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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMrs Barrington"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMrs Barrington")') 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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523 results for: Keyword - M$Mrs Barrington
We found 444 matches on Performance Comments, 97 matches on Event Comments, 5 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
04 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Horton dy'd-an Old Actress, but off ye Stage some years Aged 57 (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

52
17 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber declared to me & desir'd I would tell ye Managers she wou'd receive no more Salary 'till her health was establish'd & she cou'd do her business as she ought (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

53
18 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is recover'd & plays tonight-Mr Garrick taken ill, Holland did Chamont (Cross). [Probably Havard of Davies did Polydore, as both were familiar with the part.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

54
20 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Vernon & Young. Tickets (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 15 May 1754.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

55
15 November 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Yates play'd Hermione (Indiff) (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 16 April 1755]. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

56
10 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara (bad) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

57
16 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara agen-Oh! (Cross). Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

58
14 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

59
16 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Clive Ly Wishfort -(bad) Fribble Garrick (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit laid into Boxes Tickets of her in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #310 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

60
28 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

61
05 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Abington left about this time for Ireland (Genest, IV, 574). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

62
30 December 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's first appearance this season (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: Lowe

63
27 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office with Prologue

64
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 Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

65
02 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Yates very imperfect, and played very bad (Hopkins Diary--MacMillan). Receipts: #63 5s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

66
15 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Hopkins play'd Mrs Strictland. Mrs Davies ill (Hopkins). Receipts: #118 16s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

67
07 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's benefit deferred on account of her dangerous illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

68
11 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber extremely ill, benefit to have been tomorrow deferred. Her death reported (Winston MS 9) [but see 29 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

69
29 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's death reported yesterday contradicted. She prov'd out of danger (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

70
15 October 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry [formerly Mrs Gregory] engaged from Ireland to curb Mrs Yates, whose friends suspected as much and treated her cruelly (Genest, V, 87)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

71
02 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is come to town and so well recovered as to be able to appear in Belvidera the latter end of the week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

72
13 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber='s name appears here for last time in the bills (Genest, V, 91)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

73
20 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry hissed a little. Mr Dodd being ill, Master Burton played Fribble in the pantomime (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

74
15 February 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

75
25 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe