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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

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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.

4026
05 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the partiuclar Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #136 17s. 6d. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4027
26 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: DDiane a la Chasse-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf, Desse, Liviez, Mlle Duval, Mrs Walter, Mrs Wright; Les Mason & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan

4028
27 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Dance: LLes Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

Ballet: TThe Enchanted Garden. As17410108

4029
05 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Song: As17410115

Dance: As17410131

4030
07 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: II: French Peasants-Nivelon, Mlle Duval; IV: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

4031
07 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

4032
25 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 Feb.: We are inform'd that last Night a new Entertainment, call'd Harlequin Student...was rehears'd at the late Theatre in Goodman's Fields, when several Persons who were present generally concurr'd in Opinion it had the Preference of any yet perform'd there, and more particularly that Part of it in which the Monument of Shakespear is introduc'd

Performances

4033
17 March 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Milward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

4034
17 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Michael Lally. [Tickets at Lally's House, in Great Russel Street, over-against Montagu-House.] Receipts: money #42 15s.; seals #163 9s. (Account Book); #180 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Lally was charged #30 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: TThe Matelots-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Louvre, Minuet-Lally, Signora Barberini

4035
30 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Cibber. [Tickets at Cibber's Lodgings at the Shell House in Spring Garden.] Receipts: money #65 15s. 6d.; seals #126 7s. (Account Book); #230 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: I: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; III: A new Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; IV: Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

4036
09 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Bridgwater. As Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #23 17s.; seals #64 19s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). [Bridgwater was charged #50 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Dance: LLes Matelots-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; French Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

4037
15 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers, Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan

4038
16 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Music: V: Solo on Violin-Collett

4039
18 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Essex. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: A new dance-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: BBlow Blow-Lowe

4040
24 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Nelson and Marr. The Musick Room being too small to contain the additional Number of Hands, several Select Pieces will be performed on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4041
25 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: SSerious Dance-Signora Fausan; Les Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Muilment, Desse

4042
28 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies. Benefit the Office-Keeper. [The entertainments are listed in Daily Advertiser, 27 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Mrs Bishop, Miss Medina, Master Nanfan

Dance: Mrs Bishop, Miss Medina, Master Nanfan; Drunken Peasant-Chettle

4043
04 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit a Family in Great Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Grand Dance-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; V: Blow Blow-Lowe

4044
07 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez and Desse. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment, Desse, Mrs Walter; IV: Comic Dance-Leviez, Mrs Walter; V: Grand Ballet-Desse

Song: II: Blow Blow-Lowe

4045
11 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLes Matelots-Fausan, Signora Fausan; The Peasants' Triumph-Fausan, Signora Fausan

4046
20 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLe Boufon-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Desse, Mlle Chateauneuf

4047
27 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Taylor, Box Keeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Blow Blow-Lowe; II: If Love be a Fault-Lowe; IV: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; End Afterpiece: The Noon@Tide Air-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: Le Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

4048
04 June 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants in the City of London. Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. [The last performance of the season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: I: If Love be a Fault-Lowe; IV: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe

4049
22 September 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: A new Comedy call'd Pamela...was rehears'd...founded on the celebrated novel of that name, when several Gentlemen were present, who were extremely pleased with the performance. [see 9 Nov.

Performances

4050
20 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate, performed by Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Happy Pair, as17411015; III: Non Ch' Amarmi, as17411015

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse; IV: Sailor's Dance, as17411015