Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Several"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Several")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
4695 results for: Keyword - Several
We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

3626
24 February 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

3627
25 February 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Farce of Two Acts. Taken from Shakespear: Intermix'd with Songs. [By James Worsdale.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex [the Unhappy Favourite]

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for A Scold

Dance: As17350222

3628
25 February 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

3629
26 February 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Swiny. For the better Accommodation of the Ladies, Part of the Stage will be formed into Boxes; the Pit and Front Boxes to be put together (at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality). [For further discussion of the case of Poitier, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

3630
26 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Double Inconstance

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance:

3631
28 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora. With several Additions

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

3632
28 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'embarras Des Richesses

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Dance:

3633
03 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

3634
04 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

3635
05 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With several new Additional Songs; likewise two new Concertos on the Organ

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

3636
05 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Double Inconstance

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance:

3637
10 March 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. 6 P.M. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

3638
13 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pigmalion by Mlle Salle and Lally. Glover's Scotch Dance

3639
15 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs De l'Orme

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

3640
15 March 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carlo Broschi Farinello. With several Alterations and Additions. Pit and Boxes, Places on the Stage, at Half a Guinea. N.B. Signor Farinello humbly hopes, that the Subscribers will not make use of their Tickets on this Occasion. The Stage will be in the same Manner as in the Assembly with a great Number of Benches. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Granville, 15 March: Tonight is Farinelli's benefit; all the polite world will flock there, and go at four o'clock, for fear they should not be time enough. I don't love mobbing, and so I shall leave them to themselves. Daily Advertiser, 13 March: 'Tis expected that Signor Farinelli will have the greatest Appearance on Saturday that has been known. We hear that a Contrivance will be made to accommodate 2000 People. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleas'd to give him 200 Guineas, the Spanish Ambassador 100, the Emperor's Ambassador 50, his Grace the Duke of Leeds 50, the Countess of Portmore 50, Lord Burlington 50, his Grace the Duke of Richmond 50, the Hon. Col. Paget 30, Lady Rich 20, and most of the other Nobility 50, 30 or 20 Guineas each; so that 'tis believ'd his Benefit will be worth to him upwards of 2000l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

3641
17 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hulett. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Dance: I: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. II: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock. IV: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Jones. V: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

3642
18 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Ryan, who was injured by street robbers, Sunday, 16 March, was forced to relinquish his roles for awhile.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

3643
20 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce, never performed before. Taken from Moliere. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19, 20, and 21 March, for expressions of good will to Ryan, including a gift often guineas from the Prince of Wales.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A School for Women

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright

3644
20 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. At the particular Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: After the Indian Manner by Haughton

3645
21 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Davis and Bartlet. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [A puff in Daily Advertiser, 21 March, extols Davis as having been trained by Nicolini Haym.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Afterpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: The Jealousy between Three Lilliputians. A Harlequin by Young Cochoy

3646
22 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. With his Additional Scene. [Tickets at Bridgwater's Lodgings, No. 16, Craven Buildings.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350315 Pigmalion by Mlle Salle and Lally

3647
22 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

3648
24 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song:

Dance:

3649
25 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hallam. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Tickets at Mrs Hallam's Lodgings, at Mr Baily's, Corner of James-street, Long Acre.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350311 Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

3650
25 March 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io