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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.

2401
12 February 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Cautherly.
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: As17671125, but with a new Character [Mrs Doggerel] Miss Pope.

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Shuter, Mrs King

2402
29 February 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Pope.
Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

2403
05 March 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17680107, but Hopkins the Prompter-_.
Cast
Role: Hopkins the Prompter Actor: Bannister
Role: Saunders the Carpenter Actor: Moody
Role: Johnston the housekeeper Actor: Johnston
Role: Miss Fuz Actor: Miss Pope

2404
19 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: the Ehe Elopement

2405
29 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Burton. Tickets deliver'd by W. Palmer will be taken. [In the afterpiece Frank-Palmer, last appearance on the stage (MacMillan).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pope, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Palmer, Cautherly, J. Palmer, Hurst, Fawcett, J. Burton, Mrs Barry, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Hopkins. With a Prologue-
Role: Weldon Actor: Cautherly

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680220

2406
30 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miss Jenny Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: II: The Cow@keepers- (with alterations and additions) (see17680426; IV: The Cotillion, as17680426 but Sga Lucchi to the dancers; End: +New Comic Dance, as17680116

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at ye all-J. Palmer

2407
02 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Hopkins the Prompter Actor: Bannister
Role: Saunders the Carpenter Actor: Moody
Role: Johnston the housekeeper Actor: Johnston
Role: Miss Fuz Actor: Miss Pope

Entertainment: End of play: Linco's Travels (for that Night Only)-King

Dance: End of Interlude: The Medley, as17680416

2408
03 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: To conclude with Dance incident to the play Actor: Shuter.

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at Ye All-J. Palmer

2409
04 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst, Tassoni and Mrs Dorman. By Desire of the Honourable Lodge of the Order of Select Albions

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Pope.
Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: I: A Trio-Vernon, Miss Young, Mrs Dorman; End: The Albion Song-Vernon

Dance: II: A Minuet-Tassoni, Miss Granier , his Apprentice; IV: The Medley-Tassoni, Mrs King

2410
11 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Concluded with a grand procession of the knights o Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: As17680504, but Major Belford-Strange; In Act I of the Farce By Desire a Song-Kear.
Cast
Role: In Act I of the Farce By Desire a Song Actor: Kear.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Pope.
Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

2411
13 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Cast
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: None

Cast
Role: Catharine Actor: Miss Pope, 1st time

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

2412
23 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catharine Actor: Miss Pope, 1st time

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor; End: The Medley, as17680416

Performance Comment: Cape, Miss Taylor; End: The Medley, as17680416.

2413
25 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Beverly Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Cast
Role: Clerimont Actor: Cautherley
Role: Mrs Harlow Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: End: A Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley

2414
26 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

2415
27 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Miss Pope.

2416
30 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-King; Antonio-Reddish; Lorenzo (with proper songs)-Vernon; Gratiano-Dodd; Bassanio-Cautherly; Launcelot-W. Palmer; Portia-Mrs Barry; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Baddeley; Nerissa-Mrs Jeffries.
Cast
Role: Bassanio Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

2417
01 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Doors opened (by Partiuclar Desire) at Five. Play to begin at half past Six. The King of Denmark came to the Farce after seeing Jane Shore at Covent Garden,--came in just before the Play was finished (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680929

2418
07 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Countess of Salisbury oblig'd to be deferr'd till Tuesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Aickin
Role: With the Triumphal Entry Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

2419
12 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Cautherly
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: Act I: A Comic Dance, The Wake, as17680929

2420
18 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

Song: II: Miss Young

2421
20 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King? & Queen? (Cross Diary). Mr Havard being ill, Mr Aickin played Leonato (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedict-Garrick; Dogberry-Parsons; Verges-Hartry; Conrade-Strange; Sexton-Clough; Leonato-Aickin; Claudio-Cautherly; Don John-Bransby; Pedro-Packer; Balthazar-Vernon; Antonio-Hurst; Borachio-Ackman; Town Clerk-Baddeley; Margaret-Mrs Bradshaw; Ursula-Mrs Hippisley; Hero-Mrs Baddeley; Beatrice-Miss Pope;in Act II, a Masquerade Dance proper to the Play,-Grimaldi; to conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Claudio Actor: Cautherly
Role: Beatrice Actor: Miss Pope
Role: a Masquerade Dance proper to the Play, Actor: Grimaldi

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

2422
24 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: At 8 in the evening went into the Pit at dl saw the last two acts of Cymbeline--Imogen by a Miss Young being her second appearance on any stage. Her person is good, her action proper and her voice excellent, but her face is ordinary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: other characters Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

2423
05 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Cautherly
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Jeffries, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

2424
10 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Cautherly
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Jeffries, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Dagueville, Sga Vidini

2425
13 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Cautherly
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus