SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Madam Bentley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Madam Bentley")') 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 4247 matches on Event Comments, 1186 matches on Performance Comments, 553 matches on Performance Title, 37 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 135: Public music at the Crown and Anchor. . . Faranelli, Curona, and Mr Matheis were our singers, and we had 24 performers on instruments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: As17341121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: A New Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Merlin or The Devil of Stone Henge

Entertainment: [By Lewis Theobald and John Galliard.] With New Habits, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. No Money under the full Price to be taken during the whole Time of the Performance. The advanc'd Money to be return'd to those who go out before the Overture of the Entertainment begins. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performance Comment: ] With New Habits, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. No Money under the full Price to be taken during the whole Time of the Performance. The advanc'd Money to be return'd to those who go out before the Overture of the Entertainment begins. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal by Miss Cecilia Young and Miss Isabella Young. Instrumental from the Opera, with Violin by Festing, Violoncello by Caporali, Hautboy by Kytch. Water Musick by Handel, with Benj. Baker doing a Preamble on the Kettle Drums

Performance Comment: Instrumental from the Opera, with Violin by Festing, Violoncello by Caporali, Hautboy by Kytch. Water Musick by Handel, with Benj. Baker doing a Preamble on the Kettle Drums .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Les Bergeries by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Houdart De La Motte

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ines De Castro Or Royal Justice

Afterpiece Title: La F1lle Cap1ta1n et Arlequin Son Sergeant With the Scene of Le Professeur dAmour

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Chateauneuf. La Frolick (Daily Advertiser only)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by Mr Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Polonese by Essex and Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Polonese by Essex and Mrs Walter .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Grand Polish Ballet by Essex and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Grand Comic Ballet: French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Performance Comment: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Grand Comic Ballet: French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17341231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: By particular Desire. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 Jan.: The kind Reception which Mr Poitier met with in his Performance on Wednesday last . . . lays him under the greatest Obligation to the Publick; and if he has lost the good Opinion of anyone, by the late unhappy Disturbance [see 7 Dec. 1734], he hopes his future constant Endeavours to oblige, will both be accepted, and regain their Favour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Highnesses the Princess Amelia, the Princess Caroline, the Princess Louisa, and the Princess Maria. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mr Foster, at the Mitre in Islington, who has a large and sickly Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: By Mlle Salle. The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: As17350118, but Le Brun, Miss Brett, and Dutchman and his From added

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Plot

Dance: Polish Ballet, as17341221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: For the Second Musick, the First Concerto of the 2d Opera of Geminiani. For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani

Dance: II: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Event Comment: Benefit Cochoy, Mrs Cochoy, and their Children. Second Piece: A Farce of one Act (written by Moliere)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Afterpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance: A Lilliputian Dance call'd La Polissone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson

Performance Comment: A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Cast
Role: Fernando Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: French Peasant by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Tit for Tat, as17350215