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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Children of the late Mr Farquhar"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Children of the late Mr Farquhar")') 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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7986 results for: Keyword - Children of the late Mr Farquhar
We found 5218 matches on Event Comments, 1411 matches on Performance Comments, 1076 matches on Author, 998 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1001
20 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #76 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1002
04 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #70 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1003
05 March 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Journal, 8 March: On Friday Night last died Mrs Mary Heron, a celebrated Actress belonging to Drury-lane Playhouse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Captain of the Galley Actor: Este

1004
30 March 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

1005
01 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit MacSwiny. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #61 17s. 6d.; tickets #60 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: I: A new Comic Ballet by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. II: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: Glover's Scot's Dance

1006
05 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mich. Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. By Desire, two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. [Ticket's at Lally's in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury.] Receipts: money #26 12s. 6d.; tickets #180 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: I: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. II: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers

1007
26 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden. [Tickets given out by Topham, Ravenscroft, and Edward Giffard taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

1008
07 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Oates. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17351126, but Nurse-Mrs Bennet. A new Epilogue, addressed to the Town, to be spoken by Miss Oates .
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Bennet. A new Epilogue, addressed to the Town, to be spoken by Miss Oates

Music: The March in Zara. By Desire, a Solo composed by Charke will be performed on the Violin by his Scholar, Master Oates

Performance Comment: By Desire, a Solo composed by Charke will be performed on the Violin by his Scholar, Master Oates .

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: A new dance by Master Oates and Miss Oates, Scholars to Villeneuve. III: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. IV: Peasant by Master Oates and Miss Oates. V: Dutchman and his Frow by Phillips and Miss Brett

1009
08 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ridout and Dupre. [Rich's Register adds Livier and Miss Brunette.] Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #11 19s.; tickets #104 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: 1: French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and his Scholar. III: Wooden Shoe Dance by Leviez. IV: By Desire, a Ball Dance by Dupre and Mlle Delorme. V: French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. End Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers

1010
21 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Double Jealousy, as17360907

Music: Select Pieces-

1011
27 October 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Salway; Polly-Miss Bincks; Lockit-Mullart; Peachem-Hippisley; Lucy-Mrs Reynold, her first appearance since her arrival from Dublin; all the other Parts as usual. all the other Parts as usual.

Dance: CClown-Nivelon; Hornpipe-Ferguson; Scot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

1012
30 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Rover, as17361029; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

1013
03 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Revellers-Essex, Mrs Walter

1014
03 November 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Glover; Daphne-Mrs Laguerre; Nymphs-Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Norman; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant-Hippisley; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Scaramouch-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Bencraft, Bodine, Dupre Jr; Women Peasants-Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancy; with The Triumphs of Love: Venus-Mrs Wright; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Silenus-Leveridge; Bacchus-Laguerre; Pan-Salway; Zaphyrus-Glover; Frenchman-Desse; Spaniard-Tench; Polonese-Richardson; Frenchwoman-Mlle Delorme; Spanish Woman-Mrs Moreau; Polonese Woman-Mrs Ogden; Flora-Mrs Laguerre.
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

1015
06 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; IV: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter

1016
11 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: II: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter; IV: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

1017
16 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: A new Serious Dance-Delamayne, Miss Oates

1018
17 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: As17361116

1019
23 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Harlequin-Delamayne

1020
25 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: Muilment

1021
06 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. For a long essay on theatrical affairs, see The Occasional Prompter I in Daily Journal, 6 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Poor Pierot Married

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling

1022
10 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve, [For Occasional Prompter III, see Daily Journal, 10 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: In III: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

1023
16 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1024
21 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1025
10 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Hornpipe-Ferguson