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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "W B Squire"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "W B Squire")') 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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2431 results for: Keyword - W. B Squire
We found 1698 matches on Performance Comments, 360 matches on Event Comments, 265 matches on Author, 252 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
08 September 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Performance Comment: Squire Hairbrain-R. Palmer. No other parts listed, but see17940708.
Cast
Role: Squire Hairbrain Actor: R. Palmer. No other parts listed, but see17940708

Afterpiece Title: THE MOUNTAINEERS

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

177
24 June 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Performance Comment: Squire Hairbrain-Benson; Chagrin-Burton; Bellamy-Bland; Mrs Chagrin-Mrs Booth; Sophia-Miss Heard; Dorothy-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Squire Hairbrain Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

178
20 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Performance Comment: Squire Hairbrain-R. Palmer; Bellamy-Palmer Jun.; Chagrin-Burton; Robin-Waldron Jun.; Crop-Abbot; Mrs Chagrin-Mrs Booth; Sophia-Miss Heard; Dorothy-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Squire Hairbrain Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

179
17 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

Performance Comment: Squire Hairbrain-Palmer; Chagrin-Davenport; Bellamy-J. Palmer; Robin-Chippendale; Crop-Abbot; Sophia-Miss Heard; Mrs Chagrin-Mrs Hale; Dorothy-Mrs Harlowe.
Cast
Role: Squire Hairbrain Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

180
16 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

181
23 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambro-britons

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End II: (by permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane) the favourite song in The Stranger I have a silent sorrow here (The Words by R. B. Sheridan, Esq., the Air by her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire)-Mrs Bland; End: A Musical Elegy on the late Mr Palmer- (composed by The Earl of Abingdon; the words from The Stranger); The United Englishmen-Munden; A favourite song-Mrs Hindmarsh; Little Taffline ; or, The silken sash-Mrs Bland

182
04 May 1665 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

183
09 November 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

Dance: I afterpiece: The Long Minuet- taken from the Caricature Print of that title [The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, by H. W. Bunbury; see17951116]

184
26 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Bullock Sr.

Song: As17150324

Dance: delaGarde, Sandham, Newhouse, Mrs Russell, Miss Schoolding

185
08 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Bullock

Dance:

186
15 March 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Bullock

Dance:

187
06 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Bullock Sr

Song: Mrs Chambers; Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Forsyth, Mrs Davis, Mrs Grimaldi, being the first Time of their respective Appearances on the Stage

188
15 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

189
03 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle

Song: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

190
25 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann

191
28 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; IV: Double Jealousy, as17360907; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

192
30 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Black Joak-Phillips, Miss Mann; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips

193
02 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Wooden Shoe-Livier, Villeneuve; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Rover-Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Rector, Miss Mann

194
26 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: Polonese-Essex, Mrs Walter; IV: Last new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland,

195
11 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

196
28 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

197
13 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Music: Comic Medley Overture by Arne-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment, Villeneuve, Livier

198
06 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; IV: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

199
13 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: LLa Folie Amoureuse (Comic Ballet)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Livier, Pelling; III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Minuet in Modern Habits-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

200
12 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; With The Skeleton Scene