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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "John Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "John Gay")') 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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12782 results for: Keyword - John Gay
We found 11034 matches on Author, 1693 matches on Performance Comments, 1248 matches on Event Comments, 330 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

651
29 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

652
01 September 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

653
16 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: Glover, Richardson, Villeneuve, Dupre, DelaGarde, Miss Oates,also by Master Cooke, who never performed on any Stage before

654
28 April 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Dance: Dancing, as17390305 but Miss _Norman

655
28 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: By Desire, Come let us prepare-Brother Montgomery; V: On on my dear Brethren-Brother Montgomery

Dance: II: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; In III: The usual Hornpipe-

656
06 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

657
09 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

658
29 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

659
02 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tambourine-Little French Girl; Sailor's Dance in Momus-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

660
12 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: HHornpipe-Yeates

661
28 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Peasants-French Boy and Girl; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; End Afterpiece: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: The Songs in Masonry as usual-

662
17 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

663
18 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

664
20 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: As17401018; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

665
21 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Low, the first time of his appearance on any stage
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: II: Muilment; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan; V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf

666
22 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Desse; III: Hornpipe-Vaughan; V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf

667
24 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Peasant-Nivelon; II: Desse; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan; V: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

668
25 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Low, the first time of his appearance on any stage
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: Peasant, as17401024; II: Desse; In III: Hornpipe, as17401024; V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf

669
03 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan; V: Grand Ballet-Mons and Madem Maltere; lately arrived from the Opera at Paris

670
06 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call it

Dance: As17401027

671
15 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Dance: I: Peasant Dance-Nivelon; II: Desse; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

672
18 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: I: Peasant-Nivelon; II: Desse; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

673
24 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

674
31 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

675
01 January 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment