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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Sir Richard Steel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Sir Richard Steel")') 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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10578 results for: Keyword - Sir Richard Steel
We found 6455 matches on Performance Comments, 3625 matches on Author, 1305 matches on Event Comments, 1155 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5701
27 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Martin for copying Music for 2 Dances in Love in the City #1 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #127 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Dance: II: A New Tambourine-Mas. Blurton, as17670427 III: by Desire, A Serious Dance-Miss Capon, as17670427

Performance Comment: Blurton, as17670427 III: by Desire, A Serious Dance-Miss Capon, as17670427.

5702
30 November 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17671106

5703
29 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

5704
11 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

5705
31 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Dumai, a Young Lady his scholar; End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

5706
19 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Program By Desire. Receipts: #175 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

5707
05 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Theatrical Monitor No 7, printed a list of 84 actors, actresses, and dancers belonging to the company, who signed a Petition to the Town in favor of Colman. See Harvard Library ed. of Memoirs of Macklin, II, part 2, p. 14.] Receipts: #115 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Midas

5708
27 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

5709
18 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

5710
06 September 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: TThe Sailor's Return, as17690825

5711
28 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

5712
28 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

5713
26 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II of the Comedy: The Whim, as17691123

5714
26 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17701015

5715
31 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

5716
25 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #220 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

5717
16 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. The New Tragedy of Zobeide deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Yates. Zobeide publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 10). Paid Younger #2 2s. for license for Zobeide. Advanc'd Cushing as per note #37 10s., and Gardner #30 (Account Book). Receipts: #148 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

5718
03 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

5719
02 June 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire Towards raising a Fund for the relief of those who from their infirmities shall be oblig'd to retire from the stage. Mr G better than before if possible (Hopkins Diary). Pit and Boxes together, admittance to Pit only by Box ticket. Doors open half past 5. Begin promptly at Six. Paid Renters #8; Supers and K Drum #1 15s.; Soldiers 14s.; Printer #2 6s. 6d.; Extra constables &c. 18s.; Candles, Oyl and Lampmen, #3 18s. 6d. Total #17 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts for Fund: #295 12s. 3d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon

Monologue: V: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

5720
19 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Comus

5721
30 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5722
20 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Order of the Grand Buck for the Benefit of Wignell and Davis. N.B. Places will be kept in the front boxes for the brethren of the Mcst Noble Order, who are desired to meet the Grand Buck and His Council at the Shakespeare's Head in the Great Piazza, by 5 o'clock, from thence to proceed to the theatre, and bring the ensigns of the Order with them (playbill). Charges #66 3s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #4 6s. 3d. apiece, cover'd by income from tickets: Wignell #78 4s. (Box 82; Pit 290; Gallery 142); Davis #74 4s. (Box 59; Pit 281; Gallery 173) (Account Book). Receipts: #57 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Dunstall
Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt

Dance: End: The Whim, as17730426

5723
09 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Characters of Mainpiece Dress'd in the Habits of the Times. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #148 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

5724
20 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

5725
01 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #133 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin