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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow of Mr Walter Aston"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow of Mr Walter Aston")') 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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7466 results for: Keyword - Widow of Mr Walter Aston
We found 4508 matches on Event Comments, 2221 matches on Performance Comments, 1432 matches on Performance Title, 103 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

501
28 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer and Mrs Walter. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge, Author of Sir Fopling Flutter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud If She Coud

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Singing in Italian-Roberts

Dance: TThe Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Lally Jr, F. Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers

Performance Comment: Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers.

502
01 May 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Le Brun (Harlequin) and Mrs Walter. Afterpiece: By particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Burgo Master Trickd

Music: V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Poitier will beat the Kettle Drums

Dance: I: Revellers by Essex, Miss Latour, &c. II: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

Performance Comment: II: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun .

503
27 December 1666 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And my wife, and by coach to the King's playhouse, and meeting Creed took him up, and there saw The Scornfull Lady well acted; Doll Common [Mrs Corey] doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very well, and will be an excellent actor, I think. In other parts the play not so well done as used to be, by the old actors. Anon to White Hall by coach, thinking to have seen a play there to-night, but found it a mistake, so back again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: See16661210 l666 Elder Loveless-Burt?; Younger Loveless-Kynaston?; Welford-Hart?; Sir Roger-Lacy?; The Lady-Mrs Rebecca? Marshal?; Martha-Mrs Rutter?; Abigail-Mrs Cory; Widow-Mrs Knipp.
Cast
Role: Younger Loveless Actor: Kynaston?
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Knipp.

504
24 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rowland and the Widow White. Receipts: money #8 7s. 6d.; tickets #111 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injurd Love

Performance Comment: As17221214, but Widow Richlove-Mrs Boheme; Sir Saveal-_.
Cast
Role: Widow Richlove Actor: Mrs Boheme

Dance: Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock

505
07 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bridges, Cross, Burton, and Vaughan's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, Southwark, (with a company from the theatres) during the short time of the Fair will be presented an Historical Drama (lately acted in Bartholemew Fair with universal applause) the Northern Heroes with the Loves of Count Gillensternia, a Swedish General, and the fair Ellimira a Russian Princess, containing the most remarkable events of that time; and concluding with the memorable battle of Putlowav, and Charles's retreat into the Turkish dominionsv. Interspersed with a comic interlude, The Volunteers. Also the comical humours and amours of Corporal Garbage and Serjeant Slim, with Mrs Vanspriggen the Swedish Sutler's widow, the merry pranks of her foolish son Janny, and several other diverting incidents. As the Fair will be of so short continuance, we shall begin very early each day (General Advertiser). [See 24 Aug. 1748, bf]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Northern Heroes Or The Bloody Contest Between Charles The Twelfth King Of Sweden And Peter The Great Czar Of Muscovy

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers or The Adventures of Roderick Random and His Friend Strap

Performance Comment: Roderick-Cross; Corporal Garbage-Bridges; Slim-Storer; Strap-Paddick; Widow Vanspriggen-Mrs Bridges; Moll Trotfutter-Mrs Vaughan; Mrs Rank-Miss Ferguson; Mrs File-Mrs Shawford; Mrs Machegogan-Mrs Paddick; Madge-Miss Tyler; Janny-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Widow Vanspriggen Actor: Mrs Bridges

Dance: Particularly a Hornpipe-

506
17 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Weller, Chapman, Mrs Burden, Miss Sledge. Tickets deliver'd by Redman, Dibdin, Miss Helm, Mrs Viviez, Miss Dawes, and Widow Dupre will be taken. [Ticket distribution from Account Book:] @Names Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Weller 19 59 80 #21 12s. #10 16s.@Redman 2 41 44 #11 1s. #5 10s. 6d.@Chapman 51 177 87 #48 #24@Dibdin 5 24 40 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Mrs Burden 20 30 56 #15 2s. #7 11s.@Miss Sledge 6 56 72 #17 2s. #8 11s.@Miss Helm 4 27 25 #7 11s. #3 15s. 6d.@Mrs Viviez 8 53 144 #24 7s. #12 3s. 6d.@Miss Dawes 14 30 56 #13 12s. #6 16s.@Mrs Dupre 5 44 42 #12 1s. #6 6d.@Total 134 541 646 #179 5s. #89 12s. 6d.@ Receipts: #22 15s. 6d. plus half value of tickets #89 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Valentine-Smith; Francisco-Hull; Hairbrain-Wignel; Fountain-Anderson; Belmour-Davis; Lovegood-Gibson; Lance-Dunstall; Shorthose-Weller; Merchant-Marten; Ralph-Bennet; Humphrey-Holtom; Roger-Costollo; Lucy-Miss Sledge; Isabella-Mrs Burden; The Widow-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: The Widow Actor: Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

507
01 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Kemble Mem.: Miss Farren refused to act this night because she didn't like her Dress. Mrs Goodall play[ed] the Widow Bellmour for her.] Receipts: #118 18s. (73.17.0; 40.3.0; 3.5.6; tickets not come in: 1.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Wroughton; Sir Bashful Constant-King; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; William-R. Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Sideboard-Burton; Black Boy-Miss Gawdry; Widow Bellmour-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Ward; Lady Constant-Mrs Kemble; Muslin-Miss Pope; Mignionet-Miss Tidswell; Furnish-Mrs Heard; Edition of 1792 (John Bell) adds: John-Phillimore.
Cast
Role: Widow Bellmour Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

508
11 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit widow and four children of actor Milward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

509
16 August 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Dance: LaBee, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris; also new dances-Thurmond Jr, others

Song: A Variety of English and Italian Songs-

510
16 May 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

511
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

512
11 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance:

513
18 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

Song:

Dance:

514
22 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

Song:

Dance:

515
01 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

516
03 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

517
04 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

518
06 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

519
21 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

520
10 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

521
02 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

522
16 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

523
13 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

524
24 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

525
28 April 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince Author(s): Aston Cokain

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda