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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Devonshire Girl"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Devonshire Girl")') 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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465 results for: Keyword - Devonshire Girl
We found 268 matches on Performance Title, 152 matches on Performance Comments, 80 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
12 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Country Girl [announced on playbill of 11 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Dodd. Receipts: #205 14s. 6d. (160.5.0; 41.9.6; 4.0.0)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

452
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

453
12 December 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Country Girl and The Pannel [both advertised on playbill of 11 Dec.] are deferred on account of Mrs Jordan's Indisposition. Receipts: #60 10s. 6d. (36.10.0; 22.10.0; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End: As17881113

Song: As17880916

454
31 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: Such Things Have Been

Performance Comment: Characters-Ryder, Bernard, Fearon, Macready, Rock, Booth, Mrs Webb, Miss Wewitzer, Miss Fontenelle. [Larpent MS 818 lists the parts: Mr Traffick, Sir Patrick Prospect, Clack, Tom Prospect, Pat Conelly, Jew Pedlar, Servant, Fanny Traffick, Mrs Traffick, Biddy, Orange Girl.]Larpent MS 818 lists the parts: Mr Traffick, Sir Patrick Prospect, Clack, Tom Prospect, Pat Conelly, Jew Pedlar, Servant, Fanny Traffick, Mrs Traffick, Biddy, Orange Girl.]

Song: End 3rd piece: Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to Londonwritten and to be sung-Ryder

Entertainment: Monologue. In course of Entertainments: Bucks have at Ye All-Ryder

455
08 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of the The Country Girl, advertised on playbill of 6 Mar.] Receipts: #235 12s. (185.19; 56.4; 3.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

456
01 September 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: In consequence of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Kemble, Inkle and Yarico [in place of Cross Partners, advertised on playbill of 31 Aug.] is obliged to be postponed. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Palmer Jun. as the Officer, but "An apology was made by Palmer for his Son who (as he said), not knowing of the sudden change [of play], was gone to the country, but the son thought proper to give his father the lie, by appearing in the boxes, a few minutes after, with a girl. Farley performed his part, and the audience seemed rejoiced at the change" (Thespian Magazine, Oct. 1792, p.102). Afterpiece in place of Katharine and Petruchio, advertised on playbill of 31 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

457
21 October 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Powell: Mountaineers rehearsed at 10; Country Girl at 12; Wedding Day at 1:30. Receipts: #328 1s. (263.3; 61.11; 3.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

458
06 May 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Faulknor; or, British Heroism

Performance Comment: Lieut. Steady-Incledon; Pounce-Munden; Lieut. Oakly-Bowden; Capt. Faulknor-Claremont; Capt. O'Cutter-Johnstone; Boatswain-Thompson [added by text]; Mora (a Negro Girl)-Mrs Martyr.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb