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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Sparks"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Sparks")') 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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6250 results for: Keyword - Mr Sparks
We found 4252 matches on Event Comments, 1828 matches on Performance Comments, 530 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 7 matches on Roles/Actors.

1626
17 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

1627
21 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

1628
09 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

1629
23 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

1630
07 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

1631
03 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

1632
30 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Performance

1633
09 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler; or, a Wife of Ten Thousand

1634
01 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

1635
03 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1636
07 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

1637
24 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

1638
12 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Entertainment: A Variety of New Imitations, vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

1639
13 December 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

1640
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

1641
19 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1642
28 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Patron

1643
29 January 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1644
15 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Drury-lane And Covent-garden

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

1645
01 September 1666 @ Moorfields, London

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and my wife and Mercer and I to Polichinelly, but were there horribly frighted to see Young Killigrew come in with a great many more young sparks; but we hid ourselves, so as we think they did not see us. By and by they went away, and then we were at rest again; and so, the play being done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Puppetry

1646
02 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

1647
14 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performance Comment: Sir Courtly Nice-Foote; Hothead-[I.] Sparks; Testimony-Taswell; Crack-Cross; Surly-Berry; Leonora-Mrs Clive; Violante-Mrs Bennett; Belguard-Bridges; Farewell-Mills; Waitwell-Usher; Valet-Marr; John-Simpson; Betty-Mrs King; Aunt-Mrs Cross; In Act III Cantata-Lowe.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: Muilment; IV: Italian Peasants, as17460206

1648
20 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Trip to the Jubilee deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Sparks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1649
24 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Wilkinson (1st appearance there), Dyer, Sparks, Dunstall, Davis, Bennet, Collins, Mrs Burden.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17601013

1650
01 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office