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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Norris"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Norris")') 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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6774 results for: Keyword - Mr Norris
We found 4285 matches on Event Comments, 2430 matches on Performance Comments, 548 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Roles/Actors, and 18 matches on Author.

2626
17 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

2627
27 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End II: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; End: a favorite Mock Italian Song-Fawcett

2628
28 September 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

2629
16 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

2630
13 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

2631
19 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

2632
03 April 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha, The Son Of Solyman The Magnificent

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 25-26): Solyman-Betterton; Mustapha-Harris; Zanger-Smith; Rustan-Sandford; Pyrrhus-Richards; Cardinal of Veradium?-Young; Haly-Cademan; Roxolana-Mrs Davenport [presumably an error for Mrs Betterton, who is named for this role in the edition of 1668 and who is referred to (Ianthe) by Pepys on this day]; Queen of Hungaria-Mrs Davies. [Edition of 1668 adds: Achmat-$James Noke; Thuricus-$Medborn; Viche-$Aingel; Zarma-$Mrs Long; Mitza-$Mrs Norris; Cleora-$Mrs Shadwel.
Cast
Role: Mitza Actor: Mrs Norris

2633
December 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This play may have been revived during this month or earlier. A song, Come Jug my honey let's to bed, the music by Thomas Farmer, sung by Reading and Mrs Norris, was printed in Choice New Songs never before Printed [by Thomas D'Urfey, 1684]. Luttrell purchased a copy of this collection on 8 Jan. 1684@5 (Bindley Collection, William Andrews Clark@Jr@Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

2634
07 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris, Fairbank, and Bickerstaff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Music: As17031109

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Campion

2635
05 June 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

2636
20 May 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

2637
12 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: Merchant-Powell; Clause-Cory; Vandunck-Leigh; Hemskirk-Husband; Hubert-Bois; Prig-Jubilee Dicky [Norris]; Higgen-Spillar; Dutch Boor-Cole; Bertha-Mrs Baker; Jaqualine-Mrs Spillar.

Dance: French Peasant-; Dance between a Miller his Wife and a Town Miss-; Ladder Dance-; Italian Scaramouch-Layfield

2638
24 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit of Jubilee Dicky, alias Norris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage

Music: A Consort of Musick from London-

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant and Wife-; Miller's Dance-Leigh

2639
30 April 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

2640
19 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Powell, Booth, Keene, Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Mountfort.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell; Two Dutch Skippers-

2641
22 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Performance Comment: Wilks, Mills, Johnson, Wilks Jr, Norris, Harper, Penkethman, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Younger, Mrs Heron, Mrs Baker, Miss Tenoe.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, who never appear'd on this Stage before

2642
14 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris and Young Rainton. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: LLe Badinage Champetre-; A new Dance, Le Jeuness-

2643
05 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Mad Captain. [Tickets for Tench and Miss Norris taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Song: E. Roberts

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, J. Delagarde; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Masqueraders-Vallois, Mrs Bullock

2644
08 November 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17341107, but Norris added to Witches; Murderers-Wetherilt, Pearce .

Music: By Ray, Nichols, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones

2645
18 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mrs Norris was to had her Benefit (ye Inconst) this Night but gave it up-her Tickets came in Notwithstanding (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

2646
17 August 1772 @ Grotto Gardens, St. George's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit for Norris. [The play is submerged in a long cconcert program of vocal and instrumental music.] At the Grotto Gardens, St George's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron

2647
03 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

Performance Comment: As17750102, but other characters-Norris, +Keen.
Cast
Role: other characters Actor:

2648
23 November 1775 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Miss Cecilia Davies (Inglesina), the Young Person who sang last year at Stanley's Oratorio's, Norris, Reinhold.

Music: First Violin, Concerto-Hay; Organ-Stanley

2649
22 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, Hay-market; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkley-square. Receipts: #329 17s. (48.15; tickets: 281.2) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17770515

2650
20 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets delivered for The Lady's Last Stake will be taken. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, Hay-market; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkley-square. Receipts: #290 14s. 6d. (40.19.6; tickets: 249.15.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Ballet: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780515