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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMrs Midnight"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMrs Midnight")') 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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338 results for: Keyword - MMrs Midnight
We found 142 matches on Performance Title, 113 matches on Performance Comments, 100 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
10 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara (bad) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

52
16 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara agen-Oh! (Cross). Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

53
14 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

54
16 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Clive Ly Wishfort -(bad) Fribble Garrick (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit laid into Boxes Tickets of her in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #310 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

55
28 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

56
05 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Abington left about this time for Ireland (Genest, IV, 574). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

57
30 December 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's first appearance this season (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: Lowe

58
27 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office with Prologue

59
17 September 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Love play'd Mrs Peachum very bad. Her fit seem'd a very Aukward Imitation of Mrs Pritchard in the Jealous Wife (Hopkins). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money received at the Stage Door. None returned after the curtain is up. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Customary notice, which will not be repeated here, Sept. 15 David Garrick & his Lady set out for Italy from his house in Southampton St. Covent Garden (Winston MS 9). Winston also refers to a Sept. 9 Letter from T. Davies, cg, to the poet Charles Churchill begging he would not introduce so unimportant a person as himself in his Smithfield Rosciad.] Receipts: #248 9s. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

60
02 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Yates very imperfect, and played very bad (Hopkins Diary--MacMillan). Receipts: #63 5s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

61
15 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Hopkins play'd Mrs Strictland. Mrs Davies ill (Hopkins). Receipts: #118 16s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

62
07 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's benefit deferred on account of her dangerous illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

63
11 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber extremely ill, benefit to have been tomorrow deferred. Her death reported (Winston MS 9) [but see 29 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

64
29 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's death reported yesterday contradicted. She prov'd out of danger (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

65
15 October 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry [formerly Mrs Gregory] engaged from Ireland to curb Mrs Yates, whose friends suspected as much and treated her cruelly (Genest, V, 87)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

66
02 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is come to town and so well recovered as to be able to appear in Belvidera the latter end of the week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

67
13 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber='s name appears here for last time in the bills (Genest, V, 91)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

68
20 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry hissed a little. Mr Dodd being ill, Master Burton played Fribble in the pantomime (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

69
15 February 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

70
25 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

71
19 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMrs Bellamy thinks it her duty to inform the Public, that, as her name is in the Bills, (Though the Managers have sent her word she was not to play) she should think herself wanting of that Gratitude she owes the Public, if she did not let them know, she is ready to perform Cordelia. [Pasted in playbills of dl 1766-67 at 19 Jan. See Mrs Bellamy's Apology (1785) IV, 145-47, where she notes that although Miss Wilford made her entrance the audience forced her to withdraw and Mrs Bellamy acted the entire part.] Receipts: #221 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

72
25 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Jeffries made her first appearance on this stage in Belinda.--not perfect.--was pretty well received.--is a little smart figure (Hopkins MS Notes). At 15 minutes past 4, took my place in the Pit at Drury Lane to see the Provok'd Wife. Mr Garrick is inimitable as Sir John Brute, Palmer does Heartfree, and Mrs Abington Lady Fanciful (with a song not printed in the play) very well. Constant by Cautherly, whose figure and manner I do not like, Vernon in Col. Bully sings a song (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

73
23 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Jeffries very imperfect in Lucy. The Farce greatly applauded (Hopkins Diary). Afterpiece: With alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

74
26 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs W. Barry very bad in Almeria-imagine she was in Liquor (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

75
03 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Hippisley d---k, and could not speak (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock