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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
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: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; II: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Giffard; Bevil Jr-Quin; Sealand-Milward; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Wright; Myrtle-Mills; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Cimberton-Taswell; Lucinda-Mrs Mills; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Marshall; Isabella-Mrs Pritchard; Tom-Giffard.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Milward
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Marshall

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Performance Comment: O Sing unto the Lord, My Song shall be Alway-(by Mr Handel).

Afterpiece Title: David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater (who has been ill). Tickets at Bridgwater's. over-against the Red-Lion in Brownlow Street. Tickets for Mr and Mrs Cross taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17400125, but Harry-Anderson; James-Mullart.
Cast
Role: Harry Actor: Anderson
Role: Leander Actor: Salway

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, I. Delagarde, and Mrs Kilby, Colombine to Orpheus and Eurydice. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Miss Oates; IV: Minuet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Lampe. [Tickets at Lampe's House, Brownlow Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Bumkin Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Sept.: [cg] is new painted and decorated, and will be open'd on Friday next...the Report of Mr Cibber and Mrs Horton being engag'd to another Theatre, is entirely without Foundation: That Company would have begun acting sooner, but for the finishing of a large additional Building, which is now cover'd in, whereby they will, on some Occasions, be enabled to add near 70 Feet to the Length of the Stage, which was before the longest in England, but will now exceed in Depth, any Theatre in Europe

Performances

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #78 11s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Salway
Role: James Actor: Anderson

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: #46 1s. 6d. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #161 8s. (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call it

Dance: As17401027

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #130 16s. 6d. (Account Book); #190 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17401027

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #96 6s. (Account Book); #110 (Rylands MS.). See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 10 Nov., for a poem on Mrs Woffington as Sylvia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Gaylove-Salway; Muckworm-Hippisley; Sapscull-Rosco; Slango-Neale; Blunder-Anderson; Arbella-Mrs Vincent; Combrush-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Blunder Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17401027

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #73 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: As17401027

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Anderson

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17401127

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: As17401204

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #104 4s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #114 12s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Mars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #53 16s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #82 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TTyrolean Dancebetween Hungarian and Two Tyrolese-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini; Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #109 13s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17401230; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southerne. Receipts: #96 3s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Delane; Imoinda-Mrs Horton; Governor-Bridgwater; Aboan-Stephens; Blandford-Hale; Stanmore-Hallam; Driver-Rosco; Daniel-Hippisley; Hotman-Gibson; Widow Lackit-Mrs James; Charlotte-Mrs Stevens; Lucy-Mrs Hale.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Hale

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: As17410121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Egyptiens (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment; L'Hydropique Amoreux (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan