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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ms Sledge"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ms Sledge")') 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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1701 results for: Keyword - Ms Sledge
We found 1424 matches on Event Comments, 399 matches on Performance Comments, 13 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1651
06 December 1796 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amor Fra Le Vendemmie

Dance: End I: Peggy's Love-Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Rose, Didelot; End Opera: Flore et Zephire- as17961126

1652
20 December 1796 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The 1st Act Of L'amor Fra Le Vendemmie

Afterpiece Title: Il Consiglio Imprudente

Dance: End: Peggy's Love- [see17961206]; End 2nd piece: L'Amour et Psiche- [see17961213]

1653
21 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961214, but Hornpipe-_

1654
19 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

1655
06 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: III: a Masquerade Scene-; with Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Master Welsh

Ballet: End: The Labyrinth; or, The Country Madcap. Joseph-Gentili; Robert-Grimaldi; Philip-Master Menage; Rosina-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Countess-Mrs Wild; Lauretta-Miss S. DeCamp

1656
14 March 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17970124

1657
18 April 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albero Di Diana

Dance: As17970131

1658
25 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Italian Villagers

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

1659
29 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tatlers

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

1660
11 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Trinidad; or, Safe Moor'd at Last

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End I: The Storm-Incledon; In course 2nd piece: Black@Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Beauty at her Levee-Munden; Jack at the Windlass-Fawcett; The Wolf-Bowden; Oh why to be happy-Incledon; The Row-Johnstone; Bravura Song-Mrs Clendining; a new Negro Song (composed by Shield)-Mrs Martyr; Rule Britannia-

1661
10 June 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: As17961220

1662
06 July 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Chapter of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Soldiers

1663
24 August 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Tar; or, Which is the Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17970623 but _Caulfield Jun., _Walker, _Willoughby, Mrs _Butler, Mrs _Masters, Mrs _Norton, Miss _Menage, Mrs _Wall, Mrs _Benson, Miss _Leserve

1664
04 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Diamond Cut Diamond; or, The Venetian Revels

1665
07 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Chimney Corner

Song: In V: song-Mrs Bland

1666
14 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Entertainment: Entertainment. Not listed on playbill (see17971016). Morning Herald, 16 Oct.: A representation of the late engagement with the Dutch-; was unexpectedly given after the play. It was followed by some fire@works-, in which was a star, ending after various mutations in a sun, emblematic of British Glory!

1667
17 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: As17970919

Entertainment: Entertainment.As17971016

1668
20 December 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: End I: L'Offrande a Terpsichore, as17971202

Ballet: End Opera: an entirely new allegorical Ballet, composed by Gallet [with music by Bossi] Le Triomphe de Themis[-Mme Rose, Mme Laborie, Laborie, Didelot, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mme Hilligsberg. [Cast from Morning Herald, 25 Dec.: America-Mme Rose, Didelot; Europe-Mme Laborie; Africa-Mlle Hilligsberg; Asia-Mme Hilligsberg[. Ibid, 26 Dec., also lists, unassigned: Themis-; Neptune-; Eolus-; Hope-; Genius of Britain-; Thames-; Genius of France-; Genius of Spain-; Genius of Holland-; Arts and Commerce-; Discord-; Jacobinism-; The Eumenides-; The Crimes-[and has synopsis of action]

1669
22 March 1798 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Act Of La Sposa In Equivoco

Afterpiece Title: Act II of Semiramide

Dance: End: Le Triomphe de Themis, as17971226; End 2nd piece: an entire new Anacreontic Ballet, composed by Gallet, La Vengeance de l'Amour-; Pas de Quatre of Panurge-Didelot, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Rose

1670
10 April 1798 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Capriccio Drammatico

Afterpiece Title: Il Consiglio Imprudente

Dance: As17980331

1671
14 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

1672
28 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Hooly and Fairly; or, The Highland Lad and Lowland Lass

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Reel-; In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Song: In V 1st piece: a Dirge, as17970925; In 2nd piece: Highland Laddy-; Hooly and Fairly-; Katharine Ogie- [recte Oggy]; Andrew and his Cutty Gun-; Todlen Hame-; Tulloch Goram-; The Little Farthing Rushlight-Graham

1673
01 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: They've Bit The Old One; Or, The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May-Day; or, The Little Gipsey

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

1674
07 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannah Hewit; Or, The Female Crusoe

Afterpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: End I 1st piece: The Sailor's Consolation- made into a Song and Chorus

1675
12 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Voluntary Contributions

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita; or, The Sheep Shearing

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-; End 2nd piece: Admiral Benbow-Incledon