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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.

5776
31 May 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, 10,239).] Afterpiece: Written by the Author of The Son-in-Law [John O'Keeffe]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s.] The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. On 24 May Colman inserted the following in Public Advertiser: The Theatre Royal in the Haymarket will open next Saturday. In order to avoid unnecessary' Repetitions during the Season, the Public are desired, once for all, to take Notice that every Performance at this Theatre will be exhibited to most brilliant, crouded and OVERFLOWING audiences; and received with loud and universal Bursts of most UNBOUNDED and UNCOMMON Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Bannister, Gaudrey (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance on that stage), Wood, Massey, Egan, Stevens, Painter, Ledger, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Mrs Wells, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Bannister. [Cast adjusted from Songs (T. Cadell, 1782): Compton-Bannister; Sir Felix Friendly-Gaudrey; Eugene-Wood; Chicane-Massey; John-Egan; Thomas-Stevens; Stump-Painter; Cuddcn-Ledger; Lingo-Edwin; Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Webb; Cowslip-Mrs Wells; Fringe-Mrs Poussin; Laura-Mrs Bannister.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Sir Felix Friendly Actor: Gaudrey

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Dance by Mr and Miss Byrn

Song: In Act III of mainpiece [Sing] Old Rose and burn the Bellows, and 'Twas you Sir, 'Twas you Sir, both by Bannister, Wood, Burton, Brett, &c

5777
14 February 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Three Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Containing the Distresses and Deathv of King Henry the Sixth; the Murther of Young King Edward the Fifth, and his Brother, in the Tower; with the Landingv of the Earl of Richmond, and the Memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

5778
02 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

5779
27 February 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

5780
15 October 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Description as 2 Jan. 1714

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

5781
27 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

5782
01 January 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5783
09 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

5784
15 March 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

5785
12 February 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

5786
26 September 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5787
11 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

5788
12 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

5789
14 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

5790
19 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

5791
02 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Dance:

5792
13 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5793
19 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe, Miss Smith

5794
03 December 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5795
26 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5796
14 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5797
09 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

5798
30 April 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legar; Mrs Chambers

Music: Lesson on Harpsicord-a Scholar of Short his first appearance in public

Dance: Scating Dance-Nivelon

5799
06 February 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

5800
03 November 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or Harlequins Metamorphoses

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Richard Jones