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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "J Brandon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "J Brandon")') 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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1393 results for: Keyword - J. Brandon
We found 896 matches on Performance Comments, 516 matches on Event Comments, 94 matches on Performance Title, 12 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
25 November 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Islanders

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

252
10 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

253
05 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

254
17 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

255
24 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

256
31 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

257
16 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

258
12 February 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great; or, The Conquest of Persia

259
18 February 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: Bantry Bay

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

260
02 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

261
14 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Dance: End I: Telasco and Amgahi ; or, The Peruvian Nuptials. Principal Characters-Didelot, Laborie, Deshayes, Mlle Parisot, Mme Laborie, Mlle J. Hilligsberg, Mme Hilligsberg; Pas de Quatre-Deshayes, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Mlle Parisot

Ballet: End Opera: Atalante and Hyppomenus; or, The Foot Race. Grecian Princes Hyppomenus-Deshayes; Pelus-Didelot; Adrastus-Laborie; Atalante-Mlle Parisot; Sererine (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Laborie; Clitie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Hilligsberg; Shepherdesses Mlles D'Egville, Denis, B.? Denis, Lupini, Cranfield; Nymphs of the Woods, Fauns, Shepherds-The whole corps de Ballet; In which the favourite Skipping@rope Pas de Deux-Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg

262
14 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

263
27 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Roberts, Shuter. Tickets delivered by Miller, Walker, Reed, Colley, Robinson, Brandon, Booth, Flight, Mrs Paddick, Mr Watson will be taken. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Pilgrim, as17750503

264
21 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilford, Wooley, Marks, Symonds, Furkins, Tickets deliver'd by Flight, Roberts, Claridge, Doe, Wells, Francis, Brandon, Budd, Miller, Constable will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Italian Gardeners, as17751011

265
23 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas Ansell, Pilfold, Woolley, Symmonds Furkins & Roberts. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Wells, Longley, Francis, Brandon, Walker, Varley will be taken this Night. Receipts: #278 11s. 6d. (21.8.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 256.17.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: New Comic Dance, as17770425

266
06 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by the performers in the orchestra, Delpini, Brandon, Stevens and Guard will be taken. [Account-Book lists in boxes 349 tickets, in pit 511, in galleries 682-a total of 1542.] Receipts: #277 11s. (160.2; 1.8; tickets: 116.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: St

Song: Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Mahon, Baker, Fox, Miss Brown, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems, Miss Valois, Miss Green

267
21 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilfold, Woolley & Marks. Tickets delivered by Furkins, Roberts, Clarridge, Doe, Wells, Francis, Walker, Brandon, Shuter and Abbot will be received. Tickets delivered for The Busy Body will be taken. Receipts: #243 13s. 6d. (137.12.6; 0.13.0; tickets: 105.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

268
18 September 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Rose et Colas, by Michel Jean Sedaine]. 3rd piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Les Femmes Vengees, by Michel Jean Sedaine]: With new Scenery [Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.: by Richards] and Decorations. Both the Musical Pieces, with new Overtures, composed by Dibdin. Books of the new Musical Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Sept.]. Public Advertiser, 18 Sept.: This Afternoon at Three will be published Rose and Colin and The Wives Revenged (each 6d.). "At this season of the year the little company upon the Ton, who are in town, seldom rise from the table till after the beginning of the play; in order, therefore, to obviate the disturbance that the fracas in the boxes usually makes towards the close of the first act, or the beginning of the second, this comic opera [Rose and Colin] was prefaced. It at the same time affords these late comers an opportunity of seeing the play [i.e. the mainpiece] complete" (Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1778, p.453)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

269
10 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Monologue: In IV: Masque of Singing and Dancing. Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Miss Valois

270
20 September 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage-Door. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 1 Nov.]. Receipts: #132 14s. (131.15.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

271
08 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets delivered for a Comedy will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #280 12s. (75.4; tickets: 205.8) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Gazette Extraordinary

Afterpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: 3rd piece: As17800506

Ballet: End IV 2nd piece: The Humours of New-Market; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Dagueville, Harris, Holloway, Holland; Ladies-Miss Matthews, Miss Valois

272
14 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets sold at the Doors will no be admitted. 3rd piece: With the Stockwell Scenes. Receipts: #289 6s. (80.12; tickets: 208.14) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Phusimimesis

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton [i

273
13 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. [The playbill announces as mainpiece King Henry the Eighth, and as afterpiece Barnaby Brittle, but the Account-Book has, "Alter'd to the Count of Narbonne" and "Alter'd to Comus."] Receipts: #300 8s. (66/2; tickets: 234/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Comus

274
23 September 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; prel i,by Leonard Macnally. MS:Larpent 601; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 24 Sept.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage-door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors will open at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 4 Nov.]. The Only Entrance to the Upper Gallery is in the Passage which leads from the Piazza to Hart-street, and the Two Shilling Gallery communicates with the Passage in Bow-street, as well as with that from the Piazza. The Passages to the Pit and Boxes remain as before. Receipts: #314 18s. (313/18; 1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

275
26 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #319 17s. (80/4; tickets: 239/13) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket by Harris, Ratchford, Byrne, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally bo!, as17830516; End of Act IV Kate of Aberdeen by Master Bartheiemon