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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.

4301
23 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: To conclude with a Grand Procession of the Hundred Knights of Chivalry, and the Representation of an Ancient Tournament, under the direction of Dubois. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] With a new Overture and new Additional Musick, by Storace, Shaw, and other Eminent Masters. And new Dresses, Decorations and Machinery. [Miss Redhead is identified in Kemble Mem.] Account-Book, 20 Dec. 1792: Paid Kemble to purchase horses for Cymon #180 14s. 6d. (223.11.6; 55.4.0; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: Merlin-Bannister; Cymon-Kelly; Dorus-Wewitzer; Linco-Bannister Jun.; Damon-Bland; Dorilas-Cooke; Daemon of Revenge-Sedgwick; Cupid-Master Welsh; Urganda-Mrs Crouch; Sylvia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Redhead]); Fatima-Mrs Goodall; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Daphne-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mr Suett; [In Tournament: Knights-Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17921204, but John-_; song-_.

4302
25 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 16s. (90.13; 46.9; 3.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: As17930123.

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Performance Comment: As17930121.

4303
26 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Theatre having been rented to the Proprietors of Drury-Lane House, with a reserve of the Nights for the Italian Opera to be carried on there for the Opera Trust, the Drury-Land Patent will in future be moved on Tuesdays and Saturdays to the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, where all old and new Renters, claiming under the Drury-Lane Patent, will be entitled to Free Admission, and to their Rights for each Night of Performance. Half Price not being taken at this Theatre, the Performances will be reduced to the old established Prices. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes in the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, to be taken at Fosbrook's Office at the King's Theatre as usual. [Mainpiece in place of Cymon; afterpiece of The Patron, both advertised on playbill of 25 Jan.] Receipts: #140 11s. (139.0; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17921221.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: As17921222.

4304
28 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 11s. (117.0; 50.17; 2.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: As17930123, but Phebe-Miss Heard.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: As17920925.

4305
29 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #203 2s. (200.13; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Gamester

Performance Comment: Beverley-Kemble; Lewson-Bensley; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Phillimore; Mrs Beverley-Mrs Siddons; Charlotte-Mrs Kemble; Lucy-Mrs Heard.

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performance Comment: As17930105.

4306
31 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #211 15s. (155.8; 53.7; 3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: As17930128, but Cymon-Dignum; Daphne-Miss Collins.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17921128.

4307
04 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #322 4s. 6d. (275.13.6; 46.2.0; 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Performance Comment: As17930119, but Marietta-Miss Heard in place of Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: As17930103.

4308
08 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #113 13s. (81.10; 32.0; 0.0; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: As17930206, but Fatima-Miss Collins.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: As17921203.

4309
11 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #249 11s. (203.9; 44.2; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Performance Comment: As17930119.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: As17921222.

4310
18 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 18s. 6d. (111.14.6; 56.11.0; 2.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17921205.

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Performance Comment: As17921018, but Chorus of Soldiers-_.

Song: As17921030

4311
23 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act II an Ovation; or, Entry of Coriolanus into Rome. ["The grand triumphant entry would have disgraced a barn; The displeasure of the audience was loudly manifested to it" (Thespian Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 242).] In Act V a Procession of Roman Matrons to the Volscian Camp. [Afterpiece in place of The Mayor of Garratt, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] Receipts: #149 19s. (145.8; 4.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Coriolanus

Performance Comment: Caius Marcius Coriolanus-Kemble; Attius Tullus Aufidius-Wroughton; Menenius Agrippa-Baddeley; Cominius-Aickin; Sicinius Velutus-Barrymore; Junius Brutus-Whitfield; Volusius-Benson; Young Marcius-Master Chatterley; Roman Officer-Caulfield; Volscian Officer-Phillimore [Public Advertiser: Alfred]; Citizens-Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Maddocks; Volumnia-Mrs Siddons; Virgilia-Mrs Powell; Valeria-Mrs Ward; Gentlewoman-Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performance Comment: As17930105.

4312
25 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Catherine? Cuthbertson. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown. Larpent MS 969; not published]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "The [new] piece possessing nothing like a plot, and being perfectly uninteresting, was much disapproved of...Palmer contributed to its bad reception by being absent when he was most wanted on the stage, and occasioning thereby an aukward chasm, which put the audience out of humour. He was otherwise highly reprehensible for his imperfections in his part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Receipts: #375 16s. 6d. (342.13.6; 31.7.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At kings Anna

Performance Comment: [Characters by Wroughton, Whitfield, Palmer, Bannister Jun., Suett, Lyons, Webb, Miss Pope, Miss Collins, Mrs Kemble, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Powell, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards. [Cast from Larpent MS: Sir Frederick Touchwood-Wroughton; Gaythorn-Whitfield; Henry-Palmer; Bustle-Bannister Jun.; Pill-Suett; Jonathan-Lyons; Lady Touchwood-Miss Pope; Lady Lydia Graveairs-Miss Collins [in MS: Mrs Goodall]; Cordelia-Mrs Kemble; Anna-Mrs Jordan; Miss Harcourt-Mrs Powell; Dawdle-Mrs Booth; Ruth-Mrs Bland [in MS: Miss Heard]; Daube-Mrs Edwards; unassigned-Webb; Prologue-Palmer; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17930123.

4313
21 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #277 10s. (204.6; 61.16;11.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17921210, but Hardy-Hollingsworth; Mountebank-Maddocks; Letitia Hardy (with a song)-Mrs Jordan; added: Kitty Willis-Mrs Bramwell; Silvertongue-_; Crowquil-_; Tom Fool-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17930319but Juba-Miss DeCamp in place of Mrs Bland.

4314
04 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #249 9s. 6d. (189.12.6; 45.7.0; 14.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Performance Comment: As17930403.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17930402.

4315
17 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kemble Mem., 18 May: On account of Whitsun Eve the Opera was yesterday [at king's]; we acted therefore at Mr Colman's Theatre. Receipts: #73 (64.3; 8.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17930312but Mr Oakly-Bensley; William-Phillimore; Toilette-Miss Tidswell; Robert-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Performance Comment: As17930515.

4316
08 November 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #270 5s. (228.5; 38.19; 3.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: As17931103.

4317
15 November 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #268 18s. 6d. (221.9.0; 46.5.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17931028, but Grandmother-_.

4318
22 November 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #218 13s. (171.8; 44.4; 3.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17931115.

4319
27 November 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #270 3s. (218.18.0; 46.8.6; 4.1.6; tickets not come in: 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17931120.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17931120.

4320
29 November 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #261 13s. 6d. (211.14.0; 46.11.0; 3.3.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17931115.

4321
04 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #272 17s. (225.12.0; 44.12.6; 2.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17931120.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17931120.

4322
06 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #209 18s. 6d. (158.14.0; 48.5.0; 2.14.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101, but Lydia Languish (1st time)-Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17931115.

4323
11 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #234 1s. (184.15.0; 45.16.6; 2.17.0; tickets not come in: 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17931120, but Lord William-Dignum; Lewis-Hollingsworth; Robert-Suett.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17931120.

4324
18 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #208 9s. 6d. (151.4.0; 45.19.0; 4.11.6; tickets not come in: 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17931120.

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17931120, but Signor Pasticio Ritornello-Hamoir.

4325
20 December 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #219 14s. 6d. (159.0.0; 59.5.0; 1.4.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17931101.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17931215.