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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G S Carey"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G S Carey")') 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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1531 results for: Keyword - G. S. Carey
We found 1052 matches on Author, 300 matches on Event Comments, 212 matches on Performance Comments, 51 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1276
23 July 1774 @ Great Room, Panton Street

Event Comment: By George Saville Carey at the Great Room, Panton St., Haymarket. To begin at 8:00 p.m. Price 2s. 6d. [Second night. This was repeated numerous times during the summer season, 28, 30 July, 2, 4 Aug., &c.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Mimicry

1277
27 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Morning Chronicle, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, Russel-street, Covent-garden. 2nd piece: Founded on Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers [by Henry Carey]. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #203 1s. (179.11; tickets: 23.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed; or, True Blue for Ever

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-see17800401

1278
25 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Chapman. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 24, King Street, Holbourn; of Chapman, No. 49, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. The Music by Barthelemon. Receipts: #160 15s. (39/5; 10/4; 0/4; tickets: 111/2) (charge: #108 18s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor; or, The Wishes

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss J. Stageldoir; End of Act IV The Butterfly by the Miss Stageldoirs

1279
12 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Chapman. Gazetteer, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Chapman, No. 49, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields [Wright not listed]. Receipts: #210 5s. (56/13; 1/19; tickets: 151/13) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Song: End of mainpiece The new Highland lassie, as17840507; a new Hunting Song and Chorus (composed by Danby) by Chapman; Sweet Passion of Love by Miss George

1280
17 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by a Gentleman [unidentified]; End of afterpiece a Mad Song in character by Lyons. imitations. End of mainpiece George Saville Carey has voluntarily offered to go through the following Imitations: The Examination of a Stage Candidate (in the manner of the immortal Garrick), Juno in her Cups, Etiquette, No Flower that blows, Widow Lovett, The Roundelay (in the manner of a late much-lamented Syren [probably Mrs Cargill, who, on her return from India, was drowned on 26 Feb. 1784], The Serenade in The Jubilee (after the manner of Vernon, Bannister and Kear.) To conclude with his celebrated Dialogue, in the manner of Foote and Weston. After the Imitations the Prologue to Barbarossa by Kippling, in the character of a Country Boy, in which he will introduce a Yorkshire Jig in Wooden Shoes

Performance Comment: imitations. End of mainpiece George Saville Carey has voluntarily offered to go through the following Imitations: The Examination of a Stage Candidate (in the manner of the immortal Garrick), Juno in her Cups, Etiquette, No Flower that blows, Widow Lovett, The Roundelay (in the manner of a late much-lamented Syren [probably Mrs Cargill, who, on her return from India, was drowned on 26 Feb. 1784], The Serenade in The Jubilee (after the manner of Vernon, Bannister and Kear.) To conclude with his celebrated Dialogue, in the manner of Foote and Weston. After the Imitations the Prologue to Barbarossa by Kippling, in the character of a Country Boy, in which he will introduce a Yorkshire Jig in Wooden Shoes .probably Mrs Cargill, who, on her return from India, was drowned on 26 Feb. 1784], The Serenade in The Jubilee (after the manner of Vernon, Bannister and Kear.) To conclude with his celebrated Dialogue, in the manner of Foote and Weston. After the Imitations the Prologue to Barbarossa by Kippling, in the character of a Country Boy, in which he will introduce a Yorkshire Jig in Wooden Shoes .

1281
05 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Chapman and Wright. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Chapman, No. 47, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of Wright, No. 21, Berner-street, Westminster. Receipts: #224 18s. 6d. (33/19/0; 10/11/0; 0/8/6; tickets: 180/0/0) (charge: #113 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Convivial Coterie [i

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: End of Act II of 2nd piece The Slave in Chains by Hamoir

1282
04 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall, Miss Williams & Mrs Warrell. Oracle, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Marshall, No. 11, York-street, York-buildings; of Miss Williams, No. 14, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Warrell, No. 48, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #147 9s. 6d. (14.16.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 128.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: End I: Had I a Heart for Falsehood framed-Marshall in imitation of Leoni; After Monologue: a New Song-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Dissertation on Hobby@Horses, as17910524 but Mr Brandon's Hobby in place of Mrs Mountain's Hobby; The Lawyer's Hobby-Marshall (in the character of a Jockey)

1283
22 April 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Everard. 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by Sarah Gardner. Larpent MS 1101; not published]. 2nd piece: Never acted here [acted 19 Aug. 1784]. [3rd piece: Prologue by Samuel Foote.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15. Tickets to be had at No. 21, Carey-street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; New Slaughter's Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane; of Adams, the Duke of Clarence Coffee-house, Haymarket; and of Everard, at Mr Shade's, Woburn-street, near Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Doggrell In Her Altitudes; Or, The Effects Of A West India Ramble

Afterpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Author

1284
29 May 1660 @ no theater listed

Performances

1285
11 October 1660 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Moore Of Venice

1286
08 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

1287
10 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmunton

1288
06 June 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Renegado

1289
06 January 1663 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

1290
June 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Ladies

1291
03 August 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

1292
18 August 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Court Secret

1293
24 May 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche; Or, Love's Mistress

1294
06 April 1670 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

1295
09 January 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

1296
15 January 1671 @ no theater listed

Performances

1297
26 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part I

1298
31 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

1299
09 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannibal

1300
12 March 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Lovers