SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister")') 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: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 16 Feb., Almahide had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Boxes upon the Stage 8s. Being oblig'd to begin exactly at half an Hour after 5 a Clock. [In Daily Courant, 24 Feb., Venice Preserved had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: [By Charles Shadwell.] Never Acted before. [Tickets given out for this day for Tamerlane as a benefit for Corey and Elrington will be taken on 7 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal Or The Humours Of The Navy

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 8 March, Thomyris had been announced for this day as Nicolini's benefit .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With the Comical Interlude of Floro and Blesa set to Musick by the famous Signior Bononcini. [In Daily Courant, 15 March, the premiere of Hydaspes had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Floro and Blesa

Dance: Between acts: Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 11 April, Hydaspes had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added Three Designsv, Representing the Three Principal Actions of the Play, in Imitation of so many great Pieces of History Painting, where all the real Persons concern'd in those Actions will be plac'd at proper distances, in different Postures peculiar to the Passion of each Character. In his Apology (I, 117-18) Cibber said that Betterton...when being suddenly seiz'd by the Gout,...submitted, by extraordinary Applications, to have his Foot so far reliev'd that he might be able to walk on the Stage in a Slipper, rather than wholly disappoint his Audience. He was observ'd that Day to have exerted a more than ordinary Spirit, and met with suitable Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of performing any Opera this Season, the Agreements with the Singers (for this Year) ending this day. [For a full account of this performance, see London in 1710, pp. 17-18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Note, The Subscribers' Tickets will pass this Day. Admission as 7 Aug. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Italian Night Scene between Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, and Wife-

Event Comment: Benefit Spillar. Note, The Tickets given out for Monday 4 [for The Confederacy] will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy Or The Usurer Outwitted

Song: The Whimsical Country-

Dance: The Whimsical Country Wedding-

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 13 Nov., I Henry IV had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 18s. 6d. [According to Deutsch, p. 30, Francesca Vanini-Boschi introduced a Handel aria into this opera on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 31 Jan., Rule a Wife and Have a Wife had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 23 March, The Recruiting Officer had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: At 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., by reason of the Children's Playing twice a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thyrsis Or The Lost Shepherdess

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17110430 but Mrs Day-_.
Event Comment: Benefit the boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Hydaspes taken on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 26 July, Hamlet had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: [By Susanna Centlivre.] Never Acted before. [In the Preface the author discusses her difficulties with the Epilogue. The managers did not think it safe to speak the Epilogue without a License. As she could not get it approved in time, Norris spoke "six Lines Extempore" asking the audience to excuse the defect and promising one for the second night. The Spectators, convinced no Epilogue was intended, hissed. On the following day the Epilogue was licensed, but Mrs Oldfield, who had been intended to speak it, received letters against it; Norris then spoken an Epilogue which implied that the intended one had never been licensed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

Event Comment: Note, The Author's Tickets that were given out for Monday will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

Event Comment: The Boxes will be laid open to the Pit for this Day. Tickets 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant and Spectator, 2 Aug., The Guardian had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feignd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: A Dialogue between a drunken Rake and a Town Miss-Pack, Rainton

Dance: The last new Morrice Dance-Prince, others