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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Mechels"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Mechels")') 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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175 results for: Keyword - the Mechels
We found 152 matches on Performance Title, 28 matches on Roles/Actors, 8 matches on Performance Comments, 5 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

51
08 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamund-Beard

Dance: II: a Tambourine-Mlle Mechel; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411110, but-the Mechels

52
29 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. Afterpiece: With Courtiers, Maids of Honour, Daggers, Poisons, Ghosts, Pages, Guards, Rebels, Trumpets, Kettle-drums, Thunder, Lightening, &c., and other Decorations proper to tragedy. Stage to be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets of Bradshaw, and at Macklin's, No. 12, in Wild Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Bumper Squire Jones (By Desire)-Beard

Dance: III: (At particular desire of several persons of quality) Le Boufon, Italian Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel after the manner of the Fausans

53
02 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Taswell

Dance: III: Mlle Mechel; V: Mechel

Song: IV: Lowe

54
14 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Taswell

Dance: II: Mechel; IV: Mlle Mechel

Song: V: a Chorus song- [set by Handel, for the Gentlemen Volunteers of the City of London, Stand around, my brave boys written by John Lockman (Deutsch, Handel, p. 624)]

55
02 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Edwards, 1st time at this theatre

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

56
03 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Edwards, 1st time at this theatre

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

57
05 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece Written by Shakespear. On Monday next The Recruiting Officer, The whole receipt of the house to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at Guildhall. [This advertisement was carried on the two following days.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: M Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

58
09 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Profits subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at Guildhall. Mrs Cibber to Garrick, 11 Dec.: Though Mr Rich had no performance at his house...Drury Lane Playhouse was not above half full till the latter account. Then it was a good house but not near so great as we had all last winter to the Orphan. He had built up the stage, but as nobody came there he shut in a flat scene to hide it, and the next day he played the Tender Husband to fifteen pounds.-Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 46

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: Lowe, Mrs Clive

Dance: Muilment, Mechel, Miss Mechel

59
10 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

60
11 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: IV: Lowe

61
13 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Foote; Smith-Bridges; Johnson-Mills; Others-Yates, Havard, Taswell, Blakes, Turbutt, Woodburn, Neale, Usher, Winstone, Goodfellow, Simson, Ray, I. Sparks, Wright, Miss Minors, Mrs Cross, Miss Cole, Miss Yates; With additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Others Actor: Yates, Havard, Taswell, Blakes, Turbutt, Woodburn, Neale, Usher, Winstone, Goodfellow, Simson, Ray, I. Sparks, Wright, Miss Minors, Mrs Cross, Miss Cole, Miss Yates
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Britons Strike Home-Lowe

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

62
20 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Macklin; Frederick-Havard; Clermont-Mozeen; Ramilie-Neale; Mariana-Mrs Woffington; Harriet-Mrs Ridout; Mrs Wisely-Mrs Cross; James-Vaughan; Decoy-Ray; Furnish-Raftor; List-Woodburn; Sparkle-Leigh; Wheedle-Mrs Bennet; Lappet-Mrs Clive (in which character will be introduc'd a Song called The Life of a Beau).

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song: III: Lowe

Dance: V: Mechels, Mlle Mechel

63
31 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: I: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

64
01 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Goodfellow doubled in the roles of Campeius and the Surveyor.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

65
07 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: There is now in rehearsal and is to be acted in few days an New Historical Play call'd The Alternative, Tyranny or Liberty

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: As17460104

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

66
08 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

67
03 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. Tickets to be had of him at the Angel in King-Street, Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: Lowe; III: Lowe

Dance: II: Grand New Dance-Muilment, Miss Mechel; IV: Muilment; V: By Particular Desire, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Muilment, Miss Mechel

68
07 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shawford, Peacopp [Housekeeper], Currier, Fryar. Tickets deliver'd for the Beggar's Opera will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

69
08 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: Lowe

Dance: IV: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge; concluding with: Handel's Water Music-

70
09 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Anatomist

Song: 1 I: Lowe

Dance: 1 III: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

71
09 June 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel; III: Muilment, Desse; V: Italian Peasants, as17460206

72
11 June 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel; III: Muilment, Desse; V: Italian Peasants, as17460206

73
03 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Cast
Role: in Act IV the original Cantata Actor: Lowe.

Dance: Salomon, Mlle Violette (being the first time of their appearing on that stage), Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Salomon's Son

74
08 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Cast
Role: in Act IV the original Cantata Actor: Lowe.

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Taswell

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Sga Paduana, Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Salomon's Son

75
25 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Barrington and I. Sparks. Mainpiece At the Desire of sederal persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out for the Distress'd Mother will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bridges.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: Sullivan; End of Farce, By Particular Desire Irish Rorotorio-Mr Barrington

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel; IV: Muilment; V: Salomon, Sga Padouana