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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "John Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "John 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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11785 results for: Keyword - John Gay
We found 9825 matches on Author, 1693 matches on Performance Comments, 1248 matches on Event Comments, 330 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
22 April 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer and Mrs Kilby. 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 Country House

Related Works
Related Work: The Country House Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: A new Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers

Song: Leveridge's Song In Praise of English Roast Beef

52
21 May 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson, Vintner. Written by Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Music: Handel's Water Musick, in which will be performed a Preamble on the Kettle Drums by Job Baker

53
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

54
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

55
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

56
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

57
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

58
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

59
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

Performance Comment: Julius Caesar-W. Mills; Calphurnia-Mrs Butler; Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Mills; Antony-Milward; Caska-Cibber; Portia-Mrs Thurmond; Citizens-Johnson, Miller, Harper, Griffin.
Cast
Role: Citizens Actor: Johnson, Miller, Harper, Griffin.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Johnson
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-

60
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

61
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

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

62
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

63
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

64
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

65
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

66
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

67
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

68
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

69
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

70
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

71
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

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver

72
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

73
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

74
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 GayJohn Arbuthnot

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

75
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