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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Master Burton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Master Burton")') 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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8684 results for: Keyword - Mr and Master Burton
We found 4596 matches on Event Comments, 3810 matches on Performance Comments, 1500 matches on Performance Title, 21 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8251
11 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd a Message from Mr Barry that he was not able to play King Lear on Fryday, which was at the bottom of today's Bills, but that he believ'd he could play on Saturday. He did not play again till Mond. the 15, King Lear (Hopkins MS Memorandum Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Beggar Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

8252
19 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman who played Posthumus is identified by Kemble and Winston as Mr Warboys.] Gave Duke of Cumberland's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Town and Country Magazine (quoting Theatre No XIII) remarked on Warboys acting: "The success he met with will probably deter him from following the profession of the stage...not happy either in person or in physiognamy."] Receipts: #250 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Whim, as17691123

8253
24 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

8254
26 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Cast
Role: Clarence Actor: Master Cape

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

8255
02 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Cast
Role: Clarence Actor: Master Cape

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

8256
02 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: DuBellamy, Master Leoni, Mrs Baker

8257
06 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: Burton
Role: Kastril Actor: J. Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

8258
13 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Sullen Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Sellers, as17691228

8259
21 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

8260
01 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: DuBellamy, Master Leoni, Mrs Baker

8261
02 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. The doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin at Half past six. [Stanley and Smith carried their Royal Prerogative over to Drury Lane this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: FFirst Violin-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

8262
02 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had and places to be taken for the Boxes at Mr Sarjeant's (only) at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Books of the Performance will be sold there. The doors to be opened at Five. To Begin at Half past Six. Received of Toms and Arnold Charges of the House. #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: FFirst Violin, a Solo-Giardini; Concerto on French Horns-Sg Rodolpho

8263
08 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

8264
09 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Resurrection

Music: As17700302

8265
12 March 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Conductor-Dr Arne. The Theatre thoroughly aired a week before the performance. Music of the Interlude composed by Arne. [Advertized as "Mr Foote's Theatre in the Haymarket."] At the Instance of several persons of Quality, by permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Society at the Thatched House, St James's St. Pit and Boxes 5s. First gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7 p.m. Books of all Catches and Glees and Capochio and Dorinna to be had at the Theatre for 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Catches And Glees

Afterpiece Title: Capochio and Dorinna

Music: After Interlude: Concerto on Violin-Barthelemon. *u¶Ãhay Between the acts: an Interlude. Parts-Mas. Brown, Miss Weller

8266
13 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

8267
17 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Entertainment [i.e., of The Spanish Lady] to be had at the theatre. The Comedy of Man and Wife cannot be perform'd, on account of Mr Shuter's hoarsness. Receipts: #202 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: the principal Parts Actor: _Mattocks, _Lewes, _Fox, R. _Smith, The Young Lady who performed in Man and _Wife.
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Entertainment: As17700224

8268
19 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

8269
02 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17670921.

8270
05 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: The Whim, as17691123; End: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Macklin

8271
16 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Hopkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Forge Actor: Burton

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17690926

8272
30 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Helme and Mr Branson will be taken. Charges #70 3s. 6d. Balance to Younger #36 10s., plus #116 3s. from tickets (Box 151; Pit 340; Gallery 274) (Account Book). Receipts: #106 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

8273
09 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs DuBellamy. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 2 May 1767.] Charges #64 5s. Deficit to the DuBellamy's #2 4s. covered by #142 7s. from tickets (Box 314; Pit 393; Gallery 49) (Account Book). Receipts: #62 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: Oldrents-Gibson; Hearty-Reinhold, first time; Springlove-Hull; Clack-Shuter; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Hilliard-DuBellamy; Vincent-Mattocks; Patrico-Morris; Amie-Miss Valois, first time; Meriel-Mrs Baker; Rachel-Mrs Pinto; In Act II: The Original Crutch Dance-.
Cast
Role: Randal Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: End Opera: The Old Ground Young, as17700501; with an Allemande, as17700501

8274
16 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Aickin, Sparks, Vandermeer, Hamilton, Saunders, Jacobs, Lings, Castle, F. Gentleman, Dancer, Farrel, M'George, Wheeler, Griffiths, Pearce, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Jewell; With an Occasional Prologue-Foote.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Weston, Aickin, Sparks, Vandermeer, Hamilton, Saunders, Jacobs, Lings, Castle, F. Gentleman, Dancer, Farrel, M'George, Wheeler, Griffiths, Pearce, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Jewell

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble (with a Song in Character)-Vandermere; Falsh-Saunders; Tag-Mrs Read; Miss Biddy-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Vandermere

Dance: The Pedlar-Mas. and Miss West, apprentices to Grimaldi

Performance Comment: and Miss West, apprentices to Grimaldi.

8275
22 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Fox, Hamilton and Bates. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 14s. 6d. Deficit to each actor #5 9s. 1 1!2d., covered by income from tickets: Quick #45 13s. (Box 40; Pit 169; Gallery 103); Fox #54 13s. (Box 60; Pit 219; Gallery 68); Hamilton #28 12s. (Box 40; Pit 72; Gallery 78); Bates #27 3s. (Box 28; Pit 69; Gallery 98). Paid Mr Osborne the Balance due for Benefit of New General Lying in Hospital the 22d Dec. last #10 17s. 6d. Half values from tickets receiv'd from Rose, Wilkinson, Mrs Griffiths, Flight, Roberts, Robson, Norbury, Fransdorf, Miller, and Walker (Account Book). Receipts: #43 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018