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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Aug"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Aug")') 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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616 results for: Keyword - Aug:
We found 501 matches on Event Comments, 106 matches on Performance Comments, 36 matches on Roles/Actors, 16 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

426
29 June 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 10 Aug. 1779]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

427
30 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The new Comedy of I'll Tell You What! [announced on playbill of 29 July] is obliged to be deferr'd on Account of the Indisposition of Parsons [see 4 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Merry Lasses, as17850705 End of Act III, as17850728

428
04 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Bensley, Aickin, Bannister Jun. Williamson, R. Palmer, Lyons, Ledger, Gaudry, Parsons; Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Bates, Mrs Riley, Miss Farrcn. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786): Major Cyprus-Palmer; Mr Anthony Euston-Bensley; Colonel Downright-Aickin; Charles Euston-Bannister Jun.; Sir George Euston-Williamson; Sir Harry Harmless-R. Palmer; Servants-Lyons, Ledger, Gaudry; Mr Euston-Parsons; Lady Euston-Mrs Bulkley; Lady Harriet Cyprus-Mrs Bates; Bloom-Mrs Riley; A Young Lady [in review of the play in Public Advertiser, 5 Aug., called Mrs Charles Euston]-Miss Farren.] Prologue [spoken by Palmer]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren. These were spoken as, here assigned, at all subsequent performances] . Prologue [spoken by Palmer]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren. These were spoken as, here assigned, at all subsequent performances] .

Afterpiece Title: The Author

429
06 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

430
08 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

431
10 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

432
12 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

433
13 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

434
15 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17850728 but omitted: Mrs Goodwin

435
16 August 1785 @ Assembly Room, Mile End Road, Mile End

Event Comment: of comedians [probably Davis's (Gentleman's Magazine, June 1814, p. 622)] now performing here (Public Advertiser, 16 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

436
17 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

437
18 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17850815

438
19 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. 3rd piece: An Original, Whimsical, Operatical, Pantomimical, Farcical, Electrical, Naval, Military, Temporary, Local Extravaganza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: In 1st piece capital Catches and Glees, selected from the most eminent Masters, with the celebrated Anacreontic Song by Bannister. imitations. End of 2nd piece, as17850726

439
20 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

440
22 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

441
23 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Windsor Lady (an Historical, Tragical, Comical old Ditty); End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Tmenty Fiddlers all on a Row, both by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 08 23 End of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tomer of London by Edwin

442
24 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

443
29 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

444
30 August 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

445
03 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

446
06 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

447
08 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

448
10 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

449
13 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

450
15 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: As 4 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where