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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Isaac Sparks"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Isaac Sparks")') 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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7396 results for: Keyword - Mr Isaac Sparks
We found 4279 matches on Event Comments, 1886 matches on Performance Comments, 1252 matches on Author, 531 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2826
25 March 1756 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratorio From First Book Of Paradise Regained

2827
14 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolic

2828
01 March 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2829
02 June 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: II: A Dance, as17730506

2830
19 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

2831
26 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

2832
November 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

2833
07 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: By Poitier and Mlle Roland

2834
19 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TThe German Hunters, as17580916

2835
17 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Reviv'd The Prussian Camp-Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Baker

2836
31 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

2837
13 January 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epicoene Or The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

2838
05 February 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Blackamoor

2839
08 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2840
15 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Song: In course of Entertainment: his favourite Planxty [descriptive of Ireland-Johnstone (in the character of Murtough Delany) [see The Irishman in London, cg, 21 Apr.]

2841
04 January 1705 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Smith and Isaac. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

2842
08 August 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At the King's Opera House in The Haymarket. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills.] By His Majesty's Company. [First production of an English stage play at this house since 18 Nov. 1710, though touring French or Italian companies had played French plays as late as the spring of 1727. The location verified by Isaac Reed, who attended the performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

2843
19 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T+The Way of the World had been advertised for both this day and the day before at foot of playbills.] Paid Isaac Wheatland for the side drum in The Female Archer 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #194 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

2844
10 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Interlude (by Isaac Bickerstaffe; Music by Arnold) in Honor of His Danish Majesty. It concludes with a Large Coronet of Flowers and a Garland Dance. Done apparently to speed the departing guest and cement good public relations.] Receipts: #120 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

2845
22 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Singers-Vernon, Reinhold, Pinto, Mattocks, Mrs Jewel (Isaac Reed Diaries).

Music: As17690215

2846
01 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [On this day Isaac Reed saw J. Streeton and some others executed at Tyburn, then went to Westminster Abbey, and then to the Haymarket.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: The Cowkeeper, as17700521; End of Play: Double Hornpipe-Master and Miss West

2847
06 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild (prompter) and Mahon. Mainpiece: Acted there but once. [See 20 March 1773.] Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock. [The Recruiting Serjeant interlude a Musical Entertainment by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Monologue: Interlude. End: A Favourite Interlude (never perform'd there) call'd The Recruiting Serjeant. Serjeant-Mahon; Countryman-Wilson; Wife-Miss Dayes; Mother-Mrs Willems

2848
27 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Dance: End monologue: The Poney Races, as17780421

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick

Performance Comment: End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick.

2849
10 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; mf 2, by Isaac Jackman; music by William Shield. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown]. Account-Book, 1 Apr. 1782: Paid Jackman in full for the Divorce #50. Receipts: #207 3s. 6d. (186/9/0; 20/3/6; 0/11/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: The Divorce Author(s): Isaac Jackman

Song: As17811022

2850
28 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble, based on 'Tis Well It's No Worse, by Isaac Bickerstaffe]. Morning Chronicle, 13 Mar. 1789: This Day is published The Pannel (1s.). Receipts: #204 8s. (165.3.0; 38.1.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel