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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Pope"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Pope")') 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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4530 results for: Keyword - the Pope
We found 5551 matches on Roles/Actors, 1259 matches on Performance Comments, 156 matches on Event Comments, 39 matches on Performance Title, and 14 matches on Author.

2901
05 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: End II: a Grand New Ballet (composed by Ricci), The Chaconne-Ricci (1st appearance on the English stage), Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci; End V: The Savage Hunters, as17761024

2902
10 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Hurst, Burton, Lamash, R. Palmer, Wright, Fawcett, Kear, Master Pulley, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Edition of 1776

2903
12 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of The Milesian. Receipts: #124 15s. 6d. (94.19.0; 28.6.6; 1.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Dance: As17761214

2904
16 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Muslin Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2905
17 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: The Gamester-Reddish; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Norris; Lewson-Farren; Charlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverly-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: The Gamester Actor: Reddish

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope

Song: End: The Soldier tir'd With war's Alarms-Miss Abrams

2906
18 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: As17761128

2907
19 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Foible Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance, The Corn Thrashers-Blurton, Mrs Sutton; End: Minuet de la Cour-Froment, Mrs Sutton (his Scholar); End I: The Irish Fair, as17761031

2908
21 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17761214

Song: End: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister

2909
23 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: End I afterpiece: the Louvre Minuet, Allemande-the Miss Stageldoirs

2910
25 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Master of the Ship Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: Dance of Spirits, as17770414; IV: +Grand Dance i.e. The Chaconne, as17770405

Performance Comment: e. The Chaconne, as17770405.

2911
26 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi & Hurst. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi, Little Piazza, Covent Garden. [Younger was from the Manchester theatre.] Receipts: #217 0s. 6d. (46.14.0; 17.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 152.9.0) (charge: #65 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17761104, but Bajazet-Younger (1st appearance on this stage); The usual Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

Song: As17761104

2912
29 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron & Mrs Greville. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Mrs Greville at the Orange Warehouse, the Corner of King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #178 15s. (69.0; 15.1; 0.0; tickets: 94.14) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: As17761128

2913
30 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Walker, Kirk, house-keeper, & Mrs Cross. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #247 9s. 6d. (45.5.0; 11.12.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 190.12.0) (charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Cast
Role: Dorcas Zeal Actor: Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: Grand Naval Review, As17761109; End I afterpiece: a Hornpipe-Walker

Song: As17761109

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All-R. Palmer

2914
06 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Legg & Kear. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Legg, Market-street, St James's Market; of Kear, No: 2, Stephen-street, Tottenham Court Road. Tickets delivered for Wednesday the 7th Inst. will be taken. Receipts: #229 1s. (36.12; 10.12; 0.0; tickets: 181.17) (charge: #64 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Mrs Doggerel Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425

2915
07 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #219 15s. 6d. (204.16.0; 13.17.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Master of the Ship Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: As17770110

2916
09 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "A Gentleman who is as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a length" (David Garrick to R. B. Sheridan, 12 May 1777, in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl, 1963, III, 1163). Receipts: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

2917
10 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2918
12 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Author's ballance for 1 Night of the Trip to Scarborough & 4 Nights for the School for Scandal #741 0s. 6d. Receipts: #257 7s. 6d. (251.16.0; 5.0.0; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2919
13 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

2920
14 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

2921
15 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End I: The Corn Thrashers, as17770419; End II: a Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton)

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr Griffiths; Orange Woman-Mrs Sutton

2922
16 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Cast
Role: The Little Gipsy Actor: Miss Abrams.

2923
19 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

2924
20 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2925
21 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 1s. (269.1.0; 3.7.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow