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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "T Meanwell"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "T Meanwell")') 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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We found 168 matches on Roles/Actors, 33 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Vertuosos

Performance Comment: Edition of 1693: Prologue by Mr Doggett-Mr Doggett; Sir Maurice Meanwell-Underhill; Meanwell-Hodgson; Sir Timothy Witless-Bright; Wittless-Doggett; Sir Maggot Jingle-Bowman; Clerimont-Powell; Trap-Bowen; Bully-Hains; Lady Meanwell-Mrs Leigh; Lovewitt-Mrs Knight; Mariana-Mrs Bracegirdle; Catchat-Mrs Mountfort; Lucy-Mrs Rogers; The Epilogue-Mrs Catchat.
Cast
Role: Sir Maurice Meanwell Actor: Underhill
Role: Meanwell Actor: Hodgson
Role: Lady Meanwell Actor: Mrs Leigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-C. Kemble; Meanwell-Davies (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Young Meanwell-Palmer Jun.; Servant-Abbot; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Gibbs; Florinda-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Davies
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-C. Kemble; Meanwell-Davies; Young Meanwell-Palmer Jun.; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Gibbs; Florinda-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Davies
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour (1st time)-Trueman; Meanwell-Davies; Young Meanwell-Palmer Jun.; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Gibbs; Florinda-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Davies
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Palmer Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover; Or, Wit In Necessity

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists: Sir ThomasFreegood-C. Griffin; Meanwell-Keen; Peregrine-Toms; Farewell-Wilkes; Wisehead-Bullock; Villmore-Mills; Plotwell-Penkethman; Trustwell-Norris; Vintner-Fairbank; Surgeon-Fairbank; Jessinda-Mrs Temple; Viletta-Mrs Oldfield; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Keen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impertinent Lovers; Or, A Coquet At Her Wits End

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Meanwell-Chapman; Freelove-Wilks Jr; Pert-Cibber Jr; Blunt-Harper; Fropish-Evans; Cymaena-Mrs Tenoe; Angleina-Mrs Bret; Emilia-Mrs Lindar; Beatrice-Mrs Davison; Abigail-Mrs Willis; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady; Or, Harlequin's Opera: In The Manner Of A Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Part-Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer; but edition of 1730 lists: Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Bullock; Drama-Lacey; Mrs Foible-Mrs Mountford; Mrs Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Merit-W. Williams; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Hackum-Huddy; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collet; Voice-Bardin; Harlequin-Burney.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: Burny, Sandham, Eaton, R. Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Performance Comment: See17300421 but Lady-Mrs Mountfort; Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Burny; Drama-Lacy; Merrit-W. Williams; Hackum-Pearce; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collett; Voice-Bardin; Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Mutes: Harlequin-Burny; Scaramouch-Sandham; Pantalon-Dukes; Punch-R. Williams; Pierrot-Eaton.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: W. Giffard

Music: SSelarce a Trumpet Solo-Burk Thumoth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady; Or, Harlequin's Opera

Performance Comment: Fashionable Lady-Mrs Mountfort; Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Burny; Drama-Machen; Merit-W. Williams; Hackum-Pearce; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collet; Voice-Bardin; Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Mutes: Harlequin-Sandham; Scaramouch-Pollet; Pantalon-Dukes; Punch-R. Williams; Pierot-Eaton.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: W. Giffard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caelia; Or, The Perjur'd Lover

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 lists: Lovemore-Bridgwater; Wronglove-Wm. Mills; Bellamy-Hallam; Meanwell-Mills; Gentleman-Berry; Keeper of Prison-Oates; Constable-Harper; Bounce-Jones; Porter-Mullart; Wronglove's Servant-E. Roberts; Caelia-Mrs Cibber; Mrs Lupine-Mrs Charke; Flippant-Mrs Walter; Wag-Mrs Shireburn; Dizen-Miss Williams; Teazer-Miss Mears; Cicely-Mrs Mann; Keeper's Wife-Mrs Grace; Prologue-Cibber Jr; Epilogue by Henry Fielding-Miss Raftor.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Imaginary Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Mrs Fanciful-Miss Raftor; Fanciful-Berry; Meanwell-Jones; Lelius-Stoppelaer;Snap-Mullart; Caelia-Miss Atherton; Isabella-Mrs Mullart; With a New Prologue to the Farce-.
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foil'd

Performance Comment: Characters-Sowdon, Mahoon, Bannister, Miss Grace, Miss Edwards. Lord Crafty-Sowdon; Meanwell-Mahoon; Worthy-Bannister; Amilia-Miss Edwards; Sally-Miss Groce (Edition of 1768).
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Mahoon

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Munden, Fawcett, Middleton, Claremont, Davenport, Thompson, Farley, Abbot, Blurton, Master Curties; Mrs Mansel, Mrs Davenport, Miss Wallis. Cast from text (T. N. Longman, 1795), and playbill of 17 May 1800: Tanjore-Lewis; Alderman Arable-Quick; Project-Munden; Jack Arable-Fawcett; Capt. Arable-Middleton; Sir Frederick Faintly-Claremont; Meanwell-Davenport; Promptly-Thompson; Vickery-Farley; Cecilia-Miss Mansel; Lady Project-Mrs Davenport; Emmeline-Miss Wallis; unassigned-Abbot, Blurton, Master Curties; Prologue-Harley; Epilogue-Lewis. [Prologue spoken, as here assigned, at 1st 26 performances only (see17960112); Epilogue spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 29 Mar. and 13 May 1796.]Prologue spoken, as here assigned, at 1st 26 performances only (see17960112); Epilogue spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 29 Mar. and 13 May 1796.]
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Davenport

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Performance Comment: Tanjore-Lewis; Project-Emery; Jack Arable-Fawcett; Sir Fred. Faintley-Claremont; Promptly-Thompson; Vickery-Klanert; Capt. Arable-Macartney; Meanwell-Atkins; Alderman Arable-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Project-Mrs Davenport; Cecilia-Miss Mills; Emmeline-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).unidentified]).
Cast
Role: Meanwell Actor: Atkins

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Song: End II 1st piece: a Musical Address Mark when beneath the western main (Dramatic Censor, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by T. Dutton, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Booth, Davies, Lyons, R. Palmer; Mrs Bulkley, Miss Farren. [Cast from text (C. Dilly, 1788): Villamour-Palmer; Old Meanwell-Booth; Young Meanwell-Davies; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Bulkley; Florinda-Miss Farren.] New Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren . New Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Booth
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Dance: As17860706

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Bannister Jun.; Old Meanwell-Kemble; Young Meanwell-Davies; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Bulkley; Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Kemble
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End: Love for Love, as17870625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Palmer; Old Meanwell-Packer; Young Meanwell-Whitfield; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Miss Pope; Florinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Packer
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Farren; Old Meanwell-Booth; Young Meanwell-Macready; Skipwell-Ryder (1st appearance in that character in England); Letty-Mrs Mattocks; Florinda-Mrs Bernard (Their 1st appearance in those characters).
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Booth
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End I 1st piece: Oh say Bonny Lass will you carry a Wallet?-Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End II 1st piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Bannister Jun.; Old Meanwell-Kemble; Young Meanwell-Davies; Servant-Lyons; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Bulkley; Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Kemble
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End 1st piece: As17880610

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Bannister Jun.; Old Meanwell-Kemble; Young Meanwell-Iliff; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Barresford; Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Kemble
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Iliff

Afterpiece Title: Ut Pictura Poesis

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Bannister Jun.; Old Meanwell-Packer; Young Meanwell-Whitfield; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Florinda-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character); Letty-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Packer
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Williamson; Old Meanwell-Kemble; Young Meanwell-Iliff; Servant-Abbott; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Wells; Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Kemble
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Iliff

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Manager in Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Barrymore; Old Meanwell-Packer; Young Meanwell-Whitfield; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Florinda-Mrs Goodall; Letty-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Packer
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Whitfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Barrymore; Old Meanwell-Usher; Young Meanwell-Evatt; Servant-Abbott; Skipwell-Johnstone; Letty-Mrs Gibbs (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Usher
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Evatt

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: TIT FOR TAT

Performance Comment: Villamour-Barrymore; Old Meanwell-Usher; Young Meanwell-Palmer Jun.; Servant-Abbot; Skipwell-Johnstone//Letty-Mrs Gibbs; Florinda-Mrs Brooks .
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Usher
Role: Young Meanwell Actor: Palmer Jun.