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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Grand Master"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Grand Master")') 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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3781 results for: Keyword - Grand Master
We found 2328 matches on Performance Title, 1576 matches on Performance Comments, 651 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
01 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: As17161030

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115, but _Newhouse, Mrs Cross; +Harlequin Executed, as17161229

277
14 January 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Song: Cook

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance-Moreau, Kellom's Scholar, Cook, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle

278
11 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Song: As17161030

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance-; La Folie, as17170304

279
12 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115

280
21 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115; Dutch Skipper-

281
23 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115

282
25 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: As17170204

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115; Harlequin-Salle, Mlle Salle

283
24 August 1731 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of China, Grand Volgi; Or, The Constant Couple And Virtue Rewarded

Song: Master Fisher Tench, Miss Brett; A new Dialogue of Chimes of the Times-Excell, Mrs Egleton

Dance: Master Fisher Tench, Miss Brett; A new Dialogue of Chimes of the Times-Excell, Mrs Egleton

Music: Grand Chorus from Porus, accompany'd with Hautboys Trumpets and Kettle Drums-

284
21 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Ballet: Grand Ballet D'Amour with Adonis. As17311228

285
13 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: I: Pastoral-Vallois, lately arrived from the Opera at Paris, the first Time of his dancing in England; a Scholar to M Marcelle; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier; Serious Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre; III: Sicilian Dance-Glover, Mrs Pelling; (at Desire) Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: A new Peasant Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre

Music: Grand Concert of Water Musick by Mr Randal [Handel?]-; [in which Poitier will beat the Kettle@Drums-Poitier

286
23 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

287
26 March 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scanderbeg

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Dance: Grand Dance of Masqueraders by Thurmond-; Le Petit Maitre-de Vallois; Mademoiselle-Mrs Bullock

288
25 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Grand Ballet, as17380203

289
25 March 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Grand Ballet, as17380318

290
19 March 1742 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

291
01 May 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son; With The Comical Humours Of Sir John Oldcastle And A Pert Chambermaid

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: NNew Hornpipe, Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Sailor's Dance called the Jovial Crew-Phillips

Song: Grand Chorus in Honor of his Royal Highness the Duke on his brave Defeat of the Rebels-

292
04 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Grand Comic Dance call'dThe German Camp-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Salomon's Son; Also The Vintage-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel

293
22 August 1747 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; In Which Will Be Interspers'd The Humourous Scenes Of A Wife Well Manag'd

Entertainment: Equilibres on the Slack Rope-Mahomet Acmed Vizaro Mussulmo, just arrived from Constantinople

Song: Batt Platt

Music: Grand Band of Music

294
22 August 1747 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

Song:

Dance:

Music: Grand Band of Music

295
05 November 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Ballet: Grand Entertainment (not performed these 3 years) call'd The Savoyard Travellers. First Savoyards-Mathews, Mad Auretti; Second Savoyard-Sg Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti; Peasants-Harvey, Sg Piettero; Savoyard Children-the Little Swiss, Miss Poplin. With Proper Decorations

296
13 February 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Composition Of Fun And Music

297
04 March 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: The Coup de Grace; or, The Death of Harlequin , a Burlesque Pantomime Entertainment, to be performed by Britons only

Dance: Grand Dance of Horse and Four-

298
05 April 1756 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Entertainment Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

299
03 September 1756 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adventures Of Half An Hour

Dance: Grand Dance of Grotesque Lilliputians-

300
09 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Ballet: Grand Comic Ballet call'dThe Hungarian Gambols , or a Provincial Rendevous. Crosaques-Sg Sodi, 1st appearance in 10 years here, Mlle Capdeville; Croats-Maranesi, Desse, Miles, Desse Jr; Hussars-Leppie, Granier, Gosley, Dumai, Mrs Granier, Mlle Mariane, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Jansolin; Pandours-Rochford, Dufour, Balthazar, Hussey, Mrs Viviez,Mrs Crawford, Miss Welch, Miss Dawes. With Proper Habits and Decorations