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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Old Toby"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Old Toby")') 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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2786 results for: Keyword - Old Toby
We found 1672 matches on Performance Comments, 985 matches on Performance Title, 321 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
13 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Sylla-Ryan; Sulpitius-Bickerstaff; Ruffian and Apothecary-Penkethman; Lavinia-Mrs Porter; Nurse-Norris.
Cast
Role: Old Marius Actor: Mills

152
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twice Married And A Maid Still; Or, Bedding Makes The Bargain Last

Performance Comment: Old Merriwell-Penkethman; Tim (his son)-Pack; Vincent-Quin; Peregrine-Ryan; Lord Worthy-Diggs; Sir William Willful-Shepard; Cook-Norris; Trusty-Spiller.
Cast
Role: Old Merriwell Actor: Penkethman

Song:

Dance:

153
05 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Granius-Walker; comic parts-Penkethman, Miller, Norris; Lavinia-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Old Marius Actor: Mills

Song: As17191003

154
06 December 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Garnius-Walker; Comic Parts-Penkethman, Miller, Cross, Birkhead; Nurse-Norris; Lavinia-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Old Marius Actor: Mills

155
01 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Comic Parts-Penkethman, Miller, Cross, Birkhead; Lavinia-Mrs Porter; Nurse-Norris.
Cast
Role: Old Marius Actor: Mills

156
12 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Performance Comment: Old Marius-Mills; Young Marius-Booth; Granius-Wm. Mills; Sulpitius-Harper; Comic Parts-Penkethman, Miller, Cross, Ray; Lavinia-Mrs Porter; Nurse-Norris.
Cast
Role: Old Marius Actor: Mills

157
30 October 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Performance Comment: Old Mixem-Hall; Mrs Mixem-Mrs Egleton; Mother Griffin-Hippisley; Thinkwell-Bullock; Freeman-Milward; Bevil-Walker; Vizard-Chapman; Corinna-Mrs Berriman; Celia-Mrs Rice; Miranda-Miss Holiday; Prisoners-Ray, H. Bullock, W. Bullock.
Cast
Role: Old Mixem Actor: Hall

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

158
23 October 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Performance Comment: Old Mix'em-Hall; Mrs Mix'em-Mrs Egleton; Mother Griffin-Hippisley; Thinkwell-Bullock; Freeman-Milward; Bevil-Walker; Corinna-Mrs Berriman; Caelia-Mrs Rice; Miranda-Miss Holiday; Vizard-Chapman; Prisoners-Ray, H. Bullock, Clarke.
Cast
Role: Old Mix'em Actor: Hall

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Hall

Dance: As17301007

159
13 November 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Old Mirabel-Jones; Young Mirabel-Roberts; Duretete-Morgan; Dugard-Havard; Petit-Reynolds; Oriana-Mrs Mullart; Bisarre-Mrs Morgan; Lamorce-Mrs Lacy.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Jones
Role: Petit Actor: Reynolds

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Stopler; Cimon-Reynolds; Phillida-Mrs Nokes; Mopsus-Mullart.
Cast
Role: Cimon Actor: Reynolds

160
14 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Son; or, The Maiden's Second Slip

Performance Comment: Old Heedless-Machen; Dick-Mynnit; Harry-Hicks; Tom-Pullen; Mary-Miss Palmes; Sally-Mrs More.
Cast
Role: Old Heedless Actor: Machen

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; III: Scaramouch-Sandham; V: Hornpipe-R. Jones

Song: II: Singing in Italian-

161
19 February 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Old Mirabel-Machen; Young Mirabel-Yarrow; Duretete -Jones; Dugard-Wallis; Petit-Pullen; Bisarre-Miss Jones; Lamorce-Mrs Harris; Oriana-Miss Jones Jr .
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Machen

Music: IV: Solo on Violoncello by Biggs

Dance: I: Scaramouch. III: Scotch Dance. V: Running Footman by Shawford

162
11 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Old Mirabel-Penkethman; Young Mirabel-Giffard; Dugard-Havard; Duretete-Woodward; Petit-Hamilton; Bravos-W. Giffard, Lyon, Dove, Norris; Bizarre-Mrs Giffard; Lamorce-Mrs Ware; Oriana-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Penkethman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

163
25 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nest Of Plays; Three New Comedies Of One Act Each

Afterpiece Title: The Prodigal Reform'd

Performance Comment: Old Severn-Rosco; Trueman-Bridgwater; Severn-A. Hallam; Sunflower-Bencraft; Locust-Ridout; Froth-Neale; Tatterdemalion-Chapman; Johnson-Arthur; Lady Turtle-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Basset-Mrs Ware; Miss Siren-Miss Brunette.
Cast
Role: Old Severn Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Constancy

Afterpiece Title: The Tryal of Conjugal Love

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Dragon Actor: Reinhold

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

164
14 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Performance Comment: Old Wilmot-Crispe; Young Wilmot-W. Giffard; Eustace-Peterson; Randall-Blakes; Agnes-Mrs Steel; Maria-Miss Medina; Charlot-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Wilmot Actor: Crispe

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: Crispin-Yates; Doctor-Paget; Old Gerald-Julian; Young Gerald-Blakes; Martin-Peterson; Simon-Dunstall; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Jones; Waiting Woman-Mrs Dunstall; Angelica-Miss Medina; Beatrice-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Julian

Dance: Shawford, Mrs Bullock

165
23 August 1743 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Doctor Outwitted; With The Comical Humours Of Sly Boots The Sham Physician

Performance Comment: Old Fumble-Hippisley; Sly Boots-Chapman; M le Medicine-Blakes; Constant-Bencraft; Simon-Berry; Dry Broots-Morgan; Angelica-Mrs Dodson; Miss Humility-Mrs Lamball; Jenny-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Old Fumble Actor: Hippisley

Song: Bencraft, Davis; an entire new Ballad-Mr Bencraft, in the character of the valiant Dragoon who retook the Standard at the Battle of Dettingen

Dance: I: Austrian Dance-Bencraft, Adams; II: Highland Dance-Bencraft, Adams

166
01 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Performance Comment: Old Laronn-Yates; Father Martin-Taswell; Jourdain-Neale; Young Laroon-Mozeen; Isabel-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Old Laronn Actor: Yates

Dance: As17461112

167
19 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: Old Gerald-Shuter; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet; Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Shuter

168
19 September 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Gratiano-Palmer; Shylock-Yates; Antonio-Berry; Launcelot-Shuter; Bassanio-Havard; Tubal-Taswell; Solarino-Blakes; Balthazar-Simson; Lorenzo-Beard (with Songs in Character); Duke-Winstone; Salanio-Scrase; Morochius-Burton; Old Gobbo-W. Vaughan; Jessica-Miss Minors; Nerissa-Mrs Bennet; Portia-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Old Gobbo Actor: W. Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: Old Gerald-Shuter; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet; M Le Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Shuter

Dance: III: A Punch Dance-Morris; IV: A Comic Dance-Harvey, Mrs Addision

169
11 September 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: Old Gerald-Clough; Le Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Clough

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

170
29 September 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Old Man-Shuter; Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Fine Gentleman-Creswick; Fine Lady-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Shuter

171
03 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Old Man and Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Fine Gentleman-Dyer; Drunken Man-Dunstall; Fine Lady-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Old Man and Lord Chalkstone Actor: Shuter

172
14 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggar's

Performance Comment: Old Rents-Sparks; Hearty-Beard; Springlove-Clarke; Beggar Men-Collins, Barrington, Costollo, Bennet, Holtom, Baker; Justice Clack-Shuter; Randal-Dunstall; Beggar Women-Mrs Stephens, Mrs Pitt, Miss Young, Miss Sledge, Miss Mullart, Mrs White; Oliver-Dyer; Hilliard-Lowe; Vincent-Mattocks; Patrico-Marten; Scentwell-Gibbs; Martin-R. Smith; Amie-Mrs Baker; Meriel-Mrs Vincent; Rachel-Miss Brent; With Dances-incident to the play.
Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Sparks

173
08 August 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Old Philpot-Yates; Young Philpot-Foote; Wilding-O'Brien; Sir Jasper Wilding-Baddeley; Dapper-Weston; Maria-a Young Gentlewoman; Corinna-Miss Cockayne; Miller, Davies, Marr, Miss E. Ambrose, Gardiner, Blakey. Miller, Davies, Marr, Miss E. Ambrose, Gardiner, Blakey.
Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Yates

Dance: As17610727 Hornpipe-Miss Scott

174
16 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Old Rents-Sparks; Hearty-Beard; Springlove-Clarke; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Justice Clack-Shuter; Hilliard-Baker; Vincent-Mattocks; Meriel-Mrs Vincent; Amie-Miss Young; Rachel-Miss Brent; with the Beggars-; other dances incident to the Opera-.
Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17610911, but cast first listed here: Ceres-Mrs Lampe; Proserpine-Mrs Abegg; Jupiter-Mattocks; Mercury-Baker; Followers of Ceres-Mlle Capdeville, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs White, Mrs Granier, Mrs Leppie, Miss Daw; Pluto-Legg; Daemons-Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Gosley; Harlequin-Miles; Yeoman-Weller; Clodpole-Shuter; Old Man-C. Smith; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Country Lads, lasses-Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White; Gardeners-Dumay, Gosley; The Elements, Earth-Gosley, Mrs Jansolin; Air-Leppie, Mlle Marianne; Fire-Granier, Mrs Granier; Water-Desse, Mlle Capdeville.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: C. Smith
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt

175
25 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: Old Mask-Yates; Young Mask-King; Sophy-Miss Pope; Servant-Watkins; Freeman-Packer; Rosin-Fox; Lady Scrape-Mrs Bennet; Laundress-Mrs Bradshaw; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Old Mask Actor: Yates

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak-Vincent, Miss Baker