Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the queen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the queen")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
3871 results for: Keyword - the queen
We found 3495 matches on Roles/Actors, 1118 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 429 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

2726
20 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Queen in Richard III Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

2727
21 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1/2 Yrs Rent #171 12s. 10d. Receipts: #203 11s. 6d. (166/12/0; 35/3/6; 1/16/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Queen in Richard III Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

2728
22 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Queen in Richard III Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

2729
28 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: M rs Hedges
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly

Cast
Role: Clodpate Actor: Grimaldi. The other Characters by Moody, Wrighten, Burton, Chapman, Waldron, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Jones, Spencer, Alfred, &c.

2730
15 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Morning Herald, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. "In the apparent assumption of madness [and] the express'd weakness and melancholy of the character Kemble is not equalled by any of his predecessors . . . Till [Mrs Siddons] there never was, in sensible discrimination, as there ought to be, the real madness of Ophelia from the feigned distraction of Hamlet. Till then the dignity, the love, even the pathos of the part [were] but poorly, if at all administered" (Public Advertiser, 17 May). Receipts: #326 14s. 6d. (137/3/0; 7/3/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 182/4/0)(charge: #109 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: M rs Hedges
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Bacchanals-Bannister, Williames; Spirit-Barrymore; Brothers-Bannister Jun., R. Palmer; Euphrosyne (with Sweet Echo, accompanied by Parke)-Mrs Wrighten; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Crouch; Sabrina-Mrs Forster; Principal Bacchant-Miss George; The Lady (for this night only)-Mrs Siddons .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Bannister Jun., R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Siddons
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

2731
01 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: II: [Dr Cooke]'s Glee, Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke.

2732
05 February 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #318 8s. (304.1; 14.2; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: As17870201

Song: As17870201

2733
20 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. Receipts: #313 (139.19.0; 11.15.6; 0.11.6; tickets: 160.14.0) (charge: #70 5s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End II: As17870113

Song: As17870201

2734
14 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Hewardine (1st appearance on any stage); Sir Jasper Wilding-Thompson; Young Wilding-Davies; Beaufort-Cubitt; Old Philpot-Quick; Maria-Mrs T. Kennedy; The original Epilogue-Hewardine, Quick.
Cast
Role: The original Epilogue Actor: Hewardine, Quick.

Song: As17870326

2735
21 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Cast
Role: Muzzy Actor: Mathews

Entertainment: Monologue. As17870516

2736
24 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #263 7s. (145.17; 14.1; 0.14; tickets: 102.15) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: As17870201

2737
29 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

2738
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

2739
17 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Benson
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Williames; Simkin-Suett; Skirmish-Bannister Jun. (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Jenny-Miss Collett; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-Mrs Crouch.

2740
16 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Provok'd Husband [advertised on playbill of 15 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Miss Farren. Receipts: #189 0s. 6d. (159.1.0; 29.5.6; 0.14.O)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Benson
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2741
18 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "In no part of Bensley's voice is there an atom of the tender of mournful. [King Henry] is a part totally unsuited to his powers" (Public Advertiser, 19 Feb.). Receipts: #158 15s. (119.2; 37.15; 1.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Benson
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2742
17 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Benson
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2743
04 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2744
10 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Banks was from the Manchester theatre.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Representation of the Repulse of the Spaniards before the Rock of Gibraltarv [on 13 Sept. 1782]. Scenes designed by Greenwood; Overture by Baumgarten. Receipts: #173 16s. (152.10; 20.13; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magic Cestus

2745
29 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The King-Whitfield; Richard-R. Palmer; Joe (with a song)-Williames; Lord Lurewell-Benson; Courtiers-Phillimore, Lyons; Keepers-Fawcett, Jones, Alfred; The Miller-Moody; Kate-Mrs Wilson; Peggy-Miss Collins; Margery-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: The King Actor: Whitfield
Role: The Miller Actor: Moody

Song: As17881125

2746
02 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: As17881125

2747
06 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #212 8s. 6d. (188.15.0; 23.1.0; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: As17881125

2748
13 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth

2749
20 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Song: In IV: song-Miss Romanzini

2750
27 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katharine Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth

Song: As17881125