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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Varney"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Varney")') 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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5642 results for: Keyword - Mr Varney
We found 4244 matches on Event Comments, 1138 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
28 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Tickets at her house in Henrietta St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: By particular Desire, Ellen@a@roon-Mrs Clive

127
05 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Decorations of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane are new finished and the House will certainly open on Saturday next, being the 10th instant. Places for the Boxes are to be had of Mr Varney at the Stage Door of the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

128
10 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First GallerY 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [Customary note in bills throughout the season.] House Open'd. Receipts. #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

129
14 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit] for a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes (Cross). Tickets to be had fo Mrs Powell, at the Golden Leg in Fleet St.; at the Turk's Head Coffee-House in New Bond St.; and of Mr Varney at the theatre, where places in the Boxes may be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: III: The Market, as17571126

130
16 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Clive Ly Wishfort -(bad) Fribble Garrick (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit laid into Boxes Tickets of her in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #310 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

131
20 September 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. There can be no admittance to the Orchestra on account of the Music and Dancing in the Play. [N.B. This statement customarily appears at the foot of each bill during the season, and will not be noted further.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

132
30 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire a Minuet (for the first time)-Noverre, Miss Mowatt. Benefit for Miss Mowatt. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 5 years. No Building on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Miss Mowatt, Upper End of New Bond St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

133
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

134
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

135
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

136
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

137
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

138
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

139
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

140
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Matched

141
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

142
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

143
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

144
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

145
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

146
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

147
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

148
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-

149
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

150
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