SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Henry Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Henry Smith")') 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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Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Messink, Cushing, Wewitzer, Jones, Brunsdon, Smith, Ledger, Guard and Miss Green will be admitted. Receipts: #191 9s. 6d. (30.4.0; 2.7.6; tickets: 158.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: Dancing, as17800510

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Hastings to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #225 15s. 6d. (187.5.0; 37.11.6; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lord Townly Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17811029, but Holcroft in place of Suett; Mrs Smith in place of Mrs Booth .
Event Comment: Paid Smith for Canvas #32 7s. 6d. Receipts: #148 8s. (116/9/0; 31/16/6:0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Lun's Ghost

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223; In Act III a Hornpipe by Blurton; In afterpiece, by the Miss Stageldoirs, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Minuet by Lemercier and Miss Stageldoir. With a Masquerade Dance

Song: Mainpiece: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c .
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Young Bevil to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (106/19/0; 34/6/6; 0/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17820917

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Monologue: 1782 09 19 As 17 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: Oliver-Dodd; Justice Clack-Waldron; Hilliard-Williames; Vincent-Staunton; Scentwell-Burton; Beggars-Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny; Mrs Love, Mrs Smith, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, Miss Simson, Miss Hale, Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell; Meriel-Miss Field; Rachel-Miss Phillips .

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

Event Comment: The Mourning Bride [announced on playbill of 21 May] cannot be performed, on account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #216 11s. (198/0/0; 17/16/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patriot

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wilkinson, Parker, Cross, Hunter, Miller, Powell, Shatford, Smith; Miss Watson Sen., Miss Forde, Miss Watson Jun., Miss Frederick, Miss Hemet. Cast not known. New Prologue [spoken by T. Davis] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Hemet] .

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: : Saint Valori Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: Oliver-Dodd; Justice Clack-Waldron; Hilliard-Williames; Vincent-Staunton; Scentwell-Burton; Beggars-Chapman, Fawcett, Wright, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer; Mrs Love, Mrs Smith, Mrs Booth, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Hale, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, &c.; Meriel-Miss Field; Rachel-Miss Phillips .

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch Dance [performers not listed]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron; or, Pantomimical Olio

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Clown-Grimaldi; Colombine-Miss M. Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, R. Palmer, Burton, Williames, Waldron, Staunton, Wrighten, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred; Mrs Booth, Miss Hale, Mrs Burnett, Miss Cranford, Miss Barnes, Mrs Heard, Miss Palmer, Mrs Smith, Miss Tidswell, Miss Burnett, Mrs Love. 1st Singing Witch-Chapman .

Dance: In afterpiece, by Mr and Miss Hamoir, Mills, Miss Stageldoir. [The dances were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Event Comment: The Heiress [announced on playbill of 6 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #99 14s. (80/12/0; 17/4/6; 1/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Related Works
Related Work: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: As17851017

Event Comment: Benefit for Nix, Mrs Hedges & Miss Barnes. [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "Smith having an inflammation in his eyes, and Aickin being suddenly laid up with the gout, the play was obliged to be changed [to] The Beggar's Opera" (Morning Herald, 25 May).] Morning Chronicle, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Nix, No. 21, Crown-court, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Hedges, No. 168, opposite New Bondstreet, Piccadilly; of Miss Barnes, at Cateman's, No. 52, Drury Lane. Receipts: #300 0s. 6d. (60/10/0; 19/13/6; 2/0/0; tickets: 217/17/0) (charge: #108 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17860502

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet, O sweet!; End of Act II Niddity Nod; End of Act IV a favourite Hunting Song, all three by Miss Barnes [the 3rd song omitted?, i.e. mainpiece has only 3 acts]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Tickets delivered by the young D'Egvilles, Jones, Newbold, Shaw, Dale, Purser Sen., Smith, Aberdein, Mills, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard, Miss Dancer, Miss Bradshaw, Mrs Haskey, will be admitted. Receipts: #241 8s. 6d. (23.4.0; 15.3.6; 0.15.0; tickets: 202.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Williames

Dance: End III: The Capricious Lovers-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet (1st appearance), Miss DeCamp; End: The Scheming Jockey and Fortune@Teller-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Brady, Dale, the D'Egvilles, Jones, Lyons, Powell, Sherratt, Smith, Whittow, Mrs Heard, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Mills, Miss Palmer, Mrs Shaw] will be admitted. [Miss Davies's 1st appearance, billed as "A Young Lady," was at the hay, 28 July 1786.] Receipts: #279 12s. 6d. (16.1.0; 10.8.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 252.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End III: New Dance taken from the Favourite Comic Opera of Gli Schiavi par Amore (recte per)-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Comic Concert, in which will be introduced The Devonshire Reel, Jack Tar's Delight-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss D'Egville, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Answorth, Appleby, Bayne, Daglish, Dale Jun., Gardner, George, Gillis, Keen, Pilsbury, W. Purser, Smith, Sherratt, Standen, Whittow, Woollams] will be admitted. Receipts: #303 8s. 6d. (33.11.0; 5.6.0; 0.1.6; tickets: 264.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End: As17890415; End IV: Highland Reel, as17890527, but Whittow, _Hamoir

Song: As17880920

Event Comment: Benefit for Labourie. Smith, 15: The Favourite Opera Dances for the year 1790...selected by F. Chabran contains selections from the previously mentioned ballets and Lauretta. This last title does not appear in newspaper records, but it was doubtless the "new ballet" announced for 22 April and subsequently

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Dance: End I: La Jalousie sans Raison, as17900415; End Opera: an entire New Ballet- [See17900504]; [in which the Pas Russe-Labourie, Mlle Hilligsberg

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bourk, Brigg, Daglish, Edwin, Fox, Jones, Maddocks, Smith, Walker, Harris, Webb will be admitted. Receipts: #56 5s. (28.7; 27.18; 0.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: Hornpipe-Whittow; End: Minuet de la Cour-Mr and Mrs Brigg; in which Codrile-; to conclude with a Scotch Reel-Whittow

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Calkin, Daglish, Gillis, Gardiner, Gregson, Henderson, Pilsbury, Purser, Standen, Sherratt, Thompson (of box-office), Mrs Scott, Mrs Smith will be admitted. Receipts: #38 1s. 6d. (21.19.0; 13.13.0; 2.9.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Andrews, Calkin, Chatterley, Dangerfield, Edwards, Gardiner, Gilles, Henderson, Humphreys, Irish, Long, Massingham, Panchaud, Scott, Sherratt, Smith, Stevens, Thompson] will be admitted. Receipts: #57 15s. 6d. (36.14.6; 17.14.0; 3.7.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17920613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: As17921102

Dance: As17921102; In afterpiece: Dances-the D'Egvilles, Menage, Chatterley, Webb, Melvin, Phillips, Bourk, Bidotti, Whitmell, Walker, Nokes, Keys, Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles, Miss Phillips, Miss A. DeCamp, Miss Menage Jun., Miss Smith, Miss Haskey, Miss Whitmell, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Harris, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk

Performance Comment: DeCamp, Miss Menage Jun., Miss Smith, Miss Haskey, Miss Whitmell, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Harris, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk.
Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Event Comment: Tickets Delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Andrews, Bowley, Calkin, Chatterley, Dangerfield, Edwards, Faux, Gilles, Henderson, Humphries, Irish, Long, Massingham, Panchaud, Scott, Sherratt, Smith, Stevens, Thompson, Wooldridge] will be admitted. Receipts: #64 18s. 6d. (54.5.6; 10.13.0; 0.0.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: LOVERS' QUARRELS

Afterpiece Title: THE IRISHMAN IN LONDON

Dance: In Act I of 1st piece a Highland Reel by Byrn, Mlle St. Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: End of Act II of 2nd piece (for that night only) a Selection of the most Favorite Catches and Glees from Harrison and Knyvett's Vocal Concert. What shall he have that killed the Deer by Incledon, Townsend, Richardson, Linton and Chorus Q. S. Smith). Ye spotted snakes by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton, Incledon (Stevens). The New Mariners by Incledon, Townsend, Linton and Chorus (Calicott). Where the bee sucks by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton (harmonized by Jackson). Water parted from the Sea by Incledon (Dr Arne). In 3rd piece a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland, by Johnstone, in character

Performance Comment: What shall he have that killed the Deer by Incledon, Townsend, Richardson, Linton and Chorus Q. S. Smith). Ye spotted snakes by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton, Incledon (Stevens). The New Mariners by Incledon, Townsend, Linton and Chorus (Calicott). Where the bee sucks by Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Townsend, Linton (harmonized by Jackson). Water parted from the Sea by Incledon (Dr Arne). In 3rd piece a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland, by Johnstone, in character .
Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Cooke, Evans, Jones, Kelly Jun.,Maddocks, Webb, Rhodes, Whitmell, Pilsbury, W. Banks, Chippendale, Humphries, Beaufort, Miss Butler, Miss Beaufort, Mrs and Miss Smith] will be admitted. Receipts: #83 1s. (47.16.0; 20.6.6; 14.18.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Boimaison, Wm. Banks, Cooke, Daglish, Henderson, Maddocks, Purser, Roffey, Scott, Smith, Whitmell, Wells, Miss Chatterley will be admitted.] Receipts: #101 7s. 6d. (56.8.6; 31.6.0; 8.9.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 5.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry