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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Merrifield"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Merrifield")') 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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46 results for: Keyword - Merrifield
We found 38 matches on Roles/Actors, 8 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Performance Title, 3 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
26 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Merrifield, Dumay, Curtat. Charges #81 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #3 11s. 6d., cover'd by tickets. Receipts: #70 1Os. 6d. (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Merrifield 101 145 79 #54 19s.@Dumay 194 111 105 #75 13s.@Curtat 58 123 133 #46 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: III: Minuets, Cotillons-Merrifield, Dumay, Curtat, Settree, Miss Twist, Mrs Invill, Miss Mathews, Mrs Hartle

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17730424 but with a New Hornpipe-Fishar, Mas. Blurton, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist

2
26 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Hussey, King and Merrifield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd The Nosegay-Rudd (2nd appearance), Miss Matthews [See dl 27 April 1767]; IV: Minuets, Allemandes, Cotillions-Dumay, Hussey, King, Merrifield, Miss Matthews, Miss Brown, Miss Ross, Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, a young Lady[, scholar to Dumay [See17740518]; End: The Enchantress, as17750201

3
15 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Merrifield, Harris, and Holloway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: III: Minuets and Cotillions-Dumay, Miss Armstrong, Merrifield, Miss Ross, Harris, Miss Mathews, Mr and Mrs Holloway; End: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503 [and for Minuets and Cotillions, see17750526]

4
04 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Pluto-Reinhold; Mercury-Baker; Proserpine-Mrs Baker; Ceres-Mrs Thompson; Harlequin-Lewes; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Yeoman-Morris; Clown-Miles; Other characters-C. Smith, Mrs Pitt, Barnshaw, Banks, Reyner, Holtom; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

5
01 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; III: (Not done these 3 years) [a Dance call'd A Tambourine-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere [see17700501]; End I Farce: [a Hornpipe-Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: (For That Night Only) a New Grand Pantomimical Dance call'd The Recruits. Recruiting Captain-Aldridge; Drummer-Mas. Harris; Serjeant-Hussey; Soldiers, recruits-Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway; Captain's Lady-Sga Manesiere; Landlady-Mrs White; Landlady's Daughter-Miss Twist; Soldiers, wives, country girls-Mrs Willems, Mrs Hartle, Mrs Invill, Miss Stede, Miss Lawrence

Performance Comment: Recruiting Captain-Aldridge; Drummer-Mas. Harris; Serjeant-Hussey; Soldiers, recruits-Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway; Captain's Lady-Sga Manesiere; Landlady-Mrs White; Landlady's Daughter-Miss Twist; Soldiers, wives, country girls-Mrs Willems, Mrs Hartle, Mrs Invill, Miss Stede, Miss Lawrence.
Cast
Role: recruits Actor: Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway

6
24 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Cumberland Corn@thrashers-Mas. Blurton (Apprentice to Fishar), Miss Mathews; II: (By Particular Desire) a Minuet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; III: A Hornpipe, first time-Miller (Scholar to Fishar)

Monologue: IV: a New Grand Ballet (that night only) called The Festival of the Black Prince(As performed at Paris by Fishar with universal applause). Black Prince-Fishar; Favourites-Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist; Pages-Mas. Blurton, Miller; Dancers and Attendants-Hussey, Petrie, Dumay, Settree, King, Merrifield, Curtat, Holloway, Miss Capon, Mrs Willems, Miss Stede, Mrs Inuill, Miss Matthews, Miss Bassan, Sodi, Mrs Holloway. With dresses in the mode

Performance Comment: Black Prince-Fishar; Favourites-Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist; Pages-Mas. Blurton, Miller; Dancers and Attendants-Hussey, Petrie, Dumay, Settree, King, Merrifield, Curtat, Holloway, Miss Capon, Mrs Willems, Miss Stede, Mrs Inuill, Miss Matthews, Miss Bassan, Sodi, Mrs Holloway. With dresses in the mode.
Cast
Role: Dancers and Attendants Actor: Hussey, Petrie, Dumay, Settree, King, Merrifield, Curtat, Holloway, Miss Capon, Mrs Willems, Miss Stede, Mrs Inuill, Miss Matthews, Miss Bassan, Sodi, Mrs Holloway. With dresses in the mode.

Ballet: V: First time this season The Wapping Landlady. Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Nosegay Woman-Sga Manesiere; with a New Hornpipe-Fishar, Mas. Blurton, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist, Miss Capon, Miss Besford (Six principal dancers)

7
06 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

8
07 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

9
08 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

10
09 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

11
10 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

12
11 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17671114.

13
13 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

14
14 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

15
15 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

16
16 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17691111

17
17 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

18
18 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

19
20 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Arnauld, Miss Capon.[See17681007.

20
22 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

21
23 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Dance: III: A New Dance call'd The Whim-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17690427]

22
24 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

23
25 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

24
27 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amlet

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

25
28 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.