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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Madam Bentley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Madam Bentley")') 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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5721 results for: Keyword - Mr and Madam Bentley
We found 4246 matches on Event Comments, 1186 matches on Performance Comments, 553 matches on Performance Title, 37 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3926
24 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Cassander Actor: Mills
Role: Aristander Actor: Turbutt
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: As17361122

3927
25 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: Muilment

3928
26 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Cassander Actor: Mills
Role: Aristander Actor: Turbutt
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: As17361122

3929
03 December 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

3930
06 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Poor Pierot Married

Cast
Role: Bridesmen and Maids Actor: Villeneuve, Dukes, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Pelling

3931
10 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett.

Dance: In III: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

3932
14 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Dutchman and Frow-Philips, Miss Brett; IV: Muilment

3933
16 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3934
17 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

3935
18 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3936
21 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3937
22 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Muilment

3938
27 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Delane
Role: Cassander Actor: Walker

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3939
07 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Glover's Scotch Dance-; New Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun,

3940
08 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 8 Jan.: I was this morning regaled with Mr Handel's new opera called Arminius, it was rehearsed at Covent Garden.--Delany, Autobiography, I, 587

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Aston
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cantrel

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3941
08 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Xeno. Music by Broschi.] Lucy Wentworth, 8 Jan.: My mama has been so good to give me leave to goe to the Opera to night with Lady Anne. 'Tis to be a new one call'd Merophe, but the foolish Buffo's are to be left out which I am very glad of, but am sorry they are to have five hundred pound a piece for acting that silly stuf two nights if one may believe Mr Hamilton.The Opera is to be heard but once for he says 'tis the worst that ever was composed.-Wentworth Papers, p. 528. phay The Defeat of Apollo. Rehearsed. DDaily Advertiser, 11 Jan.: The Prologue to The Defeat of Apollo, which, in Compliment to some Gentlemen, was spoke last Saturday at the Rehearsal, encourages the Town to hope for what is new and entertaining. [For additional puffs, see Daily Advertiser, 11 and 12 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Edition of 1736 lists: Merope-Signora Antonia Merighi; Epitide-Carlo Broschi called Farinello; Polifonte-Francesco Tolve; Argia-Signora Eliz. duParc called Francescina; Trasimede-Signora Marg. Chimenti called Droghierina; Anassandro-Antonio Montagnana.
Cast
Role: Anassandro Actor: Antonio Montagnana.

3942
10 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Hornpipe-Ferguson

3943
14 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Man and Woman Actor: Desse, Mlle Delorme
Role: Pierot Man and Woman Actor: Shawford, Tench
Role: Mezzetin Man and Woman Actor: Glover, Mrs Moreau
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Dupre, Mrs Ogden

3944
19 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Ballet Actor: Mlle _Roland.
Role: Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.

3945
19 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Cast
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.

Dance: II: La Caprice (new)-Mons Granier, the first time of his appearing on this stage, Miss Oates

3946
20 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3947
22 January 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 24 Jan.: We hear that the new grand Pantomime Entertainment, design'd to be perform'd in a few Days at [lif], was practis'd there on Saturday last before a great many People of Quality and Distinction, who gave particular Marks of their Approbation to every Change, and were highly pleas'd with the Musick, compos'd b Mr Jones

Performances

3948
24 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-the eldest Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, the Misses Scott

3949
25 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

3950
26 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17361122, but Cassander-Cibber; Polyperchon-Berry; Perdiccas-Turbutt; Aristander-Shepard.
Cast
Role: Cassander Actor: Cibber
Role: Aristander Actor: Shepard.
Role: Alexander Actor: Milward
Role: Ghosts of Darius and Statira Actor: sung by Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett.