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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Seymour"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Seymour")') 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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482 results for: Keyword - Seymour
We found 482 matches on Roles/Actors, 172 matches on Performance Comments, 20 matches on Event Comments, 6 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Performance Title.

476
28 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilfold, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Claridge, Doe, Wells, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Abbot, R. Ledger, Sargent, Seymour for She Stoops to Conquer [announced on playbill of 27 May] will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of Retaliation, announced on playbill of 27 May. This was Miss Catley's last appearance on the stage (erroneously stated in DNB, Grove, &c. as taking place in 1784).] Receipts: #245 3s. (26/0/6; 2/10/6; tickets: 216/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End of mainpiece The Merry Sailors by Langrish and others

477
13 February 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Slingsby (The last Season of his appearing on the Stage [but he did not retire until the end of season 1784-85]). Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Slingsby at his house, No. 34, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Della Costanza

Dance: End of Act I Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830111, with two Pas de Deux, in a stile entirely new, called Pas de Lapons; or, Laplanders' Dance, by Slingsby and Mlle Theodore; End of Act II a new Pastoral Ballet by the principal Dancers, with a variety of Pas Seuls and a Pas de Deux by Slingsby and Mlle Theodore, and to conclude with a Grand Allemande by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Mlle Theodore

478
31 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilford, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Sarjent, Seymour, Sloper, Abbot, Akrey [Account-Book adds Rolles] will be admitted this Evening. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [This was Yates's last appearance on the stage in London; he subsequently acted in Edinburgh in March, 1785. Afterpiece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #255 3s. 6d. (20/5/0; 0/15/6; tickets: 234/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle As17820930 but Jeremy W

Dance: As17821231

479
13 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 16, Upper Seymour-street, Portman Square. Receipts: #307 2s. (212/3; tickets: 94/19) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830917

Song: In Act I of afterpiece a favourite song by Sga Sestini; In Act II she will introduce the celebrated tune of Marlborough, with English words adapted to it

480
22 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marks, T. Ansell, Pilford & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Claridge, Doe, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Sarjent, Seymour, Rye, Abbott, Akery, Rolles, Hall will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #224 10s. 6d. (15/18/0; 0/6/6; tickets: 228/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Statute Dance, as17840428

481
21 April 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Slingsby. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Slingsby at his house, No. 34, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, with a set of new Caledonian Reels, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, and a Pas de Quatre by Nivelon, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter [performers not listed, but see17850111]

Song: Opera: With some of the most approved Airs of Handel by Babbini, Crescentini, Sga Ferrarese

482
17 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry

Performance Comment: Characters-Russell, Wathen, Wewitzer, Trueman, Suett, Bannister Jun., Hollingsworth, Maddocks, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bland; [Larpent MS lists the parts: Repartee, Andrew, Charles Seymour, Amoabite, Shroud, Porters, Bailiffs, Security, Jack Junk, Servant, Caroline, Nancy.] Prologue-Bannister Jun.