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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Master Burton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Master Burton")') 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 4596 matches on Event Comments, 3810 matches on Performance Comments, 1500 matches on Performance Title, 21 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets to be had at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-Street, to some Tune. Receipts: money #47 5s.; tickets #138 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 57 by money and 259 by tickets; stage, 66 by money and 40 by tickets; pit, 39 by money and 350 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 100 by money and 113 by tickets; second gallery, 130 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: End I: Si Caro, Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren; III: Plain Truth, Wheel of Life-Leveridge; IV: Ballad written, set to music by Leveridge-Miss Fenton; V: Merry Cobler's Tragical End At Last-

Dance: II: Peasant-Nivelon; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy

Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Wilks; Scandal-W. Mills; Tattle-Cibber; Sir Sampson-Shepard; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Norris; Jeremy-Oates; Ben-Miller; Mrs Frail-Mrs Porter; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Heron; Prue-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris

Dance: Lally, Essex, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson; particularly Myrtillo-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Rover, Lally, Essex, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson; particularly Le Badinage Champetre-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson, Young Lally, Miss Brett

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Congreve. [Prince Frederick, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: See17281206, but Andromeda-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth.
Event Comment: Benefit Crokatt, Bookseller. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #25 5s. 6d.; tickets #98 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 18 by money and 121 by tickets; pit, 52 by money and 398 by tickets; first gallery, 72 by money and 87 by tickets; second gallery, 81 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth.
Event Comment: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #21 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 9 orders; pit, 43 paid and 18 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 96 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 62 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Benefit Sandham Jr, Dove, and Webster. Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Dance: Sandham, Mrs Hill

Song: DDear Pretty Maid-Nicholls, Mrs Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [According to the Craftsman, 29 March, Cibber removed this passage from the play: Foresight , 'Pray what will be done at Court?' Valentine , 'Scandal will tell you; I am Truth, I never come there.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr, Young Lally, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: As17290315 but Jupiter-Essex; Mercury-Rainton; Perseus-Lally; Medusa-Boval; Andromeda-Miss Robinson Sr.
Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. N.B. Mr Leveridge hopes that his Friends accept of this Invitation, and favour him with their Companies, since a tedious Indisposition hath rendered him incapable of waiting on them in Person. Receipts: money #39 4s.; tickets #87 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters; Or, Two Fools Well Met

Song: Mrs Barbier

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Harlequin-DuPre, Miss LaTour; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Mrs Chambers, Mrs Barbier

Music: TTrumpet Song sounded-L. Granom; Solo on German Flute-M. Granom

Dance: new Scots Dance-Moreau; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling