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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Jovial Crew"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Jovial Crew")') 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
237 results for: Keyword - Jovial Crew
We found 207 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Event Comments, 17 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
25 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw The Jovial Crew, the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

2
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. Paid Kemp #9 12s.; Meares #1 10s.; Mr Day (turner) #12 1s.; Pattinson (tallow chandler) three bills to 11 Feb., #54 8s. 8d. Was at Covent Garden Gallery with Sir Harriott to see the Jovial Crew and Duke and No Duke. I met Legyt, Piggot, Bettenson there & got home by 10 (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

3
29 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full prices. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Receipts: #214 11s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares #0 10s. 6d.;Mr Platt for mahogany chair frames (12), #9 12s.; Paid Rich #50; Paid 10 night's Rents for Oratorios #100. I was to see the Jovial Crew and the Fair again, at the Gallery at Covent Garden, where I see Mrs Viebert, Miss Meredith & Mr Madan. Slept in at Drury Lane Gallery where I see the best part of Catherine & Petruchio for King's Benefit (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

4
07 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #224 18s. 6d. Advanc'd to Mrs Ward #20. Paid Sarjant on acct of salary #5; Paid Ridout one third of the surplus of this night's receipt being #144 18s. 6d. than the #80 allow'd for the charge: #48 2s. 6d. This morning I was at Mr Shadwell's for his Orders [for free theatre tickets] & took all my sisters to Covent Garden Gallery to see the Jovial Crew & Rape of Proserpine, which was full of noisy holiday people (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 544)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

5
25 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Miss Besford, Dumay, Mrs Naylor, Curtat. Tickets deliver'd for All for Love will be taken. [The Account Book has crossed out The Jovial Crew and indicated the performance of The Beggar's Opera.] Charges #64 10s. Deficit to the 5 beneficiaries #7 4s. 7 1!2d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Redman #32 11s. (Box 38; Pit 83; Gallery 106); Besford #18 1s. (Box 23; Pit 42; Gallery 60); Dumay #62 9s. (Box 165; Pit 88; Gallery 80); Mrs Naylor #30 17s. (Box 39; Pit 90; Gallery 76); Curtat #18 16s. (Box 12; Pit 68; Gallery 56). Sarjant and Condell paid up their deficiencies. Receipts: #28 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Besford

Ballet: End Opera: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe,. As17700420

6
27 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Hence my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Joviall Crew, where the King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, were; and my wife, to her great content, had a full sight of them all the while. The play full of mirth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

7
01 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To The Joviall Crew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

8
11 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Joviall Crew; but ill acted to what it was heretofore, in Clun's time, and when Lacy could dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

9
29 June 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box att the Joviall Crew. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

10
21 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

11
December 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

12
November 1689 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jovial Crew

13
22 August 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Dance: Dance between Two Frenchmen and two Frenchwomen-; Night Scene by a Harlequin and a Scaramouch , after the Italian manner,-Serene, another Person lately arrived in England

Entertainment: The famous Mr Clench of Barnet, who will perform an Organ with 3 Voices, the double Curtell the Flute and the Bells with the Mouth-Mr Clench; the Huntsman the Hounds and the Pack of Dogs-Mr Clench; with vaulting on the Horse-

14
18 March 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Dance: As17040226

Song: As17040226

15
20 March 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: Beggar's Songs-; singing-Leveridge

Dance: Dances proper to the Occasion-; dancing-duRuel, Mrs Mayers

16
17 April 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: As17031102

Dance: As17040204

Music: As17031109

17
11 September 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Song:

Dance:

18
02 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song:

Dance:

19
28 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Music: Italian sonatas on the violin-Gasperini, particularly one never performed before Paisible for violin and flute

Dance: As17041023

20
10 December 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Song: As17051016; particularly a Purcell two/part song-

Dance: As17051127

21
30 December 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Entertainment: With all the Original Songs, Dances, other Entertainments-the best Masters

Song: Leveridge, Hughs, Laurence, others

22
01 January 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

23
02 January 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

24
06 January 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

25
20 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew