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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.

3251
23 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Noble Peasant, announced on playbill of 21 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Performance Comment: As17840818.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17840821.

Dance: As17840713

Performance Comment: hathi.

3252
25 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Noble Peasant [announced on playbill of 24 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Parsons's Indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Performance Comment: As17840619 but omitted: Prologue .

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17840821.

3253
28 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Gaudry, Swords, Painter, Barrett will be admitted this Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17840609 but Don Bartholo-Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17840821.

Dance: End of mainpiece Recreation by Master Giorgi, Miss Byrne, &c

Performance Comment: hathi.

3254
30 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17840826 .

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performance Comment: As17840809, but Clown-Wewitzer .

Dance: As17840826

Performance Comment: hathi.

3255
31 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Performance Comment: As17840809, but Lyons in place of Barrett .

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17840821.

3256
01 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: As17840614.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17840614.

3257
03 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Performance Comment: As17840831.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: As17840821.

3258
08 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17840609.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17840906.

Dance: As17840528, but title of dance misprinted The Rivals

Performance Comment: hathi.

3259
09 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Performance Comment: As17840531 .

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17840906.

Dance: As17840828

Performance Comment: hathi.

3260
14 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Performance Comment: As17840902.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17840529, but Davies in place of Barrett; Mrs Bannister in place of Miss Hooke .

3261
09 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "'Was he alive?' [was] uttered with a more rapid tone, and quicker feeling. Though in opposition to her manner in these words stand the great names of Henderson, Colman, and the Author himself" (Public Advertiser, 11 Oct.). Receipts: #299 (276/3; 21/17; 1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Bannister Jun.; Glenalvon-Palmer; Lord Randolph-Aickin; Officer-Wilson; Servant-Phillimore; Norval-Bensley; Anna-Miss Kemble; Lady Randolph-Mrs Siddons .

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Performance Comment: As17840918.

3262
16 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #304 4s. (279/10; 24/5; 0/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gamester

Performance Comment: As17841005.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17840930.

3263
30 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Both these actresses [Mrs Siddons and Mrs Wells] possess a quality which no other actresses have on the English stage--they are always, whether speaking or not speaking, in their part" (Public Advertiser, 4 Oct.). Receipts: #245 18s. (223/16; 21/8; 0/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17841012.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17840921.

3264
01 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #101 18s. 6d. (84/11/0; 17/7/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17840921.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Performance Comment: Sir Richard Evergreen-Parsons; Lord Heartwell-Barrymore; Sam-Burton; Tinsel-Dodd; Rose-Mrs Wrighten; Miss Dorothy Evergreen-Mrs Hopkins; Emily-Miss Phillips .

3265
06 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #231 8s. (202/15; 27/17; 0/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: As17841103.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performance Comment: As17841104.

3266
08 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors will be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 2 May 1785]. Receipts: #216 13s. 6d. (193/4/0; 22/19/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17841018, but Maria-Miss Phillips .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performance Comment: As17840923.

3267
10 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #224 3s. 6d. (201/12/0; 21/8/6; 1/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: As17841103, but Officer-Spencer .

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performance Comment: As17841104.

3268
15 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 20 years [on 28 Apr. 1784, but previously not since 21 Oct. 1760]. Receipts: #85 16s. 6d. (65/16/0; 19/15/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Kemble; Juba-Bannister Jun.; Syphax-Aickin; Sempronius-Barrymore; Decius-Chaplin; Lucius-Packer; Marcus-Brereton; Portius-Palmer; Lucia-Miss E. Kemble; Marcia-Mrs Ward .

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performance Comment: As17841104.

3269
27 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #227 19s. 6d. (197/6/0; 29/13/6; 1/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17841019.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performance Comment: As17841104.

3270
29 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #220 6s. (202/10; 17/0; 0/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17841012.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: As17841014.

3271
30 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #208 17s. 6d. (177/2/0; 31/15/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As8Nov .

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: As17841122.

3272
02 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 14 Dec. 1784: This Day is published The Carmelite (1s. 6d.). "We never saw [Kemble] wandering to the audience; he never turned his eye around for applause when he had closed an animated period, nor ever entertained his intervals of silence with glances at the side-boxes, like some of his contemporaries, not to mention the great Palmer, nor Davies, &c." This behavior "he has so happily caught from Mrs Siddons" (Public Advertiser, 22 Dec.). Receipts: #233 17s. (216/15/0; 16/10/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Smith, Kemble, Aickin, Packer, Fawcctt, Phillimore, Palmer; Mrs Siddons. [Cast from text (C. Dilly and G. Nicol, 1784): Saint Valori-Smith; Montgomeri-Kemble; Lord De Courci-Aickin; Gyfford-Packer; Raymond-Fawcett; Fitz-Allan-Phillimore; Lord Hildebrand-Palmer; Matilda-Mrs Siddons.] Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17840301785).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17840301785).] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performance Comment: As17841104.

3273
03 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With considerable Alterations and Omissions. Not acted these 11 years. Receipts: #114 6s. (83/7/0; 30/11/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Sir Paul Plyant-King; Brisk-Dodd; Careless-Brereton; Mellefont-Barrymore; Lord Froth-Suett; Lord Touchwood-Packer; Saygrace-Wright; Maskwell-Palmer; Lady Froth-Miss Pope; Lady Touchwood-Miss E. Kemble; Cynthia-Miss M. Stageldoir; Lady Plyant-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: As17841122.

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new Dance, The Merry Woodcutters, by Mr and Miss Hamoir

Performance Comment: hathi.

3274
07 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Performance Comment: As17841202.

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: As17841021, but Miss Doiley-Mrs Wilson .

3275
08 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #112 15s. (84/10; 27/5; 0/10; tickets not come in: 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: As17841203.

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: As17841122.

Dance: As17841203

Performance Comment: hathi.