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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow and Children of Christian Steffkins"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow and Children of Christian Steffkins")') 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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1784 results for: Keyword - Widow and Children of Christian Steffkins
We found 860 matches on Performance Title, 629 matches on Performance Comments, 433 matches on Event Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

826
27 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Richardson and Delagarde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward. and Concluding with a Grand Ballet .

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs Jackson; IV: Sailor's Dance-Richardson

827
05 May 1746 @ May Fair

Event Comment: YYeates's Great Theatrical Booth. 12:00 to 9:00 p.m. A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. [Notice repeated 6 and 12 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow's Wish; Or, An Equippage Of Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Mariner; or, The Wapping Landlady

Song: A grand Song and Chorus upon the late Happy Victory-

828
28 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters; or, The Widow Bewitch'd

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

829
06 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Dennison, _Christian
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Falkner

Music: Concerto on the Cymbal-Noell

830
21 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

831
21 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

832
22 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

833
11 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

834
28 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Miss Ferguson. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #37 1s. Charges: #63. Dunstall paid the whole deficiency of #25 19s. from his tickets: #140 5s. (boxes 108; pit 685; gallery 105). Miss Ferguson cleared from her tickets #20 15s. (boxes 1; pit 68; gallery 103) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: A Tambourine-Miss Vallois; a Comic Ballet-Guerin, Lucas, Rochford, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

835
04 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

836
05 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

837
06 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

838
18 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched: With The Courtship Of loadham The Fat, pinchgut The Lean, And His Man meager; And The Adventures Of capt Puff Culverin, And dermot Majrah Ballingbrogue

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Performance Comment: With the Procession of the Colours and Standards .

Song: AA new Song-on the Late Successes

839
19 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

840
20 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

841
21 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

842
10 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: With alterations and an additional scene acted but once these 9 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle; Or, The Way To Win A Widow

Performance Comment: Courtwell-Palmer; Col. Manly-Holland; Aspin-Yates; Miranda-Miss Haughton; Clarinda-Mrs Bennet; Sir Amorous Vainwit-King; Vulture-Philips; Butler-Bransby; Necessary-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Outside-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Manly Actor: Holland
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: II: New Hornpipe-Miss Baker; IV: The Cow Keepers, as17611215

843
08 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Miss Rogers. Music and words by author and composer of Padlock [I. Bickerstaffe]. Book of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17710401 but Touchstone-King; Orlando-Brereton, first time; Jaques-Love; Duke Sen-Wrighten; Celia-Miss Rogers, first time.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Brereton, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears

Song: I: The Sycamore Shade-Mrs Wrighten; IV: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers, his scholar

844
02 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

845
03 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

846
07 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

847
10 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

848
15 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

849
03 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle; Or, The Way To Win A Widow

Performance Comment: Colonel Manly-Wroughton; Courtwell-Lewis; Aspin-Quick; Mr Vulture-Wilson; Sir Amorous Vainwit-Lee Lewes; Miranda-Mrs Mattocks; Necessary-Mrs Lewis; Betty-Mrs Wilson; Clarinda-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Outside-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17800401

850
26 April 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Bewitch'd

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I of mainpiece) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance [performers not listed]

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song in character by Mrs Crouch

Monologue: 1786 04 26 End of mainpiece John Gilpin's Ride by Baddeley