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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Evans"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Evans")') 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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1453 results for: Keyword - Evans
We found 1607 matches on Roles/Actors, 386 matches on Performance Comments, 108 matches on Event Comments, 75 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

1376
02 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan and Evans (Box Keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1377
01 May 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan and Evans [Box-Keepers). [Handel's Oratorios Solomon and Susanna published and the favorite songs in the Comic opera Li Tre Cicisbei Ridicoli.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

1378
11 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green (Boxkeepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, La Paisanne-Mlle Heutte

1379
08 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green (Boxkeepers). Tickets sold at the doors will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips, with the Clown Smith

1380
26 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies & Wife (Cross). Tickets at Davies's lodgings at Mr Evans, in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden; and at Stage Door. [The Bill announces Garrick as Lothario for last time this season.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17521125; V: Country Amusements, as17530412

Song: I: A Cantata-Beard

1381
15 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans (Boxkeeper). Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. By reason of the indisposition of a principal performer, the play is oblig'd to be changed, and tickets deliver'd for the Way of the World will be taken for this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: A Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; also By Particular Desire Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216

1382
24 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Beard

1383
17 May 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box-Keepers Evans and Plummer. [Usual notice about fraudulent tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

Entertainment: EEpilogue Riding on an Ass-Shuter

1384
15 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans (Boxkeeper.) Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: As17550430

1385
20 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Condell (Boxkeepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17560518; III: Les Paisans Gallants, as17551203

Entertainment: By Particular Desire Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

1386
18 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Letsam (Boxkeepers). Tickets sold at the Door will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17561023

1387
10 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Box-Keepers, Evans and Condill. [Barry's last appearance this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: NewComic Dance, as17580417

1388
23 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Condell (Boxkeepers). No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at Doors will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

1389
19 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Potter and Ansell, boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: The Cossacks, as17620427 End: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

1390
25 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Ansell , Potter (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: IV: The French Gardeners, as17630407

1391
09 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee & Mr Evans [sub-treasurer]. Tickets sold at doors will not be taken. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petrucio

Dance: II: Dance of Slaves, as17640425 The Cow@Keepers, as17640504

Song: I: The Song of Sweet Bird-Mrs Vincent; accompanied on violin-Pinto as17640427

Entertainment: II: King as Mr Prattle, will open a Packet of News (for that night only), as17640403

1392
24 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

1393
10 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans (sub-treasurer). Last time for Othello this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Dance: II: The Irish Milkmaids, as17650321 IV: Tambourine, as17650427

1394
05 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Rogers, Giorgi, and Evans (subtreasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part 2

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; III: A New Comic Dance call'd the Venetian Travellers-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Collet; End: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers his scholar

1395
05 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [From The London Evening Post: Married: Michael Arne, music composer and son of Dr Arne, to Miss Wright, a celebrated singer of Drury Lane Theatre."] Paid Mr Evans on Wardrobe acct #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #133 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

1396
15 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid the balance of 3rd, 5th, 9th, nights of Cymon to Mr Evans for the authors #360 14s. 6d. Gave Princess Dowager's Footmen a Christmas box, #2 2s. Paid 2 Printer's bills #18 13s.; Paid Mr Burney 15 days, not on the list, #6 5s.; Chorus 2 nights #4 11s. (Treasurer's Book). [On this date a receipt signed by Michael Arne for #119 17s. 10d. as compensation for the music for Cymon appears in the Folger Library. (See 2 Jan. 1767.)]Receipts: #148 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

1397
27 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

1398
03 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans (sub treasurer) and Miss Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at Ye All-J. Palmer

1399
05 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit By Desire of the most noble Grand of the Honorable Order of Select Albions, for their Brother Hurst, and Mr Evans (subtreasurer). Tickets deliver'd for The Orphan will be taken. The Orphan deferr'd on account of Barry's Indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Song: End: The Albion Song-Vernon

1400
10 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Miss Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17690926; End: Minuet and Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers (his Scholar)