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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Spiller"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Spiller")') 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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1036 results for: Keyword - Spiller
We found 1191 matches on Roles/Actors, 498 matches on Performance Comments, 26 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

1026
19 August 1731 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amurath

Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Spiller

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Spiller

Song: Excell

1027
04 September 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, Ancient Pistol, and Others

Afterpiece Title: The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Cast
Role: Lybia Actor: Mrs Spiller

Dance: End I Second Piece: Black Joke-Smith, Miss Brett; II: Comic Dance-Mrs Booth

1028
05 June 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Bullock, Norris, Pack, Leigh but edition of 1720 may represent cast for this performance: Sir Simon Scrapeall-Norris; +Thrifty-Bullock; +Truelove-$Elrington; Plotwell-Pack; +Nincompoop-Leigh; +Ananias-$Spiller; Cabbage-$Burkhead; Isabella-$Miss Sherburn; Mopsa-$Miss Willis; Epilogue-Elrington.
Cast
Role: Ananias Actor: Spiller

1029
21 May 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #17 9s. 6d. and tickets #10 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: As17160216

Dance: As17151029

1030
25 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Pack, and Spiller. At Penkethman's Booth near St. George's Church, in Southwark. The Boxes and Pit are laid together, and the Booth will be pull'd down on Thursday. At 6 p.m. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 5 Oct.: Wednesday at the Quarter-Sessions for the Borough of Southwark, Mr Penkethman, Mr Leigh, and other Persons taken out their Booths by the Informing Constables during the Time of the Fair, appear'd upon their Recognizances, and were immediately Discharg'd, there being no Prosecution, upon which Occasion the Recorder severely reprimanded the Constables for presuming to molest such as Acted upon a Lawful Patent, whilst they let others pass undisturb'd, who were really under the Censure of the Act against Strolling, or Vagrant Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Lancashire Hornpipe-Esq Timothy's Countryman who perform'd it with so much Applause during the Time of the Fair; Mimic Scene between Harlequin and a Peasant-; Vaulting on the Horse-a Gentleman lately arriv'd from France

1031
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

1032
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Spiller and Lee Booth. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 20 Aug.: On Tuesday Night about Ten [25 Aug.]...His Royal Highness came thither incognito, with only one Nobleman and a Footman attending; he was well pleased with the Performance, and was very liberal to the Actors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Egbert, King Of Kent And Monarch Of England; Or, The Union Of The Seven Kingdoms

1033
13 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Spiller. Receipts: money #26 0s. 6d.; tickets #33 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance:

1034
24 August 1726 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee, Harper and Spiller Booth. Mainpiece: Which in its Decorations, Machinery, and Paintings, far exceeds its first Appearance in Bartholomew Fair. The Scenes and Cloths being intirely New

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

1035
24 August 1728 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper-Spiller Booth. Mainpiece: With all proper Decorations of Scenery, Machinery, &c. particularly the Sea where Leander was drown'd with Neptune, Tritons and Mermaids, floating. With the Comical Humours of Otter and Nurse. Afterpiece: [By Thomas Walker. Cast not listed in edition of 1728.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ero And Leander

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker's Opera; or, The Escapes of Jack Sheppard

1036
06 September 1728 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper-Spiller Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker's Opera