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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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Event Comment: As 11 July. Daily Courant, 13 July: Mr Booth of Drury Lane Playhouse hath sold his Share and Interest in the Stock and Management to John Highmore of Hampton Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perjur'd Prince; Or, The Martyr'd General: With The Comical Humours Of Squire Softhead, His Mother, His Sister, Miss Hoyden, And His Man Spindle

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Jones, Mrs Bullock; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Performance Comment: Foppington-Cibber; Amanda-Mrs Cibber; Berinthia-Mrs Thurmond; Loveless-Watson; Worthy-Mills; Young Fashion-Cibber Jr; Sir Tunbelly-Shepard; Coupler-Johnson; Lory-Oates; Syringe-Griffin; Shoemaker-R. Wetherilt; Hoyden-Mrs Mills; Nurse-Mrs Wetherilt.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Stoppelaer

Dance: LLes Bergeries, as17320923

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: [The Devil of a Duke

Dance: [LLes Bergeries-Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Miss Mears[; but see17320923

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson-Shepard; Valentine-Bridgwater; Ben-Cibber; Scandal-W. Mills; Tattle-Cibber Jr; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Griffin; Jeremy-Oates; Angelica-Mrs Booth; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton; Mrs Frail-Mrs Heron; Prue-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Dance: Mrs Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: FFlute Chacone-Mrs Booth; Les Bergeries, as17321019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Dance: II: Saraband-Sandham, Miss Wherrit; III: Scot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: FFlute Chacone, Minuet-Mrs Booth; Les Bergeries, as17321019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Norris

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Wherrit; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Event Comment: A New English Opera after the Italian Manner. [Text by Henry Carey. Set to Musick by John Christopher Smith.] Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. Receipts: For Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1732 lists: Gozanes-Hussey; Xarino-Mrs Barbier; Cratander-Miss Jones; Teraminta-Miss Arne; Ardelia-Mrs Chambers.
Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Miss Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Norris

Dance: As17321115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Quin; Bellmour-Walker; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Milward; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Hall; Setter-Chapman; Laetitia-Mrs Bullock; Araminta-Mrs Cantrell; Sylvia-Miss Holliday; Lucy-Mrs Egleton; Belinda-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deraminta

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Performance Comment: Betty-Miss Raftor; Jerry-Stoppelaer; Richard-Berry; Gizzard-Shepard; Wrangle-Mullart; Goody Stubble-Mrs Mullart; Goody Grover-Miss Mann; Huntsman, Countrymen and Lasses-E. Roberts, Jones, Tench, Wright, Miss Mears, Miss Atherton.
Event Comment: [The opening of Covent Garden Theatre.] Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. And, on Account of the great Demand for Places, the Pit and Boxes, by Desire, will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. And to prevent the Scenes being crowded, the Stage Half a Guinea. All Persons who want Places are desir'd to send to the Stage Door (the Passage from Bow-street leading to it), where Attendance will be given, and Places kept for the following Nights as usual. Receipts: #115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Dance: