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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Burney News Cuttings"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Burney News Cuttings")') 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 3119 matches on Event Comments, 2722 matches on Performance Title, 1423 matches on Performance Comments, 113 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Entertainment: SScrub's Trip to the Jubilee (a New Occasional Prologue)-Weston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: New Pantomime Dance, as17701205

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Pazzie D'orlando

Dance: I: Mlle Sholet (for Como, indisposed); II: New Comic Dance-M. Drouville; a principal dancer and the ballets of his Composition; III: New Ballet to finish with a pas de deux with Tambourine-Drouville, Sga Radicatti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Filosopfo Di Campagna

Dance: II: The Provincial-Slingsby, Sga Radicatti; End of Last Act: two new entrees-Mlle Heinel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Carnovale Di Venezia

Dance: I: A New Pastorale-Mlle Heinel, other principal dancers; End Last Act: Admete and Alceste, as17720310

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: II: A New Double Hornpipe-Mas. White, Miss Lings; IV: New Tambourine Dance-Mas. Byrn, Miss Byrn, Miss Wilkinson, scholars to Sg Giorgi (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End Act I of the Farce: A New Dance call'd The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton, being her first appearance that stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Monologue: Before the Play: (By desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Monologue: 1773 5 10Before the Play (Seventeenth Time): New Occasional Prelude. As 19 Jan., but Author-Quick

Event Comment: A new Comedy (Newspaper clipping Harvard Theatre collection). [Cast from first edition differs from player's names of this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End: New Tambourine Dance-Giorgi's scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Pantheonites

Entertainment: I: A Variety of Imitations-Hutton; II: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister; Between Play and Farce: Dancing of The Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars; End of Interlude: A New Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars

Monologue: 1773 9 3 Also the Interlude, Piety in Pattens. As 23 Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: A New Dance-. [See17731021]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: I: L'Embarass du choix, as17740505; II: A New Field Dance-Mariottini, Sga Mazzoni; III: Ballet-Fierville, Nina Favier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket; or, The New Years Gift

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

Dance: I: A New Serious Divertissement-Fierville, Mlle Baccelli; II: Ballet Pastoral, as17760120; End Opera: Pigmalion Amoureuse de La Statue, as17760120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Imposters; or, A Cure for Credulity

Dance: I: A New Hornpipe-Miss Besford; End Comedy: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Lyric Ode; Alexander's Feast, And The Coronation Anthems

Music: After the Ode: A Miscellaneous Act-; New Overture-; Song-a Gentleman (his first appearance in Public); Concerto on Oboe-Fischer; Song-Miss M. Linley (composed by Bach); Concerto on violin-Linley Jr; Song-Miss Linley (composed by Sacchini); Duetto-the Two Miss Linley's (composed by Piccini); Chorus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Entertainment: A Variety of New Imitations, vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Dance: As17770313

Song: With the Alterations of two new songs-Sga Sestini; a favourite one-Sga Sestini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Song: End III: a new Cantata, suitable to the occasion, composed by Barthelemon,-Mrs Barthelemon

Music: End: concerto on the violin-Barthelemon; in which Grammacree with variations-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amore Soldato

Dance: End I: Les Bohemiens, as17771216; End II: Serious Ballet, as17780120; End Opera: new Ballet Demi-caractere (never performed), L'Amour dans la Vendange-Mons and Mlle Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: End II: La Noche Hollandoise, as17781124; End Opera: a New Ballet, connected with the Opera,-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti

Ballet: End I: Annette et Lubin. As17781124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: new dance, The Dockyard-Dagueville, Langrish, Holland, Miss Matthews, Miss Valois. With a new scene painted by Carver

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: II: New Dance-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, the Miss Stageldoirs, Henry, Sga Crespi

Song: II: Sheep shearing song-Miss Abrams. [This was sung, as here assinged, in all subsequent performances.