SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Pack"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Pack")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Performance Comment: Parts-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, others.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, others.

Dance: duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Sandham, Miss Schoolding; A Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Performance Comment: As17150209, but Parts-_Pack.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: _Pack.

Dance: As17150203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The City Ramble

Performance Comment: See17150602 but Parts-Pack, Bullock, Hall, F. Leigh, Spiller.

Dance: Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509; Harlequin and Two Punches-duPre, Moreau, Boval; Scaramouch-Thurmond Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolishd

Performance Comment: Parts-Leveridge, Pack.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Leveridge, Pack.

Dance: As17151102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: See17170125, but Pyramus-Leveridge; Thisbe-Pack.
Cast
Role: Thisbe Actor: Pack.

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: See17171128, but Marplot-Pack.
Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Pack.

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Cast
Role: Syrinx Actor: Mrs Barbier
Role: 1st Sylvan Actor: Pack
Role: 1st Nymph Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Spiller.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Performance Comment: Hob-Spiller; Friendly-Pack, in which he sings the Song of London Is A Fine Town.

Dance: As17180802

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: See17181215, but Mizen-Pack; Flip-Spiller.
Cast
Role: Mizen Actor: Pack

Dance: As17190113

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Womans Revenge

Performance Comment: Mixem-Pack.
Cast
Role: Mixem Actor: Pack.

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: Newhouse, Pelling, Miss Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: As17200222, but Goswin-Leigh; Higgen-Pack; Prig-_.
Cast
Role: Higgen Actor: Pack
Role: Gertrude Actor: Mrs Spiller

Dance: Topham Jr, Pelling, Newhouse, Miss Bullock, Miss Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17201022, but Caius-Pack.
Cast
Role: Caius Actor: Pack.
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: As17201115, but Razor-Pack.
Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Pack.
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Dance: Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performance Comment: Comic Parts-Bullock Sr, Pack, Griffin, Spiller, C. Bullock.

Dance: Dupre, Cook, Newhouse, Duff [Duffield?], Sandham, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton, Miss Francis

Performance Comment: =], Sandham, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton, Miss Francis.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Performance Comment: Busie Body-Pack.
Cast
Role: Busie Body Actor: Pack.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: As17201118, but Slip-Spiller; Mizen-Pack.
Cast
Role: Mizen Actor: Pack.
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: As17201125

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performance Comment: See17201226, but Rob@sack the Miller-Bullock Sr; Mend@foul the Cobler-Spiller; Nitt the Taylor-Griffin; Burn@Crust the Baker-Pack; Fat@dab the Cook-Hall; Wash@ball the Barber-H. Bullock.
Cast
Role: Burn@Crust the Baker Actor: Pack

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Performance Comment: See17210417 but Marplot-Pack.
Cast
Role: 7210417 but Marplot Actor: Pack.

Dance: As17201214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Fame or Queen Elizabeths Trumpets or Never pleads Hopes of being a Lord Chancellor or The Lover turnd Philosopher or The Misers Resolve upon the Lowering of Interest

Performance Comment: The Characters are, Sir Hardheart Pelf, an Usurer, and Justice of the Peace-; Counsellor Pleadwell, a Man of Honour-; in love with Charlotte, the Miser's Daughter-; Counsellor Neverplead, of Brick-Court in the Temple, an Original-; Fustian turn'd Auctioneer, preparatory to a Presbyterian Parson-; Mr Jamaica, an honest Merchant, sent as a Vagrant to the House of Correction-; Mr Quidnunc, a very deep-headed Man-; a Pack of fashionable Ladies and Beaux-; Famine, the Usurer's Servant-; George, Counsellor Neverplead's chief Clerk-.
Event Comment: Benefit of the New Building of the City of London Lying In Hospital, in the City Road, Old Street. Paid Weston's note to Mr Curtis #5; Mrs Bolter for 25 yds. white and silver silk, #28 15s.; 8 extra Trumpets 4 nights (13th inst. incl.) #12 (Treasurer's Book). This day published The Theatres; a poetical dissection by Sir Nicholas Nipclose (Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser). [It is packed with embittered comments on managerial policy and upon theatrical personalities.] Receipts: #228 18s. 6d. Charges: #84; Profit to Hospital #144 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Oliver Actor: Packer
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Scott

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Event Comment: G. Lady Chaworth to Lord Roos, 2 Nov. 1676: I have not yet seen Mr Pack, being att Lord Major's show when hee was heere....The pageants were but three and worse then others formerly, but the King, Queen, Duke and Duchess finer in both clothes, liveries, coaches and traine then ever, to the honour of the Citty (HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Rutland Papers, II, 31)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Triumphs

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is no indication as to when the first performance occurred, but as the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1682, its first appearance was probably not later than March 1682. A copy in the Library of Congress has a MS date of 7 July, probably a date of acquisition. A song The larks awake the drowsy morn, with music by Pack, is not in the printed play but is in A New Collection of Songs and Poems by D'Urfey, 1683

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Injured Princess Or The Fatal Wager

Performance Comment: Edition of 1682: The Prologue-; The Epilogue-. [Within the play the stage directions state: Enter...Mrs Holten, Sue [Susanna Percival (?)].Within the play the stage directions state: Enter...Mrs Holten, Sue [Susanna Percival (?)].
Event Comment: Benefit Pack. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #102 1s. 6d.; tickets #78 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Song: As17170204

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115; Harlequin-Salle, Mlle Salle

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Pack, and Spiller. At Penkethman's Booth near St. George's Church, in Southwark. The Boxes and Pit are laid together, and the Booth will be pull'd down on Thursday. At 6 p.m. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 5 Oct.: Wednesday at the Quarter-Sessions for the Borough of Southwark, Mr Penkethman, Mr Leigh, and other Persons taken out their Booths by the Informing Constables during the Time of the Fair, appear'd upon their Recognizances, and were immediately Discharg'd, there being no Prosecution, upon which Occasion the Recorder severely reprimanded the Constables for presuming to molest such as Acted upon a Lawful Patent, whilst they let others pass undisturb'd, who were really under the Censure of the Act against Strolling, or Vagrant Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Lancashire Hornpipe-Esq Timothy's Countryman who perform'd it with so much Applause during the Time of the Fair; Mimic Scene between Harlequin and a Peasant-; Vaulting on the Horse-a Gentleman lately arriv'd from France

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: delaGarde's Two Sons, Miss Francis; Comic Dance-Sandham's Son who is not Eight Years of Age, and never perform'd on any Stage before

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Pack's Great Booth at Hounslow during the Fair. Mainpiece: a new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend With The Comical Humours Of Sir Timothy Timberhead And His Sister Jezebel

Dance: The Tavern Bilkers-