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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Shorter"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Shorter")') 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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5794 results for: Keyword - Mr Shorter
We found 4350 matches on Event Comments, 1203 matches on Performance Comments, 533 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1051
02 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Piping Pedlar-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1052
04 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17890512

1053
06 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

1054
20 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790

1055
16 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats; Or, The Strolling Gentlemen

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17901204

1056
22 September 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

1057
13 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

1058
07 November 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

1059
02 September 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: As17930823

1060
20 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790

1061
28 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

1062
12 November 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Arrived at Portsmouth

Dance: In II: Masquerade Dance- incident to the Play

1063
08 December 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town Before You

Afterpiece Title: Hercules and Omphale

1064
14 April 1795 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera; the music by Paisiello. [On 8 Dec. 1787 this was performed under its original title of Il re Teodoro in Venezia.] "Whatever we may pretend, we are too ignorant of musical science as a nation to find pleasure in what produces rapture on an Italian stage. The operas that have been successively produced this season would each have been more popular if much shorter" (Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Conte Ridicolo

Dance: As17950411

1065
11 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Smugglers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End: the favourite duett from Sampson, My Faith and Truth-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; End 2nd piece: Listen to the Voice of Love (composed by Hook)-Master Welsh

1066
16 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserted Daughter

Afterpiece Title: A Melocosmiotes

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: End II of 1st piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: I am a jolly gay Pedlar-Townsend; Come every jovial Fellow-Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; O ever in my bosom live-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain

1067
14 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: In 1st piece: as17961010, but Mrs Bland_

1068
20 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

1069
08 April 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Evelina

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17970103

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17961213, but L'Amour-Mlle Parisot; unassigned-_Fialon

1070
01 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Entertainment: Monologue. To conclude with: a Short Notice of Farewells, including her own Farewell for the Present Season-Mrs Siddons

1071
22 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Village Fete

Afterpiece Title: The School for Wives

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: In: Chorusses, as17970518; End II 2nd piece: The Sea Storm by G. A. Stevens (Cease rude Boreas blust'ring railer)-; End IV: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; In 3rd piece: Come every jovial Fellow-Gray, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; O ever in my bosom live-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain

Entertainment: End 2nd piece: a variety of Imitations-Rees (1st appearance this season [i.e. as imitator])

1072
29 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

1073
13 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: Ballet, as17971002, but Mrs _Watts

1074
18 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory; or, The Defeat of the Dutch Fleet by the Gallant Admiral Duncan on the Memorable Eleventh of October

Dance: In Scene V 3rd piece: a Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

1075
08 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel