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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Henry Purcel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Henry Purcel")') 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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5187 results for: Keyword - Henry Purcel
We found 3375 matches on Author, 1214 matches on Performance Title, 666 matches on Performance Comments, 391 matches on Event Comments, and 4 matches on Roles/Actors.

3751
30 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Henry Willwou'd Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): Henry Mackenzie

Song: In: The Blue Bell of Scotland, as18000512; accompanied on the Lute, as18000512; In course Evening: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In 3rd piece: a new ballad, The Fisherman and the River Queen (Written and Composed by M. G. Lewis, Esq, M. P., Author of Crazy Jane.)-Mrs Bland

3752
10 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Henry Willwou'd Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): Henry Mackenzie

Song: In III: song-Dignum; End 2nd piece: Soft Musick let my humble lay (composed by Suett)-Master Suett; In 3rd piece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

3753
14 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: 3rd piece: Chorus-Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer

3754
16 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): Henry Mackenzie

Song: In afterpiece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

3755
20 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Henry Moreland Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

3756
30 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Henry Moreland Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

3757
15 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Afterpiece Title: The Point of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

3758
25 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: Afterpiece: Chorus, as18000614

3759
02 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: As18000725

3760
05 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Henry Moreland Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: As18000725

3761
21 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Point of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: As18000614

3762
08 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Henry Moreland Actor: Trueman.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Henry Heartwell

Song: As18000725

3763
11 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Music: With the Mask of Musick proper to the Play by the late Mr Hen. Purcel. Bacchus-Leveridge, Cupid- the Boy

Performance Comment: Purcel=. Bacchus-Leveridge, Cupid- the Boy.

Dance: To be expressed in the Great Bills

3764
07 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: Sing all ye Muses, compos'd by the late Mr H. Purcel,-Beard, Champnes

Performance Comment: Purcel=,-Beard, Champnes.

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker; IV: The last new Comic Dances-

3765
05 August 1689 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Purcell composed the music for a song performed at Mr Maidwell's School, on this day, the words by one of Maidwell's scholars. See Works of Henry Purcell, Purcell Society, XXVII (1957), XV

Performances

3766
23 April 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Griffin.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Griffin.

Music: Italian sonatas on the violin-Gasperini

Song: Leveridge

Dance: As17030419

3767
09 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayed

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Griffin.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Griffin.

Entertainment: Singing and dancing-

3768
27 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Estcourt; Princess Elizabeth-the Child [identified by Genest, II, 340, as Miss Younger]; a new Epilogue-the Child.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Estcourt

Song: Leveridge, Ramondon, Mrs Lindsey, the Boy

Dance: As17051227

3769
11 December 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertus Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Estcourt; Piercy-Powell.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Estcourt

Dance: Some extraordinary Entertainments-the best Performers

3770
09 March 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Powell; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Northumberland-Keene; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Mills; Wolsey-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Powell

3771
26 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anne-bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Powell; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Piercy-Wilks.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Powell

3772
09 January 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Booth; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Thurmond; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Will. Mills; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Diana-Mrs Johnson; Elizabeth-Mrs Horton; Young Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson Jr.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Booth

3773
24 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Booth; Piercy-Wilks; Wolsey-Cibber; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Northumberland-Thurmond; Rochford-Wm. Mills; Lady Blunt-Mrs Horton; Lady Diana-Mrs Cibber; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson Jr.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: TThe Fawns-; La Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Polonese-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Drunken Man-Harper

3774
08 January 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Hulett; Anne Bullen-Mrs Thurmond; Piercy-Delane; Wolsey-W. Giffard; Northumberland-Huddy; Rochford-Rosco; Lady Diana-Mrs Purden; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Williamson; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Cole, a Child of four Years of Age, who never appeared on any stage before.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Hulett

3775
24 September 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Hulett; Anna Bullen-Mrs Thurmond; Piercy-Delane; Wolsey-Lyon; Northumberland-Huddy; Rochford-Rosco; Lady Diana-Mrs Hamilton; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Haughton; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Cole, a Child of five Years of Age. A new Epilogue by Miss Cole .
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Hulett

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

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