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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R ")') 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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5325 results for: Keyword - R
We found 6691 matches on Roles/Actors, 1726 matches on Performance Comments, 226 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Author.

3076
28 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Catherine and Petruchio, announced on playbill of 27 Feb.] Receipts: #240 13s. (227/5/0; 10/8/0; 0/7/6; tickets not come in: 2/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17821129 .

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17821026 .

3077
01 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #113 5s. 6d. (75/17/0; 35/6/0; 0/7/6; tickets not come in: 1/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17830222.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17830218.

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003; End of Act iv, as17821016

Performance Comment: hathi.

3078
04 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #304 1s. 6d. (289/7/0; 6/16/6; 0/13/0; tickets not come in: 7/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17821101 .

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17830104, but Diggery-Waldron .

3079
08 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #296 19s. 6d. (282/13/0; 7/11/0; 0/15/6; tickets not come in: 6/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106.

Afterpiece Title: THE Lyar

Performance Comment: As17821026 .

3080
11 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #295 13s. (282/14/0; 9/5/6; 0/5/6; tickets not come in: 3/8/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17821214 .

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performance Comment: As17821109 .

3081
13 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 6s. (106/16/0; 38/7/6; 0/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17820917 .

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17830306athi .

3082
15 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #291 1s. 6d. (278/8/0; 7/12/0; 0/14/0; tickets not come in: 4/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17821010 .

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17821022 .

Dance: As17821005

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: In Act in of mainpiece an Epithalamium, with singing by Miss Wright and Miss Simson

Performance Comment: hathi.

3083
24 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by William Hodson, based on The Coffee House Politician, by Henry Fielding. Prologue by the author (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 2 May 1783: This Day is published The Adventures of a Night (ix.). Receipts: #166 7s. (112/9; 52/3; 0/10; tickets not come in: 1/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17830206.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Baddeley, Bannister Jun., Banymore, Wrighten, Parsons; Mrs Hopkins, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Miss Phillips. [Cast from text (T. Evans, 1783), and London Chronicle, 27 Mar.: Hastings-Palmer; Diaper-Baddeley; Sprightly-Bannister Jun.; Fairlove-Barrymore; Crab-Wrighten; Capias-Burton; Morecraft-Parsons; Mrs Morecraft-Mrs Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Collett; Mrs Crab-Mrs Love; Harriet-Miss Phillips.] Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi. Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.

3084
25 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #326 14s. (142/12/0; 6/14/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 177/0/0) (charge: #67 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17821214, but Pierre (for this night only)-Smith .

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performance Comment: As17820924 .

3085
27 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #293 19s. (282/2/0; 9/16/0; 0/3/6; tickets not come in: 1/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17821101 .

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performance Comment: As17830324athi .

Dance: As17821107

Performance Comment: hathi.

3086
29 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #145 17s. (140/0/0; 5/9/6; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #66 7s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17821010 .

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17821018, but Young Philpot-Palmer .

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17821016

Performance Comment: hathi.

3087
01 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #288 8s. 6d. (277/9/0; 9/9/0; 0/13/0; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performance Comment: As17830331athi .

3088
03 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope at her house in Great Queen-street. Receipts: #278 3s. (86/14; 21/9; 0/10; tickets: 169/10) (charge: #106 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17821022, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Burton .

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17830218.

Dance: As17830329athi

3089
10 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. "I could wish an actor of Brereton's merit would avoid tones in speaking which approach to something like singing" (Davies, m, 251). Receipts: #311 7s. (131/15/0; 6/9/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 173/1/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17821010, but Biron-Brereton(1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: As17821010, but Cupid (song omitted)-Miss Heard; Jemmy Twinkle-Bannister Jun.; Miss Flack-Miss Tidswell .

3090
12 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 15s. 6d. (275/1/0; 6/9/6; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17821101 .

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17821022 .

Song: As17830329athi

3091
23 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brereton. Receipts: #184 13s. 6d. (62/4/0; 24/16/0; 0/15/6; tickets: 96/18/0) (charge: #113 19s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17820917, but Sterling-Wrighten; Serjeant Flower-Phillimore; Traverse-Fawcett .

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17830306athi .

3092
25 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Afterpiece in place of The Apprentice, announced on playbill of 24 Apr.] Receipts: #184 1s. (99/19/0; 35/14/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 48/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17830403, but Crabtree-Waldron; Charles-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17830329athi .

Dance: As17821122. imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun .

3093
30 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Receipts: #98 19s. (27/17/0; 17/3/6; 0/10/6; tickets: 53/8/0) (charge: #106 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106, but Jane Shore (for that night only)-Mrs Wells (1st appearance in tragedy) .

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performance Comment: As17820924 .

Dance: As17830329athi

3094
03 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Mrs Siddons, in most of the Parts she plays, is the best Actress we ever saw. Miss Kemble, in all the Parts she plays, is the very worst Actress we ever saw" {Public Advertiser, 5 May). [Afterpiece in place of The Adventures of a Night, announced on playbill of 2 May.] The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #263 5s. 6d. (253/11/0; 8/9/6; 1/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106.

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performance Comment: As17821107, but omitted: Prologue .

3095
06 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (272/4/0; 8/11/6; 0/6/0; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17821010 .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17821008 .

Dance: As17821005

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: As17830315athi

3096
07 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #291 10s. (20/5; 14/11; 0/3; tickets: 256/11) (charge: #107 4s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17821112 .

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17830428, but Miss M. Stageldoir's name listed in playbill .

Dance: End of Act iv of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

Performance Comment: hathi.

3097
10 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #278 7s. 6d. (270/18/0; 7/4/6; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17821214 .

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performance Comment: As17830331but R. Palmer in place of Barrymore; Miss Tidswell in place of Miss Collett .

3098
13 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #245 4s. 6d. (234/6/0; 10/4/6; 0/9/0 tickets not in: 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Performance Comment: As17830510 .

3099
15 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Harwood, prompter. King continuing so ill that it is impossible for him to perform this Evening, Waldron has kindly undertaken the Part of Sir Peter Teazle at a very short notice, and most humbly hopes for the indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #209 15s. 6d. (35/3/0; 15/10/6; 0/5/0; tickets: 158/17/0) (charge: #106 13s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17830403, but Sir Peter Teazle-Waldron .

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17821026 .

Dance: As17830505

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: As17830514

Performance Comment: hathi.

3100
19 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. [Mainpiece in place of Isabella, announced on playbill of 17 May.] Receipts: #292 (146/5/0; 10/12/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 134/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17830106.

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performance Comment: As17821107, but omitted: Prologue .