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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Brett"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Brett")') 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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6092 results for: Keyword - Mr Brett
We found 4247 matches on Event Comments, 1491 matches on Performance Comments, 807 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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01 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

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02 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: End: The Mountaineers, as17730930 Como, Sga Crespi (2nd appearance)

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28 September 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

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01 June 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

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08 October 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

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03 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

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27 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Phoenix; or, Anacreontics Renovated [i

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

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11 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

34
18 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: II: Savoyard Travellers. Principal Savoyards-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison; Children Savoyards-Little Swiss, Miss Popling; Peasants-M'Neil, Mlle delaContri; see17491110

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16 December 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Writ Of Inquiry Will Be Executed On The Inquisitor General

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28 April 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

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19 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brett. Public Advertiser, 18 July: Tickets to be had of Brett, No. 73, Long-acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Captain Wilson-Bannister; Major Benbow-Swords; Captain Greville-Brett; Justice Benbow-Usher; Kilderkin-Ledger; Ned-Burton; Tipple-Edwin; Eliza-Mrs Bannister .
Cast
Role: Captain Greville Actor: Brett

Dance: As17850617

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Tobacco Box by Mr and Miss Brett

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10 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brett. Morning Chronicle, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Brett, No. 73, Long Acre. 2nd piece: Not acted these 3 years [not acted since 22 May 1781]. Receipts: #271 2s. (79/11; 4/0; tickets: 187/11) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: True Blue; or, The Parting Lovers

Performance Comment: True Blue-Davies; Careful-Booth; Lieutenant-Brett; Nancy-Miss Brett (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Lieutenant Actor: Brett
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Brett

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: Rovewell-Brett; Argus-Fearon; Hearty-Thompson; Robin-Booth; Betty-Miss Brangin; Arethusa-Mrs Martyr .
Cast
Role: Rovewell Actor: Brett

Dance: In 2nd piece Dance incident to the piece by Blurton

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Tobacco Box by Mr and Miss Brett

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07 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Thurmond, Boval, Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

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07 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: End I: Pastoral-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: A new Spanish Entry-Lally, others; III: Harlequins-Master Lally, Miss Brett; IV: The Pierraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; V: A new Muzette-Lally, Mrs Booth

41
07 May 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Shireburn and Miss Brett. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17281018, but King-Mills; Prince of Wales-Wilks; Lancaster-W. Mills; Westmoreland-Bridgwater; Justice-Boman; York-Roberts; Canterbury-Corey; Hastings-Watson; Falstaff-Harper; Poins-Oates; Bardolph-Shepard; Feeble-Griffin; Hostess Quickly-Mrs Wetherilt; Doll-Mrs Shireburn; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Brett; Pistol-Cibber Jr; Silence-Miller.
Cast
Role: Falstaff's Boy Actor: Miss Brett

Afterpiece Title: The Strolers

Dance: Miss Brett; Gondolier and Courtezan-Master Lally, Miss Brett

42
23 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Dance: End II: Pierrot's Dance-Roger, Mrs Brett; III: Polonese-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; IV: The Grand Flower Dance call'd La Badinage Champetre-Roger, Mrs Booth, Lally, Miss Tenoe, Boval, Mrs Walter, Haughton, Mrs Brett, Duplessis, Mrs Young

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21 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Rainton, Lally's Son, Mrs Brett, Miss Robinson, Miss Robinson Jr, Miss Brett

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06 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Music: As17230625

Song: Mrs Boman; Smug Upon Tuesday-Mrs Willis; A Dialogue between Two Ballad Singers called A Satyr on All Trades-Harper, Mrs Willis

Dance: Two Farmers and Their Wives-Boval, Mrs Tenoe, others; Passacaille-Mrs Brett; Drunken Man-Harper

45
05 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Haughton. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Pierot-Roger, Mrs Brett; III: A new Comic Dance-Haughton, Mrs Brett; IV: Pastoral-Boval, Mrs Brett

Ballet: V: The Cobler's Jealous Wife (new). Cobler-Boval; Wife-Roger; Countrymen-Essex, Haughton; Countrywomen-Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe

Performance Comment: Cobler-Boval; Wife-Roger; Countrymen-Essex, Haughton; Countrywomen-Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe.
Cast
Role: Countrywomen Actor: Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe.

46
03 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Miss Lindar. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: End I: Saraband-Miss Brett Boval's Scholar; III: Pastoral-Miss Brett, Master Lally; IV: The Little Harlequin-Master Lally, Miss Brett; La Pierraite-Roger, Mrs Brett

47
06 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Mrs Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: I: Pastoral-Boval, Mrs Brett; III: La Peirrette-Roger, Mrs Brett; V: A new Saraband, Minuet-Boval, Mrs Brett

48
16 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden; III: Louvre-Mrs Wall; IV: Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; V: Myrtillo-

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28 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Louvre-Mrs Wall; III: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; IV: Entry-Glover; V: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden

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16 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Roger, Thurmond, Boval, Lally, Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe, Rainton, Miss Robinson; La Folette-