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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Esther Young"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Esther Young")') 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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We found 15077 matches on Performance Comments, 4700 matches on Performance Title, 2142 matches on Event Comments, 750 matches on Author, and 19 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss Menage

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: Young Sadboy-Bannister Jun.; Captain Ambush-C. Kemble; Chronicle-Suett; Shadrach-Wathen; Spatterdash-R. Palmer; Old Sadboy-Abbot; Goliah-Master Menage; Twig-Waldron Jun.; Lounge-Lyons; Malachi-Chippendale; Coachman-Ledger; Clod-Fawcett; Araminta-Mrs Gibbs; Lady Rounceval-Mrs Hopkins; Pink-Miss Logan; Mrs Millefleur-Mrs Booth; Judith-Mrs Hale; Dinah Primrose-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Young Sadboy Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Pink Actor: Miss Logan

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Young Random Actor: Caulfield
Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: Young Sadboy-Palmer; Captain Ambush-C. Kemble; Chronicle-Suett; Shadrach (for that night only)-Wewitzer; Spatterdash-R. Palmer; Clod-Munden; Araminta-Mrs Gibbs; Lady Rounceval-Mrs Davenport; Pink-Mrs Harlowe; Dinah Primrose-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Young Sadboy Actor: Palmer
Role: Dinah Primrose Actor: Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar on Horseback

Song: In course: Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row-Munden; The Groupe of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue Benjamin Bolus; or, The Newcastle Apothecary-Munden; In the course of the evening: Imitations (including several new ones)-Caulfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Performance Comment: Young Townly-Palmer; Captain Dupely-Aickin; Mr Dupely-Booth; Beaufort-Bannister Jun.; Postillion-Barrett; Waiter-Swords; Sir ThomasTownly-Baddeley; Crape-Davies; Dicky Ditto-Edwin; Tippet-Miss George; Charlotte-Mrs Bannister .
Cast
Role: Young Townly Actor: Palmer
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss George
Related Works
Related Work: Two to One Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Related Work: Poor Old Haymarket; or, Two Sides of the Gutter!!! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Widow's Vow

Cast
Role: Inis Actor: Miss Brangin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Performance Comment: Young Townly-Bannister Jun.; Captain Dupely-Aickin; Mr Dupely-Moss; Beaufort-R. Palmer; Postillion-Barret; Waiter-Swords; Sir Charles Townly-Baddeley; Crape-Davies; Dicky Ditto-Edwin; Tippet-Miss George; Charlotte-Mrs Bannister.
Cast
Role: Young Townly Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss George
Related Works
Related Work: Two to One Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Related Work: Poor Old Haymarket; or, Two Sides of the Gutter!!! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Parsons; Dr Pedant-Wewitzer; Selim-Johnson; Omar-Swords; Guard-Gardner; The Mogul-Williamson; Irene-Mrs Inchbald; Sheba-Mrs Cuyler; Zapphira-Miss Brangin; Fanny-Mrs Brown (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Zapphira Actor: Miss Brangin

Dance: End: The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller, as17870613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Performance Comment: Young Townly-Bannister Jun.; Captain Dupely-Aickin; Mr Dupely-Moss; Beaufort-R. Palmer; Sir Charles Townly-Baddeley; Crape-Davies; Dicky Ditto-Edwin; Tippet-Miss George; Charlotte-Mrs Bannister.
Cast
Role: Young Townly Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss George
Related Works
Related Work: Two to One Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Related Work: Poor Old Haymarket; or, Two Sides of the Gutter!!! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Lord George Brilliant-O'Brien; Lord Wronglove-Palmer; Sir Friendly Moral-Burton; Lady Gentle-Mrs Palmer; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Yates; Mrs Notable-Miss Pope; Hartshorn-Mrs Bennet; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mrs Notable Actor: Miss Pope

Song: IV: A New Comic Interlude of Singing and Dancing, call'd Hearts of Oak The Characters-Lowe, Stevens, Fox, Vincent, Miss E. Young, Miss Baker

Performance Comment: Young, Miss Baker.
Event Comment: [Miss Villers is identified in MS list, in hay playbills in Harvard Theatre Collection, of new performers for 1793.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Cast
Role: Miss Tabitha Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Miss Eliza Sturdy Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Miss Sukey Actor: Miss DeCamp.
Related Works
Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycomb-Suett; Ledger-Benson; Scribble-Bland; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Whitfield; Nurse-Mrs Powell; Polly Honeycomb-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Villers]).Miss Villers]).
Cast
Role: Polly Honeycomb Actor: A Young Lady

Song: As17930823

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Young Belmont Actor: Packer
Role: Lady Restless Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Marmalet Actor: Miss Mills

Song: HHearts of Oak, as17620115, but _Fox, Miss E. _Young

Performance Comment: _Young.
Event Comment: [Miss Satchell is identified in Genest, VI, 186.] Receipts: #139 19s. 6d. (139.14.0; 0.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch-W. Bates; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Polly-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Satchell]); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Lucy-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: A Young Lady
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Catley.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: As17800920; III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: [Miss Glassington's 1st appearance on the stage was at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 15 Mar. 1781, also as Rosalind (Hibernian Magazine, Mar. 1781, p. 146).] Receipts: #103 12s. (73/6/0; 30/1/6; 0/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-King; Orlando-Brereton; Amiens (with songs')-Du-Bellamy; Duke Senior-Aickin; Adam-Moody; Oliver-Packer; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; Jaques-Palmer; Caelia (1st time, with the Cuckow song)-Miss Wheeler; Audrey-Mrs Wrighten; Rosalind-A Young Lady (1st appearance on the [London] stage [Miss Glassington]) .London] stage [Miss Glassington]) .
Cast
Role: Caelia Actor: Miss Wheeler
Role: Rosalind Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223

Song: In Act V of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Event Comment: [Miss Cranford was from DL.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Performance Comment: Leveret-Palmer; Lord Newberry-Williamson; Touchwood-Aickin; Fraction-Gardner; Buckle-Barrett; Minum-Edwin; Varnish-Swords; Servant-Painter; Lord Oldcastlc-Parsons; Lady Oldcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss English-Mrs Inchbald; Mrs Revel-Mrs Cuyler; Mrs Frankly-Miss Brangin; Mrs Fustian-Mrs Brett; Grace-Miss Burnett; Lady Newberry-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Miss English Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Mrs Frankly Actor: Miss Brangin
Role: Grace Actor: Miss Burnett
Role: Lady Newberry Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: sic] Actor: Miss Brangin

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece song by Miss Cranford (1st appearance on this stage)

Event Comment: [Miss Goddard was from the Margate theatre.] Receipts: #295 4s. (199.16.6; 91.12.0; 3.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Doricourt-Palmer; Hardy-Hollingsworth; Sir George Touchwood-Wroughton; Flutter-Bannister Jun.; Saville-C. Kemble; Villers-Caulfield; Courtall-Russell; Letitia Hardy-Miss Goddard (1st appearance on this stage); Mrs Racket-Miss Pope; Lady Touchwood-Miss Miller; Miss Ogle-Miss Heard; Kitty Willis-Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to the Nore

Performance Comment: As17971109, but added to Bannister Jun.: (With a new song, A Salt Eel for Mynheer-Bannister, by permission of Dibdin).

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Wentworth
Role: Florella Actor: Miss Leak.

Dance: In 2nd piece: As17971109; IV: a Masquerade Scene-; a Minuet-D'Egville, Miss Goddard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Flareit Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Dance: PPoloneses-Miss Robinson, Young Rainton; Musette-Miss Robinson, Young Rainton; Saraband-Miss Robinson; Myrtillo-Thurmond, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Tenoe, Mrs Walter

Music: Concerto on Little Flute-Baston; Trumpet Sonata-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Aimwell-Mills; Archer-Wilks; Sullen-Thurmond; Foigard-Miller; Gibbet-Cibber; Bonniface-Shepard; Scrub-Norris; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Oldfield; Dornida-Mrs Heron; Cherry-Miss Tenoe.
Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Dance: Roger, Boval, Lally, Duplessis, Haughton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Brett, Mrs Young, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; particularly Le Badinage Champetre-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Pistolet Actor: Miss Cole

Song: II: Son Priginiero-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Would You Gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: La Nuvoletta-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Cecilia Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: Roger, Boval, Lally, Duplessis, Haughton, Mrs Booth, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; particularly Le Badinage Champetre-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Song: Miss Lindar

Dance: Thurmond, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Miss Tenoe, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton; Myrtillo-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Dance: Mrs Booth, Topham, Miss Tenoe, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Dance: Topham, Miss Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: Topham, Boval, Mrs Bret, Miss Tenoe, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: Roger-Miller; Sir Humphrey-Shepard; Statue-Hallam; Squire Thomas-Johnson; Jonas-Cibber Jr; Peter-Norris; Steward-Oats; Kitty-Mrs Tenoe; Cicily-Mrs Baker; Dorcas-Mrs Willis; Joyce-Miss Robinson Jr.
Cast
Role: Joyce Actor: Miss Robinson Jr.

Dance: Mrs Booth, Thurmond, Topham, Boval, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton; Myrtillo-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Flareit Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: Topham, Topham Jr, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Song: Mrs Ferrers

Dance: Topham, Miss Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17241218, but Carlos-Wilks; With the Prologue, Epilogue that was spoken last Monday-Miss Robinson Jr.

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: As17250508

Dance: new Passacaile-Miss Robinson; A new Comic Dance-Miss Robinson, Young Rainton