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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Rev Dr Johnson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Rev Dr Johnson")') 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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2730 results for: Keyword - Rev. Dr Johnson
We found 1670 matches on Performance Comments, 763 matches on Event Comments, 305 matches on Author, 239 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2251
23 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: New Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

2252
30 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Reviv'd not acted in 10 years. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. The Music composed by Dr Boyce. Proper Dances, Chorusses, &c....The Word of the Masque will be deliver'd gratis at the doors (General Advertiser). Play not much lik'd and ye Masque greatly dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Secular Masque

Dance: New Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

2253
27 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2254
11 November 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17511105

2255
30 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

2256
11 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: [Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

Dance: [As17521102

2257
27 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: TThe Hungarian Peasants, as17521125, but A Dutch Dance-_; Comic Dance, as17521125

2258
02 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: AA Dutch Dance, as17521125

2259
14 December 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomime

2260
23 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

2261
03 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

2262
10 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

2263
19 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: As17521201

2264
24 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [the Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: [I: A +Hornpipe-the Little Swiss, a child 5 years old; II: A Grand Ballet-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; III: A Serious Dance-Janeton Auretti; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Mathews, Janeton Auretti

Ballet: [IV: +La Chacone des Characters. Harlequin-Mlle Auretti; Punch-Devisse

2265
05 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

2266
23 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

2267
26 March 1754 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solomon

2268
18 December 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Writ Of Inquiry

2269
23 December 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Writ Of Inquiry

2270
16 January 1755 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phoebe

2271
27 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan A New Tragedy

2272
24 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new farce by Doctor Heffinal [sic] for his benefit. O Sad! (Cross). Tickets at Forrest Coffee House, The Bedford, and Randall's, and author's lodgings at Mew's Coffee House. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 24 April: Sir, Let this suffice for a general answer to all unfriendly whispers or paragraphs against the new farce to be performed tonight at Drury Lane -its author never previously Caballed, never published his sentiments of any stage performance till after the run -then neither the writer nor manager could be injured -its principal characters are Lady Protea, a coquet alarmed at the apprehension of dying amid; Lord Epigram Strainwit, a pert coxcomical witling; Dr Matho, a Virtuoso, Antiquarian, and in love; Dreadnought Broadside, a sea-officer and strenuous Antigallican. I am &c. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Maiden Whim; or, The Critical Minute

2273
28 October 1756 @ Crown Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

2274
15 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

2275
25 December 1756 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None