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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Joseph Younger"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Joseph Younger")') 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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5761 results for: Keyword - Joseph Younger
We found 3298 matches on Performance Comments, 1693 matches on Author, 710 matches on Performance Title, 619 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5626
06 January 1766 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Heads

5627
14 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

5628
07 February 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almena

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi; II: Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

5629
18 March 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroic Love; Or, The Cruel Separation

Afterpiece Title: The Choice

5630
03 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

5631
06 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

5632
03 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taylors

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

5633
08 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Serious Dance-; End: A comic dance-Miss Froment, a little girl (Neville)

5634
15 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: A serious Dance-; End: A comic Dance-Miss Froment

5635
05 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance-; III: New Hornpipe-; End Opera: The Italian Peasants-Miss Froment

5636
28 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

5637
10 November 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17671106; End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

5638
16 November 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Younger a Bill for Writing parts #3 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #200 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114

5639
26 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts etc. #7 19s. 1d. (Account Book). [Sylvas Neville attended in the pit, but made no comment.] Receipts: #188 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

5640
14 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by command of Their Majesties. Present: Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, Prince Frederick and Lady Louisa. Gave Yeoman of the Guards #2 2s. Paid Younger for licensing The Good Natured Man #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #228 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): Joseph Mazzinghi

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

5641
16 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for the License of Lionel and Clarissa #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #225 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

5642
09 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17680219

5643
20 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespeare and Thompson, not acted these 4 years. Afterpiece: For last time this season (playbill of 19 April 1768). [See 18 Feb. 1765. This Coriolanus is possibly the Tragedy by Thomas Sheridan, 8vo, 1755.] @Receipts #85 10s. 6d.@House charge #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extras: Kettle Drum 5s.@2 Side Drums 4s.@4 Fifes 8s.@2 Trumpets 10s.@Chorus Singers #1 10s.@Wardrobe #5 19s.@Total #73 1s. 6d.@Balance due Mrs Lessingham #12 9s.@Tickets 197 137 89 #78 14s.@Money #85 10s. 6d.@Total value of House #164 4s. 6d. (Account Book).@ Mr Clarke being suddenly taken ill in the afternoon [yesterday] his part in the tragedy was oblig'd to be supplied by Mr Younger. And Mr Clarke still continuing ill the Tragedy of King Lear, with the Musical entertainment Amelia is oblig'd to be deferred till further notice (Public Advertiser, 21 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

5644
03 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Hoole] never perform'd. Paid Younger for a license for Cyrus & the New Occasional Prologue, #3 3s. (Account Book). [Account of the plot of the mainpiece, but without observational comment appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2-5 Dec.] Receipts: #229 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Country Wife

5645
14 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for writing Parts #6 14s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #75 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

5646
16 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not performed these 2 years. [see 21 May 1767.] Paid Younger for a license for Tom Jones #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #132 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Midas

5647
31 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [Harlequin Skeleton] now advertised under its original title, but the New Scene with additions continued (playbill). Paid Younger for a license for ye 2 Sisters #2 2s. (Account Book). [See 18 Feb.] Receipts: #244 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

5648
17 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. The Tragedy Altered by Dr Hawkesworth. Part of Pit will be Laid into the Boxes. [Winston MS 10, from O. Smith from the Town & Country Magazine, suggests Oroonoko--Fleetwood, son of the late manager, and brother to the gentleman who appeared about Nine years ago at dl.] Charges #66 19s. Balance to Bensley #51 15s. 6d. plus #113 15s. from tickets (Box 416; Pit 59; Gallery 9). Paid Younger for writing parts #6 3s. 4d. Receipts: #118 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

5649
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

5650
21 October 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee