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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mary Martin"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mary Martin")') 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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874 results for: Keyword - Mary Martin
We found 562 matches on Performance Comments, 243 matches on Event Comments, 114 matches on Performance Title, 49 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
19 September 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: [Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-King; Item-Wright; Linger-Parsons; Saville-J. Aickin; Caveat-Hartry; Myra-Miss Platt; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Johnston; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King

127
31 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-King; Item-Wright; Linger-Parsons; Saville-J. Aickin; Caveat-Hartry; Myra-Miss Platt; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Johnston; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King

128
12 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-King; Linger-Parsons; Lucetta-Miss Pope; Saville-J. Aickin; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Johnston; Myra-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King

129
02 July 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper

Performance Comment: Martin-Follett, first time; Colin-DuBellamy; Twig-Jacobs; Jarvis-Fearon; Fanny-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: Follett, first time

Dance: As17730630

130
19 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Performance Comment: Martin-King; Slip-Palmer; Sir Harry-Waldron; Belford-Brereton; Miss Nancy-Miss Hopkins; Stockwell-Hartry; Jenny-Miss Pope; Mrs Stockwell-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King

131
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-Smith; Saville-Blackburn; Caveat-Munden; Boy-Master Screven; Linger-Barrett; Myra-Miss Dudley; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Barnett; Lucetta-Mrs Lefevre.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: Smith

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

132
21 May 1729 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Particularly several Pieces on Hautboy the famous-Sig St.Martin of Milan, just arrived from the Court of Brussels

Performance Comment: Martin of Milan, just arrived from the Court of Brussels.

133
May 1703 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: That Variety of Rope/danceing and Tumbling-; as far exceeds all that has ever yet been publickly seen; where the Lady Mary, who has given such great Satisfaction to the highest Nobility of the Kingdom, will outdo whatever she has perform'd before

134
22 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

135
10 December 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

136
18 November 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albian Queens; With The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

137
13 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Larron, Prevost & Juge; Ou, Les Epouvantes De Scaramouche

Afterpiece Title: Le Mary Retrouve

Dance:

138
10 April 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L Foire De St

Afterpiece Title: La Mary Retrouve

Dance:

139
02 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

140
28 April 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Music: Solo on the Violin-Charke

Song: A New Cantata-Carey; and an old Scotch Ballad called Mary Scot-Miss Raftor

Dance: A new dance-Master Tench being the first Time of his Performance on the Stage

141
07 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: II: Serious Dance by Mlle D'Hervigni. IV: French Paesans by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni

142
20 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

143
21 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A new Punch Dance-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: (BBy Desire) Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: Instead of an Overture to the Farce, will be performed a Grand Piece of Musick with Trumpets (being the Chorus...by Mr Handel)-; with a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

144
25 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: BBallad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

145
17 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Miss Scott; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: In III: J'aime la Liberte-Beard; V: Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

146
26 March 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Punch Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Song: I: Advice to the Tatlers (by Desire)-Mrs Clive; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: Select Pieces-

147
24 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: After Overture: a new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, others to the Overture of Flavius, composed by Handel; II: Hungarian Dance (in the Manner of the Country,)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter; IV: Russian Sailors-Denoyer; V: Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Song: I: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

148
30 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Muilment; IV: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf; Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

149
12 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: The Noon Tide Air-Miss Edwards; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; V: Muilment

150
06 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: A new Tambourine-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; end Afterpiece: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive