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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Lyon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Lyon")') 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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We found 13831 matches on Performance Comments, 4404 matches on Performance Title, 1756 matches on Event Comments, 60 matches on Roles/Actors, and 5 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Performance Comment: By the Persons who rehearsed it in DL before the Union of the Companies, but edition of 1734 lists: Don Quixote-Roberts; Sancho-Mullart; Sir Thos Loveland-Machen; Squire Badger-Macklin; Fairlove-Warwell; Mayor-Turbutt; Voter-Machen; Guzzle-Jones; John-Hewson; Brief-Topham; Dr Drench-Hal lam; Mr Sneak-Hickes; Dorothea-Miss Atherton; Jezebel-Mrs Hide; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Martin; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Egerton; Miss Sneak-Miss Jones .
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Miss Atherton
Role: Miss Sneak Actor: Miss Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche

Performance Comment: Cupid-Mrs Barbier; Psyche-Miss Arne; Venus-Mrs Chambers, the first time of her appearing on that stage; Jupiter-Stoppelaer; Apollo-Mountier (Daily Advertiser) or Kelly (Daily Journal); Mercury-Kelly (Daily Advertiser) or Mountier (Daily Journal); Ganimede-Master Arne; Vertumnus-Lally Sr; Pomona-Mrs Walter; Bacchus-Waltz; Neptune-Raftor; Mars-Winstone; Pluto-Fife; Vulcan-Rainton Jr; Juno-Mrs Mason; Pallas-Mrs Elmy; Diana-Miss Palms; Ceres-Miss Jones; Pan-Nivelon; Endimion-Essex; Sylvans-S. Lally, Davenport, Holt; Nymphs-Mrs Delorme, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Anderson; Satyrs-Topham, Wright, Leigh, F. (Daily Advertiser) or H. (Daily Journal) Tench, Bethun, Grey; Pierrot-Poitier; Polander-Nivelon; Harlequin-Le Brun; Colombine-Miss Mann; Colombine's Maid-Mrs Charke; Old Woman-Mullart; Lovers of Colombine: Mynheer Bassoon-Rainton; Sig Treblini-Mountier; Mons Quadrille-Cross; Plumb-Turbutt; Sailors-S. Lally, F. Tench, Davenport, Holt .
Cast
Role: Psyche Actor: Miss Arne
Role: Diana Actor: Miss Palms
Role: Ceres Actor: Miss Jones
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Event Comment: Tickets for Mrs Wignell, Mrs Vincent, Miss Baston [Miss Bincks, Daily Journal] taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Roberts; Sancho Panza-Mullart; Badger-Morgan; Fairlove-Aston; Mayor-Lacy; John-Bencraft; Dorothea-Mrs Mullart; Jezebel-Mrs Steel; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Egerton; Mrs Sneak-Miss Jones Sr; Miss Sneak-Miss Jones Jr .
Cast
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Miss Jones Sr
Role: Miss Sneak Actor: Miss Jones Jr

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus; or, The Magical Pipe

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salway; Mercury-Roberts; Caliope-Mrs Cantrel; Attendants on Apollo-Essex, Villeneuve, Livier; Attendants on Cassiope-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport; Harlequin-Le Brun; Country Squire-Nivelon; Pierot-Lalauze; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Colombine-Miss Mann; Countrymen-Thurmond, Pelling, Davenport; Countrywomen-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; Farmer-Harper; Innkeeper-Thurmond; with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett . with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Music: Select Pieces on the Violin by a Youth of 13 Years of Age, who never performed in public before, a Scholar of Signior Catanio

Entertainment: [Apparently not published. Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salway; Mercury-Roberts; Caliope-Mrs Cantrel; Attendants on Apollo-Villeneuve, Livier, Davenport; Harlequin-Le Brun; Squire-Nivelon; Farmer-Harper; Pierrot-Lalauze; Innkeeper-Thurmond; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Colombine-Miss Mann; Countrymen-Thurmond, Pelling, Davenport; Countrywomen-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett . with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, The Country Revels

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Le Brun; French Company-Davenport, Raftor, Cole, Mrs Cross, Miss Bennet; Lover-Taylor; Servant-Hough; Drawers-Janno, Towers; Yeoman-Wright; Conjuror-Turbutt; Milkmaids-Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dancey; Countryman-Sal way; Countrywoman-Mrs Cantrell; Colin-Essex; Phebe-Mrs Walter; Country Lads-Pelling, Davenport, Villeneuve, Rector; Country Lasses-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett; Colombine-Miss Mann .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performance Comment: Morose-Johnson; Sir John-Cibber; Sir Amorous-DL Miller; Truewit-W. Mills; Clerimont-Mills; Dauphine-Milward; Otter-Shepard; Cutbeard-Oates; Epicoene-Mrs Butler; Lady Haughty-Mrs Cross; Mrs Otter-Mrs Charke; Mrs Centaure-Mrs Grace; Dol Mavis-Miss Mann .
Cast
Role: Dol Mavis Actor: Miss Mann

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Le Brun; French Company-Davenport, Raftor, Cole, Mrs Cross, Miss Bennet; Lover-Taylor; Servant-Hough; Drawers-Janno, Towers; Yeoman-Wright; Conjurer-Winstone; Milkmaids-Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dancey; Colombine-Miss Mann; Colin-Dukes; Phebe-Mrs Walter; Country Lads-Pelling, Davenport, Villeneuve, Rector; Lasses-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, with Overture as17351117, but see17351117.

Dance: II: By Mlle Anne Roland. IV: Grand Ballet by Mlle Roland, Mlle Anne Roland, &c

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Dramatic Masque. Admission 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. No Money under the full Price will be taken; and the Advance Money will he returned to those who chuse to go out before the Overture to the Entertainment begins. Edition of 1736: Invented by Mr Pritchard. Musick composed by Mr Arne. Scenes painted by Mr Hayman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Winstone; Neptune-Turbutt; Priest of Aurora-Salway; Terra-Mrs Cross; Phoebus-Mrs Cantrell; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Moors-Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Rector; Seasons-Villeneuve, Duke, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling; Turkish Dancers-Delamayne, Mrs Walter; Turk-Salway; Harlequin-Le Brun; Morocco Servant-Poitier; Colombine-Miss Mann; Her Maid-Mrs Pritchard; Captain of the Galley-Este; Innkeeper-Turbutt; Barber-Grey; Porter-Leigh; China Woman-Mrs Ferguson; Lodging Woman-Mrs Bennet; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Anne Roland; Followers of Adonis-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell; Hours-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: Minuet in Modern Habits by Rector and Mrs Anderson. II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: The Amorous Clowns; or, The Courtezan: Clowns-Pelling, Davenport; Wives-Miss Mann, Miss Brett; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: The Amorous Clowns; or, The Courtezan: Clowns-Pelling, Davenport; Wives-Miss Mann, Miss Brett; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Performance Comment: As17360928, but Dances-Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Woodward, Miss Oates, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Dove; Original Musick-Miss Thornowets [added to the Singers; Prologue as17360928.added to the Singers; Prologue as17360928.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or, Ridotto al Fresco

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Clive; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Beau Mordecai-Macklin; Denauchee-Turbutt; Poudre-Beard; Constable-Hough; Porter-Peploe; Jenny-Miss Brett; Mother Midnight-Harper; Bess Brindle-Leigh; Pompey-Young Brooks; Justices-Winstone, Raftor, Cole; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Bennet, Miss Brett, Miss Wilson; Pierot-Rector; Punch-James; Scaramouch-Leigh; with a Comic Medley Overture-Charke.

Dance: As17371025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17371119, but Country Lads and Lasses, Tabor, Pipe-Miss Harwood, Miss _Edwards.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hays; Geniuses-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway; Helen-Miss Young; Furies-Haughton, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Dupre; Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Miss Oates; Pierot Man and Woman-Richardson, Thompson; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Villeneuve, Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Miss Cantrell; Miller-Bencraft; Miller's Wife-Miss Norman; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17381121, but Sylvans-Mlle Roland, Mrs Bullock, Miss Oates, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun; Countrymen and Lasses-_Marshall; Females-Miss Oates.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Delane; other parts-Hippisley, Bridgwater, Rosco, Hale, Hallam, Stephens, Roberts, Arthur, James, Neale, Mullart, Bencraft, Mrs Cross, Miss Burgess, Miss Norman; The Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Legar, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.*d1739 10 10 cg Poitier, Mlle Roland.*c1739 10 10 cg Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the Play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss Cole

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Queen of Gipsies-Miss Jones; Gipsies-Leigh, Green, Vaughan, Gray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Colombine's Father-Pelling; Mittimus-Usher; Goaler-Reed; Mother-Yates; Maid-Mrs Woodward; Magician-Rheinhold; Pierrot-Lalauze.

Ballet: with a Gwith a Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward; Cupid-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice: With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Salway; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-Miss Young; Followers of Eurydice-Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Laguerre; Daemons-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Squire Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Thompson; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-French Boy; Country Lads-Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre; Lasses-Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle Ozanne; Rural Swain and Nymph-Glover, Mlle Roland; Arcadian Shepherdess-French Girl; Swains-Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delegarde, Fromont, Dupre; Villagers-Waltz, Berry, Lad, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6d. Receipts: #131 3s. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice; With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Salway; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-Miss Young; Followers of Eurydice-French Girl, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantalon-Grimaldi; Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Arthur; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-French Boy; Country Lads-Delagarde, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre; Country Lasses-Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne; Arcadian Shepherdess-French Girl; Swains-Destrade, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Oates Jr, Dupre; Villagers-Waltz, Perry, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Brett, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.
Event Comment: Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. No After Money will be taken. It is humbly hop'd that no Body will take it ill that they cannot be admitted into the Musick Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Rural Sports; With The Stratagems of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Thyrsis-Muilment; Chlorinda-Mlle Chateauneuf; Swains-Desse, Livier, Carney; Nymphs-Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompon, Mrs Wright; Harlequin-Woodward; Le Chasseur-Lowe; Followers-Usher, Walker, Wildey, Dridge; Farmer Gubbins-Marten; Young Gubbins-Leigh; Goody Careful-Hough; Peasants-Green, Weeks, Usher; Peasant Women-Miss Woodman, Mrs Penkethman, Miss Story; Gaffer Fatacre-Turbutt; Colombine-Miss Mann; Toby Guzzle-Macklin; Diana-Mlle Chateauneuf; Hercules-Nivelon; Pallas-Mrs Thompson; Mercury-Carney; Pan-LaPierre; Ceres-Mrs Walter; Bacchus-Livier; Apollo-Muilment; Mars-Desse.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Sea God-Desse; Trytons-Leviez, Carney, Nivelon, LaPierre; Pantaloon-Winston; Colombine-Miss Mann; Peasants-Weeks, Carney, Leigh, Mrs Penkethman, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Clown-Macklin; with Ballet of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf.

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Muilment, Essex, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: See17401015, but Orpheus-Salway; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-Miss Young; Followers of Eurydice-French Girl, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Roberts; Demons-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantalon-Grimaldi; Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Arthur; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-French Boy; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Richardson, Destrade, Dupre; Lasses-Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; Arcadian Shepherdess-French Girl; Swains-Villeneuve, Richardson, Destrade, Delagarde, Oates Jr, Dupre; Villagers-Waltz, Perry, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davies, Brett, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers, Miss Davies.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17411028, but the Villagers-Waltz, Thompson, Roberts, Miss Davis included in the Metamorphoses of Harlequin pantomime; Country Lads-_; Country Lasses-_; 1st Nymph-Signora Domitella replaces Sga Barberina; 2nd Nymph-Mrs Wright; 3rd Nymph-Mrs LeBrun; 4th Nymph-Mrs Villeneuve; 5th Nymph-_; Smith, Davis, Stoppalaer, Miss Dodson omitted from Villagers. Smith, Davis, Stoppalaer, Miss Dodson omitted from Villagers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: By particular Desire. Richard-Cibber; Henry VI-Giffard; Richmond-W. Giffard; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Butler; Edward V-Miss Cibber; York-Miss Naylor; Buckingham-Peterson; Stanley-Mozeen; Catesby-Dighton; Ratcliff-Naylor; Norfolk-Freeman; Oxford-Pattendon; Mayor-Dunstall; Blunt-Clough; Tyrrel-Dove; Forrest-Julian; Duchess of York-Mrs Bambridge; Lady Anne-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Edward V Actor: Miss Cibber
Role: York Actor: Miss Naylor

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rosoman; Father-Julian; Beau-Peterson; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Shepherds, Peasants-Carney, Mlle Roland, Lapierre, Pelling, Granier, Miss Story, the Misses Scotts; Dwarf spirits-two Masters Granier, Miss Naylor; Clown-Dove; Concluding with a Representation of three Automations-; Being three mechanical Figures invented by the ingenious and celebrated Mr Vaucanson. Being three mechanical Figures invented by the ingenious and celebrated Mr Vaucanson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Lucilla Actor: Miss Minors.
Role: Lavinia Actor: Miss Budgell

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Performance Comment: Chrononhotonthologos-Philips; Aldiborontiphoscophornia-Cross; Rigdum Funidos-Blakes; Bombardinion-Green; King of Fidlers-Simpson; King of Antipodes-Berkley; Capt of Guards-Woodburn; Dumb Master of Ceremonies-Vaughan; Doctor-Leigh; Cook-Usher; First Lady-Miss Cole; Second Lady-Mrs King; Cupid-Miss Yates; Tatlanthe-Mrs Yates; Venus-Miss Bradshaw; Fadladinida-Miss Budgell; In the Farce The Early Horn-Lowe.
Cast
Role: First Lady Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Yates
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Bradshaw
Role: Fadladinida Actor: Miss Budgell

Song: I: a Cantata-Lowe

Dance: II: Muilment; III: Sga Bettini