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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Joseph Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Joseph 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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3473 results for: Keyword - Joseph Smith
We found 2087 matches on Performance Comments, 963 matches on Author, 424 matches on Event Comments, 257 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3326
10 February 1729 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The best Hands from the Opera

3327
04 November 1729 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: TTamerlane, intended, was deferred by the indisposition of Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

3328
27 February 1730 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Hhe best Hands from the Opera

3329
26 March 1731 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith, from the Opera House. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3330
05 April 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

3331
06 May 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas Mountier, the Chichester Boy, who sung at Mr Smith's Concert in lif. At the Request of a great Number of Gentlemen and Ladies. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3332
09 June 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. [The bill contains a summary of the plot, and adds: Plays are like Mirror, made for Men to see How bad they are; how good they ought to be. Cowly.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Dance:

3333
22 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. Receipts: money #15 18s. 6d.; tickets #58 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Song: Singing-Mountier, Mrs Barbier

3334
19 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: SSailor's Dance-Burney; Two Pierrots-Burney, Mrs Tollet

Song: BBacchanalian Song-Excell

3335
24 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Rochetti; Cepheus-Leveridge; Mercury-Laguerre; Cassiope-Mrs Sanderson; Andromeda-Mrs Carter; Medusa-Mrs Wright; Stheno-Salway; Euryale-Papillion; 1st Ethiopian-Thompson; 2d Ethiopian-Salway; Cyclops-Hall; Delagarde, DuPre Jr, Smith; Amazons-Mrs Cantrel, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden; Infernals-Papillion, Poitier, DuPre, Pelling, Glover, Newhouse; Hussar-Nivelon; Harlequin-Lun; Petit Maitre-Poitier; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-Ray; Colombine-Mrs Younger; with the Grand Dance of Momus-.

3336
16 April 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Christopher Smith Jr (the composer). The Habits and the Scenes proper to the Subject. Words by Mr Humphrey. Pit and Boxes 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Related Works
Related Work: Ulysses Author(s): Christopher Smith Jr.

3337
31 May 1734 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: I: Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Minuet by Mrs Grognet and Mrs Sanderson. V: Dutch Skipper by Mr and Mrs Davenport. Black Joak by Smith and Miss Mann

Performance Comment: III: Minuet by Mrs Grognet and Mrs Sanderson. V: Dutch Skipper by Mr and Mrs Davenport. Black Joak by Smith and Miss Mann .

Song: II: Italian Song by Miss Young. IV: Italian Song by Mrs Mason

3338
24 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Vaughan. Receipts: money #8 13s.; tickets #120 10s. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 25 May: Yesterday Mr Smith [of CG], being disorder'd in his Senses, threw himself out of his Lodging Window up two pair of Stairs near Gray's Inn . . . and ... his Life is despaired of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Sir Joseph Actor: Neale

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: Comic Ballet, as17360417 In: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Glover's Sailors Dance

Song: I: By Leveridge. IV: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

3339
04 January 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: A new Musical Drama. [By John Lockman. Set to Music by Mr John Christopher Smith.] 5s. To continue for twenty consecutive Fridays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

3340
22 February 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: 7 p. p.m. 5s. The Eighth Day. [Music by J. C. Smith Jr.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David's Lamentation Over Saul And Jonathan

Music: Violin-Festing; Violoncello-Caporale; Several Concertos-

3341
03 February 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Christopher Smith, who at his own Expence, hath provided for, and brought up the Children of the late Mr Dahuron. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental Music-Clegg, Weideman, Caporale, Miller; The Vocal Parts to consist of several of Mr Handel's Choruses-

3342
28 December 1741 @ James Street

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Smith and Miss Davis. Note, Care will be taken that the House shall be kept warm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

3343
01 May 1744 @ May Fair

Event Comment: DDaniel and Smith's Great Theatrical Booth will be perform'd a Droll with the Comical Humours of his Squire Pancho, etc....the memorable battle betwixt his Donship and the Windmillv. [Announced for the entire time of May Fair, May 1-15, but no bill after 30 April.] Noon to nine p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote De Le Mancha

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Song: Convers, Miss Clarke

3344
01 May 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Tickets Smith, Powell, Fulwell, Owen, Foxwell, Toole, Jackson, and Gray taken. 7 p.m. [Concert formula; prices as 30 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

3345
03 March 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [With the usual synoptic account.] Benefit Paget. Tickets at Paget's, the Tobacco Roll, in Mill Yard, near the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. Tickets delivered out for Lee and Smith will be taken. [Prices as 25 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

3346
07 October 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: NNew Theatre, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. [repeated in all notices for this theatre]. Benefit Mrs Williams, Miss Pattocks, Mrs Smith 7 p.m. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: RRussian Sailor Dance-Phillips

Song: Mrs Bennet, Cunningham

3347
10 March 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith, Carpenter to the House. [Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461124, but Drunken Peasant-Miles

Song: Brett

3348
17 March 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Martha Smith. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. continue until 11 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett

Dance: As17470216

3349
22 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit for twelve on basis of varying percentages of tickets.] Benefit Banks, Trott, Carney, and Bianchini. Tickets deliver'd out by Sadler, Elliot and others will be taken. /For Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Ruby 145 48 20 #45 9s. #22 14s. 6d./Banks 6 127 144 #34 19s. #17 9s./Carny 8 42 65 #13 11s. #6 15s. 6d./Bianchini 10 38 46 #12 16s. #6 8s. (two-thirds)/Sadler ... 11 28 #4 9s. #2 4s. 6d. (two-thirds)/Elliott 1 20 45 #7 15s. #3 17s. 6d. (two-thirds)/Mrs Hayman 4 22 35 #7 16s. #3 18s./Mrs Russell 7 27 26 #8 8s. #4 4s./Mrs Keene 3 20 23 #6 1s. #3 0s. 6d. (whole)/Mrs Hales ... 16 13 #3 14s. #1 17s./Mrs Hanmore 1 11 16 #3 10s. #1 15s./Mrs Griffiths ... 7 14 #2 9s. #1 4s. 6d./Totals 180 389 475 #150 17s. #75 8s. 6d./ (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Paid Woodfall, printer part of his bill for last season #52 12s. Paid Servandoni #10 10s., and Price (a Smith) for work at lif #9 5s. (Account Books, Egerton 2268)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

3350
06 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Banks, Gwinn (Pit Doorkeeper), Trott, Smith. Tickets deliver'd by Massey, Elliot, Carney will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd