SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Gentleman"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Gentleman")') 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 4804 matches on Event Comments, 2056 matches on Performance Comments, 716 matches on Performance Title, 408 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Harley; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Richardson; Gentleman Usher-Bernard; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Arante-Miss Leserve; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Gentleman Usher Actor: Bernard

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17951019, but Sailor-_; Gentleman-_.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: A Young Gentleman
Role: Gentleman Actor: Abbot

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Dance: In afterpiece: a Dance-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand

Song: As17951019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: As17950919, but Epithalamium-Miss _Leak, Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Song: As17951102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17950919, but Villeroy-Wroughton; Sampson-Phillimore; 2nd Gentleman-Maddocks; Nurse-Mrs Maddocks.
Cast
Role: 2nd Gentleman Actor: Maddocks

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Song: As17950919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17950928, but Gentleman Usher-Farley.
Cast
Role: Gentleman Usher Actor: Farley.

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: As17950923, but Spado-Quick; Pedrillo-Munden; Philippo (for that night only)-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Philipps]); Victoria (1st and only time)-Mrs Clendining; Catalina (1st time)-Mrs Mountain; Lorenza (with an Italian Scena and several Italian Airs, adapted by Shield)-Sga Salvini (1st appearance on this stage); Don Juan-_; Vasquez-_; Calvette-_; Isabel-_.
Cast
Role: Philippo Actor: A Young Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls

Dance: In: The Spanish Fandango-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand; II afterpiece: The Humours of a Country Fair-Holland, Platt, Bayzand, Cranfield, Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Smyth, Mrs Watts

Song: End: Sally in our Alley-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Smugglers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: Henry-Kelly; Russet-Bannister; Simpkin-Suett; Skirmish-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Medley]); Flint-Burton; Serjeant-Phillimore; Louisa-Miss Leak; Jenny-Mrs Bland; Margaret-Mrs Maddocks.
Cast
Role: Skirmish Actor: A Gentleman

Song: End: the favourite duett from Sampson, My Faith and Truth-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; End 2nd piece: Listen to the Voice of Love (composed by Hook)-Master Welsh

Event Comment: [The aftyrpiece was not concluded, because of a false alarm of fire which caused a serious panic. "One gentleman lost his life, having lexped from the Green Boxes into the Orchestra; in his fall, he broke the harpsichord, and fractured his skull" (Gentleman's Magazine, Aug. 1796, p. 698).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Song: As17960715

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Performance Comment: Bustleton-Palmer; Manager-Davies; Gentleman in Balcony (with several Imitations never given before)-Caulfield; Actresses-Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Hale, Mrs Bland (who will introduce Sweet Little Taffine).

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Entertainment: Monologue Mainpiece: The Original Epilogue [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]-Mrs Wilson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Toms; Gentleman Usher-Farley; Burgundy-Philipps; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Gentleman Usher Actor: Farley

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: III afterpiece: Dance-Master and Miss Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Performance Comment: Edward-Kemble; Selim-Palmer; Gloster-Whitfield; Theald-Caulfield; Gentleman-Trueman; Assassin-Maddocks; Messenger-Webb; Eleonora-Mrs Siddons; Daraxa-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Gentleman Actor: Trueman

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Ballet: The Triumph of Love. As17961001

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Claudius-Packer; Hamlet-Kemble; Polonius-Suett; Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-Barrymore; Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick-R. Palmer; Gentleman-Evans; Marcellus-Dignum; Bernardo-Webb; Francisco-Cooke; Ghost of Hamlet's Father-Wroughton; Players-Maddocks, Wewitzer; Gravediggers-King, Hollingsworth; Gertrude-Mrs Powell; Ophelia-Mrs Jordan; Actress-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Gentleman Actor: Evans

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Ballet: The Triumph of Love. As17961001

Song: As17960924

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Norval-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Halpin]); Lord Randolph-Barrymore; Glenalvon-Palmer; Stranger-Aickin; Donald-Phillimore; Officer-Caulfield; Servant-Maddocks; Prisoner-Webb; Matilda-Mrs Siddons; Anna-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Norval Actor: A Young Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Charity Boy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Performance Comment: Orestes-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [Faulkner]); Pyrrhus-Palmer; Phoenix-Packer; Pylades-Barrymore; Andromache-Mrs Powell; Cephisa-Miss Tidswell; Hermione-Mrs Siddons; Cleone-Miss Mellon.
Cast
Role: Orestes Actor: A Young Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961214, but Hornpipe-_

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: As17970117, but 4th Gentleman-Phillimore; Anthony-Trueman; Kinswoman-Miss Stuart; Nurse-Miss Hale; Second Constantia-Mrs Goodall.
Cast
Role: 4th Gentleman Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter