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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Mountford"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Mountford")') 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, 24 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-Burton; Alonzo-Paget; Carlos-Lee; Alvarez-Pinner; Manuel-Beckham; Isabella-Mrs Butler; Leonora-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Cushing; Melissa-Mrs Butler; Kitty-Miss Maddocks.
Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Butler

Dance: II: Peasant Dance-Master Morgan, Miss Baker; III: Scotch Dance-Mr Miles, Mrs Miles; IV: Tambourine-Master Morgan, Miss Baker; V: Drunken Peasant-Miles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The True And Ancient History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: Barnwell-Cushing; Barnwell Sen-Furnival; Thorogood-Paget; Trueman-Pinner; Blunt-Cartwright; Maria-Mrs Butler; Lucy-Miss Maddocks; Millwood-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: Mons. le Medicin-Shuter; Crispin-L. Hallam; Beatrice-Mrs Hallam; Old Gerrard-Cartwright; Young Gerrard-Lee; Martin-Pinner; Simon-Dove; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Beckham; Angelica-Mrs Mills [Daily Advertiser].Daily Advertiser].
Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Beckham
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Mills

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Wignell
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Dove
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Dove.

Dance: Between the Acts: Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castalio-Cushing; Polydore-Wignell; Acasto-Paget; Chaplain-L. Hallam; Ernesto-Dove; Chamont-Goodfellow; Serina-Cushing; Florello-Mrs Wignell; Monimia-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Florello Actor: Mrs Wignell
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Goodfellow; Lenox-Cushing; Hecate-L. Hallam; Fleance-Master Morgan; Macduff-Furnival; Banquo-Paget; Duncan-Holmes; Witches-Hallam Sen, Shuter, Banks; Malcolm-Lee; Donalbain-Mrs Moreau; Seyward-Hart; Seyton-Wignell; Doctor-Miles; first Murderer-Dove; 2nd Murderer-Baker; Lady-Mrs Beckham; Lady Macduff-Mrs Bambridge; Lady Macbeth-Miss Budgell.
Cast
Role: Donalbain Actor: Mrs Moreau
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Beckham
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Bambridge

Song: Brett, Mrs Cushing, Miss Tench

Dance: As17461124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17470121, but Arabella-Mrs Wignell; Day-Hallam.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Wignell
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Dove
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett, Mr Hallam, Mrs Hallam

Dance: Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Performance Comment: Sir Fopling Flutter-Cibber Jun; Dorimant-Mills; Young Bellair-Blakes; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Woffington; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Pert-Mrs Macklin; Medley-Bridges; Old Bellair-Taswell; Shoemaker-Neale; Handy-Usher; Smirk-Simpson; Page-Master Wilks; Harriet-Mrs Mills; Emilia-Mrs Ridout; Lady Townly-Mrs Bennet; Lady Woodly-Mrs Cross; Busy-Miss Minors; Orange Woman-Mrs Bridges; New Epilogue-Mrs Woffington in Man's Cloaths, and address'd to the Young Gentlemen who call themselves the Town.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Mozeen.

Song: I: Mrs Mozeen; III: Lowe

Dance: II: The Mechels; IV: Muilment; V: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Salomon's son

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124, but Louvre and Minuet-the Gentleman, Mrs Miles

Entertainment: End Farce: Fireworks-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Cast
Role: Lady Wrangle Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Sophronia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: I: The Mechels; III: Sga Padouana; IV: A Minuet-Salomon, Mrs Woffington; V: Comic Dance, as17470410

Song: II: Sullivan; IV: Original Cantata-Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: The English Boy and Girl; Also, by desire, a Minuet-Rector, Mrs Gondou

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Dance: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Performance Comment: As17471003, but Albumazar-Sparks; Pandolfo-Macklin; Trincalo-Neale; Cricca-Yates; Lelio-Havard; Antonio-Berry; Eugenio-Mozeen; Ronca-Blakes; Harpax-Arthur; Furbo-Barrington; Supitia-Mrs Woffington; Flavia-Mrs Elmy; Armelina-Mrs Green; Bevilona-Mrs Bennet; The Prologue-_; an Epilogue-_. [This is the first indication of the distribution of parts.]This is the first indication of the distribution of parts.]

Dance: II: The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Song: fter the dance, an Entertainment of singing and dancing call'd The Sailors Rendezvous at Portsmouth-. [See17471116]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Mozeen.

Dance: The Savoyards-Matthews, Mrs Addison; Dutch Dance, as17471128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Performance Comment: Trappanti-Macklin; Don Manuel-Yates 1st time; Phillip-Sparks; Octavio-Havard; Soto-Neale; Diego-Shuter; Hypolita-Mrs Pritchard; Flora-Mrs Woffington 1st time; Viletta-Mrs Clive; Rosara-Mrs Mills; Corrigidore-Winstone; Alguazile-Bransby; Don Luis-Usher; Stephano-Wright.
Cast
Role: Hypolita Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Woffington 1st time
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Rosara Actor: Mrs Mills

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Performance Comment: Luckless (the Author)-Cibber; Witmore-Bridges; Bookweight-James; Player-Anderson; Jack Pudding-Dunstall; Mrs Moneywood-Mrs James; Harriet-Miss Haughton; Wherein will be introduc'd an Operatic Puppet Show, call'd The Pleasures of the Town: Punch-Dunstall; Joan-Collins; Charon-Stoppelaer; Poet-Paddick; Sailor-Barnard; Robgrave-Smith; Don Tragedio-Storer; Dr Orator-Cushing; Signior Opera-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Novel-Miss Copin; Goddess of Nonsense-Miss Young; With the Restoration of the King of Bantum, and the Foundlings Found Out: Murdertext-Morgan; Constable-Hacket; Bantomite Governor-Anderson; Bantomime Courier-Barnard; Foundlings-Cibber, Dunstall, Collins, Miss Haughton; Concluding with the Last New Grand Country Dance, call'd The Mouse Trap, or Foot's Vagaries: Miss in her Teens-La Petite Parisienne; Sg Piede-Villeneuve; Maitre de Ballet-Bencraft; Councillor-Morris; Lady Autumn-Oates; Rout, Drum Hunters-Delagarde, Anderson, Paddick, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Villeneuve.

Song: I: Go lovely Rose-Beard; II: Tis Liberty-Mrs Storer; III: Sper il Fostore-Miss Faulkner; IV: Smiling Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Macklin.
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Song: II: Mrs Mozeen

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

Song: I: Who'll Buy a Heart a Cantata by Stanley-Beard; II: Cupid's Power I Despise, Liberty-Miss Faulkner; III: a Song in the Anacreontic style- of Leveridge; IV: O Peace, Shepherd what art thou pursuing-Mrs Storer; V: Mirth Gives Courage-Leveridge; Epilogue of Thanks in Music-Leveridge

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Cushing; Ballance-Furnival; Worthy-Massey; Brazen-Singleton; Kite-L. Hallam; Bullock-Costollo; Melinda-Mrs Bambridge; Rose-Miss Smith; Lucy-Mrs Beckham; Sylvia-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Beckham
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Dance: I: Hornpipe-John Granier; II: Country Wake-Mr Miles, Mrs Miles; III: Dutch Dance-Jo. Granier, Miss Granier; IV: Farmer's Dance-Jo. Granier, Miss Granier; End: The Temple of Jupiter with the loves of Adonis and Venus-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Song: Beard, Miss Faulkner, Mrs Storer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School boy-Yates; Young Rakish-Lee; Major Rakish-I. Sparks; Lady Manlove-Mrs Macklin; Father Benedict-Blakes; Lettice-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Lady Manlove Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: I: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; II: New Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison; III: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Hornpipe (By Desire)-Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Bridges; Mosca-Ryan; Corbaccio-Bridgwater; Voltore-Ridout; Corvino-Rosco; Sir Politic-James; Bonario-Gibson; 1st Avocatori-Marten; Peregrine-Anderson; Celia-Mrs Hale; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Horton; In I, Dance-Master Granier, Miss Granier; In III, a Punch Dance-Harrison.
Cast
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Wou'dbe Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Performance Comment: Hunter-Beard; Phebe-Mrs Dunstall; Tippet-Mrs Bland; Justice Quorum-Marten; Chanter-Bridgwater.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Tippet Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: II: Mrs Storer; IV: Miss Faulkner

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Song: III: Roberts

Dance: IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs James
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Perplex'd Husband

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Philips; Husband-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Pierot-LaLauze; The whole to Conclude with a Country Dance-Philips; Hornpipe-Philips.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Song: I: Beard; III: Consider Fond Shepherd, Tis Liberty alone-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: The Amorous Swain, or Rival Nymphs-LaLauze, Mrs Delagarde, Miss Hillyard; V: a Ball Minuet (By Desire)-three scholars of LaLauze