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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.

5451
05 December 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Leigh
Role: Mother Actor: Jones

Dance: As17401204

5452
05 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

5453
11 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #114 12s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Mars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

5454
13 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear, and revised and adapted to the Stage by Mr Theobald. Receipts: #129 19s. 6d. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers

Performance Comment: Julio-Delane; Henriquez-Hale; Leonora-Mrs Horton; Roderick-Ryan; Don Bernardo-Rosco; Duke Angelo-Stephens; Master of Flocks-Bridgwater; 1st Shepherd-Neale; 2d Shepherd-James; Camillo-Hippisley; Citizen-Oates; Fabian-Arthur; Lopez-Stoppelaer; Gerald-Bencraft; Violante-Mrs Woffington; With a New Prologue-; the Original Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: the Original Epilogue Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

5455
17 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Related Works
Related Work: Pan and Syrinx Author(s): Lewis Theobald

5456
30 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #82 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington, the first time of her performing upon that stage.

Dance: TTyrolean Dancebetween Hungarian and Two Tyrolese-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini; Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

5457
03 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17401230; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

5458
22 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southerne. Receipts: #96 3s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: As17410121

5459
22 January 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

5460
09 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Fausan. Tickets at her Lodgings, Mr Cheek's Apothecary, Bow Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Low, the first time of his appearance on any stage
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: LLes Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Egyptiens (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment; L'Hydropique Amoreux (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan

5461
14 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit Signora Barberini. Written by the late Mr Farquhar. The Stage will be formed into Boxes. Receipts: money #174 6s.; seals #65 15s. (Account Book); #270 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: A new Tambourine-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Les Savoyards (new)-Villeneuve, Signora Barberini; By particular Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Denoyer, Signora Barberini; Glover

5462
14 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Dance: Shawford, Mrs Bullock

5463
14 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's, at Mr Dandrige's in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Performance Comment: Liberia-Mrs Clive (with the Original Songs); Protheus-Quin; Gratiano-Milward; Bellario-Mills; Joculo-Macklin; Lucentius-Shepard; Byron-Berry; Gromio-Winstone; Asino-Taswell; Porco-Raftor; Lucilla-Mrs Butler; Delia-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Protheus Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

5464
01 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Chateauneuf. [Tickets at her Lodgings, Mr Farnel's, Bridges Street.] The Stage enclosed and formed into Side and Front Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Terpsichore (new)-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: La Sabotiere-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: A new Tambourine-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

5465
01 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southerne. Receipts: money #40 14s. 6d.; seals #71 3s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, tickets for Dan French and the late Farquhar's Daughter were accepted this night; French in box, pit, and gallery had 20, 150, and 85 tickets; Farquhar's Daughter, 15, 118, and 137. Each received half value of the tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: IV: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

5466
04 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

5467
08 April 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: This being the last Time of performing, many Persons of Quality and others, are pleas'd to make great Demands for Box Tickets, which encourage me (and hope will give no Offence) to put the Pit and Boxes together, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso

Performance Comment: With Concertos on the Organ-; and several Instruments-; To which will be added, Mr Dryden's last New Ode-.
Cast
Role: With Concertos on the Organ Actor:

5468
09 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: LLe Paisan-LaPierre; II: La Provan Sale (Sailor's Dance)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Indian Dance (never in England before)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; V: La Rose Boree and Ziphirs-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

5469
10 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts; money #37 14s.; seals #110 (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.). [Leveridge was charged #50 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: II: Bacchus Triumphant-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Trio of True Happiness-Leveridge, Roberts, Miss Young; V: An Epilogue in Music, addressed to the Audience,-Leveridge, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Dance: III: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

5470
10 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Song: lso the Sheep@shearing Song, the Songs in As You Like It-Mrs Dunstall

5471
16 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [By Lewis Theobald.] Set to Musick by Mr Galliard. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s. We are oblig'd to being exactly at Six, some of the Performers being afterwards wanted at the other Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive; With An Interlude In Two Comic Scenes, Between signor Capoccio, A Director From The canary Islands, And signora Dorinna, A Virtuosa

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

5472
18 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: A new Comic-Masque of Speaking, Singing, and Dancing. The Musick composed by Mr Lampe. Receipts: money #39 8s. 6d.; seals #69 16s. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

Performance Comment: Dick Shamwell-Leveridge; Tom Dingle-Salway; Jamey Dingle-Bencraft; Innkeeper-Mullart; Bell Banter-Mrs Lampe; With Chorus of Singers-; Dancers-; in the Masque Les Matelots-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Concluding with a new Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: in the Masque Les Matelots Actor: Mechell, Mlle Mechell

5473
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Hippisley's and Chapman's Great Theatrical Booth in the George-Inn Yard. Afterpiece: A new Comic Interlude. While the Booth is filling the Company will be entertained by the surprising little Posture-Boy, a Scholar of Mr Ferguson's, lately arrived from Paris. Books of the Droll will be sold in the Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Duke; Or, The Conjuror's Bastard; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Tipple

Afterpiece Title: The Matrimonial Squabble; or, A Cure for Jealousy

Ballet: TThe Infernals (Grand Ballet). 1st Fury-Bencraft; Attendants-Clough, Richards, Gray, Wright, Bembridge, Spackman

5474
05 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Play to begin exactly at Six. Places for Boxes to be taken at Mr Bradshaw's, Box-Keeper, at the King's Arms in Russell Street, near the Playhouse. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [This customary notice about time, tickets, and prices will hereafter be silently omitted.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

5475
25 September 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor