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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Dudley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Dudley")') 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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We found 414 matches on Roles/Actors, 81 matches on Performance Comments, 10 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Baker; Stockwell-Simpson; Young Dudley-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on that stage); Captain Dudley-Lloyd; Fulmer-Jackson; Varland-Cooper; Stukeley-Smith; Major O'Flaherty-Griffiths; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Fox; Lady Rusport-Mrs Crisp; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Waldron; Lucy-Miss Clerk; Charlotte Rusport-Miss Powell (from the Theatre-Royal, Richmond).
Cast
Role: Young Dudley Actor: A Young Gentleman
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Lloyd
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End: This is the life of a frolicksome fellow-the Gentleman who performs Young Dudley; Four@and@twenty fidlers-Simpson

Entertainment: After Singing: Theatrical Imitations, vocal and rhetorical,-Weston (1st appearance on any stage)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Bannister Jun.; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Fulmer-Baddeley; Stukely-Benson; Sailor-Bates; Servant-Alfred; Varland-Parsons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: End I: a Hornpipe-Bourk; End III: Minuet de la Cour-Brigg, Miss J. Stageldoir; End: Highland Reel-Bourk, the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Bannister Jun.; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Fulmer-Suett; Stukely-Benson; Sailor-Jones; Varland (1st time)-Baddeley; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell; Charlotte Rusport (1st time)-Mrs Goodall.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Haymes (1st appearance on that stage); Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Fulmer-Suett; Varland-Baddeley; Lady Rusport-Mrs Booth [Public Advertiser: Mrs Hopkins]; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell; Lucy-Mrs Heard; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Goodall.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Stockwell-Aickin; Belcour-Bannister Jun.; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Stukely-Benson; Fulmer-Suett; Varland-Baddeley; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Goodall; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The West Indian

Performance Comment: Stockwell-Aickin; Belcour-Whitfield; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Stukely-Benson; Fulmer-Suett; Varland-Baddeley; Sailor-Jones; Servants-Webb, Lyons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Powell (1st appearance in that character); Louisa Dudley-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell; Lucy-Mrs Shaw; Housekeeper-Mrs Heard.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Keys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Stockwell-Aickin; Belcour-Bannister Jun.; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Barrymore; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Stukely-Benson; Fulmer-Suett; Varland-Baddeley; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Goodall; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Kemble; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-King; Stockwell-Usher; Charles Dudley-Brereton; Varland-Parsons; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Captian Dudley-Packer; Fulmer-Baddeley; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Lucy-Mrs Love; Charlotte-Mrs Abington; Louisa-Miss Hopkins; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Sherry; Housekeeper-Mrs Bradshaw; Original Epilogue-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Brereton
Role: Captian Dudley Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Song: I: Moody (By Desire) will introduce the song in Love a@la@Mode-Moody

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Edition of 1715 lists: Duke of Northumberland-Mills; Duke of Suffolk-Boman; Lord Guilford Dudley-Booth; Earl of Pembroke-Elrington; Earl of Sussex-Ryan; Gardiner Bishop of Winchester-Cibber; Sir John Gates-Shepherd; Lieutenant of Tower-Quin; Captain of Guards-Maddocks; Dutchess of Suffolk-Mrs Porter; Lady Jane Gray-Mrs Oldfield; Prologue-Booth; Epilogue-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Lord Guilford Dudley Actor: Booth

Music: In: a cantata, The Meditation by Pepusch-Mrs del'Epine, Mrs Barbier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Pembroke-Walker; Lord Guilford Dudley-Giffard; Northumberland-Nelson; Suffolk-Crofts; Sussex-Linnet; Gardiner-Paget; Sir J. Gates-Marr; Dutchess of Suffolk-Mrs Steel; Lady Jane Gray-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Lord Guilford Dudley Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: A new dance-Master Matthews; V: Drunken Peasant-Chettle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Lady Jane-Mrs Woffington; Lord Guilford Dudley-Ryan; Northumberland-Sparks; Pembroke-Lacy; Suffolk-Ridout; Sussex-Anderson; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs Elmy; Gardiner-Quin.
Cast
Role: Lord Guilford Dudley Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Lord Guilford Dudley-Jackson; Pembroke-Holland, 1st time; Gardiner-Havard; Lady Jane Gray-Mrs Yates, 1st time; Gates-Castle; Lieutenant-Fox; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs Bennet; Officer-Ackman; Northumberland-Burton; Suffolk-Bransby.
Cast
Role: Lord Guilford Dudley Actor: Jackson

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: The Sabotiers, as17621013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Grey

Performance Comment: Lord Guildford Dudley-Lewis, first time; Pembroke-Bensley; Northumberland-Hull; Gardiner-Clarke; Suffolk-Fearon; Sussex-L'Estrange; Sir John Gates-Booth; Lieut.-Chaplin; Dutchess of Suffolk-Mrs Hull; Lady-Miss Pearce; Lady Jane Grey-Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: End Tragedy: A Comic Dance, call'd Rural Merriment-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Macaroni Adventurer; Or, Woman's A Riddle

Performance Comment: Characters-Payler, Middleton, Swords, Evans, Kennedy, Levi [their 1st appearance on any stage], Davis, Everard, Mrs Shirley, Miss Hiorne, Miss Percey, Miss Dudley (their 1st appearance on any stage), Mrs Lefevre; A new occasional Prologue-; Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Performance Comment: Lovegirlo-Kennedy; Captain Bilkum-Davis; Gallono-Keene; Leathersides-Clarke; Chairman-Evans; Kissinda-Miss Dudley; Stormandra-Mrs Lefevre; Nonparel-Miss Walters; Industrious Jenny-Miss Hiorne; Mother Punchbowl-Mr Swords.
Cast
Role: Kissinda Actor: Miss Dudley

Dance: Entertainments ofDancing-

Entertainment: Monologue.End III: Imitations [Vocal and Rhetorical, never attempted, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) accompany himself with the Symphonies (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentified])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Performance Comment: Gainlove-Harricks; Shamwell-King; Haughty-Johnson; Young Ape@all-Mills; Old Ape@all-Shatford; Dash-Curtis; Timothy-Middleton; Officer-Smith; Vice Chancellor-Bate; Conundrum-Swords; Colonel Truemore-Powell; Lady Science-Mrs Lefevre; Victoria-Miss Miller; Kitty-Miss Dudley; Wife-Miss Shelbourne; Maid-Miss Baker; Clarinda-Mrs Clifford; Occasional Prologue-Kennedy.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Dudley

Afterpiece Title: A Mirror for the Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Song: End III: Hunting Song-Miss Harris

Monologue: Vaudeville.Between Acts 3rd piece: a few Pantomimical Scenes. Harlequin-Best; Columbine-Miss Dudley

Performance Comment: Between Acts 3rd piece: a few Pantomimical Scenes. Harlequin-Best; Columbine-Miss Dudley.
Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Dudley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Touchstone Of Invention; Or, The Soldier's Fortune

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Holmes, Williams, Horwell, Master Woodward, Dugdale, Bates, Decastro, Wright, Munden, Noble, Barrett, Miss Dudley, Miss Bowles, Miss White, Mrs Baker.

Afterpiece Title: Henry And Emma

Performance Comment: Henry-Smith; Eugenius-Noble; Emma-Miss Dudley.
Cast
Role: Emma Actor: Miss Dudley.

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Mills; Sir George Airy-Davis; Sir Francis Gripe-Blanchard; Sir Jealous Traffic-Bates; Whisper-Dugdale; Servant-Master Woodward; Charles-Miller (1st appearance); Isabinda-Miss Dudley; Patch-Mrs Barnard; Scentwell-Miss Mitchell; Miranda-Miss Brangin (1st appearance); Prologue-Haynes; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Dudley

Dance: 2nd piece: With a Hornpipe-Lonsdale

Song: End I: two part song, Damon and Clora-Leach, Miss Mitchell (1st appearance); End III: My sweet pretty Mogg-Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Performance Comment: Sir Scrapeall-Barrett; Colonel Parapet-Vowell; Sir Charles Prudent-Harrington; Fuzee-Blackburn; Crambo-Brown; Timothy-Munden; Captain Starboard-Smith; Lady Charlotte-Miss O'Brien (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in London); Lady Brainless-Mrs Baker; Emmeline-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance upon any stage [unidentified]); Ruelle-Miss Dudley; Mrs Busy-Mrs Lefevre; Occasional Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: Ruelle Actor: Miss Dudley

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-Smith; Saville-Blackburn; Caveat-Munden; Boy-Master Screven; Linger-Barrett; Myra-Miss Dudley; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Barnett; Lucetta-Mrs Lefevre.
Cast
Role: Myra Actor: Miss Dudley

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Performance Comment: Gainlove-Powell; Col. Trumore-Williams; Haughty-Massey; Conundrum-Barret; Young Apeall-Hayes; Old Apeall-Newton; Timothy-Booth; Dash-Gibson; Lord Shamwell-Forde (from the Theatre-Royal, Dublin); Clarinda-Mrs Robinson; Victoria-Miss Dudley; Kitty-Miss Brangin; Wife-Mrs Barnet; Lady Science-Mrs Lefevre.
Cast
Role: Victoria Actor: Miss Dudley

Afterpiece Title: The Orators; or, The School of Eloquence Dissected

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovell-Smith; Lord Duke-Hayes; Sir Harry-Long; Lady Bab-Miss Dudley; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Robinson; Kitty-Mrs Lefevre.
Cast
Role: Lady Bab Actor: Miss Dudley

Song: Between Acts: an Italian song-a Young Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: End III: Imitations-Young Gentleman [unidentified]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Fearon; Major O'Flaherty-Johnstone; Captain Dudley-Hull; Charles-Farren; Fulmer-Thompson; Varland-Quick; Louisa-Mrs Bannister; Lady Rusport-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Miss Stuart; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Bates; Charlotte Rusport (with the original Epilogue written by Garrick)-Mrs Abington .
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Johnstone; Captain Dudley-Hull; Charles-Farren; Fulmer-Thompson; Stukely-Gardner; Varland-Quick; Louisa-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Tweedale]); Lady Rusport-Mrs Webb; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Davenett; Charlotte Rusport (with the original Epilogue)-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: As17871208, but Varland-Waldron; Louisa Dudley-Miss Davies (2nd appearance on any stage); Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Heard; Lucy-Mrs Shaw.
Cast
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Miss Davies
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Packer
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End III: New Dance taken from the Favourite Comic Opera of Gli Schiavi par Amore (recte per)-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Comic Concert, in which will be introduced The Devonshire Reel, Jack Tar's Delight-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss D'Egville, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'Flaherty-Duncan (1st appearance on this stage); Captain Dudley-Hull; Charles-Farren; Fulmer-Thompson; Stukely-Gardner; Varland-Quick; Louisa-Miss Tweedale; Lady Rusport-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Miss Stuart; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Davenett; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Duncan (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: As17891118, but Captain Dudley-Maddocks; Lucy-Mrs Heard; Stukely-Benson.
Cast
Role: Captain Dudley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Charles Dudley Actor: Barrymore
Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: Hornpipe-Whittow; End: Minuet de la Cour-Mr and Mrs Brigg; in which Codrile-; to conclude with a Scotch Reel-Whittow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Dudley Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Dudley Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: