SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs and Miss Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs and Miss Smith")') 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 26692 matches on Performance Comments, 7273 matches on Performance Title, 5649 matches on Event Comments, 53 matches on Roles/Actors, and 22 matches on Author.
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

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

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

Cast
Role: King Actor: Keene
Role: Falstaff Actor: Bullock Sr.

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