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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Dow"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Dow")') 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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5636 results for: Keyword - Mr Dow
We found 4224 matches on Event Comments, 1138 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 38 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1501
06 December 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. The Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 8 Dec.: Last Thursday Night his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was at the Theatre in Drury-Lane, when one Mr Freeman, a mad Gentleman of 2000l. per Ann. offering to go into the Boxes, and being stopt by one of the Centries in the Passage, he shot him above the Shoulder; however the Centry knockt him down, and securing him, 2 or 3 more loaded Pistols were found in his Pockets....The sudden Discharge of Mr Freeman's Pistol put the Ladies and others withinside the Playhouse into some Consternation at first....The Gentlemen about the Prince, and almost throughout the House, drew their Swords upon the Occasion of this Disorder, which was soon over

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

1502
18 December 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Song: A Dialogue between-Cook, a Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on any Stage before

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1503
21 March 1717 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Dance: deMirail's Scholar, Mlle Cerail

1504
25 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Pack, and Spiller. At Penkethman's Booth near St. George's Church, in Southwark. The Boxes and Pit are laid together, and the Booth will be pull'd down on Thursday. At 6 p.m. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 5 Oct.: Wednesday at the Quarter-Sessions for the Borough of Southwark, Mr Penkethman, Mr Leigh, and other Persons taken out their Booths by the Informing Constables during the Time of the Fair, appear'd upon their Recognizances, and were immediately Discharg'd, there being no Prosecution, upon which Occasion the Recorder severely reprimanded the Constables for presuming to molest such as Acted upon a Lawful Patent, whilst they let others pass undisturb'd, who were really under the Censure of the Act against Strolling, or Vagrant Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Lancashire Hornpipe-Esq Timothy's Countryman who perform'd it with so much Applause during the Time of the Fair; Mimic Scene between Harlequin and a Peasant-; Vaulting on the Horse-a Gentleman lately arriv'd from France

1505
31 May 1718 @ no theater listed

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1506
10 July 1718 @ no theater listed

Performances

1507
12 July 1718 @ no theater listed

Performances

1508
23 August 1718 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: As17180802

1509
11 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

Dance: As17181209

1510
23 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

1511
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

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1512
16 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

1513
20 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens Or The Man Hater

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Lads and Lasses-Shaw, Mrs Booth, others; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger; The Sailor and his Lass-Weaver, Mrs Bullock; Harlequin-Miss Lindar

Music: Imitation of the Tattoo- (never perform'd here)

1514
26 January 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

1515
04 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Fools Or Wit At Several Weapons

1516
08 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele. Letter of complaint in Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 20 Jan.: That filthy Brute, Mr Penkethman, who by his Part, was obliged to dance, [took] in the Galleries with an idle Jest, by pretending that his Activity had shuffled down his Breeches. In short, Mr Mist, this Indecorum fill'd me with such gross Ideas, that the Thoughts of them hinder'd me from sleeping all that Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger; Hussars-

1517
09 January 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Dance:

1518
09 May 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

1519
17 December 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Song: Particularly Singing-Mrs Bowman

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1520
18 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: As17221211

1521
30 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: It Should Have Come Sooner Being The Historick Tragic Comic Humours Of Exchange Alley

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Saraband-Miss Tenoe; Drunken Man-Harper

Music: As17230625

1522
12 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife To Be Let

Performance Comment: Edition of 1735 lists: Fairman-Boman; Graspall-Evans; Sir Harry Beaumont-W. Wilks; Captain Gaylove-Bridgwater; Courtly-Oates; Toywell-Th. Cibber; Sneaksby-Parler; Shamble-Harper; Tim-Peplow; Widow Statley-Mrs Willis; Mrs Graspall-Mrs Haywood; Celemena-Mrs Tenoe; Marilla-Mrs Lindar; Amadea-Mrs Brett; Dogood-Mrs Davison; Prologue-Th. Cibber; Epilogue-Mrs Haywood.
Cast
Role: Widow Statley Actor: Mrs Willis

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1523
16 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impertinent Lovers Or A Coquet At Her Wits End

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

1524
28 October 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplishd Fools

Dance: Mrs Booth, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Peasant-Roger

Music: Select Pieces-

1525
08 December 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Robinson