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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Peter Mills"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Peter Mills")') 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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3433 results for: Keyword - Peter Mills
We found 2720 matches on Performance Comments, 337 matches on Author, 278 matches on Performance Title, 231 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3376
20 April 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Famous Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada By The Spaniards With The Loves Of Almanzor And Almahide

Song: As17031102

Dance: duRuel, duRuel's Wife

Music: As17040404

3377
09 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Not Acted these Six Years. This being the first Performance of an Opera this Year. All the Scenes and Flyings as they were formerly presented. [Genest II, 300, lists this performance for 10 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche Or Loves Mistress

Music: All the Vocal and Instrumental Music compos'd by the Famous Mr Matthew Lock-

Dance: New dances- proper to the occasion; particularly Arbour Dance in Imitation of the Original-duRuel, Cherrier, Laforest

3378
11 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills and Mrs Shaw. Written by the late Great Poet Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

Song:

Dance:

3379
30 April 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. With the proper Scenes belonging to the Music. It being the last time of Acting till after May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

Song: As17050410 particularly the Frost Music in Act IV of King Arthur, composed by Henry Purcell-

Dance: As17050303

3380
16 June 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Mainpiece: Not Acted these 6 Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Song: Henry Purcell's Frost Music from King Arthur-Leveridge, the new Boy, others; Singing in English and Italian-Mrs Tofts

3381
02 April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: All the original Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcel-Leveridge, Hughs, Ramondon, Mrs Lindsey, Mrs Cross, the Boy

Dance: Cherrier, Miss Santlow, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Evans

3382
10 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Saunders and Mrs Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

3383
05 April 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With all the Original Decorations of Scenes, Dances, and Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

3384
31 March 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

3385
28 November 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroick Daughter

Performance Comment: edition of 1719 lists: Don Ferdinand-$Mills; Don Alvarez-$Cibber; Don Gormaz-$Booth; Don Carlos-$Wilks; Don Alonzo-$Thurmond; Don Sanchez-$Elrington; Don Garcia-$Boman; Ximena-$Mrs Oldfield; Belzara-$Mrs Porter; Epilogue-Ximena.
Cast
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Mills

3386
23 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills and Mrs Saunders. N.B. This is positively the last time of Acting till Winter, the Company being obliged to go immediately to Oxford. [For the Oxford repertory, see Cibber, II, 135-39.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

3387
19 March 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: As17151122

3388
31 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Song: Carey

Music: A New Concerto for the Flute-Paisable

Dance: Myrtillo's Grand Dance, The Country Lads and Lasses, The Striping Dance-Dupre, Prince, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell

3389
07 March 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Their Royal Highness's Command. The tickets given out for The Orphan taken this day. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: Dupre, Mrs Santlow

3390
27 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Mills, a Drury Lane actress, died on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Dance: Mrs Santlow; New Dance-Miss Lindar

3391
27 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills' Son and Miss Lindar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Country Lad and Lass-Shaw, Mrs Younger; Shepherdess, Harlequin-Miss Lindar, a Scholar of Shirley's; The Swedes-Topham, Mrs Bicknell

3392
30 July 1718 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 2 Aug.: On Wednesday last, the Deceas'd Mr Keene was carried from his House in Cook's Court, by Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, to the Parish Church of St. Clement Danes; the Pall was held up by 3 Gentlemen from each Theatre, viz. Mr Booth, Mr Mills, and Mr Johnson, from the Old House; and Mr Bullock, Sen. Mr Spiller, and Mr Corey: Mr Charles Bullock appear'd as chief Mourner, the rest of the Actors from both Houses follow'd the Corpse to the Church, where was sung a very fine Anthem. 'Tis said Mr Walker, a Gentleman of that Profession, has made a very Pretty Elegy in Blank Verse upon the Occasion

Performances

3393
05 March 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by the late Mr Otway. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Dance: Pastoral Dance of Myrtillo-

3394
02 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wm. Mills and Chetwood, the Prompter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: Boomar, it being the first Time of his performing on the Stage

Dance: Harlequin-Miss Santlow; The Swedes-Topham, Mrs Bicknell; The Peasants-Shaw, Mrs Younger; Shepherdess-Miss Lindar

3395
14 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17221015

3396
22 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Performance Comment: Wilks, Mills, Johnson, Wilks Jr, Norris, Harper, Penkethman, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Younger, Mrs Heron, Mrs Baker, Miss Tenoe.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, who never appear'd on this Stage before

3397
21 June 1731 @ Windmill Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

3398
08 September 1731 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Miller-Mills-Oates' Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banishd General

Song: Singing-Mrs Roberts In the Character of Sally Sweetbread, the Butcher's Wife

3399
19 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On this day died Mrs William Mills

Performances

3400
06 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit W. Mills. Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: I: La Follette s'cest Ravisee by Nivelon and Miss Mann. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Grand Dance in Stomas, as17340316

Song: II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Hush ye little Warbling Choir by Miss Arne