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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Houghton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Houghton")') 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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386 results for: Keyword - Houghton
We found 526 matches on Roles/Actors, 116 matches on Performance Comments, 36 matches on Performance Title, 16 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

351
26 November 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Essex, Rainton, Thurmond, Houghton
Role: Followers of Perseus Actor: Thurmond, Rainton, Houghton, Charke

352
04 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Essex, Rainton, Thurmond, Houghton
Role: Followers of Perseus Actor: Thurmond, Rainton, Houghton, Charke

353
06 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Essex, Rainton, Thurmond, Houghton
Role: Followers of Perseus Actor: Thurmond, Rainton, Houghton, Charke

354
07 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Essex, Rainton, Thurmond, Houghton
Role: Followers of Perseus Actor: Thurmond, Rainton, Houghton, Charke

355
27 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Thurmond, Rainton Jr, Houghton, Evans
Role: Mandarin Gormogons Actor: Thurmond, Lally, Houghton, Charke

Dance: In: Grand Ballad D'Amour, as17311222

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: Miss Raftor

356
29 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Tritons Actor: Thurmond, Rainton Jr, Houghton, Evans
Role: Mandarin Gormogons Actor: Thurmond, Lally, Houghton, Charke

357
21 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Ballet: Grand Ballet D'Amour with Adonis. As17311228

Cast
Role: Attendants on Adonis Actor: Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Houghton

358
28 February 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

359
02 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

360
04 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

361
14 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

362
23 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Deities of Pleasure Actor: Malter, Houghton

363
26 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Deities of Pleasure Actor: Malter, Houghton

Dance: Scotch Dance, as17331004. Pigmalion, as17340114

364
30 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

365
02 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Deities of Pleasure Actor: Malter, Houghton

Dance: I: Les Characteres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. II: French Peasant by Maker. III: Pigmalion, as17340114

366
04 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

367
06 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Deities of Pleasure Actor: Malter, Houghton

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17331004. Pigmalion, as17340114

368
15 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

369
20 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

370
23 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Tumblers Actor: Ray, Houghton

371
25 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Deities of Pleasure Actor: Malter, Houghton

Dance: A new Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers

Song: English Cantata by Mrs Wright

372
15 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Houghton

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Ballet: The Prussian Camp=. As17581214

373
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

374
20 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Houghton, Lanyon, Papillon. Receipts: money #13 8s. 6d.; tickets #164 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 by money and 279 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 13 by money and 390 by tickets; slips, 1 by money; first gallery, 22 by money and 361 by tickets; second gallery, 43 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Bedlam

Dance: End I: Fingalian-; II: French Peasants and their Lasses-; III: A new Ball Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; V: Grand Dance of Moors-; Kettle Drums-Poitier

375
20 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Houghton and the Prompter. Receipts: money #18 19s. 6d.; tickets #125 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: Leveridge, Laguerre, Rochetti, Salway, Papillon, Mrs Wright, Mrs Seedo, Mrs Cantrell

Dance: Salle, Dupre, Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Delagarde, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden