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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Wells"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Wells")') 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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38464 results for: Keyword - Mrs Wells
We found 173658 matches on Roles/Actors, 23319 matches on Performance Comments, 4237 matches on Event Comments, 4199 matches on Performance Title, and 9 matches on Author.

38351
25 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Haughton. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 1st gallery 1s. 6d. Upper gallery 1s. Tickets at Miss Haughton's Lodgings, at Mrs Simpson's, Church Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

38352
26 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cushing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

38353
01 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of the Author, it being the eighth night only of acting, but the night from the first Representation, because of the interruption of Mrs Woffington's Benefit. Tickets to be had of G. Strahan, in Cornhill; J. Davidson in the Poultry; A. Millar in the Strand; R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, and of Mr Hobson at the Theatre, where places may be taken on the stage.-Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

38354
06 April 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Frederica

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'incostanza Deluza

38355
09 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: There will be no play 'till tomorrow on account of one to be performed this evening at the other theatre; the receipt of which is to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at the Guildhall. We hear Mrs Cibber is soon to perform the part of Polly, three nights at cg, and the Proprietor has agreed to lend his house, free of all charges; and we hear the company will contribute their pay on those days, that the performance may be entirely charge-free; the receipts of each night to be subscribed to the Veteran's scheme at Guildhall

Performances

38356
07 January 1746 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Caduta De Giganti; Or, The Fall Of The Giants

Performance Comment: Singers-Monticelli, Jozzi, Ciacchi, Signora Imer, Signora Pompeati (or Mrs Cornelie), Signora Frasi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 452). [See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]

38357
10 March 1746 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: HHickford's Great Room, Brewer St. Benefit Brown. Tickets 5s. Tickets at Walsh, in Catherine St., Strand; Mrs Wamsley's/Musick/shop the Corner of Picadilly; Simpson's Musick shop in Swithin's Alley, Cornhill; Johnson's Musick shop, Cheapside; Brown's in Margaret St., near Cavendish Square; and at the place of performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

38358
28 July 1746 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hussey. Shepherd's Market near Piccadilly. A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit or Gallery 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

38359
16 September 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: TTiled Booth, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. Benefit Mrs Bambridge. Particular care is taken that the Parts will be performed by comedians from both Houses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

38360
03 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: AAll for Love is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Woffington.--General Advertiser

Performances

38361
05 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All for love obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Woffington's Indisposition. [Notice in General Advertiser lists Macbeth and The Double Disappointment for tomorrow, but no bill appears on 6 Feb.

Performances

38362
09 April 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Dove

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

38363
24 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [G+General Advertiser, 20 April: The Play of Henry V and the new farce which were to have been acted of Friday the 24th for Mrs Macklin's benefit are necessarily deferred until farther notice--which will be inserted in this paper.

Performances

38364
15 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Mrs Phillips. A Concert. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Dance: Phillips

38365
16 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the Great Tiled Booth. Benefit Yeates Jun. and Mrs Warner (his sister). Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. To begin at six o'clock (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

38366
04 July 1748 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth in the Borough. Benefit for Mrs Adams. To begin at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song:

Dance:

38367
16 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: CCross: Mrs Butler died

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

38368
24 October 1748 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. A Concert, etc. Benefit for Mrs Morgan. Never acted there. Being positively the last Night of Acting in the Borough (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Music: solo on the violin called Ellen@a@Roon-Santhilla first Time of performing in Public

Song: V: Roratorio@or a Medley of the Cries of Dublin-Morgan

Dance: A Hornpipe-a Gentleman for his diversion

38369
29 November 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Comic Opera. Tickets at half a Guinea. [Latilla's comic opera; but music for this production by Pietro Auletta. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, Cols. 187-88.] Books will be delivered this morning at Mrs Sylvester's (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orazio

Dance: Between the Acts: Music-

38370
26 January 1749 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for Mrs Morgan. A concert, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Trick upon Trick; or, Vintner in the Suds

38371
14 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). [Tickets as of 9 Feb., with additional note that they could be obtained of Mrs Payne at the White Hart in Paternoster Lane.] Receipts. #140 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

38372
06 April 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of Sga Frasi. The breakfasting in the Haymarket is deferred till Saturday morning on account of the [benefit for] Sga Frasi; and Mr Foote has promised to give his first entertainment tomorrow at Covent Garden for the Benefit of Mr Bencraft and Mrs Hale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

38373
03 May 1749 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Shepherd's Market. During the time of May Fair. The Unnatural Parents; or, The Fair Maid of the West: Also the Comical Humours and Adventures of Trusty, her Father's Man, and the Three Witches. By Yeates's Company. To begin each day at 2, 5, and 7, and conclude at 9. A good band of music is provided...Scenes and Clothes entirely New; N.B. The Droll the same that was performed by Mrs Lee fifteen years ago with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents

Dance: Three Wild Cats of the Woods

38374
26 May 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Morgan and Miss Stevens. Tickets given out by Craven and Mrs Denton will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Auction

38375
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: [At Lee, Yeates, and Warner's Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. The Droll performed in the same Manner as it was by Mrs Lee Fifteen Years ago. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. To begin at twelve noon. [Same time and prices throughout.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor Of London

Dance: [Between the acts: Entertainments of Dancing-

Song: [Between the acts: Entertainments of Singing-; A good Band of Musick