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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Welch or Scotch country girl"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Welch or Scotch country girl")') 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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2253 results for: Keyword - Welch or Scotch country girl
We found 1466 matches on Performance Title, 668 matches on Performance Comments, 315 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

701
21 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Marlowe-Packer; Young Marlowe-Barrymore; Hardcastle-Dowton; Hastings-Holland; Tony Lumpkin-Wathen; The Country Club-Wathen (1st appearance in that character); Diggory-Suett; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Walcot; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Miss Neville-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: The Country Club Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202, but Saundy-_; Donald-_

Entertainment: In which a Trial of Skill, in the exercise of the Austrian and Highland Broadsword-Nine of the First Swordsmen in this Kingdom

702
23 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

703
26 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202

704
03 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Song: End: a new song (composed by Dr Arnold,)-Miss Leak; accompanied on the Tamborine-Miss Leak

Ballet: After Singing: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202

705
09 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Indiscretion

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Song: End IV: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202

706
11 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [Miss Rogers]); End I afterpiece: A Scotch Pas Deux-Jackson, Miss Bologna

Song: After 1st dance: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Master Standen

707
12 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Ballet: In 2nd piece: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202, but Glaude-Fisher

708
13 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: As18000118, but Probe-Wewitzer; Lory-Ryder; Mrs Coupler-Mrs Sparks; Nurse-Miss Tidswell; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Jordan; La Varole-_; Countryman-_; Shoemaker-_; Taylor-_.
Cast
Role: Countryman Actor: Grimaldi

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As18000612

709
05 February 1703 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-a little Girl

Dance: Comick and Serious Dancing-Weaver, Essex, others; a Young Gentlewoman who never perform'd before in Publick; With a Scene between Scaramouch and Harlequin- , entirely New; Vaulting on the Horse-

710
13 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New

Song: Leveridge

Music: Several Entertainments on the Violin-Gasperini

Dance: The Devonshire Girl-; particularly a Quaker's Dance-

711
19 April 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Music: Sonatas-Gasperini; A New Entertainment-the whole Band; in which some extraordinary Parts upon the Flute Violin and Hautboy-Paisible, Banister, Latour

Song: Leveridge

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Campion; with a new dance-the Devonshire Girl in imitation of Mlle Subligne

712
09 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, Mr Claxton, her Master

713
15 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Dance: Comic dances-the Devonshire Girl, Mrs Bicknell

714
16 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Song: Henry Purcell's Bess of Bedlam, a Mad Song,-Shaw

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, Mrs Bicknell, Laferry

715
25 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Song: As17031023

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, the Devonshire Girl

716
26 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Song: As17031023

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, the Devonshire Girl

717
01 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Song: As17031023

Dance: Comic Dances-Laferry, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, Devonshire Girl

718
05 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Dance: Comic dances-Essex, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, Devonshire Girl

719
09 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Music: Italian sonatas on the violin-Gasperini

Dance: Dancing in imitation of Mlle de Subligny-Devonshire Girl

720
10 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly some new Sonatas for the Violin lately brought from Rome, Compos'd by the Great Arcangelo Corelli-Gasperini, others

Song: Several of the best Stage Songs-Leveridge, Mrs Campion

Dance: Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl, DuRuel

721
16 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: The Devonshire Girl

722
29 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Music: As17031109

Song: Leveridge, Mason

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, others

723
13 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Music: As17031109

Dance: The Devonshire Girl; A Comical Entertainment between Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchanello-

724
14 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts [advertised, but not given; see17031221]; A new Piece of Vocal and Instrumental Musick- [never perform'd before, compos'd by Mr Leveridge

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Campion, Mrs Elford, Devonshire Girl

725
27 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: Mason, Good

Dance: Laferry, Mrs Bicknell, Devonshire Girl, Claxton