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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.

6026
09 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #257 1s. (242.18.0; 13.0.6; 1.2.6) (orders: #6 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17770116, but Lucy (1st time)-Mrs Davies; The Original Epilogue-_.
Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

Dance: End II: The Triumph of Love, as17761107

6027
10 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Hurst, Burton, Lamash, R. Palmer, Wright, Fawcett, Kear, Master Pulley, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Edition of 1776

6028
12 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of The Milesian. Receipts: #124 15s. 6d. (94.19.0; 28.6.6; 1.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Sir Joseph Wittol Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Dance: As17761214

6029
15 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Trim Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

6030
16 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

6031
18 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Cast
Role: Sprightly Actor: King
Role: not listed on playbill, Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: As17761128

6032
19 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Witwou'd Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance, The Corn Thrashers-Blurton, Mrs Sutton; End: Minuet de la Cour-Froment, Mrs Sutton (his Scholar); End I: The Irish Fair, as17761031

6033
23 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: End I afterpiece: the Louvre Minuet, Allemande-the Miss Stageldoirs

6034
26 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi & Hurst. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi, Little Piazza, Covent Garden. [Younger was from the Manchester theatre.] Receipts: #217 0s. 6d. (46.14.0; 17.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 152.9.0) (charge: #65 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17761104, but Bajazet-Younger (1st appearance on this stage); The usual Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

Song: As17761104

6035
01 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In: Grand Dance, as17770425

6036
03 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book keeper. Tickets delivered for As You Like It on the 10th of May will be taken this Night. Receipts: #257 2s. (62.3; 17.9; 0.0; tickets: 177.10) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Sprightly Actor: King
Role: not listed on playbill, Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End Act I: Grand Dance, as17770425

Song: As17761009

6037
05 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Jefferson
Role: Player King Actor: Hurst

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

6038
06 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Legg & Kear. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Legg, Market-street, St James's Market; of Kear, No: 2, Stephen-street, Tottenham Court Road. Tickets delivered for Wednesday the 7th Inst. will be taken. Receipts: #229 1s. (36.12; 10.12; 0.0; tickets: 181.17) (charge: #64 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Cast
Role: Sprightly Actor: King
Role: not listed on playbill, Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425

6039
07 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #219 15s. 6d. (204.16.0; 13.17.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Master of the Ship Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: As17770110

6040
09 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "A Gentleman who is as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a length" (David Garrick to R. B. Sheridan, 12 May 1777, in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl, 1963, III, 1163). Receipts: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

6041
10 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

6042
12 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Author's ballance for 1 Night of the Trip to Scarborough & 4 Nights for the School for Scandal #741 0s. 6d. Receipts: #257 7s. 6d. (251.16.0; 5.0.0; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

6043
13 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

6044
14 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

6045
16 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Cast
Role: The Little Gipsy Actor: Miss Abrams.

6046
19 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

6047
20 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

6048
21 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 1s. (269.1.0; 3.7.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

6049
22 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

6050
23 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Cast
Role: The Little Gipsy Actor: Miss Abrams.