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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "J R Tonson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "J R Tonson")') 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 2555 matches on Performance Comments, 639 matches on Event Comments, 120 matches on Performance Title, 17 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lawyer's Panic; Or, Westminster Hall In An Uproar

Afterpiece Title: The Chapter of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Dance: As17860706

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: In afterpiece, by Byrn, the two Miss Simonets, Master Degville, Miss De Camp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: III: Song-Williames [This was sung, as here assigned,in all subsequent performances, except on 19 Jan. 1787, q.v.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist; or, Who's Who

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End I afterpiece: Highland Reel-Mills, the Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: II: song (in character)-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: In: Singing-Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Barrymore, Williames, Wilson, Fawcett, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Forster, Mrs Wrighten

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Song: III: an Epithalamium Vocal Parts-Mrs Forster, Miss Stageldoir. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: I: a song-Williames

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: End IV: As17870113

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene-; with Dancing-Ferrere, Menage, Miss Stageldoir; End III: La Soiree Provencalle, as17870113

Song: II: Singing-Miss Romanzini [The Dancing was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton