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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "M and Mlle Mechel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "M and Mlle Mechel")') 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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2251 results for: Keyword - M. and Mlle Mechel
We found 1716 matches on Performance Title, 643 matches on Performance Comments, 124 matches on Event Comments, 8 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

301
18 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Sir Roger DeCoverley [Joseph Dorman]. Receipts: money #38 8s. 6d.; tickets #120 3s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.). [On 19 Nov. Dorman paid the Treasurer #15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Salway
Role: James Actor: Anderson

Dance: W Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

302
19 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Anderson

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

303
20 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

304
10 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. For the better Accommodation of the Ladies, the Stage will be enclosed into an Amphitheatre, and formed into Boxes. Receipts: money #68 3s.; seals #135 11s. (Account Book); #202 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Hippisley was charged #20 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Wooden Shoe Dance-Mechel

Music: V: Handel's Water@Musick, a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Jo. Woodbridge

305
12 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Tickets at Mrs Horton's, at the Angel, in Bedford Street. Receipts: money #78; seals #81 17s. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). [Mrs Horton received a Free Benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule; Or, Love And Empire

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; French Peasant-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

306
16 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Ryan. Receipts: money #59 0s. 6d.; seals #100 6s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.) [Ryan received a Free Benefit. See also an Exchange of letters in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 9 and 10 March, concerning the alleged indecency of Blunt's undressing before the audience.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tyrolean-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini

307
05 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Cast
Role: Ending with a Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner.

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: A New Dance The Italian Peasants-the Mechels

308
31 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Matelote Polonnes-Mechel

309
16 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Milward

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Cast
Role: Ending with a Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner.

Dance: I: The French Peasants-the Mechels; III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411208

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard

310
19 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Cast
Role: Ending with a Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner.

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: A Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: A Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: The Swiss-the Mechels

311
17 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Cast
Role: Ending with a Grand Ballet Actor: Desse, Leviez, Miss Story, Mrs Rayner.

Song: I: Sylvia wilt thou was e thy Prime-Lowe; III: a Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; IV: a New Dance call'd Les Pelerins Voyageur-the Mechels

312
22 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes carefully enclosed) may be had at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; III: A Ballad-Lowe; V: At the particular desire of several ladies of Quality, the celebrated Irish Ballad Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive, as she perform'd it in Dublin

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-the Mechels; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

313
25 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands: Hill Play'd Carlos. Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: I: Song-Beard; III: Ballad-Lowe; IV: Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: Le Boufon-the Mechels

314
26 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Particularly the Representation of a Battle of the Actor: Per gli Signori Giovanni and Tomasino detti Beard, Lowe

Dance: The Mechels

315
28 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Dance: The Mechels

316
31 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands MS.: Garrick Play'd, Duke Attended. Died 31 July, aged 77, Ben Johnson (Winston MS. from Burney's Actors MSS). [See benefit for his daughter 15 Dec.] Receipts: #171

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: The Mechels

317
01 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Song: I: Lowe; III: Mrs Arne; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-the Mechels; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

318
05 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last night a new song call'd The Subscription was perform'd at Drury Lane; written by Mr Mozeen, and set to music by Mr Arne, which was receiv'd with universal applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: II: The Subscription-Lowe

Dance: III: Dance-the Mechels

319
07 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: the The Debauchees

Song: the II: Lowe; V: The Subscription-Lowe

Dance: the IV: the Mechels

320
09 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: III: Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

321
20 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Lowe; V: Chorus Song, as17451114, but Lowe

Dance: III: Mechel

322
21 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: II: Lowe; V: The Subscription-Lowe

Dance: IV: Mechel

323
23 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Mechel

Song: IV: The Subscription-Lowe

324
25 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed

Dance: II: Mechel

Song: IV: The Subscription-Lowe

325
07 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Col Standard Actor: Delane
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Leigh

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: III: Lowe; V: The Subscription-Lowe

Dance: IV: Mechel