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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Winston"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Winston")') 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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501 results for: Keyword - Winston
We found 441 matches on Event Comments, 52 matches on Performance Comments, 19 matches on Roles/Actors, 1 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

176
07 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

177
08 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #132 3s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

178
09 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #185 2s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17581102

179
11 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #143 5s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

180
12 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #196 9s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSpanish Dance, as17581014

181
13 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Lock Hospital (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); Charges #84 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

182
14 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #144 1s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp (an Entertainment). Officer-Blakes; Prussian Soldiers-the comedians; Characters of the dance-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Sga Lucchi, Mrs Vernon

183
15 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 11s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

184
16 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 (Cross); #195 17s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

185
19 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: AAesop deferred. Mrs Clive Indisposed. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #111 13s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

186
20 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye General Lying-in-Hospital. Afterpiece a new farce (Cross). Part of Pit laid into Boxes & Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies are desired to send their servants at 3 o'clock. Receipts: #320 (Cross); Charges #84 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

187
21 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Farce dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8). [See review of the reception and circumstances of publication in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 37), which presents Hill in no good light. See also review of A Letter to the Honourable Author of the Rout (idem.) with its charges against Garrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

188
22 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #153 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

189
23 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by a Daughter of the late Mr Farquhar will be taken. The Farce of The Rout is deferr'd on account of the indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #150 (Cross); #133 10s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: III: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

190
26 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #125 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

191
28 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

192
29 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram (our Painter) dy'd-a worhty honest Man (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #147 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

193
30 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 14s. (Winston MS 8). Sun. Dec. 31, 1758 Mrs Macklin buried at Covent Garden (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

194
01 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram buried at St. Martins (Cross). [This year was translated and published Rousseau's Letter to M D'Alembert (Preface and 190 pp.) on the effect of dramatic entertainments on mankind. Thesis: Aim of the stage is to amuse; authors succeed when they follow the whims of the public. "Let us not then attribute to the stage a power of changing opinions or manners, when it is only that of following or heightening them."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #129 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

195
02 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #187 5s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

196
03 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Play tho' all new dress'd and had Fine Scenes did not seem to give ye audience any great plasure, or draw any applause (Cross). Written by Shakespear. Never Acted there. New Habits, Scenes, and Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken during the Performance. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Orchestra on account of the Music, Decorations, and number of Performers which are necessary to the Representation (playbill). [See "Garrick's Presentation of Antony and Cleopatra," RES, Jan. 1937. The following characters appear in Capel's acting text, 23 Oct. 1958, Maecenas-Atkins; Proculeius-$Austin; Soothsayer-$Burton; Mardian-$Perry; Seleucas-$Burton.] Receipts: #200 ($Cross); #193 14s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

197
05 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #174 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

198
06 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross); #145 11s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: I: Beard

199
08 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Taswell dy'd -an excellent Actor, the best in that Way since Johnson (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

200
09 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #194 10s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra