SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs Laguerre"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs Laguerre")') 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 23620 matches on Performance Comments, 7614 matches on Event Comments, 4661 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Event Comment: Edition of 1733: The Musick formerly composed by Mr Handel, and now Revis'd by him with several Additions. The Additional Words by Mr Humphreys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 29 May: We are assur'd that there will be no more Plays acted this Season at [dl], and we hear that there was Yesterday no Play acted...as had been advertiz'd for that Day; the Occasion we are inform'd was, that at Midnight on Saturday last several persons arm'd took Possession of the same, by Direction from some of the Patentees, and lock'd up and barricado'd all the Doors and Entrances thereunto, against the whole Company of his Majesty's Comedians, as also against Mr Cibber, Jun. notwithstanding he had paid to one of the Patentees several hundred Pounds for one third Part of the Patent, Cloaths, Scenes, &c. and all Rights and Privileges thereunto annexed, for a certain Term not yet expired. Mr Cibber, Jun. and the rest of the Company of Comedians, and this Morning to wait upon his Grace the Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Houshold, with their humble Petition, and the Representation of their Cast, and to beg his Grace's Favour and Protection

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Event Comment: SSt. James's Evening Post, 2 June, quoted in Grub St. Journal, 7 June: Sir, As Mr Cibber has had various ill-natured reflections cast upon him, for selling his share of the patent for Drury-Lane house, and for not making it over to his son; it will be a piece of justice to inform the publick, that the reason which he gave for such a conduct was, that he chose to convert it into ready money, that he might make a proportionable division of what fortune he may happen to have among all his children. Craftsman, 2 June: We have likewise received undoubted Intelligence from [dl], that a considerable Body of malcontent Players, under the Command of that puissant Captain, Mr The@@lus C@@r, have lately enter'd into a mutinous Association against their Masters, the Patentees, and still continue in a State of Hostility; which hath prevented any Plays being acted there this Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne. [See Daily Post, 13 Nov., and London Evening Post, 13 Nov., for the trial of Harper. Daily Post, 13 Nov.: It was design'd also to prevent the Company acting last Night, by taking away so principal a Performer in the Play, which was advertis'd, he being conrin'd, &c. and his Hearing by Counsel deferr'd till between Five and Six o'Clock; but the Audience being duly acquainted with this Prosecution very kindly accepted Mr Cibber's reading the Part.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Performance Comment: As17331010, but Hotspur-read by T. Cibber; Northumberland, Douglas, Blunt, Westmoreland, Bardolph, Poins omitted . Northumberland, Douglas, Blunt, Westmoreland, Bardolph, Poins omitted .
Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Northumberland Actor: Boman
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Cast
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Dance: Wattcau by Miss Robinson. La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss La Tour

Performance Comment: La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss La Tour .
Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 21 Nov.: Yesterday Mr Harper was brought up by Habeas Corpus to the Court of King's Bench and ... it was agreed, that Mr Harper should be discharg'd out of Bridewell, on his own Recognizance, to appear the last Day of this Term; and an Action on a feign'd Issue is to be tried, whether he is a Vagrant within the Statute of the 12th of Queen Anne, next Term

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv Part Ii

Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Dance: As17340112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Quin, but see17340118 With the Original Prologue and Epilogue .

Dance: Scotish Dance, as17341004 Shepherd and Shepherdess by Malter and Mlle Salle. The Nassau, as17340311 Pigmalion, as17340114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud If She Coud

Cast
Role: Gatty Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Ariana Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Cockwood Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Sentry Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass, and Shepherd and Shepherdess by Maker and Mlle Salle. Scotch Dance, as17331004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lady Townly-Mrs Horton .
Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. II: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson. III: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Lally. IV: Mimut by Mlle Grognet in Boy's Cloaths and Mrs Anderson. V: La Badinage Champetre by Lally, Mrs Walter, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Anderson, Miss Palms

Performance Comment: Lally and Mrs Walter. II: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson. III: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Lally. IV: Mimut by Mlle Grognet in Boy's Cloaths and Mrs Anderson. V: La Badinage Champetre by Lally, Mrs Walter, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Anderson, Miss Palms .
Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 24 May: Last Friday Night, at the intended Benefit of Mr Hewson and Mr Warwell, a Disturbance . . . entirely hinder'd the Performance of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. N.B. The Letter from some Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple (desiring the first Part of King Henry the Fourth to be play'd soon) was receiv'd, and, in Compliment to their Request, that Play will be Acted on Tuesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Burgo Master Trickd

Dance: As17340919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Dance: As17341028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: P Ormio

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Leicester. For the Entertainment of the Grand, and the rest of the Brethren of the Antient and Honourable Society of Gregorians. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: Pierre-a Gentleman; Jaffeir-Bard of the Order of Gregorians, who performed Hamlet at GF. And a New Prologue, addressed to the Society .

Entertainment:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Mrs Midnight Actor: Topham
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Constance Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Steward's Wife Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Jan.: We hear the Designs of Merlin's Cave, that were presented last Week to her Majesty by Mr Giffard, have been so well approv'd of, by many Persons of Quality, that Mr Devoto, who made the Draughts, has had several Copies bespoke by the Nobility
Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. The Words of the Incantation will be printed, and deliver'd Gratis at the Theatre. Receipts: money #22 9s.; tickets #31 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane, but see17351110. And the Incantation, new set to Musick by Mr Galliard .

Dance: French Peasants, as17360223 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar in French

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage in English

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Macheath Actor: Mrs Roberts.
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce, and Miss Burgess. Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespear. Supervised, Read over, Revised, and Unalter'd. [For a puff (signed by W. Shakespear), see Daily Advertiser, 4 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: Prince Arthur-Miss Burgess; With a New Prologue- in the Characters of Shakespear's Ghost, the Squire, Mr Student, and Mr Bays; concluding with an Address to the Ladies- of the Shakespear's Club.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. An Ode, written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floored over, and laid into the Boxes. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: The Prince and Princess of Wales seem'd to be highly entertain'd, insomuch that his Royal Highness commanded Mr Handel's Concerto on the Organ to be repeated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 429, speculates concerning a possible cast. With Concertos on the Organ-, and other Instruments.
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see below.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay