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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs Furnival"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs Furnival")') 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 23609 matches on Performance Comments, 7600 matches on Event Comments, 4621 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: As17221030, but Flora-Mrs Bicknell.
Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Bicknell.
Role: Hippolita Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Rosara Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: As17221030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17221002, but Plume-Walker; Worthy-Diggs; Silvia-Mrs Cross; Recruits-Morgan, _Spiller.
Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Rogier
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance:

Event Comment: Receipts: #32 0s. 6d. Daily Journal, 18 Feb.: On Saturday Night a Disturbance happen'd at...Lincoln's Inn-Fields, occasion'd by a Body of Bailiffs and their Followers investing the House, in order to carry off a Gentleman who was upon Duty in the Play; but, we hear, their Design miscarried

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17221231, but Oroonoko-Ryan; Governor-Boheme; Imoinda-Mrs Bullock; Charlot-_.
Cast
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Charlot Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Rogeir.

Dance: As17221107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Cajo Marzio Coriolano-Francesco Bernardi called Senesino; Volumnia-Signora Francesca Cuzzoni; Veturia-Signora Margherita Durastanti; Claudia-Mrs Anastasia Robinson; Sesto Furio-Guiseppe Boschi; Azzio Tullo-Gordon; Sicino-Gaetano Berenstatt.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Performance Comment: As17221013, but Belinda-Mrs Porter; Pert-Miss Teno.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Loveit Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Heron

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Isabella Chambers, Scholar to Mrs Margarita. Pit and Boxes at 6s. Gallery 3s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. Mainpiece: Written by Abraham Cowley. Receipts: money #39 18s. 6d.; tickets #89 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cutter Of Coleman Street

Cast
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Tabitha Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 has no singers' names. A copy of the 1723 edition in the University of Chicago Library has this cast written in: Erminia-Signora Durastanti; Tancredi-Senesino; Silvio-Boschi; Ennone-Signora Cuzzoni; Flora-Mrs Robinson; Niso-Berenstat.
Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Robinson
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Seymour. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: money #39 15s.; tickets #122 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lally
Role: Europa Actor: Mrs Rogeir
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: As17221102, but Escalus-Diggs; Isabella-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Boheme.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17221101, but Desdemona-Mrs Boheme; Lodovico-Diggs.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Boheme
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: As17221011, but Lucius-_; Marcia-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Thurmond.
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Porter.

Dance: As17221030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118, but Phaedra-Mrs Boheme; With a new Prologue-Walker.
Cast
Role: Phaedra Actor: Mrs Boheme
Role: Cretander Actor: Diggs
Role: Ismena Actor: Mrs Bullock
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: As17221012

Event Comment: Benefit Ward, Chapman, and Mackenzie. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #12 2s. 6d; tickets #81 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17230110, but Calphurnia-Mrs Boheme; Caska-_; Sixth Citizen-_.
Cast
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs Boheme
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Bullock
Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. By Reason of the shortness of the Opera, to begin exactly at Eight a-Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

Performance Comment: No cast listed in edition of 1723, but Deutsch, Handel(, p. 153) lists: Flavio-Berenstadt; Guido-Senesino; Emilia-Signora Cuzzoni; Teodata-Mrs Robinson; Vitige-Signora Durastanti; Ugone-Gordon; Lotario-Boschi.
Cast
Role: Teodata Actor: Mrs Robinson
Event Comment: Benefit Redfern and Wilmer, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #14 10s.; tickets #80 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule

Performance Comment: As17221126, but Haly-Hulett; Abra Mule-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Abra Mule Actor: Mrs Boheme.

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Cast
Role: Florinda Actor: Mrs Horton.
Role: Hellena Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Valeria Actor: Mrs Heron.

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17221220, but Cordelia-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Boheme.

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Performance Comment: As17230107, but Quisara-Mrs Boheme; Comic Parts-_Phipps.
Cast
Role: Quisara Actor: Mrs Boheme

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Booth; Edgar-Wilks; Edmund-Mills; Gloster-Thurmond; Kent-Williams; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Cordelia-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Booth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Booth; Cassio-Williams; Iago-Cibber; Roderigo-Miller; Desdemona-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viii

Performance Comment: Parts-Booth, Cibber, Wilks, Mills, Johnson, Miller; Queen Katherine-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Juletta Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Bret.

Song: As17231116

Dance: Drunken Swiss-Nivelon Jr; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon Sr

Ballet: The Humours of Bedlam. Mad Taylor-Nivelon Sr; Mad Dancing Master-Glover; Mad Gamester-Pelling; Mad Soldier-Nivelon Jr; Mad Astrologer-Lanyam; Mad Lady-Mrs Rogeir

Performance Comment: Mad Taylor-Nivelon Sr; Mad Dancing Master-Glover; Mad Gamester-Pelling; Mad Soldier-Nivelon Jr; Mad Astrologer-Lanyam; Mad Lady-Mrs Rogeir.
Cast
Role: Mad Lady Actor: Mrs Rogeir.
Event Comment: [Music by Bononcini.] Tickets half a guinea. An in Regard to the Increase in the Number of Subscribers, no more than Three Hundred and Fifty Tickers will be delivered out. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Tomiri-Signora Cuzzoni; Farnace-Fr Bernardi , called Senesino; Adrasto-Giuseppe Boschi; Cirene-Mrs Anastasia Robinson; Clitarco-Signora Margherita Durastanti; Osmano-Gaetano Berenstadt.