SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lady Long"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lady Long")') 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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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered out for Lady Jane Gray and for this day will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: This night the Riot was very Great, the Gentlemen came with Sticks, & tho' the play went on quiet 'till the last Act, we had there a great Stop, notwithstanding we ended it, & then the rout went on, ye Boxes drove many out of the Pit, & broken heads were plenty on both Sides; the dance began,--was Stop'd--& so again & again--while this was doing numbers were assembl'd in the Passages of the pit, broke down & were getting into the Cellar, but were repuls'd by our Scene men &c.--heavy blows on both sides--Justice Fielding--& Welch came with Constables & a Guard; but without effect, tho' the Justices stood upon ye Stage--I thought ye proclamation must have been read--after ye battle in the Passages numbers went & broke Garrick's Windows in Southhampton Street, --part of ye Guard went to protect it-Garrick was oblig'd to give up the Dancers-& ye Audience disperc'd (Cross). This day publish'd at 1s. The Country Coquet; or, Miss in her Breeches, a Ballad Opera, as it may be acted at Drury Lane. @Men, some to business, some to pleasure take@But every woman is at heart a Rake.@ Pope By a Young Lady. Printed for and sold for J. Major, in Three-Tun Court, leading from the Ship in Ivy Lane into Newgate Market. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Event Comment: By Command of Princess of Wales, P: of Wales, Lady August-& P: Edward (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Dance: (BBy Command) the Pantomime Dance-the children, as17551203

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Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

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Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

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Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: The Last New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece [by Edward Young]: not acted these 30 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tomorrow, not acted these 20 years, Ulysses for the Benefit of Mrs Woffington. A Young lady, remarkably handsome, appeared in the Pit of Covent Garden Playhouse on Monday Night last; she had on a white hat with pink ribbons; a pink colour'd Cardinal trimm'd with white fur, which she took off on account of people spitting down from the slips...She was standing near the Pit Door before the play began, but soon had room made for her at the end of one of the seats (Daily Advertiser, 22 March)

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Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126; Les Statues Animees, as17560302

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Press Gang, as17561013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17570103

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert; Or, An Impromptu Of Whim And Novelty

Afterpiece Title: With a Lilliputian Pantomime call'dHarlequin's Frolic; or, A Voyage to Prussia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Physician; Or, A Cure For All Ills

Afterpiece Title: The Restoration and Adventures of Harlequin

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Mainpiece Title: A School For A Wife; Or, The Lucky Adventure

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Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Lover; Or, A Tit-bit For A Nice Palate

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Vagaries

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Account Book: Present Prince and Princess of Wales, Lady Augusta, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Edward, Prince Frederick. [See also 25 Nov.] Receipts: #171 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V : With The conquest Of The French At Agincourtv

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Several New Entertainments-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette