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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Berry"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Berry")') 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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6185 results for: Keyword - Mr Berry
We found 4244 matches on Event Comments, 1850 matches on Performance Comments, 531 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
02 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. Tickets at Berry's, Theatre Coffee House, Bridges Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: Almeria-Mrs Giffard; Osmyn-Milward; King-Berry; Gonsales-Havard; Garcia-Wright; Heli-Cashell; Selim-Green; Perez-Woodburn; Alonzo-Turbutt; Leonora-Mrs Bennet; Zara-Mrs Butler.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Winstone; Miller-Berry; Lurewell-Green; Richard-Havard; Joe-Raftor.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Berry

Dance: I: Muilment; II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

252
02 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. Tickets deliver'd by Woodburn will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: As17440410 but Baldwin-Berry.
Cast
Role: Baldwin Actor: Berry.

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

253
24 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry and Havard. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Anatomist appeared in the advance notice as afterpiece for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: AS 2 Feb., but Serina-Mrs Ridout; Ernesto-Simpson; Chamont-Mills; Acasto-Berry.
Cast
Role: Acasto Actor: Berry.

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II, IV: Lowe

254
11 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece written by Shakespear. Benefit Havard and Berry. Not acted in six years [see 12 April 1738]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: Duke-Berry; Lucio-Macklin; Clown-Barrington; Isabella-Mrs Woffington; Angelo-Havard; Escalus-Winstone; Claudio-Mills; Father Peter-Bridges; Father Thomas-Simpson; Provost-Blakes; Abhorson-Collins; Elbow-I. Sparks; Barnardine-Ray; Mariana-Mrs Bennet; Juliet-Miss Pitt; Midnight-Mrs Bridges; Nun-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: III: Lowe; IV: Scotch Dialogue, as17460310

Dance: II: Muilment; V: Italian Peasants, as17460206

255
22 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross). [The Epilogue Occasioned by the Two Occasional Prologues published in the General Advertiser. Fifty-one lines ending: @"No more shall either rack his brains to teaze ye@But let the Contest be who most shall please ye." [In the form of a story, mocking Garrick and Berry]: "Once on a time two boys were throwing dirt@A gentle youth was one, and one was somewhat pert.@Each to his Master with his tale retreated,@Who gravely heard their different parts repeated,@How Tom was rude, and Jack poor lad ill treated."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Pritchard; Hardy-Sowdon; Lord Brumpton-Winstone; Campley-Woodward; Trusty-Berry; Trim-Yates; Sable-Shuter; Cabinet-Simson; Puzzle-Bridges; Kate Matchlock-W. Vaughan; Tom-Vaughan; Tatter-Paddick; Swagger-Costollo; Tattleaid-Mrs James; Mademoiselle-Mrs Cross; Fardingale-Mrs Green; Lady Sharlot-Mrs Ward; Lady Harriet-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: New Running Footmen's Dance, as17501020; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

256
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

257
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

258
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers; Or, The Good Natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

259
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

260
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

261
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

262
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

263
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Matched

264
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

265
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

266
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

267
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

268
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

269
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

270
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

271
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

272
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

273
12 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Blagdon

274
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

275
03 June 1685 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius