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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Bills was prhnted for Zingis but Mr Holland being taken very ill an Apology was made for the Change (Hopkins Diary). Chang'd from Zingis...Mr Holland Ill, Small Pox (Cross Diary). [The playbill for Zingis reads: Timur-Holland; Zingis-Aickin; Zemouca-Reddish; Cubla-Jefferson; Zena-Palmer; Aunac-Packer; Nevian-Bannister; Sidacou-Hurst; Nadir-Wright; Jelizou-Keen; Suida-Wrighten; Officers-Ackman, Fawcett, &c.; Mila-Mrs Stephens; Ovisa-Miss Younge.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Young Knowell-Aickin; Wellbred-Palmer; Master Stephen-W. Palmer; Brainworm-Baddeley; Matthew-Waldron; Old Knowell-Hurst; Bobadil-King; Downright-Bransby; Justice Clement-Burton; Cash-Packer; Cob-Moody; Bridget-Mrs Jeffries; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Dame Kitely-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well; or, Flora

Performance Comment: Hob-Moody; Friendly-Fawcett; Sir ThomasTesty-Hartry; Old Hob-Parsons; Dick-J. Burton; Roger-Keen; Hob's Mother-Mrs Bradshaw; Betty-Mrs Millidge; Flora-Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd the The English Gardeners-Atkins, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Constant Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: II: New Dance (Performed but once) The Rabbit Seller, as17691228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Seller, as17691228

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 May 1767.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King-Garrick; Prince of Wales-Cautherly, first time; Lancaster-Brereton; Gloster-Miss Rogers; Clarence-Master Cape; Archbishop of York-Jefferson; Justice Shallow-Parsons; Justice Silence-Hartry; Page-Miss Collett; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Platt; Falstaff-Love; Hastings-Ackman; Mowbray-Hurst; Gower-Wright; Lord Bardolph-Fawcett; Lord Chief Justice-Bransby; Poins-Packer; Bardolph-Clough; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw.

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King
Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman who played Posthumus is identified by Kemble and Winston as Mr Warboys.] Gave Duke of Cumberland's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Town and Country Magazine (quoting Theatre No XIII) remarked on Warboys acting: "The success he met with will probably deter him from following the profession of the stage...not happy either in person or in physiognamy."] Receipts: #250 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Whim, as17691123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King
Event Comment: The Afterpiece a New Pantomime [by Henry Woodward, satirizing Garrick's Jubilee] with New Music by Fisher. New Scenes painted by Messrs Dahl and Richards. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken. [Full Prices notice throughout the run of the pantomime this season. Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XIII) comments: "In the Pageant scene several of the characters that walk at Drury Lane are highly ridiculed, particularly Mark Antony and Cleopatra, who dance off with their black retinue to the playing of casquets." The scene closes with the descent of the statue of the late Mr Rich under the name of Lun, and the Harlequins all pay him honour.] Receipts: #250 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Performance Comment: The Characters-Woodward, Miles, King, Morris, Cushing, Wignell, Quick, Saunders, Holtom, Barnshaw, Hamilton, Mrs Pitt, Miss Helme, Mrs Dyer, Miss D. Twist; The Vocal parts-DuBellamy, Master Leoni, Mrs Baker; [The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere. [See Bill for 1 Oct. 1770 for first listing of parts.]See Bill for 1 Oct. 1770 for first listing of parts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Sellers, as17691228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of Timanthes oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of Indisposition of Mrs Yates. Paid Hoole Balance of his 1st Night of Timanthes #147 18s. Paid Mr Mackdonald for 5 gross of artifical flowers #1 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. The doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin at Half past six. [Stanley and Smith carried their Royal Prerogative over to Drury Lane this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: FFirst Violin-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had and places to be taken for the Boxes at Mr Sarjeant's (only) at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Books of the Performance will be sold there. The doors to be opened at Five. To Begin at Half past Six. Received of Toms and Arnold Charges of the House. #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: FFirst Violin, a Solo-Giardini; Concerto on French Horns-Sg Rodolpho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Resurrection

Music: As17700302