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 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: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Song: As17971030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle-Spectre Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle-Spectre Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle-Spectre Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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

Dance: In I afterpiece: Dancing-Mlle Parisot, Sga Bossi DelCaro

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: I: Sweet Echoby Arne in Comus-Mrs Arne; III: Dove Spiega (an Italian Song by Arne)-Mrs Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Russian Sailors-Denoyer

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; In IV: Muilment; V: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: III: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: I: Song-Beard; as end V 25 March; V: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Dance: In IV: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: I: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; concluding with Handel'sWater Musick-

Dance: II: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: V: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: The Noon@Tide Air (Comus)-Mrs Arne; IV: By particular Desire, a Song by the English Captain(as17400325-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Muilment; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: Beard; IV: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner in the Suds

Dance: I: Minuet, Louvre-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: A new dance-Muilment; III: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: Black@ey'd Susan, disposed into a Cantata, with Recitatives and Airs adapted to the different Expressions in that celebrated Ballad, the Musick New by Mr Arne-Beard, Mrs Arne; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: Wooden Shoes-Master Ferg; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Maggot-Cooke, Mrs Walter

Song: V: Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Play king Charles I

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; D: Muilment

Song: I: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: The Eccho Song in Comus-Mrs Arne; II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe; V: The Noon@Tide Air-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: scenes from Tscenes from The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: particularly the Songs in the Masque of Comus-a Gentleman (who never perform'd in public before), Mrs Hooper, Mrs Dunstall

Dance: WWelch Buffoon-two Masters Granier [not in Daily Advertiser]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Beard; III: The Noontide Air from Comus-Miss Edward; IV: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Gardeners Wedding

Music: Between the acts: Select Pieces of Musick-; Singing-Mrs Hill; III: The Noon Tide Air from Comus-Mrs Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Song: New Cantata call'dThe Court of Comus set by Worgan-Lowe

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Entertainment: Between parts of Entertainment: In love should there meet a fond Pair, (for that night only) Water parted from the Sea, after the manner of the original, also The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, also The Wanton God who Pierces Hearts from Comus-Miss Catley; Singing-Reinhold, Miss Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

Entertainment: Medley Cantata-Reinhold; Musical Imitations-Bannister; Singing With Horns and With Hounds, The Soldier Tir'd the favourite song in Comus,-Miss Catley; Sweet Echo-Miss Catley the echo by, a young Gentleman