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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Samson Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Samson Edwards")') 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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1886 results for: Keyword - Samson Edwards
We found 941 matches on Author, 742 matches on Performance Comments, 216 matches on Event Comments, 158 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1026
05 March 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson Judas Maccabaeus

Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Edwards

Music: As17770214

1027
25 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson Acis And Galatea

Music: As17780311

1028
05 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy, as17790224

1029
23 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson Alexanders Feast

Music: As17800216

1030
06 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17820220

1031
26 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto, as17830314athi

1032
10 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the oboe by Parke

1033
10 March 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17840303athi

1034
11 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

1035
05 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Tragedy Of The Civil Wars Between The Houses Of York And Lancaster In The Reign Of King Henry The Vith

1036
03 January 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: THE DIVORCE

1037
14 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill assigns Madelon to Mrs Bland, but she, "piqued at the levy of the customary, and very proper fines on account of her non-attendance at rehearsals, stayed away from the theatre on this evening, and Mrs Edwards [sic] was obliged to undertake the part of Madelon" (Monthly Mirror, July 1798, p. 52).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

1038
12 May 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

1039
13 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1040
13 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

1041
28 September 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

1042
24 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

1043
29 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Raftor and Miss Edwards. Play By Desire. Being the last time of acting this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17450328 but Lucy-Mrs Clive, 1st time; Jenny Diver-Miss Allen; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Hippisley; Polly-Miss Edwards, 1st time; Peachum-Macklin; Lockit-Marten; Filch-Raftor; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Ferguson; With the dances-proper to the opera; particularly a Hornpipe-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Edwards, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

1044
28 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1045
20 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

1046
02 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

1047
27 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561217

1048
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

1049
27 March 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of Tragedy: Rural Merriment, as17741209

1050
06 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Druids