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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "The Simonets"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "The Simonets")') 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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500 results for: Keyword - The Simonets
We found 703 matches on Roles/Actors, 153 matches on Performance Title, 68 matches on Performance Comments, 17 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

401
09 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

402
11 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

403
12 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

404
13 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 11 Nov. 1784]. Receipts: #409 13s. 6d. (407.4.6; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

Song: In III: song-Duffey

405
14 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

406
16 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: In afterpiece: As17891231.; End II: Divertissement, as17891002

407
18 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

408
19 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Bannister
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

409
20 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

Song: As17900113

410
21 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

411
22 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

412
27 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

413
02 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #345 11s. 6d. (320.16.0; 24.15.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Performance Comment: As17891014, but Prologue-_ [and thereafter].and thereafter].
Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

414
04 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Hurry to Edwin, but "Powell as a substitute for Edwin (suddenly called upon) acquitted himself very creditably" (Diary, 5 Feb.).] Receipts: #257 5s. (238.10.0; 18.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Hurry-C. Powell; Dupely-Bernard; Old Groveby-Ryder; Oldworth-Thompson; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Maria (with the original song)-Mrs Mountain; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Abington; The Musical Characters-Cubitt, Miss Stuart, Miss Rowson.
Cast
Role: The Musical Characters Actor: Cubitt, Miss Stuart, Miss Rowson.

Dance: End: The Deserter, as17891113; In I afterpiece: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

415
05 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

416
06 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

417
10 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

418
16 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

419
20 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

420
27 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Rock

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

421
18 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy; Or, Hampton-court Frolics

Performance Comment: Aircourt-Lewis; Alibi-Quick; Metheglen-Edwin; Sir Carrol O'Donovan-Aickin; Larry Kavanagh-Blanchard; Nol Pros-Powel; Young O'Donovan-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Sophia-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character); Kitty Kavanagh-Mrs Webb; Lady Arable-Mrs Bernard; Fib-Miss Stuart; Lady Jane-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Metheglen Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

422
05 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

423
15 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

424
23 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

425
28 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Dramatist [advertised on playbill of 27 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Insisposition of a principal Performer. [Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised as above.] Receipts: #131 14s. 6d. (114.19.6; 16.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets