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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN TeAGUE

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece, as17820620 In afterpiece, as17820817

Song: As17820620

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: In Act iv of mainpiece, as17820620 In afterpiece, as17820826

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece Minuet by Giorgi and Mrs Bulkley. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Miss Hooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Song: As17830613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day; or, The Prince of Arragon

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Chorus and Dance (performers not listed)

Song: As17830613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: GRETNA GREEN

Music: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Song: As17830613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Miss Morris

Performances

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: As17840528

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Miss Hooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: The Election of the Managers

Dance: As17840528

Song: As17840529

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

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

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: As17850601

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Miss Hooke

Performances

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: 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