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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Gay"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Gay")') 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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6857 results for: Keyword - Mr Gay
We found 4259 matches on Event Comments, 1414 matches on Author, 1148 matches on Performance Comments, 535 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2676
02 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner or Quality Binding

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

2677
09 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace Or A Voyage Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

2678
15 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End 2nd piece: The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

2679
27 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Song: End III: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

2680
09 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir Clement Flint-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Lord Gayville-Palmer; Alscrip-Parsons; Chignon-Baddeley; Mr Blandish-Bannister Jun.; Mr Rightly-Aickin; Prompt-R. Palmer; Chairman-Chaplin; William-Wilson; Clifford-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Miss Alscrip-Miss Pope; Miss Alton-Mrs Crouch; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Sagely-Mrs Booth; Tiffany-Miss Tidswell; Lady Emily-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Lord Gayville Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Song: In II: song in character-Mrs Crouch [who sang it in all subsequent performances]

2681
29 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

2682
05 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

2683
07 February 1789 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Dance: As17890131 Les Fetes Provencales here called A Divertissement

Song: II: song-Marchesi

2684
08 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Widows

Performance Comment: Characters by Lewis, Ryder, Quick, Pope, Farren, Davies, Fearon, Mrs Mattocks, Miss Tweedale, Mrs Rock, Miss Wewitzer, Mrs Abington. Cast from London Chronicle, 9 May, and Larpent MS: Jack Marmoset-Lewis; Mr Worldly-Ryder; Sir Wilful Wayward-Quick; Frederick-Pope; Lord Mirabel-Farren; Mr Gayless-Davies; Sterling-Fearon; John-Evatt; Mrs Worldly-Mrs Mattocks; Arabella-Miss Tweedale; Lucy-Mrs Rock; Mrs Gayless-Miss Wewitzer; Lady Charlotte Richmore-Mrs Abington; Prologue-Pope; Epilogue-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Mr Gayless Actor: Davies
Role: Mrs Gayless Actor: Miss Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

2685
14 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir ClementFlint-Aickin; Lord Gayville-Farren; Alscrip-Quick; Chignon-Blanchard; Mr Blandish-Macready; Mr Rightly-Fearon; Prompt-Bernard; Clifford-Pope; Miss Alscrip-Mrs Mattocks; Miss Alton-Miss Reynolds; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Inchbald; Lady Emily-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Lord Gayville Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: Monologue. End IV: A Comic Description of the Curiosities in the Tower of London-Edwin

2686
25 May 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Graces-the Miss Simonets

2687
04 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: Between acts: Miss Barnes

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

2688
30 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sword Of Peace Or A Voyage Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

2689
09 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

2690
15 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: As17890708

2691
26 September 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir Clement Flint-Bensley; Lord Gayville-Barrymore; Alscrip-Suett; Chignon-Baddeley; Mr Blandish-Whitfield; Mr Rightly-Aickin; Prompt-R. Palmer; Clifford-Wroughton; Miss Alscrip-Miss Pope; Miss Alton-Mrs Crouch; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Wilson; Lady Emily-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Lord Gayville Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch

2692
12 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17891021

2693
13 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling A Dramatic Caricature

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

2694
17 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

2695
28 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End II: Negro Dance-

Song: End: some of the most favourite Catches and Glees-Bannister, Incledon, Blanchard, Davies, Williamson, Johnstone [for specific songs probably sung, see17910517]

Entertainment: Monologue. After singing: A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey (after the manner of the late Mr Edwin)-the Young Gentleman who performs Trudge

2696
01 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End: a new Dance, The Kiss; or, Give and Take-Byrn, Platt, Mrs Goodwin, Miss DeCamp

2697
07 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling

2698
26 September 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: The Double Amour

Dance: End IV: a Dance-Allison, Pupils of Allison

2699
21 October 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

2700
12 December 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End 1st song: The Dance in Fetters-Allison

Song: End: The Cries of Edinburgh-Shaw; End I afterpiece: Hark hark to the Woodlands-Miss Thompson (1st appearance)