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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Kit Bullock"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Kit Bullock")') 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
We found 1679 matches on Performance Comments, 665 matches on Performance Title, 242 matches on Author, 133 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-Holman; Justice Balance-Hull; Worth-Macready; Serjeant Kite-Knight; Bullock-Fawcett; Recruits-Munden, Wilde; Welsh Collier-Farley; Constable-Thompson; Captain Brazen-Lewis; Melinda-Miss Chapman; Rose-Mrs Knight; Lucy-Mrs Fawcett; Sylvia-Miss Mansel (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Serjeant Kite Actor: Knight
Role: Bullock Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17951008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-C. Kemble; Captain Brazen-Bannister Jun.; Ballance-Aickin; Worthy-Caulfield; Serjeant Kite-Palmer; Welch Collier-Waldron Jun.; Constable-Ledger; Scale-Burton; Scruple-Usher; Steward-Abbot; Servant-Lyons; Bullock-Fawcett; Recruits-Suett, Wathen; Rose-Mrs Gibbs; Lucy-Mrs Harlowe; Melinda-Miss Heard; Mob Women-Mrs Booth, Mrs Gaudry; Sylvia-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Serjeant Kite Actor: Palmer
Role: Bullock Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Hale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Mr Ballance-Packer; Mr Scale-Cooke; Mr Scruple-Maddocks; Mr Worthy-Caulfield; Capt. Plume-Wroughton; Capt. Brazen-Bannister Jun.; Kite-Palmer; Bullock (1st time)-Wathen; Costar Pearman-Hollingsworth; ThomasAppletree-Suett; Constable-Phillimore; Welch Collier-Wewitzer; Melinda-Miss Heard; Sylvia-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Mellon; Rose-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Kite Actor: Palmer
Role: Bullock Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: End: The Waggoner (composed by Dibdin)-Wathen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-C. Kemble; Captain Brazen-Palmer; Ballance-Aickin; Worthy-Caulfield; Serjeant Kite-R. Palmer; Welch Collier-Waldron Jun.; Constable-Ledger; Scale-Abbot; Scruple-Usher; Steward-Lyons; Servant-Chippendale; Bullock-Fawcett; Recruits-Suett, Wathen; Rose-Mrs Gibbs; Lucy-Mrs Harlowe; Melinda-Miss Heard; Mob Women-Mrs Booth, Mrs Gaudry; Sylvia-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Serjeant Kite Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Bullock Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-Holman; Justice Balance-Murray; Worthy-Whitfield; Serjeant Kite-Knight; Bullock-Fawcett; Recruits-Munden, Emery; Welch Collier-Farley; Constable-Thompson; Capt. Brazen-Lewis; Melinda-Miss Chapmen; Rose-Mrs Gibbs; Lucy-Mrs Litchfield; Sylvia-Mrs Johnson.
Cast
Role: Serjeant Kite Actor: Knight
Role: Bullock Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I set Mr Bullock down at ye Playhouse, & came home (Huntington MS St 26). John Dryden wrote to Mrs Steward on 23 Feb. [1699@1700, but possibly 1698@99, as the letter concerns theatrical affairs of the autumn and winter of 1698-99]: The Poem of The Confederates [see The Island Princess, November 1698] some think to be Mr Walsh: the copies are both lik'd. And there are really two factions of ladyes, for the two play-houses. If you do not understand the names of some persons mention'd I can help you to the knowledge of them. You know, Sir Tho. Skipwith is master of the play-house in Drury-Lane; and my Lord Scarsdale is the patron of Betterton's house, being in love with somebody there [presumably Anne Bracegirdle] (The Letters of John Dryden, p. 133)

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Song: Singing in Italian and English-; particularly a Trumpet Song-Mrs Tofts

Dance: In and between the Acts

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Will Bullock, as the Saying is. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: [Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Queenborough

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Cross. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, and later Penkethman announced his new theater in Greenwich, to which several Persons of Quality have subscribed. He intends to open on 12 June with a new Prologue by himself and a new Epilogue-by him and Bullock. He solicits additional subscription for a proposed program of 24 plays. See also Tatler, 25-27 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Powell, Booth, Keene, Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Mountfort.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell; Two Dutch Skippers-

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

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

Dance: Mrs Santlow

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr and Ryan. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Mrs Santlow, Prince, Wade, Sandham

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #70 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: The New Boy; Trumpet Song-Rawlins; A Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack

Dance: As17150404 Also A Countryman and a Harlequin-

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #19 14s. 6d. and tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald, The Boy

Dance: As17151217

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Sr. No receipts extant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17161030

Dance: As17170202

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 14 Sept.: On Thursday...Mr Bullock and Mr Leigh were taken out of their Booth in Southwark, as we hear, upon an Information against them; but being carried before the Lord Mayor, they were releas'd upon Bail

Performances

Event Comment: Post Boy, 26 Sept.: On Friday last, his Royal Highness the Prince came incognito to Southwark-Fair, and saw the Droll at Penkethman's, and after at Bullock and Leigh's Booth

Performances

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Sr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: As17180121

Event Comment: Evening Post, 30 Aug.: Yesterday Mr Bullock, Master of the Play-House in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, was commanded to attend his Majesty at Hampton-Court, where he receiv'd Orders for his Company to perform several Plays for the Entertainment of His Majesty during his Stay there, in the Winter Season, and there is a magnificent Theatre erecting for that Purpose

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Kite-Hall; Ballance-Schoolding; Brazen-Giffard; Bullock, Costar Pearmain-Spiller; Appletree-Pack; Silvia-Mrs Spiller; Lucy-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Kite Actor: Hall

Dance: Ladder dance-Thomazio Alegro delCampo, lately arrived from Italy, with Vaulting on the manag'd Horse; The Union-a Scots Man and Woman; A Peasant and his Wife-; Italian Mimic Night Scene between Harlequin and a Clown-

Event Comment: Benefit the French Comedians. [#40 paid to Bullock presumably the house charges]. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets given out for Pasquin and Marforio taken at this play. [His Majesty Present.] Original Weekly Journal, 29 Nov.: And we hear, his Majesty gave a 100 Guineas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Maitre Etourdi

Afterpiece Title: Le Tombeau de Maitre Andre

Entertainment: Several new Entertainments which were never perform'd in England before-

Event Comment: Benefit the French Comedians [Bullock paid #40]. Written by Mons le Noble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Entertainment: