SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Abington"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Abington")') 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 23319 matches on Performance Comments, 4240 matches on Event Comments, 4199 matches on Performance Title, 1561 matches on Roles/Actors, and 10 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lindsey. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moore. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. There being but a short Comedy acted that Night, it is desired to begin exactly at Eight. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Baxter. At Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich. At 5 p.m., several People returning to London the same Night, it being Moonlight Nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

Dance: Dances with Swords to Admiration-A girl of five

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lewis. Written by the Ingenious Sir George Etheridge. Note, The Moon shines and the Tide serves up to London after Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Dance: Thurmond Jr; particularly a Spanish Entry that he performed in the Opera at the Hay-Market last Winter with great Applause-Thurmond Jr; As also that excellent and much admired Scaramouch, as it was performed by the famous Monsieur duBrill from the Opera at Brussels-Thurmond Jr

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stagg. Tickets 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of seveal Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter, who is on her Recovery from a severe Feaver. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Performance Comment: singers included Cavaliero Valeriano, Valentini Urbani, Signora Pilotta Schivaonetti, Mrs Barbier, Leveridge.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. And at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality the Pit and Boxes will be put together, and no Persons to be admitted but by printed Tickets...at 4s. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for the Pit, will be taken at the Gallery, and accounted for, at the Price of the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As 14 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The Third

Event Comment: G. Berkeley to Sir John Percival: Mr Addison's play has taken wonderfully, they have acted it now almost a month, and would I belive act it a month longer were it not that Mrs Oldfield cannot hold out any longer, having had for several nights past, as I am informed, a midwife behind the scenes (Rand, p. 115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

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: Benefit Mrs Orme. Tickets 3s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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 Lody and Corbet. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Particularly several new Concertoes-Mr Corbet, others

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