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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Mills jun"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Mills jun")') 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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9088 results for: Keyword - Mr Mills, jun.
We found 4819 matches on Performance Comments, 4503 matches on Event Comments, 883 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6051
31 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1776. Mrs Robinson, who was from the Portsmouth theatre, is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill]. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Frances Brooke, based on Les Moissonneurs, by Charles Simon Favart]: The new Music and overture composed, and the Selected Airs compiled [from Paxton and Sacchini], by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 30 June 1784: Paid Shield for composing Rosina #100. Receipts: #158 18s. 6d. (154/5/6; 4/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

6052
03 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820917

6053
12 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

6054
22 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Besford

6055
28 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: As17821214

6056
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

6057
20 May 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

6058
21 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Dance: As17820927

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hollo!, as17830516; End of Dance ThomasDay. Goody Cramp-Bannister; Goody Rheum-Brett; Goody Twitch-Edwin

6059
23 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Tally Ho!, as17830516

6060
05 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Performance Comment: Characters by Parsons, Edwin, Wewitzer, Wood, Egan, Barrett, Stevens, Kenny, Bannister; Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Bannister. [Cast adjusted from Public Advertiser, 17 Aug. 1779, and playbill of 29 June 1786: Cranky-Parsons; Bowkitt-Edwin; Vinegar-Wewitzer; Bouquet-Wood; Idle-Egan; Orator Mum-Barrett; John-Stevens; Signor Arionelli-Bannister; Dolce-Mrs Lefevre; Cecilia-Mrs Bannister. Kenny is unassigned.] Prologue as17830531 . Prologue as17830531 .

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

6061
10 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister, Wilson, Edwin, Wood, R. Palmer, Baddeley, Palmer; Mrs Webb, Miss Hale, Mrs Bannister. [Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1781): Surat-Bannister; Sir James Juniper-Wilson; Etiquette-Edwin; Melville-Wood; Spruce-R. Palmer; Cathartic-Baddeley; Shuffle-Palmer; Lady Juniper-Mrs Webb; Fidget-Miss Hale; Amelia-Mrs Bannister.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Sir James Juniper Actor: Wilson
Role: Lady Juniper Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: , Vocal and Rhetorical Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: End of Act I of Mainpiece, as17830531

6062
18 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Miss Logan is identified on playbill of 28 June 1784.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: As17830611

6063
20 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Williamson, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act iv of mainpiece song by Williames

6064
07 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

6065
18 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a New Dance by Second and Miss M. Stageldoir

6066
18 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

6067
05 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

6068
21 January 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: The Talisman

Song: End of mainpiece a song by Brett

Monologue: 1784 01 21 End of Act III of mainpiece a Masonic Address by a Brother [unidentified]

6069
10 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Dance: As17831213

6070
06 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

6071
11 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

6072
21 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Gradus Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

6073
09 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: , Vocal and Rhetorical Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.

Song: As17840730

6074
27 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17841022; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dana. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

6075
07 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter