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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.

1126
04 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

1127
23 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17630425

1128
17 September 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Love play'd Mrs Peachum very bad. Her fit seem'd a very Aukward Imitation of Mrs Pritchard in the Jealous Wife (Hopkins). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money received at the Stage Door. None returned after the curtain is up. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Customary notice, which will not be repeated here, Sept. 15 David Garrick & his Lady set out for Italy from his house in Southampton St. Covent Garden (Winston MS 9). Winston also refers to a Sept. 9 Letter from T. Davies, cg, to the poet Charles Churchill begging he would not introduce so unimportant a person as himself in his Smithfield Rosciad.] Receipts: #248 9s. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1129
04 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1130
11 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1131
05 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

1132
22 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17631005

1133
29 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, as17631122

1134
09 December 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

1135
28 December 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1136
16 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

1137
22 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: New Grand Ballet, as17640320

1138
05 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

1139
24 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

1140
18 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Provancalle, as17631014

1141
15 September 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be had of Mr. Johnston at the Stage Door. No Money will be returned after curtain is drawn up. Play begins 6 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [No further mention shall be made of this notice which appears regularly this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

1142
02 October 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

1143
18 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

1144
03 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

1145
08 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Cook Actor: Johnston.

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

1146
11 February 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Cook Actor: Johnston.

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

1147
21 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

1148
19 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens or Death of Alexander the Little

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

1149
24 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

1150
27 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003