform'd, but finding they could not get Company sufficient, it was put off until the 18th

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

192
29 January 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: a very thin house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

193
19 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Song: III: When first I began Sir to ogle the Ladies (from The Strangers at Home)-Mrs Jordan; End: There the silver'd Waters roam (from The Pirates)-Sedgwick

Entertainment: Monologue End I: Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (from George? Colman's Night-Gown and Slippers)-Suett

Performance Comment: Colman='s Night-Gown and Slippers)-Suett.

194
25 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Lancashire Hornpipe-Esq Timothy's Countryman who perform'd it with so much Applause during the Time of the Fair; Mimic Scene between Harlequin and a Peasant-; Vaulting on the Horse-a Gentleman lately arriv'd from France

195
24 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; III: Pastoral-Salle, Mlle Salle

Music: t the Request of the Free and Accepted Masons a Piece of Vocal and Instrumental Musick (never perform'd in publick), Words by Charles De la Faye, Esq</a>; and set to Musick by Mr Francisco-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Hall, Papillion, Thompson

196
19 April 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet

Song: Song on the Privilege and Happiness of Free@Masonry A very humorous Song on the Charitable Corporation, sent by George Robinson, Esq</a>. late Treasurer, from Italy to his Friends in London-

197
17 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: End I: Sweet Lillies of the Valley-Dignum; End IV: My Friend is the Man I'd copy through Life (written by Miles Peter Andrews, Esq., composed by Hook)-Dignum; V: a song, as17990214

198
14 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; III: Masquerade Dance-; IV: Shepherd's Dance-Young Weeks

Song: a G Gentleman for his Diversion; A song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre address'd to the Merchants of the City of London-Excell , written by the Author of Bacchus one day gaily striding

199
22 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Second Musick:A Concertoby Henry Burgess Jr-; The Overture: The First Concerto of Signor Corelli-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: By Desire, French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; III: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Master Ferg; V: A new dance-Miss Wright

Song: a G Grand Chorus-, out of Alexander's Feast, for Trumpets, French-Horns, Kettle-Drums

200
23 September 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17410921

Song: a G Gentleman