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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "J Hughes Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "J Hughes Esq")') 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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2091 results for: Keyword - J. Hughes, Esq
We found 961 matches on Performance Comments, 742 matches on Event Comments, 439 matches on Author, 114 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1626
12 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: Acted but Once [on 5 May 1790]. With new Scenes and Dresses. A Procession, representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the Funeral Pile of her deceased Husband. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] The Music by Stevens. [Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Richard John Hughes Starke.] Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (230.6.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Miss Blanchet (of dl)

1627
28 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have his Own

Song: In course: The High Mettled Racer (composed by Dibdin)-Incledon; Patents all the Rage-Munden; The Beggar, as17980525; Duetto-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend

Music: In course of Evening: solo on the Union Pipes-Murphy; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert

Entertainment: Vaudeville.In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith

Performance Comment: In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith.

1628
28 March 1660 @ Draper's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment

1629
05 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

1630
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

1631
29 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess; Or, Love At First Sight

1632
02 February 1663 @ Middle Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

1633
25 August 1663 @ no theater listed

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1634
10 December 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Step Mother

1635
14 July 1664 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

1636
07 November 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

1637
07 September 1668 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1638
14 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Damaseiles A La Mode

1639
06 March 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

1640
24 May 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche; Or, Love's Mistress

1641
09 January 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

1642
26 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part I

1643
31 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

1644
July 1671 @ Oxford University

Performances

1645
January 1672 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

1646
12 March 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Lovers

1647
05 January 1674 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Opera

1648
30 March 1674 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne; Or, The Marriage Of Bacchus

1649
25 May 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

1650
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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