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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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: As17371025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: Two Misses Scott; who never appeared on that Stage before: I: A Saraband, Minuet-Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-Miss Scott's Sister; IV: Serious Dance-the two Misses Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: As17371018

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Zeno. Music by Handel.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 Jan.: Last Night the new Opera of Faramondo was perform'd...to a splendid Audience, and met with general Applause. It being the first Time of Mr Handel's Appearance this Season, he was honour'd with extraordinary and repeated Signs of Approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Faramondo

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 lists: Faramondo-Gaetano Majorano (called Caffaralli); Clotide-Signora Elisabetta duParc (called Fracescina); Gustavo-Montagnana; Adolfo-Signora Margarita Chimenti (called Droghierina); Rosimonda-Signora Maria Antonia Marchesini (called Lucchesini); Gernando-Signora Antonia Merighi; Teobaldo-Antonio Lottini; Childerico-Savage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: LLord Wentworth to the Earl of Strafford, 19 Jan.: We was at Covent Garden Play House last night, my mother was so good as to treat us with it, and the Dragon of Wantcliff was the farce. I like it vastly and the musick is excessive pretty, and tho it is a burlesque on the operas yet Mr Handel owns he thinks the tunes very well composed....and it has been acted 36 times already and they are always pretty full. The poor operas I doubt go on but badly, for tho every body praises both Cafferielli and the opera yet it has never been full, and if it is not now at first it will be very empty towards the latter end of the winter.--Wentworth Papers, p. 539

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Performance Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing, but Genest, III, 549, lists: Sir Philip-Ryan; Sir Paul-Hippisley; Tridewell-Hale; Anvil-Bridgwater; Widgin-Chapman; Bulfinch-Rosco; Pade-Arthur; Howdye-Neale; Widow Fitchow-Mrs Horton; Northern Lass-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 III: Russian Sailor=-Denoyer; V: Ballet, as17380120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Grand Polish Dance, as17380128 III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter, Livier, Miss Thompson, Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Feb.: On Monday last Mr Lacy, who set up the Oratory in York Buildings, and was committed to Bridewell some time since, by two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace on the lade Act of Parliament, was brought by Habeas Corpus to the King's Bench, in order to be bail'd, but after several Learned Arguments by his Council, which were answer'd by the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the Court remanded him back again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Delane; King-Johnson; Prince-Ryan; Worcester-Rosco; Glendower-Chapman; Westmoreland-Aston; Douglas-Hale; Mortimer-Stevens; Vernon-Hallam; Blunt-Salway; Poins-A. Ryan; Gadshill-Bencraft; Bardolph-W. Hallam; Francis-Hippisley; Carriers-Mullart, James; Kate-Mrs Ware; Hostess-Mrs Martin; Falstaff-Bridgwater.
Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Aston

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Pierrot-Lalauze; Endymion-Salway; Chasseurs-Vincent, Roberts; Nymphs of the Chace-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits: Cupid-Glover; Graces-Miss Moreau, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun; Hour-Miss Cantrell; Zephyrs-Tench, Desse, Richardson, Baudouin; Psyche-Mlle Roland; Jupiter-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Baudouin; Neptune (Pantalon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Desse; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Tench; Mercury-Laguerre; Country Lads-Dupre, Bencraft, Baudouin; Country Lasses-Miss Norman, Miss Dancey, Mrs LeBrun; Doctor-Nivelon; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Kilby.
Cast
Role: Psyche Actor: Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: Grand Polish Dance, as17380128; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Ballet, as17380206

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fifty Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear. N.B. The above Play of King Henry IV is the Genuine Play of Shakespear, and not that alter'd by Mr Betterton, and so frequently acted at the other Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King-Delane; Prince-Ryan; Lancaster-Hallam; Justice-Stephens; Westmoreland-Aston; Moreton-Stevens; York-Chapman; Mowbray-Rosco; Lord Bardolph-Hale; Hastings-Ridout; Falstaff-Bridgwater; Poins-Salway; Bardolph-W. Hallam; Shallow-Hippisley; Silence-Neale; Feeble-Penkethman; Shadow-Bencraft; Bullcalf-Mullart; Wart-Yates; Mouldy-Stoppelaer; Pistol-James; Hostess-Mrs James; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Dancey.
Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Aston

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Psyche Actor: Mlle Roland
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Piece of One Act: Being the Sequel to the King and the Miller of Mansfield. [By Robert Dodsley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Dance: V: Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: As Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 2 March: We hear that Mr Lacy, who was committed for holding an Oratory in Villars-Street, York-buildings, is got out of Custody

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Pandulph Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: BBallet-Glover, Mlle Roland, Tench, Villeneuve, Desse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Norman, Miss Cantrel

Event Comment: Benefit Handel. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. London Evening Post, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. Egmont, Diary, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's Oratorio, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 455.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Oratorio

Music: With a Concert on the Organ-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: FFrench Peasant, new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; French Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland