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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Frank Roberts"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Frank Roberts")') 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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7562 results for: Keyword - Mr Frank Roberts
We found 4463 matches on Event Comments, 2258 matches on Performance Comments, 949 matches on Author, 619 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3451
12 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: End II: Lads and Lasses-; III: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; IV: Shepherd's Holiday-Burny, Sandham, Eaton, Mrs Haughton, Mrs Mountfort, Miss Sandham

Song: End I: Miss Thornowets; IV: Miss Thornowets

3452
07 May 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: Sandham

Music: II: Welch Harp-a Gentleman for his Diversion; IV: Solo-Ravenscroft

3453
28 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Roberts, now Confin'd in the Fleet Prison. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance:

3454
04 March 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17311025, but Falstaff-Gentleman who perform'd it in Harry the Fourth; Rugby-Williams; Sir Hugh-Norris; Mrs Ford-Mrs Giffard? (Daily Advertiser) or Mrs Roberts (Daily Post).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Amants-Burney, Mrs Wherrit

3455
08 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry, Roberts, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Song:

Dance:

3456
27 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

3457
03 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Music: Second and Third Musick, as17331201 I as IV on 1 Dec

Dance: I: La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. III: Les Polichinelles by Janno and F. Tench. V: Watteau by Miss Robinson

Song: II: A Thousand Fairy Scenes (from Rosamond) by Master Arne. IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts

Performance Comment: IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts .

3458
03 April 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Perry. At 7 P.M.'Boxes 51. Pit is. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Two Sonatas on the Harp by Perry. Also by the best Performers

3459
26 July 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Election Or Court And Country

Performance Comment: Parts by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Egerton, Mrs Talbot, Turbutt, Miss Jones, Jones, Hallam, Woodward, Woodburne, and Este .

3460
17 February 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Parts by Penkethman, Rosco, Kelly, Miss Jones, Mrs Dove, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Roberts, but see17360210.

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: III: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

3461
02 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: English Roast Beef by Leveridge. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

Performance Comment: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts .

3462
11 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Music: Overture to Ariadne. Select Pieces between the Acts. V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Benj. Baker will play the Kettle-Drums, accompanied with Trumpets and French Horns

Dance: I: Le Depit Amoureux by Desse and Mlle Delorme. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: The Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Norman, Mrs Kilby

Song: I: Chancon a Boire, as17360504. II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412

Performance Comment: II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412.

3463
18 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

3464
28 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave

Performance Comment: Pierot-Lalauze; Endymion-Salway; Chasseurs-Vincent; Roberts; Nymphs-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Mrs Vincent; Merlin-Leveridge; Cupid-Glover; Graces-Mrs Bullock, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun; Hour-Miss Cantrell; Zephyrs-Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, DuPre; Psyche-Mlle Roland; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Lun; Mercury-Laguerre; Doctor-Penkethman; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

3465
19 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

3466
14 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit J. Roberts, Mines, Masons, Cooper. Afterpiece by desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: As17420510; IV: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: AArrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

3467
12 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

3468
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

3469
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Palmer. Rec'd cash #50 14s., plus #82 15s. in tickets. Paid Duke of Bedford's Steward for leases #3 13s. 6d.; Mrs Swift 1s. 6d., omitted Wednesday; Mrs Roberts #1 omitted Wednesday [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

3470
02 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Holtham, Page (Housekeeper) and Miss Morrison. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Miss Allen, Miss Davis and Mrs Griffiths will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips with Clown, Bennet

3471
14 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. Tickets deliver'd by Roberts will be taken. Being the last time of the company's performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Music: Piece on the Welch Harp-Parry

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

3472
06 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

3473
18 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Dyer; 1st Spirit-Hull; 2nd Spirit (with song in character)-Mattocks; The Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchanals-Beard, Lowe, Baker; Bacchants-Miss Brent, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; Chorusses-Legg, Courtney; Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Courts, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge, Miss Allen; Euphrosyne-Mrs Lampe; Sabrina, the Pastoral Nymph, and Song of Sweet Echo-Miss Brent; The Dances incident to the Masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosly, Terriot, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Terriot, Miss Terriot.

3474
12 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cape, West, Tomlinson, Robinson, Roberts, and Mortimer. Tickets delivered by Marr and Page will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

3475
13 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shawford, Berrisford, Roberts, Miss Bride. Tickets delivered by Spilsbury will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker