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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Borough of Southwark"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Borough of Southwark")') 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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113 results for: Keyword - Borough of Southwark
We found 108 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
22 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. A Gent: play'd Puff in the farce--Bug (Cross). [Seems to have been a clear benefit, as Treasurer's Book lists no charges.] Cash #65 8s. 6d., plus tickets #95; Paid Reynolds for wax & [brickdust] 3s. 9d. Paid Mr Pope a Bill #7 14s. [wigmaker] (Treasurer's Book). Tickets of Sowdon at his lodgings, the Sign of the Sun, a Milliner's facing Exeter exchange in the strand, and of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets otherwise to be had at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill, and of Mr Thomas Sowdon in Blackman St., Southwark. We hear William Mills, Comedian, lies at the point of death, at his lodgings in Russell St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #160 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance, as17500221; Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

77
07 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the prisoners confined in the Marshalsea Prison, Southwark. Being their first application of this kind. Tickets to be had at The Marshalsea Prison, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews

78
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark Fair. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin at 12 noon. [Repeated in all bills. Play not identified. Some characters resemble those of the Lottery.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, The Fo Bit

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, 'Squire in the Suds

Song: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

Dance: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

79
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Interspers'd with the Comical Humours of the Nurse to the Princess Miriam, and her foolish son Zekel, as likewise the Humourous Scene between Captain Bluster, his Man Didymo, and the Witches. [Jeptha-Morrel, instead of Jeptha-$Carr, according to the Daily Advertiser.] To begin each day at Twelve o'clock, during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrific'd

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

80
08 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

81
08 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bence's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at 12 o'clock. [Mainpiece: An Excellent Dramatick Piece. Afterpiece: A diverting Farce.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ove And Empire; Or, Virtue Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Beaux; or, The Lovers Quarrel

Song:

82
10 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

83
10 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bence's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ove And Empire

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Beaux

84
11 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

85
12 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

86
14 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates's Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. To begin at seven o'clock. Prices: 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song:

87
14 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. Ladies send servant by three. Tickets at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

88
07 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark, A Diverting Droll, By a Company of Comedians. To begin each day at 12 and end at 10 at Night during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv; Or, The Lives Of Robin Hood And Little John, With The Comical Humours Of The Pindar Of Wakefield

Entertainment: EEquilibres on a small wire-Cooke

89
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv

90
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Pit 1s, 6d., Gallery 1s., Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at 12 o'clock noon. Mainpiece: An excellent Droll. [Possibly made from Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like The Old One; Or, The Lucky Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue, with Escape into Quart Bottle

Song: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

Dance: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

91
10 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv

92
11 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv

93
16 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family in distress. At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: EEquilibres on Small Wire-Cooke

94
17 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for Yeates, Jr, at the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark (London Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

95
18 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For One Night Only. For the Benefit of Mr Phillips. At the New Playhouse, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. Sylvius went to see Hamlet but was distracted by a beautiful woman nearby (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 20 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Phillips

Song: Platt, Master Phillips

96
10 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

97
18 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. To begin during the time of the fair each day at 12 noon. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rake Reformed; Or, The Happy Lovers

98
19 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. An excellent Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rake Reformed

99
20 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rake Reformed

100
21 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison