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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Reading"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Reading")') 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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91 results for: Keyword - Reading
We found 48 matches on Event Comments, 25 matches on Roles/Actors, 19 matches on Performance Title, 14 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
02 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evening's Entertainment

Performance Comment: Readings from Milton-; Caractacus-; Gray's Elegy-Sheridan; Two Pieces of prose composition of interest to both sexes. Dryden's Ode on the Power of Music-; pieces of vocal and instrumental music-; the vocal parts-Guistinelli, Mrs Jewel [formerly Miss Edwards].formerly Miss Edwards].
Cast
Role: Readings from Milton Actor:

2
16 February 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Reading, Wife of Mr Thomas Reading, Attorney at Law, of New Inn. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce (never perform'd before). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Stage Half a Guinea. N.B. Mrs Reading is credibly informed, that a Hackney Writer, who has lately turn'd Author, and Player in his own Farce, has maliciously spread a Report about the Town, that she does not intend to have any Play perform'd: this is to assure the Publick, that she has taken a great deal of Pains to have the Play and Farce perform'd with all the Decency possible

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Pulling; Morelove-Machen; Sir Charles-Barton; Lady Easy-Mrs Reading; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Stewart; Lady Betty-Mrs Thompson; Edging-Miss Burgess .
Cast
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Reading

Afterpiece Title: The Heroick Footman

Dance: II: Hornpipe by Adams. IV: Two Pierrots by Bodway and Shawford.

Song: I: By Hemskerk. V: In Praise of English Plumb Pudding

3
05 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Reading, Wife of Mr Thomas Reading, Attorney at Law of Salisbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Mrs Sullen-Mrs Reading; Archer-Roberts; Aimwell-Lacy.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Reading

4
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Performance Comment: Prologue or Induction Set to Musick by Mr Finger-; Erato-Mrs Hodgson; Thalia-Mrs Perrin; Terpsichore-Mrs Ayliff; Mars-Bowman; Vulcan-Reading; Gallus-Lee; Cupid-Jemmy Laroche; Momus-Sherburn; Venus-Mrs Bracegirdle; Aglaia-Mrs Hodgson; Euphrosyne-Mrs Ayliff; Hora-Mrs Perrin; Jealousy-Mrs Hudson; Epilogue-Mr Bowen.
Cast
Role: Vulcan Actor: Reading

5
10 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Body Mistaken

Afterpiece Title: Presumptuous Love

Performance Comment: Edition of 1716 lists: Jupiter-Cook; Mercury-Mrs Cross; Momus-Reading; Ixion-Randal; Damon-Leveridge; Deiopeia-Mrs Fitzgerald; Mopsa-Mrs Hunt.
Cast
Role: Momus Actor: Reading

6
11 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe, Lyon, Moonshine, and Wall

Performance Comment: Edition of 1716 lists: Peter Quince-Bullock Sr; Bottom-Spiller; Flute-H. Bullock; Starveling-Cocker; Semibreve-Knap; Crotchet-H. Bullock; Gamut-Cocker; Prologue-Leveridge; Pyramus-Leveridge; Wall-Randal; Lyon-Cook; Moonshine-Reading; Thisbe-Pack; Epilogue-Leveridge, Pack.
Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Music: With all New Musick (for that Night) both Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

7
29 October 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: Pyramus-Leveridge; Thisbe-Pack; Wall-Laurence; Lyon-Cook; Moonshine-Reading; And an Epilogue-Spiller riding on an Ass.
Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding; Spanish Entry, as17161025; Harlequin, as17161025

8
07 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 31 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., Frith-street, Soho. [Author of Prologue unknown.] 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by James Cobb]. Public Advertiser, 24 Aug. 1787: This Day is published English Readings (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: English Readings

Dance: End: a Pas de Deux Provencale-the two Miss Simonets

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening's Entertainments various Imitations-Bannister Jun

Ballet: End 3rd piece: a grand dance, never performed, Gli Schiavi per Amore. Bastiano Amazzagatta-young D'Egville; Mons. Perruque-young Giorgi; Don Berticco-George D'Egville; Mad. Neri-Miss Blanchet; Glinda-Miss DeCamp

9
16 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

Performance Comment: A New Prologue, to introduce the Reading of that-Mr Betterton to the University of Oxford, in which are some Reflections on the Judgments of the Town; a new Epilogue-in answer to it.
Cast
Role: to introduce the Reading of that Actor: Mr Betterton to the University of Oxford, in which are some Reflections on the Judgments of the Town

10
09 February 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Performance Comment: Parts-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, others.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, others.

Dance: duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Sandham, Miss Schoolding; A Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion

11
01 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music composed by Mr Hen. Purcell-Leveridge, Randal, Reading, the Boy

Performance Comment: Purcell=-Leveridge, Randal, Reading, the Boy.
Cast
Role: urcell Actor: Leveridge, Randal, Reading, the Boy.

Dance: A new dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

12
12 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Performance Comment: Bacchus-Leveridge; rest-Cook, Newberry, Reading, Lawrence, Jones.
Cast
Role: rest Actor: Cook, Newberry, Reading, Lawrence, Jones.

13
13 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Music, From The Works Of handel, boyce And purcell

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Raimondi's celebrated Piece descriptive of a Battle-; concluding with God save the King-full Chorus; Thou shalt bring them in-Miss Waters (Israel in Egypt); Dulce Domum (by desire of several Wykehamists)-Mme Mara, with a grand Chorus , composed by J. Reading, 1680; Wise men flattering-Miss Capper (Judas Maccabaeus); Tears such as-Bartleman (Deborah); Agitata-Mme Mara; He gave them hailstones-Chorus (Israel in Egypt).
Cast
Role: Dulce Domum Actor: Mme Mara, with a grand Chorus , composed by J. Reading, 1680

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: As17990306

14
21 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle

15
22 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle

16
29 December 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle; Likewise an Italian Mimic Scene never perform'd but once, call'd Harlequin Executed; or, The Farmer Disappointed See17161226-

17
25 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle

18
31 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Kellom's Scholar, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle; particularly Grand Comic Wedding Dance-

19
23 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evening's Entertainment

Cast
Role: Readings from Milton Actor:

20
30 July 1709 @ Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; the Vocal Part-Mr Reading, Mr Teano, others; and the Symphonys on the Violins-Mr Dean, Mr Manshipp; Solo which he never did in Publick before, likewise a Trumpet Tune of his own-Mr Dean; with several full Pieces of Musick with a Trumpet and Hautboys, without-

21
03 September 1709 @ Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs and Dialogues, by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters-Mr Laurence, Mr Cook, Mr Tenoe; the Symphonys-Mr Dean, Mr Manship; A Song-Mrs Reading, accompany'd with the Trumpet and all the other Instruments; A Solo on the Violin-Mr Dean; A Solo on the Flute A/la/main-Mrs Denby; With variety of full Musick-

22
30 November 1709 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of Songs for 1, 2, and 3 Voices (particularly those set for the British Apollo)-; besides several full Pieces of Musick for Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins-Mr Dean, Mr Manship, others; Also a Solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli's-Mr Dean, Mr Bulkley; To which will be added, a Two/part Song-Mr Turner, Mr Reading by the late famous Dr Blowe, never yet perform'd in publick

23
25 January 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: Frost Music out of King Arthur by the late Mr Henry Purcel-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, Mrs Cross, Mrs Cook

Dance: Dancing-Dupree, delaGarde, Moreau, Bovill, Sandham, Miss Russel, Miss Schoolding

24
03 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: With all the Vocal and Instrumental Music composed by Leveridge-Leveridge, Cook, Jones, Reading, others

Song: A Boy who never appear'd on the Stage before

Dance: Dancing-Newhouse, duPre, Moreau, Boval, Sandham, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding

25
18 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Match'd

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Leveridge, Reading, New Boy

Dance: As17150512; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509