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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.

2076
11 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tindal and Charles Sarjant (book and housekeeper). Not acted this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Ross; Macduff-Tindall; King-Gibson; Malcolm-Davis; Donalbaine-Murden; Seyton-Gardner; Banquo-Sparks; Lenox-Hull; Hecate-Wignell; 1st Murderer-Buck; 2nd Murderer-Holtom; Witches-Dunstall, Costollo, Lewis; Lady Macduff-Mrs Barrington; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Ward; With Original Music. Vocal parts-Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Waylin, Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Dances-and Decorations incident to the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17641103, [but short bill only:] Apprentice-Woodward; Charlotte-Mrs Evans.

Dance: IV: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: (by Particular Desire) A New Hornpipe, as17650510

2077
28 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: N.B. The Maid of the Mill is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17650916, but Sullen-Walker.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17651227.

2078
03 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17660131.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17651008.

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

2079
07 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but twice these 8 years. The assertions in a pretended [Letter from] Quin that he was a bastard and--we are assured are both false; the actor having been born in Lawful matrimony and having drawn his first breath in the Parish of Covent Garden (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17660131.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17650925.

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

2080
24 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17660131.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17660205.

2081
10 March 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17660106, but Richmond-Clarke; Catesby-Davis.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17660205.

2082
21 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green, Mrs Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17660310 but Richmond-Davis; Catesby-Wignel.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17660117.

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles (Peasant), Bennet (Clown); IV: A Comic Dance-Master King, Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17651019; Between acts of Farce: A Double Hornpipe (for this Night Only)-Walker (From Drury Lane Theatre), Miss Pitt, his scholar

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-Shuter

2083
28 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17660408 but Lady Capulet-Mrs Barrington; Juliet-Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17660205.

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17651019

2084
12 May 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis, Banks, and Mrs Souchart

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17650918, but Horatio-Hull; Rosencraus-Bennet; Pl. King-Lewis; Marcellus-_; Bernardo-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17651227, but Chasseur Royal-Mattocks; Apollo (Mezetin)-Carman (playbill).

2085
19 May 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last time of the company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17660428.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: As17660513, but Amazon-Mrs Jones; Cassiope-Mrs Lampe.

2086
03 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's rate for the theatre due Michelmas last #15 12s. 6d., and ditto for the House in Bow St. passage 15s. 1!2d. (Account Book). Receipts: #144 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17661001.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2087
07 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #107 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17661006.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2088
09 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #144 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17661006, but Shadow-Besford; Falstaff's Page-Mas. Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2089
11 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #114 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17661009.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2090
13 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #142 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17661009.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2091
17 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Miss Sledge for walking 10 night on the Coronation #2 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #153 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17661001, but Salisbury-Gardner; English Herald-Weller; Constable-Cushing; Governor of Harfleur-Redman; Grey-_.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2092
20 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #189 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17660926, but Richard-Smith; Richmond-Gardner; Duke of York-Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2093
24 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17661020.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2094
27 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Wilford for 10 nights rent money for the renters #100 (Account Book). Receipts: #160 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17661020.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2095
03 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #125 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Performance Comment: As17661031.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2096
05 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Perry for walking 6 nights in the Coronation #1 10s.; Paid Mr Cooper, Printer #41 16s. (Account Book). Receipts: #110 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Performance Comment: As17661031.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2097
10 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #177 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17661020, but Richmond-Clarke; Catesby-Davis.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2098
17 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece will not be perform'd again for a considerable time. Receipts: #200 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Performance Comment: As17661017, but King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Hull.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Performance Comment: As17660922.

2099
22 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd from Blackmore #6 6s. for two spring velvet suits of cloaths in his last bill. Paid John Sutherland playing the Bag Pipes in Faustus 4 nights #1 (Account Book). Receipts: #193 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17661028, but Charles-Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: As17661121.

2100
19 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T+The Way of the World had been advertised for both this day and the day before at foot of playbills.] Paid Isaac Wheatland for the side drum in The Female Archer 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #194 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17661122.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: As17661211.