SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Weston but changed Winston MS "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Weston but changed Winston MS ")') 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 1708 matches on Event Comments, 779 matches on Performance Comments, 57 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: As17811030, but Ghost-Darley .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: The Exciseman Trickd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel, and Hornpipe by Master Holland, pupil to Holloway

Song: Hooly and Fairly, in character, by M'Donald; End of Act II The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo by Miss Hemet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love At A Venture Or The Rake Reclaimd

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Monologue: 1782 03 21 End of mainpiece (never performed here) Phelimoguffinocarilocarneymacframe's Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight, with Explanations, by Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17811015, but Filch-Mrs Wilson (of CG); Polly (for that night only)-Mr Bannister. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The True Briton

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314mitations. End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17820411, but Rosalind-A Young Lady (1st appearance any stage [Miss Blower]); added: Corin-Waldron; Charles-Wrighten; Silvius-R. Palmer; Jaques de Bois-Lamash; William-Burton; LeBeu-Phillimore; Lord-Norris; Phoebe-Miss Barnes .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Hornpipe, as17820314End of Act III The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915, but added: Duprez

Song: In Act v of mainpiece song, as17820411

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Helme, Daglish, Dale, Brigg, Barthrope, Master Pulley, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Byrne will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Du-Bellamy as Lord Aimworth and Williames as Mervin, but on the Kemble playbill their names are deleted and MS annotations substitute Williames and Fawcett. This was Mrs Cargill's last appearance in London. Subsequently she acted in India.] Receipts: #231 17s. 6d. (32/8/0; 22/9/6; 0/15/0; tickets: 176/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: As17811120, but Lord Aimworth-Williames; Mervin-Fawcett .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17820430, but Kecksey (1st time)-Suett .

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314nd of mainpiece a Minuet by Brigg and A Young Lady (his Scholar [unidentified]); End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon, L'Estrange, Thompson & Guard. Tickets for a Comedy, and The School for Wives will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Fearon as Justice Shallow, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Waldron.] Receipts: #251 2s. 6d. (75/6/6; tickets: 175/16/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17820125, but Justice Shallow-Waldron [of DL]; Anne Page-Mrs Lewis; added: Principal Fairy-Miss Langrish .

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: As17820503

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Wont See

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Wont See

Dance: As17820613

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by George Colman, the younger. It has also been ascribed to Sarah Gardner, but for Colman's authorship see Peake, 11, 99. Composer of music unknown. MS: Larpent 589; not published]: The Words of the Songs are inserted in the Public Papers of this Day. Public Advertiser, 12 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, in Suffolk Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Female Dramatist

Dance: As17820613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Minuet de la Cour by the Miss Stageldoirs

Monologue: 1782 09 17 End of Act I of mainpiece a Dramatic Oglio by King

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Young Bevil to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (106/19/0; 34/6/6; 0/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17820917

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Monologue: 1782 09 19 As 17 Sept

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lady Sneerwell to Miss Sherry, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Whitfield. Miss Sherry was ill; she died early in October.] "Sheridan has also despised the faults of another school, trap claps. Not a word in The School for Scandal is to be found in praise of Laws, Jack Tars, Innocence, an Englishman's castellum, or Liberty" (Reynolds, II, 227). Receipts: #193 13s. 6d. (155/11/0; 37/12/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 10 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Country Dance incident to the Piece; End of Act II the Devonshire Minuet by the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Performance Comment: As17820930, but omitted: Jeffery .
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mrs Peachum to Mrs Webb, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Davenett's.] Receipts: #157 19s. 6d. (156/10/6; 1/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Brett

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Dionysius, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted. Of the name substituted in MS all but the 1st two letters have been cut by the binder. For Mahon as Dionysius see 12 Feb. 1778.] Receipts: #212 5s. (208/16; 3/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17821021, but Dionysius-probably Mahon .

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns the Herald to Wright, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes R. Palmer.] Receipts: #234 1s. (213/1/0; 20/8/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17821005

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Brett as Carlos, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Kennedy.] Receipts: #133 16s. 6d. (132/5/0; 1/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17821009, but Carlos-Mrs Kennedy .

Afterpiece Title: St

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Miss Collett, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Miss Simson.] "Since the first performance, the scene of the Physicians has been judiciously struck out [of afterpiece]" {Universal Magazine, Nov. 1782, p. 254.) Paid Pemberton for copying parts #2. 3s. 6d. Receipts: #232 0s. 6d. (207/17/0; 23/12/0; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performance Comment: As17821105, but Miss Simson in place of Miss Collett; omitted: Waldron, Burton .
Cast
Role: Butler Actor: Baddeley

Song: Epithalamium as17821010, but performers not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Interview

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Davy, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Suett's.] Receipts: #246 4s. (210/5/0; 34/7/6; 1/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17821114, but Davy-Suett .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17820924, but Ostrick-Barrymore; Guildenstern-Phillimore; Ophelia-Miss Wheeler; omitted: Sailor, Francisco, Bernardo . omitted: Sailor, Francisco, Bernardo .

Afterpiece Title: The Best Bidder