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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.

1376
30 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

Dance: III: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; After: The Country Wedding-; The Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

Song: IV: A Favourite Ballad, call'd The Goldfinch's Address to Chloe-Miss Young; V: The Country Wedding, as17590423 but-Lowe, Miss Young

1377
07 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: TThe Country Wedding, as17590423

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

1378
29 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: incident to the play

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1379
19 June 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; III: A Hornpipe-Morris; concluding with: Country Dance-the characters

1380
08 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Brent1st time.a1759 10 10 cg The Lying Valet. As17591008d1759 10 10 cg CCountry Dance-the characters of the play
Role: d1759 10 10 cg CCountry Dance Actor: the characters of the play

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

1381
10 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: incident to the Play

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

1382
18 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

1383
24 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Brent1st time.a1759 10 10 cg The Lying Valet. As17591008d1759 10 10 cg CCountry Dance-the characters of the play
Role: d1759 10 10 cg CCountry Dance Actor: the characters of the play

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: CCountry Dance-Characters of the Opera; A Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End II: A New Dance call'd The Shepherdess-Miss Wilford

1384
25 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: I: The Dutch Skipper, as17591017; II: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End Opera: By Desire, a Minuet-Leppie, a Young Lady, who never appeared on any stage before

1385
03 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: incident to the Play

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Cast
Role: concluding with a Country Dance Actor: .
Role: Concluding with Country Dance Actor:
Role: Concluding with a Country Dance Actor:

Dance: III: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

1386
24 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: A New Hornpipe compos'd by Dr Arne-Mrs Vernon, 1st appearance there; a Country Dance-the Characters in the Opera

1387
12 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: Country Dance Actor: incident to the play

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

1388
18 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon; a Country Dance-the Characters in the opera; End II: Les Charboniers, as17601215

1389
12 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: Master Roger, Miss Capitani; to conclude with a Country Dance-

1390
12 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: incident to the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

1391
10 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

1392
06 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: IV: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1393
07 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: III: A Comic Dance (not perform'd these 9 years) call'd The Taylors-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; V: A New Comic Ballet, The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1394
08 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: III: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1395
09 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part 2

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: TThe French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1396
11 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: III: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1397
13 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: The Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001; End: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1398
20 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: III: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1399
22 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: II: The Pedlar Trick'd, as17620107; End: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

1400
27 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: III: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210