SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. With Comical Songs, Scots, English, and Italian. Also his inimitable Medley of Plays, and Drunken Man. At Crown Tavern in Smithfield. N.B. A private Audience on a Day's Notice

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Mainpiece Title: Phiz Oratory

Event Comment: We hear that the Lodgings at Hampstead are filling every Day; and that a Company of Comedians from London are repairing and beautifying the Playhouse near the Wells, to entertain that Town with a Set of good Plays, Singing, Dancing, and other Theatrical Performances, all the Summer, and have provided a good Band of Musick, and intend to perform...Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.-Daily Post, 6 June

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Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Dec.: We hear from Southwark, that a Theatre will be ready to open there the 26th Day of this Month, on the Bowling Green, by a new Company of Comedians, who intend to play the remaining part of the Winter; and that Preparations are making in a handsome Manner for the Reception of the Gentry

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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [For an account of this performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 156-57. Mrs Theophilus Cibber died on this day.

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Dance: Essex, Haughton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: As it was perform'd last Week before their Majesties and all the Royal Family for the Benefit of Mrs Porter. The Judgment of Paris, which was intended to be perform'd this Night, is deferr'd for a few Days, upon Account of some Alterations in the Machinery

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Boarding School Romps

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [The Mad Captain, announced for this day, is deferred to Monday.

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Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: On this day died Mrs William Mills

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Event Comment: The Tenth Day. As 13 June

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Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Dance: As17330615

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several eminent Merchants and Persons of Distinction. Afterpiece: a new Pastoral Epithalamium. [Edition of 1733 lists no cast, states that it was written by a Gentleman, and prints the Prologue, which was written by Havard. A song, The Wedding Day, written by Henry Carcy, was sung in it by Master Osborne.]

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Nuptials With The Amorous Sportsman

Event Comment: The Princess Royal's Marriage, being deferr'd, the Opera will be perform'd that Day as usual. Daily Courant, 14 Nov.: Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses . . . saw . . . Otho; but his Highness the Prince of Orange was not there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Note, Mynheer Cajanus is prevail'd upon (at the Request of several Persons of Distinction) to stay a few Days longer in England, and will appear as usual in . .. Cupid and Psyche. [For a discussion of the theatres, see Grub St. Journal, 28 Feb.]

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Bonniface-Paul, the first time of his appearing on this stage; but see17331005 . but see17331005 .

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. At 7 P.M. Tickets for 15 March taken this day

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Tickets for Mrs Wignell, Mrs Vincent, Miss Baston [Miss Bincks, Daily Journal] taken this day

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Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Rule a Wife and Have a Wife taken this day

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Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: II: The Kilkenny by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. III: Les Charactres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. IV: The Nassau, as17340117 V: Pigmalion by Malter, Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde, with the Statue-Mlle Salle

Song: I: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

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Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The Twentieth Day

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Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The Thirtieth Day

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Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The Thirty-Fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The Third Day. Pit and Front Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 250: I went to the Haymarket Playhouse to see Pasquin again, which was extremely Crowded, though the 17th day of its acting

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: The Thirtieth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: The Thirty-Fifth Day

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin