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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Press Gang"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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19 results for: Title - The Press Gang

1
23 August 1740 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Scapin; Or, The Old One Caught In A Sack

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers; or, The Press Gang

Dance: Oates, Yates, Bencraft, Gray, Julian, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Phillips; particularly The Spanish Beauties-

2
02 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Love in Low Life; or, A Press Gang at Billingsgate

3
02 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang; or, Love in Low Life

Song: II: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Donaldson (late Miss Falkner); IV: The Lady's Lesson a Cantata-Arne Jr

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

4
03 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang

Dance: As17541203

5
08 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang

Dance: PPantomime Peasant Dance, as17550104

6
11 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

7
06 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang; or, The Parting Lovers

Dance: LLes Paisans Gallants, as17551203

Song: TTo Arms to Arms, Britons Strike Home-Lowe, Howard

8
13 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester (comedy)

Dance: II: A New Serious Dance, call'd The Shipwreck; or +The Distressed Lovers-Gardiner (1st appearance that stage), Mrs Vernon; IV: A new Comic Dance call'd The Press Gang; or +The Sailor's Farewell-Gardiner, Mrs Vernon

Song: III: Miss Young

9
16 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: The Press Gang, as17561013

10
18 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Press Gang, as17561013

11
26 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: TThe Press Gang, as17561013

12
06 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Press Gang, as17561013

13
12 November 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: True Blue; or The Press Gang

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

14
09 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Monologue: Between Main and Afterpiece: an Entertainment True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

15
11 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Monologue: 1773 5 11 After the Play: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. True Blue-Davies; Lieut.-Bannister; Careful-Wright; Nancy-Mrs Wrighten; In which will be introduced a Hornpipe-Atkins

16
26 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Monologue: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Baker; The Dance-Aldridge. [See 11 May 1773.

17
09 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Entertainment: InterludeEnd: True Blue; or, The Press Gang-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Willems; The Dance-Aldridge

18
23 December 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue; or, The Press-Gang

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

19
17 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Dance: In I: Grand Masquerade-; with the Minuet de la Cour and Allemande, as17950921

Song: End IV: Elegy-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts, as17950921, but Miss _Stuart, Miss _Kirton; After entertainment: Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314but _Bowden; Old Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: End: Monsieur Tonson, as17960426; After which Recitation and Music, as performed last Season with universal Applause at Freemason's Hall, in which Errors of the Press-Holman; Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Middleton; The Story of the Dog (written by Whitehead)-Pope