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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Younger"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Younger")') 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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9510 results for: Keyword - Mr Younger
We found 4636 matches on Event Comments, 4128 matches on Performance Comments, 1200 matches on Performance Title, 768 matches on Author, and 4 matches on Roles/Actors.

6651
03 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6652
08 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Serious Dance-; End: A comic dance-Miss Froment, a little girl (Neville)

6653
15 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: A serious Dance-; End: A comic Dance-Miss Froment

6654
05 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance-; III: New Hornpipe-; End Opera: The Italian Peasants-Miss Froment

6655
28 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

6656
26 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts etc. #7 19s. 1d. (Account Book). [Sylvas Neville attended in the pit, but made no comment.] Receipts: #188 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

6657
14 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by command of Their Majesties. Present: Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, Prince Frederick and Lady Louisa. Gave Yeoman of the Guards #2 2s. Paid Younger for licensing The Good Natured Man #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #228 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

6658
16 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for the License of Lionel and Clarissa #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #225 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6659
03 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Hoole] never perform'd. Paid Younger for a license for Cyrus & the New Occasional Prologue, #3 3s. (Account Book). [Account of the plot of the mainpiece, but without observational comment appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2-5 Dec.] Receipts: #229 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Country Wife

6660
14 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for writing Parts #6 14s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #75 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

6661
16 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not performed these 2 years. [see 21 May 1767.] Paid Younger for a license for Tom Jones #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #132 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Midas

6662
31 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [Harlequin Skeleton] now advertised under its original title, but the New Scene with additions continued (playbill). Paid Younger for a license for ye 2 Sisters #2 2s. (Account Book). [See 18 Feb.] Receipts: #244 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

6663
17 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. The Tragedy Altered by Dr Hawkesworth. Part of Pit will be Laid into the Boxes. [Winston MS 10, from O. Smith from the Town & Country Magazine, suggests Oroonoko--Fleetwood, son of the late manager, and brother to the gentleman who appeared about Nine years ago at dl.] Charges #66 19s. Balance to Bensley #51 15s. 6d. plus #113 15s. from tickets (Box 416; Pit 59; Gallery 9). Paid Younger for writing parts #6 3s. 4d. Receipts: #118 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

6664
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

6665
25 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Younger for a License for the Brothers #22s. (Account Book). Receipts: #127 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

6666
04 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for writing parts #8 14s. 4d. (Account Book). Receipts: #169 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

6667
03 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for license for the Court of Alexander #2 2s. Gave King's Footmen #2 2s.; Chairmen #2 2s.; Queen's Footmen #2 2s. & Chairmen #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #210 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Midas

6668
05 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Dance: III: A Pastoral Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Blurton; End of Play: The Old ground Young, as17701123

6669
16 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. The New Tragedy of Zobeide deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Yates. Zobeide publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 10). Paid Younger #2 2s. for license for Zobeide. Advanc'd Cushing as per note #37 10s., and Gardner #30 (Account Book). Receipts: #148 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

6670
29 September 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

6671
03 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid John Doe and John Claridge 12s. 6d. each for performing 5 nights in the Ass [in Mother Shipton] to the 2nd inst. Paid John Smith 12s. 6d. for performing in the Hog in the same. Paid Younger for writing parts as per bill #7 4s. 10d. (Account Book). [N.B. The three Johns receiv'd 2s. 6d. each for making up in the ass and hog each night Mother Shipton was played for the rest of the season. No further notation will be transcribed of this payment.] Receipts: #152 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

6672
07 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for Licenses for Prelude, Elfrida, Cross Purposes, and Golden Pippin #8 8s. Gave Hamilton #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #206 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: A New Pantomime Ballet call'd The Bird Catchers-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See dl 27 Nov. 1750.

6673
03 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Maria Macklin in a MS letter to her father this date (See dl 1 Feb. 73) complains that Elfrida alone drew houses at cg this season, and that even that play failed to fill the galleries; that Colman was difficult to see; that Younger carried on all the business of the theatre, everyone kowtowing to him: "Savigny has been discharged from the theatre; Ross has been laid up all the winter with the Gout, and has lately played Lear to a thin house. The Town is big with expectation of Foote's Puppet Show."] Receipts: #166 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6674
04 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger a Bill for Writing Parts #5 16s. 9d.; Paid Buxton and Enderby (oyl merchants) #101 3s., and Pattinson (tallow chandler) #28 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #172 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

6675
13 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ninth Night. For the Author. On Monday (never performed) a New Comedy call'd The Mistakes of a Night. Charges #67 4s. Profit to Author #83 6s. Paid Younger for a License for Mistakes of a Night #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #150 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzuma

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer