SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Majesty"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Majesty")') 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 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Cast
Role: Phisgig Actor: Simmons

Music: In 3rd piece: As17990131

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The many Ladies who have Places for the suceeding nights of the new Pantomime [The Magic Oak] are respectfully acquainted that, on account of Bologna Jun.'s accident, it cannot be performed before Easter Monday. [The Mouth of the Nile, also advertised on playbill of 5 Mar., was not acted on this night.] Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #364 13s. 6d. (361.13.6; 3.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: As17990309

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: 2nd piece: Scotch Reel-Blurton, Mrs Watts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Song: As17990529

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Bayswater, Under the Patronage of Her Majesty. Tickets to be had at the Hospital; of Longman and Wilkinson, Cheapside; Broderip andCo., Haymarket; and of Brandon at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken. Many of the Re-Renters have generously relinquished their Privilege upon this Night. [Faulkner had acted at dl on 21 Dec. 1796, and Mrs Johnstone at cg on 4 Jan. 1798.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Faulkner (1st appearance on this stage), Basset, Barry Jun., The Young Gentleman who performed Wilford [on 23 Apr.], Thompson, Abbot, Webb, H. Johnston, Mrs Johnston [recte Mrs Johnstone] (2nd appearance on this stage), Mrs Hunter, Miss Leserve, Mrs H. Johnston [And see17981011.]; Epilogue-Barry Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Song: End II: Hope told a flattering tale-Mrs Ferguson; accompanied on the Pedal Harp-Weippert

Music: End I: Grand Sonata on the Piano Forte, as17990515; End IV: Lesson of Nicolai, as17990515

Entertainment: Monologues Before: [Collins' Ode on the Passions-Master Parker; End III: The Birth Day Ode [by Henry James Pye, 1st performed at St. James's Palace, 4 June, the birthday of George III]-Master Parker; End: Imitations-Mrs Sumbel (late $Mrs Wells)

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Claudius to Packer, but "Archer, on the sudden indisposition of Packer, put on the robes of majesty, which seemed to sit sufficiently easy upon him" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1799, p. 175.] "The agitation of Hamlet in the course of the Play which he prepares to try the King, and his violent transports on gaining the certainty of his uncle's villainy by the effect of the piece were strongly characterized" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #330 17s. (245.19; 84.14; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast
Role: Japhis Actor: Cory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performance Comment: As17991014, but Selim-Kelly; Beda-Miss Leak; added: Mlle Parisot (By permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House, who will perform for this night only in the Ballet in the First Act); Female Slaves-Miss _Daniels.
Cast
Role: Spahis Actor: Caulfield, Trueman, Maddocks, Evans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In IV: a Grand Masquerade-; Minuet-the LateMiss Betterton, Platt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key