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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Grigsbys Shadwells Janeways and Sams Coffee Houses"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Grigsbys Shadwells Janeways and Sams Coffee Houses")') 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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2908 results for: Keyword - Grigsby's, Shadwell's, Janeway's and Sam's Coffee Houses
We found 1843 matches on Event Comments, 833 matches on Author, 211 matches on Performance Title, 141 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

976
03 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Dodd, but he "having lost his Father, an apology was made for R. Palmer's playing his character in the Critic; and though the apology was a very handsome one, it is but justice to say it was unnecessary, R. Palmer acquitting himself in such a manner as did him infinite credit" (Morning Chronicle, 4 Feb.).] Receipts: #186 8s. (151.1; 33.19; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

977
26 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791220

978
03 October 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Related Works
Related Work: The Election Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Performance Comment: Azor-Vernon; Ali-Dodd; Scander-Bannister; Fatima-Miss Collett; Lesbia-Miss Kirby; Selima-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Bannister

979
20 November 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (249.8.0; 11.16.6; 1.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17801025

980
26 January 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Actor: Bannister Jun.

981
31 January 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Dance-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Crespi

982
16 February 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17810131

983
25 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: SCENE I. A Church Yard by Moon Light. Poor Thomas Day-Bannister, Gaudry, Suett; [SCENE II. A Forest. Tally ho!-Mrs Wrighten; [SCENE III. A View of the Grand Fleet at Spithead. Blow high-Bannister; [with a Dance of Sailors-Blurton; [SCENE IV. A Venetian Carnival. Beviamo tuttre [recte Beviamo tutti tre] -Delpini, Gaudry, Du-Bellamy; Italian Laughing song-Delpini; [A Dance of Anticks-; [SCDNE THE LAST. A Rural Prospect. A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong; [To conclude with How merrily we live-Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill; Hecate-Holcroft.
Cast
Role: A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong
Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

984
10 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810425, but Blow high-_; Dance of Sailors-_; A Dance of Shepherds and Shepheresses-_; Hecate-_ SCENE I, as17810425; SCENE II, as17810425; SCENE III as SCENE IV on 25 Apr.; Dance of Anticks-_; SCENE IV. Teague's Journey to London through Coventry-Moody as17810507; The Butterfly, as17800921; SCENE THE LAST. How merrily we live, as17810425. The Butterfly, as17800921; SCENE THE LAST. How merrily we live, as17810425.
Cast
Role: A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong
Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: Scene IV: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: End III: song-Miss Barnes (1st attempt on any stage); End 1st piece: the Grand Naval Review-; Rule Britannia-Gaudry, Edwards, Williams

985
04 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Frenchman in the Dairy, by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, the Miss Stageldoirs

986
02 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In mainpiece The Merry Sailors, with a Double Hornpipe, by the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: In mainpiece Rule Britannia by Williames, Chapman, &c

Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst

Monologue: 1783 05 02 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at Ye All by Palmer

987
27 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17830920 dancing and.
Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Cornelius Vandertop

Song: Mainpiece: To finish with a Grand Naval Review, in which a Dance of Sailors by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir, &c, and Rule Britannia by Williames, Staunton, Phillimore, Barrymore

Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst

988
06 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Being possessed of an excellent understanding, and under the general impression of elegant manners, there appears to be no study [in Mrs Abington], no imitation--all is the result of the moment--natural, well-bred, and easy" (Public Advertiser, 25 Nov. 1784). Mainpiece: Altered from Cibber's Non-Jour, and the Tartuffe of Moliere. Not acted these 12 years [acted 12 Oct. 1773]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Rival Nympbs by Harris, Byrne, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin, Miss Matthews

989
13 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17841006; End of mainpiece, as17841008

990
20 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Charms of a Camp, as17841008

991
21 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: As17841020

992
06 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Belle of the Village, as17840917

993
24 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Leap Year, as17841022

994
06 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17840921, but Whittle-Waldron. dancing and.
Cast
Role: Whittle Actor: Waldron. dancing and

Song: Mainpiece to finish with a Grand Naval Review, with a Dance of Sailors by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir, &c, and Rule Britannia by Williames, Chapman, &c

Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst

995
07 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Cast
Role: assigns Harlequin Actor: Kennedy, and lists Johnstone, Mrs Bannister

996
12 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

Performance Comment: imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off .

997
14 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

998
29 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Cibber's Non-Juror, and the Tartuffe of Moliere. Receipts: #141 18s. 6d. (138/16/0; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

999
17 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks After Marriage

Dance: As17851103

1000
27 January 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Omai

Cast
Role: and Rival to Harlequin Actor: Delpini