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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "John Day"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "John Day")') 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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14003 results for: Keyword - John Day
We found 9825 matches on Author, 3059 matches on Event Comments, 1992 matches on Performance Comments, 823 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12051
26 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit For the Author. A Riot to demand the same [half-price after third act] agreed to (Cross Diary). [Advertised for Drury Lane that particulars will be published in a few days on the charge of innovation in prices which last night prevented the play being heard.] When Holland appeared for the Prologue-hiss'd. Garrick appeared and agreed to take half-price at the end of the third act to all performances except the first [Winter] of a New Pantomime (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Related Works
Related Work: Sauny the Scot; or, The Taming of a Shrew Author(s): John Lacy

12052
21 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Opera By Particular Desire. The Thirty-Third day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

12053
07 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. The thirty-fourth day being the last time of performing it this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: I: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101

12054
03 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: This Day being positively the last. [Note as 21 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

12055
09 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Capitani, now in the King's Bench, singer in the Opera for 20 years past. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at 7 p.m. [A long note hn the Public Advertiser about the nature of Capitani's distresses--death of wife after an expensive illness loss of considerable sums in trade, now in debtor's prison. The Public Advertiser this day Published the following Sonnet V, seemingly a new sort of puff' for Foote]: @To Mr F-@While party rage, my F., distracts the state@And mutual lies contending parties raise,@As int'rest leads, or Pitt or Bute to praise,@Let vet'ran Tories with staunch Whigs debate.@With gen'rous Punch our spirits we'll dilate,@Laugh at those loud-tongued politicians' frays,@And to good Brookman's fame attune our lays,@Whose genial bowl all cares can dissipate.@Safely to Harrogate let Bute retire,@His gout at Hayes lett Pitt in quiet nurse,@And Wilkes at either Secretary rail:@These party feuds unsocial rage inspire,@Destroy all mirth, and all good humour curse,@But shall not o'er our joyous souls prevail.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Dance: Miss Capitani, Master Rogers

12056
06 July 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Diversions Of The Morning

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Foote, Weston, Lewis, Davis, Jackson, Kennedy, Death, Johnson, Castle, Miss Harrison, Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Foote, Weston, Lewis, Davis, Jackson, Kennedy, Death, Johnson, Castle, Miss Harrison, Wilkinson.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Heeltap Actor: Johnson

Dance: As17630704

12057
15 July 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. The 14th Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Heeltap Actor: Johnson

Dance: As17630704

12058
03 September 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Last Day's Performance. 37th Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Lewis, _Johnson.
Role: Heeltap Actor: Johnson

Dance: Rogier, Master Clinton, Miss Street

12059
20 January 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The words of The Pastoral Dialogue as sung by Beard and Miss Hallam are printed in the Public Advertiser this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

12060
04 February 1764 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: No Tickets will be admitted except those dated on this day, except those of the 21st of January, that could not then get into the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Leucippo

Dance: As17640124

12061
09 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Pit and Boxes put together. No Person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Gallery to be opened at half an hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Dryden's Ode

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

12062
14 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Oratorio By Command of their Majesties. This Day is publish'd Price 1s. Deborah, a Sacred Drama, or Oratorio, as it is performed By Command of their Majesties at Covent Garden...Printed for Benjamin Dod at the Bible and Key in Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Music: As17640309

12063
23 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This Day Publish'd. Price 1s. As acted tonight at Covent Garden, Judas Maccabaeus, a Sacred Drama. With Alterations. Printed for the Administrator of J. Watts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17640309

12064
13 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Messiah publish'd this day by B. Dod. Price 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17640411

12065
26 June 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifth Day. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7 p.m. Mr Foote has changed his nights of playing to Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. [See 13 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants-Master Rogier, Miss Valois; End: A new comic Dance, The Carpenter and the Fruit Dealer-Gherardi Jr, Master Clinton, Miss Street

12066
29 June 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Seventh Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants, as17640626 End: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Clinton, Miss Street

12067
03 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eighth Day. Books of The Patron to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640629, but order reversed%

12068
05 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: A new Tambourine Dance-Rogier, Miss Valois; End: The Venetian Gardeners, as17640629

12069
10 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Tenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The Dutchman and Provincials-Gherardi, Master Clinton, Miss Street; End: Tambourine Dance, as17640705

12070
13 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eleventh Day. Mr Foote's nights for playing will be for the future Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

12071
20 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Twelfth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640710

12072
25 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Thirteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640710 but order reversed

12073
06 August 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Fourteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The Shepherdess and the Faux Aveugle, as17640801; End: The Calabrian Peasants-Rogier, Miss Valois

12074
15 August 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: TThe Dutchman and Provincials, as17640710 End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17640806

12075
31 August 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Sixteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy a la Mode

Dance: As17640824, but order reversed