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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Hildebrand Bullock"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Hildebrand Bullock")') 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 1671 matches on Performance Comments, 665 matches on Performance Title, 242 matches on Author, 133 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Norris and Mrs Bullock, the Dancer. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Ostrick Actor: Bullock

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman

Ballet: TThe Difference of Nations. Pierrot-de Vallois, Delagarde; French Peasant-Vallois and Mlle Vallois; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: Pierrot-de Vallois, Delagarde; French Peasant-Vallois and Mlle Vallois; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock.
Cast
Role: Scotch Dance Actor: Mrs Bullock.
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

Performance Comment: Lovegold-Griffin; Lappet-Mrs Roberts; Cabbage-Bullock; Clerimont-Stoppelaer; Frederick-Leigh; Ramilie-Jones; James-Smith; Lawyer Puff@and@Clark-Rainton; Harriet-Miss Atherton; Mariana-Miss Careless; Widow Widely-Mrs Talbot.
Cast
Role: Cabbage Actor: Bullock

Afterpiece Title: The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Performance Comment: Masqueraders-Smith, Stoppelaer, Leigh, Tench, Grey, Young Master Paulet, Mrs Bullock, Miss Mann, Miss Atherton, Miss Careless, Miss Jones, Miss Brett, Jones, Mrs Morse; Marquis de Fresco-Arlequin en Chien; Marchioness de Fresco-Mlle Arlequinne en Chienne; Epilogue-Miss Cole, age 4.
Event Comment: At Cibber-Griffin-Bullock-Hallam Booth. [The Fair to run to Friday, 7 Sept.] Second piece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction, and eminent Merchants and Citizens. Taken from the Works of the Immortal Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, Ancient Pistol, and Others

Performance Comment: Antient Pistol-Cibber; Falstaff-Berry; Hostess-Mrs Roberts; Shallow-Griffin; Silence-Stoppelaer; Dol Common-Miss Atherton; King Henry-Cross; Lancaster-Leigh; Justice-W. Hallam; Bardolph-Jones; Feeble-Bullock; Mouldy-Wm. Hallam; Simon Shadow-Leigh; Ragged Wart-Smith; Mrs Cribcole-Mrs Talbot; Mrs Overdone-Mrs Dansey; Mrs Trumpery-Miss Mann; Miss Witless-Miss Careless.
Cast
Role: Feeble Actor: Bullock

Dance: End I Second Piece: Black Joke-Smith, Miss Brett; II: Comic Dance-Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17340101, but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Bullock .
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Bullock

Music: As17340213

Dance: As17340101 Also The Nassau, as17340311 Pigmalion, as17340114 French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: At Hippisley-Bullock-Hallam Booth. Afterpiece: a new Ballad Opera. [Advertised 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Aug.; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Sept.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Impostor; or, The Biter Bit: With the Comical Humours of Vizard the Biter, Mixum the Vintner, and his Drawer Balderdash

Performance Comment: Vizard-Hippisley; Mixum-Hulett; Balderdash-Bullock; Trueman-Berry; Face-Este; Hardhead-Clarke; Catgut-Smith; Squeez'em-Rainton; Solomon Smack-Master Hallam; Mrs Mixum-Mrs Herle; Betty-Miss Gerrard .
Cast
Role: Balderdash Actor: Bullock

Dance: I: Two Punches by Tench and Janno. II: The Constant Lovers. End of Droll: Le Badinage Cbampetre. Tumbling by Mynheer Vanderhoff, Mons de Voltore, Mons de Broc, Mons Janno

Event Comment: At Bullock's Booth, the largest in the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Escapes Of Harlequin By Sea And Land; Or, Colombine Made Happy At Last

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Waters; Colombine-Mrs Waters; Judge Ballance-Bullock.
Cast
Role: Judge Ballance Actor: Bullock.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentinian

Performance Comment: Valentinian-Thurmond being the first Time of his Acting since his Arrival from Ireland; AEtius-Keene; Maximus-Smith; Pontius-Husband; Comic Parts-Bullock Sr, Knap, Hild. Bullock; Lucina-Mrs Rogers; Eunuch-Mrs Garnet.

Song: As17150521; Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack

Dance: Grand Spanish Entry-duPre, Moreau, Boval, Mrs Bullock; Entry, Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; A new Chacone-Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Music: Flute Solo-John Bastion; accompanied-Pieppo

Song: Since Times Are So Bad-Leveridge, Mrs Fitzgerald

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock; Chacone-Mrs Bullock; French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: End I: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Grand Dance of French Sailors-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre, Pagod, Mrs Bullock, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; IV: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: A new Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; in which, at the Desire of several Persons of Quality, Kettle Drums-Poitier; End Farce: a new Grand Dance called Lads and Lasses-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Anderson, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: Mrs Barbier; IV: Two English Ballads-Mrs Barbier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Jones; II: Moors-Dupre, Delagarde, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; III: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Bullock; IV: Spanish Entry-Dupre, Mrs Bullock; End Afterpiece: The Baulk-

Ballet: V: A new Comic Dance. Harlequin-Dupre; Punch-Pelling; Pierot-Delagarde; Scaramouch-Dupre Jr; Harlequin Woman-Mrs Pelling; Dame Gigogne-Miss LaTour; Pierot Woman-Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch Woman-Mrs Ogden

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Dupre; Punch-Pelling; Pierot-Delagarde; Scaramouch-Dupre Jr; Harlequin Woman-Mrs Pelling; Dame Gigogne-Miss LaTour; Pierot Woman-Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch Woman-Mrs Ogden.
Cast
Role: Pierot Woman Actor: Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: The New Boy

Music: A New Piece of Musick (never perform'd before)-Bannister, the two Bastions, Stockdale

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock (the late Miss Russell); Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Song: Randal; Trumpet Song, as17151022

Dance: delaGarde, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; A new Chacone-Mrs Bullock; A new comic dance-Aubert, Mrs Cross; Italian Night Scene, as17151026

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mountebank; or, The Country Lass

Dance: New humorous dances-delaGarde, Shaw, Thurmond, Tully, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock; Particularly The What D'Ye Call It-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; Italian Night Scene, as17151024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Music: Two Entertainments on the Flute-Mr Mercy

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; particularly The Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Song: As17160206

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith; Swedish Dal Karle-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; New Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith, his Scholar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Boval, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Cook Sr, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Gautier, Mlle Corail, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding Jr; particularly Dupre's Harlequin-Dupre, Mlle Gautier; and a new French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Tully, Cook, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Miss Smith, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock; Indian Dance-Moreau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock; Thurmond's last Grand Comic Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: As17171022; Chacone-Mrs Bullock; Comic Dance-Moreau, Mrs Bullock; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith; Pastoral-Miss Schoolding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Performance Comment: Flip-Evans; Sir Charles-Diggs; Worthy-Ryan; Mizen-Pack; Rovewell-Bullock Jr; Cribbidge-Ogden; Arabella-Mrs Bullock; Dorcas-Mrs Moreau; Sailors-Bullock Sr, H. Bullock, Spiller, Knap.
Cast
Role: Rovewell Actor: Bullock Jr
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Sailors Actor: Bullock Sr, H. Bullock, Spiller, Knap.

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Miss Schoolding; Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith; English Clown-Weaver; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock; Burgomaster-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Mrs Booth, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock; particularly Stripping Dance-Boval, Mrs Bicknell; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Chaplain Actor: Bullock Sr
Role: Manuel Actor: H. Bullock

Song: Legare

Dance: Lally, Newhouse, Pelling, Sandham, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton; Dutch Boor and his Frow by Newhouse-Newhouse, Mrs Bullock; Two Punches and Two Harlequins-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Cast
Role: Sir Jolly Actor: Bullock Sr
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: The Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Two Punches and Harlequin-; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock; Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock