SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Francis Gentleman"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Francis Gentleman")') 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 1641 matches on Performance Comments, 992 matches on Author, 942 matches on Event Comments, 255 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Song: Singing in Italian and English-the Misses Hambleton

Music: M$Mr Handel's famous Water@Musick-, with Trumpets and French Horns; accompany'd with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums- the ingeniousMr Joab Baker

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Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: A new Clown-Nivelon; III: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; IV: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

Music: V: The celebrated Water Musick by Mr Handel-; in which Kettle Drums-Poitier

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Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Entertainment: Between the Acts: particularly the Black and White Joak, to be sounded-Charles, and also a Joak of his own

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Burney, Mrs Tollet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: With the usual Songs-

Dance: Burney, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Benefit a Gentleman's Family in Distress. Receipts: money #71 0s. 6d.; tickets #51 15s. [Duke of Cumberland present.

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Burney, Mrs Tollet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Father Girard the Sorcerer

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #64 7s. 6d.; tickets #134 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: FFrench Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Performers are to be in the following Characters. The Harpsichord-Colombine; Violoncello-Harlequin; Bassoon-Scaramouch; Double Bass-Pierot; Singing-Diana, an Indian King; Violins-a Spaniard, a Roman, an Hungarian, a Persian, a Turk, a Polander, an Arabian, a Muscovite; the Tenor-a Highlander; the German Flute-a Satyr; French Horns-Foresters; Hautboys-two Shepherds; others. The Concert of Performers will consist of between 40 and 50 of the best Hands

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit

Song: I: Song in Character of a Butcher's Wife-Mrs Palmer; IV: Bacchanalian Song-Excel

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has Wrote for the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andria

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Wherrit

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:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman. Receipts: money #23 14s.; tickets #62 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: I: A new dance-LeSac, Miss LaTour; II: Je ne scai quoy, or The Merry Couple (new)-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; III: Voulez Vous, or The Frisky Lad (new)-Poitier, Miss LaTour; IV: The Sicilian (new)-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Distinction. N.B. Mr Giffard hopes the Gentleman who bespoke the Spanish Fryar, for Tomorrow, will not take it ill, that Hamlet is to be perform'd; because the Ladies, whom he mention'd, have since sent to him for that Play-but he shall be very glad to oblige him any other day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: As17321115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer