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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Reading"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Reading")') 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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22257 results for: Keyword - Mrs Reading
We found 23328 matches on Performance Comments, 4265 matches on Event Comments, 4214 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

22001
17 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: As17221211

22002
03 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaffe. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. N.B. The sudden and unexpected Death of Mrs Bickerstaffe (and his extream Pain, and Lameness with the Gout) has prevented the proper Application to the Quality, and his Friends. Yet (not withstanding) tis hoped, they will, with their usual Goodness, favor him with their Appearance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: As17230502

22003
03 June 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Clarkson, Miss Holliday, Hanson, Mrs Elliot. [Aylett?] Receipts: money #7; tickets #104 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance:

22004
10 July 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Daily Journal, 13 July: We have an Account from Norwich by Yeaterday's Post, that the celebrated Actress Mrs Seymour, who lately married Mr Boheme, died there of a Fever the 10th Instant

Performances

22005
06 December 1723 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Teague, Careless in The Committee, The Gravediggers in Hamlet, Sir Sampson, Angelica, Foresight in Love for Love, Jeremy, Valentine, Mrs Frail in Love for Love, Humours of Hob in The Country Wake, Prologue, Epilogue-.

Entertainment: The Ever-New Drunken Man-

22006
23 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Boxes, but by printed Tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in at the same Price. N.B. To prevent the Ladies from coming too early, Servants will be admitted to keep Places open on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Dance:

22007
25 April 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Burton, Middle-Gallery Boxkeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: As17231028

22008
06 May 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hill. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

22009
08 May 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit J. Clegg (from Ireland), a Youth of Ten Years of Age, who play'd at Mrs Barbier's Benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several choiceConcertos-the Youth [J. Clegg][, never perform'd in Publick; [particularly, Concert of Vivaldi's called La Temista di Mare-; Solo-Mr Kitch; Solo Song [out of the Opera of Julius Caesar. Song Part-Mr Kitch; Violin-the Youth; [as done by Sig Castrucci in the Opera, Solo [of Sig Germiniani's-the Youth

22010
07 April 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lagarroune, the Izabelle , and Laniere, the Lover . Mainpiece: Orne deutout son Spectacle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Festin De Pierre

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Embassadeur D'Amour

Dance:

22011
07 May 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Jacobs, the new Colombine, lately arrived from France. Mainpiece: The only Master-Piece that the famous Mons d'Noble ever writ. Afterpiece: Written by M Moliere. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux D'arlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor against His Will

Dance: Roger, new Colombine

22012
24 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Willis, Widow Bowen, and Widow Leigh.Mainpiece: As 30 Oct. 1724

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

22013
08 September 1725 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At about 11 a Clock at Mrs Lee's@great@Booth on the Green in Southwark, happen'd a very sad Accident: The Gallery over the Stage not being thoroughly secured, gave way, when between Twenty and Thirty People fell with it....It is high Time for Authority to interpose, to suppress those Nurseries of Lewdness, if so little Care is taken that those who resort to their Entertainments, must be in Jeopardy.--Parker's Penny Post, 13 Sept

Performances

22014
27 December 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barns. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Silvia's Revenge; or, The Berbadoes Fortune

22015
01 April 1726 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robert. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m. His Excellency the Morocco Ambassador will be there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

22016
01 June 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: On this day and on several following days Mrs Violante offered tumbling, dancing and general entertainments, but no plays, at this theater

Performances

22017
07 January 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Advertised but dismissed on the sudden illness of Mrs Oldfield.

22018
16 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #67 1s.; tickets #98 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 342 by tickets; stage, 44 by money; pit, 123 by money and 88 by tickets; slips, 14 by money; first gallery, 166 by money; second gallery, 52 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: With an additional Dance, by Nivelon and Poitiercall'd The Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; And all the other Dances as usual-

22019
28 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 3 orders; stage, 28 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 273 paid and 3 orders; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 420 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 195 paid. Daily Journal, 28 Feb.: Whereas Mrs Barbier has advertized that the Beggar's Opera is to be performed, for her Benefit, on the 16th of March next; This is to inform the Publick, That such Advertisement was published without Consent of Mr Rich, and that the same will not be allow'd of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

22020
05 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #183 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 240 paid and 4 orders; stage, 79 paid; pit, 292 paid and 4 orders; slips, 64 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 433 paid; second gallery, 204 paid. Daily Journal, 5 March: Mrs Barbier, in Compliance to the Town, has wav'd her right to the Beggar's Opera and the Tickets delivered out for Saturday the 16th, will be taken on Monday the 18th to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, for her Benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

22021
11 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. [There is some confusion concerning this performance. Daily Journal advertises The Fortune Hunters for its second performance, but Rich's Register gives The Beggar's Opera, 33d time; this numbering is recongnized in the bills by 16 March.] Receipts: money #35 2s.; tickets #115 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 41 by money and 247 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 59 by money and 203 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 66 by money and 203 by tickets; second gallery, 74 by money. Tickets for Volpone will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

22022
18 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written Originally by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

22023
03 April 1728 @ Mrs Defenne's School

Event Comment: Wrote by Sir Richard Steele...acted by the young Ladies educated at Mrs Defenne's@French@Boarding-School, at Wansworth in Surrey, with such Vivacity, Exactness, ad Justice, as charmed the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

22024
31 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for A Bold Stroke for a Wife taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [Rich's Register also lists #10 18s. in tickets for Mrs Chianova.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

22025
05 August 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Lucy Lockit [Mrs Killbee, according to Daily Journal, 12 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Song: As17280722