SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "A Midsummer Nights Dream" | "The Musical Lady" | "Philaster" | "Occasional Prelude" | "Comus" | "Epicœne" | "The Silent Woman" | "Epicoene" | "The Silent Woman" | "Epicoene Or The Silent Woman" | "A Preludio" | "Polly Honeycomb" | "Polly Honeycombe" | "The Jealous Wife" | "The Deuce is in Him" | "The Deuce Is in Him" | "The Fairy Tale" | "A Fairy Tale" | "The Portrait" | "The Portrait" | "The Painters Easel" | "Mother Shipton" | "The Fairy Prince with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter" | "Elfrida" | "Achilles in Petticoats" | "The Man of Business" | "The Man Of Business" | "The Spleen" | "Islington Spa" | "The Spleen or Islington Spa" | "Polly" | "The Sheep Shearing" | "The Sheep shearing" | "The Spanish Barber" | "The Fruitless Precaution" | "The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution" | "The Female Chevalier" | "The Suicide" | "Bonduca" | "The Separate Maintenance" | "The Manager in Distress" | "The Manager In Distress" | "The Genius of Nonsense" | "The Young Actor" | "Fatal Curiosity" | "Harlequin Teague" | "The Giants Causeway" | "Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway" | "The Election of Managers" | "Tit for Tat" | "Tit For Tat" | "The Blade Bone" | "Ut Pictura Poesis" | "The Enraged Musician")') 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 'the elder', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

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Mainpiece Title: The Platonic Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17641213; IV: New Tambourine, as17640929

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; End: The Medley, as17641120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17670212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: Polly Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17770618

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17720921

Monologue: Preceded: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Before: The New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young-Aldridge, Mas. Harris, Miss Twist. [See17711030.

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: Before the Play: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: Before: By Particular Desire, the eleventh night, New Occasional Prelude. Characters first listed: Manager-Dyer; Author-Kniveton; Young Actress-Miss Basanti; See 21 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Monologue: 1772 11 12 Before: (By particular desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: Before the Play: (By Desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Related Works
Related Work: Elfrida Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Monologue: Before: By particular desire, New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772, but Author-Hamilton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Monologue: Before: By Particular Desire, the Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Author-Kniveton; Carpenter-Davies; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

Related Works
Related Work: Occasional Prelude Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Young Actor Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Monologue: Before: The Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Occasional Prelude

Related Works
Related Work: Occasional Prelude Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Young Actor Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners