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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Old Cole"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Old Cole")') 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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2979 results for: Keyword - Old Cole
We found 1853 matches on Performance Comments, 987 matches on Performance Title, 355 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

376
March 1674 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Old Woman; Or, 'tis Well If It Take

377
November 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

378
December 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roundheads; Or, The Good Old Cause

379
08 November 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

380
25 March 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

381
19 November 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Let the dreadful Engines (the mad song in Don Quixote)-Leveridge

Dance: With several Dances-

382
11 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New; Or, Country Miss With Her Fourbeloe

Performance Comment: Ediiton of 1703 lists: Sir Fumbler Oldmode-Johnson; Frederick-Wilks; Will Queenlove-Mills; M de Pistole-Bowen; Tom Pistole-Cibber; Misterious Maggothead-Pinkeman; Major Bombard-Cross; Captain Crimp-Boyse; Abram-Bullock; Combwig-Fairbank; Lady Oldmode-Mrs Moor; Lucia-Mrs Oldfield; Gatty-Mrs Moor; Probleme-Mrs Knight; Prologue-Pinkeman; Epilogue-Mrs Moor.
Cast
Role: Sir Fumbler Oldmode Actor: Johnson
Role: Lady Oldmode Actor: Mrs Moor
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Oldfield

383
13 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New

Song: Leveridge

Music: Several Entertainments on the Violin-Gasperini

Dance: The Devonshire Girl-; particularly a Quaker's Dance-

384
07 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; Or, The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (Act IV only)

Afterpiece Title: The Angry Doctor and the Doubting Philosopher (last Act of Le Medicin Malgre Luy)

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385
13 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

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Dance:

386
29 April 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: The Mad Song in Don Quixote set by Henry Purcell-Boman; Scotch Song in Imitation of an Old Woman-Mrs Willis; Mrs Hodgson, Davis, Cook

Dance: Between acts: Variety of Dancing-

387
05 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: duRuel; Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

Entertainment: And performing these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth-Mr Clinch of Barnet; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand/Child all which he does open on the Stage-Mr Clinch; Next performing several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top-round with a Bottle in one hand, and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman

388
08 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar Borgia; Son Of Pope Alexander Vi

Song: Mrs Hodgson; A two/part song-Cook, Davis; Indian Trumpet Song-Davis; Song in Imitation of an Old Woman, Irish Whim-Mrs Willis

Music: A new Set of Airs for the Trumpet Hautboys and Violins composed by Corbett-

Dance: Miss Evans, Clark, Firbank, Firbank's scholar

389
10 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus

Dance: A new Italian Scaramouch-Layfield, his first on the stage; other dances-Layfield, Miss Evans

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Cook, Davis, Miss Baldwin; A comical dialogue-Short, Mrs Willis; Song in Imitation of an Old Woman-Mrs Willis

390
24 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

Song: The Turky/Cock Music-Mrs Willis; a comical country dialogue-Mrs Willis, Cook; a song-older of Mrs Willis' daughters; Eccles' three-part song set for the Queen's Birthday-Short, Cook, Davis

Dance: Irish Trot-younger of Mrs Willis' daughters, age five

391
26 September 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

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Dance:

392
02 October 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis; Or, The Old Lover Outwitted

393
26 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

394
15 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Italian sonatas-Gasperini; particularly The Echo-Gasperini, duRuel

Song: Henry Purcell songs-Leveridge

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs Moss, Mrs Bicknell

395
20 October 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

396
22 October 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song:

Dance: In and between the Acts

397
11 December 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (one Act Only)

Afterpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus

Dance: As17051201

398
14 January 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: As17051105

Song: Ramondon, the Boy; particularly a 2 Part Song by Henry Purcell-; The Eunuch's Dialogue-Mrs Cross, the Boy

Dance: Cherrier, Lafory, Mrs Cross, Mrs Moss, others

399
28 February 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (act Iv Only)

Afterpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus

Dance: New Dances by Cherrier-Cherrier, Miss Santlow his Schollar, being the first time of her Appearance on the Stage

400
30 July 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou