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: Benefit Chapman. [Daily Advertiser lists Damon and Phillida, but Daily Journal omits it.] Receipts: money #28 6s.; tickets #102 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Medley

Dance: FFingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Hornpipe-Jones; Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of severl Persons of Distinction. [Daily Advertiser, 21 Aug., has a poem: On Miss Atherton's Playing the Part of Lucy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance:

Event Comment: [Written by Shakespear. With new Scenes and Cloaths. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction the Pit and Boxes will be put together at 3s. Boxes on the Stage 4s. Gallery 1s. [The Prologue is in The Comedian, No. VII, October 1732, with a long essay on the major theatres of the present season.] Daily Advertiser, 4 Oct.: A very splendid and crowded Audience...testify'd their Approbation both of the Decorations and Performance. The principal Embellishments are as follows: On a large Oval over the Pit is represented the Figure of His Majesty, attended by Peace, Liberty, and Justice, trampling Tyranny and Oppression under his Feet; round it are the Heads of Shakespear, Dryden, Congreve, and Betterton. On the Coving on the Left Hand is painted the Scene of Cato pointing at the dead Body of his Son Marcus; in the Middle, that of Julius Caesar stabb'd in the Senate-House; and on the Right, that of Marc Anthony and Octavia, where the Children are introduc'd in All for Love. On the Sounding-Board over the Stage is an handsome Piece of Painting of Apollo and the Nine Muses. [See also Daily Post, 4 Oct. and Gentleman's Magazine, II (October 1732), 1028.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Hulett, from lif, the first Time of his appearing on this Stage; Hotspur-Delane; King Henry-Huddy; Prince-Giffard; Worcester-W. Giffard; Mortimer-Havard; Westmoreland-Smith; Vernon-Bardin; Douglass-Winston; Blunt-Rosco; Bardolph-Collet; Carriers-Morgan, Bullock; Francis-Norris; Lady Piercy-Miss Vaughan; Hostess-Mrs Morgan; A new Prologue-; Epilogue to the Town-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Pembroke-Delane; Lady Jane Gray-Mrs Giffard; Northumberland-Rosco; Suffolk-Huddy; Dudley-Giffard; Sussex-Bardin; Gardiner-W. Giffard; Sir John-Winstone Williams in Daily Advertiser; Lieutenant-Havard; Captain-Jenkins; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs Haughton.

Dance: Valois and Mlle Valois, Mrs Bullock, Jones, Hind

Event Comment: The Prologue is in Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: Receipts: #68 13s;6d. Daily Advertiser, 25 Nov.: One of the Performers of the English Opera...having been taken very ill, the Opera is oblig'd to be suspended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: CColman Opera Register: extraordinary fine & magnificent. Daily Advertiser, 5 Feb.: The Royal Family present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17321227, but Myrtilla-Mrs Haughton; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Wetherilt; Jenny-Miss Wherrit? (Daily Advertiser) or Miss Wetherilt (Daily Post).

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: MMasquerade Dance by Thurmond-; Le Petit Maitre-Jouan de Vallois

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Talbot and Mrs Martin. Daily Advertiser, 22 Feb.: A Publick Rehearsal of the Opera of Dione [Wednesday 21], at the New Theatre in the Haymarket. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance:

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 5 March: Signora Strada, on Account of whose Indisposition the Run of the new Opera of Orlando was interrupted, continues very ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Event Comment: By Command of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal. Benefit Mills. Daily Post, 5 March: Colley Cibber...is so ill of a Cold he is not able to Act. Daily Advertiser, 7 March: On Monday Night last a great Disorder happen'd amongst the Footmen at [dl], occasion'd by one of the Orange Women, who meeting with some Affront, as she was passing from the Theatre to the Coffeehouse, drew out her Penknife, and stabb'd a Chairman and two Gentlemen's Servants therewith, before it could be wrench'd from her, and then took Sanctuary in the Coffee-house; but the same was immediately beset, and the People refusing either to produce the Woman, or acquaint the Footmen who she was, they forc'd themselves into the Room, broke all the Glasses and China

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Miss Robinson, Haughton, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Performance Comment: See17321226, but Daily Advertiser, 24 March, lists: Loveworth-Hall; Reynard-Milward; Squib-Chapman; Woodcock-Dyer; Belinda-Miss Holiday; Mrs Goodfellow-Mrs Cook; Penelope-Miss Binks; Lucy-Mrs Stevens; Hillaria-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Holiday

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: No receipts. Advertised only in Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. [Some uncertainty exists as to whether this performance was given, for Rich's Register does not list it; it is , however, recorded in BM Egerton 2320 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: (Daily Post missing), but advance bill in Daily Advertiser, 7 April, lists: Hastings-W. Mills; Dumont-Bridgwater; Gloster-Cibber Jr; Bellmour-A. Hallam; Jane Shore-Mrs Butler; Alicia-Mrs Charke.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Performance Comment: See17330123, but (Daily Post missing), but advance bill in Daily Advertiser, 14 April, lists: Sir Fopling-Cibber; Dorimant-W. Mills; Loveit-Mrs Heron; Harriet-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Miss Raftor.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: The Flight-Essex, Miss Robinson; IV: Spanish Dance-Lally; V: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Ballet: End Afterpiece: The Grand Dance to The Country Revels. Colin-Essex; Phoebe-Mrs Booth; Peasants-Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport; Peasant Women-Miss Mann, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Price; Yeomen and Wives-Lally, Haughton, Mrs Walter, Miss Mears

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Daily Post missing, but Daily Advertiser, 17 April, lists cast As17321208, but Sharper-Mills; Vainlove-Roberts; Lucy-Mrs Grace.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv Part Ii

Performance Comment: Daily Post missing, but Daily Advertiser, 5 May, lists cast As17321019, but Silence-Miller; Feeble-Griffin.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Daphne

Dance: In I of Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Ballet: In II: A Comic Rural Ballad called The Country Revels. Colin-Essex; Phoebe-Mrs Booth; Yeomen-Lally, Haughton; Yeomen's Wives-Miss Mears, Mrs Walter; Peasants-Lally Jr, F. Tench, Davenport; Peasant Women-Mrs Delorme, Miss Mann, Miss Price

Music: Concerto on the Violin-Charke; Music for two Vox Humanes, a new Invented Instrument-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Daily Advertiser, 17 May, lists: Marplot-Miller; Sir George-W. Mills; Miranda-Mrs Booth; Sir Jealous-Shepard; Charles-A. Hallam; Whisper-Mullart; Isabinda-Miss Holliday; Patch-Mrs Mullart; Scentwell-Miss Atherton; Sir Francis-Griffin (Daily Post missing).
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 30 May: Some of the Patentees of [dl] having thought fit, at Midnight on Saturday last, to give a very extraordinary Instance of the Wisdom and Justice of their Conduct, and of their Capacity for the Management they had undertaken, did also in Justification of their Proceedings, publish and disperse on Monday last, a printed Paper, containing several unjust and false Suggestions and Misrepresentations almost in every Particular, of their own Conduct, and the Case and Intention of the present Company of Comedians, who, in humble Duty...do intend very speedily by plain Matters of Fact, to set the whole affair in a just and clear Light. [See 4 June for a statement by the Patentees.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Event Comment: [P$Princess Royal and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 11 June: After the Performance was over, Signor Senesino made his Leave of the Audience, in a short Speech, acquainting them, as he said, with Regret 'That he had now perform'd his last Part on that Stage, and was henceforward discharg'd from any Engagement.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: We hear that Subscriptions are actually in great forwardness for having two different Operas next Winter, one at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, under the Direction of Messrs Handel and Heydegger, and the other to be at one of the Playhouses, under the Management of Directors chosen from among the Subscribers

Performances

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 23 June, for a poem: On the Death of Barton Booth, Esq.

Performances

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 27 June: We hear...that the Opera of Operas...is deferr'd playing on account of the excessive heat of the Weather

Performances

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth. [Mrs Lee's--Daily Advertiser]. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bateman

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress