SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G G J and J Robinson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G G J and J Robinson")') 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 1255 matches on Performance Comments, 752 matches on Event Comments, 585 matches on Performance Title, 73 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Rec'd stopages #20 8s. 6d. N.B. The [authors] charges should have been put #73 10s. [this night] instead of #84, vide. 27 Nov. next; Paid salary list #513 17s. 6d.; Messrs Clinch and Dimon 5 guineas each, #10 10s. as per order; Miss Mansell per order #3 3s.; Mr French on acct #10 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #168 19s. Charges: #84. Profits to Author of Irish Widow: #84 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Event Comment: Miss Biddy by Miss Jarratt (an apprentice to Mr Jefferson) a pretty little figure & met with Applause. Not much of an Actress (Hopkins Diary). [Macmillan note from Kemble differs slightly.] Paid Mr L. Frederick for sattin, #57 18s. 6d.; Mrs Sykes for women's cloaths #13; Mr Vernon on note #9 9s. (Treasurer's Book). [Reviewer for Town and Country Magazine (Treatre, XL) writes of Miss Jarratt, she has been under the tuition of Mr Jefferson and promises to be become an agreeable actress in parts (such as Biddy").] Receipts: #224 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With proper Scenes, Dresses and Other Decorations (playbill). Miss Venables (a pupil of Mr Michl Arne) made her first appearance on the Stage in Philadel. She is very Short, & has a mean appearance a tolerable Voice-but little applause Miss Younge Emmeline (first time) So, so (Hopkins Diary). [Macmillan's note from Kemble slightly expanded. Reviewer for Town and Country Magazine (Theatre XL) writes of Miss Venables, She displayed but very moderate talents for the stage. She will doubtless improve under so good a master and when she has gained a greater share of maturity will probably do honor to her tutor.'] Receipts: #140 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17720922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Love; Frankly-Aickin; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-Dodd; Tester-J. Burton; Servant-Ackman; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Egerton; Milliner-Mrs Davies; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Jacintha-Miss Younge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; Lucetta-Mrs Love; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Love
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17720922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: III: The Butterfly, as17721204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17720922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 13 April 1771.] Paid Mr Cropley (linnen draper) #14 16s.; Sandys & Co. (colourmen) #50 3s.; Mr Chettel (timbermerchant) #52 4s.; Mr Cole (turner) #46 3s.; Mr Barrow & Co. for Oil, #46 6s. 6d.; Mrs Vaughan (haberdasher) #22 18s.; Mr Callon for men's cloaths #30 (Treasurer's book). Receipts: #217 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Love
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Cast
Role: Pandolpho Actor: Dibdin.
Role: Pandolfo Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: Mr Aickin, Evander well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Mrs Barry. Pit and Boxes laid together. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Othello and Irish Widow deferr'd, for Barry's Illness. Paid salary list (4 days) #348 5s.; Mr Lutherberg on Acct, #80; Mr J. French's Draft on the managers, #50 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #281 18s. 6d. Charges: #65 19s. Profits to Mrs Barry: #215 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17721126, but Evander-Aickin, first time; Melanthon-Packer; Herold-Wright; With a New Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Evander Actor: Aickin, first time

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17720922

Event Comment: Benefit for Cautherly. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 24 Nov. 1769.] Paid Tallow Chandler's 8th Bill #20 19s. 3d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #122 7s. 6d. Charges: #64 14s. Profit to Cautherley: #57 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Smirk, Mrs Cole-King, for that night only; Shift, with a variety of imitations both rhetorical and vocal-Bannister; Minor-J. Aickin; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Transfer-Parsons; Loader-Palmer; Lucy-Miss Ambrose; Richard Wealthy-Wrighten; Dick-Burton.

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17730325