SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Pigmy Revels" | "Harlequin Foundling" | "The Pigmy Revels or Harlequin Foundling" | "The Norwood Gypsies" | "The Medley" | "Harlequin At All" | "The Medley or Harlequin At All" | "Harlequin Free Mason" | "The Choice of Harlequin" | "The Indian Chief" | "The Choice of Harlequin or The Indian Chief")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION

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Results not only include performances of plays known to be by 'Messinks', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17841203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas; Or, The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: The Death and Revival of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman; or, The First of August

Afterpiece Title: The Death and Revival of Harlequin

Dance: End of 1st piece, by Wright. imitations. After the Dancing, Theatrical Imitations by Payne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Afterpiece Title: The Death and Revival of Harlequin

Dance: End of 1st piece, by Wright

Song: End of Act I of 2nd piece The Twaddle by Newbold

Monologue: 1785 07 06 After the Dancing an Address to the Audience by Miss Bird

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Ballet by Byrne and the two Miss Simonets, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Comical Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton; or, Harlequin Gladiator

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Pidgeon by Miss Cranford; End of 1st piece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Wellman

Monologue: 1785 07 15 End of 2nd song Bucks have at ye all by Benson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: Between the Acts of afterpiece, by Mrs Benson, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: End of mainpiece Horn sweet's the Love that meets Return by Byrne, Mrs Goodwin, the two Miss Simonets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Lord Russel

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom of Coventry

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (1st appearance in public); In Act II an incidental song, accompanied by the pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound the Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance)

Monologue: 1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Gambols

Song: End of 1st Monologue A Tax on Old Maids, as sung by Mrs Kennedy at Vauxhall, by Mrs Benson. monologues. End of mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into Hammersmith; End of 3rd piece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, both by Benson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: In afterpiece, by Byrn, the two Miss Simonets, Master Degville, Miss De Camp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17860904

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17860904