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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Thomas Walker"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Thomas Walker")') 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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12011 results for: Keyword - Mr Thomas Walker
We found 5467 matches on Author, 4647 matches on Event Comments, 2796 matches on Performance Comments, 697 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11926
25 May 1778 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End: Hornpipe-a Lady [from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden unidentified]

11927
20 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

11928
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

11929
25 September 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

11930
14 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Dance: As17790922

11931
31 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791122

11932
01 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Related Works
Related Work: Artaxerxes Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

11933
15 February 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Related Works
Related Work: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Dance: As17810203

11934
07 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer's Return From London

Afterpiece Title: All for Love

Related Works
Related Work: Love for Money; or, The Boarding School Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: Phusimimesis; or, Resemblances of Nature

Cast
Role: A Church Actor: Yard. Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End II 2nd piece: The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo, as17810226; 4th piece: The Early Horn-Cubitt; Scene I: When Phoebus the tops of the hills, as17810425

11935
01 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

11936
28 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, Love's Labyrinth

Related Works
Related Work: Loves Labyrinth; or, The Royal Shepherdess Author(s): Thomas Forde

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

11937
01 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

11938
30 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

11939
03 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

11940
10 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Medley

Related Works
Related Work: Bacchus Festival; or, A New Medley Author(s): Thomas Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840311athi

11941
28 September 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

11942
10 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Jackson, Cartwright, Holland, Osborne, Frederic, Mitchell, Edwards, Porter, Henley, Connell (with a new Irish sons in character); A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Mrs Bolton, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Ponsonby, Mrs Henley, A Lady (2nd appearance [unidentified]). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Gregory Granby, Sir ThomasLoveby, George Granby, Frank Bentley, Solomons, Levi, Waddle, Scandal, Dennis, Robert, Waiter; Eliza Wentworth, Mrs Dornbush, Miss Harcourt, Charlotte Harcourt, Lady Loveby, Susan, Miss Nancy, Miss Kitty, Maid.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

11943
18 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: The History and Fall of Caius Marius Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Land of Enchantment

Performance Comment: A Select Scene, consisting of Music and Dancing, in which: a Hunting Song [Tantivy, the welkin resounds] by Mrs Martyr; the celebrated Vauxhall Echo Catch [They say there is an echo here (performers not listed)]; a Pastoral Dialogue [Alas! Poor Sue] by Johnstone and Mrs Martyr; Auld Robin Gray by Mrs Kennedy; Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Brett, Davies. Abdiel, the Genius-Master Farley .

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Related Works
Related Work: Barataria; or, Sancho Turn'd Governor Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Dance: In 2nd piece, by Harris, Miss Besford, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Matthews

Related Works
Related Work: King and No King Author(s): Thomas Harris

Song: As17841025, but omitted: names of singers

11944
25 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End of mainpiece The fancy Races {performers not listed]

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Tantivy, the welkin resounds (the Music by Hook); End of Act II a new song, The New Blown Rose (the Words by Mrs Cumyns, the Music by Dale), both by Mrs Martyr

11945
08 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17851103

11946
08 August 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Related Works
Related Work: Love for Money; or, The Boarding School Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

11947
27 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Related Works
Related Work: Richard Coeur de Lion Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

11948
31 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-Blurton, Rayner, Miss Cranfield

11949
29 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Entertainment: Monologue. Entertainments: An Epilogue describing the Furor Dramatica, Epilogue to The Lying Valet [by David Garrick], Paul Prigg's Description of his Journey thro' Gravesend Rochester Boulogne Amiens and Chantilly, Prologue to Bon Ton [describing the Folly and Fashions of the Times by George Colman elder], Bucks have at Ye all, An Occasional Address of Thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen [by Marriot, Johnny Gilpin's Account of his Journey thro' Stoke Newington Edmonton to Ware shewing how he went farther than he intended and arrived safe Home at last-Marriot

11950
31 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: The History and Fall of Caius Marius Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Dr Last's Examination before the College of Physicians

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: V: a Grand Funeral Procession-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Wilson, Mrs Fowler, Miss Fowler, Mrs Marriot; Between the Acts: Singing-Wilson