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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Steel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "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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127 results for: Keyword - Steel
We found 120 matches on Roles/Actors, 37 matches on Performance Comments, 10 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

26
19 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man-hater

Performance Comment: Timon-Marshall; Alcibiades-Walker; Apemantus-Paget; Poet-Yates; Nicias-Julian; Phaeax-Dunstall; Aelius-Marr; Cleon-Shawford; Demetrius-Blakes; Melissa-Mrs Steel; Cloe-Miss Hippisley; Thais-Mrs Jones; Phryne-Mrs Dunstall; Evandra-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: HHornpipe-Yates; III: Drunken Peasant-Chettle

27
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Fair Rosamond, Representing Her Amours With King Henry, And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Performance Comment: King Henry-Roberts; Fair Rosamond-Mrs Mullart; Queen Eleanor-Mrs Steel; Cardinal Aquinas-Wallis; Cardinal Columbus-Bambridge; Sir Trusty-Beckham; Cleora-Miss Davis.
Cast
Role: Queen Eleanor Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp; or, The Doctor Deceiv'd

Dance: TThe Miller and his Wife, The Jealous Savoyard-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Ballet: TThe Triumph of Britannia Over the Four Parts of the World. Britannia-Mlle Duval; Europe-Granier; Asia-Pelling; Africa-Miles; America-Olbeldiston; Women-Mrs Vallois, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Love, Mlle Glasson

28
28 September 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Performance Comment: King-Marshall; Florence-Pattenden; Bertram-Giffard; Lafeu-Paget; Parolles-Peterson; Clown-Yates; Lord Dumain-Blakes; Steward-Dunstall; Countess-Mrs Steel; Widow-Mrs Yates; Diana-Miss Hippisley; Mariana-Mrs Dunstall; Helena-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Countess Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: s 25 Sept., but Gentleman-_%

Dance: As17410918; with Les Bergiers-Froment, Mme Duvall, first time on this stage

29
02 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: Barnwell-W. Giffard; Thorowgood-Paget; Trueman-Blakes; Uncle-Peterson; Blunt-Crofts; Maria-Miss Hippisley; Lucy-Mrs Yates; Milwood-Mrs Steel.
Cast
Role: Milwood Actor: Mrs Steel.

Afterpiece Title: Trick for Trick

Dance: As17410928

Song: As17410928

30
07 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Giffard; Lord Morelove-W. Giffard; Lord Foppington-Peterson; Lady Betty Modish-Mrs Giffard; Lady Easy-Mrs E. Giffard; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Steel; Edging-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: Trick for Trick

Song: As17410928

Dance: As17410928; with a new Comic Dance-Dugay, his first appearance here

31
09 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment, Release, Stratagems, and Marriage of Harlequin; with The Triumphs of Love

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Dunstall; Father to Columbine-Julian; Florio-Marr; Dr Tack'em-Hemskirk; Clerk-Crofts; Mrs Drab-Mrs Bishop; Lawyer-Bennet; Keeper-Dunstall; Turnkey-Clough; Master of Punch House-Naylor; Porter-Laws; Dwarfs-Miss Naylor, two Masters Granier; Bustle-Vaughan; A grand Ballet-Froment, Granier, Dugay, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois; Priests-Hemskirk, Naylor, Bennet; Priestesses-Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

32
16 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment; with Triumphs of Love

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Dunstall; Father to Columbine-Julian; Florio-Marr; Bustle-Vaughan; A grand Ballet-Froment, Granier, Osbeldiston, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois; Priests-Hemskirk, Naylor, Bennet; Priestesses-Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

33
19 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: The Part of King Richard-a Gentleman (who never appear'd on any Stage) [Garrick]; King Henry-Giffard; Richmond-Marshall; Prince Edward-Miss Hippisley; Duke of York-Miss Naylor; Buckingham-Peterson; Norfolk-Blakes; Stanley-Paget; Oxford-Vaughan; Tressel-W. Giffard; Catesby-Marr; Ratcliff-Crofts; Blount-Naylor; Tyrrel-Pattenden; Lord Mayor-Dunstall; Queen-Mrs Steel; Duchess of York-Mrs Yates; Lady Anne-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Froment, Mlle Duval, two Masters and Miss Granier

34
23 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Marshall; Aboan-Giffard; Governor-Paget; Daniel-Yates; Blandford-W. Giffard; Driver-Dunstall; Stanmore-Blakes; Jack Stanmore-Marr; Widow Lackit-Mrs Steel; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Dunstall; Lucy-Miss Hippisley; Imoinda-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment; with Triumphs of Love

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

35
09 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Ghost-Garrick, Being the first Time of his Appearing in that Character; Hamlet-Giffard; King-Paget; Polonius-Julian; Laertes-Marshall; Horatio-W. Giffard; Osrick-Peterson; Rosencrans-Vaughan; Guildenstern-Naylor; Marcellus-Blakes; Queen-Mrs Steel; Ophelia-Miss Hippisley; Gravediggers-Yates, Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Mrs Steele

36
04 January 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Performance Comment: Riot-Giffard; Volatil-Marshall; Sir Tristram-Julian; Y. Cash-Yates; Spitfire-Marr; Horatio-W. Giffard; Cynthia-Mrs Steel; Arabella-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Dancing, as17411228, but Master and Miss Granier

37
07 September 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Buxom Joan

Song: With theoriginal musick by Matthew Locke-Bannister, Brett, Baker, Legg, Battishill, Simkinson, Burton, Steel, Offild, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Jewell, Mrs Love, Mrs Mapples, Mrs Brett, Mrs Poussin, Miss Hale, Miss Morris, Miss Twist, Mrs Webb

38
05 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17401029

39
03 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Steel

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: A new dance-Master Matthews; IV: Les Berges-Mr and Mrs Davenport

40
16 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

41
17 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

42
18 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment,

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

43
19 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

44
20 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

45
22 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

46
26 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

47
27 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

48
29 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

49
30 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

50
31 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Cast
Role: Priestesses Actor: Mrs Jones, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.