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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Pol Kennedy"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Pol Kennedy")') 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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406 results for: Keyword - Pol. Kennedy
We found 368 matches on Performance Comments, 52 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
27 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Feridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Song: As17790122, but song-Mrs Kennedy (late Mrs Farrell)

27
26 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus

Afterpiece Title: Songs, Chorusses selected from the Works of the late Henry Purcell; Judas Maccabaeus

Song: End Part I: a cantata-Mrs Kennedy

Music: End Part II: concerto on the violoncello-Cervetto

28
03 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus

Afterpiece Title: Songs, Chorusses

Song: End Part II: a song-Mrs Kennedy

Music: End Part I: concerto on the organ, as17790219

29
06 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17790129

Song: Sweet Echo-Mrs Kennedy, Leoni [i.e. formerly Mrs Farrell]

30
21 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: In Naval Review: Dance of Sailors-Aldridge, others

Song: End Dance: the Air [in The Comedy of Errors see17790122]-Mrs Kennedy

31
27 September 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Deaf Doctor

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17790924

Song: II: The Cottage on the lawn (set by Michael Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

32
29 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Plymouth In An Uproar

Cast
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Dance: As17791022

Song: In Act III: song in character-Mrs Kennedy. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

33
12 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Orators; Or, Ladies' Debating Society

Afterpiece Title: The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Song: End III 2nd piece: a Scotch ballad (the music by Dr Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

Ballet: End IV 2nd piece: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508

34
30 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

35
18 January 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

Song: In III: a song (in Character)-Mrs Kennedy. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

36
25 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Auld Robin Grey Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End III 1st piece: When Phoebus the tops of the hills did adorn-Leoni, Mrs Kennedy

37
21 March 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love At A Venture; Or, The Rake Reclaim'd

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Sir Epicure Mammon-Whitely; Subtle-Jameson; Headlong-Middleton; Knowlife-Johnson; Face-Dancer; Doll Tricsy-Mrs Barnard; Miss Rantipole-Miss Fitzherbert .
Cast
Role: Miss Rantipole Actor: Miss Fitzherbert

Monologue: 1782 03 21 End of mainpiece (never performed here) Phelimoguffinocarilocarneymacframe's Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight, with Explanations, by Mrs Kennedy

38
14 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philodamus

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as17821211 in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Martyr

39
27 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Polyperchon-Mahon; Cassander-Fearon; Hephestion-Davies; Clytus-Clarke; Roxana-Mrs Hunter; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Parisatis-Mrs Morton; Statira-Mrs Yates .
Cast
Role: Polyperchon Actor: Mahon

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Morris

Song: Vocal Parts [in Entry] by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Doyle, Darley, Bannister; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stuart, Miss Morris, Miss Harper

40
30 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Morris

Song: In Act III song by Mrs Kennedy

41
05 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In mainpiece Vocal Parts by Mrs Bannister, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Morris, Mrs Kennedy, &c

42
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Widow Wadman Actor: Mrs Kennedy. Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Whitfield

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

43
06 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Bannister, Reinhold, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Darley, Doyle; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

44
08 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: : Patrick Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

45
10 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland in an Air Balloon

Song: In Act III of mainpiece a song by Mrs Kennedy

46
19 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: As17830922

Song: As17831027, but omitted: Doyle, Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Kennedy

47
20 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: : Patrick Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Martyr. The Music composed by Shield

48
04 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Henderson; Macduff-Clarke; Banquo-Farren; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Davies; Hecate-Darley; Lenox-Cubitt; Seyton-Thompson; Doctor-Fearon; Witches-Booth, Mrs Pitt, Kennedy; Gentlewoman-Mrs Poussin; Lady Macbeth-A Lady (1st appearance [on this stage: Mrs Gordon]) .on this stage: Mrs Gordon]) .
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Booth, Mrs Pitt, Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Gaudry, Doyle, Lloyd; Mrs Kennedy, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Bannister

49
04 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Land of Enchantment

Cast
Role: Tailor Actor: Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Vocal Parts [in Entry] by Johnstone, Brett, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stuart, Mrs Bannister; End of 1st piece Moderation and Alteration by Edwin

50
30 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: Antipholis of Syracuse-Lewis; Antipholis of Ephesus-Palmer; Duke-Gardner; Aegeon-Hull; Dromio of Syracuse-Edwin; Dromio of Ephesus-Quick; Abbess-Mrs Inchbald; Luciana-Mrs T. Kennedy; Adriana-Mrs Bates .
Cast
Role: Luciana Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: Omai

Cast
Role: Servant to Omai Actor: Kennedy
Role: Pretender to the Throne Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Song: In Act III of mainpiece a song in character by Mrs Kennedy. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]