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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.

8176
21 April 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard and Young Rainton. Written by the late Mr Wycherly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: End II: The Muzette-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; III: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond, Mrs Tenoe; IV: Country Dance-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; V: Harlequin-Rainton

8177
03 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Cibber
Role: Sharper Actor: Mills

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: pastoral-Bpastoral=-Boval, Mrs Brett; Muzette-Rainton, Miss Robinson; Turkish Dance-Thurmond, Boval, Lally, others

8178
04 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Quin; Bellmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Sir Joseph-Egleton; Sharper-Diggs; Bluff-Hall; Setter-Spiller; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Belinda-Mrs Younger; Araminta-Mrs Moffet; Syliva-Mrs Legar; Lucia-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Hippisley

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

Song: SSee From the Silent Groves by Dr Pepusch-Mrs Chambers; The Play of Love made and sung-Leveridge

8179
10 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman and Lanyon.Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 6s.; tickets #60 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: FFrench Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle; Scottish Dance-

Ballet: GGrand Dance. As17260430

8180
16 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Boman and Mrs Moore. Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Lally, Mrs Walter, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

8181
19 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Lally, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

8182
03 June 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Widow Bowen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Performance Comment: And (by Desire) the last New Prologue spoke in Boy's Cloaths, Epilogue by Mr Welstead;-Miss Robinson Jr.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Dance: Miss Robinson

8183
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

8184
07 September 1726 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Gibbin's and Mrs Violante's Great Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

8185
30 September 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

8186
24 January 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was altered from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. [The Rural Modes intended, but deferred by the indisposition of a player.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

8187
08 February 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Lally, Essex, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; particularly Fawns-; Pieraite-

8188
25 February 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince John of Lancaster Actor: Wm. Mills
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Bridgwater

8189
28 February 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurengzebe

Cast
Role: Emperor Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph

Cast
Role: Miller's Wife and Daughter Actor: Mrs Wetherilt, Miss Tenoe
Role: Country Lads Actor: Young Rainton, Young Sandham

8190
20 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: CCoquet Shepherdess-Lally, Mrs Booth; Harlequin-Mrs Booth

8191
23 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Dance: End II: Pierrot's Dance-Roger, Mrs Brett; III: Polonese-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; IV: The Grand Flower Dance call'd La Badinage Champetre-Roger, Mrs Booth, Lally, Miss Tenoe, Boval, Mrs Walter, Haughton, Mrs Brett, Duplessis, Mrs Young

8192
08 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: Roger, Boval, Young Rainton, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Brett, Miss Robinson

8193
12 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Receipts: money #33 17s.; tickets #58 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 by moeny and 106 by tickets; P1t, 69 by money and 167 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 33 by money and 68 by tickets; second gallery 13 by money. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 15 April: Wednesday died Mr Diggs, a noted Actor at the New Play-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

8194
02 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: TThe Muzette-Miss Robinson, Young Rainton; The Fawns-Essex, Lally, Haughton, Duplessis, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter

8195
11 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wrexham. the Mercer, who sustain'd great Losses in the Year 1720. N.B. That Mr Wrexham will have the intire Profits of this Play for his own Use, and that no other Person hath any Share therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Bajazet Actor: Mills

8196
26 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Wilks; Scandal-Booth; Tattle-Cibber; Sir Sampson-Shepard; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Norris; Jeremy-Oates; Ben-Miller; Mrs Frail-Mrs Porter; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton; Prue-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Booth
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris

Dance: PPieraite, Fawns-Roger, Lally, Essex, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter

8197
14 December 1727 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: His Royal Highness the Duke present. Mainpiece: By Terence. Afterpiece: Imitated from the Phormio by Moliere, and translated into English by Mr Otway, with some Alterations; acted by the younger King's Scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

8198
16 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #43 6s. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 paid and 13 orders; pit, 122 paid and 17 orders; slips, 11 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 122 paid and 12 orders; second gallery, 95 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Anna Bullen

8199
29 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

8200
09 January 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood