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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "JJohn Rich Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "JJohn Rich Esq")') 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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1444 results for: Keyword - JJohn Rich Esq
We found 732 matches on Event Comments, 658 matches on Author, 88 matches on Performance Comments, 34 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1276
20 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #75. [The Rival Queens was advertised for this night, but Rich's Register lists Macbeth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1277
05 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #74 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

1278
09 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #58 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

1279
17 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #106 7s. 6d. Rich's Register: Bespoke by the Dutchess of Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: FFrench Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; French Peasant-Poitier; Grand Dance in Momus Turned Fabulist-

1280
05 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #158 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1281
12 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #96 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1282
12 February 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit J. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #177 7s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1283
24 February 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [By Thomas Walker.] With Rich New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Villainy

1284
22 October 1730 @ Kew Gardens

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 23 Oct,: Yesterday being the Anniversary of the Princess Royal's Birth-Day, a Masque was prepared at His Royal Highness's Command, on that Occasion, by Mr Rich, and perform'd by his Company in His Royal Highness's@Gardens at Cue, which were illuminated with above a thousand Lamps

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

Related Works
Related Work: The Comickal Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe Author(s): Richard Leveridge
Related Work: Pyramus and Thisbe Author(s): Richard Leveridge

1285
16 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #32 4s. [Universal Spectator, 16 Jan., reports that the subscription for Rich's new playhouse in Covent Garden has reached #6,000 and that James Sheppard, the architect, has completed the plans for the structure.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

1286
26 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #72 18s. 6d. [For an essay on Rich as manager, see Daily Courant, 26 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

1287
13 November 1732 @ Fulham

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 Nov.: A Latin Play of Terence's, call'd Eunuchus; the Theatre was newly built by the said Mr Galliardy, and is large enough to contain 150 Spectators; the Scenes were all new, and the House neat and well lighted; the Performers were young Lords, and Sons of Gentlemen of Distinction, whose Propriety of Speech and Justness of Action, exceeded all that had ever been done of the kind; the Dresses were exceeding rich, and after the Eastern Fashion; the Decorations handsome, and every thing performed...to the intire Satisfaction and Applause of the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

1288
15 January 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Not Acted these Fourteen Years (i.e., by Rich's Company). Written by Mr Wycherley. Receipts: #101 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; Fingalians-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Saraband-Glover, Miss LaTour

1289
21 February 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Performance Comment: Advertised but apparently dismissed (Rich's Register).

1290
05 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Secret

Performance Comment: Advertised but Dismissed (Rich's Register).

1291
13 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. [Some uncertainty exists as to whether this performance was given, for Rich's Register does not list it; it is , however, recorded in BM Egerton 2320 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1292
18 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard (Rich's Register)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1293
26 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Norsa. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #55 4s.; tickets #86 19s. [For a discussion of Rich's treatment of The Mock Lawyer, see Grub St. Journal, 26 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

1294
28 April 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: No receipts listed in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1295
09 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Performance Comment: Advertised but apparently dismissed. No receipts in Rich's Register.

1296
18 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Allen, the Numberer [Rich's Register adds: the late Mr Wilks' Nephew.] Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs; taken from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Imaginary Cuckolds

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Dutchwoman-Miss Robinson; III: Harlequin-Miss Brett; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Flight-Essex, Miss Robinson

1297
23 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Beau, Cooper, Widow Cook [Rich's Register)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1298
24 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Bene1it H. Bullock, under Misfortunes. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Music: Select Pieces-; particularly a new Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-; V: Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; in which Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benjamin Baker , accompanyed with Trumpets, French Horns

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston

Song: III: A Dialogue in the Scottish Stile-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

1299
31 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Scene, representing the Ponte Real at Venice. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: PPeasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Scotch Dance, as17330529

1300
01 June 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. 6:30 p.m. Being positively the last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [No receipts in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: MMusette-LeSac, Miss Baston; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, LeSac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden