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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.

4151
05 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4152
20 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out for As You Like It will be taken. Tickets to be had of Stephens at the Jar, opposite Red-Lion St., Holborn; of Mr Johnson, at the White Hart in Paternoster Row; and at the stage door next Bow St. where places may be taken. Last Night Shakespear's play of King Henry the Fifth, was performed at Covent Garden, with the many incidents that are applicable to the present Juncture of Affairs with France, occasioned the whole to be receiv'd with an uncommon Applause.--General Advertiser, 21 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17440404

4153
25 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell. [Address]: At the Dial in little Wild St., near lif. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4154
25 April 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: *c1702 04 25 js e particular Desire of several True Britons.A Concert. Written by Mr Phillips. Not acted 20 Years [see 3 April 1722]. 6 p.m. There will be no posting Bills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Briton

Song:

4155
07 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

4156
09 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit A Gentleman who has wrote for the stage, Mr Searle, Mr Walker (Numberer), and several others. Tickets deliver'd for the Gamester will be taken this night. The Daily Advertiser listed The Gamester: Benefit of the Author of a New Comedy intended for the stage, and wrote to expose some of the greatest Grievances the Nation Labours under in Time of Peace. [Includes a note begging encouragement.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4157
31 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece at the Particular desire of Several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

4158
09 June 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HHandel to Jennens: I have taken the Opera House in the Hay-marketh, engaged, as Singers, Signora Francesina, Miss Robinson, Beard, Reinhold, Mr Gates with his Boyes's and several of the best Chorus Singers from the Choirs, and I have some hopes that Mrs Cibber will sing for me. She sent word from Bath (where she is now) that she would perform for me next winter with great pleasure if it did not interfere with her playing, but I think I can obtain Mr Riches's permission (with whom she is engaged to play in Covent Garden House) since so obligingly he gave leave to Mr Beard and Mr Reinhold.--Deutsch Handel, pp. 591-92

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

4159
12 June 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The New Theatre in the Haymarket will be open'd next Week, for the Summer Season, with the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark....The Company have several old Plays in Rehearsal which they intend to revive, and entertain the Town with twice a Week. Particular Care will be taken to have the House made cool and commodious

Performances

4160
06 July 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third Night. 7 p.m. The Company intends to revive several old pieces, and will perform every Tuesday and Friday during the summer season. Places for the Boxes at Mr Macklin's, Bow Street, Covent Garden. [A letter appeared in Daily Advertiser, 10 July, on the acting of Hamlet.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

4161
12 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Acted but once these hundred Years. Played at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

4162
14 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third Day...at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

4163
17 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fourth Day. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

4164
19 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Fifth Day. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet still continues to be acted...to crowded audiences, with great applause....We hear two principal Actresses from the Theatre Royal in Dublin, are speedily to appear on that Stage; as are some more Performers, who are disengaged from the other Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

4165
25 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At common Prices. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Music:

4166
29 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Sixth Day...at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Daily Advertiser, 2 Oct.: Last Saturday Night the reviv'd Play of Romeo and Juliet...was acted...to a numerous and polite Audience, with Great Applause. There was an extraordinary fine appearance of Ladies in the Boxes; and every one allow'd Miss Jenny Cibber (who has given Proofs of an uncommon Genius) was greatly inprov'd in the character of Juliet. The Quality and Gentry were all safely guarded to the chairs and Coaches by the Lads of St. James's Market. [Hill was the stage name for Johnson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

4167
02 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: fterpiece by Carey; new here; original title: Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers.] The Seventh Day. At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Love in Low Life; or, A Press Gang at Billingsgate

4168
13 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At common prices. Tickets deliver'd out for the Prodigal will be taken on Oct. 16. The Eighth Day at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

4169
20 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At common prices. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction who attend the Instalment of the Knights of the Bath, this Play is not to begin till exactly at half an hour after six, at which time the Curtain will be drawn up

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Gardener's Wedding

Music: Between the acts: Select Pieces of Musick-; Singing-Mrs Hill; III: The Noon Tide Air from Comus-Mrs Hill

4170
22 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Company in the Haymarket being busily employ'd in reviving several pieces, are oblig'd to defer playing till further notice (General Advertiser). [T. Cibber stated that when his troupe had a successful run of Romeo and Juliet, and when Mrs Clive arranged for a benefit performance there, the Patentees applied to the Lord Chamberlain and, in consequence, the Lord Chamberlain's Office legally stopped the performances at the Haymarket. Cibber's next move was the Academy device of 1 Nov.--Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology, p. 10.

Performances

4171
22 October 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Handel proposes to perform by Subscription 24 times during the Winter Season and engages to exhibit two new Performances and several of his former Oratorios. 8 Guineas. At his House in Brooke St.

Performances

4172
03 November 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Neocromancer

4173
20 November 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Dance: As17441117

4174
24 November 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: As17441117

4175
01 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Lowe

Dance: Muilment