SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross")') 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 23843 matches on Performance Comments, 8748 matches on Event Comments, 4828 matches on Performance Title, 2849 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
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 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

Performance Comment: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; wherein several Solos and Sonatas on two different Instruments never heard in England before-Gli Signori Vegelini (two select Musicians lately arriv'd); With some celebrated Songs of the late Mr Henry Purcell-; and an Addition of a famous Harp-.
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 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 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 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: 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 Bicknell. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

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

Event Comment: Benefit Knapp and Mrs Kent. Receipts: money #8 9s.; tickets #49 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The She Gallants

Related Works
Related Work: The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady's Cure Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Song: As17170114

Dance: As17170510; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: Advertised as benefit for Mrs Manina Fletcher but deferred till another Time, by Reason of the Heat of the Weather.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Manina Fletcher. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. On Stage 7s. At 7 p.m. Receipts: money #61 5s. 6d.; tickets #33 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Music: A New Concerto for the Flagelot by Dr Pepusch-