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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Gay")') 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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6857 results for: Keyword - Mr Gay
We found 4258 matches on Event Comments, 1414 matches on Author, 1148 matches on Performance Comments, 535 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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05 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #86 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

27
06 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #58 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

28
08 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #77 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

29
10 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #60 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

30
13 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #64 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

31
26 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #51 6s. [See Daily Advertiser, 26 March, for a letter from Francis Nivelon to the author of The Married Philosopher, to be acted on 27 March for the benefit of Nivelon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers

32
26 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Norsa. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #55 4s.; tickets #86 19s. [For a discussion of Rich's treatment of The Mock Lawyer, see Grub St. Journal, 26 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance:

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28 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Being the last time but one of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #44 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: SScotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

34
17 September 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

35
28 November 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: Achilles Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Single Dance by Mlle Salle. The Nassau, as17331112 By Malter and Mlle Salle, as17331126

36
01 December 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

37
08 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

38
05 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Comedy: Written by the late Mr Gay. [Not published before 1743, and no cast available.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Distrest Wife Author(s): John Gay

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

39
29 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Salway. Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. The Kilkenny by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. Scot's Dance by Glover and Mrs Laguerre

40
27 September 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17340920

41
03 January 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

42
22 April 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer and Mrs Kilby. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: A new Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers

Song: Leveridge's Song In Praise of English Roast Beef

43
21 May 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson, Vintner. Written by Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Music: Handel's Water Musick, in which will be performed a Preamble on the Kettle Drums by Job Baker

44
01 October 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #57

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

45
13 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #116 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

46
14 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #88 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

47
20 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #76 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

48
04 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #70 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

49
01 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit MacSwiny. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #61 17s. 6d.; tickets #60 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: A new Comic Ballet by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. II: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: Glover's Scot's Dance

50
21 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Related Works
Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Double Jealousy, as17360907

Music: Select Pieces-