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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We found 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Containing the Distresses and death of King Henry VI ; the Arthful acquisition of the Crown by King Richard ; the Cruel Murder of Young King Edward V , and his brother in the Tower; The Landing of the Earl of Richmond , and the death of King Richard at the Memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv ; being the last that was faught between the Houses of Yorkv and Lancasterv . With many other Historical Passages (General Advertiser)

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: Sun: 29th Dr Barrowby dy'd suddenly a good friend to ye Actors in Sickness (Cross). [Inspector No 259 appears in Daily Advertiser and London Gazette with a long comparison between actors and various styles of famous painters, Garrick, Barry, Miss Bellamy, Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Woodward and Macklin are treated.] Receipts: #160 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, to see the tragedy of The Orphan; being the first time of his Royal Highness's being at either of the Theatres since his indisposition (General Advertiser, 4 Jan.). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: [W$Woodward's statement of 6 Jan. in the General Advertiser repeated.] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17520108, but Town Clerk-W. Vaughan; Sexton-Costollo (playbill), but the General Advertiser lists no changes in these parts.

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. On Saturday night his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was at Covent Garden, where his presence gave such Pleasure, that a general Joy diffused itself in the breasts of the Audience, as might be easily discerned in all their countenances (General Advertiser)

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. [The second meeting at the Temple of Taste advertised for the following Wednesday in the General Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: t the Temple of Taste this evening the entertainment consisted of 1), an overture from Samson, 2), a Poetica address to the audience, 3), a concert on the harpsichord by a young Lady eight years old, 4), a Dissertation on Dress, 5), a Hautboy concerto, 6), an Essay toward a new-invented Astronomy, adapted to the Ladies, 7), a solo on the German Flute, and a general debate on the following propositions: Is Affectation more prevalent in Man than Woman?" 'Is not a good-natured illiterate man more beneficial to society than an illnatured philosopher" (General Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

Event Comment: [Continued approbation for the Temple of Taste]: The Second time it was receiv'd with uncommon approbation, particularly the Essay on a new-invented Astronomy, adapted to the Ladies, and the performances on the Harpsichord by a young lady but eight years old, who was allow'd by some Conoisseurs that were present, to play it extremely curious and masterly. Several Gentlemen spoke to the Questions, and met with unanimour applause; and the whole was conducted with the utmost Regularity and decency (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

Event Comment: [The Temple of Taste this night included a Panegyric on the Genius of Shakespear.' The questions for debate: Ought not Ladies to fill Civil Offices? and Which character is the most difficult to support with reputation, that of the Orator or the Player?" Ladies had complained of the heat occasioned by the crowd of people attending, and were assured care would be taken to render the room somewhat airy (General Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

Event Comment: On Wednesday next in the Evening Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory will again be performed...at the Haymarket. The last time this Entertainment was performed, the House was crowded, that many Hundreds could not get admittance, and persons of Quality and Distinction found Satisfaction...My Service to Sister Henley. Mary Midnight (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mause, Madge. On Tuesday Evening several Performers by an order from the Lord Chamberlain were taken up for acting Plays, or Drolls, at Shepherd's Market, May Fair, and carried before a Magistrate who committed them to Prison on the Vagrant Act (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green. [The advertisement continues to appear in the General Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rake Reformed

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, To begin at Twelve noon during the time of the Fair. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Upper seats 6d. [For security Phillips has erected no Gallery. Presumably the Patent Theatres were demanding more rigid enforcement of the Licensing Act as indicated in the notice from the Daily Advertiser 18 Sept.: Whereas the Fair called Lady Fair...in the Borough of Southwark...any person or persons..who person..(who ) shall act and exhibit any Droll or Shew (after 20 Sept.) shall be prosecuted and punished according to Law.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave Or A Wife For Ye All

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

Event Comment: At Hickford's Great Room, Brewer St. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Entertainment: Musick- adapted to the Dramas

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:00 p.m. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Musical Entertainment

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. It is the last time of performing (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Event Comment: At Cleopatra's Cataract between the several acts of her concert, will be pour'd upon the Town a cataract of Originals and Amazing Geniusses, brought by that antient Soverign from Anamamboo, Upper Egypt, and the renown'd Kingdom of Abyssinia. These being an entire new set of performers will exhibit that evening in a new manner sever strange and surprising Feats of an Egyptian Broomstick, the Ghosts, Witches, Imps, modern Saints, Ballad Singer, Conjuror, and Elizabeth Canning. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6 p.m. [A cryptic "puff" in the Daily Advertiser suggests that Mrs Midnight has abdicated in favour of Cleopatra, who will now take over the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aethiopian Concert

Event Comment: By the Widow Yeates's Company of Comedians at the Large Assembly Room, Swan Inn, West Smithfield. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. From 12 Noon to 10 p.m. (Daily Advertiser). [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgins Wish With The Humours Of Squire Spoilal And Peter Shackle

Afterpiece Title: The Inchanted Island or Harlequin Fortune Teller

Song: Dennis, Mrs Dennis, Mrs Bicknell

Dance: A Hornpipe-

Event Comment: [S$Simpson, the slack wire performer, ran a sword into his leg in a performance at The Theatre, James St., near the Haymarket; he has receovered and will continue (Daily Advertiser).

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece [by Edward Young]: not acted these 30 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tomorrow, not acted these 20 years, Ulysses for the Benefit of Mrs Woffington. A Young lady, remarkably handsome, appeared in the Pit of Covent Garden Playhouse on Monday Night last; she had on a white hat with pink ribbons; a pink colour'd Cardinal trimm'd with white fur, which she took off on account of people spitting down from the slips...She was standing near the Pit Door before the play began, but soon had room made for her at the end of one of the seats (Daily Advertiser, 22 March)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126; Les Statues Animees, as17560302

Event Comment: Performing in progress at Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, as noted in the Daily Advertiser, but no entry given for the play

Performances

Event Comment: [Performing in progress at Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, as noted in the Daily Advertiser, but no entry given for the play.

Performances

Event Comment: A New Opera. The Musick by Sig Baldassare Galuppi. [Mingotti had been advertising for subscriptions for next season but now Vanneschi announces that he was secured the licence for next year from the Lord Chamberlain and he is the new Director of the operas (Daily Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Euristeo

Dance: With New dances-

Event Comment: ccording to the Daily Advertiser, 22 June, this was the third night of performing.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolic

Dance: As17570617