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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr John Stephens"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr John Stephens")') 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 10393 matches on Author, 5176 matches on Event Comments, 3072 matches on Performance Comments, 855 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Vernon, Johnston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Related Works
Related Work: Mahomet and Irene Author(s): Samuel Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Vernon, Johnston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Last time for the Institution of the Garter this season. Paid R. Johnston's bill for gilding &c., #19 10s.; Mr Greenwood for painting #8 8s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #240 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: Violin Solo-Ximene (the first time of his performing in public); Concerto on Violincello-Janson

Event Comment: Author's Night for the Mainpiece. Paid Mr R. Johnston for 55 nights in the Witches and Garter in full #2 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #264 17s. 6d. Charges: #73 10s. Profit to Murphy: #191 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Cast
Role: Mrs Junket Actor: Mrs Johnston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Gibby Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Johnston.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Monologue: End of Play: Linco's Travels. As 24 March followed by

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Lady's Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End: A Dance in which will be an Allemande,-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Dance: I: The European in America (for 1st time this Season)-Messieurs Daigvilles, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini; II: A Comic Dance, as17720326 V: Psiche, a Grand Historical Ballet (Never performed before)-Daigville, Giorgi, Sga Daigville, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of the Turf

Dance: End: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Vernon, Johnston

Entertainment: IV: By Particular Desire, Description of a Man of War and Sea Fight-Moody; IV: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-Weston; End: (1st time) Cupid's Remonstranceto the Town-Miss Hopkins

Monologue: I: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End: Several Catches and Glees, part of which will be entirely New, Composed-Dibdin, for that evening, and Part selected from the most admired Composers

Related Works
Related Work: An Evening's Love; or, The Mock Astrologer Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Palmer; Villeroy-Packer; Carlos-Aickin; Baldwin-Jefferson; Belford-J. Aickin; Nurse-Mrs Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Barry, 1st time; Sampson-Bransby; With the Epithalamium-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Johnston

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of the Turf

Dance: II: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Entertainment: V: The entertainment A Picture of the Playhouse or Bucks Have at ye All-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Entertainment: V: Scrub's Trip, as17720427

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Related Works
Related Work: Cato Author(s): John Ozell

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Entertainment: End: Interlude taken from Foote's Comedy of Taste: Lady Pentweazle-The Young Gentleman (who performed it last year at Drury Lane Theatre)

Ballet: II: The Wapping Landlady. As17720424[Sixfold Hornpipe, as17720424

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: End: The Medley-scholars of Giorgi