SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMaster Leoni"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMaster Leoni")') 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 61 matches on Performance Comments, 19 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Farren; Brothers-Macready, Helme; Spirit-Thompson; Principal Bacchanal-Johnstone; Bacchanals-Darley, King, Cubitt, Gaudry, Kenrick, Blurton, Davies; The Spirit (for that night only)-Leoni; The Lady-Mrs Wells; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Kennedy; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Wilkinson; Sabrina-Mrs Morton; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.
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Role: The Spirit Actor: Leoni

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces (for that night only)-Leoni; Artabanes-Darley; Rimenes-Davies; Artaxerxes-Mrs Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Mrs Billington.
Cast
Role: Arbaces Actor: Leoni

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17880129

Event Comment: [The Westminster Magazine for October commented in a paragraph in general on ten new performers at Covent Garden this month: Mrs Jewell (?), Mrs Jackson, Mahon, Mrs Hunter, Wilson, Leoni, Mrs Barthelemon, Sheridan, and the dance team of the Zuchellis.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Event Comment: [As afterpiece playbill announces the 8th night of The Seraglio. In the Account-Book it is deleted, and The Padlock listed (see 17 Dec.). The change was made probably because of Leoni's illness (see 30 Nov.). This was Barry's last appearance on the stage; he died on 10 Jan. 1777.] Receipts: #187 15s. 6d. (186.11.6; 1.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 29 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Leoni's illness. Afterpiece: Never acted here. Receipts: #131 7s. (129.7; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End II: as17761123

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Caractacus, but it "was not performed last night at Covent Garden theatre, on account of Leoni's sudden illness. The Busy Body was substituted in its stead" (Morning Chronicle, 4 Nov.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 4 Nov.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Leoni's Illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: As17781017

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-L'Estrange; Bacchanal-Reinhold; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Bacchants-Mrs Morton, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Euphrosyne (with Sweet Echo, assisted by Leoni)-Mrs Kennedy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Song: End II: several of the newest and most approved Catches and Glees (selected from the invaluable Collection of the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Catch-Club)-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, R.? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers

Performance Comment: ? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers.
Event Comment: Artaxerxes and The Deaf Lover [both announced on playbill of 28 Jan.] are unavoidably obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Leoni and Wilson. Receipts: #98 1s. (96.2; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus (1st time)-Peile; Bacchanal-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [Burkett]); 1st Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Whitfield, Robson; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; 2nd Bacchant-Mrs Kennedy; 2nd Spirit-Mrs Kennedy; 3rd Bacchant-Mrs Morton; Sabrina-Miss Brown; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; 1st Bacchant-Miss Catley; Euphrosyne (with [song] Sweet Echo, assisted by Leoni)-Miss Catley.

Dance: As17791231