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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "The king"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "The king")') 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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9969 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

4601
03 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Davies
Role: Player King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

4602
10 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Lowe, Howard, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Chambers, Miss Young, Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

4603
06 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Cast
Role: Lord Flimnap Actor: Master Cautherly
Role: Toadel Actor: Miss Matthews

4604
11 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Granier, Lucas, Miss Hilliard

4605
13 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Davies
Role: Player King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

4606
13 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

4607
14 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4608
16 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hillyard

4609
18 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17561216

4610
22 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17561216

4611
28 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Lowe, Howard, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Chambers, Miss Young, Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

4612
31 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17561216

4613
25 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

4614
09 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4615
22 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. No building on stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Ladies send servants by Three. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Smith in Duke St., York Buildings, and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: Player King Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561217

4616
26 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Lowe, Howard, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Chambers, Miss Young, Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Catherine-Mrs Gregory; Petruchio-Shuter; Dancing-Lucas, Miss Hilliard.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Gregory

4617
29 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular desire. This day publish'd The Theatrical Examiner, an inquiry into the merits and demerits of the principal English performers in general...with a consideration of Douglas. [Gives advice to young actors, and some remarks on productions, praises Douglas, gives a diatribe against Garrick: "All young actors start, jump, and Garrickize, which is the true reason there is none of them tolerable." (98 pp.)] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

4618
31 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets and places to be had of him at Gresham's Warehouse, the Crown in York St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: As17570114, but Almeria-Mrs Bellamy (being the 1st time of her performing since her late indisposition); Heli-Bennet; Perez-R. Smith.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17570103

4619
03 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Davies
Role: Player King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4620
04 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo and Ballard (Treasurer). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets sold at the doors will not be taken. [See T. Wilkinson Memoirs, I, 117-19 on Mrs Woffington's illness and inability to play Gertrude.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: Player King Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Performance Comment: Hartop-Shuter; Sir Gregory-Bennet; Jenkins-White; Robin-Holtom; Jenny-Mrs Baker; Sukey-Miss Mullart; Penelope-Mrs Pitt; Tim-Costollo; To conclude with the Drunken Peasant-Phillips.
Cast
Role: To conclude with the Drunken Peasant Actor: Phillips.
Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Poitier; V: The Lamplighters, as17570429

4621
12 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Clive, the only parts listed.

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

4622
29 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: Player King Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

4623
30 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Cast
Role: King of France Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

4624
02 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for The Lying In Hospital, Duke St,, Grosvenor Square. Charges #84. Ready money, #58 4s. Tickets #132 6s. [Total #190 10s.] Bought 3 doz wax candles #4 4s. [Books balance with #1 9s. 9d. carried over as a profit, only to fall to #218 2s. 4d. in the red as a result of meeting Saturday's payroll.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

4625
10 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Cast
Role: Prussian Soldiers Actor: the Comedians
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.