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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Miss Betterton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Miss Betterton")') 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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18305 results for: Keyword - Mr and Miss Betterton
We found 14445 matches on Performance Comments, 5749 matches on Event Comments, 4855 matches on Performance Title, 378 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9451
20 November 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: As17321115

9452
22 November 1732 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

9453
23 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

9454
30 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deraminta

9455
05 December 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

9456
07 December 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [The opening of Covent Garden Theatre.] Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. And, on Account of the great Demand for Places, the Pit and Boxes, by Desire, will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. And to prevent the Scenes being crowded, the Stage Half a Guinea. All Persons who want Places are desir'd to send to the Stage Door (the Passage from Bow-street leading to it), where Attendance will be given, and Places kept for the following Nights as usual. Receipts: #115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

9457
08 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Miss Raftor

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Goody Grover Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: E. Roberts, Jones, Tench, Wright, Miss Mears, Miss Atherton.

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9458
04 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Syrens Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs DeLorme, Miss Mears, Miss Mann
Role: Mandarin Gormogons Actor: Cox, Charke, Lally Jr, Tench
Role: Gardeners and Wives Actor: Lally, Tench, Miss Mears, Miss Mann.
Role: Aurora Actor: Miss Williams
Role: Procris Actor: Miss Raftor

9459
17 January 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Eliza Actor: Miss Holiday.

Dance: As17330116

9460
27 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all intirely New. [Music by Handel. Text possibly by Grazio Braccioli, but see Deutsch, Handel, p. 303.] Done into English by Mr Humphreys. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Performance Comment: Edition of 1732 lists: Orlando-Senesino; Angelica-Signora Strada; Medoro-Signora Bertolli; Dorinda-Signora Celeste; Zoroastro-Montagnana.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Senesino

9461
03 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Boman
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance:

9462
12 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9463
15 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9464
17 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #163 12s. [See Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 162-63.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9465
20 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Egmont, Diary, I, 333: to the new play called The Miser, which is well translated from Moliere by Mr Fielding, and well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

9466
20 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9467
22 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9468
22 February 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Whereas Thomas Arne, Jun. Proprietor of English Operas [at lif], has new set to Musick, after the Italian Manner, the Opera of Rosamond, Written by the late Mr Addison, Which is now in Rehearsal....This is to give Notice, that he...hoping to receive Encouragement from the Town, will (notwithstanding his Expences are considerably greater than any of the other English Theatres) Entertain the Town at the following Prices (viz) Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. And that he will give a private Rehearsal of the said Opera, to such Friends as shall oblige him with a Subscription...at One Guinea, to be paid on Receipt of a Ticket, which will admit the Bearer into the Boxes five Nights

Performances

9469
23 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dione

Afterpiece Title: The Usurer or Harlequins Last Shift

9470
26 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9471
27 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9472
01 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9473
03 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9474
05 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

9475
06 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles