SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "M and Mlle Mechel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "M and Mlle Mechel")') 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: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Dance: Dubisson, Mlle Bonneval, being the 1st time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers

Dance: Lalauze, Mlle Auguste, the 1st time of her appearing upon the English Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: Lalauze, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: Lalauze, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: Lalauze, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: LaLauze, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: [R+Rylands MS. suggests that the Princesses sent word at 12 o'clock that they would attend. It was too late to advertise the fact.] Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: New Ballad-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Lowe

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Philips, Miss Scott; V: The Swiss-M Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Shade of Leander Actor: Salway

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17411215; A New Comic Dance call'd The Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Dance: New Dance call'd% Les Allemands Joyeux-Lalauze, Mlle Auguste; La Provencale, as17411215, but Richardson, _Destrade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: LLes Allemands Joyeux, as17411222; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: LLalauze pulled a tendon in his leg, apparently on this night and seemingly cut from the payroll. See note on 1 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Sga Barberini; The Peasants, as17411221, but Picq, Mlle +Bonneville, _Lalauze; +Louvre, Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barberini

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: Picq, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: Picq, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: TTambourine-Mlle Auguste; Tyrolean Dance, as17420206

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 TThe Peasants, as17420210; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Chacone, as17411230

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: TTambourine, as17411230; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale-Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Mainpiece: At the desire of Several Persons of Quality. Tickets to be had and places taken of Page at the stage door. None to be admitted into the Boxes, or upon the stage, without printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Box Office and stage door at 5s. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants, as17420210

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mr Chapman humbly begs the favour of those Ladies and Gentlemen who intend to honour him with their presence, to send for tickets to his House, the corner of Bow St., Covent Garden, and to excuse his paying his duty in person, on account of his long illness. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: A New Pierot Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Dance: LLes Enfans Jardiniers Suedois-Master and Miss Poitier; Les Paisans Allemandes-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: I: Les Enfans Jardiniers Suedois, as17420403 III: by Desire, a Minuet-Master Poiter, Miss Poiter; IV: A Serious Dance-Poiter, Mlle Roland; A Tambourine-Master Poitier; and a Serious Dance-Miss Poitier; Also Les Paisans Allemandes, as17420403

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: OOld England forever , with chorus-Leveridge

Dance: New Comic Dance between Pantaloon and his Enamorata,-Picq, Mlle Bonneval; Chacone, as17411230; concluding with: La Provencale, as17420212

Event Comment: Benefit E. Roberts and Destrade. Tickets deliver'd out by Reinhold and Mrs Hale will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Hale

Dance: I: The Peasants, as17420210; III: Minuet (by desire)-Destrade, Mlle Auguste; New Comic Dance, Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: II: Ruddier than the Cherry, out of Acis and Galetea (Set by Handel),-Reinhold; IV: True Blue-Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: Chacone, as17411230; V: New Comic Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Song: II: Under the Greenwood Tree-Salway

Entertainment: By desire The Cries of London-Salway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: Les Savoyardes-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; III: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; IV: Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Bonneval; V: The Peasants, as17420210

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: Poitier, Mlle Roland, Master Poitier, Miss Poitier, being the last time of their performing in England; Les Enfans Jardiniers Suedois, as17420403 a Minuet-Master Poitier, Miss Poitier; Les Paisans Allemandes, as17420403