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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Daigville and Wife"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Daigville and Wife")') 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 4530 matches on Event Comments, 2856 matches on Performance Title, 1540 matches on Performance Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Performance of the Musick Prize, Compos'd by Mr Finger;...beginning at 5 of the Clock, places may be had in both the first and second Galleries; the profit arising from thence being for the Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Judgment Of Paris

Event Comment: At Mr Barnes and Finly's Booth (known by the name of the Monument Booth) in Brook-Field-Market near Hyde-Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: four of the most Famous Companies; as ever were in England (being the very same that were opposite to the Cross-Daggers in Smithfield last Bartholomew-Fair) who perform such variety of Curiosities both in Dancing, Walking on the Slack Rope, Tumbling, as far surpass any ever yet seen-

Music: You will likewise be entertain'd with that variety of Musick as was never in this Fair before-

Event Comment: [By George Farquhar. Date of premiere unknown. Published 5 March.] Preface: As to the Success of it...the French were prepossess'd, and the charms of Gallick Heels were too hard for an English Brain....There were some Gentlemen in the Pit the first Night, that took the Hint from the Prologue to damn the Play; but they made such a noise in the execution, that the People took the outcry for a reprieve....There is a Gentleman of the first Understanding, and a very good Critick, who said of Mr Wilks, that in this Part he out-acted himself, and all Men that he ever saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Hand and Voices in London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian; Or, The Cutter Of Coleman Street

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Event Comment: Benefit Pinkeman. Common Prices. All Persons that come behind the Scenes are desired to pay their Money to none but Mr Pinkeman. [This benefit had originally been advertised for 24 Oct. but deferred, the offerings for that day being a medley of The Death of King Henry VI, a Tragical Interlude of one Act only; Aesop, "several select Scenes" only; and The School-Boy; or, The Comical Rivals.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Don Cholerick-Pinkeman; Don Dismallo-Cibber; And a new cunning Epilogue to the Town,-Pinkeman.

Entertainment: Several pretty Entertainments-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New; Or, Country Miss With Her Fourbeloe

Event Comment: Tickets are given out...by Mr Pinkeman, who has taken care to provide Places for Persons of Quality at Five Shillings each, and the lower at half a Crown. And a Stage built for the Performers. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Italian Interludes

Dance: Some mimical Entertainments a Famous-Scaramouch, Harlequin , who lately perform'd before the Court of Hanover and their Prussian Majesties, now arriv'd in England

Entertainment: Vaulting. An extraordinary Performance on the Manag'd Horse-the greatest Master of the Age , exceeding whatever has been done by any other, especially his resting on one hand with his whole Body extended while he drinks several Glasses of Wine, and then throwing himself a Somerset over the Horse's head; Rope/dancing With and without a Pole,-the two famous French Maids so much admir'd, for surpassing all others in their Art, that they have been presented with Medals at most of the Courts in Europe

Performance Comment: An extraordinary Performance on the Manag'd Horse-the greatest Master of the Age , exceeding whatever has been done by any other, especially his resting on one hand with his whole Body extended while he drinks several Glasses of Wine, and then throwing himself a Somerset over the Horse's head; Rope/dancing With and without a Pole,-the two famous French Maids so much admir'd, for surpassing all others in their Art, that they have been presented with Medals at most of the Courts in Europe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Entertainment: Singing and dancing, as expressed in the Bill-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents, With The Humours Of Sir Positive At-all

Performance Comment: Sir Positive-Powell; With a new Prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery-Powell; And an Epilogue on the Life and Character of Maister Observator-Powell.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Danger; Or, The Mistaken Jealousie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Dance: As17031102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Music: As17031109

Dance: As17031102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song:

Dance:

Music: A new Entertainment for Flutes-the best Masters

Event Comment: Aeneas and Dido compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham-doctor

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Afterpiece Title: Aeneas and Dido

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Music: As17031109

Dance: duRuell, Mrs Mayers, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: As17031102

Dance: Grotesque Dances-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cautious Coxcomb

Music: Together with 3 several New Entertainments of Musick perform'd in Consort upon Hautboys Flutes and German Horns-7 young Men lately brought over by their Master the famous Godfrede Pepusch, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Composition being made entirely new for that pupose by his Brother, that Eminent Master Mr John Christopher Pepusch

Event Comment: Written by these Famous Authors, Mr Beaumont and Fletcher. And particular Care is taken that every thing mention'd in the Bills shall exactly be perform'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Song: Scotch Song Song in Praise of a Highland Laird-; other Scotch Songs-

Dance: Grand Dance of the Laird and his Highland Attendance-; Other Scotch dances-

Event Comment: At Pinkeman's Booth in Brookfield Market-Place at the East Corner of Hyde Park, to be kept for the space of Sixteen Days, The Booth is easily known by the Picture of the Elephant and Mr Pinkeman sitting in State on his back on the outside of the Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performance Comment: Several Entertainments which will be express'd at large upon the Bills, especially one very surprizing, that the whole World never yet produc'd the like, viz-; He speaks an Epilogue upon an Elephant between Nine and Ten Foot high, arriv'd from Guinea, led upon the Stage by six Blacks-.
Event Comment: At Mr Finley and Mrs Barnes's Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performance Comment: By a compleat Company of near 20 of the best Rope/Dancers, Vaulters, Tumblers in Europe, who are all excellent in their several Performances, and do such wonderful and surprizing things as the whole World cannot parallel; where , who gave that extraordinary satisfaction before Charles III, King of Spain on Board the Royal Katherine, performs several new Entertainments-Finley; and where the Lady Mary, likewise shews such Additions to her former admirable perfections, as render her the wonder of the whole World. and where the Lady Mary, likewise shews such Additions to her former admirable perfections, as render her the wonder of the whole World.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Bills

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Allison and Mrs Cox. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Ingenious Mr Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: The Enthustiastick Song composed and-Leveridge

Dance: Chacone-Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier