SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs Simson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs Simson")') 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 23664 matches on Performance Comments, 7606 matches on Event Comments, 4635 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. Admission to Pit and Boxes by printed ticket only, at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Pit and Boxes put together with admission by ticket only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Celotti. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Hands of the Opera

Event Comment: Admission as 26 Oct. Colman's Opera Register: ye Prince & Princess of Wales present, ye House not near full. Ye New Singers...meet with little applause as yet Mrs Robinson not singing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The first Masters of the Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [The Way of the World intended, but deferred by Indisposition of a Person who was to play a principal Part.] Receipts: #98 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Leveridge, Pack, New Boy; Trumpet Song-Rawlins

Dance: As17150404 Also Dutch Skipper, Venetian Dance-delaGarde, Miss Russell

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moor. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #77 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Song: Singing in Italian and English-a Gentlewoman who never appear'd on that Stage before

Dance: As17150425 Also Harlequin and Two Punches, as17150502; Venetian Dance, as17150428

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Tickets for Philaster taken this day. Receipts: #58 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

Event Comment: Benefit Schoolding and Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #59 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Match'd

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Leveridge, Reading, New Boy

Dance: As17150512; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

Event Comment: By Subscription, as 25 May. According to Colman's Opera Register, 28 May, Mrs Robinson was ill and did not perform again during this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: By Mrs Mynns. At the Queen's Arm Tavern near the Marshalsea Gate...that celebrated Entertainment....With all the Decorations, Movements, Scenes, Machines, Dances, Musick, &c. to the full Grandeur of what it appear'd Eight Years since in Bartholomew-Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #24 18s. 6d. and tickets #45 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Vision

Song: Sing All Ye Muses-Leveridge, Randal

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes together at 5s. each Ticket. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: Turner; particularly an English Cantata by Dr Pepusch-

Dance: As17151122

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #14 2s. 6d. and tickets #31 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: Benefit Ogden and Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #9 9s. and tickets #26 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Song: As17160216

Dance: Dancing, as17151029, but _Shaw

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #17 9s. 6d. and tickets #10 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: As17160216

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late Ingenious Mrs Behn. Receipts: #12 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feigned Courtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: Advertised but dismissed because of Mrs Barbier's illness.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. By Command, to begin at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: As17170307

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. by Seal'd Tickets. Galleries: 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. Receipts: money #34 16s. 6d.; tickets #93 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Dance: Grand Comic Wedding Dance, as17161115; Dutch Skipper-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Aubert. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; With a Solo-Matthew Dubourg

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; with Solos on Violin-Castrucci