SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Doll Common"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Doll Common")') 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 198 matches on Event Comments, 149 matches on Performance Comments, 103 matches on Roles/Actors, 9 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Ballet: With New Habits. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: Grand Ballet: Les Bergeries, Composed in the Taste of Monsieur Dumoulin and Mademoiselle Camargo, of the Opera at Paris-Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, being the first Time of their Dancing since their Arrival from Paris; Thurmond, Mrs Walter, Tench, Miss Williams, Davenport, Miss Mears

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #26 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. Receipts: #69 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: As17321209

Event Comment: Benefit W. Grove, M.R. by Command of the Honourable Court of Non-Common-Pleas. The Gentlemen of the Society are desir'd to meet at their Court, at Sir John's, at 5 o'Clock exactly, from thence to proceed to the Theatre. 6 p.m. 5s., 4s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: I: Trumpet Concerto-Burk Thumoth; II: Concerto-Vivaldi; III: Solo on the German Flute-Thumoth; V: Sonata for the Harpsichord and Violin Harpsichord-Thumoth

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr; IV: Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Morgan, Wetherilt. Being absolutely the last Night of the Company's acting this Season. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance:

Event Comment: At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m. The Company will continue to act twice a Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; or, Vulcan's Wedding

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling

Ballet: AAmorous Clowns or the Courtezan. Clowns-Pelling, Delagarde; Their Wives-Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling

Event Comment: At Cibber-Griffin-Bullock-Hallam Booth by Hosier-Lane. Whereas it has been reported that [the Proprietors] intend to raise the Prices of their Seats...they intend to take only the Common Prices usually paid in the Fair, viz. Boxes Half a Crown. Pit Eighteen pence. First Gallery One Shilling. Upper Gallery Six pence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; With The Fall Of Bajazet, Emperor Of The Turks

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Event Comment: By the Company of Comedians of his Majesty's Revels. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. All the Characters entirely new drest. With new Scenes and Decorations. [This is the opening of HAY by the dissenting actors under Theophilus Cibber. For a Prologue intended to be spoken on this night, see The Honeysuckle (1734), pp. 113-15.] At Common Prices. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By Miss Robinson, Janny, Fisher Tench, Miss Mann

Event Comment: By particular Desire. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: By Ray, Nichols, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones

Event Comment: As this Entertainment has been frequently perform'd at another Theatre [CG] (but notwithstanding has been equally Expensive as if entirely New) to oblige the Town, it will, for the future, be perform'd At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann

Event Comment: As 28 Feb. [For a discussion of the proposed bill to restrain the theatres and the petitions submitted concerning it, see the Journal of the House of Commons, XXII, April 1735, 444-81. See also a discussion of plays in Prompter, 1 April and 4 April, and a discussion of the drama in Universal Spectator, 5 April.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Eminent Citizens. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lillo. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere, by H. Fielding, Esq. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. [Tickets for Grey, Peploe, Mrs Moor taken. The Doorkeepers are ordered not to take tickets sold by Orange Women.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 July: The Play of George Barnwell, and the Farce of the Mock Doctor . . . was perform'd to a Crowded Audience, with Great Applause . . . The Revival of the above-mentioned Play seems welltim'd, when so many fine Ladies of Pleasure make their Appearance, with unusual Equipages, and their Gallants run the most extraordinary Lengths, to their own Ruin, and Grief of their Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Select Pieces. II: A Concerto for two Hautboys performed by Woodbridge and Neale

Dance: I:Jenny come tie me; or, The Neu, Way of Wooing by Davenport and Miss Brett. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Pierot by Davenport and Cox. End Afterpiece: A new Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson

Song: IV: As17350603

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians from both Theatres. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: Minuet by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett. End Afterpiece: Black Joak by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett

Song: IV: The Roast Beef Song by Mullart

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. Being the last of that kind he intends ever to compose. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. No one admitted into the Boxes but by Silver Tickets or printed Tickets from the Office. [Preface points out that DL had the copy nine months, promising to perform it and returning it at the end of the season. Then Cibber Jr requested it for his summer company; it was rehearsed and then the company forced to close.] The Airs by Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: Concerto for Two Hautboys by Woodbridge and Neale. A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey

Dance: houvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. V: Two Pierrots by Vallois and his Scholar

Song: By a Scholar of Carey's

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions. Written by the Author of the Comedy. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Basinghall; Or, The Cheapside Beau

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Mutineers

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance:

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage Halfa Guinea. Receipts: #20 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance:

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mrs Charke. At Common Prices. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Carnival; or, Harlequin Blunderer

Dance: Two Pierrots by Mons Le Blond and Mons Chatillion, the first time of their performance in England

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Written by Dryden and Lee. Receipts: #41 14s. [For a discussion of the recent revival of The Rival SLueens, see Prompter, 11 Nov.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, and Mlle Delorme. Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c