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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Sisters of the deceased Mr Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Sisters of the deceased Mr Gay")') 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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6974 results for: Keyword - Sisters of the deceased Mr Gay
We found 4300 matches on Event Comments, 1414 matches on Author, 1186 matches on Performance Comments, 593 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4876
18 April 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: Roger, Lally, Essex, Thurmond, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth

4877
25 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Newhouse. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #15 18s.; tickets #88 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: End I: Saraband-Delagarde, Miss Wherrit; Scholar to Newhouse, being the first Time of her appearing in that Character on the Stage. II: Comic Dance-Nivelon; in which he will introduce the Flag. III: Numidian Dance-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Wherrit; Act I of Opera: Grand Comic Dance in Camilla-Nivelon, Miss LaTour, Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Pelling; In afterpiece: Added to Flora: Wrestling Dance-Newhouse, Lanyon

Performance Comment: II: Comic Dance-Nivelon; in which he will introduce the Flag. III: Numidian Dance-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Wherrit; Act I of Opera: Grand Comic Dance in Camilla-Nivelon, Miss LaTour, Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Pelling; In afterpiece: Added to Flora: Wrestling Dance-Newhouse, Lanyon.

4878
01 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Oates. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Roger, Haughton, Rainton, Mrs Delorme, Miss Robinson

4879
06 May 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding

Dance: TTollet's Grounds-Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden

4880
14 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Burton, Gallery Boxkeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

4881
15 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Surel, the Harlequin. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing. Composed by Mr Surel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Queen; or, Harlequin Turn'd Enchanter

Performance Comment: Fairy Queen-Miss Raftor; Her Followers-Young Master Lally, Young Master Tench, Miss Robinson, Miss Brett; Shepherd-Rainton; Shepherd's Man-Wetherilt; Harlequin-Surel; Colombine-Mrs Walter.
Cast
Role: Shepherd's Man Actor: Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: Concluding with the Loves of Shepherds and Shepherdesses

4882
18 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Roberts. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment (being one short Act of low Humour) intermix'd with Comic Songs to Old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. Tickets for Hallam and Wetherilt taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife

Performance Comment: Betty-Mrs Roberts; Old Gizzard-Hallam Sr; Constable Wrangle-Norris; Squeak-Wetherilt Jr; Jerry-A. Hallam; Mazzard-Rosco; Richard-Berry; Mrs Stubble-Mrs Wetherilt.
Cast
Role: Squeak Actor: Wetherilt Jr
Role: Mrs Stubble Actor: Mrs Wetherilt.

Music: III: Sonata of Corelli, proper to the Play-

Song: End III: A New Ballad to the tune of the Second Joke,-Mrs Roberts

Dance: IV: La Matellote-Miss Robinson; V: Last new Comic Dance-Rainton, Mrs Walter

4883
18 May 1730 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For the Benefit of a Young Man. By a Company of Young Gentlemen. At Lee's Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green. Afterpiece: Being particularly desired. Written by Mr Gibson Jr. Intermix'd with Songs. [Announced only in Craftsman, 16 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

Related Works
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Afterpiece Title: Love at First Sight

4884
21 May 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pitt, Baker, Gwinn. Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: money #16 18s.; tickets #156 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: End I: Chacone-Miss Betty Rogers , the Lilliputian Polly; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon; Saraband-Delagarde, Miss Wherrit; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legar; V: Sailor's Dance-; in which Hornpipe in the Character of a Boatswain-Salle

Song: II: Ye Nymphs and Sylvan Gods-Miss Sukey Rogers the Lilliputian Lucy; IV: A new Song by Dr Pepusch-Baker; V: Polwart on the Green-Miss Sukey Rogers

4885
04 June 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 4 June: There is building, and almost finish'd here [in Richmond], a small, but very neat and regular Theatre, a little higher on the Hill than where the late Mr Penkethman's stood. We hear it will be open'd next Week by a Company...from...Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that their first Play will be the Recruiting Officer...and that they design to perform three or four Times a Week during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Mustacha Actor: Mrs Clarke. With a New Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy

4886
24 August 1730 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Penkethman-W. Giffard Booth. Written by the late facetious Mr Doggett. [Advertised also on 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Tom Of Bedlam

Dance: MMad Dance-; Dutch Skipper-Sandham upon his Toes; Drunken Man-Wilcox

4887
17 September 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Essex, Rainton, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Walter; particularly The Matelots, Dutch Boor and his Frou-

4888
19 September 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Post, 18 Sept,: Mrs Oldfield...who was dangerously ill, is in a fair Way of Recovery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

4889
29 September 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by the late Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry Iv, Part Ii: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff And Justice Shallow

Performance Comment: King-Mills; Prince of Wales-Williams; Lancaster-Wm. Mills; Westmoreland-Bridgwater; Lord Chief Justice-Boman; Archbishop of York-Roberts; Archbishop of Canterbury-Corey; Hastings-Watson; Falstaff-Harper; Shallow-Cibber; Poins-Oates; Bardolph-Shepard; Hostess Quickly-Mrs Wetherilt; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Shireburn; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Robinson; Pistol-Cibber Jr; Silence-Griffin.
Cast
Role: Hostess Quickly Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: [The Strollers

4890
19 October 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #54 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

4891
22 October 1730 @ Kew Gardens

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 23 Oct,: Yesterday being the Anniversary of the Princess Royal's Birth-Day, a Masque was prepared at His Royal Highness's Command, on that Occasion, by Mr Rich, and perform'd by his Company in His Royal Highness's@Gardens at Cue, which were illuminated with above a thousand Lamps

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

Performance Comment: The company from Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

4892
17 November 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #73 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gods of the Woods Actor: Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

4893
30 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Mills; Hypolita-Mrs Cibber; Trincalo-Harper; Mustachio-Cibber Jr; Ventoso-R. Wetherilt; Ferdinand-W. Mills; Miranda-Mrs Mills; Dorinda-Miss Raftor; Caliban-Johnson; Ariel-Miss Robinson; Infernal Spirits-Bowman, Rainton, Tenoe; Grand Spirit-Haughton; Alonzo-Fielding; Gonzalo-Oates; Neptune-Rainton; Antonio-Cory; Sycorax-Hallam; Amphitrite-Mrs Roberts; Watermen-Harper, Bridgwater, Rainton, Houghton, Oates, Wright; Winds-Essex, Lally, Rainton, Haughton.
Cast
Role: Ventoso Actor: R. Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy

Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

4894
02 December 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williamson. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Cleopatra-Mrs Williamson; all the Men's Parts-Gentlemen for their Diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: all the Men's Parts Actor: Gentlemen for their Diversion
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance:

4895
07 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #43 11s. Daily Journal, 9 Jan.: Last Thursday Morning the Celebrated Actor Mr Boheme...died

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: As17310104

4896
09 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: As17310104

4897
12 January 1731 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

4898
14 January 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Chinese Guards Actor: Wetherilt, Wright, Gray, Burnet

4899
19 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #26 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

4900
28 January 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 6 Feb.: Dy'd, after a lingering Illness in the 38th Year of his Age, Mr Charles? Williams, a celebrated Tragedian belonging to...Drury-Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Chinese Guards Actor: Wetherilt, Wright, Gray, Burnet