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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Booth"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Booth")') 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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23861 results for: Keyword - Mrs Booth
We found 23473 matches on Performance Comments, 4773 matches on Event Comments, 4205 matches on Performance Title, 2901 matches on Roles/Actors, and 156 matches on Author.

2276
07 July 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Campion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Music: New Musick set to Flutes ; and to be perform'd-Mr Banister, Mr Banister's Son; and some of Mr Weldon's new Songs- perform'd in his last Consort

Dance: Mrs Campion; Vaulting on the Horse-

2277
11 July 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moore. Mainpiece: That celebrated Comedy...written by the Ingenious Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. Music: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bury Fair

Music: The last New Entertainment compos'd for Flutes on the Stage,-Mr Bannister, Mr Bannister's Son

Song: Mrs Lyndsey

Dance:

2278
11 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bowman. For the Entertainment of several Persons of Great Quality, late come from beyond the Seas. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., for the conveniency of the Qualities resorting to the Park after. Admission: 6s., 4s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental Music, with trumpets, kettle drums, hautboys, flutes-

Song: Mrs del'Epine[, all composed] by that Great and much esteem'd Master, Jacomo Greber

Dance: Wedding Dance, Blouzabella-Labbe, Mrs Elford; Medley Dance-Prince, Prince's daughter; a dance-Godwin, Mrs Clark

2279
30 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Short and Mrs Willis. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years. Afterpiece: in four Musical Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation; Or, The Devil Of A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Song: Mrs Willis' two Daughters

Dance: Mrs Willis's two Daughters, who never perform'd before

2280
08 February 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love

Performance Comment: Florimel-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Florimel Actor: Mrs Cross.

Song: Tell Me Why My Charming Fair, composed by Henry Purcell-Mrs Cross, Leveridge

Dance: Mrs Cross, duRuel, Cherrier

2281
01 March 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pack and Mrs Bradshaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Disappointment; Or, Love's Betray'd

Dance: Mrs Elford, Firbank, others

Song: Mrs Hodgson

2282
22 May 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Powell and Cross. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Ingenious Mr Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Squire-Bullock; Sir William-Penkethman; Young Belfond-Wilks; Sir Edward-Keene; Trueman-Mills; Cheatly-Bickerstaff; Shamwell-Bullock Jr; Lolpoop-Cross; Scrapeall-Norris; Isabella-Mrs Rogers; Teresa-Mrs Oldfield; Mrs Termagent-Mrs Knight; Lucy-Miss Sherburn; Ruth-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Rogers
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Mrs Termagent Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Powell.

Dance: Mrs Bicknell

2283
20 May 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Note, That the Tickets given out for the Careless Husband, will be taken at this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Oroonoko Actor: Booth
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Rogers
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Knight.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Mrs Santlow

2284
12 May 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Dance: Mrs Santlow

2285
19 May 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Saunders. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: As17131218, but Martha-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Martha Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.
Role: Scornful Lady Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Welford Actor: Booth
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: Mrs Santlow; particularly a Harlequin

2286
04 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Newman and Mrs Baker. With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Powell; Hypolito-Mrs Mountfort; Dorinda-Mrs Santlow; Alonzo-Keene; Ferdinand-Ryan; Antonio-Bullock Jr; Caliban-Johnson; Stephano-Bickerstaffe; Trincalo-Bullock; Ventoso-Norris; Mustacho-Leigh.
Cast
Role: Hypolito Actor: Mrs Mountfort
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Santlow

Dance: Mrs Santlow

2287
28 April 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Barbier
Role: Adonis Actor: Mrs Margarita del'Epine

Music: The Echo Flute-Paisible

Song: Mrs Barbier

Dance: Mrs Santlow

2288
03 August 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the late ingenious Mrs Behn. Receipts: #23 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feigned Courtizans

Performance Comment: Galliard-J. Leigh; Morisini-Hall; Sir Harry-Smith; Octavo-Corey; Crapine-Morgan; Sir Signall-Bullock Sr; Tickletext-Griffin; Pedro-Spiller; Julio-Bullock Jr; Cornelia-Mrs Cross; Marcella-Mrs Thurmond; Laura-Mrs Spiller; Phillipa-Mrs Rubridge; Sabina-Mrs Chantrel.
Cast
Role: Cornelia Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Marcella Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Spiller
Role: Phillipa Actor: Mrs Rubridge
Role: Sabina Actor: Mrs Chantrel.

Dance: Mrs Schoolding, Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

2289
10 May 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Mrs Moore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Marius Sr-Mills; Marius Jr-Booth; Granius-Walker; Sylla-Ryan; Metellus-Boman; Sulpitius-Bickerstaff; Cinna-Quin; Comic parts-Penkethman, Miller, Cross, Birkhead; Lavinia-Mrs Porter; Nurse-Norris.
Cast
Role: Marius Jr Actor: Booth
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Porter

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

Song: As17170204

2290
19 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Boman, Miss Purden, Hilton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17190126, but Heartwell-Thurmond; Fondlewife-Norris; Setter-_; Laetitia-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Thurmond.
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Garnet
Role: Vainlove Actor: Booth
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Saunders.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Topham, Mrs Santlow, Miss Tenoe

Song: Mrs Boman

2291
07 April 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs. Barbier. Admission as 3 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Song: Mrs Barbier, it being the First and only Time she will perform this Season in Publick

2292
04 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Purden and Newhouse. Receipts: money #24 6s.; tickets #54 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Dance: Dupre, Nivelons, Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Roger; Stripping Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier

Song: Mrs Chambers; In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legare

2293
20 March 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Violante's Daughter and Mr LaFevre, being the only Reward allow'd them for Performing the whole Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Violante
Role: Countrywomen Actor: Mrs Gilmarine, Mrs Volar

Dance: Mrs Violante, Francisco

2294
12 March 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Haughton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Giffard; Morelove-W. Williams; Foppington-Bullock; Lady Betty-Mrs Haughton; Lady Easy-Mrs Seal; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Thomas; Edgin-Mrs Kirk.
Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Haughton
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Seal
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Thomas
Role: Edgin Actor: Mrs Kirk.

Song: Mrs Mountfort, Miss Thornowets

Dance: PPierrots, Fawns-

2295
06 October 1741 @ James Street

Event Comment: New Theatre, James Street, near the Haymarket. Benefit Mrs King. [Designation of New Theatre repeated in remaining bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Mrs Sullen-Mrs Baxter; Dorinda-Miss Billoe; Cherry-Mrs Careless.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Baxter
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Careless.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Dorcas-Mrs King.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: Mrs Careless, Volage

2296
24 March 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Peterson, Mr and Mrs Dunstall. Tickets deliver'd out for Dighton, Pattendon, Bulkely, and Ravenscroft will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Crack-Cibber; Surly-Dunstall; Violante-Mrs Dunstall; Sir Courtly Nice-Peterson.
Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Song: Mrs Dunstall

2297
31 March 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: For one Night Only Concert. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., after which will be perform'd (Gratis) a new Farce of Three Acts. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets to be had of Mrs Hooper. [A new play by Mrs Hooper.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cyclopedia

Related Works
Related Work: The Cyclopedia Author(s): Mrs. Hooper

2298
09 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

Performance Comment: Principal part-Mrs Hoper.
Cast
Role: Principal part Actor: Mrs Hoper.
Related Works
Related Work: Queen Tragedy Restored Author(s): Mrs. Hooper

2299
11 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hoper. The Second Night. Mrs Hoper's Prologue to the Town, By a Friend: @Tonight a Female author heads the stage@Warm'd by the grand productions of the age;@To shine among the modern Bards aspires,@As the Moon glisters midst the lesser fires:@Pants to be rank'd with Sapho, Phillips, Behn@And prove that women write as well as Men.@Bold in the drama's cause, attacks the fashion@Where Novelty appears the reigning passion,@With drooping spirits draws the Tragic Queen@Like your fine ladies troubled with the spleen:@Nor trusts her meaning to the strolling Elf@But represents the character herself.@ [Suggests her friends reproved her for turning player, but she thought it more honorable than going into debt.] @The Stage is innocent and brings no shame@Unless the players are themselves to blame@'Twas meant as Virtue's School;--Tis no disgrace@To act a virtuous part, in any Place.@ [Closes with appeal to audience to be charitable to "this firstling of her quill, to support her generously with applause. See Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

Related Works
Related Work: Queen Tragedy Restored Author(s): Mrs. Hooper

2300
27 November 1749 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell. A concert, etc. For one Night only...By desire...Benefit for Mrs Yeates. Boxes 2s. Pit or Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Mrs Smith, Brown

Dance: Mrs Smith, Brown