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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ms Byrn"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ms Byrn")') 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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1823 results for: Keyword - Ms Byrn
We found 1433 matches on Event Comments, 421 matches on Performance Comments, 136 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1701
06 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falsehood; Or, The Distrest Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Tippoo Saib; or, British Valour in India

Performance Comment: English Colonel-Byrne; Lieutenant-Farley; Old Corporal-Rayner; General-Cranfield; Tippoo Saib-Follett; Ghazidy Cawn-Ratchford; Indian (with a song in character)-Bannister; Colonel's Lady-Miss Francis; Indian Women-Mrs Watts, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Invill; Orra (with a song in character)-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: English Colonel Actor: Byrne

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: In 2nd piece: Battle Dance-, and a Representation of English and British Grand Martial Procession

Song: I: Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings (set by Dr Cooke)-Bannister, Johnstone, Incledon, Mrs Mountain; End II: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon; IV: Fond Echo Forbear thy fond sigh (written by Shakspeare [recte Lewis Theobald], and composed new for the Evening's Performance by Shield)-Mrs Mountain; In Pantomime: Poor Orra tink on Yanco dear (the music by Dibdin)-Mrs Mountain; The Gallant Soldier born to Arms (composed by Hook)-Incledon; Indian War Song-Bannister; The Tobacco Box: Tho' the Fate of Battle on Tomorrow wait-Johnstone, Mrs Warrell

1702
30 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

1703
22 September 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

1704
27 September 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The School for Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: III 2nd piece: a song-Sedgwick

1705
17 October 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

1706
31 October 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1707
07 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1708
18 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

1709
21 November 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: An Occasional Interlude of Singing and Dancing. With new Dresses and Decorations. [This was written as a compliment to the Duchess of York, daughter of the King of Prussia; on 29 Sept. 1791 she had married the Duke of York (see European Magazine, Dec. 1791, p. 459) "It was a pretty, slight compliment, touched up by Byrne, St.Amand, Incledon and Mrs Mountain, with a couple of airs and the Pas Russe a little lamed. Byrne carried his arm in a scarf [see 29 Oct.], and Incledon and Mountain their parts in their hands" (Oracle, 22 Nov.). 3rd piece in place of Oscar and Malvina, advertised on playbill of 19 Nov.] Receipts: #221 4s. (208.16; 12.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: The Prussian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1710
10 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17910927

1711
26 December 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii; Or, The Death Of Fair Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Sir John Brute

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Monody on the Death of Mr Henderson (3rd time at this theatre)-Baker

1712
23 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

1713
30 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

1714
02 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

1715
14 February 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Trame Deluse

Dance: End I: a new Divertisement-, composed by D'Auberval; End Opera: La Fete Villageoise, composed by D'Auberval,-Mlle Hilligsberg, Mme D'Auberval, DelaChapelle, D'Egville, Les Demoiselles Simonet, Laborie

1716
17 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Algerine Slave

1717
19 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The American Heroine; or, Ingratitude Punished

Dance: In afterpiece: the Dances (composed by Hamoir,)-Hamoir, Bidotti, Keys, Nicolini, Walker, Whitmill, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp

1718
17 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Zelma; or, The Will o' th' Wisp

1719
14 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

1720
04 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Young Men, and Old Women

1721
31 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Two Socias

1722
06 September 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cross Partners

Afterpiece Title: The Family Compact

1723
03 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp

1724
21 November 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Dance: The Dances (composed by D'Egville)-Hamoir, D'Egville, Master D'Egville, Miss Prevot, Miss Menage, Miss Phillips, the Miss D'Egvilles. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances until 8 Apr. 1793.

1725
01 December 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus; Or, A World Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp