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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Richards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Richards")') 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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4080 results for: Keyword - Richards
We found 1991 matches on Author, 1812 matches on Roles/Actors, 696 matches on Performance Title, 668 matches on Performance Comments, and 470 matches on Event Comments.

851
25 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Penseroso Ed Il Moderato; Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: End of Part I: concerto on the violin, as17800211; End of Part II: concerto on the hautboy, as17800216

852
29 February 1780 @ Crown Inn, Lower Street (now Essex Road), Islington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Entertainment: Monologue.End: A Sea Fight.Frenchman-Jerrold

853
01 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph; Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: As17800216

854
03 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Music In Bonduca; Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Singers Same As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: End of Part I: concerto on the violin, as17800211; End of Part II: concerto on the organ, as17800211

855
08 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: As17800216

856
10 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Penseroso; Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode On St

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day; Alexander's Feast. Singers Same. As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: As17800211

857
15 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts As17800211, but 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: End of Part I: concerto on the organ, as17800211

858
17 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts As17800211, but _Webster, Reinhold (who obligingly takes $Webster's part, he being extremely ill); 1st Violin-Richards as17800216.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards as17800216.

Music: As17800211

859
16 September 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II 3rd piece: a Mock@minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was included, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.

860
19 September 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End IV 2nd piece: Minuet de la Cour-the Miss Stageldoirs

861
02 March 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Norris, Reinhold, Miss Linley, Miss Draper, Miss Prudom; 1st Violin-Richards.
Cast
Role: 1st Violin Actor: Richards.

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode for St

Music: End Part I oratorio: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Cramer

862
28 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One; Or, The Cartel At Philadelphia

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Who'd have Thought It

863
03 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The School for Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

864
20 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

865
13 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Common Sense

Afterpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells [recte Walks]; or, The Yeoman of Kent

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacco Box; or, The Soldier's Pledge of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Author

866
03 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

867
08 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Dance (composed by Harris) Pastoral Sports by Harris, Second, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Matthews

868
25 November 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Valentine-Sparks; Francisco-Essex; Uncle-Wheeler; Merchant-Lyon; Hairbrain-Horwell; Fountain-Stephens; Bellatnore-Bailey; Roger-Middleton; Humphrey-Richards; Lance-Marks; Shorthose-Ryder (1st appearance); Isabella-Miss Fitzherbert; Lucy (with a song)-Mrs Coxe; Lady Hartwell-A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]). With a new Prologue and Epilogue .unidentified]). With a new Prologue and Epilogue .
Cast
Role: Humphrey Actor: Richards

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

Dance: End of mainpiece a Hornpipe (over 12 eggs blindfold) by Middleton

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece a favourite song by Mrs Coxe; End of Act IV a favourite song by Miss Hemet

Monologue: 1782 11 25 After the Hornpipe John Bull, Half Seas Over (a new Scene) by Ryder

869
28 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17820927

870
26 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts as17830319st Violin-Richards .
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts as17830319st Violin Actor: Richards

Music: End of Part I concerto, as17830314athi

871
22 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17830610

872
20 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Williamson, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Related Works
Related Work: The Device; or, The Marriage-Office Author(s): C. Richards

Song: In Act iv of mainpiece song by Williames

873
16 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

874
10 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: A Peep into Elysium; or, Foote, Weston, and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The What d'ye Call It

Monologue: 1784 08 10 End of interlude Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson

875
02 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals