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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ms Stephens"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ms Stephens")') 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 1458 matches on Event Comments, 753 matches on Performance Comments, 713 matches on Author, 24 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17671106; End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: IV: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [the Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: [The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Stephens

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17671029; IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Fine Lady

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: IV: The Gardners Holiday, as17671120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak, as17671022; II: The Lilliputian Camp-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Irish Hay@makers, as17670919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Stephens

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: the Widow'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: [The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: IV: The Lilliputian Camp, as17671202

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17671021; II: A Grand Ballet The Garland-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley. [See17651003.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17671022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: The Garland, as17671214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The National Prejudice

Dance: Act I afterpiece: a French Dance call'd The Cotillion-Giorgi, Duquesney, Tassoni, Rolley, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Tetley, Mrs Grimaldi; V: The Irish Hay@makers, as17670919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Dance: End: The Medley, as17680416

Event Comment: The Last time of the company's performing this season. [Following deficiencies for this season paid up: Richard Smith, Lewes, Dumay, Condell, Potter, Thomas Smith, Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Simmonds, Pullen, Stephenson, Asbury, Wilde, Francis, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, and Sharratt (Account Book). This includes payment of half value of tickets for those who were granted partial benefits on that basis.] Music forfeits at end of season #17 6s. 11d. Neville MS Diary: Went...to see Cymbeline...chiefly to hear Powell speak an occasional prologue. Would not have gone had I known it was only a stale piece of flattery to George. [See The Gentleman's Magazine, 9 July p. 346: "On shutting up the playhouse in Covent Garden at the end of the season, admission into the theatre having been denied to Mr H and R through any other passage but Mr Powell's House, those gentlemen at the head of a large posse on the 17th of last month, [June] made a forcible entry by breaking open a window near the playhouse door in Hart street; after which they expelled by violence Mr Sargeant the Housekeeper, all his family and others; but the acting managers not being inclined to submit to the arbitrary proceedings of their colleagues, immediately applied for redress, where redress was effectually to be had, and this day they were formally expelled by virtue of a warrant from under the hand and seal of the high sherrifs of London and Middlesex, and the old housekeeper, Mr Sargeant, restored to his office of trust, to the great mortification of one of the champions who had been heard to say: That he had now got possession and d--n him if he would not keep it while he had a drop of blood in his body, and while there was one brick upon another belonging to the house."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Stephens

Dance: III: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: I: A Dance incident to the Opera-Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Dance: End: A Comic Dance call'd The Wake-Giorgi, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930