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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.

526
20 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

527
21 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: On account of Mrs Webb's Indisposition Cross Partners [advertised on playbill of 20 Aug.] is unavoidably postponed till Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

528
22 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Author of Address unknown.] Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17920815

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: New Occasional Address-Mrs Kemble

529
29 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Two Socias [advertised on playbill of 28 Aug.] is unavoidably postponed till Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cross Partners

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

530
02 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of Polly Honeycombe, advertised on playbill of 1 Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

531
12 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; MD 2, by John Rose; music by Thomas Attwood]: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Salary List (Enthoven Collection): Paid Rose for Caernarvon Castle #18 6s. Morning Herald, 16 Sept. 1793: This Day is published Caernarvon Castle (1s.). [This piece had reference to the birthday of the Prince of Wales, which was 12 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: Caernarvon Castle; or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales

532
17 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Caernarvon Castle, advertised on playbill of 16 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: As17930816

533
20 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Wathen had 1st appeared in London at Lord Barrymore's private theatre, Savile Row, 22 July 1790.] Morning Herald, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

534
23 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Peeping Tom, advertised on playbill of 22 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: Vocal Parts, as17930816, but Miss Fontenelle, Miss +DeCamp, Miss +Menage

535
27 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Morning Herald, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: In: As17930720 End: The Row-Johnstone; End II: The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone

536
28 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Comus, advertised on playbill of 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: As17930823

537
29 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Comus [advertised on playbill of 28 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Miss Gopell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Song: As17930823

538
30 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 2nd piece: By Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Morning Herald, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

539
17 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Jealous, Walker, Bonsor, Gawdry, Dosel, Paskin, Hay, Wells, Gilbert, Ansell will be admitted. Account-Book, 28 June: Received for His Majesty's Box 11 nights #110; paid Advertisements in The World to 17 June #30 4s1. 6d.; 17 July: paid several Renters #21 15s. 6d. apiece; 2 Aug.: Paid Land, Commutation, Window and House tax half a year #187 12s. 9d. The Last Night of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #300 0s. 6d. (39/3/0; after money: none listed; tickets: 260/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: THE IRISHMAN IN LONDON

Dance: As17931022

540
26 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of THE FLITCH OF BACON, advertised on playbill of 25 July.] 3rd piece [1st time; CO 2, by Samuel James Arnold]: The new musick, with a Scottish Medley Overture, by Dr Arnold. New Scenery by Rooker. New Dresses and Decorations. Morning Chronicle, 28 Aug. 1794: This Day is published AULD ROBIN GRAY (1s)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: THE VILLAGE LAWYER

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

541
04 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 5 Aug. 1789)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Related Works
Related Work: Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate Author(s): William Augustus Miles

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

542
12 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of THE LONDON HERMIT, advertised on playbill of 11 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE

543
13 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Don Manuel to Parsons, but "At the end of the first act [in which Don Manuel does not appear] Barrymore requested permission of the audience for Waldron to play Don Manuel, Parsons being indisposed,, (Thespian Magazine, Sept. 1794, p. 341).] Morning Chronicle, 7 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Great Russel-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: THE DEAD ALIVE

544
18 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heigho For A Husband

Performance Comment: As 6 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: MISS IN HER TEENS

Afterpiece Title: RULE BRITANNIA

545
25 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule Britannia

Performance Comment: As 18 Aug. but Davies in place of Johnstone .

Afterpiece Title: PEEPING TOM

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

546
27 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Herald, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: COMUS

547
12 September 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heigho For A Husband

Performance Comment: As 6 Aug. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Afterpiece Title: THE PURSE

548
20 January 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Palmer's 1st appearance as Capt. Duretete was at Liverpool, 18 Aug. 1773. As afterpiece the playbill announces The Prize, but "The Public are respectfully informed that on Account of the sudden Indisposition of Bannister Jun. The Prize cannot be performed. This Evening will be presented Tit for Tat" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). In it "Barrymore being Ill, Benson play'd Villamour" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #117 12s. (71.0.6; 41.13.6; 4.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

549
22 April 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Everard. 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by Sarah Gardner. Larpent MS 1101; not published]. 2nd piece: Never acted here [acted 19 Aug. 1784]. [3rd piece: Prologue by Samuel Foote.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15. Tickets to be had at No. 21, Carey-street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; New Slaughter's Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane; of Adams, the Duke of Clarence Coffee-house, Haymarket; and of Everard, at Mr Shade's, Woburn-street, near Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Doggrell In Her Altitudes; Or, The Effects Of A West India Ramble

Afterpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Author

550
30 July 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 11 Aug. 1792]. Tickets delivered for this Evening will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood