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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Helme"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Helme")') 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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646 results for: Keyword - Helme
We found 683 matches on Roles/Actors, 167 matches on Performance Comments, 19 matches on Event Comments, 11 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

626
25 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Planters Actor: _Thompson, _Helme.

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: As17890101

627
01 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Planters Actor: _Thompson, _Helme.

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: As17890101

628
06 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Planters Actor: _Thompson, _Helme.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: Negro Dance- as l Jan.; End: Mirth by Moonshine-, as17890113

Song: In I: Sweet Bird, as17890126

629
16 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Planters Actor: _Thompson, _Helme.

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Dance: As17890101

630
27 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these ten years. Benefit for Younger. Tickets delivered by Miss Helme will be taken. Charges. #68 6d. Profit to Younger #37 6d. plus #65 10s. from tickets (Box 136; Pit 134; Gallery 114). Miss Helme receiv'd #12 1s. clear from her tickets (Box 5; Pit 42; Gallery 45) (Account Book). Receipts: #105 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, as17720424 Sixfold Hornpipe, as17720424

631
25 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger (prompter). Tickets delivered by Mrs Stephens, Miss Helme, Miss Twist, and Murden will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: II: A Song-Miss Twist

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Twist; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17660311

Entertainment: End: By Particular Desire (For positively the last time this season) Epilogue upon an Ass-Shuter

632
09 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Curtat, Miss Helm, Miss Twist. Tickets deliver'd out by Claridge will be taken. Charges none. House took half value of tickets deliver'd, plus the #64 4s. 6d. ready money taken at the theatre. @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value Half Value@Gardner 15 70 56 #19 17s. #9 18s. 6d.@Curtat 24 189 107 #45 1s. #22 10s. 6d.@Miss Helme - 37 31 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d.@Miss D. Twist 26 35 36 #15 7s. #7 13s. 6d.@Claridge 13 19 22 #8 6s. #4 3s.@Mrs Hitchcock 45 59 13 #21 8s. #10 14s.@Total 114 409 262 #118 12s. #59 6s.@ Receipts: #64 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: A Minuet-Curtat, Miss Wilford

633
30 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Helme and Mr Branson will be taken. Charges #70 3s. 6d. Balance to Younger #36 10s., plus #116 3s. from tickets (Box 151; Pit 340; Gallery 274) (Account Book). Receipts: #106 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

634
26 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: Characters-Lewes, Miles, Morris, Quick, Baker, King, Barnshaw, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Stoppelaer, Banks, Bates, Rayner[, Reinhold, DuBellamy], Mrs White, Miss Helme, Mrs Copin, Mrs Perry, Mrs Evans, Miss Twist; The Dances-Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir; [The Music-Arnold; [Edition of 1770 lists Mother Shipton-Reinhold; Shepherd-DuBellamy.

635
01 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: [As17701229, but full cast listed to avoid confusion]. Mother Shipton-Reinhold; Shepherd-DuBellamy; Parts-Lewes, Quick, Morris, Rayner, Baker, King, Fox, Holtom, Hamilton, Thompson, Barnshaw, Banks, Bates, Walters, [Reinhold, DuBellamy,]Mrs White, Miss Helme, Mrs Copin, Mrs Evans, Miss Twist; Dances-Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

636
21 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Helme will be taken. Tomorrow (the Eight Time) the New Comedy She Stoops to Conquor, with (for the last time this season) The Golden Pippin. Charges #71 16s. 6d.; Profit to Younger #74 13s., plus #65 19s. from tickets (Box 116; Pit 149; Gallery 146) (Account Book). Receipts: #146 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

637
31 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The tragedy of King Henry II cannot be performed, on account of the indisposition of Miss Miller. Paid Mr Nix the balance for London Lying In Hospital #23 6s.; Paid Garton balance for Theatrical Fund, #89 4s. 6d.; Paid Mr Helme the balance for the Discharge of persons imprison'd for small debts #4 5s. Receipts: #129 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

638
14 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: II: The Frolick-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens, Miss Besford See17740416; End: A New Dance call'd The Generous Pirate-Dagueville, his Pupil, Mas. Blurton, Mrs Stevens, Helme, Sga Vidini

Performance Comment: Blurton, Mrs Stevens, Helme, Sga Vidini.

639
18 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Edwards, Helme, Master Pulley, Master Benson, Dale, Leslie, Kaygill, Mrs Byrne will be taken. Receipts: #180 4s. 6d. (31.7.0; 17.0.6; 0.5.0; tickets: 131.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End: The Butterfly, as17800921

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: Bucks have at ye All-Master Pulley; End afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

640
25 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Minuet by Lemercier and Miss Stageldoir. With a Masquerade Dance

Song: Mainpiece: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c .

641
16 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Helme, Daglish, Dale, Brigg, Barthrope, Master Pulley, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Byrne will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Du-Bellamy as Lord Aimworth and Williames as Mervin, but on the Kemble playbill their names are deleted and MS annotations substitute Williames and Fawcett. This was Mrs Cargill's last appearance in London. Subsequently she acted in India.] Receipts: #231 17s. 6d. (32/8/0; 22/9/6; 0/15/0; tickets: 176/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314nd of mainpiece a Minuet by Brigg and A Young Lady (his Scholar [unidentified]); End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

642
29 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Prosser, Helme, Lloyd, Real, Rowson, R. Ledger, Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Lampe, and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #276 12s. 6d. (83/7/0; 2/7/6; tickets: 190/18/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece Rural Merriment by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Prosser

643
24 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Wilson, Darley, Thompson, Helme, Mrs Hamilton, and the Orchestra will be admitted (Account-Book). [Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, announced on playbill of 22 May.] Receipts: #254 7s. 6d. (89/16/6; 1/2/0; tickets: 163/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

644
01 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Tantara Rara, Rogues All

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Ryder, Quick, Edwin, Bernard, Davies, Fearon, Cubitt, Macready, Mrs Platt, Miss Tweedale. Cast from Morning Chronicle, 3 Mar.: Carty-Ryder; Andrew-Quick; Corporal Toddy-Edwin; Sap-Bernard; Commissary of Police-Davies; Sir Ulick Liffydale-Fearon; Pickle-Cubitt; O'Toole-Macready; Shuffle-Painter; Blanch-Mrs Platt; Narcissa-Miss Tweedale. O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. III (T. Woodfall, 1798) adds: Picard-$Bonville; Sandy-$Brown; Palm-$Janson; Cog-$Rock; Peep-$Helme; New Prologue-Mrs Brown, Mrs Morton (World, 3 Mar.).
Cast
Role: Peep Actor: Helme

Dance: End: New Divertisement-[see17880124]

645
04 June 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Atkins, Blurton, J. Ansell, Farley, Helme, Pilon, Rolles, Rowson, Royer, Walker will be admitted. Receipts: #343 8s. (180.2.6; 8.17.6; tickets: 154.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Ballet: The Wapping Landlady. As17880401

646
16 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Midas, advertised on playbill of 15 June.] Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Brandon, Green, Robson, Egan, Clarridge, Blurton, Coombs, Wilkins, Wyatt, Rock, Gray, Doe, Watts, Boswell, Iredale, Turtle, Dosel, Helme will be admitted. Receipts: #371 2s. 6d. (34.7.6; 4.14.0; tickets: 332.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Orange Woman-Mrs Watts; Landlady-Mr King