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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Theatres Royal in London"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Theatres Royal in London")') 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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5626 results for: Keyword - Theatres Royal in London
We found 3936 matches on Event Comments, 1330 matches on Performance Title, 826 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

901
05 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing) See17371104.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

902
17 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17380114.

903
18 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing) See17380114.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

904
18 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Performance Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing, but Genest, III, 549, lists: Sir Philip-Ryan; Sir Paul-Hippisley; Tridewell-Hale; Anvil-Bridgwater; Widgin-Chapman; Bulfinch-Rosco; Pade-Arthur; Howdye-Neale; Widow Fitchow-Mrs Horton; Northern Lass-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

905
11 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: London Chronicle, 12 Mar.: "The chorusses were more in character than we ever remember, from the circumstance of mixing women's voices with the boys'.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Acis And Galatea

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-Parke; End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17780306

906
30 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Theatres closed for death of Prince William. Died Sunday 29 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

907
29 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Theatres closed, also Sadlers Wells and all the public gardens for the death of the Duke of York (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

908
03 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I Farce: The Irish Fair-Blurton (first appearance on that stage), Mrs Sutton

909
14 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; III: Masquerade Dance-; IV: Shepherd's Dance-Young Weeks

Song: a G Gentleman for his Diversion; A song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre address'd to the Merchants of the City of London-Excell , written by the Author of Bacchus one day gaily striding

910
14 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The London Prentice

Cast
Role: London Prentice Actor: Beard

Dance: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504

911
15 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Mock Minuet, as17330511

912
04 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet, as17380318

913
30 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Milward

Afterpiece Title: The Rural Sports

914
31 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Royal Merchant Actor: Milward

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Ballet of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Ballet: End Afterpiece: Grand Ballet. Diana-Mlle Chateauneuf; Apollo-Muilment; Mars-Desse; Hercules-Nivelon; Pallas-Mrs Thompson; Mercury-Carney; Pan-LaPierre; Ceres-Mrs Walter; Bacchus-Livier

915
19 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

916
20 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

917
29 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

918
31 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

919
05 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

920
24 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

921
23 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Roberts

Dance: LLes Allemands Joyeux, as17411222; La Provencale, as17411215

922
21 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Beard

923
23 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Beard

924
27 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Antient History Of King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Beard

925
28 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Beard