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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Mills and Wife"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Mills and Wife")') 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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10208 results for: Keyword - Mr Mills and Wife
We found 4651 matches on Event Comments, 3789 matches on Performance Comments, 3082 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3226
06 March 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End I: The Butterfly, as17800921

3227
26 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End I: Hornpipe, as17810525; End: The Devonshire Minuet, as17810517

3228
21 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Merry Sailors by Aldridgc, &c

Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst

3229
20 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the Music composed by Fisher. Receipts: #124 19s. 6d. (122/6/0; 2/13/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: Harlequin-W. Bates; Justice-Messink; Gypsies-Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton, &c; Clown-Stevens; Clown's Wife-Miss Matthews; Maid-Mrs Sharpe; Justice's Wife-Mrs Poussin; Pierrot's Wife-Miss Matthews [i.e. doubled Clown's Wife]; Colombine-Mrs Ratchford .
Cast
Role: Clown's Wife Actor: Miss Matthews
Role: Justice's Wife Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Pierrot's Wife Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: In afterpiece by Harris, Langrish, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

3230
20 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17811117

3231
06 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Choice of Harlequin

3232
16 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Helme, Daglish, Dale, Brigg, Barthrope, Master Pulley, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Byrne will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Du-Bellamy as Lord Aimworth and Williames as Mervin, but on the Kemble playbill their names are deleted and MS annotations substitute Williames and Fawcett. This was Mrs Cargill's last appearance in London. Subsequently she acted in India.] Receipts: #231 17s. 6d. (32/8/0; 22/9/6; 0/15/0; tickets: 176/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Wife Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314nd of mainpiece a Minuet by Brigg and A Young Lady (his Scholar [unidentified]); End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

3233
17 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill, Intended For This Evening, Cannot Be Performed

3234
25 September 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations in the Dialogue and New Music [i.e. 6 new songs by John O'Keeffe with music by Michael Arne: 3 sung by Fairfield, and 1 each by Theodosia, Farmer Giles and Fanny. They are printed in London Chronicle, 26 Sept. and in Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1782,p. 452]. The Words of the New Songs will be given at the Boxes. Afterpiece: 6th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. [Brett was from the HAY.] Receipts: #271 10s. 6d. (269/4/6; 2/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Belle of the Village by Harris and Miss Matthews

3235
02 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #340 19s. 6d. (339/10/6; 1/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: As17820927

3236
25 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: St

3237
26 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17821017

3238
31 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17821017; End of Act I of afterpiece, as17821005

3239
18 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820917

3240
27 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17821005

3241
31 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: dl THE ADVENTURES OF A Night

Dance: dl As17830118

3242
22 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17821214

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Gramacbree Molly; End of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, both by Miss Phillips

3243
31 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Lyon, Gibson, Finney, Blandy, Barthrope, Aberdein will be taken. Receipts: #150 10s. (20/8; 6/11; 0/0; tickets: 123/11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Related Works
Related Work: Belphegor; or, The Wishes Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills

3244
18 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Pastoral Lovers by Ferrere and Miss Stageldoir

3245
27 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: As17830920 dancing and.
Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Cornelius Vandertop

Song: Mainpiece: To finish with a Grand Naval Review, in which a Dance of Sailors by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir, &c, and Rule Britannia by Williames, Staunton, Phillimore, Barrymore

Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst

3246
24 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Cast
Role: Mr Shandy Actor: Hull

3247
04 November 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17831018, but Mrs Strictland (1st time)-Mrs Ward; Lucetta (1st time)-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mr Strictland Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; Afterpiece to conclude with a Treble Hornpipe by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir

3248
05 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

3249
20 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Bensley
Role: Trapland Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Dance, The Jovial Sailors, by Mills and Miss M. Stageldoir

3250
16 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Williames

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills; End of mainpiece, as17840320athi