SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "A Midsummer Night\'s Dream" | "The Musical Lady" | "Philaster" | "Occasional Prelude" | "Comus" | "Epicœne" | "or, The Silent Woman" | "Epicoene" | "or, The Silent Woman" | "A Preludio" | "Polly Honeycomb" | "Polly Honeycombe" | "The Jealous Wife" | "The Deuce is in Him" | "The Fairy Tale" | "A Fairy Tale" | "The Portrait" | "The Portrait" | "or, The Painter\'s Easel" | "Mother Shipton" | "The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter" | "Elfrida" | "Achilles in Petticoats" | "The Man of Business" | "The Spleen" | "or, Islington Spa" | "Polly" | "The Sheep-Shearing" | "The Sheep Shearing" | "The Spanish Barber" | "or, The Fruitless Precaution" | "The Female Chevalier" | "The Suicide" | "Bonduca" | "The Separate Maintenance" | "The Manager in Distress" | "The Genius of Nonsense" | "The Young Actor" | "Fatal Curiosity" | "Harlequin Teague" | "or, The Giant\'s Causeway" | "The Election of Managers" | "Tit for Tat" | "The Blade Bone" | "Ut Pictura Poesis!" | "or, 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 Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End of mainpiece La Giardinier Italiene by Master and Miss Michel (their 1st appearance in this Kingdom)

Song: As17850607

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece song by Miss Cranford (1st appearance on this stage)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: I: song-Mrs Forster

Entertainment: Monologue As17870611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Related Works
Related Work: The Separate Maintenance Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: As17870618

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

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

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Southwark Fair; or, The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin

Song: [On this day only?] A Song by Seedo-Mrs Nokes [in Boy's Cloaths, when the Lord Mayor passes by to proclaim the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; or, Florizel and Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: II: Les Jardiniers, as17540307 IV: Les Taileurs, as17531210

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: SShepherd and Shepherdess-Granier, Mlle Camargo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard III

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; or, Florizel and Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep-shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: A Midsummer Night's Dream Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: With aPastoral Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; End: As17770707

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: II: New Dance-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, the Miss Stageldoirs, Henry, Sga Crespi

Song: II: Sheep shearing song-Miss Abrams. [This was sung, as here assinged, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Monologue: 1783 08 20 As 13 Aug. imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton with Stockwell Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

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

Dance: In: As17770929; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: End IV: Solemn Dirge, as17770929, but _Reinhold, Battishill

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton; or, Harlequin Gladiator

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

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: Tit For Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: New Sailor's Song-; Chorus call'd Tit for Tat-

Dance: New Ballet, call'd %The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Leviez, Pelling, Shawford, Royer, Mrs Addison, Miss Thompson, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Peace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920