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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Gay")') 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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1454 results for: Keyword - Gay
We found 1396 matches on Author, 130 matches on Event Comments, 11 matches on Performance Comments, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 7 matches on Performance Title.

51
01 October 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #57

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

52
13 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #116 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

53
14 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #88 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

54
20 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #76 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

55
04 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #70 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

56
01 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit MacSwiny. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #61 17s. 6d.; tickets #60 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: A new Comic Ballet by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. II: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: Glover's Scot's Dance

57
21 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Double Jealousy, as17360907

Music: Select Pieces-

58
27 October 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: CClown-Nivelon; Hornpipe-Ferguson; Scot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

59
03 November 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

60
16 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: A new Serious Dance-Delamayne, Miss Oates

61
17 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: As17361116

62
19 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

63
23 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Harlequin-Delamayne

64
16 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

65
21 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

66
31 December 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime: With New Scenes and several Alterations and Additions, particularly a Sequel to the Contention, call'd Pistol in Mourning

Performance Comment: Polly-Mrs Roberts; Pretender to Polly-Mrs Hamilton; Ghost of Gay-Lyon; Squire-Yates; Constable-Dove; Ben-Richardson; Beggar-Hewitt; Molly-Mrs Haughton; Sukey-Miss Tollett; Jenny-Mrs Dove; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Thornowets; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Clown-Penkethman; Attendants on Polly-Kelly, Corfe, Richardson, Stitchbury, Mrs Marshall, Miss Tollet, Miss Wilson, Miss Thornowets; Manager-Cox; Pistol-Mrs Charke; Ballad Singers-Two Masters Hamilton; With a New Ballad Prologue to the Pantomime,-Mrs Roberts; To which (by Desire) will be prefix'd, The Landing of Prince Germanicus-, and his Reception.
Cast
Role: Ghost of Gay Actor: Lyon

67
14 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

68
20 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

69
25 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

70
10 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

71
15 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Miss LeBrun; In III: Hornpipe-Ferguson; End Afterpiece: Glover's Dance of Sailors-

Song: V: As I saw Fair Clara-Beard, Salway

72
02 August 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414

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

73
05 August 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Three Hours After Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: Three Hours after Marriage Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

74
25 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Lilliputians , Scholars of Livier

75
09 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: As17371018